Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1927 — Page 15

DEC. 9, 1927.

SPECIAL GLASS FITS STUDENTS TO THEIR WORI Opportunity School Opens: as Part of Regular System., “Aren’t they eager? This is the finest class of boys I have had this yearl” The visiting city teacher put down her book with a movement of finality. She surveyed the class of interested faces of the boys of the special opportunity school located at the Vonnegut School, No. 9. “Wiey have shown me that they can really think,” she told the principal, Miss Kate Mason. “Jack there is especially good in grasping the high points of the lesson. And Joe isn’t far behind. And William and Bob and—- “ Personal Encouragement” Not one was ommltted from special mention by the teacher. But that is part of the plan of the school —to use the psychology of “personal encouragement.” “It is the greatest thing in the world for them,” said Miss Mason. “Our teachers cooperate in carrying out the policy. Also the academic course is purposely arranged to give more than the ordinary amount of individual attention.” The opportunity school, opened in the fall, was originally intended lor the type of under-privileged, but normal boys, Miss Mason explainer It does not accept pupils who arc “behavior or incorrigible” cases. The boys must be normal or super-nor-mal. “Often the boys in the classes are the highest types, but who need to be given some driving hiterest in school work,” she said. f ‘For some reason they are unfitted for their own grades and are not doing what they are capable of.” Well Equipped The school is equipped with a large print shop and motor driven machine shop where students learn printing and the “Ford plan” of production. The shop has the only automatic saw-sharpener in the city. It is manipulated by a student who lias become the “expert” sharpener for all the city schools. The school has two classes for thirty students each. Two-thirds of the work is academic and one-thiiU shop. If boys become intensely interested in some part of the work they are allowed to stay indefinitely after they reach 16. Pupils under 13 are not admitted. “The school gives boys the opportunity to be with boys of their own age, regardless of school grade and develop their individual interests and abilities,” Miss Mason said. “It gives the normal misfit his big opportunity if he means business.” Plans are being developed to maintain an employment bureau at the school.

SHORTRIDGE LIBRARY NOW HAS 2,000 BOOKS Bpy, Who Lost Mother in Graystone Fire, Among Donors. The Charity Dye memorial library of Shortridge High School now has skooo volumes, due to recent gifts of Mrs. William O. Bates and William Campbell, Shortridge student, whose mother was killed in the Graystone fire. The boy gave the library books of history and fiction before leaving for Cleveland, Ohio, to live with his aunt. Mrs. Bates, a personal friend of Charity Dye, donated fifty reference books. Others who gave books are the Rev. Joseph Littell, Mrs. S. E. Perkins, Mrs. Charles H. Abbett, and Miss Caroline Hale. Lee Burns gave the first dollar for supplies. DECORATE CLASSROOMS

. Students Work Out Color Schemes j for Vonnegut. Seven young "artists” of Vonne- i gut School No. 9 are proving thatj teachers are not tlie only ones who j know Jhow to decorate for Christmas. Careful opaque designs featuring Santa Claus, reindeer, wise men, camels, fur trees and holly are bein£ placed on the blackboard of many of the rooms. Most of the patterns are original and drawn free hand by the pupils. They, plan the color schemes. The pupils are Robert Westerfield, 7B; Adolph Gon, 7B; Mildred McDonald, 7A; Dorothy Edwards, 7B; Dorothy Stoner, 7A, and Minnie Crider, 88. COLLEGE GRADES GOOD Norris Houghton, Shortrldge Grad, Is in Princeton. Report of tlje grades of Norris Houghton, former Shortridge student now attending Princeton University, has been received by the Shortridge office. His record shows that his standing is exceptionally high in history, Greek i and Latin, and medium in French and chemistry. Norris wrote a former classmato that he likes Princeton. OFF YOUR FEED? You Need Todd’* Wine Tonic Made of finest California wine together with other useful medical ingredients. iodds wine lonic stimulates the digestive system, pnrifies the blood and quickens the appetite. Todd’s Wine vTonic is , most pleasant to take. Unlike ordii nary tonics, Todd’s Wine Tonic is ft a reconstructive Tonic and not a I'men laxative. Therefore, its re--1 suits are greater and more lasting. H Get a bottle today. For sale at ■Haag Drug Stores and at all other ■drug stores throughout this section. ■—Advertisement.

