"Three people went to local hospitals, and the principal of a Shreveport high school miraculously escaped death Friday afternoon in a three-vehicle wreck at Milam Street at Hearne Avenue.
One of the cars in the 4 p.m. accident-not the at-fault vehicle-was driven by Booker T. Washington High principal Curley White,50.
A silver westbound Mitsubishi that police said raced through a red light struck a Chrysler 300, ramped off a rise in the road and landed atop of White's Infiniti.
The two people in the Mitsubishi and the driver of the Chrysler, all unidentified, were taken to local hospitals with injuries police said were not believed to be life-threatening.
White walked away unscathed."
By: John Andrew Prime/The Times
We of course thank God for his intervention in this event that spared our principal.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Condolences
The entire BTW alumni family wishes to express its deep sympathy to Coach Terrence Winn Sr. and family for the recent loss of their son, Terrence Winn. No words can adequately express our heart felt sorrow. You and your family are in our prayers.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Membership
Memberships are extended to all graduates of Booker T. Washington High School, and may be extended to Friends of BTW.
Membership fees are $10.00 annually. Please make your checks payable to Booker T. Washington Alumni Foundation and mail to: P. O. Box 3709, Shreveport, LA. 71133-3709.
Your membership card will be mailed to you.
Please include your current mailing address and telephone number.
Thank you for your membership.
Membership fees are $10.00 annually. Please make your checks payable to Booker T. Washington Alumni Foundation and mail to: P. O. Box 3709, Shreveport, LA. 71133-3709.
Your membership card will be mailed to you.
Please include your current mailing address and telephone number.
Thank you for your membership.
Graduation
Congratulations to the class of 2007! We know that you have worked very hard and that you and your families are very proud. We want you to know that the Alumni Foundation is also very proud of you and look forward to you joining our ranks.
Following your graduation, your first years membership is complimentary. It will expire in June,2008. We know you will want to continue being a part of this organization by renewing your membership accordingly.
Best wishes and every success for the future.
Go Mighty Lions!
Following your graduation, your first years membership is complimentary. It will expire in June,2008. We know you will want to continue being a part of this organization by renewing your membership accordingly.
Best wishes and every success for the future.
Go Mighty Lions!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Meeting Information
Meetings usually take place on the second Monday of each month at 5:00 p.m. Meetings are held at the Booker T. Washington Heritage and Academic Center located at 2100 Milam St. All alums are welcome to attend as your schedule permits. Meetings usually last for one hour.
We do not meet during the summer when school is not in session.
Hope to see you at our next meeting. This is a good place to be for those who share our passion for education, our students and our school.
We do not meet during the summer when school is not in session.
Hope to see you at our next meeting. This is a good place to be for those who share our passion for education, our students and our school.
BTW Heritage and Academic Center
The BTW family celebrated its 55Th birthday by opening the Booker T. Washington Heritage and Academic Center, located on the southeast corner of the school's campus(the old library on Elder street).
The center is filled with memorabilia and history of the BTW Lions. The center was officially opened and dedicated on January 23, 2005. As you know, the school was opened on January 23, 1950.
The center also serves as an adult education facility, meeting place for BTW classes and the PTSA organization. Other community activities, for which the facility is suitable, may also be hosted at this location.
We are proud of this facility. Please drop by and visit as your schedule permits.
The center is filled with memorabilia and history of the BTW Lions. The center was officially opened and dedicated on January 23, 2005. As you know, the school was opened on January 23, 1950.
The center also serves as an adult education facility, meeting place for BTW classes and the PTSA organization. Other community activities, for which the facility is suitable, may also be hosted at this location.
We are proud of this facility. Please drop by and visit as your schedule permits.
Fundraising Activities
The BTW Alumni Foundation conducted a fund- raising, and membership drive on May 5, 2007 in front of the school on Milam street. The activity was promoted on local radio and in the Shreveport Sun as Booker T. Alumni Roundup. This was the Foundation's spring activity.
- Our annual memberships were offered at $10.00 each
- Various treats( hot dogs, and drinks were also offered for sale)
- BTW Caps (with the lion logo) were offered at $15.00 each
The BTW caps are still available by contacting Jeane Nichols at 525-9859 or Lou Jackson at 603-2172. These very attractive caps are 100% cotton, 6-panel construction, structured self-fabric overlapping Velcro closure. The caps are khaki with maroon lettering. You must have one in your collection.
