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by Robyn SnodgrassThe end of first semester marks a very special event in the life of Dr. Samuel Cummings. After 33years as a Kenyon professor of psychology, he is moving onward to the golden fields of retirement. Dr. Cummings spoke to theCOLLEGIAN this past week regarding his life, his views on Kenyon, and his opinions on liberal artseducation in general.Dr. Cummings is originally form western Pennsylvania, but moved to New England. He attended and graduated from Amherst. Then came a period of study at the Sorbonne in Paris where his initial interst in psychology was sparked. Hereceived his master’s degree from Columbia, taught for a while at Dartmouth, and did further studies at Syracuse. He completed his doctorate at Pinceton. He has also taught in summer school sessionsdotes of his 33 years at Kenyon which Dr. Cummings could recall, concerns our illustrious alumnus Jonathan Winters. “I think one of the funniest things that ever happened was at the Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the Dekefraternity. A great number of alumni came back including Jonathan Winters who was then very very famous and had become quite a national figure. I left that party between twelve and one o’ clock. He’d been on a couch, speaking, talking, giving his monologues all evening long and he was going great guns by about one. Then the next morning I decided I’d better go back and see if there was anything left to the fraternity after that celebration and who should be sitting in the same place, talking, there was Jonathan Winters at ten o’ clock the next morning giving still another set of his monologues.”described it as lt;devastating” even matic experience through. Also dee Dr. Cumining’s n duation of 1946 -mencement after War II. He descr the most pleasan spirit was obvioi relief and great h to be back. The « were more enchan than at any other t Kenyon’s distingi the service, a c and an admiral we time, and it was hope.’®*' * Jr?Dr. Cummings thusiastic spirit does pervade the fc the students conti the Kenyon educa He feels the sit• i a • f « •
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Gambier Kenyon Collegian
Gambier, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 09, 1971
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