2 NEWCOMERS GET ARLINGTON SCHOOL POSTS

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• Publication Date: December 15, 1963
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WAS`'iINGTON STAR DEC 15 1963
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2 Newcomers
Get Arlington
School Posts
Lightsey, Spicer
Named; Joy Cut;
Stockard in Again
By BRIAN KELLY
Star Staff Writer
A strong opponent of segre-
gated schools and a former col-
lege dean were named to the
Arlington School Board yester-
also rea
Stockard
e _: Tathes G.
1oo1, body.
ty board member Ernest D. Wilt
declined a school board posti
Pictu Qn Page D-3
his colleagues offered him,
while Barn ard M. Joy, a school
board member . for 16 years,,
was dropped.
Climaxing a week of bitter
dissension in Arlington political
and school circles, the county
board selected Mr. Stockard
and newcomers William M.
Lightty and John Reed Spicer
for the four-year terms on the
school board.
Mr. Lightsey, 52, staff'.,gcre-
tary for 'the Northern Virginia
Regional 'Park Authority, was
an organizer of the Virginia;
Committee to Preserve Public
Schools in the late 195Q,'.s. He
has been an outspoken oppo-
nent of Virginia's "massive re-
sistance" policy to schg61 tte-
gration.
I- Mr. Spicer, 55, an adminis-.
trator with the Centraitir;elli-
gence Agency, holds a doctorate
in educational administration,
from Columbia University and,
was dean of the liberal arts col-
lege at Kent State University
in Ohio for five years. -
Stockard's Third Term
Mr. Stockard, a strong avo-
gate of eliminating' all racial
discrimination in the put~blic
school system, will be starting
his third term.
The three men represent the
liberal coalition of Arlingto-
nians for a Better County,
whose leaders have dominated
the school and county boards
in recent ..years. Mr. Lightsey,
a member of the A13C Council,
was chairman of the organiza-
tion's precinct operations in
the county board race this fall
Vim, the ABC and Repub-
T'he county board had studied
the qualifications of more than
20 school board candidates be-
fore making the appointments.
yesterday.
When his colleagues voted
unanimously yesterday to give
him a school pest, Mr. Wilt
said it would be unfair for him
to accept it while Mr. Joy was
being considered for reappoint-
ment. .
Decision to Leave Politics
Mr. Wilt, an Independent-
who received the indorsement
of all three political factions
in Arlington in his race for
the county board in 1960, cited
his decision last summer to re-
tire from politics and spend
more time vacationing in Flori-
da each year. Mr. Wilt, a leader
in the business community, also"
is president of the Arlington
Trust Co.
However, when his board col-
leagues pointed out that the.
school board needed someone
with his business acumen and
expertise in capital fin g.
he agreed to consider th V
tion.'
But Mr. Wilt explained t0 the!
audience in the county rd
room yesterday his deci 1
lowing the controverys o e!
impending appointments: --"It
did not think it would be faire
to accept an appointment to;
the school board if either in-
cumbent were not to be re-
appointed."
He added that some county
board members had strong feel-
ings against re-appointing Mr.
Joy and it would be in the best
interests of Arlington to avoid
a situation where some: emnity,
existed between members of
the two boards.
As a result of his decision,
Mr. Wilt said, "I will go away
in w f om here t
licans sIA%FRe~eRSA a'
Had Encouraged Wilt
Board Chairman Thomas W.
Richards, saying it was he who l
first encouraged Mr. Wilt's can-
didacy for the school post, de-
clared: "This is a severe disap-
pointment."
Board members gave no rea-
son for their unanimous deci-+
sion to drop Mr. Joy from the !
school board, although they I
have said privately that 16
years is long enough for any!
man to serve the school body.
Mr. Joy, a leader of the
school reform movement of the
late 1940s that brought about
improvements in the Arlington l
schools, grgeted the- county
board's action with a, statement
urging his.4 1 end; d ing-
ton citizens_'iu new;
school board their "whole-
hearted support."
Mr. Lightsey, who retired in
1959 from the Department of
Agriculture, is the father of
thre4 daughters who received`
their public school education in
Arlington. MlMr`. Spies a father of four,
three of tAm graduates of 1
-Washington-Ld High School in !
Arlington. Two daughters, now
livinE overseas with their hus-
bands, taught in Northern Vir-
ginia for a short time, and a
son, James, attends Colorado
College at Colorado Springs.
Mr. Spicer his been active in
parent-teacher, grottos.. fnd. Mr.
Lightsey twice was president of
the Arlington Coupcil of PTA's j
and now is on the board of
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NEW MEMBERS NAMED TO SCHOOL HOOL BOARD
These men were appointed yesterday to the school board by the Arling=
ton County Board. Mr. Spicer is.a:.fori er.dean of the liberal arts college
at Kent State University in Ohi&-Ur-L htsey led the fight against V
ir-
-
ia's "massive resistance" to integrated schools in the 1950s. Mr.
I tockard is an incumbent. (Story on Page D-1.)
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