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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
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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.
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