Word: herold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere, put real scholars from science and the humanities on the education faculty. To earn Harvard's pioneering Master of Arts in Teaching, students now get a rich dose of liberal learning, plus "intern" teaching practice in public schools. Future administrators sit under such old pros as Professor Herold Hunt, former school superintendent of Chicago...
...Herold C. Hunt is an intriguing mixture of conflicting elements. He is on the one hand, the knight errant, ready to serve anywhere in the country because of love of challenge, his strong sense of responsibility, and his devotion to a firm set of principles mostly based on religious beliefs. On the other, challenge blends with ambition, responsibility with promotion and principle with tactics. Yet the blend has been a rewarding one both for the Charles W. Eliot Professor at the Graduate School of Education and for the millions of people indebted to him for his services. The origins...
Chicago was the consummation of all of Herold Hunt's ambitions in the administrative end of his profession. In 1953 he accepted President Conant's offer to come to Harvard (at half his Chicago salary). He was eager, he said, "to give back to education the lessons learned in the last thirty years...
...Herold Hunt has always been a "joiner," and always as a president, chairman or leader, never just a card carrying member of an organization. His vitality has been largely responsible for his successes, but the guiding force of this vitality has always been personal satisfaction. Right now his satisfaction come from disproving the saying. "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt, the man hired to clean up the political mess that disgraced Chicago schools under the late Mayor Ed Kelly. Willis clinched Hunt's reforms and followed with his own equally decisive ones...