National Educator

A major post in U. S. public education was assigned to Edwin H. Miner '27 of Fairfield, Vt., in July when he was named Associate Commissioner of Education by John W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency.

Dr. Studebaker, in announcing the appointment, said: "Edwin Miner has come to the U. S. Office of Education after a distinguished record in the U. S. Army Education Program. In developing plans, programs, and operations of the U. S. Armed Forces Institute and non-military schools, he brought educational opportunities to the attention of millions of servicemen in nearly all theatres of operation. By his Army service and nearly 20 years of previous comprehensive teaching and administrative experience in American education, he is well qualified to meet the problems of education on a broad national scale."

Before entering the Army, Mr. Miner was Superintendent of Schools in Wellesley, Mass., from 1936 to 1942. Prior to 1936, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Eastern Washington College of Education in Cheney, Wash.

After receiving his B.A. degree from Dartmouth in 1927 and his M.A. degree from Teachers' College, Columbia University in 1929, Mr. Miner completed two years of graduate work in education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1931.