Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved to a farm near Marceline, Mo. in time for Walt to start school there. The first art work he got paid for was a series of impressions of the town barber shop. The pay: free haircuts...
Since 1932 two presidents of the University of Oregon have resigned. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who took the job in 1926, quit six years later. Last June his successor, frail, scholarly Dr. Clarence Valentine Boyer, said his poor health would not allow him to continue as president...
Rivalry for funds and prestige between the University and Oregon State Agricultural College, both units of the State's System of Higher Education, is the thorn that makes the president's seat uncomfortable at University of Oregon. Two years ago Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter was brought from Denver as Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education to quiet a raging political dogfight. But the University still feels itself the underdog. It lacks a full-fledged science department and other requisites of a self-respecting university...
President-elect Erb (son of Dr. John Lawrence Erb, now head of the music department at Connecticut College For Women), is a University of Illinois graduate, a Harvard Ph.D. and a crack economist. He was a professor of economics at Oregon for six years, in the last year had been acting head of the economics department at Stanford University...
Edward Russell scholarship, to Leslie G. McConnell, Jr., 1G, of Portland, Oregon...