Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREEMAN...
...reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, Bernice Freeman, 48, in her spare time once edited a weekly in nearby San Rafael. On her staff was an amiable cub reporter named George Boles. "George didn't turn out to be a very good reporter," she recalls, "but he had a flair for excitement and wrote the most marvelous stories. Only we couldn't print them-libel, you know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit...
...working for it within his own department, he felt no great obligation to satisfy all the usual requirements. He never finished a thesis, and two of his subordinates admitted that they had given him As in courses he never completed. Reese, however, had a powerful friend: President Freeman, who not only jumped him from instructor to full professor in two years, but also ordered that he be listed as an M.Ed, in the new college catalogue...
When the catalogue appeared, the campus finally erupted. To the faculty, the Reese affair was a symbol of everything that angered them about Freeman's and Frasier's highhanded ways. All seven members of the physical education department threatened to resign unless Reese was dropped. The rest of the faculty started an investigation, drew up an 86-page report for the trustees charging Reese with incompetence. Later, the faculty also voted 69 to 10 to declare "no confidence" in President Freeman, and 400 students followed suit. Finally, just at the end of the academic year, the trustees...
Last week the investigation was completed. Among its recommendations: that the trustees find a new president for Eastern Washington as quickly as possible. But with or without Freeman, who had already resigned anyway-;and in spite of the fact that the trustees were willing to rehire a good many of the dismissed professors-Eastern Washington would have quite a time cleaning up the mess left by the athletic director's unearned M.Ed. For one thing, the athletic director himself was still on campus. "I hope the matter is closed," said Red Reese, who has always been known...