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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. Washington Hopes Harvard's Progress Will Continue With By JOHN MILLER Uniiad Press Iniamational Cambridge, Mass. - Kt) -President James Bryant Con ant of Harvard was looking lor a dean to revive the Uni versity's school of education 14 years ago. A young man named Francis Keppel was helping him. Ironically, Keppel got the Job. President John F. Kennedy was looking last month for a man to breathe new life into the U. S. Office of Education. Dean Keppel was helping him in the search. Once more, Keppel the re cruiter was recruited. Like Mystery Story "It's like one of those mys tery stories where the char acter who seems to be help ing the detective turns out to be the culprit," remarked one Harvard associate of the 46-year-old dean. The hope in Washington Is that history will go on re peating itself and the U. S. Office of Education will make the same progress that Har vard's School of Education made under Keppel's imagin ative leadership. The school was a barren Island on the Harvard land scape 14 years ago. Today it is a fertile source of teachers, administrators -and guidance people. It also is a fountain head of ideas and teaching programs with nationwide ac claim. Keppel is silent about the conditions, if any, - under which he accepted the job of heading the poorly regarded office of education. But the understanding is that he will be given some freedom to re cruit brains. Rteruiting at Harvard He recruited students and faculty members at Harvard with startling success and moulded the whole into a new institution. Judge Prods Hoffa Attorneys Nashville. Tenn. -IUPII- At torneys in the conspiracy trial of Teamsters president James Hoffa were under orders to day to stick to the "essentials of the case" and to slop going over the same details with witness after witness. "I have never seen such a microscopic examination of a situation in my seven years on the bench," federal Judge William Miller said Wednes day. He told attorneys for both sides to bend every ef fort to "focus attention on the facts and not pile up the record with cumulative evi dence." He said he saw no use of repeating testimony about facts of the case over which there is no dispute. Hoffa is accused of sharing In a $1 million payoff which the government charges came from Commercial Carriers Inc., to promote labor peace for the company. Commercial is a nationwide automobile transport firm with head quarters in Detroit. The trial is nearing the end of its eighth week. Grange News Upper ApplegaU The Upper Applegate Grange has postponed the event when first and second degrees will be conferred by the Grange, according to Mrs. Anna Scott, Grange master. The event had been sched uled Friday, Dec. 14, but has been postponed until Jan. 11 due to the Christmas program being given at the Ruch school that dale. All county Granges have been invited to send candi dates to the meeting in January. School News Prospect School The junior class at Pros pect High school is selling Christmas wreaths again. Class members have sold wreaths each year since they were freshmen here. The wreaths were made this year by Mrs. Cathy Wilson, Mrs. Geneva Andreson and Mrs. Mable Millard. Two different types of wreaths are being offered, one In a circular shape, the other a swag. Persons interested in purchasing them may contact any Junior. Two more students have Joined the Prospect student body. They are Tallayah Gorum. a freshman transfer from Gait High school, and Lois Ann Govenor. a fresh man transfer from Medford. Students attended a dance last month at the Prospect Community hall. Live music was provided by the Nile lighters, a newly formed band composed of Mnnte Chapman and Wayne Millard, lead guitarists; Dwayne Chapman, drLTvr.er. and Wcs Millard, Cording guitarist. In Washington, it will be up a blueprint for education a matter of recruiting "super- In Nigeria, grade" men and women who ) He has worked closely with will lend character and; the Physical Sciences Study strength to the administra-1 Committee, a brainchild of Massachusetts Institute o f Technology, which is revolu tion s bogged-down education program. Keppel seems to have in- tionizing heritcd a rare talent for just methods, the kind of leadership the job ; Chairman of Committer science teaching calls for. His father, Freder ick P. Keppel, was dean of Columbia college and later president of the Carnegie Cor poration. In an essay of appreciation after the elder Keppel's death, Henry James, the novelist, wrote, "his genius was cooper ative. He lubricated, and facil itated, and fostered." Say H Is Genius Keppel's friends and ad mirers say he is a