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S: Well I think the conditions of education, generally. The philosophy

 changed somewhat, and some of the, as we, as more and more men

 came into the teaching profession, I think there was more of a

 demand for more militant action. Uh, course Ed had served for

 twenty years, a bit more than twenty, I guess, and he had reached)

 I believe, sixty-five, and so he, he retired, at.his I think

 his, pretty close to his sixty-fifth birthday. But I think

 the board, the F.E.A. board was, was conscious, and they knew

 Phil. Phil was f past president of the F.E.A., they knew his

 philosophy. I suppose Phil was one of the youngest presidents that

 we ever had, but they, they knew pretty well what they wanted.

 They, they gave consideration to other people, they advertised the

 position pretty widely, and they interviewed a good many people,

 but I think from the beginning, they had more or less made the,

 the board's, many members of the board had in mind that Phil had

 the right philosophy that they were looking for.

W: Is this correct, what Ed Henderson says, that the board changed

 the by-laws so that the organization had a different emphasis

 from one of general education and concerns about education to

 one of particular concerns about the needs of teachers, and further

 changed the by-laws so that Ed, that Phil Constans could not sit

 as a member of the board, but was an employee only? Do you remember

 any...?

S: The by-laws were changed, and I'm not so sure about the first

 part, my recollections not too good about that, but about that time,

 I don't know whether it was before Ed retired or right after he

 retired, the by-laws were changed where the executive secretary