Evening star., 1933-07-01
QU|NNANDHOUST0N
NAMED TO SCHOOL
BOARD BY JUSTICES
Two Lawyers Appointed Yes
terday Are Both Natives
of District.
MRS. SMITH REAPPOINTED
FOR THREE MORE YEARS
Educational Group Now Has Four
Members of the Legal
Profession.

Two lawyers, Henry I. Quinn and
Charles H. Houston, have been appoint
ed to the District of Columbia Board
of Education by the justices of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court and
were eligible to take the oath of Office
at the annual reorganization meeting Of
the board this morning. These appoint
ments, announced late yesterday, bring
the total number of members of the
legal profession on the School Board to
four.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith. who has
served on the board since 1928, was re-
appointed for another three-year term.
johnson Reelected.
The reorganization meeting was
marked by the reelection of DR.. Hay
den Johnson. chancellor of National
University, as president, and Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle as vice president.
Harry o. Hines, secretary OF the
board, announced that the oath of
Office had been mailed to Mrs. Smith
at her Summer home in Massachusetts,,
and that Mr.. Houston would take the
oath on July II.
In the business session following the
reorganization the School Board adopted
a definite policy on married school
system employees. The policy is in two
phases:
l. A person in the schools whose
husband or wife is employed in the
government, who has the lowest rating
In that particular group CT employees,
will be terminated in case it becomes
necessary to reduce the number of en-
ployes, in any personnel group beyond
the reductions which have taken place
up to and including June 80, 1888.
2. A person whose name stands No.
on an appropriate eligible list of can
didateS fer positions whose husband or
wife is employed in the governments and
who continues to be so employed will
be passed over in making appointments
to the service.
At the suggestion of Henry Gilligan,
chairman OF the Legislative Commlltee
of the board, these two divisions OF
the policy were acted on separately
and he voted against the second pro-
vision. Mr. Gilligan contended that
the law governing employed spouses in
Government service has nothing what
ever to do with our appointing OF per-
sons to the service"
The board also agreed today to open
three sight conservation classes in Sep
tember. Two of these classes would
be located in white schools and one
would be established in the colored
schools. Pupils whose eyesight Is in
need of particular care will be assigned
to those classes on recommendation OF
the health officer just as now certain
crippled children are assigned to the
two schools for crippled in the public
school system.
Succeeds Rabbi Simon.
Mr.. Quinn, who came to Washington
from Bay Ridge, Md, this morning to
be sworn in as a member of the board,
succeeds Rabbi Abram Simon, veteran
board member. who a month ago notl-
fled Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court that
i'll health demanded his withdrawal
from the board. Mr.. Houston, proml-
nent in the colored race here, succeeds
Rev. F. l. A. Bennett, Episcopal clergy
man, who had completed three sue
cessive three-year terms. BY GOMEZ
dence. it was Rev. DR.. Bennett VINO
succeeded william Houston, the father
of the new appointee, at tne ternhnia-
ton of his term in 1924.
other School Board members VINO
remain on the board are DR.. Hayden
Johnson, chancellor of National UnlVer-
sity and a lawyer who was elected pres
ident last Fall, although he was mace
member of the board only last july Dr.
I HAYDEN johnson, colored physician.
who is the dean, in point Of service OF
all School Board members; Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, vice president OF the
board; Henry Gilligan, also an attor-
ney; George Whitwell, and Mrs. Mary
A. Mcneil.
Native of District.
Mr.. Quinn is a native of Washington.
He was schooled at Gonzaga College ana
at Georgetown University. He holds
the degrees OF bachelor of laws, master
of laws and master of arts, and Is
member of the District Bar Association,
the American Bar Association, the
washington Board Of Trade, the Plney
Branch Citizens Association, and the
Congressional Country Club. He has
been active in civic affairs OF the Dis
trict for a number of years and has
been a prominent delegate to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations. He Is
married and has two children.
Mr.. Houston, also a native Washing
tonian, was schooled at the old M Street
High School, the forerunner of the
present Dunbar High School. He sub
sequently attended Amherst College
from which he was graduated at the
age of 10. Later he took his law work
at the Harvard Law School. He is
associated with his father in the law
firm of Houston & Houston. He now Is
in Chicago and the oath of the School
Board will be administered to him on
his return