BOISE, Idaho, June 19—Boise's
University of Idaho Alumni association, Tuesday evening at the Boise
Chamber of Commerce, unanimously
went on record as vigorously opposed to section 791 of the state laws
of Idaho which provides for the
membership, the appointment and the
qualifications of the state board of
education, and particularly opposed
this provision contained in section
791:
* * * Provided, further, That
any member (of the state board of
education) so appointed shall not
heretofore have been connected with
any of the state educational institutions of this state, either as regent,
member of board, instructor or stu-
j dent, and shall have been a qualified
* * * elector."
This statute, according to its interpretation by Chief Justice William
M. Morgan of the state supreme
court in an address at the meeting of
the Boise Alumni association, prevents a student of the University of
Idaho, or a faculty member, from
becoming a member of the state
board of education. The general
qualifications, or what Judge Morgan
referred to as the unwritten law, in
the appointment of members of the
board under this stateute provided
further that in order to qualify for
the board of education Idaho men or
women must send their children to
educational institutions of other
states.
Boise's Alumni association insists that the present inhibitions
should be the qualifications.
Judge William M. Morgan's address
was the feature of the Boise Alumni
association's "get together" for high
school graduates and those interested
in the University of Idaho.
Friends of U. of I. Heard.
Short talks were made by Bennett
L. Williams, president of the association; Ralph R. Breshears of Cald-
well, Claude Gibson of Boise, Miss
Jean Orr of Boise, Charles Warren
of Caldwell, Lee W. Fiuharty, direc-
tor of the University of Idaho extension department, Homer Hudelson of J
Nampa, A. J. Priest of Boise, Mrs. R.
Q. Jones of Boise, John W. Eagleson,
state treasurer; W. H. P. Hill, secretary of the Boise Chamber of Commerce, and Miss Marie Cuddy of
Boise.