European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine a Secretary with a Salty flavor from press dispatches Terrel the former Marine corps first sergeant who was utahs commissioner of higher education and now is the new Secretary of still say his a marines Salty but never does he Tell Marine corps they the 59yearold former machine gun instructor in world War ii is an Resolute but inoffensive administrator if a less than stirring Public is politically astute and a master of com he has some of the i wont Call them Delight Ful attributes of a Marine corps but lets say a Little bit of Salty said Donald chairman of the Utah state Board of with has governed the states nine institutions of higher education since Bell served As commissioner of education from 1974 to Terrel Howard Bell was born in the Southern Idaho farming Community of lava hot Springs on he was reared in the Rural West after serving three and a half years in the Pacific in world War he turned to earning a degree at Albion state Normal school in Southern education has been a passion for according to his wife of 23 we dont do a lot socially because there is so Little she but whenever they she the couple and their four sons set aside weekends for skiing and a number of educational organizations joined utahs congressional delegation in lobbying for Bells Nomi he was supported by the american association of school the National school Board association and the american Council on those in addition to his experience in the Federal Post and from a variety of administrative jobs he held in Wyoming and Idaho school systems led to his Choice As the last of reagans Cabinet the former chemistry teacher earned his doctor ate in education administration from the University of Utah in 1961 and taught at Utah state univer sity in Logan before he was named superintendent of Public instruction in Utah in Bells father died when he was a Small boy and his Mother did not pursue the farming life that typified Rural but Bell was comfortable in that and took school superintendent positions in the Small towns of Eden and then in and two years in a nostalgic return to his Bell leased 100 acres of undeveloped land so Miles West of Salt Lake City to develop a or turf the task of maintaining the farm has since shifted to sons 20 and Bell As utahs commissioner of higher Bell gained a reputation As a Leader who is willing to effect said in that Bell has faced a crisis of dwindling dollars available for higher education and increased enrolment in colleges and in dealing with that he has generally decided on cutbacks in programs rather than tuition because of unanticipated declines in state the Utah Legislatures budgets for higher education have been reduced by 12 percent in the last three and coping with that problem makes the commissioners Job doubly Holbrook the extreme austerity we have been facing in and Bells experience in resolving these ought to stand him in Good Stead when he goes to Washington faced with even More extreme needing to make decisions having National Holbrook he has not been willing to accept at face value the need for Holbrook he has looked at the Basic needs of higher education and has been willing to express those needs but at the same being a master of Hes been willing to recognize that you cant change absolutism in established in a climate of extreme Hes been Able to keep a reasonable sense of Holbrook Bell has never hesitated to take sides in controversies facing the american school As commissioner of education under president Nix called forced busing to end desegregation a Banda id solution at and said there should be limits to the use of busing to achieve racial Equality in he complained that Congress writes too Many prescriptions to solve the nations education and said working with lawmakers and bureaucratic red tape were among the most frustrating aspects of his two year service As head of the education Bell is a Strong supporter of equal educational opportunities for minorities and the women and the handicapped need a he told a Salt Lake City audience in in years we have been guilty of some horrendous acts of but the administrator also cautioned that school districts should not lose sight of the final goal of academic excellence in their quest to improve educational opportunities for the nation s a staunch supporter of Liberal arts training for vocational education Bell also said students who study Only philosophy and history should learn the practical aspects of earning a his statement that we should Vocatie penalize Liberal education and liberalize vocational education brought a flood of protests just prior to Bells departure from the Ford administration in expo Heads Security panel by Marjorie Hunter new York times even before taking his Senate Jeremiah Andrew Denton of Alabama was handed what May prove to be one of the most controversial assignments in the new Congress chairmanship of a newly revived Security panel of the Senate Judic iary the name is different the subcommittee on Security and but it is the direct descendant of the inter Nal Security subcommittee that was accused of wide spread communist Witch Hunting for More than two dec Ades before it was abolished several years the revival of the subcommittee was announced by Strom the conservative Republican from South Carolina who will be chairman of the Senate judiciary committee in the new a Navy flier who was shot Down Early in the Vietnam spent seven years As a prisoner of War in Hanoi before his release in the retired rear Admiral was elected to Congress in unseating Donald a demo to become the first Republican senator from Ala Bama since in Denton was strongly supported by the Jerry the evangelist who is a Leader of moral a self described morality Cru is founder of a group called the coalition for in his morality Denton has singled out such areas of concern As premarital sex among teen agers and the decline of the it is not known yet what areas he will focus on As chairman of the Security and terrorism sub com he wants to get n better handle on the an aide he wants to talk to the Fri about what it sees As Security the old internal Security subcommittee was established in 1951 As the Senate counterpart to the equally controversial House Una Merican activities which later was renamed the House internal Security up Jeremiah Andrew Denton of both panels were abolished several years speaker Thomas Oneill said in december that the House did not intend to revive that body internal Security which was abolished in in its earliest and most flamboyant the Senate internal Security subcommittee was headed by Pat Rick and then by William James was chairman in later the Senate rules committee sought in 1976 to abolish the internal Security one of the subcommittees chief Mark argued that the panel had done Little for he said that from 1969 to 1975 the subcommittee spent million and produced Only one Bill that became the finally Cut off from any drifted out of existence in but Only after vigorous protests by if we dont know who the enemies of this country he then were in real january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 13