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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 27

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6B THE PALM DEACH POST SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2000 Students remember receiving Are you suffering from hand-me-down books, uniforms long as It's used for the purpse it was intended mat fine with me, he said. Brown said several of the alumni are trying to find others who graduated from the school If you may be eligible fur ri'firch tudy that will evaluate the safely Ami effects of Invesliitional medications nd if they can reduce endometriosis pain with fewer side effects. ICSL Clinical Studies Is looking for women who: Are between 18 45 years of ae Have been surgically diagnosed with endometriosis in the past 30 months Have regular menstrual cycles l'perience pelvic pain ind or dysmenorrhea Have not received therapy with CnRII analogue Participants will receive care related to the study and study medication. For more information, please contact ICSL Clinical Studies at 561-731-01 58 or 800-758-3746. Up f() since 1501 to join in the reunion He may be reached at 287-3510.

One graduate, Frnestine Ar lington, Class of 15)51, said she remembers the school as the hub $525i00 of the black community events. "I remember the socials at night and the apple-bobbing. Thoy H2D0 JnK Road, Suite 101 lloyntnn (teach, Florida 3.14.17 www.clinicalsludics.net ur your rime Clinicnl Studies don do that anymore. Martin County sheriffs crossing guard Cynthia Hall, who was crowned the school's 1919 homecoming queen, remembers the help of the school board, "We even put in wiring for lights along the sidewalk, but the school board never connected the electricity," he said. Many of the students' parents worked in service roles for white families in Martin County and were considered members of their families, too, said Stuart Training School graduate Willie Jay 'lliompson.

"Our integration was the smoothest of any place in Florida. Our community was the extension of the white community and where there was love, there was not prejudice," he said. A school for problem students In earlier decades, the school served as the mecca of all the black community's educational and social events. Today, the SiM'ctrum high school is earmarked for problem students who have had trouble attending mainstream schools. It is surrounded by tall chain-link fences some topjx'd with barbed wire in contrast to the hedges that bordered the buildings decades ago.

"We knew better than to go through those hedges," Brown said. "I'd rather see the school being used as a magnet school with high academic standards, but as SCHOOL From III HonRS, ho said. "Our homeroom teachers would always usk us to tell what wc learned in Sunday School." While religion was part of the learning environment for students at the school, segregation also was part of life. This was our foundation. It's where we started," Brown said.

Tut it wasn't all eaches and cream." Students at Stuart Training School read second-hand books which contained names of white students inside that were discarded from their all-white counterparts at Stuart High School. They also wore secondhand basketball and football uniforms previously wont by white students a few blocks away. "We knew the difference, because we passed several white schools to get here," said Urown. who was bused 20 miles to school day from Indiantown. "We fcnew there was segregation, but If didn't know why.

We didn't Italk about it much." I' Quilly McIIardy, a graduate the class of 191 1, remembered Sow the students and their par-ents built the basketball court and sidewalks at the school without 7U J. the classrooms getting so cold in the winter that teachers held classes outdoors. "It was the good days. Dear, sweet STS," she said. patmoorrWpbposi.com mm SELECTED WEDDING GOWNS REDUCED TO '99 GOING ON Vacation? We'll interrupt your home delivery service, or save the newspapers for you.

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