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...last week to a shy-looking, silver-haired man as he stood before a gathering on the Main Line campus of Pennsylvania's Haverford College. There some 600 Friends and friends of Friends gathered for a day of speechmaking, picnicking and Quaker fellowship to honor Clarence Evan Pickett, 65, retiring as executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee...
Just as the Service Committee has come to symbolize Quakerism to many non-Quakers, hardworking, articulate Secretary Pickett has come to personify the Service Committee. Farm-raised and Quaker-educated (William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa), Pickett spent World War I leading Friends' meetings, defending conscientious objectors and getting the side of his house painted yellow for his pacifist pains. In 1923 he joined the faculty of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., where his favorite course was a study of the application of religion and ethics to current social problems...
Starting his wrestling career as a student at the Gilman Country School in Baltimore and at Governor Dummer Academy, Pickett had won Maryland scholastic championship in 1937, 1938, and 1939 prior to two undefeated seasons at Governor Dummer...
...Pickett attended Yale from 1942 through 1944 and competed with the varsity mat team there. He entered the Navy in 1944 and served for two years, going to Syracuse in July, 1946. While in the Navy, Pickett gained the Far Western A.A.U. championship and received the Navy's Junior National A.A.U. Outstanding Wrestler Award. At Syracuse, Pickett was forced out of competition by an injury, after which he became freshman coach. A fullback on the Yale varsity football team for two years, Pickett has two brothers, Herbert and Lawrence, who were also outstanding Eli grapplers...
...Pickett succeeds Forrest R. (Butch) Jordan, who went to the University of Connecticut with Art Valpey as line coach. Under Jordan, the Crimson won four matches and dropped three last season, tieing Virginia and Temple for 16th place in the eastern intercollegiates...