Cornell Names Samuel E. Stumpf as Eleventh Cornell President
Samuel E. Stumpf of Vanderbilt University has been elected Cornell’s 11th president. He will assume office July 1, succeeding Arland Christ-Janer, with election announced May 27 after a special Board meeting. Stumpf, born 1918 in Cleveland, holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has led Vanderbilt philosophy since 1952. He emphasizes liberal arts, student development, and open dialogue, saying the college exists for its students and urging nonarbitrary rules and scheduled student conversations.
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Samuel E. Stumpf
Vanderbilt University
Cornell
Sutherland Dows
Board of
Stumpf
Richard W. Keller
William Fletcher King
Arland F. Christ-Janer
Boston University
Cornell College
Alexander Heard
Vanderbilt
Divinity School
Law School
Department of Philosophy
Medical
Sam Stumpf
University of California At
Los Angeles
Andover Newton
Socrates
Sartre
Cleveland
Ohio
Jean Goodman
Wellesley College
MSSW
Graduate School of Social Work
University of Tennessee
Paul
Amherst
Mass
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Mark
Harvard
Samuel, Jr
Nashville
Peabody
Yale
Esquire
Wicke to Speak at Cornelius Baccalaureate Service
Myron F. Wicke, General Secretary of the Division of Higher Education, The Methodist Church in Nashville Tenn, will be the baccalaureate speaker at Cornelius Baccalaureate Service at 10 30 a m Sunday June 11 He will also receive an honorary degree from Cornell at the afternoon commencement exercises Wicke has held various positions in the division since 1949 and earned degrees from Western Reserve University with further graduate study at Oberlin and Columbia Colleges and has honorary degrees from several American colleges Continued on page 8.
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Division of Higher Education
Board of Education
the Methodist Church
Nashville
Wicke
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Oberlin College
Columbia University
Dorms to Close for Commencement Week 1967
Dormitories close 8 p.m. Sunday June 11 with desks closed at 4 p.m. The last meal is noon on June 11. The Commons opens 8 a.m. and closes 5 p.m. on Commencement Day. Graduating seniors are excused from board job work from June 8 through Commencement. substitutes may fill in. Other students keep regular hours through Commencement. failure to meet duties risks future campus employment.
Senior Recognition Day Awards And Budget Actions
The Cornellian reports the Senior Recognition Convocation outcomes with several student awards and department honors. Public Affairs Club received $400 and the RLC Coffee House project $300 from a $700 surplus, while other recognitions include Brooks Memorial Award to Robert Rubin and the American Institute of Chemists medal to Richard Foemmel. Departments announce poetry and fiction prizes and Who's Who honorees with Phi Beta Kappa selections and Senior Fellows in the Humanities noted. President and committees discuss calendar changes and ID cards.
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RLC Coffee House
Stuart Good
Council
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Coffee House
Good
Cornell
Cornellian
Biology
Frank G. Brooks
Robert Rubin
Chemistry
American Institute of Chemists
Richard Foemmel
H. C. Lane
Lawson
Clyde C. Tull
Lane
Dave Cwi
Rick Ryan
David Meyer
Susan Zwinger
F. Smith
Gary Schark
Pi Kappa Lambda
Pamela Hamer
Michael Rogers
Christine Goodell
Alan Bloomquist
Department of Religion
Ella Robinson Moses
Robert D. Bishop
Linda L. Crissey
David
Bob Bishop
Dave Crow
Dave Klaus
John MacGregor
Marty Malin
Charles Nelson
Bruce Pons
Bob Rubin
Thomas Shillinglaw
Craig Shives
Dick Wedel
Linda Crissey
Phi Beta Kappa
Delta of Iowa
Georgia Bergman
Ellyn Hessler
Ann Hinkhouse
Madge Kistmer
David Klaus
Susan Leigh
Cathy Muller
Janet Polley
Mary Ann Rehnke
Helmut Reiter
Helen Smith
Jeff Strandholm
David Cwi
Madge Kistner
Heald to Speak at Cornell 114th Commencement
Henry T. Heald, former Ford Foundation president and founder of Heald Hobson and Associates, will deliver Cornell's 114th commencement address on June 11 at 8 p.m. Heald will receive an honorary doctorate. His career spans NYU presidency and long aviation and engineering leadership. Heald earned a 1923 degree from Washington State College and a 1925 master's in civil engineering from Illinois.
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Ford Foundation
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Cornell
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