The Parker post., 1918-03-30
FACULTY BACK.
Of DIR. BLOME

the controversy over DR.. Blome's dis
missed by the trustees of the school:
eve the faculty of the Northern
Arizona Normal School president
Blome and his discharged assistants
not participating), feeling that
grave injustice has been done to our
faculty, to our school, and to our state
in the removal Of our president, Dr.
R: H. H. Blome and his two assist
ants, and that proper respect for the
citizens of the state entities them to
know, and requires us to explain, the
causes that have led to the present
conditions in the school, do set forth
that during the nine years DR.. Blome
has been president of this Normal
School it has grown from an institu-
tion of less than fifty students to one
of three hundred, despite the fact that
most of our boys are away in the SER
vice of our country; that with the
faculty cooperating for efficient work
with not dissatisfied student in the
entire student body with all the
students learning rapidly, with the
demand for teachers exceeding our
supply of graduates, with thirteen of
ArizOna's counts, twenty-four statss
OF the Union and three foreign coun-
tries represented in the student body,
/ with ninty per cent of the people
nf A1si1 cd WI n ha
| general conduct of the school, with
| the students intensely loyal to their
/ school, their several counties, their
states, and their country, with those
| who know recognizing and admitting
| that we had one of the very best
| schools in the Southwest, and with
unanimous recogniation that it was
! largely Dr. Blome who had drawn
this cosmopolitan body of students
together and obtained this splendid
result, yet with all these attainments
to his credit he has been discharged
without hearing, although citizens
| of Northern Arizona requested hear
| ing before such an action was taken
and so eminent an educator dis
missed,
1--WE know Dr. Blome to be one of
the best scholars and one of the most
uccessful educators in the Southwest,
as it evidenced by the many honors
| he has received from schools and edu-
cation organizations. He is one of
the strongest school executives, one
of the most enthusiastic teachers and
popular educational leaders, one of
the most just presidents to teachers
and students, and one of the most
loyal Americans with whom we have
ever been associated. His loyalty is
evidenced by the fact that he will
ingly and glady offered and is send
ing both his sons to fight in defense
Of his adopted country
''The flag incident assigned by the
Normal School Board as a cause for
his dismissal happened when most of
us were here and has been ridiculous
ly overdrawn and misstated. We have
proof that other state institutions did
not display the flag more than this
one did, yet no attention was given
rules regarding the fig was but fol-
lowing the former practice that OBJ
taine dwhen DR.. Taylor was it's pres
ident.
''It is assigned as a further cause
for DR.. Blomes dismissal that he is
pro-German. We are Americans, are
with him constantly and know him
BEST and do not believe it, We call
for proof of his disloyaltY. We ap-
peal to those who believe in fair play
Is there in freee America no justice
for American citizens of German
birth who contribute with their
means and might and loyalty send
their sons to fight against their own
race
eve feel sure from our own knowl-
edge of school affairs and conditions
in Flagstaff that local difficulties and
matters of politics, and not desire
for the advancement of the school,
have led to DR.. Blomes dismissal,
and we ask the citizens of Arizona,
are you going to allow precedent
TO be set for the future by permitting
a most eminent educator to be dis
missed without full and fair pub
lie hearing from your school, in which
he has been splendid success. with
no effort by you to correct this wrong.
We ask you to correct this wrong
We ask. you to correct it, thtta
We ask you to correct it, that the
i education of your children and the
expenditure of public money be not
sacrificed