30 + REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

as the Commissioner's chief representative in St. Croix, charged with
the tasks of administering the educational program in the island.
 The Department put considerable emphasis on in-service training
programs. For the first time in many years, one-day teacher insti-
tutes were held in St. Thomas and St. Croix. Several workshops
were also held for both professional employees and nonprofessional
employees. The first workshops for custodial staff were conducted
during the year in St. Thomas and St. Croix. In addition to the work-
shops and institutes, in-service training through an expanded program
of supervision and conferences did much to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of personal services in every area of activity and every
level of operation.
 A major improvement worthy of note was the lifting of the general
morale of the employees of the Department of Education. Several
factors were responsible for the improvement of morale. The genuine
interest, the moral and financial support given by the administration
as a whole and by the Virgin Islands Legislature; the leadership ren-
dered by the administrative and supervisory staff of the Department
of Education; the interest exhibited by the Board of Education; and
the general feeling that education, at last, was on the forward move,
all contributed to the fine morale of the employees.
 The Department devoted considerable time to the recruitment of
teachers for the 1962-63 school year. There were over 100 positions
to fill, 70 of which were new positions authorized in an effort to reduce
pupil-teacher ratio to approximately one teacher for every 30 students.
Over 1,000 inquiries from prospective teachers were answered.

Out-of-School Professional Activities
 The Virgin Islands was honored to have one of its educators selected
by the United States Department of State as one of twenty American
educators to participate in an international seminar in Europe under
the Fulbright program.
 For the first time, educators from the Virgin Islands participated
in the evaluation of mainland high schools for accreditation by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. This
was part of the program designed to familiarize the staff members with
the accreditation process of the Middle States Association.
 Several staff members participated in mainland professional con-
ferences, including the 17th Annual Convention of the Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development in Las Vegas, Nev.;
a conference on the school lunch program in Washington, D.C.; con-
ferences on the manpower training program, called by the United