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Up for sale a RARE! "NYC Superintendent of Schools" Calvin E. Gross Signed TLS Dated 1963. This offering includes a copy of the Time Magazine cover featuring Dr Gross.
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Dr. Calvin
E. Gross, a nationally known educator who served as New York City's
superintendent of schools for two tumultuous years from 1963 to 1965, died at his
home in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday. He was 67 years old. His brief term in
New York City was marked by controversy and criticism. Some observers
attributed his difficulties here, in part, to his unfamiliarity with the city
system. Others said that because he was an outsider, he was resented and
undercut by those in the system, as he attempted to guide the system into an a
new era of decentralization and integration. While balancing these issues on
one hand, he also had to deal with parent boycotts by both blacks and whites,
and settle a teachers' strike threatened for the start of the 1963-1964 school
year. Education School Dean After leaving his position in New York City, he was
dean of the school of education at the University of Missouri, in Kansas City,
from 1965 to 1972. He then served, until 1978, as president of the National
College of Education in Evanston, Ill. The college specializes in the training
of early childhood and elementary-school teachers. From 1978 until his death,
Dr. Gross was superintendent of schools in the Alamo Heights Independent School
District, a subdivision of San Antonio, since 1978. Dr. Gross was born April 8,
1919, in Los Angeles, Calif. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics
in 1940 from the University of California. He was a graduate assistant in
mathematics at Oregon State College for a year before entering the Army in
1941. He served as commanding officer of an antiaircraft battery and later as
information and education officer in Paris, receiving his discharge in 1945 as
a captain. Returning home, he married Bernice Hayman in 1946 and resumed his
academic career, receiving his master's degree in 1947 from the University of
Southern California and his doctorate in education from Harvard in 1955. He
served as superintendent of schools in several districts, including Weston,
Mass., Schenectady, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, where he won national praise as an
innovative educator.
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