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President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...
...Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio...
...like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...
...matter of fact, Vassarette McAfee is something of an academic cosmopolite. She was born on the campus of Park College at Parkville, Mo., founded by her grandfather. After Vassar she made a grand tour of Eastern & Midwestern male and female institutions teaching economics and sociology, wound up at Oberlin...
When a Commission on the Coordination of Efforts for Peace was founded two years ago. with President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College at its head, it bogged at the start in attempting to list all the U. S. anti-war organizations. In Manhattan alone there are some 200 pacifist groups including the Peace Patriots, the New York Committee for the Struggle against War, the Penny Fund for Peace ("40,000,000 Pennies from 40,000,000 Women & Children"). But the 30-odd U. S. peace organizations which amount to anything belong to the National Peace Conference. When not engaged...