Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Epps tells how his father was a high school teacher until he was blocked from becoming headmaster. Quitting the school, Epps senior first ran an ice cream route and then built up a cleaning store business. "But my father left me a legacy of radical politics which I will never forget," Epps says...
...Admiral's Son. Just before Christmas last year, Assistant Professor Kent Ponder, 34, a Spanish teacher, handed out a flock of Fs, including one to Midshipman Donald Minter, the son of a retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform...
...semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...
Rambunctious Adolescents. The flap over grade fixing brought into the open the smoldering feud between the civilians on the faculty and the Navy. Many of the civilians feel like "second-class citizens," and a number have resigned. One of those quitting in protest, English Teacher Richard C. Vitzthum, 29, accused the academy of treating its "civilian faculty as a commodity which it has bought like provisions for the mess hall." Paradoxically, despite the protection of the flunk quota, overall attrition is high: 35% of the average freshman class of 1,300 drops out by graduation. One reason is the hazing...
...real problem is a civic rather than a political one. No matter why Ward was dismissed, a large part of the Cambridge population believes Vellucci's accusations. Anthony Bruno, a teacher at a local vocational school, said at the Council meeting that his students are convinced Ward was fired for political motives alone, and that they resent his successor. The danger exists that not only will an exceptional youth worker be lost, but that his accomplishments will be wiped...