Word: ellensburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be head of Baltimore's schools. Under Fischer, the Baltimore school system has been raised to top level, and the city canvassed the country for the best man for the succession. Brain, youngest superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines as a World War II Japanese-language officer. Before saying yes to Baltimore, he passed up an offer to head Pittsburgh's public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with...
Norman Gessert, until recently a Teamster employee, who was picked up in Ellensburg, Wash, by a U.S. marshal after he had dodged the committee's subpoena servers for two months. Gessert, a cousin of Beck's wife Dorothy, took the Fifth Amendment 71 times in 21 minutes, refused to answer even when McClellan asked if he knew his counsel. Said McClellan: "I just wanted to see how ridiculous and how frivolous these things can get when people find themselves in a situation such...
...Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...
...Miss Ada Shockley, 43, who teaches the first grade in the College Elementary School of the Central Washington College of Education in Ellensburg, Wash. A shy, quiet woman, Miss Shockley started her career in a country school at $50 a month. She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey." Since then, she has spent her life arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment...