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...residents in 1955 when a Harvard-based team of outside educators surveyed the island's three schools, recommended some mild reforms. To some Nantucketers, who are suspicious in principle of off-islanders, the whole idea smacked of progressive education-and higher school costs. When Off-Islander Charles H. Minnich, who has been resident superintendent of schools only since 1962, proposed similar ideas this year, the already restive opposition went out for his scalp. Rallying around the popular local high school principal, Mrs. Mary P. Walker, who is satisfied with the status quo, conservatives won a three-member majority...
...type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum to the sober scholar (and to his disciple, Miami's late Dean Harvey C. Minnich), who was to become one of the best-known names in U.S. education: the author of McGuffey's famed Eclectic Readers...
...fruits of nearly half a century's search for McGuffey memorabilia. They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets. The books in the collection, largely gathered by Dean Minnich, ran to nearly 400 editions, including one Japanese translation and some Southern reprints from Reconstruction days...
...highly pleased that the mess hall people are taking corrective action, however belated. As a civic-minded institution, you should offer praise, not criticism. Dwight B. Minnich...
...Benjamin Minnich '51, technical director of the network, said that the cables would hook up with the dormitories' electrical lines and produce a radio signal by radiation...