Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-06
'CARUS| FUNERAL
PROBABLE MONDAY
Deceased President of School
Board Expected to Be Buried
in Arlington Cemetery.

III AiHIiYtU1 CeIIIelGTys
Arrangements for the funeral of DR..
Charles F. Carusi, president of the
Board of Education and chancellor of
National University, who died at Jack
sonville. Fla. early yesterday, will be
to the Capital of Mrs. Marie CaSsin
Carusi, his widow, who today is en-
route home with her husbands body.
Mrs CaruSi and her son-in-law, Col.
Emmanuel Lombard, military attache of
the French embassy here, who left
Washington to join the Carusi's two
hours before DR. Carusi died, left Jack
sonville with the doctors body at 8
o'clock last night. The party will reach
Washington at $50 o'clock this after
noon.
Services May Be Monday.
Tentative plans for DR.. Carusi's flu
neral have been made by Nine. Lom-
bard, his daughter, and other members
of his fanny here, and confirmation Is
awaited by Mrs Carusi. Funeral serv-
ices probably will be conducted Monday
morning, however, at st. Matthews
Catholic Church. Although he held
membership in the Masonic order, DR.
d
his religion several hours before his
death and he received the last rites of
the Catholic church.
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery, If DR.. Carusi's own wishes
are carried out. He was a member Of
the United States Volunteers in action
in Cuba during the Spanish-American
War.
The District Of Columbia Bar Asso-
citation will be represented at DR..
Carusi's funeral by committee of IL
members which was appointed last
night by George P. Hoover, president
and friend of the dead educator. The
committee includes Col. j. Miller Ken
yon, Conrad H Syme, Hayden johnson,
w. w. Milan, Julius I. Peyser, Richard
A. Ford, Vernon E. West, H, Winship
Wheatley Thomas H Patterson, Glenn
Willett. Milton Strasburger and Percy
H. Marshall.
School Officials Meet.
News of Dr. Carusi's death had
scarcely begun to filter throughout the
Capital before expressions of official,
professional and personal loss were
being voiced. DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of schools, who was per-
haps the most intimate associate Of
the beloved School Board head in the
field of public education, called a meet
ing of the school officers as soon as
they reached the Franklin Administra-
ton Building for the day yesterday.
The officers Immediately agreed on the
official mourning of the school system.
DR. Ballou, himself deeply moved,
issued a statement in which he ex-
pressed shock at news of his friends
death.
DIR. Carusi brought to his position
as president of the Board of Education
a broad academic training and interest,
a thoroughly trained mind from an ex-
tended study and practice of law, and
an intense interest in the problems and
responsibilities of the Board of Educa-
ton for the development and main
tenance of an efficient system of edu-
caticn in his native city," DR.. Ballou's
statement continued.
1.-THE members of the Board Of Edu-
cation uniformly respected and valued
his leadership. In his passing the SUI
perintendent has lost wise counselor
and ever helpful associate in school
matters and a warm personal friend.
The community has lost the services
Of q public official who was ever de-
voted to the interests of the children
and who was a real force in the adj
vancement of public education in
Washington
School Board Convenes.
DR.. Ballou's statement preceded the
formal expressions Of loss which the
school board itself adopted in special
meeting which was called as soon as
word of its leaders death was received.
Harry o. Hine, secretary of the school
board, whose official position kept him
In almost daily contact with DR.. Carusi.
made statement In which he asserted
that "the field of education generally,
and that of public education In Wash
ington in particular. has sustained a
severe loss" in the death of the School
Board president.
His talents as a lawyer" Mr.. Hine
declared, This skill as an administrator
in educational matters, his wide knowl-
edge Of Washington and its needs,
coupled with deep sympathy and altru-
ism, have particularly fitted him for the
leadership he attained. His intellec-
tual worth and zeal won for him the re-
spect and cooperation of his associates
in the Board of Education. There was
a definite challenge to such co-opera-
ton in their contact with a life dedi-
Gated to the advancement of education.
Judge Wheat Adjourns Court.
with his democratic instincts no
president of the Board of Education
displayed so great a concern for the
individual teacher or other school en-
ploye. Within the past year President
Carusi enunciated a policy which the
board approved, that every employee of
the school system may have his day in
court for the protection of his indivi-
dual interests Every one in the school
system could count on DR.. Carusi as
friend.
LAS secretary of the Board of Edu-
cation. 1 may say my contacts with
President Carusi were very close, being
almost brotherly in character. There
was an unfailing courtesy, a personal
kindness that rendered easier many
arduous official tasks. No one could
come in intimate touch with President
Carusi without an acceleration of spirit
and desire to do the job just little
better than before
Judge Alfred Wheat. chief justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, ordered a brief formal
adjournment of court out of respect to
DR.. Carusi on the motion of Mr..
Hoover president 0f the har association