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...Department's most obvious scar of neglect is its lack of manpower. The Faculty Committee on Rules and Tenure has limited Public Speaking to one full-time instructor--Associate Professor Frederick Packard. Packard has three-fifths more teaching time to portion among assistants, but he can offer prospective aides neither advancement nor security of tenure. As a result, Packard has hardly trained a helper before the man leaves for a better job in some other college that takes speaking seriously...
...ideas that die broke on Packard's planning board which are potentially the most valuable. The best is his plan for speech correction. Right now, the students who take his courses are moderately adequate speakers already. Packard would like to record the speech of every incoming Freshman, single out those with real speech deficiencies, and correct them. Such an idea is not radical--in fact it corresponds to the University's special remedial writing and reading program. Nor is it overly expensive, since it takes no more than a few more plastic recording reels and some man hours...
...Packard is face-lifting its current models, adding optional power steering, power brakes and air-conditioning (first tried by Packard...
...Catholic, thank the Rev. George F. Packard, Episcopal minister, for his letter published in TIME, July...
Mamie's father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...