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Also honored with LL.D's were Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman of the Xerox Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rochester University; Herbert Wechsler, Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia and Director of the American Law Institute; and Benjamin E. Mays, the retiring President of Morehouse College in Atlanta...
Joseph C. Wilson, L.H.D., chairman of the board, Xerox Corp...
Every school should have an old grad like the University of Rochester's Joseph C. Wilson, 57, class of '31. Now board chairman and chief executive of Xerox Corp., Wilson has been a member of Rochester's board of trustees for 18 years, chairman since 1959. This year he took on the added task of heading the university's $38 million fund drive for new buildings and professorships, and kicked in $5,000,000 in stock to get the ball rolling. When the campaign bogged down despite his best efforts, Wilson and his wife Katherine simply...
They also spent $8.6 million in 1949 to acquire American Education Publications, publishers of a grade school current-events pamphlet, My Weekly Reader, which soon expanded to 13 school periodicals with a circulation of 16.5 million, netting the university $28.5 million. The press was sold in 1965 to the Xerox Corp. for 400,000 shares of stock then worth $56 million. Wesleyan has since netted $63 million by selling 300,000 of the Xerox shares. The school's endowment of $161 million breaks down to $130,000 per student...
...inscriptions were returned to us, and duly examined by expert judges. Winning exhibits are now on display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also the one about the two effeminate Braniff pilots, one of whom says to the other: "Look, Tony, you promised I could take the pink one up today...