Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francis Keppel, U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...Graduate School of Education has honed some of the country's sharpest schoolmasters. It is nonetheless an administrative nightmare, with its 80 teachers and 700 students scattered all over Cambridge, some in ancient wooden houses. For 15 months the school has lacked a successor to ex-Dean Francis Keppel, who quit to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. And the school needs money. Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey recently warned that next year it may be $500,000 in the red. Harvard abhors fiscally unbalanced deans, mused Pusey, who has been serving as Education's acting dean...
Last week the joke was on Theodore R. Sizer, a strapping, stripling Harvard education professor. At 31-and looking a bit young for some Radcliffe girls-he got Keppel's old job, and thus took a giant step forward in the U.S. academic procession. Not without qualms. The school has "one very big problem," he admitted. "A dean as raw as raw can be. This dean has to get out and make contacts in public education. He's got a lot of homework to do in the big cities, in the professional associations...
...School had lacked a permanent dean since Francis Keppel '38 gave up the position in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. Justin T. Shaplin '42, then acted as dean until Pusey took over last June...
...Sizer is appointed, he will be the first person to hold the position permanently since Francis Keppel '38 resigned to become United States Commissioner of Education in November, 1962. President Pusey has been acting Dean since last June, when Judson T. Shaplin, then the acting Dean, left Harvard for Washington University...