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...fortnight ago Pasadena's board of education decided that the controversy had gone far enough. It sent a telegram to Goslin, attending a conference in Manhattan, asking for his resignation...
Riddled? Back in Pasadena to discuss the telegram with his school board last week, Superintendent Goslin was in a philosophic mood: "Whenever the properly elected representatives of the community demand my resignation," he said, "I regard it as mandatory to resign." His attitude suggested that as soon as he had reached a salary settlement with the board, he would resign as requested. But Pasadena was in for a surprise. For the first time, hundreds of citizens who had remained silent began writing and phoning their protests to the board. A group of businessmen and churchmen, led by wealthy Industrialist Philip...
Meanwhile, anti-Goslinites were flocking to the hearings of the California State Senate Education Committee, which happened to be in town on a statewide investigation of Communism in the schools. Charged Pasadena Osteopath W. Ernest Brower, president of the anti-Goslin School Development Council: Pasadena's schools are riddled with Communism. Brower pointed to the soft-pedaling of classroom competition among students and to the inclusion of sex education in biology and hygiene courses...
Superintendent Goslin also had a chance to address the committee. Said he: "I have never seen a community in America where the school system was better than its people wanted it to be. What the people want not only should govern, it does in fact govern . . . Here in Pasadena we are going through one of those typically American procedures to find out what we believe in and what we want...
...week's end, Willard Goslin had not yet resigned, and Pasadena was still trying to find out what it believed in and what it wanted...