Sumner High School - Sumnerian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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l F L Schlagle Supenntendent of Pub11c Schools Kansas Crty Kansas Mr Schlagle was former N E A Presxdent He was consultant to the Department of Educanon and the Umted Natlons confer ence H1 San Francisco rn the sprmg of 1945 and a memher of the Unrted States Department delegatlon to the London conference In the fall of 1945 when UNESCO was orgamzed In 1946 Basal O Conner named hun state chalrman of the March of Drmes This honor was accorded hxm again 1n 1952 L ,RL A KANSAS CITY KANSAS BOARD OF EDUCATION C C 0 I6 fll '- X I .Q 5 a J ,T fi ' Ja Af L

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.,.g. 1Kll'f'2 EFS.- gw 1 scam 1940- A new Sumner High School structure, the largest and most modern educational plant for colored students was officially dedicated at 2 o'clock Tuesday January 9, 1940, Principal speakers on the dedicatory program were Governor Payne Ratner and Dr, Sherman D, Scruggs, now president of Lincoln University. Jefferson City, Missouri, Classes began in the New Sumner Tuesday, January 9. Fauclty members, under the direction of Principal John A. Hodge, began moving into their new plant weeks before, and by the time school was dismissed for the Christmas holidays, every room was ready for occupancy. 1100 patrons braved the whirling snow storm to attend the dedication that afternoon. Other speakers for the dedication were F.L, Schlagle, William H. Towers, representative of the eighth district, who introduced in legislature the bill whose passage resulted in a new Sumner,Principal Hodgewho pre- sented a vivid history of the school, Frank Rushton, president of the Board of Education, and Dr. J.G. N. Soanes, chairman of the citizen's advisory committee,

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.73awcd fl x.! 'Ld 4 gi ,LN gf' FRANK IENNINGS GEORGE MEARS FRANK RUSHTON DR. C. K. HAAS JOSEPH H. VAUGHAN RALPH FULTON -G LEW IS H . BROTHERSON MRS. LUCILLE FLANNAGAN, Secretary to Mr. Brotherson