an influx of Vietnamese children for the school system, if the School Board had not taken the initiative to lure middle- class families back to Wakefield, if the school had not had a core of experi- enced and productive teachers who stayed despite its declining reputation, if superintendents Arthur Gosling and Robert Smith had not given Djouadi the extra staff and resources she need- ed, and if Djouadi had not succeeded in hiring Jackson as guidance director, Obama would have picked some other school to host his speech. Djouadi was not an obvious choice
for Wakefield before she was hired. Gos- ling asked what she knew about football, since the sport then, as now, defined high schools in many people’s minds. She replied that she did not think football was important. The counseling department was a mess. Racial tension crackled. At one point, she and assistant principal Dale Bethel had to stand be- tween a group of African American stu- dents and a group of Hispanic students to ward off a fight. In another instance, she stepped outside and found a man who had wandered onto the campus pointing a gun directly at her.
She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and
grew up in Chicago, attending Catholic schools. In high school, she was ab- sorbed in just one thing: music. She played the piano, organ, clarinet, flute and saxophone. She went to Mundelein College in Chicago and then joined the Sisters of Charity, an order known for building leaders who thought of them- selves as highly as Marie Shiels did. She thought she might want to marry, so she left the order and earned a PhD in linguistics at Georgetown University. She married Mokrane Djouadi in 1971. (They divorced in 1975.) She was hired by Arlington to handle
the Vietnamese immigrants, and then a flood of children from Central Ameri- can families. She set up the High Inten- sity Language Training program to help new students improve their English. She served as principal of Patrick Henry Elementary School, full of immigrant families, from 1980 to 1987. She arrived at Wakefield in a pe-
riod of policy ferment. Gosling and the School Board were innovators. Two
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