Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-02-08
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THE DUNBAR
SPOTLIGHT

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topic, principal, closed with a
talent show on January 81, to
which the admission was one
garment. The boys and girls
councils of the school sponsored
the drive which resulted in the
gratifying contribution of 1900
graments. All students in the
English Department are writing
letters to the persons who will
receive garments.
The mechanics shop has
been re-opened within the past
week. Courses in pre-vocational
and trade auto-mechanics are
very popular with the returning
veterans. Homer Winstead, the
instructor, who was on leave of
absence to the armed forces spent
almost year as teacher of a
course on Diesel Engines at
Hampton Institute.
Negro History Week will be
observed through the history
classes, the chairman, Mrs. Gren-
delta Scott, announced.
The Festival of Negro Music.
featuring local college and church
choirs will be held Friday night,
February Is, at Dunbar High
School Auditorium. The director
of music, Miss Harriet Robin
son, announced that word has
already been received from some
of the colleges and many of the
choirs that they will participate.
The program will be the culmina-
ton of Negro History Week OBJ
servance.
Boys classes in foods will be
open in the near future as cleo
tive courses, the administration
has stated. For number of
years, various groups of boys
have asked to be allowed to re-
ceive training in foods. This
desire to learn to prepare meals
is beginning to bear fruit. \
In the home economics depart
ment. the vacancy left by the
resignation of Mrs. Bernice Bass
has been filled by Mrs. Mary p.
Gaines who formerly taught
Junior high science.
Miss Ann Jordan. teacher of
bookkeeping and mathematics
classes has been ill for several
weeks with the Flu. Her CO.
workers look forward to her re.
turn.
The Class in Spanish. taught
by Mr.. OHM King, has an en-
rollment of 81 students. They
plan an assembly in the latter
part of February.
The S. P. Massie Science Award
for the most outstanding science
student in the high school gradu-
ating class was received by Tyree
Cunningham, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus Cunningham. Mr.. Samuel
p. Massie of the Chemistry De-
partment of Iowa State College
gives this prize twice year in
honor of his father, the late S. p.
Massie, who for more than twenty
years taught science in the high
school. Tyree was also the re-
cipient of the Bausch-Lomb Sci
ence Award, which entities him
to compete for a Scholarship at
the University of Rochester in
early April.
The Misner Players were pre-
sented to the student body by
the English Department in
Queen Till the End.
A Social Hygiene Assembly
climaxed the observance Of So
cial Hygiene Week, February 4-8.
This assembly sponsored by the
Science Department, Miss Edna
Douglas, chairman, included the
Girls Council, the p. r. A. fac
llty and the Medical Profession
The goal of the assembly is To
deeVlop an open-minded, serious
and respectful attitude toward
the scientific and social aspects
Of sex.
Mrs. Hilda Gillespie Carter.
attendance clerk, has been pro-
noted to the position of teacher
At Bush School. Mrs. Bertha
Thompson renlscos