The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-04
WILL SUCCEED D. K. GOSS
CALVIN n. KENDALL, OF NEW HA-
VEN, CONN, PROBABLY THE MAN.
school Board Admits that NcEotia-
Denied Two Weeks Ago.

Calvin n. Kendall Will succeed David K.
Goss as superintendent Of the indianapolis
public schools. This information was re-
ceived by the Journal last night in a tele-
gram from New Haven, Conn.,. where Mr..
Kendall is now occupying the position of
superintendent Of the schools of that city.
and was corroborated by Chas. w. Moores.
a member of the Indianapolis School
Board.
The members of the School Board have
been figuring on a successor TO Superin-
tendent Goss for several weeks, and it has
been known among few of their friends
that they would endeavor to get the best
man available in the United States for the
place When the news was received in this
city last night Mr.. Moores was seen by a
Journal representative and copy OF the
message was read TO him. He was then
asked TO make a statement concerning the
matter and he said:
1.-The matter got out a little quicker than
I thought 1t would. 1 guess 1t is true Mr.
Kendall will be here next year. but we
have heard nothing positive from him re-
garding the matter. The Indianapolis
School Board has been negotiating with
Mr.. Kendall for some time, and for one
am glad to say that he has consented to
come to Indianapolis, for believe we have
secured the best man in the country for
the position. Mr.. Kendall is forty-one
years of age and was born I'm New York
He spent twelve years of his life in the
West and his wife is a Western woman
He has had many years experience as SUI
perintendent of some of the largest public
schools In the country. He was located at
milwaukee, for a while, where he gave en-
tire satisfaction, and was also superintend-
ent of schools in two Michigan cities. He
then located at Chicago, where he met
with such great approval that he was ten
dered an offer of professorship in the
University of California, but declined. He
left Chicago about three years ago and
went TO New Haven TO accept the position
as superintendent of the schools of that
city. His contract was for five years, and,
as he Is only on his third year, we feared
for awhile that we would be unable to Sc
cure him. He could not give us a definite
answer until he had met with the Board of
Education of New Haven
The impression seems to have been cir
culated~that the School Board refused to
consider any Indiana man for the position.
what can you say to that?" was asked.
Tnere were about fifteen Indiana men
either after the place or whose names had
been suggested to the board. OF this num-
Der superintendent Hester of the Evans
VILE schools. Was probably the most prom
Using candidate, but he has had experience
with about two hundred teachers, while In
Indianapolis there are about seven hun
dred. We know of no Indiana man whom
we deemed capable of filling the position,
and we thought Ii advisable to go out of
the State to secure competent man. Mr.
Kendall has had long experience in all
branches of the school from the graded
schools to the high schools and is prac-
tical man of great executive ability. We
believe that in securing him we will bring
to indianapolis the best superintendent the
schools Of this city have ever had"
Mr. Moores said there were twenty-eight
or thirty applicants for this position, but
out of the number only a very few were
considered at ALL
PRESIDENT SLOAN PLEASED.
George w. Sloan. president of the In
dianapols School Board, was asked last
night about the report that Mr.. Kendall
would come to Indianapolis, and he re-
piled that he had heard nothing officially
concerning the matter.
II only hope the dispatch received by
the Journal is true" said Mr. Sloan. "Mr
Kendall is an Eastern man by birth, grew
up in the West, went back to the East and
is now coming to the Middle West to live
I think he is the best man we could posi-
bly, have secured in the United States. He
is bright, intelligent, scholarly, and en-
tirely free from fads. In other words, he
is no crank and is perfectly practical in
his ideas. Several Indianapolis people are
acquainted with him, and / met him when
he was in the city three years ago, attend
ing the meeting of the National School Sup
erintendents' Association. 1 was in favor
of Mr.. Kendall three years ago when Mr.
Goss was elected to the position of super
intendent. Two of the members of the
Indianapolis School Board met Mr.. Kendall
in New York the first of this year and were
well impressed with him. The members
went East on business, and while in New
York had Mr.. Kendall meet them there.
He has always been willing to come to
Indianapolis, and, although he has been
recently reelected superintendent of the
New Haven schools for another year, we
were confident that his resignation would
be favorably acted upon by the Board of
Education of that city. He is a great man
in the educational world. and at New
Haven his true worth could not be given
to the outside world because of the fact
that Yale College is located in that city,
and overshadowed the public schools of the
place. MIR. Kendall will come to this city
and will occupy a place in society as well
i'm the educational world. The In
dianapoiis board stands as unit in favor
of him"
Mr. Goss. the present superintendent, will
remain at the head of the Indianapolis
schools until the end of the school year.
II is expected that Mr.. Kendall will re-
move his family to Indianapolis early in
the summer in order TO familarze him
self with the city and the school work.
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