Sidney P. Marland Jr.

Sidney Percy Marland, Jr. (born 19 August 1914, died 24 May 1992) was an American educator, school administrator, author, and US Army officer from Danielson, Connecticut.

Sidney P. Marland Jr. led the American educational system from 1970 to 1973 during the Richard Nixon administration. Marland and was the first statutory Assistant Secretary of Education (confirmed December 1972). Prior to that held the post of Commissioner of Education in the Office of Education. Marland led the American Educational system after leadership roles in school administration in Darien (CT), Winnetka (IL), and Pittsburgh (PA). Marland also distinguished himself as a military officer in the US Army where he held division staff officer roles in the 43rd Infantry Division.

Early Years

Sidney Marland was the son of Sidney P. Marland and Ruth (nee Johnson) Marland. Sidney Marland was a partner at the Shumway Clothing Store in Danielson, Connecticut. Sidney Junior helped around the store, dusting shelves, shoveling coal and doing other chores.

Marland was highly motivated by Miss Ethel Kelley, his sophomore year English composition teacher, to pursue a career in Education. He joined the University of Connecticut, arriving in Storrs with $4 in his pocket that his mother had saved from her weekly grocery money. Sidney Marland found a job as a waiter to help pay his $60 per month room rent and later became janitor at one of the college fraternities, assuring himself of free board at the fraternity house.

Education

1932. High School Diploma. Killingley High School. Danielson, Connecticut

1936. Bachelor of Arts in Education. University of Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut.

1951. Master's Degree. University of Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut.

1954. PhD in School Administration. New York University. New York, New York.

Pre-War Years (1936-1938)

Sidney Marland began his teaching career as an English teacher at William Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. There he met Virginia Partridge of West Hartford. They married in 1940.

Military Service (1938-1949)

Service Dates and Promotions

Military Serial number: 0-342642

• 9 June 1936. Officer Reserve Corps, Infantry. 2nd Lieutenant.
• 29 October 1938. 2nd Lieutenant, QMC Connecticut National Guard. Assigned to Hqs company 118th Quartermaster Regiment.
• 24 July 1939. 1st Lieutenant, QMC Connecticut National Guard. Hqs Company 118th Quartermaster Regiment.
• 5 November 1940. Connecticut National Guard. Assigned command Hqs Company 118th Quartermaster Regiment.
• 7 January 1941. Captain, QMC Connecticut National Guard. Re-assigned command Hqs Company 118th Quartermaster Regiment.
• 29 January 1941. Appointed Officer in charge, State Armory, West Hartford.
• 24 February 1941. Called into Federal Service.
• 7 March 1941. Relieved as Officer in charge, State Armory, West Hartford.
• 14 April 1941 - 7 June 1941. Detached Service (DS) Quartermaster School Philadelphia, PA (National Guard and Reserve Officer Course). Completed, Academic Rating - Excellent.
• 11 July 1942. Detached Service (DS) Command and General Staff School. 9th General Staff Course. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
• 29 September 1942. Major, Quartermaster Corps. US Army.
• 19 August 1943. Lieutenant Colonel. US Army.
• 7 April 1945. Colonel. US Army.
• 28 August 1945. Assigned to General Headquarters, US Army Forces, Pacific.
• 18 October 1949. Honorably discharged from 43rd Infantry Division for business reasons.

Pacific Military Intelligence Service (PACMIRS)

• Sidney Marland was assigned duty as the Chief, Research Division of the War Department's Pacific Military Intelligence Research Service (PACMIRS). PACMIRS was responsible for gathering intelligence from captured Japanese documents to provide strategic and tactical advantages to US forces.

Memorial Day Speech, 30 May 1946.

