Word: keppell
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...Nothing succeeds like a successor," jokes U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, 48. What he means is that he succeeded to his job two years ago, just as his agency was evolving from a onetime statistics-keeping bureau to a major arm of government, now bigger in budget than the departments of Commerce, Interior, Justice or Labor...
...Capitol Hill. If the President's proposals are enacted, as seems probable given their home-town appeal and their concessions to Catholics (the most numerous single denomination in Congress), the Office of Education will have to draw more than ever on the talents of Frank Keppel. The proud owner of just one earned degree, a Harvard College A.B., Keppel was made dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education at the age of 32, went on to gain a vast unofficial influence in educational circles because he was so often consulted on appointments of top-level school superintendents, such...
Francis G. Keppel '38, United States Commissioner of Education, said last night that he would be willing to serve the Administration "in whatever capacity I can be the most useful...
...telephone interview last night, Keppel said that the greatest task facing education in the United States right now is the dual one of providing equality of opportunity and higher quality in American schools...
...outstanding accomplishment of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, Keppel said, is that it has "provided more federal support for education, elementary through university, than any other administration in history...