The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1980 Page: 10 of 12
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'age 10 The J-TAQ Janiiary 24.1980
:irst secretary ever of new Cabinet post
Carter appoints woman head of Education
(CPS) -- President Carter has
lomirtated the woman who was
.upposed to be the -first female
ustice of the U.S. Supreme
2ourt as the first secretary - of
my gender -■ of .the new U.S.
Department of Education.
Carter's nomination of U.S.
Uourt of Appeals Judge Shirley
VI. Hufstedler as1 Secretary of
Education surprised just about
jveryone - including the judge's
lides - at both her Pasadena,
^a., residence and,.Washington,
vhere "insiders". Were still
• redicting the nomination of
Office of Personnel Management
Director Al an . "Scotty"
Campbell just days before
barter's October 29
innouncement.
Judy Hufstedler, 54, has
'never had a regular academic
jppointment," according to Dr.
^ay Owens vice president of
student affairs at the California
nstitute of Technology, where
Hufsteadler is on the board of
:rustees. She is also on the board
of Occidental College.
"I was very surprised,"
Owens recalls. "I didn't think
she would be appointed to that
position. I rather expected that
she would be the first woman to
sit on the Supreme Court."
Rho lota Delta
to collect dues
Dues for Rho lota Delta will
be collected Jan. 29-Feb. 1.
Dues for the semester will be $8.
The first business meeting for
Rho lota Delta will be Feb. 5 at
4:15 p.m. in the Home
Economics building.
Club pictures will be taken
and handbooks distributed.
Others thought so, too.
Hufstedler was widely
considered by many in
Washington as the person most
likely to succeed Supreme Court
Justice William Brennan, who is
expected to retire from the
Court before the end of the
year. President Carter has
strongly suggested he will
nominate a woman to the seat,
and Hufstedler was considered
the most likely woman on the
list of qualified female jurists
drawn up by Mary Grefe,
president of the American
Association: of University
Women.
Grefe also suggested
Hufstedler as one of a number of
women qualified to head the
Department of Education,
established by Congress on Sept.
27 as the new central
administration for 152
elementary, secondary, and
higher education programs that
previously had been scattered
among four cabinet-level
departments.
No one but Carter took, the
suggestion seriously, though.
Speculation of who would be
the first secretary centered on
former New Mexico Governor
Jerry Apodaca, HEW Assistant
Secretary for Education Mary
Berry, former U.S. Education
Commissioner Harold Howe,
Duke President Terry Sanford,
California public school
Superintendent Wilson Riles,
Oklahoma University President
William Banowsky, and
Campbell, whom one
congressman serving on an
education committee called a
"shoo-in" only four days before
Hufstedler's nomination.
The education lobby in the
capitol greeted the nomination
with qualified satisfaction. For
example. National Education
Association President Williard
Maguire termed the nomination
"excellent," but another NEA
official confided organization
officers suspect Hufstedler's
tenure will be short-lived. Carter
may be using the education post
as a means of giving Hufstedler a
reputation as a top-level expert
before later nominating her for
the Supreme Court.
A congressional source
guessed that Carter chose
Hufstedler because she was not
identified with -- and therefore
would not alienate - any of the
groups actively pushing their
own candidates.
Cal Tech's Owens thinks
Secretary of Defense Harold
Brown might have brought
Hufstedler's name to Carter.
According to Owens, Brown
"used to be president of Cal
Tech in 1974, when Shirley was
elected to the board of trustees.
He obviously is close to
president Carter, and he's friends
with Shirley."
Hufstedler has also been clost
to Senator Alan Cranston
4D-California), a power in the
national Democratic Party, the
second-in-command among
Senate Democrats, and a key
member of two important
elementary and secondary
education committees. Indeed,
President Carter released news of
Hufstedler's nomination through
Cranston's Senate office.
The Senate must now
confirm the nomination.
The confirmation hearings
presumably will sharpen
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associates' understanding of the
judge's political sentiments.
"I've heard that she's a
Democrat on the liberal side, but
not an extremist," Owens notes.
"I certainly wouldn't classify
her as a feminist," suggests Lee
Case, vice president of Planning
and Development at Occidental
College. "She's not an ardent
feminist, but she's definitely for
women's rights."
Owens says the one firm
political stand he's seen
Hufstedler take was in favor of
equality.
Hufstedler recently told the
Los Angeles Times that "I have
devoted a great deal of my life
to education, and have a
commitment to education." She
said she is very concerned about
the quality of education
especially in primary and
secondary schoools.
Those close to her are more
specific about the personal
attributes, readily offering
effusive praise.
"She is a women of
unbelievable energy," notes
Patricia Weigan, Hufstedler's
personal secretary for the past
four years, "She really likes to
work."
Occidental's Case agrees.
"She's a very active and involved
person...She is definitely not a
hang-back person."
I.E. Club meets
Jan. 30 to plan
Projects and field trips will be
discussed at the first meeting of
the Industrial Education Club on
Jan. 30.
The meeting will be at 5 p.m.
in the Resource Room of the
I ndustrial Education Building,
said Peri Pipes, club reporter.
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