Calvin B. Stuart, former president of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, has been appointed executive director of the Council, Bob Moore, president, has announced.
Stuart was selected by the Council from more than 20 applicants who applied since the search was begun in November. Ads were run in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Argus and a front page story in The Paper. Applicants applied from as far away as Arkansas and Alton, Ill.
Mr. Moore, who headed the personnel committee which screened the applicants, said the quality of the candidates was excellent, although the salary the Council was offering was not as high as that of similar positions.
The personnel committee rated the applicants on a five point rating on their experience in community organization, administration, housing and their education. They took the six highest scores and re-rated them selecting three applicants who then appeared before the Council as a whole for interviews.
Mr. Moore stated, “Many of the candidates had excellent educational qualifications, but few had any experience in the field of housing and community organization. Mr. Stuart qualified in each category.”
One applicant was apparantly slightly confused. He wrote “Gentlemen, I would be glad to assume the position as salesman.”
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Bob Moore, president of the Council, shows Calvin Stuart, new executive director his office at the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council headquarters at 6008 Kingsbury. Shellie Jordan
Originally published in The Paper, February 1971.
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