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...guests in the Greek Theater of Mills College, Student President Deborah Campbell caught the essence of the occasion in terms that only students at a women's school can fully appreciate. Said she: "There's a new man around campus." Indeed there is. Last week Robert Joseph Wert, 45, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome former vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at nearby Stanford, was inaugurated the ninth president of the West's best-and almost only-nonsectarian liberal arts college for girls. He succeeds the retiring C. Easton Rothwell, who led the school...
President Wert, who has a Stanford Ph.D. in higher education and was an executive of New York's Carnegie Corporation for five years, is determined to lead Mills in new directions. He contends that since research-dominated universities no longer provide a meaningful liberal arts education, this task is now up to the small colleges. The liberal arts, he says, need to be redefined to help meet the "desperate shortage of people who are truly generalists." In his inaugural address, he called for faculty conferences to chart Mills's future, but indicated he will oppose the current trend...
Paragrapher Vaughan, also writes essays for the Star, and recently scored two solid hits in this new department: the Bell Syndicate is syndicating his essays, and Simon & Schuster will soon publish a collection of them, Bird Thou Never Wert, in book form. But once a paragrapher, always a paragrapher. Said Essayist Vaughan of his book title, automatically composing a paragraph: "It fits the two main requirements for a book title today-it comes from the classics and means absolutely nothing...
...soon becomes clear that these are not ordinary people. No ordinary widow would recall in print that on the night before the journey to the hospital, "weary, and suddenly very weak as he was, Wert made love to me. It was simple and mutual and profound...
Curd, Thou Never Van Wert. American money helped restore the blasted town at war's end, but nobody did much about Marie until 1950, when chunky, Wisconsin-born Dairy Executive Will Foster began singing her praises among workers at a Borden cheese factory in Van Wert, Ohio, where most of the Camembert-style cheese in the U.S. is made. Within a month the U.S. cheese workers had shelled out $2,000 to honor their long-dead French colleague. Last week, thanks to their generosity, a statue was unveiled in Vimoutiers for the second time in a century...