Trustee Lockett In School Race

Trustee Iftrold J. Lockett announced today that he will seek re-election to the Board of Education. Dr. Lockett will complete his first thrce-year term this year. He is the fifth person to enter the June 10 school board race. Lockett is seeking one of three posts that will be vacated when his term and the terms of Vice President Robert E. Doerr and Trustee Francés M. Felbeck expire this June. Dr. Doerr has said he will not seek re-election. Mrs. Felbeck has announced her candidacy. Other persons who have announced their candidacies are Richard M. Wood, an Ann Arbor attorney; Duane A. Renken, an employé of B e n d i x Aerospace Systems División; and Cecil W. Warner, a senior engineering administrator at Bendix Aerospace Systems División. Lockett, 43, a child psychiatrist, is director of the d a y care program and language clinic at Hawthorn Center, located on the grounds of Northville State Hospital. He is also engaged in private psychiatrie practice in Ann Arbor, and serves as psychiatrie consultant to the St. Francis Home for Boys in Detroit, St. Peter's Home for Boys, the Ferndale School System and the Learning Improvement Center of the Waterford Township School District. Lockett, a resident of A n n Arbor since 1953, completed his residency in psychiatry at the University's Neuropsychiatric Institute, and his residency in child psychiatry at the H a wthorn Center. He received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University and his doctor of medicine degree at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. He is a diplómate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry and child psychiatry, and is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatrie Association and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He and his wife, Betty, and their 14 - year - old daughter, Cherie, live at 319 Brookside. Cherie is a student at Forsythe Junior High School. In announcing his candidacy, Lockett said: "The Ann Arbor Public School System faces the challenge of providing a quality education for all, at a time when the demand and the necessity for change reverberate through the community. The Board of Education has the task of maintaining and improving a quality school system and of meeting this challenge of change. I am seeking re-election in order to continue and accelerate the progress made so f ar. "We have a new superintendent who knows what the problems are. He has the ability to lead. He must have the support of a board which is equally responsive to the needs of our times and to the demands of this community. "In seeking re-election to the Board of Education, I stand on the following principies: "Adequate and judicious financing is needed to assure success for school programs. I am convinced that when the public fully understands what the schools must do, the necessary revenues will be provided. "Salaries for teachers and staff must be at levéis that will attract and keep the finest teachers and administrators. "A realistic building program is needed. The schools must provide the facilities through which every pupil can achieve his full educational potential. "Special programs and individual services must be provided to assure equal opportunities for all students. These must include reading improvement, I counseling, h e 1 p i n g teacher services, school social work and others. "The schools must take ou the task of teaching young people understanding of other human beings and the reed for relating effectively to oihers. cent creation of the position of human relations director is an important forward step in this vital área. "Perhaps the single most important task for the schools in our society today is to serve as an escalator for those children who are at the bottom of our social and economie system. There is a vast resource of potential ability which can promote the development of a richer society of far greater depth, if only we can develop it properly. "In particular, the schools must vigorously attack the problems and needs of students from the black community. Educational equality must be made a reality in terms of curriculum, counseling and planning, and supporting services. The present pre-school program should be expanded. More black teachers and administrators should behired. Policies of racial balance should be implemented. Black students must be encouraged to involve themselves fully in all school activities. Whatever may be one's attitude toward 'Black Power,' there can be no quarrel with 'Participant Power.' The schools should be the first line in the strugle for full participation in the j nity by everyone, regardless of j his race or his economie j us." I