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...Pickett is young as coaches go, and he's trying to build a team from a squad which is young as varsity wrestlers go. When it travels over to M.I.T. on Saturday the wrestling team will have at least four sophomores in the starting Junior who was unable to wrestle last year, and another is still undecided...
...Humphrey" Heidtmann is the man at unlimited. Although he was the last man to come out for the squad, the former Southeastern A.A.U. titleholder has gotten into shape very quickly according to Pickett, and provides strength where it is sorely needed...
When the American Friends Service Committee offered him its secretaryship in 1929, Pickett saw it as an ideal opportunity to put into practice the principles he had been teaching. The twelve-year-old organization then had an annual budget of about $50,000 and a staff of twelve, including the janitor. Today the staff of 492 works with a budget of $3,000,000 (the peak...
During the Depression, Friend Pickett put the Service Committee to work on the industrial front, getting relief to the families of textile workers in a bitter North Carolina strike, feeding more than 40,000 children of destitute soft-coal miners. Even now, with 33 teams at work in Europe and the Orient, the Service Committee has earmarked $950,000 to be spent this year in the prosperous...
...Pickett's successor as Service Committee executive secretary is 33-year-old Oregonian Lewis Hoskins, who worked in China for the committee from 1945 to 1948, has served as its personnel director since last July. Pickett has been appointed "Honorary Secretary" with the understanding that he will continue to do special jobs for the committee. One current assignment: exploring new approaches to peace between the U.S.S.R...