COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 14

COMMUNITY SCHOOL

DR. SPURDLE'S POST

, BRITISH WEST INDIES

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, January 12. Dr. Frederick G. Spur die (Wanga- '" hui) has recently taken service under the Methodist Missionary Society, and has been appointed to take charge of the Glen Community School, in St. Vincent, British West Indies. This school is in the nature of an to devise a form of curriculum suited to the needs of the island population. It stands on a 30- ---• acre estate, and will have a hostel to accommodate about 60 boys and girls. In addition to the boarders, about 150 day pupils will attend. Ultimately, it is hoped to extend the boarding establishment so that about half the pupils • may be accommodated. The curriculum will feature agriculture, car-"-pentry, and house-building for boys; housewifery, cookery, needlework, and handicrafts for girls; and hygiene, English civic and religious instruction ...for all. The Glen Community School will^ aim at being self-supporting, all the food for the resident pupils being grown on the estate. The staff, with the exception of Dr. Spurdle, will be ' ' wholly native, as will all the pupils. The staff and the resident pupils will live together as a little self-contained ' community. Ultimately, it is hoped that the school may spread its influence and activities outward into the native community, and act as a verit- - ■ able spearhead of social, cultural, and industrial progress. * Prior to taking up their residence in St. Vincent, Dr. and Mrs. Spurdle and their infant daughter will spend six months in the United Strtes, making ' investigation into American methods of negro education. They will spend ■- the first half year of th?ir stay in the • 'Hampton Institute, 'Hampton, Virginia, "~ and the latter part in viewing the activities of other negro educational centres in the more southerly States.