Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
HEDR|CK AND HAY
recommendation
SENIOR HIGH POSTS
Final Action on Retention of
Two Science Teachers
Up to Board.
ASSURANCE IS GIVEN
OF ACTIVE STATUS
Will Be Carried Into New Depart
ment in Group B, Kramer
Declares.

Dr. William A. Hedrick of the depart
ment of physics and william p. Hay Of
the department of chemistry and biol
ogy will be made senior high school
teachers at salaries OF 5000. II recon-
mendations Of school off1cials are ap-
proved tomorrow by the Board Of Ed
ucation.
This will be the first of1icial action
taken by the school board with respect
to DR.. Hedrick and Mr.. Hay, whose po-
sitions were abolished by the School
these departments into a department
of science" effective August 81.
Kramer Made Recommendation.
Tomorrow's action was forecast today
by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent, upon whose initial rec
ommendation the departments were
merged, and their incumbents depoSed.
In response to The Stars request for
an explanation OF the status OF the two
veteran school officers. Doubt had been
expressed in school circles that the
two men would be denoted to teaching
positions, and fears were expressed by
friends of the veterans that either both
or one OF them would be forced to retire.
There is no question about the active
positions Of these men," Mr.. Kramer re-
piled today. We are going to recon-
mend that they be made group B teach
ers. and they will be carried into teach
ing positions automatically with the
elimination of their present director
ships at the end Of August. While II
is possible that they could be retired, II
Is not our desire to penalize them this
way. Therefore. with the boards APP
prevail. they will be made teachers OF
their subjects"
Get Maximum Salary.
Group B teachers in normal AMI
senior high schools draw the highest
salaries in the system, ranging from a
minimum of So, 900 per annum to $4,000
as maximum. In the demotion OF DR.
Hedrick and Mr. Hay both automati-
airy. The $4,000 teaching position sal
aries which they will draw will be paid
them, as q matter of fact, for 10 months
work, while the SO, TOO which their pres
ent positions draw is for IL months en-
ployment. BY keeping both men in the
system as directors until the first day
of the next school year the school on
Gals actually are favoring them finan-
cially, 1t was explained at the Franklin
Administration Building today. as each
actually will draw more money for the
next years work than they have at any
time In their long careers in the public
school system.
Asked II the appointment Of q d.
rector of science. the position created
by the action of the School Board last
Wednesday, would be made at tomor-
rows meeting, Mr.. Kramer explained
that the appointment could not be made
because we've got to find our MAJ.
first"
Since the Board Of Education merged
the department of physics with the de-
partment of chemistry and biology
three vigorous objections by District or
CARNATIONS active in school affairs
have been voiced against that action
and the implied demotion Of DIR. He'd
rick, who has been in the school sys-
tenn A years, and Mr.. Hay, who has
been active for 80 years.
Union Protests Action.
The Teachers Union and the Teach
ers' Council. together with the District
Congress Of Parents and Teachers. have
addressed communications to the School
Board and to the boards officers, in
Guiding DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent, decrying the action as estab-
fishing principle which threatened
the tenure" of veteran teachers and
wrecks the morale" of the personnel
generally. Whether these protests will
be considered by the School Board in
open session tomorrow remained proble-
NAUTICAL today.
Board members who could be reached
pointed out that the Personnel Com
mittee and school officials had had the
proposed demotion of the two ufsscers
and the merger of their positions under
consideration for two years, while DR.
Hedrick and Mr.. Hay themselves had
been aware Of the threatened action for
as long as i've years.