Word: neikirk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, 45, progressive, internationally minded dean (on leave) of Stanford University's School of Education, State Department consultant on re-educating Germany, prime mover in establishing UNO's educational, scientific and cultural branch; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...
...scholarly gentlemen were about to fly to London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...
Leland Stanford's Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver: he showed such ability to organize educators in favor of U.S. entry into an International Education Office (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) that the State Department put him to work on the problem officially...
Ambassador to the U.S. Bantamweight, bespectacled, intensely earnest Paul Hanna is himself wholly optimistic about the possibility of solving social problems, and is one of the most rapidly moving parts of the Stanford School of Education machine run by Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver (TIME, Oct. 18). Born in Sioux City in 1902, Hanna took his doctor's degree at Columbia after graduating from St. Paul's little Hamline University. For several years he taught at Columbia's Teachers College, archseminary of "progressivism...
Stanford's lean, earnest Dean of Education Grayson Neikirk Kefauver was already established at Washington with 1) indefinite leave of absence from the university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...