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A high official in the school
spoke to a reporter last night for
nearly an hour and made several
important observations about the
NAACP's decision, but she requested
that her comments remain
off the record.

Student leaders, however, were
not silent.

Miss G. T. H. Simmons, president
of the fourth-year class, described
the planned picket and
boycott as "disgraceful."

"There has never been any discrimination
in the policies of this
school," she said. "Our school
would accept any Negro that was
qualified to enter. Although it is
true that we have never had any
Negro students, this is purely
coincidental. We are not a racist
body."