Carl F. Hansen

(1906-1983) born at Wolbach, Greeley County, lived at Grand Island and Lincoln and Omaha. Educator, administrator, was Nebraska high school teacher for 18 years, served as administrator in Washington, DC Public Schools from 1947 to 1967, the latter ten years as its superintendent; known for playing an important role in desegregating the school system and for establishing innovative programs, including the four-track system of student learning. Consult Saturday Review, December 16, 1961, pp. 49-51 and Current Biography (1962) 185-187 and New York Times, July 4, 1967, pp. 1, 42 and Washington Post obituary, August 29, 1983, p. B-10 and Biographical Dictionary of Modern Educators (Greenwood Press, 1997) 146-147.

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