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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 vocational agriculture at Dunbar for the past three years.
The resignation and appointment were announced Thursday morning by Supt. J. A. Anderson, 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 building is being completed there and he will have charge of it as well.
Mrs. Cleaver has been employed 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 retiring principal for his outstanding service to the school system, and for his leadership in church and civic affairs.
The new acting principal, Lyons, came to Dunbar as agriculture teacher three years ago from Elkhart, where he had served in the same capacity for seven 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 College, M. E. Lyons (right), vocational agriculture teacher at Dunbar, has been named acting principal.
