Wayne O. Reed

(1911-1974) born near Douglas, Otoe County, lived at Lincoln and Peru, Nemaha County. Educator, administrator, government official, known for expanding the role of federal government in education and improving leadership capacity of state education agencies, was Deputy U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1957 to 1965 and was involved in planning and executing the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and in establishing guidelines for state and local superintendents after passage of Civil Rights Act in 1964, became one of nation's leading advocates of aerospace education; previously was public school teacher and administrator, and served as superintendent of public instruction for Nebraska from 1943 to 1950, author and co-editor of several publications, and delivered papers at state, regional, and national conferences. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, November 6, 1949, p. C-6 and Nebraska on the March, June/July 1962, p. 9 and New York Times obituary, October 30, 1974, p. 48 and Who Was Who in America Vol 6 (1976) 339 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 58 (1979) 459-460.

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