Evening star., 1932-07-01
DR.. SIMON RETAINS
lob TEMPORARILY
School Board Head Agrees
to Delay Withdrawal
Until Later.

DR.. Abram Simon was continued
temporarily in Office today as president
OF the Board of Education pending q
full meeting Of the board next Sep
tember, despite his announced inten-
ton of withdrawing from the chair
DR.. Simon had asked that he not
be continued as president, but on mo-
ton of DR.. j. Hayden johnson the
board agreed to continue its present
officers because of the absence from
today's reorganization meeting Of three
members.
Agrees to Continue.
DR.. Simon agreed to continue with
the understanding that he would not
be expected to stand for reelection
when a vote is taken.
BY today's action Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle will be continued as vice
president Of the board. The absentees
today were Mrs. Doyle, George Whit
well and Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith.
In announcing prior to the meeting
that he would withdraw from the chair,
DR.. Simon said the time required of the
president of the board was more than
he could conscientiously spare from his
other duties.
He made it plain, however. that he
did not contemplate withdrawing from
the board itself, but that he would serve
out the remaining two years of his
three-year term as a member.
DIR. johnson Takes Office.
The meeting marked the swearing in
of DR.. Johnson, chancellor of National
University, to succeed Daniel G. Roper,
who himself had just completed the re-
mainder Of the term of DR.. Charles F.
Carusi, former National University
chancellor, who died in Office more than
a year ago.
During the business session which fol-
lowed the tentative reorganization the
board authorized Supt. F. W. Ballou to
work out a plan of operation for the
economy acts furloughpay cut.
Acting on a report by DR.. Ballou, the
board agreed that by virtue OF the
school years operation, the custodians
should be given a furlough instead OF
the pay cut. The superintendent had
pointed out that during the summer
months the custodians could be 1ur-
loughed without injury to the operation
of the schools and he added that many
of the custodians already had asked Tor
the furlough plan, so they might be re-
lieved of duty during the Summer.
With respect to school officers, the
board decided that their duty was
reasonably Identical with that OF the
teachers who are paid only 10 months
of the year and who are laid oil dur
ing the Summer months. 1t was the
consensus of opinion that the omcers
as we'll as the teachers, therefore,
should receive the ga per cent salary
reduction.
Authority Is Given.
The board, however, went on record
as favoring the granting OF turlough
to any of the officers who might elect
it in preference to the cut.
1t adopted a specific order author
izing its president or his designated
deputy ito arrange for any necessary
exemption of officers and employees"
from the provision of the section OF
the act which provides a furlough.
DR.. Ballou announced that while the
board was sitting today, DR.. Stephen
E Kramer was meeting with District
Auditor Donovan and an official Of the
Budget Bureau to determine the actual
limitations and authorizations of the
economy bill. Much of the application
of the act to the schools will depend,
he told the board, on the decision
reached in that conference.