? ' • THE SUNDAY STAR SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION WoiJiHut—, D. C, July 19, 1959 jr M ¦ m C-7 Summer Schools Attract a NAACP Drive Pledged

¦ Teachers, Negro in South Million i Students Voters Bv DR. BENJAMIN FINE “The summer sessions repre- NEW YORK. July 18 (AP). . 1 Walter-McCarran Immlgratloc American Newspaper Alliance of educational .. —The National Association for“Law. North sent a major use NEW YORK. July 18—Although school ended officially facilities that otherwise would the Advancement of Colored i One section of the civil right* last month, a record number of teachers and students are now i not be employed,” observes Dr. People pledged itself today to 1 [resolution said the FBI “solved back in the classrooms. Bedell. “This is the quickest a drive to increase Negro vot- ¦ I the case” of the lynching of More than 1 million men and women—the majority of way to expand higher education ing opportunities in the South. . I Mack Charles Parker in Pop- them elementary and hißh school teachers—are poring over in the United States. It would Delegates to the NAACP’s j larvllle, Miss. The resolution Depart* books, working In laboratles and listening to lectures this sum- | be difficult to explain idle build- 50th annual convention voted on the Justice mer. Despite the summer heat: > ings and an idle campus, when unanimously to increase the , ment “to make a full report to The author, a Pulitzer Prize winner, Congress many of the Nation’s teachers so many demands are being organization's outlay reg- ; on the findings of ths North for Congres* are taking a busman's holiday. it Education Editor of the placed upon our colleges and ister-and-vote campaigns. ’ jFBI and to ask the program American Newspaper Alliance ond , [for any additional legislation ¦rtie summer session universities.” "As our objective for 1960 grown year by year dean of the Graduate School of 1 that is needed to punish and has until How good are the summer we call upon our branches to prevent “big Education, , New • the crime of lynching now it has become busi- session programs? The courses double the number of registered ness.” Some 1,250 colleges and York. I in the United States.” i offered are equivalent to those voters,” the organization said I The week-long convention universities throughout the given the rest of the year. The in a resolution. open from three, years. ends tomorrow with a rally a' United States afe in rather than four ! faculty members are usually forth August, The resolution also set t the Polo Grounds. June through and even Thousands of young college [ recruited from other institu- campaign September. In a a to solicit a millioni into early students face the prospect of , tions. This provides a healthy signatures in favor of wider sense, the colleges and universi- two years in the Army; saving ( exchange of views, and gives enfranchisement of Southern operate on a 12-month 1 ; jifS lH ™ ties now a year in their college career t many faculty members an op- St* Negroes. 1 Sign of the Times basis, utilizing fully all of their prove valuable them. y will to portunity to visit other colleges. 'W 1 In addition, the said | ZANESVILLE. Ohio (AP).— facilities. Others want to save Hme be- of the Justice Department I A passing truck carried this summer they For example, a professor should The boom in the cause plan to go to a "begin a greatly expanded pro- . warning to motorists following began, according to education from New York Uni- program medical or other professional gram applying it: "Avoid that rundown Ralph Bedell, 1 versity may be teaching this of the new civilI feel- Dr. chief of the school, and have four more rights law that all qualified -1 ing. Pass left.” counseling guidance summer at Stanford University. so and sec- years of schooling ahead. | citizens may vote fear United States Office At the same time, a history without tion of the The summer campus also has ¦ ( of reprisals.” teacher from the West Coast *' Education, * of soon after World become a rendezvous for adults 1 ••••>' • ' ...4 tasting the joys of summer ¦ ¦ Said the NAACP: "The most War 11. Then veterans flocked who come for “insitutes,” rang- j is potential : today campuses City, teaching at weapon available to to the Nation's to ing from one to eight weeks, in New York tTv i University. ' the Negro today is the ballot.” make up for lost time. They Dr. Bedell, who recently com- Columbia Unless HIGH AND WIDE JBkr SECRETARIES accelerated f the instructors are on a 12- Another resolution was wanted to take an pletcd a study of the summer Cowboy Floyd Bazie went one way and his busting bronco friend, by adopted calling “church of studies, many 1 contract, they get paid i on course since sessions for the United States 1 month name Black igencies and the Christian SPECIALIZE away from their extra for teaching. of Bart, went another during the saddle-bronco trials of a asso- had been Office of Education, notes that i summer ciations, Stroyer two, four the California Rodeo in Salinas.—AP Wirephoto. < the YMCA and the offers four programs—Private, studies for three or programs are held on the cam- Offered | Executive, legol and Medical. Apply Varied Courses YWCA, to remove every vestige now for fall day or evening years. r classes. puses for farmers, lawyers, cof Literacy every conceivable discrimination from all fa- Request Secretarial Catalef er Enrollment Has Doubled dentists, bankers, labor union be obtained during cilities under their jurisdiction." Evening Session Bulletin officials, band leaders, and al- course can Going college Som institutions, Another resolution called for to in the sum- any type of worker, the summer. evidently most other ¦ University of ending all discriminatory prac- mer became a habit. professional or otherwise. such as the From little more than 500,000 Houston, specialize in the social Use of District Pools City • tices within labor unions. It years ago, Gets 990 asserted “the AFL-CIO Civil! 