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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only Up. Redmond came to New Orleans in 1953, the choice of a school board that searched the U.S. for two years. He found an administrative system so muddled that even a business man ager was lacking. Despite mounting enrollments (from 65,000 then to 94,000 now), only three...
Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first...
Maybe Out. Last year a management consultant's report expressed amazement that New Orleans could keep a man of Redmond's ability for the salary it paid him ($23,500). Kansas-born, Roman Catholic Jim Redmond has been a rising light in U.S. public education since 1940, when...
Realist Redmond knows that he may be the first to go after the integration turmoil passes. Much of his job involves dealing with the state legislature, which has already fired him. "If I can't perform that part of my job," says he, "we'll have to move...
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