Word: stamm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elected as new Council president white-haired Bishop John Samuel Stamm, 70, of the Evangelical United Brethren. Son of a lay preacher, jovial, ham-handed John Stamm grew up on a Kansas farm with an early hankering to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War (he was "just too young for the job"). As good an administrator as he is a preacher, President-elect Stamm has served as vice president of the Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said...
...date committee for the dance consists of Captain Gregory, Lt. Rose, Lt. Steed and the terrible three Lts. Stamm, Stark, and Stabler...
...fact is, this was a big week for the athletes. Besides baseball, a tennis tournament was in process. Already, there has been one upset. Lt. Stamm, a former champion at the University of Pennsylvania, was defeated by a comparatively unknown Lt. Stark 6-4, 6-0, 6-0. This was quite a surprise. Said Stamm after the defeat, "I was beaten fairly and squarely. I have no alibis, but it was the rubber program that best me--those damned reclaimed tennis balls...
...Stamm is fundamentally a serious teacher and philosopher. He believes that emotional and intellectual solidity requires experience with pessimism, such as is represented by Schopenhauer and Calvin. His balanced view of man is summed up in a characteristic dictum: "There is something ridiculous, pathetic and sacred about every human being...
...friendliness and his appreciation of humor, combined with a sincere personal interest in each of his students, that has made him a truly outstanding classroom personality. Men like Stamm, who are born teachers because they are born lovers of life and lovers of men, are exceedingly rare...