Gex, Dolores (Horace Mann Principal)
St. Joseph News-Press February 12, 2004 is a newspaper picture of Dolores Gex sitting in front of slides of schoolchildren projected on her walls at home. She was the first white principal at all-black Horace Mann School in the 1960s. Mrs. Gex, 92 was in the position from 1963 to 1967. She said it was a rich four years of her life. Her last name is pronounced Jay. She tells a story that she wanted to have a nice Christmas party and she could not get a place that would take black people. She had the party in her home.
In 1967 she left Horace Mann. At that time white students were bused in and it became a middle school. Mrs. Gex retired as principal at Hawthorne School in 1977.
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