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When Correspondent Robert Schulman was transferred from TIME'S Chicago bureau last November to become chief of the bureau in Seattle, he recalled an incident that happened during a school vacation 20 years ago at the Chicago World's Fair. Says Schulman : "At the time, I was a native New Yorker who had never been west of Jersey before. I remember standing wistfully in the Chicago railroad yards watching the trains pull out for the West. I thought how wonderful it would be to go into those mighty spaces that I knew only from maps...
...Schulman has filled in most of those map spaces by personal visits in reporting TIME stories. With the help of part-time correspondents, he covers a beat that includes the entire Pacific Northwest to the Continental Divide, up through Western Canada, and Alaska...
When he first learned that he was going to Seattle, Schulman had a plan. Says he: " I was going to get to know this area by taking a leisurely trip, soaking up the geography and meeting some of the people who are shaping the region's course. I still aim to make such a trip. The last leisurely trip I had was the train ride that brought us from Chicago...
Perhaps the most amusing controversy has been the "piety controversy" at the Divinity School Student Association, J. Frank Schulman 3Dv. asked for more religious interest among the students, proposing that the association open meetings with prayer...
This caused an immediate protest by large faction of the school which charged Schulman with advocating "too much piety." Petitions followed and a meeting of the association was called. Finally, after long discussion Schulman cast the deciding vote in a tie ballot and succeeded in tabling a motion that "no religious activities precede business meetings unless they are specifically called for by a majority vote of the association...