Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, was a B-17 pilot in the Pacific in World War II. Always immersed in research and development problems, he was assigned to the Pentagon after the war, there moved in on the ground floor of missilery...
...1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been one of the strongest proponents of a unified national...
...part, will allow expansion of topflight teacher-training programs already under way. Recipients: Barnard, $70,000; Brown, $1,047,000; Chicago, $2,400,000; California's Claremont Graduate School, $425,000; Duke, $294,210; George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., $600,000; Harvard, $2,800,000; Stanford, $900,000; Wisconsin...
...expanded projects vary widely, but Stanford's is fairly typical; there, liberal-arts graduates will begin a 15-month program early in the summer by concentrating on the subjects they are to teach. During the regular school year, they will serve as practice-teaching "interns" in local high schools, receive salaries from the school districts, spend three hours a week in a seminar on teaching methods. They will study subject matter again during the second summer, receive California teaching certificates in time to begin classes in the fall...
Eight other colleges also received Ford gifts for developing new teacher training methods. Among these were Barnard College, the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Stanford, Brown and Duke Universities. The grants totaled over $9.1 million...