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The West Virginia Digest
Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia
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Negro leaders expressed disappointment over Governor Neely's failure to appoint a Black member to the permanent registration board and the all-white teacher's retirement board, arguing for representation due to differences in educational systems and pension issues.
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The announced members of the board are Governor Neely, Chairman ex-officio; W. W. Trent, superintendent of free schools; State Treasurer R. E. Talbott; Dean E. L. Haught, Concord State Teachers college, Athens; County Superintendent A. Clinton Loy of Romney and Gertrude Roberts of Huntington.
Since the law passed by the legislature will affect both Negro and white teachers alike, it seems logical that a Negro should have been appointed as a member of the board which will make rules and regulations for the pension fund. Not only because there is a dual educational system should this have been done but because of the difference in the problems of the white and colored pension applicants. This difference cannot be adequately presented to the board by persons, no matter how sympathetic, who aren't required to face the problems day in and day out.
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Last Week
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all-white composition of the teacher's retirement board; heightened disappointment among negro leaders.
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Negro leaders were disappointed by the failure to appoint a Black member to the permanent registration board, further intensified by the all-white teacher's retirement board announced with members including Governor Neely, W. W. Trent, R. E. Talbott, Dean E. L. Haught, A. Clinton Loy, and Gertrude Roberts. The board will regulate a pension fund affecting both Black and white teachers under a dual educational system with differing problems.