Education: New Presidents

University of Idaho has been shopping for a president ever since last June when Frederick James Kelly, onetime Dean of Administration at the University of Minnesota, quarrelled with the State Board of Education about money matters and resigned. Last week Idaho acquired for its eighth president Mervin Gordon Neale, who has also served time on the Minnesota faculty but whose chief work was done at his alma mater, the University of Missouri, where he has been Dean of Education since 1923.

Bright, sharp-faced Dean Neale, 43, has...

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