American Co-Ed school opens in Busey Park.: Just near HJampton Court Palace where Henry VIII stroled , the boys and girls of the New World are going to school. They are children of United States Military Personnel stationed in and around London and the School is situated in Bushey Park. There is a Central High School for 210 children and an elementary school for the first eight grades. There are twenty-five classrooms, with a student's lunch room. The curriculum covers the usual range of subjects taught in schools thorugh the United states, and in addition to this girl students can enroll for courses of Home Economics including sewing and Home nursing. Organiser of the school is Mr. B. Kennedy and principal is Mr. V.E. Farned from Mississippi. The School is the latest addition to the USAF school system in the U.K. Students eat sandwiches and drink milk during the half hour lunch break at the school. (L to R) Irene Sersain of Washington State; Edna Hunt of Arlington, Virginia are joined by Kirven Speed of Sayre, Oklahoma.
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