Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
TRAINING SCHOOL
FUND NOW $1,000
De Priest Heads Committee
Seeking $4,000 for Col
0red Institution.

Headed by Representative Oscar de
Priest of Illinois the Citizens Commit
tee for the National Training School
for Women and Girls, Inc, an insti-
tuition for colored persons, already has
collected $1,000 of the $4,000 1t has
set out to obtain by April IL.
The campaign for funds for this In
Stitution, which for the past 20 years
has devoted its energies and capacities
to the training Of colored women and
girls in various fields of endeavor, was
launched during the week. At the first
meeting of the collection workers In
the PhilliS Wheatley Y. w. G. A. Friday
night the receipt OF 1864 was reported
and by late yesterday the total was
announced by Morris Lewis, executive
secretary of the committee, to have
reached $1,000.
Meetings to Continue.
Meetings of the committee will con-
tinue each Friday night during the drive
which is scheduled to be closed with
an elaborate entertainment IN the
Washington Auditorium Sunday, April
IL. According to plans made public
late yesterday by Mr.. Lewis, who also
Is secretary to Representative de Priest,
the Bordentown, N. j., Manual Training
School Band will play at the entertain
ment. 1t is planned to engage some
outstanding soloist for that occasion
also.
The contributions and pledges already
made include donations of 500 each by
Representative de Priest, Carter D.
Woodson and John r. Hawkins.
The National Training School for
Women and Girls, Inc, of which Miss
Mamie H. Burroughs is president, is
located at Lincoln Heights, D. c. 1t was
established by the Woman's National
Baptist Convention and Is operated by
q self -perpetuating board of trustees.
The institution represents an effort at
self-help ON the part Of colored people
In the field of education.
More than 1000 students have been
enrolled since the school was founded
and many of its graduates today are
engaged in mission work in foreign
fields. Many others are engaged in
the business field of their own homes
as social workers, teachers and as home
makers.
Aims Are FOurfOId.
Offering three academic courses-two
years of junior high school, four years
OF senior high school, and two years of
normal or Junior college-the National
Training Schools aims are fourfold. It
seeks to train, l, social workers who are
capable OF working in communities all
over the country; 2, musicians, particu-
larry pianists and organtsts for colored
churches; 3, business women, secretaries
and professional stenographers, and 4,
home makers whose abilities are so de-
veloped as to permit them to offer real
contribution to the social and aesthetic
tastes of Negro home and church life.
The ultimate goal of the school is
the enlargement of its present plant and
the improvement of its equipment. Spe-
ciflcally, this expansion will include the
construction Of a new dormitory to
cost 100000; the erection of another
story on the present trades hall to cost
$17,500, the building of a combination
chapel and dining hall at a cost of
1000, and the general improvement
OF the campus at an expenditure of
$4,000. The school plans also to elm
mate its present Indebtedness Of $45, 900.