Jessup to Carnegie

When a young Indiana pedagog named Walter Albert Jessup went to Columbia a quarter-century ago to work for his doctorate he found heading the department of educational sociology a man much like himself and only two years his senior. Of this man. Henry Suzzallo, he made a life-long friend. Four years after Professor Suzzallo approved Walter Jessup's dissertation Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools in the United States, and gave him his Ph. D., both teacher and pupil were called to head State universities--Suzzallo to Washington, Jessup to Iowa. Both men proved able administrators, energetic money-getters. Each raised his school mightily in size and prestige. In the process each once ran foul of his State's governor. President Suzzallo's feud with Washington's Hartley cost him his job (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). The Iowa legislative committee which in 1931 investigated the State university on charges of maladministration gave President Jessup a thorough whitewash. More than adequate balm for his political wounds came to Henry Suzzallo in 1930 when he was handed a front-rank post in U. S. education -- the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He kept it until his death last September. Last week in Iowa City, President Jessup surprised his Board of Education by telling them that on May 1 he was going to leave the university, step into his old friend's shoes as head of the Carnegie Foundation. President Jessup has for 18 years impressed and persuaded millionaires and Iowa legislators alike. He found a university with an enrollment of 3,500. a plant worth $8,000,000. He is leaving nearly 10,000 students housed in a $19,000,000 plant. Even his bitterest critic. Editor Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, last week conceded "[The university's] magnificence is largely Jessupian. As an organizer President Jessup is unusually effective. . . . Also, he is as ruthless as such men must be."

However much he mixed in Iowa politics, President Jessup, a good Methodist with Quaker upbringing, has always kept clear of campus squabbles. He reads widely and quickly, keeps two secretaries on the run, lets up only for fishing trips.

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