369. ATCHESON HENCH PAPERS
665 items, 1939-48
Papers of Hench as Charlottesville School Board member and member of various
committees including curriculum, personnel, education facilities for blacks,
and the special committee to investigate conditions at Jefferson High, containing correspondence, memoranda, meeting
dockets, and related material. General topics include school budgets,
teachers' salaries, Miller School applicants, school activities and
programs, war activities, and statistics. Specific topics of interest are
the opening of Lane High School, 1940; petitioning for equalization of salaries for
blacks and whites; and teacher-principal conflicts at Jefferson High School, 1945-46.
(Acc. 927)
