Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Dunbar First Women To Ever Serve on High Point City School Board, May 15, 1919City School Board, May 5, 1919

From The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 1919

The Fair Sex Has a Say on the City Schools

Tuesday night at 7 o’clock the new council elected last Tuesday in the city election was sworn in and immediately got down to business with the election were sworn in and immediately got down to business with the election of the school board to have supervision over the city schools. The other election of officers in the gift of the council were held over until a future meeting. The City council is composed of Dr. D.A. Stanton, mayor; John W. Hedrick, councilman from the First Ward; W.L. Stamey, councilman from the Second Ward; E.K. Ingram, councilman from the Third Ward; F.P. Conrad, councilman from the Fourth Ward.

The school board as elected by the city council Tuesday night is as follows: Chas. F. Tomlinson, chairman and member at large, residing in the Fourth Ward, for five years; Mrs. W.C. Jones from the First Ward, with one year term; Mrs. C. Dunbar, from the Second Ward, two year term; J.A. Davis of the Third Ward, for three years; and S.L. Davis of the Fourth Ward for four years.

This gives three gentlemen and two ladies on the school board. The First and Second Wards have the distinction of furnishing the women who will sit on the school board for the first time in the history of the city. The board was of the unanimous opinion that only fathers and mothers were eligible to the office, believing that one could best appreciate the position of the children and thus do better work who had children of their own.

The city manager, record, city prosecuting attorney, city attorney, superintendent of water and light department, chief of police and various other officers will be named at a later date.

The appointment of women to the school board seems to have met with popular favor.

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