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...afternoon of Nov. 21, 1950, a harassed and weary man turned to address the hushed audience that jammed the meeting of the Pasadena, Calif, school board. Superintendent of Schools Willard Goslin announced that after less than 2½ years in office he was resigning. "I shall take away no ill feelings when I leave Pasadena," said he, "rather a deep regret that I was unable to lead this community to a level which would have produced the best school system in America." With those words, Willard Goslin brought to an end one of the bitterest school battles...
...Vote NO!" Willard Goslin came to Pasadena in 1948, an able man who had served as superintendent in Minneapolis and had recently been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators. Pasadena was proud to have him, and at first the school board approved everything he did. Willard Goslin had a year to settle himself into his job before he began to hear disturbing news. In the winter of 1949, a small group of citizens began attacking the schools at a series of meetings held in the American Legion Hall. Most of them thought their children were not doing...
...else down here from Chicago, but they told me I was the only one who could handle the job." He would handle it from Tribune Tower, he said, commuting back & forth to Washington. His on-the-spot deputies would be T-H Executive Editor Frank Waldrop and Business Manager Willard Shelton, both veterans of the late Cissy Patterson's regime...
Jenkins' Ear, by Odell and Willard Shepard. A talky but ingenious historical about Bonnie Prince Charlie (TIME, April...
...Shepards, father & son, know their 18th Century. Odell Shepard, Pulitzer Prize biographer of Bronson Alcott and onetime lieutenant governor of Connecticut, is also an eminent authority on 18th Century English prose and poetry. His son, Willard, is a specialist in early naval history. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made this learned collaboration its choice for April, but it takes a bit of special interest in either the 18th Century or Bonnie Prince Charlie to make up for all the talk in the library...