Word: jansen
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Died. William Jansen, 80, superintendent of New York City's schools from 1947 to 1958; of a stroke; in Bronxville, N.Y. Jansen was a builder, guiding the city's system from a budget of $78 million in 1948 to $385 million in 1958, adding special instruction for handicapped students, and putting up 148 elementary and high schools to accommodate the influx of 100,000 new students...
Almost every city in Europe has its white elephant of a cathedral-decaying stone edifices with more maintenance problems than worshipers in the pews. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Roman Catholic Bishop Martinus Jansen has come up with a direct, if drastic, solution for his cathedral problem: he has sold it to the wreckers...
...move. For one thing, his 76-year-old cathedral in the heart of Rotterdam was badly in need of repairs. It had a regular congregation of only 300-and the church seated 1,100. On top of that, the bishop insisted, it was "a very ugly building." Last summer, Jansen auctioned off the cathedral for $1,400,000 to a real estate developer, who plans to put up a 14-story office building in its place. Demolition began in January, and the twin-spired edifice has now been half-destroyed by the wrecker's ball...
With the money from the sale, Bishop Jansen converted a nearby convent chapel into a church for the residents of his old cathedral parish, ordered the construction of two much-needed new churches in the Rotterdam suburbs, plus another in The Hague, which is part of his diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda...
...WILLIAM JANSEN MARIA JERITZA LYNDON B. JOHNSON RAFER JOHNSON JENNIFER JONES