CHAPTER 822
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
DOVER
EXECUTIVE ORDER
NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
TO: Heads of all State Departments and Agencies
RE: Coordinating Committee for the Study of Education
WHEREAS, the State of Delaware has abolished its commission form of government and adopted a cabinet form of government; and
WHEREAS, this State has important executive responsibilities in the field of education which should be carefully studied in the context of executive reorganization;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RUSSELL W. PETERSON, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare and order as follows:
1. A Coordinating Committee for the Study of Education is established for the purpose of preparing proposals as to how existing agencies in elementary, secondary and higher education might be related to a cabinet form of government;
2. The Coordinating Committee shall consist of the following persons:
E. A. Trabant, President, University of Delaware
James M. Tunnell, Jr., President of Board of Trustees, University of Delaware
Luna I. Mishoe, President, Delaware State College
John N. McDowell, President of Board of Trustees, Delaware State College
Paul K. Weatherly, Executive Director, Delaware Technical and Community College
William C. Kay, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Delaware Technical and Community College
Joshua T. West, President of Delaware School Boards Association
Jack V. Irion, President of Chief School Officers
Robert H. McBride, President of State Board of Education
Kenneth C. Madden, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Harry C. Stephan, Superintendent, New Castle County Vocational-Technical School representing the Vocational-Technical Districts
Senator Louise T. Conner, Chairman of Senate Education Committee
Representative Clarice U. Heckert, Chairman of House Education Committee
The following six members to represent the public at large:
Mrs. James L. Morgan
Mrs. R. H. Greenwell
The Reverend E. Felton May
Ernst Dannemann
Mrs. John Farquhar
Bruce O. Kallos
3. The Committee which shall be called together by Dr. Robert H. McBride shall select its own chairman and secretary from among its members.
4. The Committee shall prepare an interim report and a final report and submit them to the Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Government Reorganization. The interim report shall be due on or before September 1, 1970, and the final report shall be due on or before November 16, 1970. The Committee shall submit such other reports and may consult with the Task Force and such other persons or agencies as it deems necessary or desirable.
Approved this 10th day of June, 1970.
(GREAT SEAL) RUSSELL W. PETERSON
Governor
Attest:
EUGENE BUNTING
Secretary of State