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...anxiously towards the white Department of the Interior Building in Washington, wherein is housed the U. S. Office of Education. Secretary Ickes had appointed a committee to canvass the nation for the ablest possible successor to U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper. The committee picked George Frederick Zook, 48, president of the University of Akron (TIME, July 3). Satisfied with his educational record (after working his way through the University of Kansas by driving a hearse he had taught modern European history at Kansas, Cornell and Penn State), they were impressed by his having been a Wartime propagandist...
...Columbia conferees were gently discouraged by one man who could do so with authority. He was Dr. George Frederick Zook, the amiable, poker-faced new U. S. Commissioner of Education. There is, said he in effect, nothing on the platter for pedagogy. Perhaps some money for new school buildings. But nothing in the way of grants for what teachers need most: salaries. Dr. Zook went on to soothe the pedagogs, counsel them thus...
...farmhouse near Fort Scott, Kansas, 48 years ago was born George Frederick Zook, son of Douglas and Helen Follenius Zook. In 1902 George Zook entered the University of Kansas, carrying his spare clothing in a shoe box. He worked his way through by driving a hearse. He made Phi Kappa Phi. Five years after graduating he married a classmate, Susie Gant. Specializing in modern European history, George Zook became a fellow at Kansas, an assistant at Cornell, an instructor at Pennsylvania State College, then an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a full professor. From...
Eight years ago Dr. Zook became president of the University of Akron (Ohio), a tax-supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just...
Last week Dr. Zook became U. S. Commissioner of Education...