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...most valued and popular members of the faculty, despite his missing an occasional morning class. At Bronx Community College in New York City, students were particularly fond of their social-science teacher, although he was sometimes late for his classes. At the State University of New York at New Paltz, some 70 miles north of The Bronx, a new sociology professor earned the reputation of being a diligent and effective, if sometimes tardy, teacher. Last week, when the New Paltz sociology professor resigned from his job, it was revealed that the three educators have even more in common than popularity...
...role was discovered last December, Brown began losing jobs. Confronted by officials at Bronx Community College, which does not permit its faculty members to have excessive outside employment, he agreed to resign; but after students demonstrated in his behalf, he was permitted to complete the fall semester. At New Paltz, where Brown's $16,000-a-year contract still has a year to go, the administration felt that it had been deceived; Brown had denied having any outside employment when he took the job last September. Officials were hinting that they would press charges when Brown resigned last week...
Brown refuses to talk about his triple academic life. But his feelings are clear about rules that will force him to confine his teaching to one campus. "What if a Picasso wanted to teach at Bronx Community College, New Paltz and State College?" he asks indignantly. "Do you think he would be denied...
PETER BOHAN New Paltz...
Died. Oscar of the Waldorf (Oscar Tschirky), 84, burly, famed major-domo for half a century; of a heart attack; at his country estate near New Paltz, N.Y. (which he bequeathed as a retirement place for chefs). Never a chef himself, Oscar had an artist's passion for selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan...