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Show Paris permanently with the U. 3. Chamber of Commerce), Frank F. Bunker, Alexander C. Inglis and Wm. T. Bawden. Of these, Inglis declined to be considered, Sisson and Briggs were later eliminated, andSmith agreed to meet me at Chicago if requested, but as this would have incurred an expense of $55.00 and some subsequent information having been obtained regarding Dr. Smith, after consultation with Chairman Bay it was thought not worth while. . "Dr. Claxton has been superseded as Qommissioner of Education and might himself be available. He is no doubt well known to the Board members. H The outstanding man of this list seems to be Dr. Frank F. Bunker. He is forty-eight years of age, was born at ElDara, Illinois, where in his youth he was engaged in farming and stockraising, and later in California he followed the same pursuits His high school training was rather haphazzard and was obtained in the State Normal School of Los Angeles, through which he worked his way, his family being poor. His teaching was as a principal of a country school, then principal of a twelve-room grammar school in Santa Rosa, then principal of a high school in California near San Francisco. He alternated between teaching and attending school and was graduated from the University of California with the degree Ph.B. in 1901 and in 1915 took his Ph. D. at the New York University. In 1906 he served as Asst. Supt. of Schools to Supt. Frank B. Cooper, formerly of Salt Lake. He then became Suerintendent of the He then temporarily went out of school work Berkeley Schools. to obtain practical business experience which resulted profitably to him in money sense, he having spent four years in the oil fields of Louisiana at a fixed salary of $10,000. a year and Dr. Bunker has done a considerable certain profits realized. amount of writing which has been for the most part confined to He made a Survey of the reporting of educational surveys. Education in Hawaii, the report of which consisting of over four hundred pages, was published in 1920. He wrote "Reorgani- zation of the Public School System", published by the Department He conducted the survey of the schools of the Interior in 1916. of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, published in 1920; the survey of the Public Schools of Winchester, Mass., published in 1921; the survey of the schools of Wilmington,Delaware, published in 1921, a Preliminary Survey of the Schools of the District of Columbia, published in 1920, and the Survey Of the Public Schools System of Memphis, Tenn., published in 1920,. . I have made a casual examination of the prinCipal in seven parts. ones of these surveys and find confirmation of the statements is a forceful of a number of Dr. Banker's acquaintances that he and capable writer. ful In personal appearance, Dr. Bunker is neat, taste the gives and dly frien and l genia is His approach and modest. |
