Democrat and Chronicle June 19, 1930 Head of Ithaca Schools, Killed in Crash, Was National Figure Dr. Frank D. Boynton Held Honor Degrees from Many Colleges Ithaca, June 18 (Special Dispatch)-Dr. Frank D. Boynton, who died last night following an automobile accident on Long Island, had had a remarkable career which included in addition to his nearly 40 years of service in the Ithaca school system, activity in educational circles throughout the county and state as a writer and speaker. At the time of his death he was deeply immersed in plans for the new Junior High School in Ithaca, a building project which he long had advocated. He also had undertaken the editorship of a department of superintendology for the Journal of Education, which had just announced the institution of this feature for the coming Fall. Next Monday he was to have received the honorary degree of LL.D. from his alma mater, Middlebury College, at Middlebury, Conn. Heads Education Group Dr. Boynton was elected in 1929 president of the National Education Association and last Summer he was the association's official representative at a meeting of the International Educaiton Association in Oxford, England. A vigorous advocate of the principle of democracy in education, Dr. Boynton's speeches received wide publicity and in recent years he had taken issue with certain university educators, including President Lowell of Harvard on the question of exclusiveness in higher education. Born in Potsdam on April 29, 1863, the son of Franklin and Julina (Hayes) Boynton, Frank David Boynton was graduated from the Potsdam Normal School in 1889 and then attended Middlebury College, where he received the degree of A.B. in 1891. Two years later he received the degree of A.M. for Hamilton College. Syracuse University conferred upon him that of D.P.D. in 1903. For two years following his graduation from college he was principal of the union School and Academy at Webster and then came to Ithaca as principal of the high school. He was made superintendent of schools in June, 1900. Commission Member in War Since the organization of the state examinations board under the late Andrew S. Draper, Dr. Boynton had been a member of that board. During the World War he was a member of the commission on the emergency in education of the National Education Association and was one of the original drafters of the federal education program. For 12 years he was chairman of the executive committee representing the superintendents of the state at Albany and worked for changes in the education law from which the smaller cities, villages and rural districts now are benefitting. His associates elected him president of the State Council of School Superintendents, of the State Teachers Association, and made him a member of the Executive Commission of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, vice president and president. Among Dr. Boynton's books are Plane and Solid Geometry, Syllabus of Civics, Manual of Civics, Civics of New York State, School Civics, Actual Government of New York State and Civics for First Voters. Submitted by Patricia Stillwell Mims