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Staunton, Vt, Evening Leader, Wed, Jam 29, IfSS Dr. Lankford To Assume Duties As Longwood College President mathematics and the author of just been published. It dealt with Baha'i Groups Cable Appeals To Iran's Shah 3 1 30 DR LANKFORD Assume FARMVILLE, June 29 many articles published in pro Dr. Francis G. Lankford fessional magazines.

"Mathematics for Citizen and Consumer" was Penney progress made In carrying out the recommendations of an earlier study on secondary education in Virginia he made for the Chamber of Commerce In 1952-1943. published in 1949 in 16 education al Journals, including two in Canada and one in Hawaii. Dr. Lankford has recently com i i I I ii inn-mil am jf-i 1 I I His wife, the former Florence Fleet, is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. The couple noted authority in the field of teaching of ma thematic at both the state and national levels, will assume his duties as President of Longwood College upon the retirement of President Dabney S.

Lancaster, July 1. Before coming to Longwood Dr. Lankford was professor of education and director of educational research at the University of Virginia. pleted a two-year research project on experimental methods of teaching arithmetic in elementary schools during 1964-1955. The experiment was carried out In 40 lege and M.

8. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Virginia. He has done poet-doctoral work as a General Education Board Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Currently the vice president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Dr. Lankford is also an editor of a department of the Council's Journal, "The Mathematics Teacher." While at the University of Virginia he was a member of numerous faculty committees and the faculty representative on the Athletic Council. He Is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa. Dr. Lankford Is the author and co-author of six textbooks on has two sons.

Try serving this simple home WDuMETTE, Illinois. June 29-Appeala have been cabled to the Shah and Prime Minister of Iran by hundreds of local Baha'i groups throughout the United States, supplementing the appeals made by the national Baha'i administrative body, the National Baha'i Assembly has announced. fifth grade rooms in schools In Richmond, Petersburg, and surrounding counties. The results of made syrup on French toast. Stir a quarter cup of water and two-thirds cup of firmly packed dark brown sugar together In a saucepan over low heat until the sugar the study will be published by the Having been associated with the "Appeals are pouring in on university of Virginia for 24 Bureau of Educational Research in August.

Born at Morattico In Lancaster dissolves. Boll for several minutes or longer if necessary to bring the syrup to a good pouring County in 1906, Dr. Lankford be years except for brief leaves of absence, Dr. Lankford will bring to his new position many years of experience in teaching and administrative work. He has demon.

strated the quality of leadership especially in the field of mathe countries, calling for justice and protection of the persecuted faith In that land," the announcement states. "This persecution is no mere domestic matter, but has produced worldwide concern. "The sacred writings of the faith were given out by its found-en Baha'u'llah, after His exile from Iran, birthplace of the new world religion- and scene of the martyrdom of thousands of devoted followers. gan his teaching career as an Instructor in mathematics in 1927 while a senior at Randolph-Macon College. From 1928 to 1931 he was principal of the Hesths-ville High School.

During the following 24 years at the University of Virginia he obtained leaves of absence to teach at the University of Michigan, Harvard matics and his text-bodks on that subject are used widely In the United States. Served Ai Consultant As director of educational research at the University of Vir Women's Vdmen's DRESS SHOES $2 BEDSPREADS $150 Mostly chenilles, full size. APPLES APPLES APPLES Early Transparent Now Ready At Neff Packing House, Parkersburg Pike Near Buffalo Gap Bring Container J. P. Neff Son University, and the University of! ginia he has served as consultant for school systems In counties and "Statesmen and scholars of ioh.

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Also on leave of absence In 1943-1944 he was director of research and assistant to the superintendent of the Richmond City Schools. Aothor Of Textbook! Dr. Lankford holds the B. 8. de- the high which, indeed, have become the His study on "Progress In High School Education in Virginia, 1944-1954" made for the Virginia LUHCHEOH CLOTHS Size 52 52.

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been driven into looking beyond the Mediterranean and the Atlantic for new worlds to conquer "Similarly Earl Curzon wrote (Persia, Vol. 1): 'Ignorant and unlettered as many of its votaries are, and have been, they are yet prepared to die for their religion Of no small account, then, must be the tenets of a creed that can awaken In Its followers so rare and beautiful a spirit of self-sacrifice. "From an article published In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, January 1922: 'The death of Abbafc Effendi, better known since he succeeded his father, Baha'u'llah, thirty years ago as 'Abdu'l Baha, deprives Persia of one of the most notable of her children and the East of a remarkable personality, who has probably exercised a greater influence not only In the Orient but In the Occident than any Asiatic thinker and teacher of recent A Practical Mystic "During his visit to North America in 1912," the Baha'i Assembly states, "Abdu'l Baha addressed public audiences in churches, synagogues, universities and peace societies on the religious basis of world unity. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University said of him: "Abdu'l Baha will surely unite the East and the West; for he travels the mystic- way with practical "The testimony of the non-Islamic Orient is offered in a letter written by Sir Ramaswami Mud-iliar, delegate from India to the original UNO meeting held at San 1 Francisco ten years ago: 'It was In San Francisco In i 1945 that I first had the privilege of meeting the followers of the Baha'i Faith and learning something of the teachings of their great Prophet I have since; had the privilege of meeting Ba-ha'is In various centers in Europe and America. I have a very happy and lively recollec-j tion of my visit to Wilmette, Illinois, where I was taken round the Temple of Light The Baha'i i Temple The Baha'i Faith gives us the great and precious message of unity In religion How much the world needs such a spirit "No student of religion," the Baha'i Assembly pointed out, ''can fail to note that the birth of every great faith has encountered harshest condemnation in the land of its origin.

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