Smyrna times., 1922-01-04
FORMER KENTON BOY MEETS
WITH SUCCESS IN ARIZONA
PROF. HOWARD GRIFFIN LEAVES
SCHOOL WORK TO TAKE UP LAW
Had Been Head of the Tucson, Ari-
zOna, Institution of the Deaf and
Blind for the Past Seven Years


Blind for the Past Seven Years
After seven years of distinguished
service as head of the institution, Prof
Howard Griffin, a former Kenton boy,
superintendent and principal of the
School for Deaf and the Blind, on Park
avenue, an integral part of the Uni
verSity of Arizona, at Tucson, has
handed in his resignation, effective
January l. Mr.. Griffin will engage in
the practice of law in Tucson, Ari-
zona. Mr.. Griffin is brother of Mrs.
Harry Pratt and Mrs. Ebenora Griffin
Clark of Delaware City, also formerly
of the Kenton vicinity. When Mr..
Griffin communicated his intention of
leaving to the board of regents of the
university, it was understood that he
was to remain in charge until a sue
cessor is found.
81 feel that my work at the school
has been accomplished" Mr.. Griffin
said last week. 81 am looking for a
broader field of work But l shall al
ways retain my deep interest in the
education of the deaf and the blind,
and shall continue to serve the cause
no matter in what other work l may
be engaged"
Mr.. Griffin became interested in the
education of detectives, says the Ari-
zona Daily Star, while teacher in the
schools of Delaware, his home state.
A graduate of the Maryland State
Normal school, at Baltimore, he soon
began to make a special study of this
department of pedagogy. Soon his
interest impelled him to accept a posi-
tion as teacher in the Pennsylvania
! Institution for the Deaf, where he re-
manned for eight years. While there
Mr. Griffin was employed by the state
of Delaware to make a complete sur
vey of all the defective children of the
state-including the deaf, the blind
and the feeble-minded. AS a direct
and indirect result of his work, every
! child in Delaware eventually was Civ
en- the same opportunities for an edu-
cation as were enjoyed by all the
normal children in the commonwealth
Aside from all this work, Mr.. Grifir
found time to pursue a teacher.
course at the University of Pennsyl
vania, in Philadelphia. He studieC
three years at that university. Wher
DR.. Arthur H. Wilde, then presiden
of the. University of. Arizona, was il
the east in search for man who cOul,
take charge of the School for the Dea
and Blind-at that time in its earlies
stages of growth-he came upon al
earnest young man who had crowde,
a great deal of valuable work anon,
detectives in to a few years. The re
suit was that in September. 1914. MI
Griffin went to Tucson and becam
head of the School for the Deaf an,
the Blind-at about the same tim
that DR.. r. B. Won Klein-Smid becam
president of the university. AS a re
suit of his unusual qualifications an
his interchangeable energy for a goo
cause, the school is now one of tn
strongest of it's kind in the entir
southwest, and is generally regarde
by educators who have had opportun
ity of observation as being credit t
the state and to the institution O
which it forms a part.
Mr.. Griffin received the bachelor .
arts degree and the juris doctor de
gree from the University of Arizon;
He is member of the Phi Kappa Phi
[ | In the Dractica Of 1au Of T,,oeo,
I Mr.. Griffin will have associated wit
I him K. Berry Peterson, lawyer frol
Oklahoma, who, after serving in tn
I world war, came to Tucson when hi
\ family moved to the Old Pueblo. The
\ offices will be at 98 Church street.