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...list was the name of Ann Hale, Jr., '30, a former second-grade teacher in Wayland, Mass., who has herself dispelled doubts as to her Communist sympathies and had subsequently been suspended from her teaching duties by the Wayland School Committee...
...Miss Hale was dismissed by a 2-1 vote of the School Committee on July 8, 1954. Earlier, she had testified in close session before the Committee and in an open hearing before the voters of the town...
...case of Ann Hale, Jr., it was felt that although she had an unimpeachable record as a teacher, her personal beliefs would permeate--consciously or unconsciously--her teaching...
...Hale joined the Party in 1938 and dropped out when she moved to Wayland in 1950. Before the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, she said that she never formerly resigned from the Party, nor has she modified her beliefs. The Commission's repjort said that she "admitted that she had held various offices in branches of the Communist party, had been chairman, secretary, treasurer, literary distributor of various branches at various times in New York State and in Massachusetts...
...statements before the Committee on April 23, 1954, Miss Hale said that she saw the party only as a means for educating people to vote for a socialist government...