Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dean pleaded louder or more urgently in the last ten years than Francis Keppel '38, who left the Graduate School of Education in December to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. Although the Ed School's endowment, now $5,780,000, has more than doubled since 1948, its financial position remains unhealthy. Expenses have risen from $226,000 to almost $3 million; today income from endowment provides a scant 11 per cent of the annual budget, and tuition adds only 21 per cent...
President Conant began the rebuilding program in 1948 with his decision to "save" the Ed School; and in Keppel he found the ideal dean. As Theodore Sizer, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, describes him: "he was too young to have made enemies; the he possessed only one degree and that the most appropriate, the Harvard A.B.; he had been trained in Cambridge as an assistant to Dean Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and he was the son of a distinguished scholar and philanthropist. Impeccable he was indeed, and his arrival was timely...
Tomorrow afternoon the Alumni Association meeting will begin with a procession of alumni under the direction of Francis Keppel, Chief Marshal of the Class of 1938, which is celebrating its 25th reunion...
...fact, the comparative coolness of the day encouraged frolic on the golf links, the tennis courts, and the soft-ball field, if not swimming. Eager golfers started before 9 a.m. and included Dean von Stade and John Rockefeller, while Presidential assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Chief Marshal Francis Keppel both occupied the tennis courts for part...
Tomorrow morning the class will attend a panel discussion of "Harvard College Today." Speakers will include Fred L. Gimp, Dean of Admissions; Dean von Stade, and John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House. Francis Keppel will moderate...