genius in the business of lubricating, facilitating and fostering. "Keppel gives you a job to do and leaves you alone," says one associate of 17 years dura tion. "This works because he knows the job and he knows you have the tools." Keppel's influence went far beyond Harvard - to dozens of other universities and teachers colleges, to such in ternational efforts as the Ash by Commission which drew He has been chairman of the Harvard Committee on Program Instruction which fostered B. F. Skinner's fam ous teaching machine - the device that keeps pupils in telligently occupied w h 1 le teacher is working with prob lem children. He raised $2.75 million to build a new school of educa tion. In Washington he faces new problems. The greatest one is in the bitter conflict that has long existed between compet ing educational groups and which prevents all teachers from forming a united front. But he has a peculiar ad vantage. Keppel is not a pro fessor, an academic highbrow or a snob. He has no degree beyond his Harvard B. A. In Form of Lectures He is not a school teacher. His oply "school teaching" has been in the form of lec- aide McGeorge somewhat President Kennedy, Harvard class of 1940, is breaking up the ten nis clique that included Bun dy and Keppel. "Bundy is a little better E t . l j ' S 32- if X s FRANCIS KEPPEL Recruiter Is Recruited lures at the school of cduca-j presidential tion. Bundy. "Vet he has a foot in both j Bender relates camps," said former Harvard : mournfully that Dean Wilbur J. Bender. One of the complaints about the office of education is that professors passing through Washington never drop in. A good guess is that they will be coming to Wash ington for the main purpose ; of dropping in on Keppel who j may know more deans and professors than any man alive. The move to Washington j will mean other changes fori the Harvard wonder boy. His j staff grows from 300 at Har vard to 1,100 in Washington and the Keppel system of delegating responsibility will be put to a severe test at the outset. Hat Sharp Nose ' "You can bet that he'll find out damn quick who the good people are," said one of Kep pel's Harvard colleagues. "He has the sharpest nose for com petence and ability that I've ever seen." Besides his Harvard exper ience, Keppel was a troop in formation and education spec ialist in World War II, serv ing as Secretary of the Joint Army - Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation. He'll find plenty of old army buddies in Washington. j And you can add service as a member of President - elect ! Kennedy's task force on edu cation in 1960. Keppel's work on this task force, which drew up the Administration's Fed eral Aid program, earned the new commissioner an acco lade from the powerful Na tional Education Association (NEA). Receives Full Support William G. Carr, NEA Ex ecutive Secretary, said Kep pel would receive full sup port of the NEA in his ef forts to secure enactment of that program of National Sup port for Public Education which the President has rightly described as the most important item of domestic legislation." This will be Keppel's prin cipal goal in Washington and he comes to the task well pre pared. The Keppel family lives In a two-family house in Cam bridge, Mass., which Keppel bought with former Harvard government Prof. Daniel S. Cheever, now of the Univer sity of Pittsburgh, v. Breaking up Clique Keppel's involvement In Washington affairs undoubt edly stems at least in part from his long friendship with than Keppel. Frank plays a i fun. They were noisy games dashing, free-swinging sort of j with a lot of shouting and game and plays for the fun 1 psychological warfare." of it. Mae has the advantage Known for Dry Wit of hitting left-handed and Bender, who worked close plays a cagey game with a ly with Keppel at Harvard, lot of spin on the ball," Ben- said he was known for his dcr said. easy, friendly, informal man- "We used to have a lot of i ners and dry wit. A faculty wife gavo him credit for being "so broadly educated that he can talk well on almost any topic. 1 rion't know where he gets time to j B 9 Keppel in an age when the academio world is full of specialists. I think Washington is going to love hiin." With one proviso, warns read but lie seems to know j Bender: He and Bundy had everything. j better not be too noisy on tha "Of course, this puts him j sedate tennis courts in on good terms with specialists! Georgetown. "!'!" -lf '.W!lw.'T!'Ti5",t"i.,5wri Ty 1ECIY Buy Now for tht Holidjyi. AM U.S.D.A. 1nipcrd Birds from Swift & Co. Fresh Frozen, Some parft miuing. PLUS 100 FREE SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS GIVEN WITH EVERY TURKEY! 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