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Denver's athletic director is Elton E. "Tad" Wieman, a highly respected former coach at Princeton (1932 to 1943) and a member of the Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1921 after election to Phi Beta Kappa and recognition on the All-America football team. He is regarded locally as an arch-conservative who abides by the letter of NCAA law--"an Ivy Leaguer at heart...
Noticeably conscientious and confident about his athletic policies, Wieman is candid and direct about DU's attitudes toward recruiting. "I defy anyone to find any instance in which we have played a Canadian in violation of NCAA or WCHA rulings," he said, noting that each year he sends the Denver hockey roster to the Central Registry in Montreal (which lists Canadian players) to check up on their amateur standings. He also sends the roster to all of DU's opponents so that they may question or investigate the eligibility of any players if they wish. "We want to make sure...
Unlike most of the Eastern colleges, but consistent with the policies of the majority of Western schools, Denver pursues an active over-the-counter recruiting program and awards players athletic Grant-in-Aid scholarships not necessarily based on need. Wieman explained that Coach Armstrong has a total of 26 hockey scholarships for freshmen and upperclassmen which cover tuition, fees, room and board (each worth about $1500 per year). Also, Armstrong gets $500 each year from a "Student Promotion Fund" to cover traveling expenses for an annual recruiting trip into Western Canada at the end of the season...
...seminary's outstanding student, was president of the student body (the first Negro so honored), and earned a chance to go on to Boston University for his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis: A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman...
...Boston interests were not exclusively devoted to Theologians Tillich and Wieman. He had met Coretta Scott, a pretty and talented soprano who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their early dates were less than completely successful. "The fact that he was a minister made me shy away," recalls Coretta. "I had an awful stereotype in my mind." The suitor broke the stereotype: in June 1953, Coretta and King were married on the front lawn of her home in Marion, Ala. Just 15 months later they arrived in Montgomery to take up full-time pastoral duties...