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...Puffer one day last month marched a tight-lipped delegation of three. They were teachers from School District No. 86, on the edge of Chicago's northwest suburbs, who had come to tell Superintendent Puffer what they had just told their school board about Principal Charles O'Hearn. Said Teacher Clarabelle Lindsay, 26: "He keeps putting his hands on me." Said Teacher Laurinda Cleary, 26: "On me, too." Gasped Teacher Mary Hammond, 50: "My, my! He took me in the basement and hugged...
When this news reached School District No. 86, most of its 125 families bristled with indignation. Well they knew that shy, kindly Principal O'Hearn, since he went to the District in 1923, had wangled a four-room yellow brick schoolhouse for their children, bought lunches and shoes for needy pupils out of his own pocket. Housewives insisted that he was so respectful of women that he colored whenever he met one. When parents last fortnight called a public meeting to "vindicate" him. the three complaining schoolma'ams did not appear. Indignantly the School Board fired all three...
Last week Superintendent Puffer, who hires Cook County's school principals, fired Principal O'Hearn. Said Noble J. Puffer: "Oh, he was just the kind of man who couldn't keep his hands off people." With school about to reopen. District No. 86 thus was without a principal, three of its five teachers...
...journeyed to Japan and became so entranced with the country that he cancelled his contract with Harper Brothers and took up teaching. After several years, Hearn married a Japanese Samuri woman and became a Japanese citizen by adoption into his wife's family...
...time of his death in 1904, Hearn held a professorship at Waseda University...