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Front Row, Left to Right: Vertella Valentine, Mistress of Ceremonies, Ruth King, Lula Elliot, Catherine Miller, Louise Rainey, Gladys Stewart, Heather Stranglin, Lucille Fraser, Daisey Johnson, Florence Feld, Typing Instructor, Rae Feld, Principal. 

Second Row, Left to Right: Marvin Yentes, Accounting Instructor, Lisle Greenidge, Marie Marshall, Violet Lucas, Valedictorian, Lillian Gasper, Dorothy Squires, Mae Bradpher, Edna Scott, Cynthia Wallace, Helen Garner, Clifford A. Brown, Elaine Amos, Doris Morgan, David Luvert. 

Third Row, Left to Right: Margaret Lee, Thelma Winnette, Doris Carter, Edna Wynter, Zipporah Hines, Arvilla Sims, Jean Webb, Rosa Toone, Florence Valentine, Gloria Plummer, Mildred Thomas.

Front Row, Left to Right: Booker T. Schley, Thelma Jones, Lilla Forde, Helen Ray, Lorraine Monk, Typing Instructor, Rae Feld, Instructor, Max Feld, Director, Burnette Boyd, Accounting Instructor, Beatrice Bethea, Marie Alexander, Dorothy Balkman, Gladyee Bronson, Gladys L. Lowery, Justiano Benjamin. 

Second Row, Left to Right: Dorothy Burnett, Winifred White, Cynthia Jordan, Myrtle Pottinger, Luleth Du Press, Jennie Hicks, Helen Place, Lorainne James, Esther Jenkins, Rosetta Jackson, Delores Elverson, Betty Gunby, Vertella Gadsden, Mistress of Ceremonies. 

Third Row, Left to Right: Gloria Troupe, Gloria Holder, Alethea Banfield, Gladys Andrews, Marion Jackson, Ethel Turnquest, Dorothy Braithwaite, Vivian Mack, Kathleen Windleton, Gloria Rason, and Eudora Leid.

Front Row, Left to Right: Verdella Williams, Miriam Barnes, Vivian Walton, Evelyn Carman, Mrs. Cox, Accounting Instructor, Bernice Tarver, Typing Instructor; Max Feld, Director, Rae Feld, Principal, Burnette Boyd, Accounting Instructor, Irma Buncom, Maria Brown, Lucille Brooks, Vertella Valentine, Mistress of Ceremonies.

Second Row, Left to Right: Mercile Stephens, Mable Miller, Cleo Lloyd, Agnes Derricks, Essie Robinson, Ollie Jackson, M. Melson, Gwen Campbell, Lorraine Watts, Eliz Love, Juanita Brown, Joyce Harper, Jacqueline Holmes. 

Third Row, Left to Right: Gertrude Marecheau, Julia Mays, Ruth Cave, Orzella Ross, Eunice Charlow, Lurline Wray, Allean Gardner, Eliz. Butler, Sybil Bethel, Florette Zimmerman, Norma Neal, Erma Jones, Mable Bernard, Hattie Capers, Theresa Whitney, Alice Williams, Joyce Barham, Iona Richardson. 

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Catherine DeSola, Marjorie Collins, Vivian Bullock, Margaret Jones, Bertha L. Brown, Eileen Morgan, Lillian Shephard, Greta Jackson, Margaret Hines, Dorothy Hairston, Julia Hunter, Fannie Whindleton.

Front Row, Left to Right: Phillis Lorde, Winifred Cabello, Inez Williams, Edith Gibbs, Janice Thomas, Stenography Instructor, Burnette Boyd, Bookkeeping Instructor, Max Feld, Director, Rae Feld, Principal, Bernice Tarver, Typing Instructor, Hattie Nixon, Gloria Ruth, Carmen Walton, Marie Bell, Mary Grimes. 

Second Row, Left to Right:  Gloria Walch, Dorothy Kirkland, Jessye Timmons, Frances Duff, Iris Brooks, Georgia Blount, Gwendolyn Harper, Mirian Johnson, Cassandra Henry, Sophie Richardson, Nora Richardson, Clara Jenkins, Mildred Smith, Violet Tyrrell, Ruby Renwick, Jeanne DeSola, Sarah Mercedes, Vertella Gadsden, Helen Byrd. 

