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Five charities will go on this year's fund envelopes, with a blank line for any other a student may have. The quintet, chosen by the committee in collaboration with the deans, includes the Quaker International Voluntary Service, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the Boston Community Fund, World Students Service Fund, and National Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students...
Knives were flashing in Washington. A new victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...
Behind Valentine was a life spent in universities, with some side trips into politics and into the business world. A Quaker, born in Glen Cove, N.Y., he went to Swarthmore where he played three years of varsity football, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and played on and coached the American 1924 Olympic champion Rugby team. He returned to teach English at Swarthmore, became Master of Pierson College at Yale, a professor of history and chairman of admissions, and finally at 34, president of richly endowed Rochester. Married, he has three children. Husky, handsome and emphatic, he became...
...soon richer fields were found in the West, and as the Pennsylvania reserves became depleted (the state, once first, has slipped to twelfth place among oil producers) Titusville's eleven refineries gradually dwindled to one. Last week the Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., which bought Titusville's last refinery from Cities Service Co. only a few months ago, had sorry news for oldtime roughnecks. It announced that its antiquated (built in the 1880s) refinery, which employs 70 people and has a capacity of 2,500 barrels a day, will be closed down and dismantled next month. Sighed...
...When Quaker William Penn arrived in Philadelphia to begin his "holy experiment" in government, he made a peace treaty with his Indian neighbors and planned to get along without an army or navy. His colony did so for 73 years, until its Quaker-dominated legislature voted funds in 1755 for the French & Indian War. But then and later, Quakers found the U.S. more hospitable than most countries to their creed.* This week, for the first time in history, a group of Quakers were planning to leave the U.S. because of their peace-loving convictions...