Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-09-25
SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS
SPECIAL MEETING
Overcrowded Rooms Requires Action.
Colored School Claims Attention.

City Board of Education was held
last Friday night in the board room
of the Public School Building to
conduct pressing business which had
arisen since the opening of school of
September 9th.
A delegation of colored women, re-
presenting the Colored Womens' Re-
publican Unit, of Beverly, was re-
ceived by the Board. Headed by Mrs.
c. Rice, they voiced in no uncertain
names, their complaints as to the
condition of the colored school rooms
located in the City Hall; requesting
the Board to scrub the floors, win
dows, doors and woodwork, scrape
and repaint the walls, rake and clean
up the yard, replace the painted
blackboards with new slate ones,
supply teachers with new maps,
charts, globes, ETC., furnish pictures
and other decorations for the walls
repair and remodel the lavatories,
furnish new qavatories for the teach
ers and numerous other improve
ments.
The Board thanked the delegation
for their interest in the school and
stated that t'-ev would make an in
in question
uuge as would
practical, anticipating at the
same time however the early erection
of the new colored school.
The "Unit" further stated that
seven colored children had not been
vaccinated because of shortage of
funds and feared they might be re-
fused in the school Mr.. Hopkins,
President of the Board, instructed
them to send to him, any children
who were financially unable to get
vaccinated.
The Board of Trustees of the Hope
Hose Fire Company No. 2, Messrs.
Holland, Cara afSf Toner, then offer
ed to the Board the use of one of
the rooms of the new fire house, hav-
ing learned that the school was over
crowded and in need of additional
space. Their offer was considered and
decision withheld until later in the
evening.
Professor Dilks presented to the
Board statement of the number of
pupils in each room and indicated
that the total number enrolled would
be nearly 100 more than last year.
Overcrowding exists in several rooms
especially in the 9Th and 9th grades
and as new class of the overflow
from both rooms was suggested by
Supervisor Dilks..
He also proposed changes in the
arrangement of the classes in the
colored school where the enrolment
had jumped frou about 80 last year
to over 100 this year. He pointed
out that further overcrowding might
be expected with the annual migra-
ton of ''pickers" from the farms
back to Beverly for the winter.
The Board granted permission to
establish new 9Th and 9Th class
and instructed Mr.. Dilks to procure
a new teacher and to provide them
room by placing the two classes of
the second grade on part time, at
once.
In the colored school consent was
given to rearrange the classes so
that the 9Th and 9th grades would
be together, the 3rd and 4th and the
LIST and End. In the LIST and End
joint class there would be over 40
pupils and for the extra work of
teaching this number in a double
grade room, extra compensation was
offered to the teacher.
A set of new modern movable
desks were ordered purchased to re-
place the poor desks of room in the
main school building, which desks in
turn were ordered to be removed and
spread among the other rooms where
there are shortage of desks.
The property committee reported
that the remodelling of the Domestic
Science room had been completed and
it was ready for use. This was an
old basement room in which larger
windows have been placed and walls
plastered and painted white.
The attention of the Board was
called to the fact that Council was
holding up the $4,000 ordinance for
the new school building because of