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O.W. Dillon Leadership. OUR School. Our vision and mission is to provide a safe, high quality teaching and learning environment in which every student and teacher learns to collaborate, communicate, create, and think critically. School News. View All News. Play and Pause Buttons for Slideshow. May 29 2024. Sun Bucks - Summer EBT.
The colored training schools were the real beginning of secondary public education for blacks in the rural south. After seeing his dream of a lifetime shattered, Mr. O. W. Dillon, principal of the Tangipahoa Parish Training School, retired on May 17, 1952, at 69 years old.
The school plan in 1945 consisted of five buildings with fifteen classrooms and an auditorium. The school was located on a ten-acre campus. In 1946, several elementary schools for African-Americans in surrounding areas were closed. These students were then transferred to the Parish Training School.
Event by Daline Magee on Friday, June 16 2023
In 1955, the extant mid-century brick building opened on the site, named O. W. Dillon Memorial High School in honor of the professor. 14 years later in 1969 with integration, O. W. Dillon High School became Kentwood Elementary School.
Reconnect with friends from O. W. Dillion Memorial High School, find reunions, view yearbook photos and more.
She went home to be with the Lord quietly on Monday August 7, 2023, surrounded by her family and loved ones at Ohio Health Mansfield, Ohio following a unexpected brief illness. She went to...
