Word: thain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooed away curious hotel workers and loaded the man into an ambulance that sped to the airport. There the patient was placed in a waiting Gates Learjet ambulance plane from Miami. Before landing in Acapulco earlier that day, it had fetched from the Bahamas a vacationing Utah physician, Wilbur Thain, who was one of the patient's three private doctors. Pilot Roger Sutton was alarmed by the ailing passenger's condition. "He looked very emaciated, a pasty color," he recalls. "When they put him on the plane, he moved his lips, but I could not hear anything...
After the plane touched down at Houston Intercontinental Airport, Thain told the pilot, "There is no hurry. He's gone...
...Bennington College in Vermont, Joseph S. Iseman, 59, a New York lawyer and member of the school's board of trustees, was named acting president to replace Gail Thain Parker, 33. Parker and her husband Thomas, 33, vice president of the college, had resigned after heavy pressure from the faculty. Only three years earlier, the couple had been welcomed to the campus as a young, innovative team. Since last fall, however, many faculty members had refused to work with President Parker, charging that she was uncommunicative and aloof. They were particularly aroused by a Parker report on the future...
...Board of Trustees of Bennington College Saturday named Joseph S. Iseman '37, a board member, as acting president of Bennington. Iseman replaces Gail Thain Parker '64, a former assistant professor of History and Literature at Harvard, who resigned the presidency of the embattled Vermont school last week...