Bruce L. Bozeman

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by October 16, 1919 Bruce L. Bozeman becomes principal of the county training school for Black students at Chapel Hill Professor Bruce L. Bozeman, an Alabama native and Hampton Institute graduate with ten years' teaching behind him, most recently at the state school for Black boys at Broad Neck, Virginia, was named the new principal of the Colored County Training School of Chapel Hill. Trained in agriculture, he was to carry on the school's work among the county's farmers and boys; Mrs. Bozeman was also an experienced teacher. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe News (Chapel Hill), October 16, 1919, p. 4
2. November 13, 1919 Orange County Training School holds a farmers' conference and community fair The Orange County Training School, the county's Black training school at Chapel Hill, held a farmers' conference and community fair with prizes for corn, hay, livestock, canning, baking, needlework and school garden work. Principal B. L. Bozeman reported that white visitors, among them county agent E. S. Vanatta, Mrs. Collier Cobb and M. C. S. Noble, spoke, and that former principal R. E. Malone praised the school and its teachers. People: M. C. S. Noble, Bruce L. BozemanThe News (Chapel Hill), November 27, 1919, p. 4
3. February 1, 1920 Black residents of Chapel Hill rally to pay the Training School's debt and build anew Black residents of Chapel Hill met on Sunday afternoon, February 1, to back the Orange County Training School. George McCauley and Thomas L. McDade asked for money to pay off the school's debt and buy more land for better buildings, teacher Mabel D. Holmes read an essay on the need for a modern building, M. C. S. Noble of the University spoke, and the meeting collected $35. Principal B. L. Bozeman followed with a printed appeal for a dormitory and a demonstration plot, checks to go to Noble as treasurer. People: M. C. S. Noble, Bruce L. BozemanThe News (Chapel Hill), February 5, 1920, p. 1
4. May 10-16, 1922 Orange County Training School holds a week of commencement exercises The Black training school at Chapel Hill held commencement exercises from May 10 to 16 in the town's Black churches and lodges, and the halls were packed each night; some 900 to 1,000 people crowded into a hall seating about 500 for the elementary grades' concert. A writer for the News described the school's carpentry shop, farming and domestic science classes and its seven elementary and four high school grades under principal B. L. Bozeman. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 1
5. October 3, 1923 Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School Sixty parents and friends of the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students in Chapel Hill, met with the teachers at the teachers' cottage on Wednesday night, October 3, 1923, and reorganized the Parent-Teacher Association, electing Mrs. L. M. Bozeman president, Mrs. Shadie B. Hackney secretary and Mrs. Alice Neal treasurer. Principal B. L. Bozeman presided, Rev. George McCauley, president of the trustees, opened a talk on the school's needs, and Dr. D. E. Caldwell spoke. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe News (Chapel Hill), October 25, 1923, p. 1
6. January 1925 An Orange County Training School pupil makes $230 raising turkeys Martha Reaves, a sixth-grader at the Orange County Training School, built a flock from three turkeys to 54 in two years as a school project on her father's farm and sold them for $270, clearing $230. Principal B. L. Bozeman said such home projects proved the value of the school's agriculture classes.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1925, p. 1
7. February 6, 1925 Community Club women carry household goods and books to the Orange County Training School The Chapel Hill Community Club canvassed the town for books, maps, cooking utensils, crockery and other things needed at the Orange County Training School, the town's school for Black children, and on February 6, 1925, members drove the gifts out to the school's new building at the end of Church Street. Superintendent B. L. Bozeman thanked the club for the goods and $12 for the domestic science class and said the school still needed classroom maps and auditorium seats. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1925, p. 1
8. September 14, 1925 Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs The Training School's faculty opened the year with a Sunday evening program for parents in the new auditorium, with the Rock Hill Baptist choir, where Black residents pledged auditorium chairs at $3.60 each and raised $59.45. Classes began the next morning with the largest attendance in the school's history and seven new teachers. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1925, p. 6
9. November 29, 1925 Black church choirs hold a song festival at the Orange County Training School Choirs from Rock Hill Baptist Church, Mount Sinai and Markham's Chapel gathered in the auditorium of the Orange County Training School and sang from noon until after three o'clock. Principal B. L. Bozeman gave the welcome and W. C. Lasater of Durham responded. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1925, p. 3
10. September 19-20, 1926 Orange County Training School opens its fall term with 280 pupils Chapel Hill's Black school, the Orange County Training School, opened its 1926-1927 session with exercises on Sunday afternoon, September 19, led by Principal B. L. Bozeman, and regular classes began the next day. The Weekly reported 280 pupils enrolled so far, a considerable increase over the opening a year before, and the school planned a fair for the fall. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1926, p. 3
11. April 1928 (the week before April 20) Orange County Training School students win offices at the state conference of Black vocational schools At the state vocational conference of Black schools in Greensboro, two of the seven members elected to the executive committee came from the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill. Its students, coached by principal and vocational teacher B. L. Bozeman, did well in project records. People: Bruce L. BozemanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1928, p. 5