15 the sciences, psychology, English, students Meeting of Town and Gown ! Rights e grown to the all- engineering and Committee has failed number has spend education, effectively 13th Street N.W. 1 high 1 million. These thousands who j Others, such as the to enforce AFL-CIO time of the on the ' business. policy resolutions dis- NA. 8-1748 Who goes to summer schools? part of summer University of Denver, offer a Cut in Half Since'4B against | campuses do not get “credit” Pints of Blood crimination as these racist prac- 1601 survey typical colleges A of 22 i substantial number of courses eight public swimming i Many Attendance at six of the District’s many and universities, made by the for their studies. have j training, school ad- The Washington Regional tices continue in crafts college campus in teacher pools has dropped by more than 50 per cent in last 10 years. jandj industries throughout American Newspaper never been on a counseling And the North sense, be- ministration. This year the six pools operated by Government Services, Blood Center last week dis-'jAmerica.” Alliance, shows that about 50 before. In a this guidance, business, library sci- ii 13 1'l uplifting vacation for Inc., are some 12 000 behind in attendance as compared to the tributed a total of 1,687 pints Other resolutions called for per cent are teachers. They comes an ence, speech and 1 way psychology, last year. { ending segregation ¦ b wk: day>lswk!v for various reasons: To them. It is another in ' same time of blood in the District and in schools 1 1 air come theatre, math and science. Information from the superintendent’s office of and housing, and revising : Uwlcs nite)7. MwMy''—conditioned get an advanced degree, to which “town and gown” co- National the communities covered by the [ the I operate closely. Typical Among the largest summer Capital Parks shows that in: 1 brush up on their particular more in Maryland, Vir- ’ TEMPLE SCHOOL program Goucher enrollments are New York Uni- 1948 nearly 416,000 swimmers occurred, bloodmobiles I «T. MW WA. specialties or to take courses is the at Col- 1 serious nature have ginia and West Virginia. CAMPS MM I-Wlg, lege, girls' college in Balti- versity. 13,500: Columbia Uni- used the pools. Last year’s total Jett, which were not offered when a 1 said T. Sutton of National The District received 990 j college, as The cafnpus is open versity Teachers College, 5,400; I was 197,447 —a decline of Capital Parks. they went to such more. 1 pints; Maryland, 269; Virginia, j techniques on teaching throughout the summer and :iUniversity of Miami , I 218.505. Mr. Jett added that there has new 1 6.000; J 291; West Virginia, 86, and out- i The Blue Ridge £ | CAREER SCHOOI children how to read. One of made available to off-campus ji Universitv of Wisconsin,] | GSI operates the following been a rapid Increase of pools f; School Temple University, 6,685; side areas, 51. j SECRETARIAL ond the most popular courses organizations for meetings and 8,000; ! built by communities outside l! Co-ed Established 1909 g TYPING COURSES for I Houston, 5,000, [pools: among conferences. [University of Anacostia, at Fairlawn Park; the District. A survey within In addition to the regular j ;i T«en«, Collett and teachers is psychology lof GRADES 1 THRU 8 Career Cirle. groups visiting University of Pennsyl- place year weekly j Enhance which, of course, is of great Among the |i[and ] jBanneker, Howard and the last shows that more bloodmobile schedule £< A moderately priced Episco- >5 Four natural 3,500. collections, laveMnea value in handling children. Goucher this summer are the ’ vania, Georgia avenue N.W., East Po- [ than 125 new pools have been for Red Cross | j' pal Church Boarding School the POWERS GIRL *" But teachers are not the AFL-CIO, and the Great Books The summer programs have | tomac Park, at Hains Point; constructed in nearby areas, donors may give at the Wash- V.j she beautiful Blue Ridge % STtirdSf. iuZi* d who are sweating it Club of the become an integral part of Francis, Twenty-sixth and N mostly community pools for ington Hospital Center blood 1 Yf Mountain!, 23 miles north of roll now. ERE* P*fc only ones Baltimore-Wash- SONAL Unlike the ington area. Frequently neigh- American education. They help streets McKinley, Lin- members and their guests only. bank First street and Michigan 5; Charlottesville, and US miles jl ANALYSIS out this summer. I N.W.: 1 Call Miss Shaw "good days,” when the only boring colleges combine to of- to meet the ever-increasing de- coln road and S street N.E., He said the six pools operated avenue N.W., 8 a m. to 4 p.m. S*j southwest of Washington. & old i § Gymnasium, failures, those who had to make fer joint projects. The Mary- mands for higher education. ¦ and Takoma, Fourth and Van by GSI have consistently oper- Mondays through Fridays; ] Riding. up work, went to school in the land Workshop on Economic 1 They also provide an oppor- [ Buren streets N.W. ated at a loss. The loss last Freedman’s Hospital, 9 a.m. to S | Board and Tuition S9OO * many bright sponsored by! tunity for teachers to improve Negroes ' year 4:45 p.m. and from p.m. summertime, today Education is I I predominantly use was more than $15,000, but 6 to 8 5