Smyrna times., 1936-06-04

CHANGE NAME
SMYRNA HIGH
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of the newly created consolidated
school district of Smyrna. He COM
pleted his undergraduate work at
Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pa, graduating in 1912.
His postgraduate work was done
in the Department of Political Sci
ence, Columbia, University, where
he received an M. A. degree in
1920. He also holds Superin-
tendent's Diploma from Teachers
College, Columbia University, NY.
He has devoted period of II
years in the Smyrna Special School
District in trying to provide a sys-
tenn of public education to meet
the needs and the desires of the
people in this community. To him
it has been a life project.
DIR. George H. Hayden, Chair
man of the Department of History
and Political Science, at the Uni
versity of Delaware, played
prominent part in bringing about
the remaining of the school by con-
tacting Judge Moore and securing
his consent to the change, and also
in getting him TO come here and
participate in the program. DR..
Ryden is the State Archivist of
Delaware and the General Secre-
tary Of the Delaware Swedish Ter
centenary Commission.
The members of the SMYRNA
Special School District Board of
Education are as follows: Walter
w. Hynson, President; Harvey G.
Jones, Vice-President; Warner w.
Price, c. ]. Prickett, NJ. D.; c. w.
w. Schantz, Secretary and Super
intendent.
Sketch of Hon. John Bassett Moore
John BasseuI Moore vas born in
Smyrna, Delaware, on December 8,
1860, his parents being DR.. John A.
and Martha A. (Ferguson) Moore.
When the son was only two years
of age, the family removed to Eel
ton, Delaware, where John Bassett
Moore spent his childhood and
youth. In the FELTON, Academy he
for college. He gradual
ed from the University of Virginia
in 1880 with the degree of Bach
elor of Arts and then studied law
in Judge Edward G. Bradford's Of
fee in Wilmington, being admitted
to the Delaware bar in 1883.
When Senator Thomas F. Bay
ard, of Delaware, was appointed
of State by President
Cleveland in March, 1885, Mr..
Moore was appointed law clerk in
the Department of State, which
position he held for one year. In
1886, he was promoted to the posi- /
ton of Third Assistant Secretary
of Slate and continued to serve
under Secretary Bayard until the !
end of the latter's term in 1889 .
and under Secretary of State
Blaine until the year 1891. In the /
summer of 1887, Mr.. Moore served
as Secretary for the Washington .
at which meeting Sec 4
retary Bayard and the ministers
from Germany and Great Britain
sought to solve the Samoan prob /
em.
From 1891 to 1924, Mr.. Moore 4
held the position of professor of in /
law and diplomacy at I
Columbia University. During the
period Of his connection with the .
University, his public services I
were numerous and varied. From I
April until September, 1898, he .
served as Assistant Secretary of .
State in Washington and then
went to Paris as secretary and
counsel to the American delegates
TO the Spanish-American Peace
Conference. In 1904, Mr.. Moore 1
served as Agent of the United
States before the United States I
and Dominican Arbitration Tribun- \
al, and in 1910 he was a United
States Delegate to the Fourth In
ternational American Conference
at Buenos Aires. Mr.. Moore, also
in 1910, was Special Plenipoten-
tiary to the Chilean Centenary.
From 1912 to 1922, he was a men,
Der of the International Commits
sion of Jurists. When President
Woodrow Wilson appointed Will
liam Jennings Bryan as Secretary
of State in 1913, Mr.. Moore was
Counselor of the Depart
ment of State with power to sign
official documents of that Depart
ment as Secretary Of State. He
resigned from this post after one
years service in 1914 and was
succeeded by Robert Lansing, who,
in 1915, succeeded Mr.. Bryan as
Secretary of State. Since 1912.
Mr.. Moore has been member of