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Who Will Be Named as President of The Normal School System of Michigan

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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WHO WILL BE NAMED

 

As President of the Normal School System of Michigan.

 

NARROWED TO TWO MEN

 

Will It Be Supt. Kendall or McKenzie

 

The State Board of Education Meets at Marquette Tomorrow and the Matter Will Come Up, Kendall on the Ground.

 

Tomorrow the state board of education holds a meeting at Marquette and the new president of the normal school system of the state will probably be appointed. Some days ago the Argus printed the names of several prominent educators whose names were under consideration by the board. None of them were candidates and all are now otherwise disposed of except two. The place was offered to Dr. David Eugene Smith, former professor of mathematics in the Ypsilanti normal and now principal of he Brockport normal school of New York. A formal tender of the place was not made but he was given to understand that he could have the position if he would take it. But he has too good a thing where he is now and knows too much of the conditions in Michigan to accept the place.

 

Dr. Hinsdale of course would not consider the position ; Supt. Whitney, of Saginaw, is well provided for as inspector of high schools and assistant professor of pedagogy in the university; Dr. Arnold Tompkins, of Champaign, has been elected to the presidency of the state normal college of Illinois; and L. O. .Tones is now drawing $7,000 salary as superintendent of schools at Cleveland, which position under the present law is practically a lifer and at the same time makes the superintendent an autocrat within his sphere. The two left of the original list are Supt. David McKenzie, of Muskegon, and Supt, C. N. Kendall, of New Haven, Conn. One of these men is quite likely to receive the appointment therefore. Supt. Kendall was sent for some days ago and was at Lansing yesterday in consultation with the superintendent of public instruction. Mr. Kendall is an experienced public school man and a graduate of Hamilton college, New York. He was principal of he Jackson high school under the superintendency of F. M. Kendall and when F. M. Kendall resigned to take he superintendency of the Grand Rapids schools, Principal C. N. Kendall succeeded him. After several years at Jackson, Mr. Kendall went to Saginaw e. s. , as superintendent. After two or three years in that position he resigned and went to Chicago into the real estate business. After the world's fair the bottom dropped out of real estate and he went on the road as a representative of D. C. Heath & Co., publishers of school books. He left his position to take the superintendency of the New Haven public schools. He has been in that position four years. Mr. Kendall has made an enviable record as a superintendent of schools. He is a man of fine presence in the prime of intellectual and physical manhood and about 40 years of age.

 

Supt. McKenzie is a Michigan man, a graduate of the university and also a successful superintendent of schools. He was for some years principal of the Flint high school and later was superintendent of the city schools there. He is now superintendent of schools at Muskegon where he has been eminently successful and is most popular with the people. He is a close personal friend of the Flint member of the state board of education, Mr. Platt. Should Mr. Platt dictate the appointment McKenzie will no doubt be the man.

 

At Ypsilanti the sentiment among members of the faculty is that while these men are able and successful educators in the line of the work they are now engaged in, they are in no sense normal school men or special students of normal school problems.