Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboriginal Ideas. "I'm just a rookie at football, I'm no expert," Rickey kept insisting to everyone within hearing. But when pressed he remembered coaching football 40 years ago at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, and the "aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good...
...time, Ohio Wesleyan University turned out so many prominent churchmen that its 20,000-odd alumni (paraphrasing Ohio's claim as the "Mother of Presidents") proudly call their alma mater the "Mother of Bishops." Last week, for the first time in its 106 years, Ohio Wesleyan picked a layman president: U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Sherwood Flemming...
Brooklyn Dodgers Boss Branch Rickey* ('04) and the 41 other trustees knew what they were getting. Able Administrator Flemming, an Ohio Wesleyan man himself ('27), has been a trustee for six years. He is a leader in the Federal Council of Churches, a Sunday-school superintendent, the father of five...
...President Roosevelt to the Commission, he became the second youngest member in U.S. history (younger: 30-year-old Teddy Roosevelt). Flemming also served on the War Manpower Commission, is now a member of the new Hoover Commission (set up by Congress to study the executive branch). At Ohio Wesleyan, President Flemming plans to teach a course in political science, hopes to get more "first-rate" graduates to go into politics...