Word: keppell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing his career to public service. As it happened, Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver was searching for a new man in Nigeria to replace Samuel Proctor, 41, the able Negro ex-college president who is being promoted to command of all Peace Corps training. U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, the best talent scout in the education business, suggested Saltonstall, and Shriver happily landed his man. Saltonstall's decision was "something way down in your gut that says 'yes,' " he explains. "I'm not a 'save-the-worlder,' but I deeply believe...
Leading contender for the post of dean is Judson T. Shaplin '42, who has served as acting dean since Dec. 10, 1962, when former Den Francis G. Keppel '38 left to become U.S. Commissioner of Education...
Shaplin was appointed associate dean in 1954, and worked closely with Keppel in developing the School of Education as a leader in training and research for teaching. He also has served as director of Harvard's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, and as coordinator of the Ed School project to establish a comprehensive high school in Aiyetoro, Nigeria, which opened two weeks...
Contacted in Washington yesterday, Keppel said that Pusey had mentioned to him the problem of appointing a new dean before he had left, but that he had no idea who might be appointed to the post. "It's an awkward thing for the former dean to be consulted about." he said...
...dean will take over the direction of the School at a critical time. Under Keppel, the School increased its income ten-fold from 1948 to the present, and became a leader in many programs of educational research and teacher training...