Thanks for your support.
Major Financial Donations
This is a list of the major financial donations of the BTW Alumni Foundation. This list will be updated for the benefit of the public. The foundation believes in total transparency. We may be small but we are committed to the MIGHTY LIONS.
DATE/Amount/Activity
11/2000 $10,000/School Improvement
05/2001 $4500/Scholarships (3)
05/2002 $3000/Scholarships(2)
05/2003 $3000/Scholarships(2)
05/2003 $3500/School Media Campaign
12/2003 $2000/Close-up Travel to Washington DC
05/2004 $1500/Scholarship(1)
05/2005 $1500/Scholarship(1)
05/2006 $1500/Scholarship(1)
04/2007 $1000/Reading Program
09/2007 $900/ACT Testing Program
05/2008 $1500/Scholarship(1)
Note: Scholarship awards are $1500 each
DATE/Amount/Activity
11/2000 $10,000/School Improvement
05/2001 $4500/Scholarships (3)
05/2002 $3000/Scholarships(2)
05/2003 $3000/Scholarships(2)
05/2003 $3500/School Media Campaign
12/2003 $2000/Close-up Travel to Washington DC
05/2004 $1500/Scholarship(1)
05/2005 $1500/Scholarship(1)
05/2006 $1500/Scholarship(1)
04/2007 $1000/Reading Program
09/2007 $900/ACT Testing Program
05/2008 $1500/Scholarship(1)
Note: Scholarship awards are $1500 each
CONTACT INFORMATION
You may contact us by:
1.Email at: marram9133@mypacks.net
2.Mail: P.O. Box 3709
Shreveport, La 71133-3709
3. Telephone: G. Jeane Nichols, President, 318-525-9859
Lieutenant Jackson, Member (Blog Adm), 318-603-2172
1.Email at: marram9133@mypacks.net
2.Mail: P.O. Box 3709
Shreveport, La 71133-3709
3. Telephone: G. Jeane Nichols, President, 318-525-9859
Lieutenant Jackson, Member (Blog Adm), 318-603-2172
First Faculty at BTW
Many of the BTW grads had a chance to study under the first faculty assigned to Booker T. Washington High School. These were truly pioneers and they will always be remembered in the history of BTW, Shreveport and the nation.
Their dedication and sacrifice should be examples to all who follow in the grand tradition of "EDUCATORS" at BTW. They should serve a role models to all who have the privaledge to follow in thier footsteps. If you are a teacher that walks the halls of BTW, you must feel the presence of these great americans (giants) who led black children at a time when they and the students struggled against the forces of Jim Crow.
This listing is taken from that outstanding work by Mr. Willie Burton, The Blacker The Berry...A Black history of Shreveport. The magnificent 65 were as follows:
R.H. Brown, Principal
Effie Dougherty
Albert Moody
Theola Jackson
Sammie Mann
Rebecca Legardy
Ruth Lincoln
Effie Sapp
Corinne Taylor
M.J. Powell
Antoinette James
Melviney Jones
Howard Robinson
Vernon Burden
Blanche H. Milloy
Mandura Brown
Willard Hooks
Walter C. Walker
Ralph Milner
Alonzo T. Chambers, Assistant Principal
Hazel L. Payne
Albertine B. Pogue
Elizabeth Stackhouse
Arthurline Yancy
Hazel S. Harrison
Susie T. Nelson
Frank Rayson
Geneva Burks
Mae Etta Scott
Gretchen Claiborne
Carrie P. Selber
Nancy Davis
Barney Fields
James S. Arthur
Andrew Hall
Ezekiel Moore
George T Brown
Courtland Milloy
Pearl Lee
Ella Nelson
Emerolyn Brown
Herman Selber
Adrena D. Hawkins
Mary Anderson
Pauline Green
George Henderson
Herbert Webb
Ophelia Williams
Bertha Hammit
Charles Johnson
Henrietta Sartor
Nannie Lou Leech
Timothy Ball
Clifton Davis
Walter Compier
James T. Hayes
George Collins
Sidney R. Watters
Doretha Barnes
Susie Hendrix
Olive C. Brown
Leonard C. Barnes
Beulah O'Neal
Lucille Tisby
Blanchard Bell
Dolzie Epps
Lucille Hodge
This completes the truly "HONOR ROLL" of educators in the history of Shreveport, LA. You have left hugh footprints for those who follow. Thank you for your leadership, scholarship and ability to serve during a period of our nation's history that provided little or no support.
