The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-10-30
LUTHER L. WRIGHT Is PLACED
AT HEAD OF FLINT IN
STITUTION,
SUCCESSOR AS SCHOOL sUPERlN-
DENT REPUBLICAN,.
interesting Process of Taking White
Fish Spawn From Detroit River
Now in Progress.
[By Gurd M. Hayes.1

instruction Luther L. Wright rendered
his resignation to Governor Ferris
last week and has been appointed SUI
perintendent Of the Michigan School
for the Deaf at Flint, succeeding DR..
Francis Clarke, deceased. Immediate
ly following the resignation of Super
intendent Wright the appointment Of
Fred L. Keller, Of Mt. Pleasant, as SUI
perintendent of public instruction was
announced at the executive Office.
Keller is a republican, and has been
deputy superintendent of public in
struction for the pat five years.
These appointments which are con-
sidered the most important made dur
ing the administration of Governor
Ferris came as a decided surprise to
official Lansing. Wright was re-elect-
ed superintendent of public instruc-
tion at the spring election for term
of four years, and no one here, with
the exception of Governor Ferris and
a few of Wright's most intimate
friends had the slightest linking of
the proposed change. For some time
Governor Ferris had been looking for
a suitable man to succeed DR.. Clarke
as the head of the big institution at
Flint, but it was thought that the place
would be filed by democrat. Wright
is a prominent republican and has
been mentioned as gubernatorial
possibility. The appointment was made
as a recognition of Superintendent
Wright's efficient service in the edu-
cational department of the state gov
eminent, while Keller, who is also a
republican, was promoted to the head
of the department of public instruc-
ton because the governor regards
him as the logical man for the place.
The new superintendent of public
iastrsction was appointed as deputy
saAer Wright, July /, 1908. He Is Al
years OF age and was born in Washte-
nav county. His entire life, since
leaving the University of Michigan
where he was graduated from the lit
erary department in 1898, has been
spent in educational work. In 1894
Keller returned to the university and
was engaged in postgraduate work for
a year.
After leaving the university he was
principal of the high school at Hough-
ton for a year and when the state
normal school was opened at Mt.
Pleasant, Keller was the first teacher
engaged by the board. For thirteen
years he was in charge of the science
department at the Mt Pleasant state
normal. His work in the department
of public instruction during the past
i've years has won him considerable
praise from educators in all parts OF
the state. Wright's resignation takes
effect November Is.
Luther l.. Wright, the new superin-
tendent of the Flint institution needs
but little introduction to the people OF
Michigan as he has been in public
life In Michigan for number of years.
He was born in Canton, New York,
January Is, 1856. He was graduated
! from Ripon college, Wisconsin. He
was county commissioner of schools
in Gogebic county for five successive
terms and for twenty years was SUI
| perintendent of schools at Ironwood.
In 1901 he was appointed as member
of the state board of education to ill
a vacancy and was reelected in 1902.
In 1906 he was nominated and elected
as superintendent OF public instruc-
ton and has held the position ever
since. In 1908 he received the degree
of master of arts from the university
of Michigan.