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...positions on publications of the 4-11 Clubs, was editor of the 1942 "Bomb," Iowa State College annual, and has contributed to the Iowa Agriculturalist and the Iowa Homemaker. Prussing, of Co. 4, edited his high school yearbook and held the position of advertising and business manager of the Oberlin College annual...
...typical evacuated Nisei student is Oberlin College's lanky, 20-year-old, bespectacled Kenji Okuda. Son of a former Seattle expressman, he was raised as a Protestant, stood second in his high-school class of 500. At the University of Washington he was Y.M.C.A. vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
...fever sufferers, most skeptical of patients, were last fortnight again offered a new hope. In Science Chemists Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alexander, of Oberlin College, recommended vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for relieving the complaint...
Then began dosages of 500 mg. a day for eleven patients still sneezing in Oberlin's lushly pollenized air (count: 80 - sneezing begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...
...Holmes, president of the American Chemical Society and head of Oberlin's chemistry department, has long worked on vitamins and body chemistry, was first to isolate pure vitamin A in crystalline form (TIME, April 26, 1937). In an interview last fortnight he listed other recent uses for vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate...