Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-07-05
TlUO Announce Candidacy
For School Board Seats

uoilIs 10 announce their candl-
dacy for election to the Board
OF Education this fall.
Seeking reelection on an at
large basis is DR.. Harold F.
Breimyer of Kensington, who is
the boards immediate past pres
ident. A US. government econ
omist, he cited his record in Of
flee over the past four years in
announcing his intention to file
for a second term.
A candidate for the first
election district seat now held
by board member Robert e.
Morrow of Silver Spring is
William 1. Saunders, general
sales manager of the Olney
Electric Co., Inc, who lives
in Ashton.
Their announcements bring
to four the number of an
nounced candidates for four
School Board seats opening up
this fall - one each from the
first and third election districts
and two at-large memberships.
Other announced candidates
are William E. Coyle of Silver
Spring, an investment firm ex-
ecutive, and Everett H. Wood
ward, Silver Spring personnel
administrator. Both seek at
large seats.
School Board incumbentS in
addition to Breimyer and Nor
row whose terms expire this
year are William r. Thomas
III, board president, who rep
resents the third election dis
trict, and Paul c. Howard, an at
large member.
Neither Morrow, Thomas nor
Howard has announced candi-
dacy for reelection yet.
DR.. Breimyer, who is 48 and
the father of a 1861 graduate of
Walter johnson High School,
has been active in civic and
P-TA activities throughout his
15-year residence in the county.
He has been president of the
Homewood Citizens Association
and legislative chairman for the
Montgomery County Council of
P-TAs.
A former staff economist
for the Presidents Council of
Economic Advisors, he is now
a staff economist in the US.
Department of Agriculture
and an instructor in its grad.
uate school.
He sees the three major ed
vocational challenges of the years
ahead as: Improved relations
between the community and ed
ucators in designing curricula
and Institutional progra S,
meeting well" the varying
needs of pupils of all abilities
and handicaps, and the need to
match costs of education against
financial resources.
II am certain that the real
estate tax is outdated as bull
wark to school financing" he
says. I'VE must always seek
economy, and we should ex-
pIOre ways to improve instruc-
ton that are not expensive"
Saunders, who has lived in
the Ashton, Olney and Burtons-
vile communities since -1947, is
IS. He is a product of New York
City and New Jersey elemen-
tary and secondary schools, and
attended Chicago University,
Temple University and George
Washington University.
He taught Latin and English
on the college.preparatory level
at The Warren School when it
was located at Olney, and has
contributed poetry to several
anthologies. The author of full
volume of poetry, pillars of
Space" he is currently prepar-
ing a new book on elementary
grammar.
Saunders was manager of
the shoe department Of the
j. G. Penney Company in Sil-
yer Spring for five years be-
fore joining the Olney firm.
He and his wife, Betty, are
the parents of two daughters,
both recent Sherwood High
School graduates.
In announcing his candidacy,
Saunders said he had "seen
enough of the lack of defini.
ton as to what we expect
youngsters to do these days to
cause me concern"
If elected, he added, he will
seek:
Restoration, II at all pos
sible, of the basic fundamen-
tails of education which seem
to have been ignored by cur
riculum planners In recent
years." and
"A return to the development
of basic skills at an early age
in school children's lives, SC
that by the time they reach the
secondary level our youngsters
put them to use automatically
without the grouping and mis-
takes so many suffer now"
He also expressed concern
about what he termed "eviden