Evening star., 1941-05-14
School Officials,
Trustees Named
In Montgomery
DR.. Broome Picked
For Another Term
As Superintendent

The Montgomery Board of Edu-
cation named DR.. Edwin w. Broome
to another four-year term as county
superintendent at its meeting yes
terday after re-electing Mrs. Julius
Hall president and J. Upton Lea
mon vice president for the coming
year.
Graduation dates for the Pooles-
vile, Bethesda Chevy Chase, Sher-
wood, Damascus and Lincoln High
Schools were set for June 10 and
for the Richard Montgomery,
Gaithersburg and Montgomery
Blair High Schools June 20.
The Building Committee, con-
sisting of F. K. Metzger, Mr.. Leamon
and Julius P. Stadler, reported on
preliminary plans for the fall con-
struction program and was directed
to ask for bids as soon as working
drawings have been obtained.
School Site Is Studied.
The board also approved the
recommendation of the Building
Committee to purchase school
site for the Bradley boulevard sec
ton from Philip Milestone. The
site Is located between the boule-
ward to Cedar lane and approxi-
mately at the intersection of Broad
moor street and Madison street.
The committee on school construc-
ton was authorized to determine
the location for the proposed -Four
Corners school after further study
and conference with the State De-
partment of Education and the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which
must approve school site purchases.
Repairs to the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School resulting from
q fire in the upper part of the build
ing last February will cost $40 ,322,
It was revealed at the meeting when
a contract for that amount was
awarded to T. Calvin Owen, the low
est bidder. Wilson E. Everhart, 19-
year-old former Bethesda volunteer
fireman. was held for action OF the
Circuit Court grand jury after waiv- |
ing a hearing in Bethesda Police
Court Yesterday on charge OF
arson growing out of the fire.
Trustees Appointed.
Pupils of the seventh and eighth |
grades of the Glen Echo Cabin John |
School will attend the Leland Junior /
High School beginning with the fall
term under a plan adopted by the
board yesterday. The transfer Is
Intended to give the small group of
children of those grades the op-
portunity of standard junior high
school work.
School trustees were appointed for
three-year terms as follows:
Laytonsville. Greenberry Griffith;
Redland, c. w. Pope; Hyattstown,
Samuel p. Miles; Clarksburg, Mrs.
Howard Miles; Germantown, Mrs.
W. o. Young; Poolesville, E. K.
Duble; Rockville, Mrs. Walter Will
nams; Montrose, John p. Keiser. !
Garrett Park, Mrs. E. Chisholm;
Burtonsville, Fred Kruhm; Fairland,
willard NARROW; Jamestown, Spen-
Ger Ward; Travilah, Mrs. Willie |
Ward; Bethesda, Samuel E. Block
ham; Chevy Chase, DR.. Harold G.
Sutton; Leland, David L. Du Pre-;
Somerset, Charles Rippey; West
brook, Granville GUIDE; Sherwood,
Mrs. Dawson Trundle; Gaithersburg,
McKendree Walker.
Washington Grove, Melvin Ridge
"; Potomac, Mrs. Daniel Peck;
Dickerson, Bernard Jones; Damas-
Gus, r. E. Burdette; Kensington, w.
II. McGinnis; Woodside, Frank B.
Proctor; Glenmont, Richard Gustin;
Takoma- Silver Spring, Mrs. Katie
Clark; Silver Spring, Francis H.
Townsend; Parkside, Walter G. De
Groot.
Colored Trustees.
Laytonsville, j. D. Prather;
Clarksburg, Mrs. Clifton Snowden;
Poolesville, Samuel Copeland; Rock
vile Elementary, Charles Duffln;
Lincoln High School, Fred Howard;
Scotland, Lewis Burley, jr..
Spencerville, Peyton Campbell:
Smithville, Harry Mathews; Ger
mantown, George Beckwith; Ounce
Orchard, Sarah Brown; River Road,
p. c. Haitian; Sandy Spring, Llew-
elyn Bishop; Norbeck, Milton Hol-
land
Washington Grove, Nathan Du-
vail: Choppers, eye Frazier; Steward
town, Louis Warren; Sellman, Wash
ington Hamilton; Linden, Charles
Bullock; Ken Gar, Ernest Stewart; |
Takoma Park, Perry E. Hawkins.
The board authorized the band
instruction to continue during the |
summer months.