Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-13
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Twenty-nine Arlington church.
education and civic leaders have
been appointed to serve on Q
school board committee to study
problems of school integration.
The appointments were an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Eliza
beth Campbell, school board
chairman, and T. Edward Rutter.
superintendent of schools.
The committee includes MEM
bers of both races. Appointment
OF the group was authorized at q
recent school board meeting to
study problems arising from the
Supreme Court ruling against
segregated school systems.
Arlington schools plan to OPP
crate during the 1954-55 school
year on the current segregated
basis, on instructions of the Viz
GINA State Department OF Edu-
cation. The State order requires
public schools to delay integra-
ton until the Supreme Court de-
cides how it should be carried
out.
Meeting Planned Soon.
School officials said the COM
mittee probably would meet
within two weeks to name a
chairman, and then meet again
In September to study the prob
lem.
Members of the new commit
tee are:
Frank Ball, ST., attorney and
former State senator; Victor
Blue, health and physical educa-
ton teacher at Wakefield High
School; Rev. jackson A. Browne,
immediate past president of the
Arlington Ministerial Associa-
ton, minister of Lomax A. M. E.
Zion Church; Mrs. Edith Burton,
member of the American AsSoci-
alton of University Women and
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
Also Joseph H. Carr. employed
by Edward r. Carr, Inc, Wash
ington builder; DR.. Claire Christ
man, director of Arlington public
school health services: Mrs.
A. j. E. Davis, first vice presi-
dent of the Arlington Council Of
Church Women; the Rev. Will
liam H. Foster, pastor OF Trinity
Presbyterian Church; Alfred
Frisbie, broker and former chair
man of the Arlington County
Board; j. Fuller Groom. member
of the Northern Virginia Real
Estate Board.
Also Mrs. Esther Halstead,
teacher at Drew Elementary
School in Arlington: George
Hancock, executive secretary OF
the Veterans Memorial YMCA;
Edward c. Holland, president,
Old Dominion Bank; Mrs. Has
kell Jacobs, immediate past vice
president of the Women's League
of the .Arlington-Fairfax Jewish
Center; DR.. Harold Johnson. Ar
lington physician; Miss Lillian
Lambert. principal of Fairling-
ton Elementary School; Miss
Sally Loving. social studies
teacher at Westinghouse High
School; Mrs. Colin C. MacPher-
son, former president of the Vir-
GINA Council of Republican
Women; DR.. Joseph McCaskell,
vice chairman of the board of
directors of the Arlington YMCA
and staff assistant to the Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior.
Also Jesse Pollard, architect
and president of the Hoffman
Boston School Parent-Teacher
Association; George Richardson.
principal of Hoffman-Bosto
Elementary and Junior-Senior
High School; Mrs. James D. Rig
don, former president of the
Northern Virginia Deanery of
Catholic Women; Mrs. Mary
Shirley. former secretary of the
NAACP, and retired school
teacher; DR.. Raymond Schwartz,
chief of medicine, Arlington Hos
pital; Claude Sweeney, vice
president of the Langston Citi-
zens' Association.
Also Theodore w. Taylor,
management specialist of the
U. S. Indian Service; DR.. Curtis
E. Tuthill, member of the faculty
at George Washington Univer-
Sity and a former member of
Arlington School Board; Mrs.
William Watt. vice president of
the Virginia Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs. and Miss Lena Wolfe,
principal of Swanson Junior
High School.