Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When breezy Superintendent Herold C. Hunt first blew into Chicago in 1947, he found himself at the head of just about the sorriest school system in the country. It was riddled with corruption, its buildings were shabby, its textbooks antiquated; 4,000 of its teachers held nothing more than temporary certificates that could be revoked on a politician's whim. Nonteaching jobs were given out as patronage, and the third floor of the administration building was notorious as a distribution center of political plums. Things were so bad that the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...
...hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs under civil service, withdrew temporary certificates, set up a series of stiff examinations for prospective teachers. He doubled his budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They...
Last week those words had a double meaning in Chicago: his mission accomplished, Herold Hunt resigned to become Charles W. Eliot professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Though he will probably have to take a 50% cut in his $30,000 salary, Hunt is looking forward to his new job. "I want to give back to education," he says, "the lessons I've learned in the last 30 years." As anyone in Chicago could testify, that would be quite a dose, even for Harvard...
...last week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee threw a barrage of friendly questions at strapping General James A. Van Fleet, 60, who had just returned to the U.S. for retirement from active service after 22 months in command of the Eighth Army in Korea. Democrat Lester Hunt of Wyoming was worried by persistent reports that the Eighth Army's ammunition stocks were low. Said Van Fleet: "There has been a serious shortage of ammunition ever since I have been in Korea. There has been a critical shortage at times. There is today a serious shortage of some...
Since then, things have changed in New Orleans. Last week, as the city picked its new school superintendent-James F. Redmond, longtime second in command to Chicago's Herold Hunt-it no longer had to apologize for its bad schools. The New Orleans school system is now booming as never before-largely because of the righteous wrath of the woman reporter from the States...