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LOYAL K. KING PASADENA, CALIF...
...trouble in the last three or four years. In Minneapolis, as a superintendent of schools with "progressive" leanings, he fought in vain to win a bigger budget, finally quit in frustration over "the neglect and mistreatment of public education ... in Minneapolis" (TIME, May 3, 1948). Last week, as Pasadena's superintendent, Willard Goslin was deep in another...
...year job in 1948. Most Pasadenans conceded that their schools would need some streamlining, but some oldliners were hardly ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...
Meanwhile, other anti-Goslinites had been denouncing his reformed curriculum as too progressive. They organized a School Development Council, bought radio time to air their opposition. "There is far too much paint-daubing," cried the Pasadena Independent, "[and] far too little discipline." Many a Pasadena parent agreed: some were sincerely worried about the elimination of report cards in the lower grades (though that was a pre-Goslin innovation) and what seemed a lack of emphasis on the three...
...game, and was one of two teams eligible to go to the Rose Bowl. The other eligible team, Ohio State, had been beaten by Minnesota. The Minnesota team was well aware that if they won the rest of their games they would be the choice to go to Pasadena. I was in Minneapolis at this time, and I know, through conversations with members of the team, that the Rose Bowl was the prize ambition of this senior-dominated squad...