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Though he is one of the nation's ablest public schoolmen, red-faced, robust Willard Goslin, 51, has had his share of trouble in the last three or four years. In Minneapolis, as a superintendent of schools with "progressive" leanings, he fought in vain to win a bigger budget, finally quit in frustration over "the neglect and mistreatment of public education ... in Minneapolis" (TIME, May 3, 1948). Last week, as Pasadena's superintendent, Willard Goslin was deep in another...
...began only a few months after Goslin took over his $17,500-a-year job in 1948. Most Pasadenans conceded that their schools would need some streamlining, but some oldliners were hardly ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...
Gallivanting? To some Pasadenans, Goslin could do nothing right. His trips to education conferences outside the city (as president of the American Association of School Administrators, he had to take several) were denounced as "gallivanting." His insistence that pupils go to the schools in their district zones infuriated some parents who liked to send their children to whatever schools suited them (i.e., those without Negroes or underprivileged children...
...unanimous choice: he had won by a bare 4-to-3 vote over highly touted Willard E. Goslin, superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, whose main handicap was being an outlander. In two years at Minneapolis, drawling, down-to-earth Willard Goslin had won higher pay for teachers, opened new schools, overhauled the study program, been voted Citizen No. 2 (after Sister Kenny), and attracted national attention. The pro-Goslin New York Herald Tribune, "depressed and disheartened" by Jansen's appointment as superintendent, called it the choice "of the man next in line, the insider who knows the ropes...
Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...