She also held a Bachelor of Science in "Life Instructions", from a program jointly sponsored by Florida A&M University and Benedict College.
When its two-room wooden building was destroyed in the 1926 Miami hurricane, she spearheaded efforts to raise money, get matching support from the Rosenwald Fund, and a much larger, 6-classroom Pompano Colored School opened in 1928.
She retired in 1970, "when a federal desegregation order closed the [Blanche Ely] high school."
When it was replaced in 1924 by Broward's first school building built for negro students (today the Old Dillard Museum), he was its first principal.
[8] They are buried together in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens North, Pompano Beach, Florida.