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...afternoon of Nov. 21, 1950, a harassed and weary man turned to address the hushed audience that jammed the meeting of the Pasadena, Calif, school board. Superintendent of Schools Willard Goslin announced that after less than 2½ years in office he was resigning. "I shall take away no ill feelings when I leave Pasadena," said he, "rather a deep regret that I was unable to lead this community to a level which would have produced the best school system in America." With those words, Willard Goslin brought to an end one of the bitterest school battles...
...Vote NO!" Willard Goslin came to Pasadena in 1948, an able man who had served as superintendent in Minneapolis and had recently been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators. Pasadena was proud to have him, and at first the school board approved everything he did. Willard Goslin had a year to settle himself into his job before he began to hear disturbing news. In the winter of 1949, a small group of citizens began attacking the schools at a series of meetings held in the American Legion Hall. Most of them thought their children were not doing...
Since their "please resign" telegram to Superintendent Willard Goslin three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 27), the Pasadena board of education had received some vehement samples of Pasadena public opinion. While anti-Goslinites expressed their satisfaction, supporters of the able, widely known superintendent (he is a former president of the American Association of School Administrators), vociferously displeased, demanded reconsideration. The secretary of the board went hoarse handling incoming phone calls...
Last week, still unmoved, the board repeated its demand for Goslin's resignation, got it. Said Willard Goslin, who received a 16-month salary settlement of $23,250: he was grateful to all his friends in Pasadena but, after all, the voters had elected the members of the present school board. "We are dedicated to representative government. I cannot remain in contempt of democratic action...
...week's end, Willard Goslin had not yet resigned, and Pasadena was still trying to find out what it believed in and what it wanted...