Evening star., 1931-06-22
SCHOOL TRANSFER
PROTESTS TO Be
AIRED BY BOARD
Several Groups Oppose Turn.
ing Over GreenIeaf to
coIored Pupils.
DIRECTOR is DISCUSSED
FOR COMMUNITY CENTER
Two Other Important Reports
Slated for Wednesdays
Meeting.

Protests against the transfer Of the
Greenleaf School from the white to
colored divisions, consideration of two
important reports and the possible ap-
pointment Of asnew director Of the
Community Center Department and Q
new supervising principal of the third
division are expected to constitute the
program for the meeting of the Board
Of Education Wednesday. The session
probably will close the School Board
business for the present fiscal year.
Following Wednesdays meeting only q
reorganization session remains for the
first of July before the discontinuance
OF board meetings for the Summer.
Both DR.. H. Barrett Learned, presi-
dent OF the board, and the District
Commissioners, have received protests
against turning over the Greenleaf
School, for many years occupied by
white pupils, TO the use of colored chill
dren. S. s. Seigle and DR.. Leon Stuart
Gordon, assistant professor Of patholo-
gy in the medical department of George
Washington University, have addressed
letters to DR.. Learned in which they
contend transfer of the school to COL
ored pupils would place a hardship on
the great number of white children In
Southwest Washington who would be
obliged, by the transfer, to travel great
er distances to school. They point out
also such transfers invariably are re-
f1ected in real estate values in the
nelghborhood by virtue of the resultant
| shifting Of population.
Will Review Transfer.
The District Commissioners have re-
celved similar protest from the South
west Washington Business Mems Asso-
ciation. The letter of the associa-
ton, signed by Perry Brady, secretary,
has been forwarded to the school board
-.
building. The situation created by
the transfer of the Greenleaf School, at
Four -and-a-half and M streets south
west, ordered by the school board two
weeks ago, will be reviewed by the board
Wednesday.
Two outstanding reports now being
considered by members of the board
may be acted upon, although, it was
| explained by DR.. Frank w. Ballou, Su-
perintendent, absence Of two or more
members Wednesday may result in q
decision to withhold these matters until
| the early Fall.
One is the Teachers Union resolution
recommending higher academic REQUIRE
mentS Tor librarians II The teachers
colleges and senior high schools, while
| the other has to do with the recent pro-
| test of the National Association OF FED
eraI employees against what It termed
the absence of sick leave for public
| school janitors and custodians.
In the case of the Librarians, Stephen
/ E. Kramer and Garnet C.. Wilkinson,
| f1rst assistant superintendent, are rec
cmnending that the high school Ii
braries ''be so organized at the earliest
possible moment as to devote these
rooms to the use of pupils desiring to
avail themselves of the library facili-
ties offered rather than places Tor mis-
cellaneous lesson preparations" and
that much-increaSed amount OF
money should be provided for replacing
used books and for supplying additional
books. The report of the assistant
superintendents recommends specifically
! that "an allotment four or five times
| as great as that now available should
! be provided"
Called Highly Desirable.
! The report further asserts the ad-
vanced qualifications recommended for
| school librarians by the teachers union
are highly desirable" Should the
board undertake to act on the protest
of the National Association of Federal
EMPLOYEES, it will receive from DR.. BaIlou
and his staff of officers explanations of
the leave schedule of custodians.
Both of these matters, however, NAV
be held over until the first Fall meet
ing, as immediate action is not re-
(, quired on either.
DR.. Ballou would not say todav
whether he was prepared to recommend
any person to the board to I'LL the
vacancy created by the recent resigna-
ton Of Miss Sybil Baker as director Of
the Community Center Department of
the schools. Neither would he say
| whether successor for Miss Janet
| McWilliams, as superv1strR principal Of
the third division. would be reconi-
mended. In the latter case, however,
he explained there was no particular
hurry in naming successor, since Miss
| McWilliamS' resignation does not be-
come effective until September /.
Meanwhile, Mrs. L. W. Hardy, general
secretary of the department, is carrying
on administration of the ONCE, with the
! guidance of Mr.. Kramer.