Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-22

10 photograph Tile SCilOOl ) NegrO
honor graduates.
Il said I had none" Mrs. Wells
said. The graduating class was
all white.
She said the photographer
told her he had instructions to
look only for Negro students and
then left. The newspaper, under
questioning by Chairman Davis
was identified as the Washing
ton Post and Times Herald.
The Post and Times Herald
said today: "a search of records
Of this newspaper indicated nc
photographer was sent to RooSe-
welt from this paper last June.
Mrs. Wells said she had tried
usually without success, to OBJ
tain newspaper publicity for out
standing students during the
year. She said she felt such
publicity would have helped the
school.
At the close of her testimony
she said she hoped something
good comes from this hearing
Instead of a tearing-down, anC
that all sides are interested in
improving things.
Commended for Testimony
Both Chairman Davis and Mr.
Williams commended her testi-
mony. Mr.. Williams said;
If you ever decide to leave
the District. I would be delighted
to have you teach my children
down in Mississippi"
/ One of the witnesses yesterday
was Mrs. Helen Ingrick, a teach
Ter for many years in the public
school system who had service al
the Emery School. She said she
did not think indignation in the
public schools here was a success
/ 1t was brought out under ex-
animation that Mrs. Ingrick had
two daughters who had attended
local schools. One of them hac
been at Taft Junior High Schoo
and the other at Mckinley High
School.
She said she moved out of the
District and that her daughters
are now attending schools in
Oxon Hill, Md.
In answer to why she hac
moved, Mrs. Ingrick said she felt
her daughters could learn better
there"
| Other witnesses were Theodore
G. Miles, a teacher here for %
years and now at Armstrong
High School. and Miss Edna
Gray, principal of the Monroe
Laboratory School, associated
with the District Teachers Col
lege.
! TRACK Plan Disclosed
Earlier, Cedric o. Reynolds
principal of Calvin Coolidge High
School, described a new plan
under which beginning students
in his school are being assigned
this fall to four different
cracks"
Mr.. Broyhill, a signer of the
lso-called Southern manifesto
against school indignation. asked
whether the plan described by
Mr.. Reynolds was not a form
of pupil assignment plan fol
grouping school children ION
a basis other than racial discrim-
nation"
Mr.. Reynolds agreed that il
was.
] Mr.. Reynolds school has an
estimated so to IS colored stu
dents. 1t had only 20 colorec
students last year.
], Committee Counsel William
Gerber asked how the coloreo
students compared with the
white in their school work. Mr.
Reynolds said that on the aver
age they rated lower.
]. Laid to Economic Background
The median 10. score at Cool
idge is ITO. Mr.. Reynolds said
the median for last years e
colored students was 925.
The Coolidge principal testi-
fed that the school achieve
ment of the colored pupils cor
related on the average with theil
economic background. which he
said was high in some cases and
low in others.
Representative Williams in.
quired:
How did children Of high
income status compare with tn