Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-08-29
Kids Return
TO Classes


Indignation Progress
The county's "slow but steady
Indignation program proceeds this
year with an additional 1879 ele-
Negro pupils approved
for desegregated schools and 10S
secondary students, bringing the
total to 651 elementary and 312
secondary Negro students deseg.
regated out of 3017 enrolled in
county schools.
Elementary schools with all
Negro students IN their areas en-
rolled and no estimate on the
number of kindergarten children
this year are: Bethesda, a; Brook
mont, 3; Clara Barton, So; Gar
rett Park 2; Grosvenor Lane, 1;
View, l; Kensington, GA;
Mckinney Hills. 2; North Chevy
Chase, 5; Norwood Special, a;
Rock Creek Forest 80; Rolling
Terrace /; Rosemary, Sc; Silver
Spring intermediate, 2; Somerset,
%; Takoma Park, 81; Woodlin,
"a, and Woodside, 2.
Secondary schools with all Ne
gro students in their areas en-
rolled and no estimate on the
number of 7th graders this year
are: Belt Junior, 1; Leland, 1;
Montgomery Hills, 30; Takoma
Park, IA; Walter Johnson, 8, and
Wheaton, /.
The school board expects the
following additional Negro ele-
enrollments this year
(parentheses indicate number
last year, with Sherwood and
West Rockville, the only ones de-
segregated for the first time this
year:
Burtonsville 1D 16; Clarks-
burg "a 0; Colesville (4) 6; Da-
mascus (2) 20; Falkland (5) 3;
Gaithersburg 80 %; Glen Haven
qD 0; Glenmont % /, lillian.
dale 14) 33; Laytonsville (10)
10; Olney q4) 81; Potomac (24)
0; Sherwood (0 II; West Rock.
vile (0) 6.
Secondary schools expecting adj
ditional Negro enrolment are:
Bethesda Chevy Chase (10) 2;
Damascus 80 8; Gaithersburg
60 /; Kensington t25) /; Mont
gomery Blair (27) 1; North Be.
thesda (2) 6; Northwood 1881 2;
Poolesville (16) Il; Richard Mont
gomery 90 8; Rockville Junior
81 a; Sherwood (19) So; West
ern (28) 2.
New ClassrOOmS
The total number of new class
rooms and facilities expected to
be ready next week are 78 class
rooms, $ all-purpose, 2 kitchens
and 2 elementary libraries al
Broome Junior, Bannockburn
Colesville (alterations), Damas
Gus, Macdonald Knobs, Montgom
cry Knobs, New Hampshire Els
tates, Rockville Elementary (al
terations), Sherwood Elementary
Belt Junior and Kensington Jun
ior.
BY January, the total number
of new facilities will reach 21s
classroorns, 10 all-purpose, foul
elementary libraries, two second
airy Libraries, six Kitchens, two
secondary cafeterias and two sec
ohdary gynasiums at Larchmont
Montgomery Hills Junior, Pooles
vile and Sherwood Highs in ad
dition to the above schools.
The access road at Bannock
burn will be completed in time
for school opening. The access
road, Twlnbrook Parkway foi
Broome Junior will be hal
paved to open "a classrooms ant
the cafeteria next week.
Possible double sessions may
also be in store for Pleasant View
and Rocking Horse elementarie'
in addition to Chevy Chase, Lone
Oak and Twinbrook as announced
earlier by the board.
Double sessions are already
scheduled for the following
schools with the number Of chill
dfen and their grades listed: Con
necticut Park, 1874, second; Foul
Corners, PIG, first and second
Highland, ITO, second; Radnor
lie, first; Parkwood, 1874, frs
and second; Wyngate, 167, thirt
and fourth; and North Chew
Chase, 1911, first, second, fourth
and fifth.
Temporary church rooms have
been rented for Ashburton''
Kindergarten at Mt Zion Baptis
for three or four months; Larch
monts kindergarten, first, second
mont's kindergarten, first, second
and third grades at Warner Me
mortal in Kensington for three
or four months; Stephan Knobs
first, second and third grades al
Hughes Methodist in Wheaton fol
10 months; and Burning Trees
kindergarten at Bradley Hills
Presbyterian for 10 months.
This week an orientation pro
gram for the county's new teach
ers is in progress Under the direc