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Since their "please resign" telegram to Superintendent Willard Goslin three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 27), the Pasadena board of education had received some vehement samples of Pasadena public opinion. While anti-Goslinites expressed their satisfaction, supporters of the able, widely known superintendent (he is a former president of the American Association of School Administrators), vociferously displeased, demanded reconsideration. The secretary of the board went hoarse handling incoming phone calls...
Last week, still unmoved, the board repeated its demand for Goslin's resignation, got it. Said Willard Goslin, who received a 16-month salary settlement of $23,250: he was grateful to all his friends in Pasadena but, after all, the voters had elected the members of the present school board. "We are dedicated to representative government. I cannot remain in contempt of democratic action...
Though he is one of the nation's ablest public schoolmen, red-faced, robust Willard Goslin, 51, has had his share of trouble in the last three or four years. In Minneapolis, as a superintendent of schools with "progressive" leanings, he fought in vain to win a bigger budget, finally quit in frustration over "the neglect and mistreatment of public education ... in Minneapolis" (TIME, May 3, 1948). Last week, as Pasadena's superintendent, Willard Goslin was deep in another...
...week's end, Willard Goslin had not yet resigned, and Pasadena was still trying to find out what it believed in and what it wanted...
...Marion Willard Boyer, 49, up-from-the-ranks Hoosier who is vice president in charge of manufacturing for Esso Standard Oil Co., was named general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, to succeed Carroll L. Wilson, who resigned in August. Boyer fitted the pattern the AEC was looking for: a production man with a research background. Boyer, a chemical engineer, was making three times as much at Esso as the $20,000 the AEC will...