* Lack of support for the Pilot School and other educational innovations

* Failure to energetically seek. Federal funds available to Cambridge

* Reluctance to accept responsibility for the overall performance of the school system.

Committeeman Fitzgerald termed the 29 counts "ridiculous." "Mr. Wylie is responsible for tearing down the school system to take care of his radical friends," he said. "In a crisis Frisoli knows more about the community than a man from Chicago." "It's a political game," Fantini said. "It is Mr. Wylie's intention to run the school system with an iron list."

In response to the ouster, Fantini helped organize an ad, hoe organization called "Citizens for Frisoli". A thousand people gathered to kick off a pro-Frisoli campaign replete with bumper stickers, posters and lapel buttons.

Supporters of Frisoli and included Fitzgerald, the four Independent City councillors, and the 675-member Cambridge Teachers Association Mary Mroz, president of the Teachers Association said "525 Association members supported Frisoli last year and we want to know if 525 teachers can be wrong."

In the month after the ouster Citizens for Frisoli" collected over 6000 signatures on petitions calling for a referendum on the superintendent question However the liberal CCA majority on the City Council refused to place the question on the ballot. The pro-Frisoli faction crowded the galleries and shouted epithets such as "Power to the People" while the City Council debated the matter. Both Middlesex Superior Court and the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the council's decision, ruling that Frisoli's removal was a administrative rather than a legislative action and therefore not subject to referendum.

"Citizens for Frisoli", claiming 1500 members, continues to work for his retention. The group itself did not formally participate in the search for a successor, but individual members contradictorily sided in the hunt.

In the Cambridge Chronicle on January 20, John Gregory described the Superintendent's proponents. "Mr. Frisoli finds support from many laymen and faculty alike: who seem to fear innovation and are gravely concerned with what they find as a lack of discipline and sagging moral values among some of the young."

In spite of his reputation as a disciplinarian. Frisoli finds many of his most vigorous advocates among the Cambridge students. A delegation occupied the balcony of Rindge Tech Auditorium and chanted "We want Frisoli" during the long meeting in January when he was ousted. The senior class presidents of Rindge and Cambridge High and Latin spoke in his favor.

Firm in its resolution to replace Frisoli, the School Committee began its search with a list of 200 applicants By early June the School Committee majority was at a stand will over two candidates. Wylie and Gesell supported Hartford School Superintendent Medill Bair while Acker mann and Pierce the only black member of the committee favored Cheatham.

Rumors circulated that a black had to be named either City Manager or Superintendent Wylie reacted strongly against the suggestion. The deadlock was broken when Bair offered $5000 raise by Hartford withdrew The School Committee appointed Cheatham on June 14.

Cheatham old and a native of Philadelphia ranked second behind Bair with the citizen groups and second behind Seymour Grechko of Detroit who had withdrawn earlier with the teachers and students.

The new Superintendent graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C and earned Masters degrees in Education from Harvard and Columbia After working in the Savannah, Ga., school system he became a district superintendent on Chicago's West Side There he handled a district of 30,000 students--60 per cent black, 30 per cent Chicano, and 10 per cent white.

Two weeks ago Ackermann said in an interview with the Crimson that Cheatham would bring "an improved relationship between teachers parents, and administrators."

"Young teachers will feel their ideas encouraged and parents will feel wanted within the system she added.

Presently, neither Frisoli or Cheatham handles the day-to-day duties of Superintendent, leaving the task to Assistant Superintendent Edmund Murphy. As Frisoli continues to occupy the Superintendent's chair at the School Committee, indications are that the court case could drag on well into the school year.

"The School Committee will act or, Cheatham's recommendations and work around Frisoli." Wylie said. "The fact that he won't give up the seat only shows his childishness."

"Under no circumstances will we accept Mr. Frisoli as Superintendent." Ackermann maintained. "And if he puts roadblocks in our way, then it's sad, very sad.