Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
...summer, reached the top of the charts, and has now sold more than 1,000,000 copies, bringing the Highwaymen cash-boxes full of unexpected gold. Most remarkably, however, the Highwaymen are actually college boys-all senior honor students at Connecticut's ivy-tinged Wesleyan University...
...much as $2,500 a night, the five boys spent their freshman, sophomore and junior years performing unofficially before preoccupied pool shooters in their fraternity-house basement. When one boy's father suggested that they contact talent agencies they auditioned for United Artists. As a result, the five Wesleyan boys will split more than $100,000 this year...
...Touch. Each of them has other interests and is anything but a campus misfit with a guitar. Bob Burnett, 21, friendly, eager, misleadingly slight of build, is Wesleyan's pole-vault champion (his record: 12 ft. S in.), vice president of the student government, and an outstanding scholar. Son of a Boston investment broker who also runs a cemetery in Mystic, Conn., he is majoring in government and wants to be a lawyer. Last summer he went to Nigeria under a program called Operation Crossroads, showed Nigerians how to make cement blocks and helped them build a community center...
Chan Daniels, 21. president of Wesleyan's International Relations Club, is tall, urbane and serious, and has lived most of his life in Argentina, wrhere his father sells Jeeps. Stephen Butts, 20. is the son of the director of International Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested...