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Cooper, William John (1882-1935), educator and U.S. commissioner of education  

Victoria-María MacDonald

Cooper, William John (24 November 1882–19 September 1935), educator and U.S. commissioner of education, was born in Sacramento, California, the son of William James Cooper, a painter, and Belle Stanley Leary. Cooper spent most of his childhood in Red Bluff City, California. He received his A.B. in Latin and history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1906 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1908 he married Edna Curtis. They had three children. He later returned to Berkeley for his M.A. in education and history in 1917....

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Keppel, Francis C. (1916-1990), educational administrator  

Wilma S. Longstreet

Keppel, Francis C. (16 April 1916–19 February 1990), educational administrator, was born in New York City, the son of Frederick Paul Keppel and Helen Tracy Brown. His father was dean of Columbia College and in 1923 became president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York....