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...little schools have their special music teachers, their glee clubs, orchestras, bands, unusual opportunities to hear concerts by professionals. To discuss these comparatively recent developments and to compare achievements, there met last week in Chicago some 7,400 music supervisors for the Second Biennial National Conference. Superintendent William. J. Bogan of the Chicago Public Schools spoke. So did Conference President Mabelle Glenn, music supervisor in Kansas City, Mo., and Vice President George H. Gartlan, music supervisor in Manhattan. Conductor Walter Damrosch talked proudly of his radio classes (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) which numbered some 1,500,000 last year...
Perceiving the timeliness of working with the Better Element, the Thompsonian school superintendent, William J. Bogan, made a belated effort to close various "ice cream parlors" which sell gin & sundries to high school minors. He suggested that members of the Parent-Teacher association become "vigilantes...
...Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With William McAndrew out of office it became the business of the new Superintendent, William J. Bogan, to substitute other history books for the "pro-British" ones. This maneuvre was last week effected...
...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...
Superintendent Bogan, a Roman Catholic, has held jobs in Chicago public schools for 20 years. His present appointment is for four years; salary, $15,000 a year. The board of education has promised him free- dom from political interference...