240 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

ment at Oregon Ridge leased from the Federal government. Has this
been successful?

A. Well, I haven't heard yet because it was just yesterday we made
that request of the Senator. I understand that this postponement pro-
cedure is entirely feasible and that such postponements have been
granted in the past.

Q. Well, on the same line, has Baltimore County indicated any will-
ingness to buy the property and run it for a year?

A. We have made no contact with Baltimore County. My sole com-
munication has been to Senator Tydings, feeling that he could better
make an approach to Baltimore County than the State administration
since he initiated the idea.

Q. Governor, it appeared to me at the meeting of the Board of Public
Works the other day that you were rather strongly in favor of a new
State board to govern the community colleges and also a separate
board in the counties.

A. Yes, I think that the community college system, whether it be
concerning itself with what is referred to as a two-year, terminal, semi-
higher educational effort — in other words, people who would take
courses leading to a degree of Associate in Arts or some proficiency
in a particular undertaking or whether they use the community col-
lege as the first part of a formal four-year college education — the
best opinion that I can find, including that among the educators,
seems to be that this should be administered by a. separate board of
trustees having a high degree of autonomy. The opposite argument
is that the State Board of Education and the local boards of education
charged with the administration of the twelve years, now with kinder-
garten, thirteen years of formal schooling, should annex these two
years onto the secondary education. I don't think this is a good de-
cision, because rather than giving the young person a college outlook
it simply perpetuates, for another two years, a high school outlook. I
favor the autonomous college approach.

Q. And in local governing boards too?

A. And in local governing boards too. I think it's ineffectual to
separate the state boards and still leave the community college system
under local boards. I think there should be a complete separation.

Q. Will you make this a part of your legislative program?
A. I expect to, yes.