Word: merrifield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brainstorm booster; Chrysler Corp. has tried it, and so have Union Carbide & Carbon, Celanese Corp., American Oil Co., U.S. Steel, Radio Corp. of America, Boeing Airplane Co. Even if the ideas themselves are unworkable, the discussion shakes up workers and bosses alike. Says Chrysler's William D. Merrifield, boss of the company's industrial education program: "The main thing is 'to develop a climate among your executives that is favorable to new ideas...
...style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore the honor of Abilene's South Side through a classic two-hour fistfight against Wesley Merrifield, champion of the more prosperous North Side. The fight ended in a draw. "Ike," gasped Wes, "I can't lick you." "Well, Wes," said Ike grimly, "I haven't licked...
Supporting the teaching of the philosophical and technical aspects of Natural Sciences courses in separate sections, Merrifield said that many departmental courses in the University treat these subjects separately. Previously, Leonard A. Nash '39, associate professor of Chemistry and lecturer in Natural Sciences 4, had said that it was impossible to separate the technical and methodological in elementary Natural Sciences courses...
Nash also doubted the advisability of having non-scientists teach the non-technical Natural Sciences sections. Merrifield replied that his plan would have scientists teaching these sections, but they would have a broader liberal arts background than most of the instructors now employed...
When the material in the courses did not place equal emphasis on technical and non-technical material, Merrifield said that he favored coordinating the section schedule with the nature of the material. This clarification came in response to Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics and lecturer in Natural Sciences 2, who had said that course emphasis varied too much for the continual allotment of equal amounts of time to philosophy, methodology, and technology...