Clyde Slocum
Clyde Slocum, the former longtime superintendent of Barrington Community Unit School District 220, is being remembered for combining a zest for life with a mastery of school administration.
Slocum, who served as the district’s top administrator from 1979-1992, died from congestive heart failure July 3 in Downers Grove, said his daughter, Carolyn Slocum.
Stevenson Mountsier, former District 220 school board president, called Slocum a “top-drawer administrator” who upgraded the district’s educational standards from a ‘C’ grade level to an ‘A.’
“He had very high standards,” Mountsier said.
Slocum had a great personality and worked well with the teachers, Mountsier added, but also would not back down to the teachers union when he believed it served the district’s best interests. Such was the case when teachers briefly went on strike in the 1980s.
“He would sit down and negotiate and work out the problems,” Mountsier said.
During Slocum’s tenure, school facilities were updated and district voters approved a $10.8 million referendum to build a new middle school, which opened in 1992.
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