Abstract

Around the U. S. A.: No Dissent in Dixie

This article presents the story of Chester C. Travelstead, dean of the School of Education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. On August 19, without warning or prior discussion, Travelstead received a one-paragraph letter dismissing him from the university. Sixty-nine days later, on October 27, he, was given a "hearing" before the executive committee of the board of trustees. Travelstead is forty-four; his adult life, except for three war years in the navy, has been spent in education. By ancestry, birth, schooling, and residence, he is a Southerner. Born and educated in Kentucky, he received his doctorate at the University of Virginia and taught the University of Georgia before his appointment as dean.