Milford chronicle., 1920-12-31
PLANS OF DELAWARE
SCHOOL AUXILIARY
PIERRE S. DU POINTS ADDITIONAL GIFTS
OF $4,000 WILL BROADEN THE
SCOPE OF THE WORK.
GRAND TOTAL OF FS3,4l9,OOO
HAS BEEN PLACED AT The DISPOSAL
OF THE DELAWARE SCHOOL AUX
ILlARY ASSOCIATION.

Pierre s. du Points recent supple.
ment gifts. aggregating $4,000 fol
school developments in the state, will
enable the Delaware School Auxiliary
Association to broaden the scope OF
its work. The following statement
was contained in the report of DIR.
Joseph H. Odell, director of the Ser
vice Citizens, at the meeting of the
executive and finance committees:
'The work of the Delaware School
Auxiliary Association has reached the
state in which its manifold activities
cannot be understood without notify
ing the Service Citizens and the pub
Z lie at large that Mr.. P. S. du Pont
has recent. made two supplementary
deeds of trust, the first for S669, 900,
which is intended to meet a number
of specific emergencies such as the
purchase and erection of portable
schools, the cost of obtaining exact
scientific knowledge of pupil enroll
ment throughout the State and the
stimulating of attendance in schools
by various means. The second supple
mentary deed of trust of S250,000 is
general in its terms, but is intended
to cover such work as we may deem
necessary in making the colored col
lege at Dover an effective institution
and a cvredit to the state, educational
propaganda and emergency work for
other institutions, and for Delaware
College. These gifts have forced us
into a range of duties that extend very
far beyond the original school build
ing program. Altogether Mr.. du Pont
has placed at the disposal of the Del
aware School Auxiliary Association
S3,419,000.
The Building Program
"In presenting my report to you
am assuming that you have read the |
published quarterly report dated. No
vember l and shall try to tell only |
what has been accomplished since that |
time.
"a colored school site for Claymont /
in New Castle county has been pur-
chased, six tenths of an acre of
which was presented by the Worth
Steel Company. We also have secured
sites for the colored schools at Union,
Parkers' Chapel and Smy-
rna in Kent county.
"The colored schools at Matthew's
Corner, Port Penn and Odessa have
been completed. Title to these proper
ties has already been conveyed to the
New Castle County Board of Educa-
tion.
"The portable schools at Marshall
.on and Middletown are completed and
in use. The sectional school which
we are building at Oak Hill for white
pupils will be ready for occupancy
with the opening of the next school I
erm. The two room portable build J
ng at Richardson Park is in course c
If erection and should be finished by |
he first of January.
'The construction department of the a
Worth Steel Co. is engaged in erect
ng two room brick school for col \
red pupils at Claymont the Delaware !
school Auxiliary Association to fur L
Iish the cost. Y
after we had completed the dormi- '
ories and the enlargement of the din
ng hall at the Women's College of s.
Delaware at Newark, it was found +
ecessary to make an addition to the n
itchen. This work has been complet- u
d. p
Upon the joint request of Della a.
are College and the Newark Special II
district Board of Education we are II
rectine one room nortabIe school oi
| Newark which will be used in the U
Immediate future as a room for un- di
raded pupils and later will be re- u
owed to the campus of the Women's 10
olege for the use of the Teacher "
raining Department and the Summer D'
chool students. pc
"a five room colored school at Mil Dl
rd is well under way. ii
I'VE have let a contract for a five ie
'om colored school at Smyrna at ne
ice of $36,91235. "
''The portable units at the Milford CT
hite School are now in use. Plans re
we been prepared for one room col :,
ed schools at John Wesley, Fork
-anch and Willow Grove.
"a two-room. portable school in va
'idgeville is about half completed. ne
"The Sussex County Board of Ed ~,
alton effected a consolidation at 90,
llville. Ocean View. As this is the ~, o,s
st consolidation in Sussex county, "a
d as the county Board is unable to 81
nd for any building purposes, the -, .r-o
laware School Auxiliary Associa- 49, 49,
n decided to build the school from No,
own funds. The concrete founda- Hse HS'
ms are already in and the super 49,
'ucture will be wood covered with ~ ~
lined shingles. There will be six We We
citation rooms and the following nI:, ,lIU
ON. ~ Aor;c',it,,ra Poon,. WanuaI cor
aiming Room; room for principal . uis
/ room for teachers; together with In. ins
the modern facilities of an educa- S uo1
nal building. peo
Plans for the Laurel colored school an
l be submitted for bids during jan el en-