Third Row, Left to Right:  Frances Witherspoon, Imogene Webber, Doris Jones, Almead Heyliger, Julie Merchant, Janet Wells, Violet Giddens, Doris Ayers, Cynthia Langaigne, Bernice Andrews, Marcella Redwood, Merlean Walker, Eva Benton, Louise Miller, Gertrude Jenkins, Daisy Edwards, Jennie Wilson. 

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Clara George, Eleanor Jenkins, Marguerite Lewis, Celestine Doucette, Winema Crawford, Beulah Greene, Verdell Hanna, Virginia Branch, Ruth McClure, Thelma Orr.

Fifth Row, Left to Right: Jasmine Walker, Violet Duncan, Gertrude Crews, Margaret Washington, Darnell Bagley, Ruth Spence, Ena Monroe, Dorothy Corney, Josephine Brown, Harold Rogers.

Front Row, Left to Right: Loriece Hackney, Elizabeth Adams, Janice Thomas, Shorthand Instructor, Burnette Boyd, Accounting Instructor, Rae Feld, Principal, Max Feld, Director, Bernice Tarver, Typing Instructor, Joyce Tedman, Ruby Cooper, Joyce Codman, Valedictorian. 

Second Row, Left to Right: Vertella Gadsden, Mistress of Ceremonies, Evelyn Kelly.

Third Row, Left to Right: Mary Manigault, Pearl Pollett, Nevada Hurtt, Myrtle Holder, Catherine Douglas, Louise Tyrrell, Geneva Miller, Eleanore Marton.

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Marjorie Cumbertatch, Audrey Poe, Helen Kinsey, Jimmie Gripper, Mary Godsey, Gonzales Rodriquez, Kathryn Poole, Dorothy McKenzie, Lillian Brown, Miriam Walker, Eslyn Nelson.

Fifth Row, Left to Right: Thelma Sutherland, Mary Morgan, Barbara Feggans, Ella Peterkim, Catherine Stokes, Bobbie Payne, Helen Turner, Henrietta Jeffrey, Elizabeth Ghee, Ilene Tyrrell.

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Front Row, Left to Right: Rose Jones, William Snipes, Mrs. Vertella Gadsden, Mrs. Rae Feld, Principal, Mrs. B. Duncan, A. Anderson, Margaret Carter. 

Second Row, Left to Right: LaVerne Best, Enid Bourne, Dorothy Dohy, Verlena Murphy, Olivia Cheatham, Juanita Brown, Anne DeVaughn, Adina Grant. 

Third Row, Left to Right: Naomi Capers, Clarice Mitchell, Ernestine Sligh, Texanna Glenn, Barbara Legette, Drois Smith, Lenora Murray, Kathryn Jefferson, 

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Delores Carey, Ruthena Campbell, Emma Mitchell, Frances Lee, Elinor Smith, Ruth Greer, Hattie Bailum, Kathleen Palmore.

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Front Row, Left to Right: Bernice Wright, Joyce Harris, Wendell Graham, Bookkeeping Instructor, Rose Mason, Typing Instructor, Theodore Hulbert, Director, Rae Feld, Principal,  Beatice Gaines, Typing Instructor, Yvonne Dillon, Barbara Holland.

Second Row, Left to Right: Victoria Brown, Louise Cole, Minnie Hughes, Juliette Fahie, Arthur Challenger, Dorothy Archie, Iselyn Joseph, Shirley Tyson, Gloria Meyers.

Third Row, Left to Right: Wanser Sauls, Clara Thomas, Lillian Smith, Helen Cassiano, Lottie Daniel, Valerie Baker, Dorothy Cobbs, Mary Hines, Rosemary Evans, Audrey Price, Dorothy Davis.

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First Row, Left to Right: Alice Marion, Josephine Caines, Vertella Gadsden, Elsie Archer, Instructor, Rose Mason, Instructor, Florence Yeats, Instructor, Theodore Hulbert, Director, Rae Feld, Principal, Selwyn Adams, Instructor, Gladys Bronson, Instructor, Rita Heywood, Alma Hardy.

Second Row, Left to Right: Florizelle Sampson, Minerva Morris, Jean Nicholas, Ada Vasquez, Lena Richardson, Iris Jacobs, William Marshall, Doris Tilson, Carolyn Lloyd, Violet Alcendor, Ruby Burnett, Ann Turner, Ruth Johnson, Linda Lee, Elaine Hulbert.

