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...University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department at the University of New Mexico. In 1944 he had the same rank at Oberlin College. By 1955, when N.Y.U. asked him to become its executive vice president, he had served seven years as assistant and associate commissioner of education for the state of New York...
...nonetheless switched to a willowy, blue-eyed Stevenson named Helen, 28, a distant relative of Adlai Stevenson. Though Meyner was mum as ever about romance, Helen said they have been "friends" ever since May, when the governor was keynoter of a mock Democratic Convention at Ohio's Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood...
...other members of the committee were: Francis Keppel '38, dean of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, noted stage designer and professor of Stage Design at Yale; Dean Charles H. Sawyer of the Yale School of Fine Arts; Professor Wolfgang Stechow of Oberlin; George Wald, professor of Biology; John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and S. Lane Faison, Jr., Executive Secretary of the Committee
...small liberal arts colleges that Elder will visit are Pomona, Occidental, Reed, Whitman, Carlton, Grinnell, Lawrence, Kenyon, and Oberlin. He said that he does not plan to visit universities, because he does not want to offer competition for their graduate schools...
Reischauer's boyhood in Tokyo was neither queer nor quaint. His parents, both educational missionaries still respected throughout Japan, did their best "to make up for the distance from home by being as American as possible." When the 16-year-old Reischauer came to the United States and Oberlin College in 1927, he was therefore prepared for baseball, basketball, and varsity tennis. Whenever his Japanese background did get in the way, he tried to conceal it. "When I hitched rides. I used to make up a lot of false home towns so I wouldn't have to go through...