Word: oskaloosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the Service Committee has come to symbolize Quakerism to many non-Quakers, hardworking, articulate Secretary Pickett has come to personify the Service Committee. Farm-raised and Quaker-educated (William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa), Pickett spent World War I leading Friends' meetings, defending conscientious objectors and getting the side of his house painted yellow for his pacifist pains. In 1923 he joined the faculty of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., where his favorite course was a study of the application of religion and ethics to current social problems...