Democracy in action

Caption: "Democracy in action--Manual Training High School students [sitting around table] meet with Louis A. Schuker, principal, to discuss school-community problems. Participating are, left to right, Helen Holmberg, Arista secretary; Robert Wood, G. O. president; Melvyn D. Haywoode, senior Arista president; Patricia Mills, secretary; Frank Baldassare, chairman of high school group, National Conference of Christians and Jews; Jacki Mills, editor-in-chief, Manual Weekly, and Mary Jane Driskill, senior class president." The school, located at 237 Seventh Avenue, changed its name in 1960 to John Jay High School and its name changed again in 2001 to Secondary School for Law Journalism and Research.