School Board Notes: Haydon Is Renamed Head of PW Schools (1941)

Evening Star (DC)
6 March 1941

HAYDON IS RENAMED HEAD OF PRINCE WILLIAM SCHOOLS

MANASSAS, VA., March 6--Richard C. Haydon, superintendent of schools in Prince William County for 16 years, was voted another four-year term yesterday at a School Board meeting in Manassas Courthouse.

At the same time closing of Haymarket High School was ordered by the board at the end of the present term. Decision was reached after the State Department of Education refused to issue a permit for the building additions and improvements because of low enrollment. The State recently increased the required attendance of an accredited high school to 75 students in an effort to expedite school consolidation.

Students will be transported from Haymarket to the Osbourn High School here.

The board appointed Mrs. Marshall Douglas of Manassas to a vacancy in Brentsville District High School. Supt. Haydon and D. J. Arrington, chairman and clerk of the board, reported on the National Education Association Convention in Atlantic City last week.