Third Row, Left to Right: Elroy Richards, Mary Parrish, Ismay Pollard, Yvonne Cadogan, Gloria Maxey, Elease Baylor, Claville Rohlehr, Charlotte McBride, Patricia Pender, Ida Linton, Joel McPhee.

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Jesse Parks, Evelyn Woodson, Marjorie Howell, Sarah Airall, Dorothy Reid, Vivian Wilkenson, Barbara Clay, Myrtle Bowleg, Tenaye Kidane, Joyce Hill, Howard Scott.

Fifth Row, Left to Right: Virginia Esters, Gloria Scarbrough, Bizuwork Kidane, Ianthe Peters, Redessa Pointer, Meiva Scott, Lucille Jackson, Lenore Hendricks.

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Graduates in alphabetical order: Guelda Alexander, Charlotte Anglin, Keith Archer, Melva M. Barid, Iolette E. A. Barners, Olga E. Bartholomew, Ruth E. Bascus, Elizabeth Beasley, Barbara F. P. Bell, Lorenza Benjamin-Dyall, Phyllis E. Brett, Ida Brodie, Fay Y. Brooks, Ollie Mae Burnside, Bettye J. Cannon, Illuminada Castro, Eulalee C. Charity, Mavis A. Clarke, Gerturde Drichlow, Essie Crockett, Marjorie E. Cunningham, Alvin D. Dickson, Beverly Donaldson, Audrey Elliott, Jerilyn Gayle, Serena Gaynor, Dorothy Goldbourne, Mable Gowie, Ronald Greene, Louise Hargrove, Adelaide M. Henry, Irene Hill, Vitalina M. Hill, Elizabeth L. Iniss, Catherine E. James, Brenda C. Jenkins, Anna R. Jimenez, Shirley M. Johns, Clarence Jones, Earl Kirton, Dolly M. Lopez, Carmen M. Lugo, Delores C. McKenzie, Hazel A. Marchant, Ernestine Moore, Cleo Palmer, Ena H. Pearce, Eunice M. Pearson, Adline M. Pessoa, Phyllis Reneau, Norwell Rymer, Garland D. Rogers, Gwendolyn R. Samuels, Christophine Soanes, Cynthia M. Speare, Wilma Stewart, Gertha Terry, Daughn B. Thomas, Iola Thomas, Yvette Thomas, Margaret Y. Tucker, Sonya Velvette, Ethel C. Walker, Gertrude Williams, Hilma J. Williams, Dorel Wynter.

Seated with graduates in the center of the front row: Vertella Gadsden, Past President of the Alumni Association, Theodore Hulbert, Director, Rae Feld, Principal, Rose Mason, Typing Instructor. 

Secretarial diploma: Lois L. Allum, Annette Alleye, Glenniver L. Adams, Shirley M. Akins, Blossom Majorie Betton, Thelma Eudesse Borrow, L. Barbara Brown, Joyce M. Brown, Ernestine Brown, Carole Anne Crenshaw, Pauline Loretta Cumberbatch, Joyce Cox, Eldora S. Claxton, Lesma Merl Delchan, Betty Jean Dasher, Carmen B. Deleon, Doris Daly, Beverly Drummond, Ruth M. Elcock, Elaine Edwina Edwards, Sonia East, Lynda Cynthia Fleury, Sonia Louise Frazer, Gloria A. A. Figuero, Joyce Dorothy Grosett, Sandra Dianne Gibson, Goldine A. V. Graham, Billie Garner, Gloria I. Hines, Marie L. Jones, Joyce M. Leslie, Barbara Jean Mitchell, Kathleen Matthew, Audrey B. McCowin, Francinella Pamela Orr, Ivy Althea O’Loughlin, Mavis Leona Patterson, Fay A. Rickards, Lillian Russell, Grace Beverly Smith, Ann D. Still, Elsie Turner, Prunella M. Taitt, Elaine Thomas, Marcia A. Thomas, Louise Wilson, Cecille Wilson, Genevieve M. Williams, Hughlene Adella Wright, Roslyn W. Wilson, Ethelyn I. Warner, Carmelita F. Warren, Inez Rose Willis, Patricia Monica Young.

