Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighth president of select (enrollment: 726) Mills College for women, "the Vassar of the West," in Oakland, Calif. Historian Rothwell succeeds Historian Lynn White Jr., who quit after 15 years to teach medieval history at U.C.L.A. A stocky, balding Westerner, raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace, where he became director...
...families are fine-until a hard-pressed father has to pay two or three college tuitions at once. Last week the jolt was eased by the University of Portland (Ore.), a Roman Catholic institution (enrollment: 1,550) which announced an unusual sliding-scale plan for big families. Terms: full $660 tuition for a family's first scholar, $440 for a second in attendance at the same time, $220 for a third-nothing for all thereafter...
...Salem Real Estate Man Harold Schmidt-father of eleven-it was a bonanza. His son Denny, 21, is a Portland senior; Son Keith, 22, and Daughters Victoria Anne, 20, and Margarite May, 18, are entering freshmen. The new plan not only halves their total tuition to $1,320; the four are also paying it themselves by working at outside jobs and starting their own boardinghouse for six Portland coeds...
...Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Nathan Twining-Lincoln High School, Portland...
EDWARD G. FLETCHER Portland...