The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-27
Bowen HardeStV
Named Head of
Teacher College
Appointment OF County SUI
perintendent To New Posi-
tiOn Made Yesterday

r. Bowen Hardesty, county SUI
pcrinteudent of schools here for
more than five years, was appoint
ed TO the presidency of Frostburg
State Teachers college yesterday
by the State Board of Education.
The appointment is effective De
cember u, 1854
The board met in Baltimore and
approved the retirement of Miss
Lillian c. Compton as president
Of the college, effective at that
time
Upon the unanimous recommen-
dation of a subcommittee com
posed of William \. Gunter Cum
berland; Mrs Ruth Mccormick
TankerSlcy, Bethesda and jerome
Frampton, fredericksburg, Mr.
HardCaty was selected to succeed
Miss Compton, who has held the
presidency for nearly ten years.
The announcement came as a
surprise to the people of Garrett
county as he had recently pur-
chased a home in Oakland into
which he and his family had just
moved
TO Seek Successor
Walter w. Dawson, president of
the Board Of Education, said this
morning the board would begin i'm
mcdiately to seek a successor and
that it was hoped that some COM
petent person would be named by
the boards regular meeting date
ON Monday, June 7.
Hardesty has mad a wide back
ground of experience in teaching
and public school administration
= in the schools of Maryland.
A native Of Calvert county he at
tended Calvert county elementary
schools and was graduated from
: Randolph-Macon academy, Front
! Royal, Va, in 1928 He attended
, Randolph-Macon college where his
! uncle. Dr. Bowen, was a professor
. of Latin and Greek. He was grad
uated in 1892 with a bachelor Of
i, arts degree having majored in
Latin and English, and minorcd
| in history.
5 In 1929 he attended Columbia
| university and then received his
master of arts degree in 1884.
e Later he studied at Western Mary
land college, qualifying to teach
mathematics, and took additional
/ postgraduate work at William and
4 Mary college and Johns Hopkins
university and is near the corn
plction of requirements for doc
tors degree.
Hardesty started his tclching
career at Millersvillc Elementary
school, Anne Arundel county, in
1888 and in 1894 transferred to Dun
dalk High school where he taught
until 1912 when he became prin-
o cipal of Carroll Manor Junior
! high school In 1916 he was APP
a pointed principal of Aberdeen !Iigh
school where he remained u4ltll
i February 1948, when he was
, named assistant superintendent of
: schools in Garrett county
q Succeeded Rathbun
5 He was named superintendent
/. here in December, 1913, succeed
/ ing the late Franklin E. Rathbun.
4 During the course of his super
S intendency in this county he de
veloped an outstanding education
al program and also developed
building program resulting in two
new high schools instead of the
previous five.
He is a member of the Oakland
Rotary club, official board of the
! Methodist church, American AS
aociation of School Administrators
= and other educational organiza-
tons.
: He is married to the former
Miss Evelyn Mattson, Baltimore.
They have two children, Bowen,
:. Jr., -, and Linda Ann, ,.
y The appointment will leave a
/ vacancy in the supcrintcndency of
+ the Garrett county schools which
will be filled by the Board of Ed
+ ucation prior to December. The
q Hardestys are expected to take
up residence in Frostburg some
Il time in the fall.
Praise For Miss Compton
Miss Compton, who will be
completing almost 50 years in the
field of education, will reach the
age of compulsory retirement in
f December. The State board re-
Y called her record in recruiting Of
t a larger student body at the col
n lcgc, development of an outstand-
Q ing faculty and exercising leader
+ ship in expansion of the physical
plant of the institution.
Y The State Board, at its meeting
L yesterday. also raised salaries of
: all presidents of state teachers col
+ legcs to $4,000 year from the