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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...
Since coming to Washington, Keppel has gone to Capitol Hill 17 times to testify before committees of the 88th Congress, which enacted 14 major education bills, providing federal money for student loans, vocational training, construction of university facilities, etc. An urbane, persuasive champion of higher educational standards, Keppel gave 101 speeches to groups as varied as the National Symphony Orchestra Association, the United Jewish Appeal and the Chamber of Commerce. (To keep him from furiously racing through speeches, his assistant, John Naisbitt, writes on each page, "Slow down...
...magazine American Education, to be published ten times a year starting this month and sent free to influential citizens such as judges, businessmen, labor leaders, physicians. Educators and others must subscribe to get the magazine, and 20,000 have already sent in the $3 price of a subscription. Keppel does not particularly mind that federal education programs are parceled out among 42 different departments and agencies: "You're a lot better off with a lot of allies...
...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...