Their dedication and sacrifice should be examples to all who follow in the grand tradition of "EDUCATORS" at BTW. They should serve a role models to all who have the privaledge to follow in thier footsteps. If you are a teacher that walks the halls of BTW, you must feel the presence of these great americans (giants) who led black children at a time when they and the students struggled against the forces of Jim Crow.
This listing is taken from that outstanding work by Mr. Willie Burton, The Blacker The Berry...A Black history of Shreveport. The magnificent 65 were as follows:
R.H. Brown, Principal
Effie Dougherty
Albert Moody
Theola Jackson
Sammie Mann
Rebecca Legardy
Ruth Lincoln
Effie Sapp
Corinne Taylor
M.J. Powell
Antoinette James
Melviney Jones
Howard Robinson
Vernon Burden
Blanche H. Milloy
Mandura Brown
Willard Hooks
Walter C. Walker
Ralph Milner
Alonzo T. Chambers, Assistant Principal
Hazel L. Payne
Albertine B. Pogue
Elizabeth Stackhouse
Arthurline Yancy
Hazel S. Harrison
Susie T. Nelson
Frank Rayson
Geneva Burks
Mae Etta Scott
Gretchen Claiborne
Carrie P. Selber
Nancy Davis
Barney Fields
James S. Arthur
Andrew Hall
Ezekiel Moore
George T Brown
Courtland Milloy
Pearl Lee
Ella Nelson
Emerolyn Brown
Herman Selber
Adrena D. Hawkins
Mary Anderson
Pauline Green
George Henderson
Herbert Webb
Ophelia Williams
Bertha Hammit
Charles Johnson
Henrietta Sartor
Nannie Lou Leech
Timothy Ball
Clifton Davis
Walter Compier
James T. Hayes
George Collins
Sidney R. Watters
Doretha Barnes
Susie Hendrix
Olive C. Brown
Leonard C. Barnes
Beulah O'Neal
Lucille Tisby
Blanchard Bell
Dolzie Epps
Lucille Hodge
This completes the truly "HONOR ROLL" of educators in the history of Shreveport, LA. You have left hugh footprints for those who follow. Thank you for your leadership, scholarship and ability to serve during a period of our nation's history that provided little or no support.
BTW History
The following history of BTW is taken from The Blacker The Berry...A History of Shreveport, by Willie Burton.
"A citizens' committee making a survey of the Shreveport black community in 1945 reported that educational facilities for Negroes were "deplorable" and that the construction of a new high school would be one step toward improvement. This survey plus the over-crowded conditions at Central High and Milam Street Trade School led to the construction of a new black high school on a site across from the trade school, completed in 1949, which became known as Booker T. Washington High School, named for the founder of Tuskegee Institute.
Milam Street Trade School became a junior high school when Booker T. Washington High School opened in 1950.
Classes began at Booker T Washington High School on January 23, 1950. It was a model school for blacks, even for many white communities. Many referred to it as one of the best built schools for blacks in the country. Built at a cost of a million and a half dollars ($1,514.065) for the physical plant and $500,000 for equipment, Booker T. Washington was one {of} the most modern schools in Louisiana, offering innovations such as individual lockers for all students, central heating, movable desks, modern laboratories, administrative offices, asphalt tile floors, and fluorescent lighting.
The curriculum offered basic high school/college prep academic courses in English, literature, music, social science, health, general science, biology, algebra, geometry, chemistry, and physical education, as well as numerous vocational courses to supplement the work at Milam Street trade School. New vocational courses included commercial baking; laundry and dry cleaning processes; typing, shorthand and bookkeeping; auto mechanics that incorporated machine body and fender repair; masonry and cement work; graphic arts; carpentry; electrical name mechanics; sheet metal working, pottery and clay; landscape gardening and hot-house horticulture; leather-craft; home laundry; cooking, sewing, needle-craft; shoe-craft; and beauty culture (later cosmetology). Many black Shreveporters attribute their success today to their preparation for the world of work at Booker T. Washington High School.
