Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-25
Transfer Of Langley
To CoIored Siudents
Voted by Committee
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lpersed to Hine, Eliot and Lang.
ley without great inconvenience.
He said the trend in the ares
was toward an increase in coloree
families and that seven elemen-
Itary schools had been transferred
to colored students in the past five
years In that section.
Langley, located at Second anc
T streets NE. is adjacent to Nc
Kinley High School. Its capacity
lis 1.224 and its enrolment is 496
DR.. Corning said that the trans
fer Of Langley would afford i'm
mediate relief from overcrowdine
In the colored junior highs, but
lit was not so conveniently located
To place the Langley students ir
the Mckinley building woulc
cause educational disadvantages
land to send them to another
Junior high school would require
considerable travel. he explained
Eliot is located at Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
NE, adjacent to Eastern High
School. Its capacity is 918 anc
its enrolment is 459.
DR.. Corning said it would be-
possible to accommodate the Eliot
pupils in other junior highs but al
great inconvenience.
He concluded:
| After taking into consideration
the various factors for and against
each transfer, the superintendent,
land the school officers concerned
lare unanimously OF. the opinion
that the best interest of the schoo
system and the children will bs
served by giving consideration t.
the transfer Of Junior high school,
concerned in the following order
of preference-Stuart. Eliot, Lang.
ley"
Citizens opposing the transfer
OF Langley were headed by Lyman
Long, a member of the McKinley
High PTA. He said the use OF
Langley as a colored school Sc
close to a white school-the two
buildings are separated by q
driveway-is IAN experiment in
violence" He said it was not adj
Ivisable to operate a colored and
a white school so close together
Warns of Trouble" at Langley.
Others opposing the Langley
transfer took this same stand and
warned of trouble If the transfer
were made. These speakers in
Icluded Mrs. Erline Eiford, presi-
dent of the Brookland Elementary
School PTA; Mrs. Joseph S
Yuill. a Mckinley High mother:
Mrs. Isabel Short, president OF
the Emery Elementary School
IPTA; Mrs. Andrew G. Weaver
president Of the Mckinley High
PTA: Mrs. Margaret Harris, men,
her Of the Langley PTA.
Also Mrs. Jerome X. Lyle
president Of the Taft Junior High
PTA; Mrs. Ina Whitall, president
of the Langley PTA: Mrs. Franci,
Alcorn, Of the Moves Elementary
School 4PTA: Ralph w. Donnelly
president of the Northeast Coun.
Icil OF Citizens Associations; Mrs
Sophie Soloman, of the Seator
Elementary School PTA, and Mrs
Louis K. Parent, OF the Brookland
Citizens Association.
Opposition to the transfer oil
Eliot Junior High was presented
by Mrs. Margaret L. Stouffer
president Of the Eliot Junior High
PTA and L. r. Tindal. president
Iof the Lincoln Park Citizens AS.
|sociation.
The citizens opposing the trans
fer OF Stuart Junior High School
many OF whom appeared before
the board last week, included Mrs
Lloyd Head. president of the
Stuart PTA; Frederick Knox and
Dyson Seath, members Of the PTA
Colored Citizens Appear
A number Of colored citizens
appeared to request relief for the
crowded Junior high schools serv-
ing their children. Robert r,
Brooks, representing the Logan
Elementary School PTA and the
Federation Of Parent Teacher AS
sociations. asked the board To
support DR.. Corning's recommen-
dation that Stuart be transferred
DR.. Jesse A. Keene and Mrs
Rosina c. Tucker, both of the
Public Interest Civic Association
also asked for the transfer OF
Stuart. Leon A. Thompson. pres
ident OF the Federation of Civic
Associations, called for the aboli-
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