Search Results

Marian Wojciechowski was born April 25, 1914 in a region called Poland just as World War I was beginning. He grew up there when the country did not technically exist, and their language was forbidden. By the 1930s and the dawning of World War II, Wojciechowski was a young man struggling to understand what was transpiring, but knowing that he must participate in the Polish underground resistance against the Germans.

The Oral History of the Public School Principalship project, initiated in 1986, contains interviews with former elementary, middle, and high school principals. Conducted by Professor Patrick W. Carlton, Ph.D. and his graduate students, the documents capture the views, reminiscences, and accumulated knowledge of these veteran administrators. The collection consists of approximately 400 first-person accounts of service in public school administration by men and women serving in Nevada, Virginia, and 24 other states.