Subject: Educationpage 4

Gregory Lomax 5th BD

Image from reunion trip hosted by Lakeland High School class of 1950

This birthday party for Hallie Adams took place at a home in Lakeland circa 1955. The guests were (left to right) Maseo Campbell, Sr., Elizabeth Campbell, Mary Brooks Brewer, Emma Dory, Calvin Adams, Peggy Folkes, Joe Harrington, June Adams, Mattie Johnson, Katie Mae Barnes, and Helen Campbell.

Born in 1902, the youngest child of John C. Johnson, Ruth Johnson Taylor-Lancaster earned a teaching certificate from Bowie Normal School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Delaware State College. During the 1930s, she led efforts to bring educational opportunities such as preschool, after-school, and adult education to Lakeland. In 1936, Lancaster taught Lakeland's first adult education classes. She also penned the first written history of Lakeland.

The Athletic Banquet, featuring the players and coaches of all the teams coming together to celebrate and regroup at the end of the season. Michael Parker was presented the Athlete of the Year Award, presented by William Hall. Opposite is the Senior Activities section header.

Lakeland High School

Maxine Gross First Grade Lakeland Elementary School

Lakeland Elementary School with basketball players on the school's court.

5th Grade Report card for Maxine Gross

Lakelander, yearbook

During Lakeland High School class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

Lakeland School yearbook

1940-1950 school year

Lakeland High School class of 1950 event

54th Avenue The school and its location next to the tracks

Members of Lakeland High School Class of 1950 during reunion gatherings in Wildwood NJ

Lakelander yearbook page

Lakeland High School class of 1950

Lakelander yearbook

In her high school graduation gown. Graduated from Lakeland High School

Written by Robert Ridgely Gray

The historic Lakeland High School began as a six-classroom high school in 1928. It was expanded in the 1940s to add additional classrooms, and again in the 1950s for a multipurpose room. That building served the community’s school children from 1928 until 1972. It functioned as a high school until 1950, as an elementary and junior high school until 1962, and as an elementary school until 1972. The school board later used the building as a special education center. This structure, relatively unchanged, is still standing.

Lakeland School, First Grade for Jean Gray 1940-41

Image from trip to Wildwood NJ by members of the Lakeland High School class of 1950

George G. Waters. teacher of Lucy Randall at Lakeland School

For more than thirty years the first school attended by most Lakelanders was Lakeland Elementary School on Winnipeg Street. It had two classrooms heated by a potbelly stove, and an outhouse in the rear. In 1944 the primary class, grades one through three, were taught by Margaret Wills in one classroom; and the upper class, grades four through six, were taught by Anita P. Smith in the second classroom. Lakelander Bessie Mack often worked as a substitute teacher at the school. (

Cover Page: Mentions the Officers, PGC's 300th Anniversary, the legacy of the last graduating class of Lakeland Jr. Senior High School, and the structural goals.

collection of school photos Lakeland youth (Source: master photo log.xls)

Continued pictures from the New York Trip, as well as photos from the Junior-Senior Prom.

Senior class of Lakeland High School with principal, Edger Smith (far left). There is another copy of this image in the archive from another collection

Barbara Brown Seldon is among a list of educators who were raised in Lakeland. She taught for 30 years at the District of Columbia's Harrison Elementary School. She is pictured with her fourth grade class in 1990.

Lakelander yearbook

First and Second Grade class

Preview event for screening and discussion of report from research project of LCHP members and University of Maryland students lead by Dr. Mary Sies. The event was held at College Park Community Center

Lakeland High School, The General Course 14 June 1950 Signed by Edgar A. Smith, principal of school

For more than thirty years the first school attended by most Lakelanders was Lakeland Elementary School on Winnipeg Street. It had two classrooms heated by a potbelly stove, and an outhouse in the rear. In 1944 the primary class, grades one through three, was taught by Margaret Wills

First is the Newspaper Staff, and opposite is the Creative Arts Guild.