As you probably know, public education is largely left to state and local control, and the Federal government contributes less than 10% of public education funding in our nation. Nevertheless, that small percentage enables Congress and the Department of Education to exert a powerful influence on American public education. Private education is also affected […]
This is the account of my courtship of the lovely Ann Laura McGuire, the woman who would become my wife. I began classes at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in September 1947. The following summer of 1948 I was home at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and working a summer job at the J.C. […]
After finishing the sixth grade at Carolina Beach Elementary School, my next two school years (1941-43) were spent at Winter Park Junior High on the eastern outskirts of Wilmington. The school was about 15 miles distant from the beach, and a school bus picked us up every weekday morning. Because of the distance from home […]
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