Word: thoburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Thoburn Williamson, 50, Canadian-born geologist, owner of the world's richest diamond mine (in Tanganyika), whose fortune was estimated at nearly $100 million; of cancer of the throat; in Mwadui, Tanganyika. Bachelor Williamson began diamond prospecting in South Africa in 1935, five years later struck a pipe eight times larger than South Africa's famed Kimberley Mine. Refusing to sell out to the De Beers cartel, Williamson nevertheless marketed his diamonds (average yearly output: $8,000,000 worth) through the syndicate, gave generously to African charities...
...replace Chao, the World Council elected its first woman president, Sarah Chakko, president of Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow, India. An indefatigable committeewoman, 46-year-old Miss Chakko is a member of India's Mar Thoma Church, which claims to have been founded by the Apostle Thomas. Also elected a World Council president was Archbishop Athenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church, to replace the late Archbishop Germanos...
Freshmen: Carol Craven, bow; Francis Thoburn, 2; Judy humway, 3; Ann Farnham, 4; Ann Bruch, 5; Virginia Emergy, 6; Elizabeth Taggart, 7; Anna McCann, 8; Francis Lawrence...
Also elected were: Ulrich E. Kruse 1G, Physics; Basil Mott, Public Administration; Richard N. Schwab 2G, History; Richard C. Sterne 2G, English; Norman L. Thoburn 1G, Education; Joseph L. Tryon 2G, Economics; and Robert P. Wheatley 3Dv., Divinity. Diana Burn, Chemistry, was elected N.S.A. representative...