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...color spread, TIME scouted some 250 missionaries at work from the frozen Arctic to the steaming Amazon jungle. Twelve photographers took part in the project, all of them professional save one : Father William Leising, an Oblate priest who pilots supplies to 26 mission posts in the Canadian northland, and who took the picture of the grotto 200 miles above the Arctic Circle...
...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...
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...