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—National Photos. Top—Miss Gretchen Zorn, who plays Judy in “Daddy Long Legs,” Manual Training High School senior class play given Thursday afternoon and tonight in the school auditorium. Bottom Robert Howerton, playing opposite, in the role of Jervis Pendleton. * PUPILS SERVE TEACHERS Daniel Webster School Domestic Science Class Has Luncheon. Luncheon was served to teachers of the Daniel Webster School No. 46 Tuesday by the pupils of the domestic science classes. The teachers were , “charged” 17 cents for lunch, but each gave sl. All over 17 cents was contributed to the Near East Relief fund. Sixteen teachers were served.

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SCHOOL PUPILS PREPARING FOR SANTA_CLAUS Busy Fingers With Paste and Paper Brighten Walls of School Rooms. Busy little fingers of Indianapolis school children this week are hard at work with paste and paper, getting ready for Santa. Bright patterns and stencils'decorate the walls and windows of the buildings. Some have Christmas trees draped in paper chains and sprinkled with shells and cotton. Hundreds of Children are practicing with their teachers on carols, pageants, playlets, tableaux and recitations, to be given next week. All the schools will have programs. Christmas lanterns and candles made by the children decorate the halls of School No. 36. On Friday afternoon the school will have a general program and a Christmas tree. 600 Pupils in Program Six hundred pupils will take part in a general program at School No. 41 Wednesday. The school chorus, orchestra.and junior band will play. During the day, groups of children will sing carols for each room. A play will be given by eighty children of the second and thin} grades under direction of Miss Nellie O’Donnell and Mrs. Finn of the faculty. A large tree will be placed in the auditorium of School No. 5. After the programs in each room the children will sit on the floor in a circle around the tree and sing carols. The rooms of the school are decorated with silhouettes of the wise men on a background of blue paper. They were made by the children, who also made the tree decorations. Bake 'Ginger Children’ Ginger “boys and girls” will be baked for the tree at School No. 43 by the girls of the cooking classes. The tree, with all its decorations and cookies, will later be given to the City Hospital. A vesper concert will be held in the auditorium at 6:45 Thursday. About 750 children of five school choruses will sing. The school orchestra and Riley Choral Club will entertain. The entire student body of School No. 9 will march through the halls in a Christmas processional. They will march to the auditorium carrying candles and take part in a general program. “Trial of John and James” The “Trial of John and James” (who didn't believe in Santa or Mother Goose) will be the feature

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WILL HAVE PROGRAM Lutheran School to Present Christmas Pageant. One hundred-four children of the Protestant Lutheran grade school, N. Arsenal Ave. and Market St., will take part in a Christmas program Dec. 24, at the Lutheran Church, E. Ohio and East Sts. Entertainment will be a pageant presenting the Christmas story. It will be directed by Paul G. Elbert, principal. The children of the school are donating their pennies to buy a gift for the Bethesda Lutheran Home, epeleptic institute, at Watertown, Wis. of the program at school No. 12, Wednesday and Thursday. Thirtyfive children will take part. The school orchestra will play. A cantata, “Bethlehem,” will be presented by 150 children of the seventh and eighth grades of school No. 75. All will wear surplices. It will be directed by Mrs. Leona B. Knights, music instructor. One hundred third grade children will give an operetta entitled "A Fairy Conspiracy." The school orchestra will provide the music. The program is given under auspices of the ParentTeachers. “Christmas all Week” “Christmas all week” is planned by the principal of school No. 55, Homer G. Knight. Christmas stories will be told by the teachers of each room every day before the vacation. On Friday afternoon, the whole school will be entertained with a tableau-.in which\twenty children will take part. Boys of the sheet metal class of the school are making match boxes and comb cases for the lemon tree and fish pond of the Parent-Teach-ers Christmas bazaar to be given Thursday afternoon, at the school. The girls of the domestic science classes are making yarn poinsettias and will serve chocolate. The Parent-Teachers will provide the Christmas tree.

