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Officials to decide on names for new schools
By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, LARGO -- The Pinellas School Board will decide tonight what to name three new schools being built south of Central Avenue in St. Petersburg as part of the end of court-ordered busing for desegregation. A committee recommended that a new middle school on 22nd Avenue S be named for Thurgood Marshall, who as a lawyer won a landmark court case ending school segregation and who became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice. James Sanderlin, who filed the federal lawsuit that desegregated Pinellas schools and became the county's first black judge, would have his name on the new elementary school on 22nd Avenue S. The committee recommended that the 11th Avenue S elementary school be named for Doug Jamerson, a teacher, longtime Pinellas legislator and former education commissioner who died April 21. But School Board policy dictates that a person must be dead for one year before the name can be used on a school building. The committee proposed the name LeRoy Collins as an alternate to Jamerson if the board doesn't want to waive its policy. Superintendent Howard Hinesley is recommending that the board select Collins, Florida governor from 1955 to 1961, who fought segregationists who wanted schools to stay all-white or close. The public can comment on the recommended names before the board votes. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. and will be held at district headquarters, 301 Fourth St. SW in Largo.
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