Evening star., 1951-01-18
En1bott|ed School Board Holds Peace Meeting

Peace Meeting
them in the committee already
had passed.
DR.. Corning interceded: II don't
want to see you involved in all
this detail"
Rules Discussed.
| After some discussion Of the
rules of the board, DR.. Cannon
again moved the items be passed
on Immediately. DR.. Corning
pointed out there was no question
Of any ones rights being violated
or any intrigue. Mr.. Lee said the
board couldn't pass motion and
then rescind it Immediately. He
suggested a poll of board members
be held the next day.
Must we wait until a rule is
drawn up?" DR.. Corning asked.
Mrs. Smith then withdrew her
suggestion that the Rules Com
mittee draw up a rule. DIR. Can
non moved the rules of the board
be suspended and the items
passed. This was done. DR.. Gan
non then declared:
May I call your attention to
the fact we spent 20 minutes or
this picayune matter. I suggest
we let the superintendent handle
his own business"
The matter was dropped until
fright at the end of the meeting,
when DR.. johnson said a look at
the board rules showed the item
did not have to go before the Per-
sonnet Committee but could be
brought in to the full board as a
routine personnel transaction.
Survey Report Submitted.
DR.. Corning presented his third
report on the Strayer survey to
the board members and got a
pleasant surprise. He was told he
didn't have to bring in any more
of them.
DR.. Corning, on board orders,
some months ago began analyzing
the survey of the Washington
schools made by DR.. George d.
Strayer of Columbia University in
1948 for Congress. He agreed to
bring in one each month.
When yesterdays report was
submitted, Mr.. Lee said he didn't
think the analysis was what the
board had wanted. He said his
understanding was that DR..
Corning would take DR.. Strayer's
Recommendations and present
views on them so the board could
vote on them.
DR.. Corning replied:
''No one in the world could
bring in recommendations on the
Strayer report at one time. There
literally are hundreds of recon-
mendations and suggestions. We
have to attack the report piece
meal. It is not wise or possible
to make recommendations on the
whole thing. You can't expect us
to come before you at any time
with recommendations on the
Strayer report as such"
DR.. johnson said he thought
DR.. Corning should "be excused
from this" He said when DR..
Corning made recommendations
on any subject in the future he
could include Strayer's recon-
mendations in his analysis.
Survey Criticism Cited.
eff it's the wish of the board
to rescind its forme, action, all
right" Mr.. Lee interjected. We've
done nothing about the indict-
ment Strayer made of us in Chap
ter One. He said we were doing
illogical things"
During the meeting, the board
also took the following actions:
/. Went on record as favoring
a salary increase for teachers,
when and if other District en-
ployeS get a raise. The teachers
have a separate act for their sal
aries, and when District and Fed
eral employees get a raise, they
do not, unless special legislation
is passed.
2. Authorized DR.. Corning to
begin a study of the present teach
ers' salaries with the idea of ad-
justing them upward.
8. Voted to protest the proposed
issuance Of liquor license to a
restaurant at 401 C street NE,
which is separated from the Pea
body Elementary School play
ground by only one building.
Principal Named.
4. Named Frank T. Mundy, a
teacher at the Pierce Elementary
School, to be the principal of the
Payne Elementary School.
S. Relieved DR.. Robert G. Van
derlip as director of the Veterans
High School Center, a position he
has held since the center was
l.