Word: derthick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Secretary Marion Folsom and his colleagues in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare began looking for a successor to Education Commissioner Samuel Brownell, one name kept cropping up over and over again: Superintendent Lawrence Gridley Derthick of Chattanooga. Last week President Eisenhower, who had once heard Derthick hold forth at a Columbia Teachers College seminar, announced that Derthick...
...teacher and the brother of two more, 50-year-old Lawrence Derthick has spent his life in education. Born in a dormitory at Kentucky's Hazel Green Academy, he graduated from Tennessee's Milligan College, immediately took a job as teacher-principal of the consolidated elementary and high school in Greene County. By 1935 he was state high-school visitor for east Tennessee. Four years later he became assistant school superintendent in Nashville; in 1942 he got his present post in Chattanooga...
...average yearly salary from $1,016 to $4,006, upped the value of his plant from $3,800,000 to $17,600,000. In 1953 he was elected president of the American Association of School Administrators, the top honor U.S. public schoolmen can bestow. But aside from these accomplishments, Derthick has another qualification for the commissionership: his middle-road record on the issue of integration...
...Derthick supported his school board's resolution declaring that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation must be obeyed. But as a result of violent opposition in Chattanooga, the board postponed integrating their schools for at least five years. To all but extremists, Derthick should therefore be eminently acceptable in both the North and the South-a moderate who has backed the law of the land, but knows what the nation is up against in trying to enforce...