"A citizens' committee making a survey of the Shreveport black community in 1945 reported that educational facilities for Negroes were "deplorable" and that the construction of a new high school would be one step toward improvement. This survey plus the over-crowded conditions at Central High and Milam Street Trade School led to the construction of a new black high school on a site across from the trade school, completed in 1949, which became known as Booker T. Washington High School, named for the founder of Tuskegee Institute.
Milam Street Trade School became a junior high school when Booker T. Washington High School opened in 1950.
Classes began at Booker T Washington High School on January 23, 1950. It was a model school for blacks, even for many white communities. Many referred to it as one of the best built schools for blacks in the country. Built at a cost of a million and a half dollars ($1,514.065) for the physical plant and $500,000 for equipment, Booker T. Washington was one {of} the most modern schools in Louisiana, offering innovations such as individual lockers for all students, central heating, movable desks, modern laboratories, administrative offices, asphalt tile floors, and fluorescent lighting.
The curriculum offered basic high school/college prep academic courses in English, literature, music, social science, health, general science, biology, algebra, geometry, chemistry, and physical education, as well as numerous vocational courses to supplement the work at Milam Street trade School. New vocational courses included commercial baking; laundry and dry cleaning processes; typing, shorthand and bookkeeping; auto mechanics that incorporated machine body and fender repair; masonry and cement work; graphic arts; carpentry; electrical name mechanics; sheet metal working, pottery and clay; landscape gardening and hot-house horticulture; leather-craft; home laundry; cooking, sewing, needle-craft; shoe-craft; and beauty culture (later cosmetology). Many black Shreveporters attribute their success today to their preparation for the world of work at Booker T. Washington High School.
BTW Alumni Foundation History/Vision
The Booker T. Washington High School Alumni Foundation of Shreveport, Louisiana, Inc was created in May,1992. The vision was to establish a non-profit corporation for the purpose of supporting our beloved Booker T. Washington High School (BTW).
The directors of the foundation, as established, were Cleophus Banks, Gwendolyn Cason and Carl Henry Franklin. The foundation will forever owe a debt of gratitude to these true visionaries.
Our Current Frame of Reference:
We want to see the lion restored to its once prominent place in the community. There are thousands of former graduates dispersed across the country and probably the world for that matter. We are loyal to the institution that launched our lives and careers. The "Lion is Coming Back" and as alums, we will play a key leadership role in this recovery.
Our Current Vision:
Booker T. Washington High School will become a premier learning institution noted for its academic excellence. We will be recognized as such an institution by objective measures of performance established by national and/or state standards.
Strategy:
A number of key actions have been identified as being critical to the achievement of our vision. We invite all interested alums to join us in this work. Please see "meetings" and "membership" labels and be guided accordingly.
Gifts:
The BTW Alumni Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your tax deductible gifts of $25, $50, $75, $100 or other amounts you deem appropriate are much needed and appreciated.
Please direct your gifts as follows:
BTW Alumni Foundation
P.O. Box 3709
Shreveport, LA 71133-3709
Follow closely how we use your gifts by clicking on the label "Major Financial Donations."
There you will see how your financial support is put to work for our students and our school.
Thank you very much.
The directors of the foundation, as established, were Cleophus Banks, Gwendolyn Cason and Carl Henry Franklin. The foundation will forever owe a debt of gratitude to these true visionaries.
Our Current Frame of Reference:
We want to see the lion restored to its once prominent place in the community. There are thousands of former graduates dispersed across the country and probably the world for that matter. We are loyal to the institution that launched our lives and careers. The "Lion is Coming Back" and as alums, we will play a key leadership role in this recovery.
Our Current Vision:
Booker T. Washington High School will become a premier learning institution noted for its academic excellence. We will be recognized as such an institution by objective measures of performance established by national and/or state standards.
Strategy:
A number of key actions have been identified as being critical to the achievement of our vision. We invite all interested alums to join us in this work. Please see "meetings" and "membership" labels and be guided accordingly.
Gifts:
The BTW Alumni Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your tax deductible gifts of $25, $50, $75, $100 or other amounts you deem appropriate are much needed and appreciated.
Please direct your gifts as follows:
BTW Alumni Foundation
P.O. Box 3709
Shreveport, LA 71133-3709
Follow closely how we use your gifts by clicking on the label "Major Financial Donations."
There you will see how your financial support is put to work for our students and our school.
Thank you very much.
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