Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-03
RoIIingwood PTA Vetoes
Indignation Plan by 81

Inte9roTIOn
The Rollingwood Parent
Teacher Association voted, 8 to l.,
last night to reject its executive
boards acceptance Of a school
administration plan that would
put 80 colored pupils from 2
miles away into the school
The action supports the stand
taken by the newly organized
Rollingwpod Community Asso-
citation, which has been leading
the fight against the indignation
plan. The organization last week
submitted a petition containing
1923 names to the school board
in opposition to the proposal.
The vote last night taken by
secret ballot. was 176 to IS. > It
was followed by an oyerwhefm-
ing voice vote opposing the in
tegration plan and asking tr,e
school board to abandon it.
If the board does not, "the
association will take whatever
legal action is necessary to pro-
tect les children, parents, edu-
cational system and other i'm
portant rights" the resolution
said.
500 Jam Shelter
Some 500 Rollingwood resi-
dents damned the Rock Greek
Shelter and stood outside win.
dows and doors for the special
meeting.
Montgomery County School:
Supt. Forbes H. Norris under.
ewnt a Commute question lar.
rage as the meeting began. DR.
Norris took the floor after 9
bitter parliamentary wrangle
over procedure that saw the ex.
ecutive boards proposed rule or
identification of speakers de-
feated badly.
The Executive Board hat
sought to require all speakers Il
indicate how many children the,
had and in what grades the!
were located in the Rollingwooc
School. The move was aimed al
emphasizing that 81 new mem.
bers joined the PTA before thu
meeting last night so that they
could vote on the indignation
issue.
Stems From Norris Plan
The Rollingwood controversy
stems from a plan of DR.. Norris
and his staff to transport the
colored pupils two miles from
Lyttonsville, which is two school
districts away, to Rollingwood
as a result of the closing of the
Linden School in the colored
community. Thirty-two others
would go to Woodlin and SO to
McKenney Hills.
Woodlin Is the school nearest
Lvttonsville and Rock Greek
Forest is only a short distance
away. The latter would get NJ
colored pupils because of over
crowding there, under the ad'
ministration's plan.
Three school board members
Mrs. Helen Scharf. Mrs. Ros'
Kramer, and Wayne Birdsell
were on hand last night to hea'
the present dilemma" referret
to as lone of their own making.
DR.. Norris said that the entirI
Linden situation would be dis
cussed further with the schoo
board as a result of last night
meeting.
|. The school superintendent
read a special resolution adopted
by the board last April % OF
motion Of Mrs. Kramer permit
ting the transportation of chill
dren ito the nearest school hav
ing facilities available" from tn
four suburban Negro school
being closed this year.
The Kramer resolution hat
slipped his mind, DR.. Norris toll
reporters and had been callet
to his attention by Mrs. Schar
prior to last nights meeting
The resolution, in effect, relieved
schools authorities Of the neces
sity of following the boards owl
indignation policy which calls fo
"a realignment of school districts
and the attendance of children
in the school of their distric
without regard to race.
Defends Action
DR.. Norris defended his actor
as being in the best interest o.
the largest number Of children
and said that the transfer tt
Rollingwood would be only tenn
porary.
The superintendent emphasiz'
ed it was his STATS policy Il
redistrict only when it appeared
such redistricting would last :
to S years.
LyttonSville pupils next year