Stenographic diploma: Daphine O. Abrahams, Grace Brown, Teresa Carter, Beverly J. Campbell, Sonia Francis, Cecille A. Granette, Winifred Hall, Jacquline Huggins, Zanna Hicks, Marlene J. Isaacs, Terrecita Lake, Dorothy McBean, Mary Meikle, Roma C. Richards, Yvonne C. Rodney, Myrtle Ceceline Whylie, Veronica Ermyne Warner, Glenda Fernando, Thelma Reid, Melva Lobban, Hope Grierson.

Bookkeeping diploma: George Braithwaite, Bartel A. Chin, Douglas M. Gross, Carolyn Davis, Clarence Edwards, Kenneth A. Francis, Roy L. Harris, Augustus A. Hamilton, Austin Martin, Emeroy Mascoll, Leroy Nanton, George S. Robinson, Linval George Spence, Ralph St. Elmo Thompson, Elwin S. Thomas, William M. Tolliver, Lucien Watkins.

Clerk-typist diploma: Beverly M. Burgess, Janett Burnson, Pamella Codner, Brenda D. Crooks, Dorothy Currie, Anna L. Emile, Shirley Theresa Lambert, Wywla L. Lopez, Ada Mitchell, Cynthia H Martin, Henrietta Mellard, Delaceta Simon, Winifred J. Simon, Carmen L. Tomlin, Alaina Wynther, Hyacinth Yvonne Whyte, Velerie E. Lomax. 

Graduates in alphabetical order: Ismay Alexander, Elizabeth V. Allen, Derrick A. Anderson, Minnell Bailey, Anthony Becan, Elbertine V. Bridgewater, Janice W. Brooks, Phyllis Brown, Mable J. Carr, Fitzroy H. G. Challenger, Ruth Chapman, Valerie I. Charles, Beverly M. Chisholm, Delores M. Clarke, Cynthia Clement, Nannie D. Coleman, Marva J. A. Crick, Sonia V. Crossdale, Franklyn D. Cumberbatch, Gwendolyn Dacasta, Monica Dexter, Juliana DuChaussee, Sylvia Duhaney, Earl W. Edwards, Phyllis Ellington, Herman H. Fairweather, Lois Fletcher, Radiance E. Gabourel, Winston A. Green, Doris R. Haynes, Gloria C. Henriques, Madge T. Heron, Herman Hessic, Estelle Hewitt, Delta D. Hopkins, May Ingraham, Vere Innis, Myrna L. Isaac, Hyacinth J. James, Ira L. Jeffries, Annie R. Johnson, Daphne Jones, Yvonne Jordan, Valerie Joseph, Mavis M. Kerr, Helen R. Kirlew, Olive R. Lawrence, Daphne J. Leader, Halery Lynch, Emelda Lyons, Hilma Martin, Glyne W. Mascoll, Deidre E. Mason, Gloria D. Matthew, Olive C. Maxwell, Sonia W. May, Alvin A. McCreath, Lionelle McKay, Daphne McKenzie, Barbara E. McLeod, Carolgene E. McLeod, Delores C. McQueen, Babseline L. Miller, Brenda I. Miller, Hyacinth P. Miller, Myrna Miller, Peggy B. Miller, Keith Minott, Carol A. Moe, Norma L. Monfries, Herbert V. Murray, Alice E. Mutunga, Trevor O’Connor, Thelma H. Olivier, Winston P. Padmore, Norma Pandy, Joyce Pena, Wilma L. Phillips, Leonie Porter, Rose M. Price, Olive Reid, Joyce Richards, St. Claire Samon, Yvonne C. Samuels, Mavis M. Scott, Eula Shakespeare, Bertram G. Smith, Hope C. D. Smith, Dalton Southwell, Daphne Stoddard, Cynthia Vanterpool, Dennis A. Waite, Lucilda Walters, Lorraine M. Webb, Wilma Webb, Gloria E. Wharton, Ceciline Whylie, Beverly Williams, Alice M. Wilson, Jeanette K. Winchester, Darrell A. Wollaston, Stephanie E. Woodley, Loris Wright, Keith Young.

