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...Drugs or Dogs. Founded by local parents two years ago, Exploring Family is supervised by Lonnie Rowel I, 24, who once ran an experimental college while an undergraduate at San Diego State College. His 43 students are heterogeneous, to say the least. Because of careful recruiting, tuition of $65 a month and scholarships, one-third of the kids are progeny of lawyers and professors; one-third are children of poor people and welfare recipients. The rest are children of blue-collar workers, as well as offspring of rock musicians, students and craftsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chaos and Learning: The Free Schools | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Actually, "Glad Eden," by Jack A. Rowel '51, was chosen the best of the plays submitted for judging to Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, William Van Lennep, Mary Martin, and Elinor Hughes. But that play is to be produced elsewhere. So the Playwrights Groups chose as their first production the runner-up, "The Bystander," by Loretta J. Valtz, a junior at Radcliffe...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/3/1951 | See Source »

...Glad Eden" by Jack A. Rowel '51 is a play of atmosphere and poetic lines rather than plot. The characters are Irish immigrants who have failed in the lumber business. The play enacts the destruction of their hopes for a successful life here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Glad Eden' May Have Run in Summer Stock | 5/2/1951 | See Source »

...GRASS Is SINGING (245 pp.)-Don's Lesslng-C rowel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thorns in Dreamland | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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