Obits: Fulcomer,David Samuel, Indiana Co, PA
  
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   Fulcomer, David Samuel - May 14, 1973			
  
  
  
  David Fulcomer, 64, Retired Teacher Dead. 
  
  David S. Fulcomer, 64, a former resident of Holland Township and a longtime teacher at the 
  Holland Township School who became embroiled in a protracted legal battle with the school 
  board after his dismissal in 1962, died unexpectedly on Monday while on route to his home 
  in Vacation Village, Florida.  Fulcomer is also a former resident of Stewartsville, Pa.     
  
  He was born in McKeesport, Pa., son of the late Curtis and Sara Harris Fulcomer.     
  
  He was a graduate of Tyrone, Pa., high school and he had degrees from Susquehanna University, 
  Duke University, a masters degree from New York University and an elementary teaching degree 
  from Rutgers.     
  
  Fulcomer taught math at the Holland Township School from 1954 to 1962 and then from 1967 to 1971 
  when he retired and moved to Flroida.  He also taught at Philipsburg High School and at a school 
  in Riverhaed, N.Y.     
  
  He was interested in teener league baseball and served as a coach.  

  He as a U.S. Army Veteran of W.W. I and was the first commander of the Meesey Bishop American 
  legion Post in Stewartsville.     
  
  Fulcomer is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Fulcomer; three sons, Robert D. and William E. 
  both of rural Milford and Jerry E. of rural Hackenttstown; a daughter, Mrs. Natoli Gualberti 
  of rural Milford; eight grandchild; two brother Verne K. of Tyrone, Pa. And George W. of 
  Turtle Creek, Pa.; four sisters, Mrs. Alice Knarr, Mrs. Clara Morder and Mrs. Velma Heilman, 
  all of Tyrone and Mrs. Irene Pitts of Warren, Ohio.     
  
  Funeral services will be private. Fulcomer who began teaching at the Holland School in 1954 
  was dismissed in 1962 after he allegedly used physical force to discipline a 14-year-old student 
  in one of his classes.  Fulcomer was dismissed by the Holland Board after a hearing was conducted 
  by the state’s commissioner of education.     
  
  Fulcomer appealed to the State Board of Education and was granted a second hearing in 1964 but 
  the dismissal was upheld.  Fulcomer carried his case to the courts and in 1967 the Appelate 
  Division of the Superior court after ruling that dismissal was too harsh a penalty returned 
  the case to the new Commissioner of Education, Dr. Carl Marburger.  In August of 1967, Commissioner 
  Marburger ordered Fulcomer’s reinstatement at the Holland Township School with his tenure and 
  pension rights restored but without back pay. Fulcomer then began a long and ultimately unsuccessful 
  battle to try and get court permission to sue the township and state boards for damages.     
  
  During his suspension from the Holland School, Fulcomer taught in Riverhead, N.Y.     
  
  Throughout his fight with the township and state boards Fulcomer maintained that he was dismissed 
  not solely because of the incident with the student but because of his ideas on discipline and education.