You just don’t look the other way, stick your hand into a barrel of swimming candidates, and pull out a new superintendent of Middletown schools. The Board of Education Friday announced the election of Earle R. Seidner of Lorain, and the choice took close study. Most of the hard work was done by a 15-man citizens' advisory committee headed by board member Joseph Woodruff. The group contacted 63 candidates, received 40 formal applications and finally recommended five "superior" men for the board’s consideration. The first step of the committee, which was appointed on April 23, was to draw up a list of qualifications. John B. Whitlock, vice president of the Miami University Board of Trustees, appeared before the group to explain how Miami set up machinery recently to pick its new president...

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