Word: dunbar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prudish parents have long been a favorite target of the psychiatrists. Puritanical homes are often blamed for giving children a neurotic attitude toward sex. But one psychiatrist thinks that modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...
Most enterprising campaign manager was Dunbar Rapier, a Negro third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...
Skills First. Chicago School Superintendent Herold C. Hunt, who thinks Campbell and Dunbar are "amazing," has promised them a new building within three years. Meanwhile overcrowded Dunbar, built to handle only 375 students, makes do with a Hooverville of temporary wooden buildings-and three shifts. Cliff Campbell is the first to arrive every day (by 7:30 a.m.) and the last to leave (after 10 p.m.). Offered better-paying jobs in their trades or at other schools, many of Campbell's teachers have refused...
Because most of Dunbar's students come from low-income homes and many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...