Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of generations ago. In those days, says Chicago's Dr. Arthur G. Falls, 67, there was no discrimination in Northern schools. "I was born and raised in Chicago, and got a fine education in the public school system. I had no trouble getting into Northwestern and going on through its medical school. The decline of the Chicago public school system came later. Today, many Negroes wishing to go to medical school are ill prepared educationally. Even to be considered, the Negro must be in the top 1% of his class...
...Iowa farmboy who paid his way through Northwestern University by boxing at club fights, Gookin went on to Harvard Business School, and signed up with Heinz in 1945 after varied jobs in other companies. Hired as an accountant, he worked his way up to comptroller and financial vice president, made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna...
...NORTHWESTERN: Black + Basketball...
...Northwestern Senior Vernon Ford is under no illusions about why a highly selective private university wanted him: he is bright, black and a fine basketball player. Ford has found living that dual role ? "as an athlete and as a black, but still an individual"?painfully difficult. Yet, as one of the key members of the militant Black Power movement on campus, he has helped make Northwestern aware of the Negro students' determination to carve out their own niche on white campuses. Last month, Ford was among 60 Negro students who camped in the university's business office...
...expand the economic and political control of blacks within their own community. He worries about his own ability to make the transition from the campus back to the ghetto, where he intends to teach while working for his master's degree in sociology. Looking back, he wonders whether Northwestern treated Negroes much differently than the world out side. "You come into the university expecting to find an ideal situation," he says. "But an upper-middle-class conservative school isn't immune to bigotry. For the black man, there's no Utopia...