Evening star., 1941-05-15
Small Attendance
Closes High School
AT Round Hill
County School Board
Orders Pupils Token
To Lincoln High
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


LEESBURG, Va, May 15.-The
High School Department at Round
Hill, not meeting the attendance re-
quirementS of an accredited high
school, was ordered closed next ses-
sion at a meeting of the Loudoun
County School Board yesterday. The
pupils will be taken to Lincoln High
School. This will leave five high
schools in the county.
Other changes in the school or
ganiZatioh for next session will be
made as follows: Close Cool Spring
Elementary School and convey pu-
pills to Leesburg; discontinue grades
and of Mountain Gap School
and convey pupils to Leesburg; close
TalyorstoWn School and convey pu-
pills to Lovettsville; close limerick
School and convey pupils to Hills
boro; reroute high school pupils
from limerick, .Neersville and Hills
boro areas to LovettSville; reroute
elementary and high school pupils
from Edge Grove area to Round Hill
and Lincoln; employ five elementary
teachers at Round Hill employ 10
elementary and high school teach
ers, including the principal, at Lees
burg; combine agriculture teachers
at Leesburg and Lovettsville; employ
seven elementary and five high
school teachers and one part-time
teacher at Lovettsville; employ nine
high school teachers and one half
time teacher at Lincoln, the teacher
of agriculture to work full time at
this school: employ four high school
teachers at Douglass High School,
including home economies, indus
trial arts and library science.
Four Buses Added.
Four new buses will be put on
next session, and changes were made
in a number of bus routes to serve
the pupils affected by the changes
in the school organization. The new
buses will operate from the Noun
tain Gap-Cool Spring section, from
the limerick -Hillsboro- Wheatland
section to Lovettsville, from Wood
land to Lovettsville, and for colored
pupils from WilliSville to the Doug
lass High School in Leesburg.
The School Board fixed the local
supplement to the salary of the
division superintendent at S1,770
which is an increase of S400, and
travel allowance at S400 per year
beginning on July l, 194l. The
salary of the supervisor of elemen-
tary schools was fixed for 1941-42.
Teacher Appointments.
The following teachers were ap-
pointed for next session:
Aldie High School, Jane Reynolds,
w. E. Hopkins and Francis j.
Soukey; Ashburn, Vera Terminella;
Leesburg, Kathryn Everhart, Jane
J. Palmer, Mrs. Rubye j. Harding
and Mrs. Marion P. Simpson; Lin
coin High School, Carrie Lanford,
Lula Bray and R. H. Burtner; Low
ettsville, Lucy Tom Eppes and Dor
othy Patterson; Lucketts, Janet
Miller and Elizabeth Lake; Purcell
vile, Frances Everhart; Round Hill,
Virginia Y. Bragg; Waterford, Hes
ter Payne; librarian, Miss Frances
Edwards.
Colored teachers appointed are:
Hillsboro, Isaac J. Daniel, Lees
burg; Moses D. Knox, Edith A.
Smith and Daisybelle Jones; Lin
coin, Curtis Ewing; Lovettsville,
Luvenia Ramey; Powells Grove,
Victoria Goens; Round Hill, Hannah
B. Daniel.
The board also appointed bus
drivers for next session, made con-
tracts with private bus owners and
appointed janitors for the 1941-42
session.