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WILLIAM E. ZEUCH Romoland, Calif...
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Commonwealth College was founded in 1923. on a 320-acre plot near the Talihina Highway in the Ouachita Mountains. The founders were Dr. William Edward Zeuch (pronounced Zoyk) of the University of Illinois, and Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, Labor lecturer, onetime (1912-14) international secretary of the Socialist Party of America. Mrs. O'Hare was once kissed by Anatole France when she appeared before an international Socialist gathering. A pacifist, she was imprisoned for 14 months during the War under the Espionage Act. In founding Commonwealth College. Dr. Zeuch and Mrs. O'Hare espoused no one dogma. Their "Commoners...
...Zeuch, then 36, announced that he wished to retire as Director Emeritus, go to Europe as a Guggenheim Scholar, turn over his post to a younger man. Last summer Commonwealth got a new head, youngest college executive in the U. S. He was Lucien Koch, 24, who had been brought up on an Oregon farm, worked his way through high school as a printer's devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman...
...Goober Butter. For some weeks students were at work harvesting and cleaning goobers. A few bushels were hauled into town for hulling. Then Zeuch, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Bosch roasted, ground and mixed. There is about 150 pounds of goober butter now stored in the cellar and being served regularly at mealtime...