Five outstanding educators of 1943, as picked by Edpress News Letter, a bimonthly service to educational periodicals:
Utah's Senator Elbert Duncan Thomas: he fought throughout the year for a billion-dollar veterans' re-education program for improved child-care services, and after a decade of effort got a proxime accessit for a U.S. appropriation to help state schools (TIME, March 29, 1943).
Leland Stanford's Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver: he showed such ability to organize educators in favor of U.S. entry into an International Education Office (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) that the State Department put him...
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