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.

Military Monday: Instructions for Ration Book

Evening Star (DC)
17 October 1943

INSTRUCTIONS FOR RATION BOOK

Registration for War Ration Book No. 4 will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, according to Richard C. Haydon, Prince William County registration chairman. County schools will be closed all day Friday in order that the work may be completed. Teachers in the following schools designated as registration places will have charge of issuing the new books:

Osbourn High School, Manassas, R. Worth Peters, chairman; Haymarket New School, Mrs. Nelson Lynn, chairman; Nokesville High School, C. O. Bittle, chairman; Occoquan High School, Mrs. Mae T. Sanford, chairman; Woodbine School, Miss Sue Ayres, chairman; Dumfries Graded School, Mrs. Wallace Lynn, chairman; Quantico Masonic Hall (for civilians), Miss Margaret Powell, chairman. A registration place within the Quantico Military Post for military personnel will be announced later.

Mr. Haydon requests that residents make applications as early as possible to avoid last-minute congestion. One member of a family, 18 years of age or older, may register for the entire family. The registrant must present War Ration Book No. 3 for each member of the household for whom application is made.