Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 20-year-old Alice Morrison unpacked her Saratoga trunk in her tiny room at the Vineland (N.J.) Training School in 1900, she had a sinking sensation. The silent, halting students she had just seen were far different from the kind she had been taught to cope with at the New Hampton (N.H.) Literary and Biblical Institution...
...when Alice Morrison came to Vineland, it was one of three pioneer institutions for the mentally deficient,* had been going just twelve years. The rest of the U.S. knew precious little about retarded children (i.e., those with an intelligence fixed below the twelve-year level) or what could be done for them. Horrified and grief-stricken parents hid the unhappy children in back rooms or sent them to be cared for in inadequately equipped asylums...
...Stammered Grace. When Alice Morrison arrived, the school owned six buildings and had 200 students. She spent a long day looking around her and sizing up her job. As she surveyed the children's bowed heads at the evening meal and listened to one youngster repeat a stammered grace, she made up her mind to stay...
...drive got under way, 70-year-old Alice Morrison Nash sat in the crowded ballroom of Manhattan's Statler Hotel one night last week and listened to tributes from Nobel Prizewinner Pearl Buck, Stateswoman Ruth Bryan Rohde and New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll. She nodded happily at the applause of friends, former students and parents who had gathered to honor her, then prepared to return to her boys & girls at Vineland...
...late years, the uniting of all Protestant churches has seemed increasingly possible. Mergers or alliances have already been achieved, e.g., United Church of Canada, Church of South India. Last week a blueprint for Protestant union appeared in the undenominational Christian Century. Its author: Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, longtime (1908-47) editor in chief, now contributing editor...