Word: skinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physician for the high school football team in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1961, Dr. Scott W. Skinner fretted about the fact that many of the hard-working but unbookish kids he knew probably would have a tough time getting into a college. A mediocre student himself at Muhlenberg, Skinner was convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique person in history" - Dwight Eisenhower. Skinner asked...
...Your Minds." That happy event would never have taken place, says Scott Skinner, "if we had really understood the problems and not just gone blundering ahead." Actually, Ike's reply to Skinner's letter back in 1961 was little more than a note of cautious interest written, in fact, by Eisenhower's secretary. But it was enough for Skinner, 41, who teamed up with Insurance Broker John Rosenkrans, 40, a fellow vestryman at Seneca Falls First Presbyterian Church. Together they sought support of state Presbyterian Church officials who, Skinner recalls, told them: "You two guys...
Undaunted, they canvassed Presbyterian pastors, who in turn found about 1,300 prospective students. The Seneca Falls Presbyterian church pledged $100,000. An 18-man committee was formed, but not an educator was on it to provide professional advice, so Skinner and Rosenkrans went prospecting...
...York State Department of Education recommended Earl J. McGrath. So did Presbyterian officials, who by now were warming to the idea. So did the Ford Foundation. Asked Rosenkrans: "Who is McGrath?" He and Skinner found out soon enough. Buffalo-born Earl McGrath had been U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Truman and president of the University of Kansas City. The prospectors located him in New York, where McGrath, 62, was teaching at Columbia and directing research in higher education. Skinner went to see him and opened the conversation with: "What are we doing to help the C+ high school student...
...rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...