Rae Feld is Principal and Florence Yeats, Assistant Principal. Faculty members shown are Selwyn Adams, Elsie Archer, Cynthia Edwards, Henry Griffin, Theodore Hulbert, Ruth Johnson, Cardelia LaSane, Rose Mason, Margaret Street, John Simmons, Monica Thompson, Marvin Yeats.

First Row, Left to Right: Carole Brown, Fernella Henry, Dorothy Brown, Ellodene Holness, Gene Forde, Beatrice Pratt, Marjorie Puranda, Noelle Scott, Eula Pierre, Herbert Reid, Millicent Alcock, Sybil Davis, Lavita Goodridge, Gwendolyn Saunders. 

Second Row, Left to Right: Ruth Johnson, Teacher; Constance Sterling, Norma Moncrieffe, Winnifred Burke, Evelyn Daubon, Eurelia Monish, Clover Goldson, Monica Thompson, Teacher, Rose Mason, Dean of Students, Rae Feld, Principal, Florence Yeats, Assistant Principal, Elma Reid, Jean Rawlings, Edel Brown, Lillian Thomas, Alva Carter, Ludwina George, Cherie Simon, Ena Doran.

Third Row, Left to Right: Alvin McCreath, Teacher, Cardelia Lasane, Teacher, Cynthia Stewart, Eileen Nugent, Shirley McPherson, Gloria Moore, Cynthia Hunter, Yvonne Isaac, Shirley Belle, Myrtle Claxton, Audia Bradshaw, Angela Best, Dyllis Woodley, Thelma Barnes, Jacqueline Sheppard, Muriel Claxton, Gwenda Daley, Charles Watson, Kyrle Jacobs, Margaret Fenandez, Teacher; Selwyn Adams, Teacher, Cynthia Lee, Teacher. 

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Patrick Clarke, Minzie Gore, Alfred James, Eric Mackey, Carolyn Jarvis, Lillian Curtis, Janet Mapp, Freda Denton, Lloris Williams, Una Savage, Elfreda Dawes, Dorothy Samuel, Maureen Wells, Patricia Bonney, Leonard Scott, Josny Adam, Damian Charles, Marvin Yeats, Teacher. 

Fifth Row, Left to Right: Maria Sibble, Hilma James, Violet Currie, Yvonne Wilkenson, Elaine Brown, Joslette Gordon, Jeannette Blake, Joyce Willoughby-Lewis, Shirley Davy, Althea Sangester, Eugenia Belinfante, Elaine Joseph, Carmen Nevers, Merline Minto, Angela Nurse, Cora DeLeon, Barrington Coore.

First Row, Left to Right: Heather Cragwell, Cecilia Roberts, Phyllis Clark, Audrey Creary, Monica Thompson, Cardelia LaSane, Ruth Johnson, Instructors, Rae Feld, Principal, Rose Mason, Dean of Students, Florence Yeats, Assistant Principal, Cynthia Lee, Instructor, Ferosa Mungrue, Valedictorian, Carley Springer, Cynthia Cumberbatch, Gladwyn Harris, Demora Kirton, Sandra Pryce.

Second Row, Left to Right: Milton Norville, teacher, Icylin Brown, Delores Godfrey Brown, Jenneth Potter, Muriel Missick, Shirley Forde, Marlene Griffith, Claudette Morgan, Cynthia Merchant, Lana Lewis, Hazel McNeish, Pearline Bell, Yvonne Johnson, Jeanette Alson, Olga Gray, Annette Claxton, Geraldine Daniel, Linda Ware, Jean Whittingham, Murray Starr, Instructor.

Third Row, Left to Right: Selwyn Adams, teacher; Joy Brown, Garth Wilkens, Laselve Harrison, Thelma Patrice, Marilyn Thompson, Althea McKinney, Brigette Clemen, Judith Whiteman, Barbara Johnson, Benzita Taylor, Stephen Campbell, David Simon, Joseph Berasa, Robert Dunbar, Philip Brown, Glendeene Gibbs, Leone Harris, Henry Griffin, Instructor.

Fourth Row, Left to Right: Margaret Maxwell, Margaret Miller, Joan Barber, Cynthia Keene, Barbara Solomon, Gritley Henry, Lynford Martin, Cyril Stephens, James Pearson, Cuthbert Kelson, Desmond Beckles, Alphonso McLeod, Stanley Todd, Dourlas Walsh.