Evening star., 1947-05-18

and to bond issue for school i'm
provements." The Citizens Com.
mittee, with more than TOO members,
| is leading the fight for the School
Board change and the bond issue.
There have been rumors in the
county Of Communists in the Lead
ership of the School Board change
and bond movement, and this week
two Arlington papers ran editorials
which touched on the subject. One
declared opponents of the board
change and the bond issue persist
in the belief that the majority OF
the people who have come to Ar
lington to live in recent years are
radicals of the first water tthe
term Communist Is often used
The other paper stated "A group Of
Communicated reformers has been :
actively +. engaged for months
in procuring signatures and prom
ises to overthrow the present sys- !
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Change Indorsed by Groups. 8
The change and the bond issue 4
also has been indorsed by the Arling-
ton Civic Federation and number {
of other citizenssgroups. Most oppo- \
sition IS from the Greater Arlington
Association and the Arlington Edu- :
cation Association. The latter or
ganization is comprised exclusively
Of teachers in Arlington schools.
The Civic Federation announced
last night that 1t will mail an ap-
peal to many of the voters in behalf
| Of direct election of the School Board.
Mrs. Ruby G, Simpson. federation
president, said she regretted copies
of the appeal could not be sent to
everyone, but unfortunately we DO
! not have the large financial resources
available to the opposition. "a6 ssd'
a Dr. LeBeau's biographical z data
said he has degrees from Kent Stats
university, Ohio, State University
and Cornell IJnfversity. He has lived
lin Virginia since 1926 and IN Aring-
ton since 1887 and has three schooi-
age children.
LeBeau Federal Employe.
Since 1889, DR.. LeBeau has been
a Federal Government enaploye and
now is an administrative officer in
the Department of Agriculture.
From 1887 to 1899, he was q research
agent for the American Vocational
Association, Washington. For IL
years, DR.. LeBeau was teacher and
administrator in elementary. secon-
Diary and collegiate schools In Vir.
pinia and Ohio. From 1929 to 1887
he served as head OF the agriculture
education department at Hampton
Institute in Virginia.
DR.. LeBeau is an active member
of the Parent Teacher Association
of Henry Clay Elementary School;
vice chairman of the Committee OF
Revenues and Expenditures of the
Civic Federation and holds member.
ships In the Phi Delta Kappa hon.
orary educational fraternity and toe
Federal Schoolmen's Club.
In addition, DR.. LeBeau Is . lay
leader in Faith Lutheran Church.
Arlington; an executive committee
man of the Lutheran Laymen's Fell
ilowship of Washington : member OF
1.-THE American Lutheran Church's
Eastern district mission committee
and q member OF the American
Lutheran Church's committee on
Evangelism. He was secretary Of the
Committee on Christian Higher
Education at the biennial conven-
ton OF the American Lutheran
Church at Appleton, Wis, In 1925.
He also is a member of the Board
of Regents of Capital University.
Columbus. Ohio.
Selfish Minority is Hit.
"I haven't the slightest ambition
at present to be either school board
member or an employe of the school
board" DR.. LeBeau declared. my
immediate concern. as Is that OF
thousands of Arlington parents. is
that Arlington schools be rescued
from a selfish minority so that the
county can truly move forward ana
fulfill Its educational responsible.
ties to its children as do other pro-
gressive communities.
This is why we earnestly urge
direct election of the School Board
lby the people, and approval of the
proposed s6,0o0,000 bond issue for
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