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...Graduate School of Business. A registered Republican, Young is the son of Industrialist Owen D. Young (onetime Democratic elder statesman who supported Eisenhower last year). Squarejawed, stubborn Dean Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed the nomination, added that he would be invited to attend Cabinet meetings...
...Anne Gary Pannell, president of Sweet Briar College, warned last week that wartime marriages are on the increase. "We see the abandonment of promising college careers in midstream whenever the possibility of marriage is presented," she said...
Like a small child caught smoking his father's old briar, state legislators can come up with the most impassioned irrelevancies. When the Blanchard Report recently appeared, implying that the Dever Administration corporation taxes were responsible for the flight of local industry from the Commonwealth, everyone started yelling. In the debate, no one has faced the main problem--how to end the State's progressive industrial anemia...
...doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher College for women (Martha was a dean at Radcliffe). In recent years, while global-minded Martha Lucas became a UNESCO delegate and started a Junior Year Abroad program for Sweet Briar, global-minded Anne Pannell has spent much of her time arranging international student scholarships...
Incoming President Pannell will take over her new post July 1. For the 450 girls at fashionable, forward-looking Sweet Briar, her appointment meant that everything would go right on running just as smoothly and amiably as ever...