Laurels for Five

Five outstanding educators of 1943, as picked by Edpress News Letter, a bimonthly service to educational periodicals:

Utah's Senator Elbert Duncan Thomas: he fought throughout the year for a billion-dollar veterans' re-education program for improved child-care services, and after a decade of effort got a proxime accessit for a U.S. appropriation to help state schools (TIME, March 29, 1943).

Leland Stanford's Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver: he showed such ability to organize educators in favor of U.S. entry into an International Education Office (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) that the State Department put him to work on the problem officially.

U.S. Army's Colonel Francis Trow Spaulding: he developed (with Navy and Marine help) the United States Armed Forces Institute, which by correspondence lessons and self-teaching textbooks enables thousands of U.S. fighting men on all fronts to get liberal or vocational training (TIME, June 7, 1943); he is playing a big part in planning education for veterans.

Georgia's Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall: he not only turned out gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, but reorganized Georgia's discredited educational system (TIME, Feb. 8, 1943).

Gothenburg, Neb.'s Beulah I. Hilblink : of the 112,000 U.S. public schoolteachers who quit their classrooms in 1942-43, she was one who helped solve the teacher shortage by returning to her classroom. Quitting a Washington job, she made a statement which has been read by thousands of teachers: "If in the years of peace ... I am asked, 'What did you contribute toward our victory?' I shall be glad and proud to answer,'I was a teacher.'"

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