Boston Globe
August 2, 2001Of Wayland, formerly of Billerica and Manchester, NH. Rosemary (Redington) on July 25 at age 89.
Former wife of the late Karl Roberts of Manchester, NH. Mother of Alan Roberts of Wayland and the late Stuart Roberts of Westford and Arlyse Chadwick of Manchester, NH.
Survived by 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren and her sister-in-law Margaretta Drake of Bakersfield, CA.
Bangor Daily News
June 29, 2009ELLSWORTH - Cecil G. Carter, 98, husband of the late Ruth Estelle Carter, died June 29, 2009, at his home. He was born June 18, 1911, in Brooklyn, the son of Eugene and Hattie (Candage) Carter.
He is survived by one daughter, Rosalie Brown of Gardiner; two sons, R. Paul Carter Sr. and his wife, Marilyn, of Verona Island and George A. Carter and his wife, Dorothy, of Seal Cove; eight grandchildren, Richard and his wife, Karen, Rosemarie, Reggie Jr. and his wife, Nancy, Larry, Allyson and her husband, Larry, Lori, Andrea and her husband, Anthony, and Mark and his wife, Elisa; 10 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to his parents and his wife, he was predeceased by two sisters and four brothers.
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)
December 25, 2002NEW YORK (AP) - Harvey B. Scribner, the former New York City schools chancellor who presided over the system during a tumultuous period in the early 1970s, died Monday in Waterville, Maine. He was 88.
Scribner became chancellor in 1970, one year after the Legislature decentralized control of the city public school system by creating 32 community school districts. Legislators also replaced the superintendent of schools with a chancellor who had direct control over high schools and support services.
Scribner, a fierce advocate of local school control, clashed often with the Board of Education, which initially barred him from attending meetings during which important budgetary and personnel decisions were made. He announced his resignation in 1972, citing a "widening gap of confidence" between him and the board.
Scribner was known for holding teachers to high standards, encouraging continued education and criticizing tenure rules.
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The Record (Hackensack, NJ)
December 25, 2002Harvey Scribner, history-making schools chief, dies Oversaw Teaneck's voluntary integration, first in the U.S.
Harvey B. Scribner, who was superintendent of the Teaneck school district when it became the first in the nation to implement a full-fledged voluntary school integration plan, died Monday. He was 88.
Scribner, who headed Teaneck schools from 1961 to 1968 and later served as New York City's first schools chancellor, was accustomed to standing in the line of fire in the name of integration. On May 13, 1964, the night the Board of Education voted 7-2 to turn Bryant School in the township's predominantly black northeast section into a central sixth-grade school, tensions ran so high that a policeman had to be stationed on the front lawn of Scribner's house. The plan, which involved busing some students and sending elementary school children who previously attended Bryant to other township schools, generated death threats, obscene telephone calls, and pickets - but not the violence some had predicted.
In 1985, speaking as the guest of honor at a benefit celebration of the 20th anniversary of Teaneck's integration plan, Scribner put his hand over his heart and said: "We did it because it felt in here like we ought to do it." "It was really revolutionary and visionary," said Teaneck Mayor Jacqueline B. Kates, who graduated from Teaneck High School a year before the busing plan took effect. "Looking back, we certainly feel that this put Teaneck on the map as the kind of progressive, caring, compassionate community that we are."Scribner was appointed to the superintendent's post in Teaneck in 1961, after seven years in the same capacity in Dedham, Mass. His arrival was hailed by parents, teachers, and administrators, who awarded him a $20,000 salary that was believed to be the highest among superintendents in Bergen County at the time.But by late 1963 and into early 1964, Scribner's detractors began mobilizing as he stated his plans to "solve racial imbalance in the Teaneck school system in a manner of cooperation and goodwill."
In the days and months following the historic vote, Scribner was showered with service and humanitarian awards by some community groups and criticized severely by other groups for accepting the awards. Through it all, said Dorothy Belle Pollack - who served on the school board in 1967 and 1968 - he maintained respect for everyone. "He had a very forceful personality - pleasantly forceful," said Pollack, a classics professor and freelance writer who still lives in Teaneck. "It was a pleasure to work with a man like that. Even when he disagreed with you, he was marvelous. He was a man bursting with many ideas."
In late 1967, Scribner became Vermont's commissioner of education - although he continued to run the Teaneck school system on a part-time basis for months to follow, traveling back and forth between Vermont and New Jersey as the township searched for a replacement.Scribner became New York City's first schools chancellor in 1970, one year after the New York Legislature restructured the hierarchy there and decentralized control of the city public school system by creating 32 community school districts. His tenure in New York was marked by the same controversy and less of the goodwill that his leadership generated in Teaneck. Scribner often butted heads with the Board of Education, which initially barred him from meetings that included votes on key budgetary and personnel decisions.
Jack Woodbury, a former Ho-Ho-Kus schools superintendent who was Scribner's chief of staff in New York from 1970 to 1973, called his former boss "the most courageous person - morally and physically - that I ever encountered or heard about." Woodbury remembers one incident in particular: In 1972, Scribner was determined to integrate John Wilson Junior High School 211 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and the neighborhood was determined to stop him. After standing with students and taking verbal abuse for three hours, he won a test of wills against angry community members, and African-American students were permitted to enter with the help of police. "To me, that was just sort of classic Scribner," Woodbury said. "If the kids are going to be out there having to face that, than he was going to be out there with them. And he was. In front of a very, very angry mob."
Scribner spent his later years back in New England. He had been living at Mount St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Waterville, Maine, since March, said his eldest daughter, Patricia Arno of Hartland, Maine.
Arno said her father was proud of what he accomplished in Teaneck, but added that he had similar feelings across the board. "I don't know of a place he ever was," she said, "that he didn't achieve something."
Scribner was born in Albion, Maine, in 1914. He earned a bachelor's degree from Farmington State Teachers' College in Farmington, Maine a master's degree from the University of Maine in Orono and a doctorate in education from Boston University. He also studied at Columbia and Harvard universities.
Scribner's first marriage ended in divorce. His second wife, Alta, predeceased him. In addition to Arno, he is survived by two other daughters, Jacqueline Cheney of Simsbury, Conn., and Donna Archambault of Leesburg, Fla. and three brothers, Morris of Benton, Maine, Herbert of Fairfield, Maine, and Norman of Naples, Fla.
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Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME)
August 11, 2002GRAY, CAPT. RALPH A. - 82, of Islesboro, at Islesboro, August 9.