Dunbar Elementary sixth graders visit Booker T. Washington High
Dunbar School hosts include Lucius Reeves and Barbara Fisher as sixth graders from four classes tour Booker T. Washington High. Students observe choir and band, read the BTW creed, and hear Principal Williams outline August exam expectations amid campus tours and fellow sixth graders from Douglas and Phyllis Wheatley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunbar Elementary School
Booker T. Washington High School
Willie Hue Jamison
Pearle Jenkins
Oscar Edwards
Lucius Reeves
BTW
Althea Symonette
Harold Churchill Culmer
Dunbar
Carolyn Smith
Douglas
Phyllis Wheatley
Barbara Fisher
Patricia Taylor
Juanita Green
Harold Culmer
Thompson
Savage
Charles L. Williams
Brenda Jones
Frances Stevenson
St. Francis Xavier R. C
Leslie Roach
Madeline Roach
Juliette Lightbourn
Hepburn
Fannin
Oates
Lowell
Littles
Bethune Elementary Sixth Grade Hosts Surprise Party
Mrs Melba James’s sixth grade throws a year end surprise party as school closes. Bethune Cookman College sees Willie Wright of Dorsey High elected president and Zelma Black named national secretary of the Alumni Association. An operetta titled Around The Seasons airs tonight with tickets 50 cents adults 25 cents children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melba James
Gloria Green
Hazel Cunningham
Eugenia Williams
Bethune- Cookman College
Willie Joseph Wright
Dorsey High School
Zelma D. Black
BTW High School plans and memorial events summary
The BTW community thanks Robert E. Clark for books and magazines. Memorial Day program May 29 honors alumni. Seniors start a Memorial Garden near the gym. Commencement sermon June 3 by Rev. Thedford Johnson with the theme The Ever Present Demand for Efficiency. Prom June 1 in the gym with Melvin Williams as prom queen. Ninth graders convocation June 1. Class Day June 4 features Operation Graduation. Mass breakfast June 6 at Gesu Church. Commencement June 7 at Dade County Auditorium. Charles L. Williams principal. Annie Ruth Bank reporter.
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BTW
Robert E. Clark
Thedford Johnson
St. John Baptist Church
Edward T. Graham
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Melvin Williams
Juanita Hall
Demetra Williams
Gesu Church
Dade County
Charles L. Williams
Annie Ruth Bank
King Cole Court Operetta Shines at Liberty City Elementary
Poinciana Park pupils from third and fourth grades performed King Cole's Court in the Liberty City Elementary School auditorium. Critics lauded costumes and singing though noting more spectators could have seen the show. First graders enjoyed a picnic won by Miss C Bentley and Mrs Katie Hyler’s classes from the Day Parent's Club Cafeteria Improvement Contest. The Day Parent's Club final meeting is set for Friday June 1 at 9:00 a.m. A breakfast will cost fifty cents. Carol L. Bentley, reporter Elizabeth Pittman, principal
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King Cole’s Court
Liberty City
Miss C. Bentley
Katie M. Hyler
Northwestern High PTA Meeting Highlights and Honors
The last PTA meeting of the year at Northwestern Senior High School summarized the year’s work. Six water coolers will be installed in the corridors before school closes. A $100 scholarship was awarded to Edward Eugene Moon. Mrs. Lemmie Mitchell, honored for leading enriching programs, departs June 1 for New York to receive her master’s in education on June 6, then attends her son Charles’s Howard University commencement on June 8. Outgoing president F. W. Reynolds and wife leave June 1 for their daughter Jeannette’s Clark College graduation on June 5 where she is valedictorian and set a record high GPA.
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Northwestern Senior High
Northwestern
Edward Eugene Moon
Gene
Lemmie Mitchell
PTA
Charles
Howard University
F. W. Reynolds
Jeanette
Clark College
Atlanta
Jeannette
Clark
Clank College
A. L. Lewis Elementary School News
Mrs Gertrude W Johnsons fifth grade class performed a safety skit at the chapel. Kindergarten exercises are June 4 and all pupils are dismissed at noon June 6 7 8 with last day on June 8. Report cards June 13 8 9 am. Summer recreation program planned and open to children. We mourn the death of Sylvia Jean Ferguson a former pupil who drowned last weekend. Miss Fredericka Simmons praised for cooperation. Edna M DeVeaux principal.
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Gertrude W. Johnson
A. L. Lewis
Sylvia Jean Ferguson
Fredericka Simmons
F. D. Thurston
Edna M. DeVeaux
LSU Vetoes Negro Athletic Ban
LSU rejected for the third time a proposal to bar athletic teams from playing Negroes. The 7 to 7 tie on the LSU board of supervisors failed the motion led by J Stewart Slack with J S Smitherman voting against. The plan would bar contests with universities or state institutions with Negro participants.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
J. S. Smitherman
Shreveport
LSU Board of Supervisors
J. Stewart Slack
White Citizens Council
George Williams cited for service at Bethune Cookman College
Bethune Cookman College awarded George Williams a citation on Monday May 28 for outstanding contribution to education and civic enterprise. Williams coordinates the DCT program at Carver. Ninth grade exercises June 6 at 9 a.m. in the cafetorium with Father Lambert Sands speaking. Commencement June 7 at 8 p.m. in the cafetorium. film presentation of the graduates’ prep steps. Memorial Day observances noted. Frank details include top honors Marva Batson and Sarah Miller. other honor students listed.
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Bethune Cookman College
George Williams
Williams
Carver
Lambert Sands
Marva Batson
Sarah Miller
End of Term Reflections at Phyllis Wheatley School
The 1955 56 term nears its end as the school reflects on achievements and areas for improvement. Teachers will leave for summer, and the school extends best wishes to staff, students, and families for a pleasant and profitable break. Sixth graders tour Booker Washington High School for orientation before next term.
Holmes Elementary School May Activities and Plans
Holmes Elementary reports on a May 24 assembly The third grade presented The Story of a Butterfly plus costumes Thelma Freeman Miami Public Library staff discussed the Summer Reading Program June 25 to August 23 Pupil polio vaccinations schedule announced Miss M Gibson class planning a parakeet party Rewards funded by a newspaper ad The June 7 sixth grade awards ceremony at Dorsey Junior High S O Cohen will attend Also visits to Miami Diaper Plant May 23 Seaquarium trip May 24 Summer recreational program under Arthur Coverson Open to all school age children More updates next week
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B. M. Sander
Thelma Freeman
Miami Public Library
Liberty City
M. Gibson
Jimmy
S. O. Cohen
Dorsey Junior High School
N. S. Dawkins
Miami
L. A. Jackson
Seaquarium
Rickenbacker Causeway
Holmes Elementary School
Arthur Coverson
Free polio vaccines offered at five Dade clinics
Health officials announce five Dade County clinics will administer polio vaccinations at no cost. Parents urged to bring child health records and visit during regular clinic hours to ensure complete immunization.
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W. C. Cogdell
B. T. W. High School
Poinciana Park
Northwestern High
LSU
George W. Carver
J. B. Blackwell
Randall Adams
Sarah Tyson
Julius Newton
Bernice Wilson
Mesdames Fannie Buggs Newton
Bertie Baldwin
Marie Pate
Marie Doster
Barbara Mallard
Dorothy Russell
Edwin Johnson
Gardenia Bagley
Roberta Hodge
Thomas Lloyd
Richard Smith
Lawrence Thompson
Esther Dennis
Irma Foote
Zelma Williams
Frances Tucker
Macon Bullard
Booker Washington High School
Cleomie Crompton
Thena C. Crowder
Dade County Clinics
James
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