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...five people nominated by the NBC, three are incumbents and have worked for the School Plan despite objections from the other two board members and Superintendent of Schools Haley. All persons with the NBC loses strength from this freedom. All five on the Committee slate have approved the School Plan, however, and intend to carry it through...
About others, like Lee, who is running for the School Committee, there does arise doubt as to the soundness of their political aims and beliefs. In between extremes on the NBC, slate are men like Muchnick who is apt to be high-handed in personal dealings. Muchnick, on the other hand, is credited by some observers as having the single largest part in bringing out the School Plan and getting it adopted...
Five men on the CCA slate, however, deserve full support. Of top caliber is Edward Crane, a Harvard magna, Phi Bete, and Law School graduate. Crane's great interest in Cambridge civic affairs--apparent since his undergraduate days when he wrote his thesis on the city-manager plan, even though that was then a system new to Cambridge--his intimate knowledge of the city, and his cagerness to make it better, qualify him as the most outstanding example of an experienced councillor...
...fall's election has a double added significance. In the first place, the outgoing committee, dominated by men who seemed to be considerably more interested in politics than in education, left a stained two-year record behind it. Secondly, the city this year has in the Cambridge Civic Association slate a group of candidates which on the whole is far and away above the normal selection offered for school committee...
Luckily, the city has a remarkable opportunity to improve the local school situation in the candidacy of eight highly qualified people on the CCA slate. Seven of the eight are new to committee work, the exception being Mrs. Pearl K. Wise who has been on the group for the past four years. But if they are new to the School Committee as such they are not new to education. Among the seven are Judson T. Shaplin, director of Freshmen Scholarships here and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and George I. Rohrbough, also a professional educator...