Word: bair
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Firm in its resolution to replace Frisoli, the School Committee began its search with a list of 200 applicants By early June the School Committee majority was at a stand will over two candidates. Wylie and Gesell supported Hartford School Superintendent Medill Bair while Acker mann and Pierce the only black member of the committee favored Cheatham...
Rumors circulated that a black had to be named either City Manager or Superintendent Wylie reacted strongly against the suggestion. The deadlock was broken when Bair offered $5000 raise by Hartford withdrew The School Committee appointed Cheatham on June...
Cheatham old and a native of Philadelphia ranked second behind Bair with the citizen groups and second behind Seymour Grechko of Detroit who had withdrawn earlier with the teachers and students...
AFTER A NATIONAL search similar in scope to the one launched to find a new City Manager, the School Committee has narrowed down its list of candidates for Superintendent to two men: Medill Bair, the white superintendent of the Hartford, Conn., school system and Aflorence Cheatham, a black district superintendent in Chicago. Although Bair has been offered a substantial salary raise for his Hartford job, he is still open to an offer from Cambridge. If Bair is unable to fill the post here. Cheatham will almost certainly...
...connection between the deadlocks over the appointment of a new City Manager and school Superintendent. Wylie charged certain politicians have agreed that either the new manager or new superintendent must be black. He added that he did not think the black community intended this to happen. Wylie supports Bair, but Mayor Ackermann and Charles M. Pierce, the black liberal on the School Committee, favor Cheatham. Peter G. Gesell, the fourth member of the liberal majority on the Committee, appears to be neutral...