Outstanding BTW Students Win Scholarships at BT Washington High
Booker T. Washington High School honors seniors with numerous scholarships and awards totaling hundreds of dollars. Shirley Payne leads with 200 from the Leonard Lipton Foundation and 100 region prize from Phi Delta Kappa. Other recipients include Andrea Folsom, Gwinnette Wright, Katie Davis, Beatrice Johnson, Barbara J. Gray, Dorothy Williams, and Lucius Reeves among many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker T. Washington High School
Shirley Payne
Leonard Lipton Foundation
Phi Delta Kappa Sorority
Leech Art Civic Club
Benjamin Heidt
Katie Davis
Leo Adderly
Patrick Range
Lucius Reeves
Paul Thompson
Morehouse
Bethune-Cookman College
Spelling Demon
Andrea Folsom
Talladega College
Gwinnette Wright
Gwinette
Alumni Association
Lucious Reeves Wins Joliettes Award in 1956
Lucious Reeves, a 1956 graduate, receives the seventh annual Joliettes Social Club award. Reeves plans to enter Virginia State College in the fall. The Joliettes roster includes Connie Sanders as president and John L. Edwards as the club’s only male member and king. Virlyn Curry is the club reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucious Reeves
Booker T. Washington High School
Jolliettes
Reeves
Virginia State College
The
Connie Sanders
Gladys Braynon
Bessie Dennis
Vernita Stewart
Lydia Williams
Alma Jones
Busiess
Cora Nabors
Pansy Davis
Blanch Fluorney
Ira M. Jordan
Geneva Payne
Annie Leowards
John L. Edwards
Virlyn Curry
BTW Student Council Headed to NAACP Conference
Miss Althea Symonette attended the 29th annual National Conference of the NAACP in Toledo Ohio June 17 21 1956. She traveled with advisor Mrs Hazel Simmons among 700 youth leaders. She will be a Booker T Washington High School senior and was vice president of the student council during 1955 56 and is president elect for 1956 57.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Althea Symonette
NAACP
de- TiPliss Mich Sehwl
Toledo
Ohio
Hazel Simmons
Symonette
Althea
Booker T. Washington High School
Booker Washington’s
NASC
Thirteenth Summer Echoes at S8ethune Elementary Farewell
S8ethune Elementary closes for the year with a year end assembly honoring sixth graders bound for high school. Edward Carter received a bicycle from the PTA for Boy Scout duties, and the PTA staged an operetta with food. A faculty luncheon featured birthday gifts, and Principal Cogdell received a sport jacket and travel accessories from staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthews
Edward Carter
PTA
Edward
P.T.A
Heart Sisters
Heart Brothers
Mr. Cogdell
Dick Richmond
Zelma Dorsett Black
W. C. Cogdell
Gets Egelloc Scholarship Award to Irma Mackey
Irma Louise Mackey a 1956 Mays High School graduate Goulds received the Egelloc Club annual scholarship. The award honors scholastic achievement with a B average in the senior year and requires additional qualities and accomplishments to qualify for the honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irma Louise Mackey
Mays High School
Goulds
Egelloc Club
Election Victory in Nassau Shifts Focus to Out Islands
In Nassau the P L P swept four of five seats, while B D L suffered losses. S. L. Sands and Dr. Sawyer were returned for the City, Randol Fawkes and L. O. Pindling won in the South, Milo Butler and Gerald Cash held West, and R. T. Symonette and Sammie Isaacs won in the East. The piece notes sadness over Duppuch's defeat, a seven year outlook, and a separate crime report of a bandit stealing $187.60 after threatening a father.
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Nassau
S. L. Sands
Dr. Sawyer
B. A. Cambridge
C. R. Walker
Randol F. Fawkes
L. O. Pindling
Milo Butler
Gerald Cash
R. T. Symonette
Sammie Isaacs
Dupuch
East
P.L.P
B. D
Robbery at Nassau Rector's Home Speaks of Kidnapped Infant
The Rev. Donald Lambert of St. Matthew Church Nassau reports his rectory was robbed by an armed masked bandit who entered about 1 30 a m last Sunday. The burglar seized the three months old baby from the rector's cassock and threatened to cut the phone line as he fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Lambert
St. Matthew Church
Nassau
Father Lambert
Church concert raises funds for Rosebell Johnson surgery
Transfiguration Baptist Church sponsored a concert that realized 98.00 dollars to be given toward the Rosebell Johnson surgery fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transfiguration Baptist Church
Rosebell Johnson Surgery Fund
Death of Haggra Clark in Nassau. funeral at St. Margaret Kemp Road
Haggra Clark of Harts Exuma died suddenly last week in Nassau and was buried from St. Margaret Church on Kemp Road. The notice names the deceased and the church of the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haggra Clark
Harts
Exuma
Nassau
St. Margaret Church
Kemp Road
Bahamas Federation of Labor Celebrates Second Anniversary Parade
The Bahamas Federation of Labor marked its second anniversary with a June 1 parade from Windsor Park to the Southern Recreation Grounds, featuring khaki laborers and taxi drivers in uniform, union groups, banners reading Freedom Now or Never and Blood Sweat and Tears, and a mass meeting that honored His Excellency the Governor. W. F. Mallory, Randol Fawkes, Ken Sterling, L. O. Pindling, and other union officials attended as the governor delivered a timely address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahamas
W. F. Mallory
Randol Fawkes
Ken Sterling
International Trade Unions
L. O. Pindling
Benedict College Glee Club Concerts Aid Bahamas Fund
The Benedict College Glee Club gave two successful concerts during their Nassau visit to raise funds for the Bahamas Scholarship Fund. One performance occurred at St John and the other at Mt Zion Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benedict College
Nassau
Bahamas
St. John
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
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BTW
Miami Times
Peoples
Carporte
N.W. 49Th St
Egelloc
Harlem Square Sweet Shop
N.W
Miami Carver
3Rd Ave
Robert Lofton
Mgr
Dade County
Kay Marie
Ie Area
Miami
62Nd Street
Florida
62Nd St
Johnson & Sons
15Th Ave
Che Wan Gimess
the Peoples’ Newspaper
Stanley Sweeting
Fuller Cosmetics
17Th Ave
CBS House
53Rd St
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