Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keppel seemed destined to be an administrator. He quips that he was born in a dean's house; his father, Frederick P. Keppel, was successively dean of Columbia, Assistant Secretary of War, and president of the Carnegie Foundation. Schooled at Groton, Keppel entered the College in 1934 as an English concentrator, and here his talents became evident. As Student Council president, he began the fight against the tutoring schools which was to force them from the Harvard scene. Looking hack, he calls the Council experience valuable, for it spurred an interest that became his life's work: educational policy...
...Keppel's first assignments was to convince two old friends, both distinguished educators, to accept the deanship of the Education School. Both refused, but by that time Keppel had grown so ardent in convincing them that he could find no excuse to back out himself when Buck offered him the job. Only 32 at the time, he was about to assume one of the most important posts in American education. And he was scared...
...choice was no accident. Buck and Conant had watched him carefully since before the war. They were impressed with his ideas that an education school should not be a place where only practical teaching is taught. Keppel's hypothetical school would draw its faculty from the whole realm of the social sciences, not only professional teachers. These ideas closely matched those of Conant...
...dean was sensitive about his age. But his ability greatly impressed senior professors in the school, and they quickly helped him hurdle the gap in his formal education. Now a mellow 37, Keppel is recognized as an authority in his field...
Under his leadership, the School of Education has more than tripled its resources. Research laboratories and new programs of administrative apprenticeship have effected a minor revolution in American education. Keppel is admittedly pleased, but not satisfied. Glancing at an architect's of a new million-and-a-half dollar building for the school, he says, "We've only just started...