Milford chronicle., 1931-07-03
GOVERNOR NAMES
new STATEB0ARD
OF EDUCATION i
[COniinned from F1si Pdgr1


the administration of its, affairs as
much as possible. rra ~,
The new board will apppint su-
perintendent of State schools, assist
ant superintendent and "A host OF
other officers and teachers necessary
for the operation of the State
schools, as the old board did.
Mr.. Brown, one of the appointees
from Wilmington, lives at 1910
Broom street, and is a director and
vice-president of the DUPONT Com
pany. He also is greatly interested
in the Associated Charities and its
successor, The Family Society. Mr..
Brown since becoming a member Of
the State Board of Education has
devoted much of his time and atten-
tion to educational matters and was
particularly interested in trying to
have passed by the last Legislature
a teachers retirement system law,
which, however, failed of enactment.
Mr.. Brown is a graduate of Har-
ward University. He is a trustee OF
the University of Delaware. His
work with the DUPONT Company has
been connected with the making of
smokeless powder. During the war
he was in charge of the smokeless
powder operations. He is member
of the advisory board of the Chill
drens Bureau of Delaware and the
Young Women's Christian AssOcia-
tion.
Mr.. Huber, another of the appoint
ees from Wilmington, lives at 21O3
North Van Buren, street, and is spe-
cial agent of the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company of New York, with
offices in the DUPONT Building. He
was elected a member of the Will
mingtOn Board of Education two
years ago, and has taken keen in
terest in its affairs. He was one of
the leading advocates of enactment
of Representative Tatnall's bill in
the Legislature to abolish the Will
mington School Board of seven
members elected by the voters and
to create in it's place board of six
members to be divided equally and
to be appointed by the Resident
Judge of New Castle county. Mr.. |
Huber is a graduate of Wilmington |
High School.
Mr.. Cam appointed from rural |
New Castle county, is a resident of
Newark, and a lawyer practicing in
Wilmington. He is a graduate of !
Friends School in Wilmington and
of the University of Delaware, where
he was prominent as an athlete. He |
was graduated in law from the Uni
versity of Virginia. Mr.. Cam is a
member of the Athletic Council of
the University of Delaware, a direc-
tor of the Newark Trust Company
and a trustee of the Newark Acad-
emy.
= Mr.. Price, of Smyrna, appointed
from Kent county, is a well known
business man of that town. He is
engaged in the coal. lime and ce-
ment business and also is a grain
broker. Mr.. Price took over the bus
mess of his father, former Senator
L. M. Price, and added to it the grain
brokerage business. He is a men,
ber of the Smyrna Rotary Club and
Asbury NJ. E. Church and popular
socially in his county.
Mr.. Williams, one of the appoint
ees from Sussex county, is engaged
in the lumber business in MillsborO
He was president of the outgoing
State Board of Education and at the
last election was elected State Trea-
surer. Mr.. Williams is a graduate
of Wilmington Conference Academy 1
and of Dickinson College. He taught ;
school three years after his gradu-
alton, and since then has been en-
gagged in the lumber business. He
is former mayor of Millsboro, a di-
rector of the Millsboro Trust Com
pany, and a member of the Rotary
Club, Improved Order of Red Men,
all Masonic bodies up to and includ-
ing the thirty-second degree. the
Shrine, and Tall Cedars, and is
member of the MillsbOro Methodist
Church. {
Mr.. Simon, another of the appoint I
ees from Sussex county, is we'll {
known Seaford business man, he be-
ng in the canning industry, and has !
been greatly interested in educa-
ional affairs. He has been a men,
per of the Seaford board of educa-
ion and was much interested in the {
project that resulted in a modern
lew school for that town. :
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