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...anybody can help make the U.S. Education Commissioner's Office into a real center of influence on America's schools, rather than the wayside information booth it always has been, it is President Kennedy's most recent Harvard appointment. Dean Keppel's creation of intern and team teaching, his guiding of a committee to find a school superintendent for New York (surely the most delicate and trying job to ask of any educator), and his 14-year-long supervision of the University's rapidly growing Graduate School of Education have shown it. He has a clear vision of what urban...
...appointment of Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, as United States Commissioner of Education was announced by President Kennedy on Saturday. The post has been vacant since September, when Sterling M. McMurrin resigned and returned to his former post at the University of Utah...
...Keppel will be officially installed with in the next three weeks. He plans to be in Washington "part-time" until he assumes his full responsibilities as Commissioner...
Contacted late last night, Keppel denied any knowledge of an appointment. Asked about the rumor. Keppel pointed out that "there are rumors about lots of people." He said he couldn't comment on this sort of matter, but that his "hesitancy to comment doesn't indicate anything...
...Keppel is a member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Century Association, as well as Phi Beta Kappa. He served as assistant Dean of the College from 1939 until 1941, before entering the armed services. He has held his present position with the School of Education since...