Word: goldfarb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedication ceremony for Brandeis University's multi-million dollar Goldfarb Library will feature an address by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. MacLeish and Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College, Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees during the Nov, 28 ceremony...
...teaching, Allen began his series. His school: Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High, which became the city's most publicized last winter, after a month of hoodlum invasions, assaults and an alleged knife-point rape in a school basement ended in the suicide of Principal George Goldfarb (TIME...
...statistics of delinquency form the background of the crisis which blew up with the Brooklyn grand jury investigation of school crime. Judge Samuel Leibowitz and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen traded charges and countercharges. The Board of Education hinted that the tragic suicide of junior high principal George Goldfarb resulted from a member of the jury's threat that he might be indicted on unspecified charges...
Without a Word. An intense and dedicated man with 33 years' service in the New York City school system, Schoolmaster Goldfarb seemed worn down and overwhelmed by the troubles that beset him. The night before he was to testify before the grand jury he had mailed a letter to the police department asking that a patrolman be stationed inside his school. Next morning he appeared as usual at his office before 8, took up some routine matters with his staff, at 9:30 left the building, having said that he was due to go to the courthouse...
Threats & Torment. Just when or why Goldfarb made his decision, no one could say. But instead of responsible action, the tragedy merely provoked the ugliest kind of recriminations. At the funeral, President Charles Silver of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen charged to newsmen that Principal Goldfarb had probably been driven to suicide because a grand juror had threatened that he might "be indicted." The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating...