VOL. IX, NO. 13
MAY 3, 1968

42 Teachers Sign Petition
To: Editor of the Westerner
From: Concerned Faculty
Subject: Prejudice at Maine West

We, the undersigned faculty, being appalled and concerned by the racism and apathy displayed last week (Ed. Note: Week of April 8) at Maine West by many students and faculty, want to make the following public statement:

1. We mourn the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. We consider Dr. King to be a man deserving the admiration and respect of all good Americans.

3. We accept the proposition that all men are born equal and are deserving of equal treatment by American society.

4. We regard racial prejudice as a sickness that weakens our nation.

5. We believe that action in addition to words is needed to gain equality for all men.
 Signed: James S. Leming, Mary L. Hartmann, Mark E. Mattson, Jean Sambo, Bruce D. Campbell, Norman E. Ladd, Marsha Landau, Edwin W. Atkinson, Robert D. Goerne, Harvey M. Kelber, Dewane Barnes, Patricia B. Slavick, J. Amason, C. B. Rideout, John W. Hugh, Judy Luckett, Joan Bittner, Marcia J. Ryberg, Kenneth D. Lindquist, Michael A. Cuthbert, Rafela Malina, Donald A. May, William J. Kiddie, J. Nasca, Harold W. Conneii, Don D. Smith, Rosalie Streng, Dorothy Riddle, Mary Jane Koiar, Richard Mendralla, F. Hadley Bailey, S. E. Herring, M. K. Marine, Margery G. Hunter, J. A. Me Gills. Randall L. Rayborn, H. Rupp, Harold E. Todd, Joan Plock, Wendy B. Wenner, Richard B. Frey, and Suzanne Lutz.

Note: This petition was only offered to 55 members of the Maine West faculty. Forty-two chose to sign it. If a teacher's name does not appear, it may not be because he refused to sign it; but instead he might not have had the chance.