Virgil Stinebaugh 1944 Release

For release Wednesday A.M. June 28, 1944

Virgil Stinebaugh, acting superintendent of the Indianapolis public schools since the death of DeWitt S. Morgan in February, and for 13 years a member of the administrative staff of the Indianapolis schools, was promoted to the position of superintendent of schools by the Board of Commissioners Tuesday night.

The new superintendent will assume the position July 1, and under statutory provisions which require the superintendent to be elected for a term of four years, will complete the unexpired four-year term of this predecessor on April 10, 1945. The late Mr. Morgan had served approximately three and one-half years of his second term. Mr. Stinebaugh's salary was fixed for the present term at $9,000 annually.

Mr. Stinebaugh is 46, and lives at 211 Berkeley Road. He will be the fourteenth to serve as a full-time superintendent of the Indianapolis schools since their beginning in 1853. He served as acting superintendent, in 1937, between the incumbency of Mr. Morgan and that of the previous superintendent, the late Paul C. Stetson.

Mr. Stinebaugh joined the staff of the local schools in 1931 after having served four years as director of elementary and high school inspection for the Indiana state department of public instruction.

In his first work with the Indianapolis schools he worked under the late Milo H. Stuart in the organization of the Indianapolis plan of junior high schools and in the revision of the elementary and junior high school curriculum. In 1932 he was appointed director of curriculum revision and in 1934 he was made director of junior high schools and curriculum revision.

In 1936 Mr. Stinebaugh was made an assistant superintendent of schools. He was intimately associated with Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stetson, Mr. Morgan, and D.T. Weir, retired assistant superintendent, in revising the courses of study, in developing the curriculum, and, more recently in organizing the teaching staff and in furthering projects designed to improve the effectiveness of teaching methods.

Mr. Stinebaugh has had 28 years experience in the public schools of Indiana, having begun his teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in Carroll County at the age of 17. He taught three years in the rural schools, was principal of the Flora junior high school one year, served as principal of the Monroe township (Carroll County) consolidated elementary and high school at Bringhurst four years, and for four years was principal of the Delphi high school.

In his years of experience, Mr. Stinebaugh has held practically every position available in public school work, having served as a teacher, principal, director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent.

He obtained his A.B. degree from Manchester College in 1921, and his Master of Arts degree and superintendent's diploma from Columbia University in 1927. He did additional graduate work at Columbia University and a year's work in the graduate school at Indiana University. In 1936 he served as an instructor in curriculum in the Bureau of Curriculum Research at Columbia University under Dr. H.B. Bruner.

In the summers of 1938, '39, and '40 Mr. Stinebaugh lectured on guidance and the principles of teaching at the Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute.

He is a member of the Indianapolis Kiwanis club, the Indiana Schoolmen's club, the American Association of School Administrators,

and the local, state, and national educational associations. In 1936 he served as a member of the yearbook commission of the American Association of School Administrators.

He is a member of the Grace Church of the Brethren and in that denomination he served as a member of its Mission Board of Southern Indiana and as director of a survey of religious education programs in its colleges. He has been active in the Indiana Council on Religious Education in Higher Institutions of Learning.