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GLAM HUNTING LED TEACHER ON TOSGIENCE Wade, Head of Shortridge Department, Career Interesting. When he earned his first spending money hunting clams and sea fish in the “old whaling city” oi New Bedford, Mass., Frank B. Wade, now head of shortridge High School chemistry department; perhaps began a lifelong interest in

the composition of matter. Wade was bom in New Bedford and spent his boyhood among the whalers. He received his early education in the town. Later he became a science assistant in the high school there. Has Kappa Key He was graduated from Wesleyan University with special hon-

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ers in chemistry. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, and Psi Epsilon. He took his degree in 1901. He then went to Lewis Institute, Chicago, where he was an instructor for two years. One of Wade’s particular hobbies is precious stones. He says that his interest developed when, as a member of a geology field-trip party, a real precious stone mine wa.i discovered. He is especially interested in synthetic diamonds and rubies and has made many experiments

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Classmates Didn’t Know Joe Henninger’s Dreams; To Study In Europe. When the editorial staff of the 1924 Technical High School year book wrote the class "prophecy,” they did not know that Joe Henninger dreamed about being another Michael Angelo. Under the head of “Looking Into with them. He has written two books, among others, entitled “Diamonds” and “A Textbook of Precious Stones.” Together with Prof. A. “A. Blanchard, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he published "Foundations of Chemistry,” for high schools. With Prof. Herbert Brownell, of the Teachers College of the University of Nebraska, he wrote “The Teaching of Science” and “The Science Teacher,” for normal schools. Widely Honored Wade was twice chairman of the Indiana section of the American Chemical Society. He was president of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, and has recently finished a term as president of the Indiana Academy. He is a member of the committee on chemical education of the Ameriaan Chemical Society and has served on the committee for the Flace of Science in the Curriculum of the American Association for the advancement of science. At present, he is president of the National Chemical Prize Essay Contest and editor of the chemistry department of • “School Science and Mathematics.” Wade came to Shortridge in 1903, an an instructor. After seven years he >vas made head of the chemistry department.

the Future," Joe’s class prophets said hopefully: “Joe Henninger is a famous cartoonist. He cartoons for all the popular magazines!” Even Mother Didn’t Know But that was when Joe played Alec Fairfax in “The Hottentot” and was vice president of the History Club and did funny sketches for the school paper. Perhaps no one knew that Joe aspired to fine, arts. , Even his mother did not know until Joe left suddenly and “bummed” his way to New York where he has worked as a doorman on Broadway, studied art arid awaited the big chance. Study in Europe It- came when Mrs. Louise C. Thomas of New Orleans, La., wired him that his work at the National Academy of Design would be rewarded by a four-year foreign scholarship. Joe will work his way to Europe on a grain boat, leaving Dec. if. His mother, Mrs. M. E. Henninger, lives at 1902 Ruckle St. Joe was graduated from Technical High in '1924. He won a scholarship at the John Herron Art Institute while in high school and studied there before going to New York. YULE PROGRAM PLANNED The Red and White houses of Manual Training High School will unite for the school Christmas program Tuesday and Wednesday in the auditorium. A part of the program will be the presentation of new school traffic regulations and the awarding of the attendance shield to the roll, rooms of both houses who have had the nearest perfect attendance records during the last part of the semester. Groups of students will sing carols And the school orchestra will play

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PRESS BODYJO CITY Normal Group Will Gather Here Saturday. Miss Easperance Hilt, editor of the T. C. I. Collegiate, and Miss Charlotte Derek, exchange editor, will represent the Teachers College at the State normal press convention Saturday, at the local school, Mrs. Evans Woollen, president of the college board, will assist Mrs. Alice Corbin Sies. college president, as hostess for Relegates from six State normals. Faculty members on the reception committee will be Dr. Daniel L. Bower, Dr. Edgar Hunt, Miss Julia Harrison Moore, Mrs, Blanche G. Mathews, Mrs. Alice Diven Goss, Miss Elizabeth Hall, Mrs. Harmon Bradshaw, Mrs. Rose Wesley, Miss L. Katherine Keifer, Mrs. Horace Marshall Moorman, and Miss Lucy Brokaw. A luncheon at the (school will follow the morning session. Those in charge will be Mrs. Flora Mickols, Miss Mary C. Turner, Miss Ruth Anna Harding, and Miss Mae Engle. The Teachers College Trio, consisting of Misses Dorothy Miller, Edith Cavenaugh, and Virginia Morrison will sing. Miss Virginia Morrison will play, and Miss Marjorie Williamson will slpg.

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