Word: northland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million thanks for the wonderful article on Northland College which appeared in your Nov. 9 issue. If I could have changed the article, I would have put more emphasis on Northland College and considerably less on its president, whose importance was overstated...
...TURBEVILLE President Northland College Ashland...
...trustee: Ellsworth C. Alvord, a leading Washington tax attorney and the biggest individual stockholder in General Dynamics Corp. By the time Turbeville got through with Alvord, the lawyer was a convert. By the time Alvord got through with Frank Pace Jr., chairman of General Dynamics, Pace was a dedicated Northland trustee. By this year, tiny Northland has a solid gold board that many a university might envy. Among its members : Presidential Friend George E. Allen, Publisher Gardner Cowles, Industrialist Victor Emanuel, Movie Arbiter Eric Johnston, Financier Floyd B. Odium...
Rosy Future. Backed by his well-heeled trustees, Gus Turbeville tripled Northland's budget to $600,000 a year, doubled enrollment to 350, is raising $3,000,000 for new dormitories. The school is now fully accredited; its seniors score in the top 30% in nationwide Educational Testing Service achievement tests. By next year, salaries for the school's 30 teachers will have nearly doubled to a $7,000 maximum. To Theologian Harmon Bro, formerly of Syracuse University and a onetime Northland student, the Turbeville treatment is "a reincarnation." Bro has left Syracuse to teach at Northland...
Last week booming Northland received a distinction presently unmatched by any other four-year liberal-arts college. Courtesy of General Dynamics, it will soon have a $250,000 atomic reactor, along with famed Physicists Edward Teller and Frederic de Hoffmann on loan from time to time to lecture in a new $1,000,000 science building. With an additional $10 million endowment in the offing (all earmarked for teachers' salaries), Northland faces an even rosier future. Says go-getting President Turbeville, who has turned down industry offers at more than double his $15,000 salary: "In ten years...