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Show TENURE OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT'S SUPERIN-TENDENT'S SERVICE. Easfon, Pa., can claim a school superintendent su-perintendent whose term of service rivals anything here or abroad. s far as Is known Sixty years In one profession pro-fession is In itself remarkable enough but when it is added that Sujerlnten-dent Sujerlnten-dent Wm W Cottincham s record is of sixty years in the same position, his case appears to be unparalleled Although few superintendents can point to an where near as long a terra of service as this, there are a number who have served for man) years. A list of some of the more notable cases is given by W R Hood in the city school chapter of the 1912 report of the commissioner of education, educa-tion, just issued. Superintendent .las. M (Jreenwond of Kansns City, Mo., le retiring after thirty-nine years of service; ser-vice; Superintendent Glass, at Lynch burg, Va., has served since 1879; Superintendent Su-perintendent Phillips, at Birmingham, has served since 1883; Superintendent McClaymonds has been at Oakland since 1S83; .Jacob A. Shaw an has been superintendent at Columbus, 0 , for twenty-four years; Henry Snyder, at Jersey City. N. .1 , tor twenty-one .rears. Charles M .lordan. at Mln neapolis. and Charles W. Dean at Bridgeport, Conn.. loth for twenty years. Superintendent William H Maxwell of New York city has a record rf more than a quarter of a century in a professional administrative position in New York it, if his term In Brooklyn he included. When Charles W. Cole died last year lie had given thlrtyfour years of his life as superintenlent of the schools at Albany, . Y, a position which his father had held before him for a long period of years. Notwithstanding that life tenure is by no means an accepted principle in American school systems, the average av-erage term of school superintendents in large cities Is much longer than is usually supposed. In fifty cities of 100,000 population and over the average av-erage term of service Is seven and a half vears This In spite of the fact that school superintendents are elect ed for comparatively short terms one. two or three years, generally, and to have served long usually means to have withstood many a stiff re election elec-tion contest Th tendency Is constantly con-stantly toward longer terms and fixed tenure as conducive to efficiency |
