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Among the key opponents in this town-splitting controversy are School Superintendent Fred C. Nus and Housewife Elberta Gilderbloom, a former teacher whom Nus once turned down for a job. Mrs. Gilderbloom ran for the school board, won, and last fall helped elect two ultraconservative members, including one who says he sympathizes with the John Birch Society. The three dominate the five-member board, and Nus says Mrs. Gilderbloom told him: "If I can't work under you, then you won't work under...
Moving in on Nus's responsibilities, Mrs. Gilderbloom and her supporters voted to toss out a faculty-designed change in the grading system, and began meddling in classrooms. One teacher was told to stop class discussion of Communism; another was reprimanded for mentioning menstruation in a mixed physiology class. Some students, says one history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed...
Black is a native of Atlanta, Ga., and a graduate of the University of Georgia. The choice of a non-Harvard alum nus to direct the fund drive is consistent with the Library Corporation's policy of making the Library a national, not a Harvard, undertaking...
...living alumni are 132 newspaper publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft of New York Timesmen (78 at last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists to the campus for Doctorates of Humane Letters: Alu nus Herbert Brucker ('24), Hartford Courant editor, newest president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill; and New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston...
...University of Denver fraternity man: "It's getting like Union Station. You can't tell whether the guy lounging in the living room is an active, a pledge, a rushee, a visitor or somebody who got into the house by mistake." Complained one of 135 Sigma Nus at Northwestern: "I'm pretty good at names, but it took me a full three months to learn everybody's first name...