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...program, on which the Boston School Department has been working for more than a year, is to turn Roxbury's Boardman Elementary School and Lewis Junior High into a "model sub-system"--a testing ground for new ideas. The Boardman School was deliberately included by the Department, most observers feel, because it is one of the schools most criticized by parents' groups in Roxbury...
Most of the classes during the summer will be taught by small teams of teachers from Harvard and Boston, who are now meeting to plan their courses. During the year, most of the teaching at Boardman and Lewis will be done by the Boston group. But there will be several Harvard consultants and, possibly, graduate students from the Ed School to serve as teaching assistants...
Luckily, Seltzer has a replacement whom he has groomed to fill his shoes. Thomas Boardman, 46, joined the Press as a copy boy in 1939, rose to become chief editorial writer. He plans no major changes at the Press, and staffers welcome him. Says one: "He's a fast, lucid writer, a shirtsleeves editor, a heavy smoker, a good drinker and an excellent companion. He can see right into the gut of any situation...
...picks up many of his impressions while flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...
...will do whatever I can to lend you by moral support and my physical support, with my presence and my body and my soul," King said from the steps of the W. L. Boardman School...