• Sidney Marland was the Marshall of the Memorial Day Parade in West Hartford, Connecticut on 31 May 1946. He gave a speech at Hill Cemetery to commemorate the war dead. The speech was reported in the Hartford Courant on 31 May 1946.
  • "These men knew a beauty that we do not know today. They participated in a deeper experience than we can experience here today, for they were combat soldiers. There is no more truly great man than the American in the height of battle and immediately following the surcease of battle. He is a humble and a contrite man. He is a loving and a gentle man. He is the man that Christ taught us we should be, and which we never have been. There is no greed in his heart, no lust in his mind. The spangles of our selfish society have dropped from him and the baubles of our material economic world have lost their value. His only hatred is his hatred of evil and oppression. It is that hatred, though the soldier may never phrase the words that has characterized the American fighting men from Valley Forge to Manassas, from San Juan Hill to Tarawa and Aachen. We cannot know the deep beauty and concord that the warrior knows. We cannot reproduce the sweet composures that lay upon the expiring brows of men we honor here today. For the greed of complacency and peace has overtaken us. The bitter, bloodstained victories wrested by these men have been easily forgotten. The danger past, we have turned away from the God whom these men know so well and beside whom they now stand. We have entered upon a course of bitterness, selfishness, intolerance, and defiance. These men we honor did not die that we might have the right to whimper in luxurious comfort while half a world starves. They did not die that irresponsible demigods might dictate the right of Americans to labor or not to labor. God grant that all men in this democracy may chose to work when they will and chose to arbitrate their difficulties when they will. But God grant that no man ever so foul the usages of democracy that he may successfully challenge the popular law of our land and defy the elected will of the people. These men did not die that we might allow ourselves to the luxury of prejudice and intolerance. But our strength and our wealth do not excuse us from our global obligations to humanity. On the contrary they confirm them. For in no society can a wealthy and powerful force exist except in benevolence and altruism. These ware dead are America. God make us worthy of them."

Decorations

• Distinguished Service Cross
• Bronze Star
• Legion of Merit

School Administration (1950-1970)

Darien, Connecticut.

Winnetka, Illinois

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Late Career (1974-1992)

The College Board. President. November 1973 - 31 October 1978.

Scholastic Magazines. Chairman of the Editorial Board. 1978.

Bibliography

• Marland, Sidney P. "Up Tail and Away". Military Review. Volume XXV. December 1945. https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p124201coll1/id/959/rec/5
• Marland, Sidney P. Historical Report. Luzon Campaign. 43rd Infantry Division. Compiled by Sidney P. Marland. D769.31.43rd.A5x.
• Marland, Sidney P. "Career Education: A Proposal for Reform". McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. New York. 1974.
• Marland, Sidney P. "Career Education - A New Priority." Science. 12 May 1972. Volume 176. Number 4035.
• Washburne, C. W., & Marland, S. P., Jr., (1963). Winnetka: The history and significance of an education experiment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Marland, S. P., Jr. (1973b). Send up more Sputniks. Gifted Child Quarterly, 17, 203-209.
• Marland, Sidney P. “The Changing Nature of the School Superintendency.” Public Administration Review, vol. 30, no. 4, [American Society for Public Administration, Wiley], 1970, pp. 365–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/974458.
• Marland, S. P. “The Federal Role in Community Education.” The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 54, no. 3, Phi Delta Kappa International, 1972, pp. 146–146, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20373428.
• Marland, Sidney P. “A New Order of Educational Research and Development.” The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 52, no. 10, Phi Delta Kappa International, 1971, pp. 576–79, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20373029.
• Marland, Sidney P. “Career Education: Off the Drawing Board.” The School Review, vol. 82, no. 1, University of Chicago Press, 1973, pp. 57–66, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1084123.

References

• Sidney P. Marland obituary article. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/27/nyregion/sidney-marland-jr-77-former-us-school-chief.html
• Sidney P. Marland obituary article. Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-28-9202170493-story.html
• Senate Report. Nomination of Sidney P. Marland to the post of Assistant Secretary of Education. https://books.google.com/books?id=FBbgOOD7WPoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
• PACMIRS Newsletter. Gerth Archives and Special Collection. California State University-Dominguez Hills. https://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16855coll4/id/39734
• Colorado National Guard Records for Sidney P. Marland (O-342642).
• D. W. R. “A Tough Man in a Tough Spot: Superintendent Marland of the Pittsburgh Schools.” The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 49, no. 10, Phi Delta Kappa International, 1968, pp. 561–62, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20372176.
• Obituary for Sidney P. Marland. Hartford Courant. 27 May 1992. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88896210/obituary-for-sidney-p-marland-aged-77/#
• Hartford Courant. 31 May 1946. Pacific War Hero Heard at Cemetery. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88897230/memorial-day-speech/

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