Aquilina C. Howell Collection

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The Aquilina C. Howell collection consists of papers of distinguished Leon County educator, Aquilina Howell. Born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1917, Howell graduated from Old Lincoln High School in 1934. She received her B.A. from Florida A&M College in 1938 and a M.A. in Curriculum and Guidance from New York University. Howell then worked in the Leon County School System as a teacher, guidance counselor, supervisor of curriculum and guidance, and Director of Secondary Education. In 1985, she retired as Superintendent for Instruction, the highest ranking black administrator at that time. The collection includes papers, correspondence, photographs, greeting and postcards, and memorabilia.

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Thelma T. Gorham Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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9th grade Program Development Workshop documents, Part 3

Part 3 of the 9th grade Program Development documents from the Aquilina C. Howell Collection. It contains follow-throughs from previous workshops, notes, flyers, and a complete handbook on the workshop, including the rationale, curriculum, sample material, recommended readings, a bibliography, course outlines, and an appendix.
9th grade Program Development Workshop documents, Part 2

1972
9th grade Program Development Workshop documents, Part 1

Part 1 of the 9th grade Program Development documents from the Aquilina C. Howell Collection. This part includes the workshop rationale, shifting the school structure from the traditional 6-3-3 plan to the K-5 for elementary school, 6-8 for middle, and 9-12 for high school. It also contains many related documents, including worksheets, meeting notes and follow-throughs, memoranda, handwritten notes by Howell, article clippings, bibliography, and notes on the curriculum.
Minority task force project documents, Part 3

Part 3 of a collection of documents and related files to the NAACP Task Force on Educational Success for Minority Students, in which Aquilina C. Howell was involved while she was Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. It includes related correspondence, memoranda, a list of ways to increase home-school cooperation with notes, a newsletter from the Florida Education Council (Winter 1982-1983), a copy of an annotated bibliography edited by Anne Henderson on parent participation in student success, and other resources for the task force.
Minority task force project documents, Part 2

Part 2 of a collection of documents and related files to the NAACP Task Force on Educational Success for Minority Students, in which Aquilina C. Howell was involved while she was Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. It includes a list of recommendations for the program, meeting notes, memoranda, flyers, as well as other related correspondence. Moreover, there is a statement of issues, proposals, and concerns by the NAACP Tallahassee Branch commending Charles Couch and Howell for convening the task force. At the end, there is a collection of publications by the Task Force on Educational Success for Minority Students titled "Minority Mentor" that includes recognitions, newspaper clippings highlighting the efforts, and other details and updates of the twelve point action plan.
Minority task force project documents, Part 1

Part 1 of a collection of documents and related files to the NAACP Task Force on Educational Success for Minority Students, in which Aquilina C. Howell was involved while she was Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. These include correspondence relating to the 12 Point Action Plan created by Howell for Leon County Schools, as well as project proposal documents outlining the plan. Moreover, there are also newspaper clippings publishing the plan and highlighting the effort. There are also documents from the COEB (Council on the Education of Blacks) from Tampa (Fla.), Leon District schools contact lists, meeting notes, and memoranda with issues/concerns and identified areas of need.
Professional documents and other notes

A collection of Aquilina C. Howell's professional documents and notes. The majority relates to the SACS Visiting Committee for Maclay School on March 15-18, 1987, in which Howell was the member assigned with reporting on School and Community. It includes a letter from Mabel Jean Morrison thanking her for the contribution to the school improvement program, a schedule of activities for the committee, notes from the visit, and other documents related. There are other documents and notes relating to teaching or personal notes, such as a biographical sketch on Carl Rogers, worksheets, notes on "Romanticism on Puritan Soil," a page from "The Flowering of New England," and a recipe for a cheese-egg-sausage timbale.
Maclay School Newsletter, February 1987

Volume 2, No. 4 of the Maclay School Newsletter from March, 1987. It contains school announcements, advertisements for upcoming events such as the 5th Annual Sweepstakes, and a sports events calendar.
The Florida Council of Independent Schools Brochure, 1985-86

A brochure from The Florida Council of Independent Schools for the academic year 1985-86. It provides information on the benefits of becoming a member school, as well as a list of member schools as of September 1, 1985.
Maclay School Newsletter, March 1987

Volume 2, No. 5 of the Maclay School Newsletter from March, 1987. It contains school announcements, a note from the Headmaster, awards, and honors such as a list of Science Fair winners, and a sports events calendar for March 1987.