Word: shurtleff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when will they come back?" Concord, nestled by New Hampshire's Merrimack River, is one of the nation's smallest state capitals (pop. 30,400). Linked like the rest of the world by the searing television images, the whole city seemed to stiffen in sorrow. Said Pharmacy Clerk Timothy Shurtleff: "People froze in their tracks." A local radio station began playing mourning music. "It's like part of the family has been killed," said Barbara Underwood, who had been watching at the library. The townspeople were not alone. The vivacious McAuliffe had come to embody each schoolteacher that any American...
...loss of a guidance counselor, however, would "cripple the program's integrity," said Shurtleff, because the counselor's workload could not be redistributed to already overworked instructors...
...Pilot program is also in danger, according to Ray Shurtleff, its director "In particular our historical commitment to having Black counselor is in danger, he says As well as forcing the school to cut out a counseling position. Shurtleff predicts that budget cuts will increase the size of the school, as administrators are forced to increase the load for each individual teacher. "Soon we would reach a point of diminishing returns. Research shows that we are now at our optimal size, "he explains, adding that an increase in population "would also threaten the race and sex balance which Pilot...