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...months since the forced resignation of President George Stoddard, the trustees of the University of Illinois have searched far and wide to find a man able enough-and still willing-to be his successor. Last week it looked as if they had practically chosen their man: David Dodds Henry, 49, executive vice chancellor of New York University and former president of Detroit's Wayne University. Then, just as the trustees seemed all set to vote, Henry told them-in polite, academic language, of course-to go to hell...
...years, the security section has chalked up a record that any large city might envy. When former School Superintendent Alexander Stoddard set it up in 1948, Los Angeles was suffering a postwar boom in delinquency. Last week-in spite of the fact that the juvenile crime rate throughout the rest of the city has climbed 16%-the school system announced that its annual bill for burglary and vandalism had been cut from...
...turned out governors (Archie Alexander of the Virgin Islands), senators (Bourke Hickenlooper), scholars (Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam), explorers (Vilhjalmur Stefansson), editors (Bruce and Beatrice Gould), and columnists (Marquis Childs); 34 of its alumni and former professors have become heads of other colleges and universities (e.g., George Stoddard, former president of the University of Illinois; H. K. Newburn. former president of the University of Oregon; T. R. McConnell, former chancellor of the University of Buffalo). But more important than its products, says Hancher, is the lesson that S.U.I, has taught-"that culture is not limited to the Eastern seaboard...
Plenty of Hum. In spite of such setbacks. Stoddard maintained his equilibrium. "You know." says he, "anybody who serves the total public is in the midst of life. The school superintendent does not live in a house by the side of the road; he's right smack in the middle of the road, and sometimes he gets bumped." Though bumped aplenty. Superintendent Stoddard kept his schools humming. He upped the annual budget from $90 million to $150 million, put through a school bond issue for $130 million. He has put up scores of new school buildings...
School boards? I've seen them come and go, be good and bad. but the school system rolls right along." Last week, as 65-year-old Superintendent Stoddard ended his long career and made ready to move to the side of the road. L.A. was still rolling, largely because of the mellow optimist who could take things in his stride...