Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Barnes entered the School Committee picture when Judson T. Shaplin, Associate Dean of the School of Education, decided not to seek re-election. Shaplin asked Barnes to replace him in the so-called "Harvard seat;" Barnes, who says he has always been interested in educational problems, accepted the bid and immediately received Civic Association support. Since then, he has spoken to almost every graduate and undergraduate political organization and has won a slew of endorsements that are encouraging but of doubtful value...
...Harvard seat" is a pleasant political myth, and Barnes realizes he must fight for his election. He has College, Law School and GSAS young Democrats, Republicans and liberals working for him, allegedly reaping all sorts of political experience. "It's a new form of patronage," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. commented recently. "Bill gives people jobs before the election instead of after it." Schlesinger is only one of many University people to endorse Barnes' candidacy; even if there is no such thing as a "Harvard seat," Barnes is certainly the Harvard candidate...
Shaplin had considered Barnes a likely man chiefly because of his tax and budgetary experience, a talent sorely needed in the muddled affairs of the School Committee. At first, Barnes concentrated his campaign on this point, but he found it a deadening issue and has changed his ground to the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and the future of Rindge Technical High School. He is particularly disturbed about the implications of NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become...
Barnes was born in New York City about forty years ago and attended St. Paul's School before entering Yale in the Class of 1940 (the same class as McGeorge Bundy). He majored in Government and found time in his hectic extra-curricular career to write a thesis on Development of Public Policy that was judged the best in the department...
...graduated at the age of twenty and moved on right away to Harvard Law School, where he managed to miss the first term exams because of an appendicitis attack. He joined the Air Force in mid-1941 and graduated from officers' training school four months after Pearl Harbor...