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Morehouse Parish Training Schools
Superintendent's report
September 1, 1953


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Superintendent S. G. Lucky announced today (September 1, 1953) that registration for Morehouse Parish schools will be held Wednesday and the regular 1953-54 session will get underway September 8.  Superintendent  Lucky also stated that approximately 4,050 Negro children are expected to enroll in the parish schools this year with an estimated enrollment of 1,350 of the total to enroll at the Morehouse Parish Training School in Bastrop, 150 at O. L. H. C. in Bastrop and the remainder in the area outside of Bastrop. The new Rosenwald Negro School at Bonita will open in November. The building of modern design and construction includes 16 classrooms, offices,  and a cafeteria. The school is expected to have 515 Negro elementary students enrolled from wards nine and ten. Buses  will be provided to transport pupils to the school. Superintendent Lucky said that 118 Negro teachers will be employed in the parish this year compared with 109 last year. New Negro teachers are; Bonita Rosenwald School: Yvonne Alexander; Cedar Grove, John Calvin; Union High, Curtis Hart; Glandora Goree, Baynard Duncan; Morehouse Parish Training School, elementary; Lovie J. Tucker, Juanita M. Jackson, Maggie Starks, Evelyn Rayford and Elsie O. Williams. High school: Floyd D. Andrews, Industrial A​rts and Charles Strickland band instructor. 
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Negro schools in Morehouse will probably be dismissed about the first of September for the cotton crops and resumed sometime in November.

Source: The Monroe News-Star

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  • REFLECTIONS OF MOReHOUSE
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    • Photo Gallery >
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      • Class of 1966
      • Opening Ceremony Pictures
      • Fish Fry Pictures
      • Parade Pictures
      • Banquet Pictures
      • Worship Service Pictures
      • Class of 1969
    • Bob Love >
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    • Willie Bowie
    • Willie Parker
    • Lucious Jackson
    • Charles Ross Strickland >
      • Video
      • Puff Ditch
      • Strick66 News
    • Message to Morehouse
    • Morehouse 100 Years Parade
    • Morehouse Memorabilia Exhibit
    • Willie Wilson
    • 2014 Reunion Photos
    • Morehouse High Initiative
  • History
    • William D. Grant
    • Bernice Sims Perry
    • Morehouse High History
    • Rexford G. Steptoe
    • Anthoine Hugo Jackson, Sr
    • Letita Mae Channell
    • Henry A. Dillon
    • Henry V. Adams
    • John L. Smith
    • Nurse Harriet G. Foster
    • Superintendent 's Report
  • In Memoriam
    • In Memoriam- Faculty
    • Dr. William Alexander
    • Dr. Billye G. Burns
    • Mildred Lanier Dickerson
    • John Henry Washington, Jr.
    • Milton Jackson, Sr.
    • Dorothy Bell Gundy- Washington
    • Lizzie Sanders Smith
    • Alfred Twymon
  • Vietnam Veterans
    • Armed Forces
    • Contact Form