Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra odd jobs to earn the $250 they figured it would cost each of them to stay in India for two months. One worked as a clerk, another in the library, another helped out at primary elections. Their enthusiasm spread across the campus. The local chapter of Alpha Phi went without desserts and saved $80 for the project. Sunday-school classes contributed their pennies. Then an anonymous patron donated $15,000 to cover transportation costs...
Most of his time at College was spent in the Chemistry labs, where he had little trouble in doing all the required work and some original research besides. He made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated in three years, and was an active editor of the CRIMSON all the while. In those days the paper did not run by-lined stories and consequently it is difficult to assess exactly what he contributed, but one remembrance of his days as Assistant Managing Editor still remains in the form of a framed page from the AME's Report Book of the year...
...Phi Beta Kappa officials yesterday announced the election of six honorary members. They...
...Eastman Kodak Co., President Thomas J. Hargrave moved up to chairman of the board, the youngest chairman (60) in Eastman history, when Perley S. Wilcox, 77, retired. Into the presidency went Albert K. Chapman, 62, a Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University who joined the company after a stint with the Army in 1919. Chapman organized the company's development department, moved up through manufacturing to vice president and, in 1943, to general manager and a director of the company. ¶ Charles Fabian Herman Johnson Jr., 45, was elected president of Botany Mills, Inc., to succeed his father...
...Thurber Album has some fine stuff about his city editor on the Columbus Dispatch. He disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs...