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Sunday, May 16, 1971 Notestein Reads Every 6Note On Wooster College Just For YOU A Knight's Squire Was Nicknamed 'Dexter' A 10 Akron Beacon Journal By JAMES DETTLING Of Our Wayn County Bureau WOOSTER If there was one "logical" person to undertake the writing of a history of the College of Wooster, that person is Lucy Lilian weem ItmmxmA iiii3i The Dexter surname, like many others, can be traced back to several different-k sources. One of the more uncommon meanings began when a knight would keep a squire. The squire, who was usually learning to become a knight himself, had duties such as his master's horse. Since the horse was always led on the master's right hand, sometimes a "skillful horseman was nick- r. named "Dexter." w- IN MOST cases, however, t-the Dexter name was.

taken from the trade of the dyer. A person with this occupation was called a "dyster," and through the generations the word evolved into Dexter. We pan trace the spelling CK-' I Pssst! Pass It On By LOU BOYD changes of this name Over the years by consulting old English documents and records. For example, the name Simon le Dykstre is listed for a resident of Suffolk in the year 130S. By 1378, the name has assumed its modern spelling, and we find that a William Dexter is listed as a resident of Warwicks.

ANOTHER source Of name, though, an uncommon one, is a contraction of "De Exeter," meaning one who came from Exeter, England. Some of the Dexter families who moved 'to Ireland are said to have, derived their name from the fact that they came from Exeter. THE DEXTER surname came early to this country. In 1630, Thomas Dexter arrived at Lynn, Mass. Richard who was born in England but later moved to Ireland, sailed from there to Boston in 1642.

Rev. Gregory Dexter settled in Providence, R. in 1644. THE DEXTER coat-of-arms is silver and bears two blue chevrons. In the upper left-hand corner is a red rectangle; this device is called a canton in heraldry.

Sometimes a additional charge will be pictured upon the canton. To see the history and arms of your name, write to "What's In Yoar Name?" Beacon Journal, Akron, 0., 44309. Noiv There's A Gooduck! SAN DIEGO, Cal. 10 Marie Hitchcock, who gained fame by successfully mating pheasants and chickens to produce phick-ens, has introduced a new creature into the world. It's a gooduck, she explained, the result of mating a gander with a duck.

Of 23 eggs laid only one hatched. FELLDIN AND THE WINDMILL OF HIS DREAMS A Swede Who Makes Backyard Windmills Notestein. Her two -volume history, "Wooster of the Middle West," covering the college from 1866 to 1944, has just been published by Kent State University Press. Miss Notestein comes from a dyed-in-the-wool academic family. Her father, Joseph, graduated from the college in 1873 and was professor of Latin there until his death in 1928.

HER three uncles were also professors in small colleges and her grandfather was principal of the old Hudson Acade-my (later Western Reserve Academy) in Hudson. Her older brother, Wallace, also an author, was Sterling Professor of English History at Yale until his death in 1969. Miss Notestein, who lives at 1727 Burbank grew up in Wooster and earned her BA at the college. Following an MA at Radcliffe, she taught English and short story writing at the University of Illinois and at Western Reserve University. A JOB with the Presbyterian Board of National Missions took her to New York City for five years From there she moved to the editorial staff of Readers Digest, where she remained for nearly 25 years, retiring as a department editor.

Her genuine "feel" for her old alma mater is evident in her books. TO GET this feel for the era and to put it in place against the background of a growing and changing community entailed a tremendous amount of research and plain hard work. "I have read almost everything I could lay my hands on that pertained to the college during the periods covered: minutes of the faculty and trustees, the school papers, alumni bulletins, inaugural addresses, even the college catalogs," explained Miss Notestein as she relaxed in the study of her home. But her best source of material came in answer to personal letters written to former teachers and alumni of the college. MISS NOTESTEIN, who declines to reveal her age other than to say "she comes from a long-lived family," wrote the first volume of "Wooster of the Middle West" from voluminous notes gathered by her father.

It was originally published in 1937 and has been reissued as a companion to her second volume which details the history of the college from World War I through World War II. "I hesitated a long time before agreeing to undertake the second volume," she a i "but I finally decided there was virtue in continuity and I was the logical person to do it since I'd grown up with the college practically In my blood." By BRUCE LARRICK J. Alex Felldin, of 859 E. Crosier has reconstructed a small part of his native Sweden in his backyard, The small part is an 8-foot scale model complete with working parts and wings the arms that provide the power. Felldin, 72, who retired from F.

Goodrich in 1964, spent three months on the project in his basement carpentry shop. "I JUST wanted to make something nice to remind me of home," he said. "My father and I operated cereal mills in Sweden, The only thing bad about wind mills is that they make a terrible noise when they're running." Felldin grew up on a small island in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. Because there was no running water on the island and other sources of power had not been developed, the islanders turned to windmills, he said. "There used to be rows and rows of windmills on the island.

Every farm had a small one, and there were many large commercial mills," he said. Felldin's model is of a commercial mill. Real ones stand 25 to 30 feet high and contain three floors. The top two floors are for the grinding equipment and the bottom floor is used either for storage or living space. A BIBLICAL SCHOLAR contends the three wise men didn't show up to visit Jesus until He was about 2 years old.

Is that right or wrong? It's said the life of each plastic surgeon who has been In practice more than 10 years had been threatened at least once by a disappointed patient Driving record of deaf persons overall Is considerably better than the record of those with hearing. Fewer citations, fewer smashups. That's another recent revelation. ITS SAID more newspaper reporters claim experience on the New York Post than on any other newspaper And bear in mind, the male reindeer lives six years longer than the female reindeer. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q.

"Every time I wash the dishes, my hands turn white, wrinkle up, and get puffy. Does your Household Hints specialist know what to do about that?" A. Rub them with wet salt afterwards, he says Q. "How much money has the inventor of the. Aerosol can earned off that thing?" A.

Can only tell you that if all such cans sold in the last 12 months were divided equally, every household In the country would get '40. WHEN A BABY BOY Is born in Glendale, 0., the chimes of the Episcopal Church there play "Little Boy Blue." When it's a girl, they play "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Now that's kind of all right. A bit thweet maybe. But all right. WHAT'S the No.

1 marriage problem? Money? That's what most counselors claim. But Hugo A. Bordeaux, a Baltimore expert, says no, not exactly. It's the inability of husbands and wives to talk to each other, he contends. Our own Love and War man has made that plain, too.

When the conversation dries 'up, that's bad. Very bad. Nothing points more positively toward matrimonial misfortune, says he, than silence in the house. HOW TO GET enlistments up, that's what the Army brass is trying to figure out. Difficult.

Still, not Insolva- ble. Take the native Congo army put together by Belgium in 1893. Never lost a man. When one soldier died, declined to re-up, or went over the hill, he left behind his name, gun and wife. A successor automatically assumed proprietorship of all three.

Those were the. rules. Achieved remarkable results, too. For 20 years. Pentagon, please note.

1 ANIMAL FARM: Were you aware Joe Frazierand Cassius Clay put together don't weigh as much as the skin of the average grown hippopotamus? Another thing bout a giraffe, it doesn't have to turn its head to set behind Itself i They say a purebred goat will give her weight in milk every 10 days, If prevailed upon And get It straight, please, it's a yoke of oxen, a team of horses, a span of mules. AM ASKED WHY fashion models always pose with one leg slightly in front of the other. Because they're if Tvms if 4 LUCY NOTESTEIN Girl Writes For GI Names By DONN GAYNOR A lot of Akron area servicemen in Vietnam are going to get a big boost in morale from a young woman none of them know in a town they probably never heard of. "It's just a little personal project of my own to let them know we appreciate what they are doing," 17-year-old Annette Smiddie told the Beacon Journal by telephone from her home in Crossville, Tenn. The Beacon Journal learned about Annette because she wrote a letter to the Akron Area Chamber of Commerce, asking for names of area servicemen.

No explanation, just a request for names. "I'TS MY own idea," she said. "I just thought that with this Calley thing (the conviction of Lt. William Calley on charges of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians) coming along, someone should tell the other men in Vietnam that we have faith in them and appreciate what they are doing." Annette wrote to several chambers of commerce around the country for names. She picked Akron because she had met several Akronites in Nashville during a convention of Beta, an organization of students with high scholastic standings.

She belongs to Beta. ANNETTE is a student at Cumberland County High School In Crossville, a community of 5,000 about 60 miles north of Chattanooga. Annette has a brother-in-law In the sevice, but he isn't in Vietnam. "He's one of the lucky ones," she said. BUT SHE wants to write the unlucky ones who are.

"I'll write as many as I can," she said in her Southern drawl. "Summer is coming. "I'll have plenty of time. "They're the ones who are giving up their time," she added. Since neither the Chamber of Commerce nor the Beacon Journal have current lists of men in Vietnam, Annette will depend on names sent to her by relatives and friends.

Her address is: Annette Smiddie Route 7 Cook st. Crossville, Tenn. 3855S A Nude Peep Show PORTLAND, Ore. in -The desk officer at the Portland police station got an anonymous telephone call. "You won't believe this," said the voice, "but a man wearing a paper sack over his head and nothing else just became one of your customers." Police checked the lobby of the building and found a man nude but for a paper bag over his head with holes for eyes and nose.

He apparently had entered the front door and crawled through the lobby on hands and knees to avoid the eyea of the people working in the records department. Police arrested Glen H. Nyland, 54, of Portland on a charge of disorderly conduct, set bail at $50, and gave him a pair of over-alls. They said Nyland gave no explanation for hit Get A Life Ring Woman Overbed! place greater comfort. In the event a bed bursts, an extra tray could prevent electrocution or help to caused by water flooding electrical cords or wall sockets, according to fire officials.

Do Drivers Hate You? By SUSAN STOCKING lucon Journll-LM Anfltlt Tlmtt Rosemary Ann Conway of Cupertino, finished filling her new waterbed. She plugged in the heater nearby, and hopped into the bed. Thirty minutes later she was swimming. Her bedding had caught fire. Seconds later the water-bed mattress burst and flood-.

ed the bedroom. Mrs. Conway wasn't electrocuted. "She should have been," said the Santa Clara fire marshal's office. THE INCIDENT was some-w a isolated the more JL 1 ers in response to an apparent increase In waterbed horror stories and the attend-.

ant bad publicity have banded together to set and maintain standards of safety and quality. A GENUINE waterbed should be made of at least 20-gauge vinyl and supported by a frame, they explain. It should also have a safety tray or liner. Without a frame and many waterbeds today are sold that way the surface of even a properly constructed waterbed will be taut like a snare drum, a condition which negates the reason for sleeping on a waterbed in the first If A 1 Shepard What Makes VIPs usual waterbed mishap is a 200-gallon' leak but It did dramatize a problem that has caused considerable irritation if not physical injury to the unsuspecting consumer. In the wake of a craze that has caught hold almost as fast as the hula-hoop, inferior and unsafe waterbeds are glutting the market.

IN SACRAMENTO, Leigh-ton Hatch, head of the State Department of Consumer Af-fairs, has issued a public warning about waterbed use. That's in California, center of the waterbed craze. And in San Francisco, concerned waterbed manufactur rd Tick? about it, is there? In fact, it's 'not much different than yours! The slant to the right reveals that the writer is outgoing and emotional. When he went to see "Love Story," he cried, too! The heavy writing projects the deep dedication of the The broken words infer an uncanny intuition; he plays his hunches, and they pay off. Amplified lower loops reveal his athletic prowess and his earthy virile attitude.

1 a handwriting it not unique. Yet, when he stepped on the moon, Alan Shepard'i name became eternal. If you are "normal" you frequently complain about other drivers. By answering the following questions, you may get some idea of what other drivers think of you. Answer these YES or NO.

1 Do I like to drive just over the speed limit? 2 Do I see other drivers as 3 Does my driving technique change when I see a police car? 4 Am I often conscious that my steering wheel controls a 5 Do I generalise by thinking of other drivers as "women," "old people," or I Do I use my bora only aa a warning signal and not as a sip of anger or contempt? 7 Have I had a traffic ticket In the past 8 months? 8 When I come to a 4-way atop at the same time aa am'her car, do I always try to getaway first? I Do I drink a cup of coffee or read a newspaper on the seat beside me while driving te work? 10 Would I teach my child te drive exactly as I do? Answers 4, 6, and 10 should be YES. The rest should be If your score is 10, you are probably a member of the National Safety Council, 8-9: You're a neat driver. 5-T: Driver training schools aren't only for tenners. 3-4: You art a frustrated flretruck driver, 0-2: Have you ever, thought of going by bust knockneed. Or most are.

Rare is the girl whose legs look their best when she stands straight with her feet together. CLOTHING BOYS have dreamed up a sors that cuts out 23 men's suits in an hour. Slicing edge itself is a laser beam. And a computer runs the thing All right, what's with the giant moth of New Guinea? It only lives 14 days. Eats nothing at all during its entire life.

Still, it winds up with a 14-inch wing span. Biggest moth of all, that one. 'TVE NEVER MSI anyone like you before." That's 'till known to be the second most powerful statement any romantic tingle girl can make to a reluctant bachelor. Our Love and War man says it is almost but not quite as. potent as, "You are so clever (in math) (at words) with your hands)." PRETTIEST WOMEN in the now marry advertising men.

They used to marry engineers. Five years ago. Not anymore. Don't know why the change. But an advanced student of the matter insists it's so.

Before engineers the prettiest women married doctors. Before doctors, military, officers, particularly Army. And before officers, they married salesmen. But that was way back. Way way back.

Like Did you ever Imagine yourself as the first woman to step on the moon? What is it that distinguishes a VIP from the rest of us? We often produce the signatures of Very Important Persons and explain from an analysis of the script what made the individual great. Most outstanding personalities are individualists which makes them stand alone in the crowd. When one has a unique personality, it certain ly is revealed by his handwriting. BUT LOOK at the script at right Nothing outstanding Shepa For an analysis of your handwriting send a sample with 58 etnte and a stamped self -addressed envelope to William 3. Ryan, Beacon Journal, Akron, O.

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