Dunbar High School Scrapbook - Page 47

Cleaver Will
Depart City,
Lyons Picked

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E. E. Cleaver has resigned as
principal of Dunbar High School
to accept a position as Director
of Student Activities at Prarie
View A. and M. College.

He will be succeeded as acting
principal of the high school by M.
E. Lyons, who has taught voca-
tional agriculture at Dunbar for
the past three years.

The resignation and appoint-
ment were announced Thursday
morning by Supt. J. A. Ander-
son, following a called meeting
of the Board of Education held
Wednesday afternoon.

Cleaver will assume his new
duties at Prairie View in the
fall. A new student union build-
ing is being completed there and
he will have charge of it as
well.

Mrs. Cleaver has been employ-
ed to teach at Prairie View, with
the start of the new term.

Cleaver has been principal of
Dunbar High School for the past
seven years, coming here from
Dixie school in Smith County
where he was principal.

He has been very active in
church and civic affairs, having
helped to organize the Negro
Day Nursery program and has
been a leader in other Negro
Chamber of Commerce programs.

The Board of Education passed
a resolution commending the re-
tiring principal for his outstand-
ing service to the school sys-
tem, and for his leadership in
church and civic affairs.

The new acting principal,
Lyons, came to Dunbar as agri-
culture teacher three years ago
from Elkhart, where he had serv-
ed in the same capacity for sev-
en years.

He is 51 years of age and has
a wife and four children. He
holds both bachelor and master
degrees from Prairie View and
has been acknowledged as one
of the outstanding men in the
high school agriculture teaching
field.

SCHOOL CHANGES - E. E. Cleaver (left) has resigned
as principal of Dunbar High School in Lufkin to become
director of student activities of Prairie View A&M Col-
lege, M. E. Lyons (right), vocational agriculture teacher
at Dunbar, has been named acting principal.