Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Corporation picked a dean for the Graduate School of Education in 1948, it chose a man only 32 years old with virtually no application-blank qualifications for the job. Head of a faculty in which Ph.D.'s are the rule, Francis Keppel '38 holds only on A. B. And although the Education School concentrates on training teachers and administrators for the nation's public schools, Keppel is a prep school graduate who has never take a formal course in education. He probably could not even qualify to teach in a public high school, where a master's degree...
...University officials and Education School professors say it would be impossible to find a man better suited to be dean. Keppel combines all the story--book qualities that an ideal executive must have: brilliance, youth, original ideas, an engaging personality, and a knack for getting things done quickly. Last spring, when he decided his faculty lacked men who were experienced in practical education administration, he flew to Chicago, and offered the city's superintendent of schools a professorship. Herold C. Hunt, one of the nation's best known and most successful educators, turned down a contract renewal and took...
...Keppel said that if the full six million is not reached, sharp cuts will have to be made in the rapidly expanding programs of the school. "We have only two years until the major part of our available income runs out," he said...
...Keppel said that if the endowment is not replenished, cuts would be necessary in the number of non-permanent faculty members in the School and in many of the research projects. The School's Laboratory of Human Development would be among these...
...Keppel and other Education School officials would like to see a million and a half of the eventual six million put into a new building to replace the inefficiently designed facilities in Lawrence Hall and three other widely-scattered buildings that presently house most of the school's activities...