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George, R. Faxon, a Mathematics teacher at the Boston Public Latin School, was called before the McCarthy Committee on March 25, 1953, and invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer all questions concerning his associates and past or current membership in the Communist Party...
...following day Dennis C. Haley, Superintendent of Boston School suspended Faxon without pay. Faxon immediately pretested his suspension, and during June 1953, the five-member Boston School Committee pondered his case...
...principle charges filed against Faxon were that he was a person undesirable as a school teacher; that he had violated the teachers' oath he took on March 31, 1953; and that he had engaged in conduct unbecoming a school teacher by failing, without justification, to cooperate as required by law with a duly constituted sub-committee of Congress...
...charge that Faxon was "undesirable" as a school teacher. He had worked for the Boston Schools for nineteen years and in 1951 was transferred to the coveted post of master at the Public Latin School...
George R. Faxon, 43, proved to be a bitter shock to Boston: he is a teacher at the venerable Boston Latin School (cried the Herald: "Incredible!"). Was he a member of the Communist Party? Had he ever tried to recruit students for the party? Had he ever known FBI Undercover Man Herbert Philbrick? Said Faxon to all questions: "I decline to answer on the grounds it tends to incriminate...