Word: staffmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who knew Henry Townley Heald when he was head of New York University say that he was never known to get excited or waste a word. Chancellor Heald was running true to form when he called in his top staffmen one day last June to hear a special announcement. "Gentlemen," said he matter-of-factly, "they've offered me the presidency of the Ford Foundation, and I don't see how anyone in education could turn it down." "That was all there was to it," recalls one of those present. "Here was a man getting the most...
...over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked up by the staffmen themselves. All projects of over $500,000 must be passed by the full board of trustees,* which meets four times a year in a conference room with one wall lined with photographs of their predecessors and themselves. Between meetings the trustees study reams of reports and documents sent them...
...National Education Association issued its latest report on the average salaries of college and university staffmen: presidents, $11,314; deans, $7,495; full professors, $7,076; business managers, $6,682; associate professors, $5,731; assistant professors, $4,921; instructors...
Though carefully restrained in tone, the memo to Texas A & M's 800 county agents and staffmen scattered across the state was nevertheless a solemn warning. Its author was 64-year-old D. Willard Williams, the institution's vice chancellor in charge of agriculture and one of the nation's top agricultural experts. "Agriculture," wrote Williams, "faces a drying up of trained leadership at its source. There just simply are not nearly enough young men and women entering the agricultural and home-economics fields." Williams' worry: While the rest of the country harps on its need...
Last week the Bundestag committee reported back: the search had been pleasantly disappointing. Of the 21 top Foreign Office staffmen investigated, only four had records bad enough to warrant discharge...