Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third of them assume more off-campus commitments, believe more deeply that universities must contribute in concert, as well as individually, to U.S. goals and progress. They tend, by their energy and conviction, to nominate themselves-which often means coming to the attention of such committee pickers as HEW Secretary John Gardner or his chief education assistant, Francis Keppel. The current inner group is pictured and described on these pages...
Part of the HEW grant will enable WGBX to install facilities for color transmission. "We need color to compete with commercial TV," Ives explained...
David Ives, an assistant station manager of WGBH, emphasized yesterday that HEW has allocated the money not for actual operation of the new station but to cover the cost of equipment. There will be no federal control over programming, he said...
...high school principal in Newton, Mass., Howe devised an Oxford-style house system that divided 3,000 students into six groups, each with separate faculty and advisers. His experiments in Newton led to his appointment as superintendent of the Scarsdale, N.Y., school system in 1960. Howe comes to HEW after a year as director of North Carolina's Learning Institute, a pioneer program in training children of poor families...
...Keppel, he will spend full time on a second job created for him last September: Assistant Secretary of HEW. As commissioner, he had attempted to withhold some $30 million worth of federal aid to Chicago schools because of racial segregation, and had brashly told the Sigma Chi fraternity that unless it integrated, the colleges where it has chapters would lose federal aid. He will now give primary attention to the problem of trying to coordinate the conflicting, overlapping educational activities of 43 federal agencies...