Evening star., 1936-06-25
HONOR IS RESULT
| Of Al YEARS IN
SCHOOL SERVICE
First Assistant Superinten-
dents Selection Is Sur
prise Move.
MAGAZINE CLEARED
OF RADICAL "TAINT"
Change in Entire Set-up of School
System Now Expected by
Members of Board.

Robert L. Haycock, an assistant
superintendent of schools since 1923
and a member of the school system
Al years, yesterday was made first
assistant superintendent of schools,
succeeding the late DR.. Stephen E.
Kramer.
Action on the appointment by the
Board Of Education came as surprise,
since 1t was expected that nothing
would be done until the last meeting
Of the school year on July /. Several
other persons had been mentioned
for the post
Concurrently 1t was made known at
the meeting that Scholastic"
magazine for pupils that has been
under fire for more than a year, and
which was largely responsible for the
Communism" furore in the schools,
has been found by a special COM
mittee Of senior high school teachers
and officers to be free from red taint.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. superinten-
dent, made the Haycock recommends
ton to the boards Personnel Com.
mittee of which DR.. Robert A. Maurer,
former associate Of Mr.. Haycock as .
teacher, is chairman. Maurer pre-
sented the unanimous report of the
Personnel Committee for the promo.
ton.
Set-up To Be Changed.
The new appointment, it was
pointed out by other members Of the
board, means a change In the entire
set-up Of the school system. During
his long service, Haycock has been
connected with the elementary schools.
DR.. Kramer had been a high school
man and at the time of his death was
supervisor OF the White Junior and
Senior High Schools.
Mr.. Haycock will continue as direct
ing head Of the elementary schools
in addition to assuming some admin
| istrative duties as chief aid Of DR..
Ballou.
The appointment left unanswered
the fate Of Miss BERTHE Backus, who
for the last two years has headed
the character education experiment
as an assistant superintendent Of
schools.
DR.. Ballou announced that In view
Of the elimination of character edu-
cation experiment funds in the Dis
trict appropriation bill, II persons will
have to be dismissed and 16 others
transferred to their former Jobs in
the school system.
The appropriations bill also author.
lied the appointment of new assist.
ant superintendent of schools. The
new Office means that hereafter an
assistant superintendent will super
wise the teachers colleges and the
senior high schools and another will
supervise the junior high and voca.
tional schools.
Those dismissed because of the
character education experiments dis
continuance include H. S. Carlson and
L. L. Jarve, counselors in the white
schools, and H. E. Moses, Miss E. Ro-
salia Clark and Miss NJ A. Morton,
counselors in the colored schools. The
others are clerks.
DR.. Ballou also presented to the
board the report Of Holmes on the six
weeks experiment in mo home work"
Holmes reported that 13 teachers be.
lieved there had been "a real gain in
the ground covered" two believed
there had been a loss, four could see
no change, and one said there had
been an advance in one class and O
loss in another.
Teacher Responsibility.
Teachers were warned they will be
held responsible for any magazine or
newspaper article used in connection
with their class work that is not in
cluded among the publications ofici.
ally approved by the board.
At the inSistence of Henry Gilligan
the agreement was reached that the
misuse of any article in an approved
publication also would be condemned
by the board
Out of 61,214 parents polled, 29,1os
favored changing the opening hour
Of school from am. to $3.50 IN, DR..
Ballou reported.
Other votes showed 1924 favored
proved retention of present hours.
The board declined to take any ac-
ton, however, until the Traffic Bureau
and the District Commissioners can
be consulted.
DR.. j. G. Wright, assistant United
States commissioner of education, in
formed the board that under the new
national vocational act, the District
will be entitled to total Of $45 5,448.24
annually for teaching agriculture,
trade and industrial instruction, home
economics, distributive occupations.
and preparation of teachers, super.
visors and directors.