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Of course, we haven't had an opportunity to read it. It

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was just distributed before the meeting, but we will con-

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sider it the same as if you had read it out loud now.

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Is Reverend Owens here?

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MR. ROBERT L. LAMBORN: My name is Robert

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Lamborn, I am Headmaster of the McDonogh School. I

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might say that Father Owens was out of town when the

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message about this meeting was sent to him, so that we

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received it, in fact, at the beginning of this week, a

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day or so ago, and while I am here representing the

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Private Schools Association of Baltimore, I come, I hope,

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informed, but instructed.

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I would like to say first we appreciate the

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opportunity of being here. I would like to stress the

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fact that we are very conscious and very jealous of the

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very fine working relationship which exists within this

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State between the public schools and the Superintendent

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of Schools, and we have been around some and we find our

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status has been much happier than in many other locations

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and we would like the Commission to be aware of that fact

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The independent schools have an abiding and proven