Evening star., 1951-06-07
School Board Names
New Business Head;
Ii. Col. Atwood Refires

Ii. Col. Atwood Retires
The Board of Education has
named Charles N. Zellers, an as
sistant professor at YOUNGSTOWN
(Ohio) College, to be the new as
sistant school superintendent in
charge Of business administra-
ton.
Appointment Of Mr.. Zellers, "a,
was made yesterday. He will take
over sometime early in July the
position vacated by Adelbert w.
Heinmiller, who now is on the
staff of the House Appropriations
Committee.
At the same time, the School
Board retired 1t. Col. Henry O..
Atwood, colored. 10, head of the
department of military science
and tactics for the colored high
school, and nine teachers with
long service in the schools. Col.
Atwood has been with the school
system for 26 years.
The naming of the new assistant
school superintendent, with a |
starting salary of about $1,000 a i
year, leaves one major appoint
ment still to be made by the Board
of Education. DR.. Garnet C.
Wilkinson, assistant superintend-
ent in charge of colored schools,
will retire at the close Of this
school year.
Mr.. Zellers, a native of Colum-
biana, Ohio, was graduated from
Youngstown College in 1899. He
received his masters degree in
business administration from the
University of Pennsylvania in
1941. He also spent a year at the
Harvard Business School.
Served in World War III.
Mr.. Zellers entered the Navy as
an apprentice seaman and was
discharged in 1916 as a lieutenant.
His whole service was in the Sup
ply Corps, one post being account
ing officer Of the Naval Air Ad-
vance Training Command at
Jacksonville, Fla, handling more
than 81 million a month.
He was appointed assistant pro-
fessor at Youngstown College after
leaving the Navy. He is married
and hoo %x,o aHnfIdyarn
The retirement of 1t. Col. At
wood was marked. by a tribute
from School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning to his service to the
School Board.
Col. Atwood was educated in the
District public schools and was al
graduate Of the old M Street High
School, now Dunbar. He attended
Howard University and was grad
uated from Lincoln University.
He joined the Army during the
Spanish American War, thus be-
ginning a long career in the mill
tary service. During World War
I, he served as q captain in the
S68th Infantry in France. Shortly
after World War I, he was ap-
pointed to a commission to Africa
to militarize Liberals conStabu-
larry.
Col. Atwood was appointed mill
tary instructor in the District
schools in 1925. In 1946 he was
made head of the department.
DR.. Corning pointed out that,
through his work with the cadet
corps in the colored high schools,
Col. Atwood had guided many a
young man into the service. The
first Negro to be graduated from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis
was a former Atwood cadet, he
said, and many West Point cadets
had their first military training
under Col. Atwood.
Others Also Retired.
The board also retired:
Miss Maud E. Mcpherson, 1916
Hobart street NV, a teacher at
Western High School, after 81
YEARS VI oC1EkCCS N44o0 N4s ASSoSAAeS
Rouse, 1899 Irving street NV, Of
Stuart Junior High School, after
80 years; Ernest r. Amos, ST., 1924
Girard street NV, Of Armstrong
High School, after IS years; Percy
A. Roy, AIT q street NV, of
Armstrong High School, after 38
: years.
Also, Mrs. Harriet q. Dixon,
1888 q street NV, Of Bundy Ele-
mentary School, after 81 years;
Mrs. Mabel r. Andrews, 2725 P
street NV, of Phillips Elementary
School, after 40 years; Miss Ger
aldine L. M. Tate, Of 1747 T street
NV, of Stevens Elementary
School, after 80 years; Mrs. Mary
e. Moore, 80 Lee avenue, Takoma
Park, Of Whittier Elementary
School, after 81 years. and
Miss Elizabeth T. Stewart, 1857
North Washington boulevard, Falls
Church, Of Stoddert Elementary
School, after 40 years.
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