Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1928 — Page 10

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ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS OUT FOR [SCHOOLS Music, Readings and Talks to Feature Parent 1 Teacher Meetings. Music, readings and talks will feature the programs of seven ParentTeacher meetings next week: The association of School 39 will meet Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. in the school auditorium. There will be a short talk on Girl Scout work and several musical numbers. A committee will welcome all, especially new mothers. Rev. L. C. Trent will address the association of Abraham Lincoln School 18, Wednesday at 2:30 p. m.' Enid Virginia Dick will give readings and the president, Mrs. Irving Yeagy, will give a report of her visit to the Children’s Museum. The Parent-Teacher Association of School 38 will meet Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. “Glimpses of Italian Home Life’’ will be discussed by Mrs. Gino Ratti at a meeting of the association of School 8 Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. Miss Louise Critser of the Metropolitan School of Music will sing a group of Italian songs. Roscoe Gilmore Stott, lecturer and writer, will speak at the ParentTeacher meeting of the William A. Bell School 60, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Hugh McGibeny will give a musical monologue. A male quartet and string trio, from the Indianapolis School of Music, will be a special feature at the night meeting of the association of School 81, Friday evening at 7:30. Harry Walters, father of one of the pupils, will give a chalk-talk and Rev. George S. Henninger, pastor of the East Tenth Methodist Church, will address the meeting. The program will open with patriotic songs by a boys’ and girls’ chorus of the upper grades. Rosiland Johnson and Anna Margaret Chapman will give readings. The association of School 70 will meet Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Martha Etubbs will give a series of talks on “Child Development.” Mrs E E. Voyles will sing.

01. TO IE EOlTOf? Ruth Price Heads Staff of Shortridge Annual. Ruth Marie Price will be the literary editor of the Shortridge High School 1928 annual, the most important office of the publication staff She will have charge of selecting all “copy,” with the aid of the sponsor. Miss Price formerly edited the Thursday edition of the “Shortridge Daily Echo/’ She is captain of one of the girls’ debating teams and for three years maintained a scholastic record which makes her a candidate for the silver loving cup, presented annually by the junior class to an outstanding senior. At present she is temporary chairman of the Shortridge chapter of the National Honor Society and was a delegate to the State convention of high school journalists at Franklin, Ind., this year. New Teachers at Harrison Benjamin Harrison School No. 2 has two new department teachers this semester. They are Miss Anna Kelly and Miss Wilma Hession.

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Second Week in School, and Not One Tear Shed

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Janice Murray and John Mason

Janice Frances Murray and John Mason of the Brookside school, are typical of hundreds of Indianapolis first grade children who, are launched on the second week of life’s first big thrill—starting school. Except one thing. Janice and John haven’t shed a tear! Their teacher, Miss Bertha Keith, says it is anew experience for her to have forty-nine beginners and not one a “cry-baby.” “ ’Course not!” said John scornfully. “I didn’t cry. And I like to make colored balls and march like a soldier.” Janice likes to sing "We Are Little Indians” and climb upon a tall stool and point cut such words as dog, cat and pig, before the other children. While Janice and John are making colored balls and learning new words, other boys and girls of the city schools are learning to do the same things. Most of the first grade rooms are large and arranged with small movable chairs. Usually the children will

Bright Boy Indianapolis school children who listened to dozens of addresses today on the life and work of Thomas A. Edison will enjoy another anecdote of the man who supposedly was a daily joy to his parents and gratified his teachers with honob points. This story was told by Mrs. J. R. Farrell of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, at the Edison birthday observance at Broad Ripple High School. “One day when his mother told him to stay in the house and study his arithmetic lesson he sat around for a few minutes and finally said: ‘Mother, I have worked my problem.’ When his mother wanted to hear it, he said: ‘Well, my left foot makes one, my right foot makes two. One foot and two feet make three feet, and three feet make a yard, and I want to go out and play in it.’ He went.” Mrs. Farrel said that the inventor’s first experiment was a failure. When his mother told him how eggs were hatched, he immediately tried to hatch some by sitting on them.

be found sitting in a circle in the center of the room while some wideeyed little classmate tells about the “three bears.” New words are taught with colored pictures and their lessons are supplemented by colored paper and paste projects. Beginners are taught carefully how to march in a straight line and keep step to music. With only one week of training they become almost as alert and correct as the bigger pupils as they tramp in and out for rest periods or to get their milk and crackers. URGES PARENT TRAINING “Parenthood is as much a profession as teaching.” said Mrs. Charles H. Smith, past president of the Indianapolis Federation of ParentTeacher Association at the meeting Wednesday of the Beech Grove organization. "Parents should be as well trained for their occupation as teachers. The schools are/organized for a definite educational' program. We can not expect the schools to do what isn’t done in the homes. Parenthood should entail a home characterbuilding program.”

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MUSIC GROUPS AT CATHEDRAL PLANCONCERT High School Students Preparing Program for Sunday Evening. The Cathedral High School band, glee club, and orchestra will give their annual concert Sunday night in the school auditorium under direction of Brother Edwin, of the faculty, and Johnny Robertson, local musical entertainer. The band and orchestra have finished three months practice for the concert. The glee club completed entertainments during the Christmas season. Their entire program Sunday will include twentythree popular and semi-classical numbers. The following students compose the band and orchestra: Brother Damian. J. Dux. A. Kramir. a YelUui, Brother Adrian. C Bell, J. Hunt. A. Hermann, R. Schmitt, F. Hays, J. ArKUs, E. SrtaUKhnessey, J. McClanahan. J. Wolfla. W. Breen. R. Sweeney. F. Hodges, iv. Carroll. F. Eldridge. C. Mobley, V. Concannon, J. Gardner. H. Fletcher. L. Gallagher C. Orphev, C. Greeneu. J. Shine, F. Luber. J. Blackwell, J. Lynch, D. Kroger. W. Schwert, F. Grossart, F. Lutz. D. Lawler D. Montani. F. Duncan. P. Dc Vere. W. Beyer, W. Rabenstein. E. Kerr. L. Schneider. E. Ochring. D. Spleker. J. Berry. F. Laakman. F. Diener, F. Dunn. E Banta. A. Crane. M. Walle. F. Israel C. Hinde R Carrico, L. Lauber, C. Fox, T. Lysaght. E. Manouge. E. Mertz. F. Marren and P, Mcunier. Those in the glee club are: < s ,^rP’ C ? n e Cl ’:i, F - Siener, J. Prater. J. Scherer. J. SuJl'-an. J. Kiefer. L. McFad-

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School Wild Flower Preserve Is Novel Aid

Botany Head at Technical Uses It to ‘Sugar Coat’ Pupils’ Science. 'ln an undisturbed portion of the Arsenal Technical High School grounds is a plot criss-crossed by a small stream and covered with old forest trees and thick growths of wild flower species. The plot contains approximately four and one-half acres. Its cultivation has been for nine years one of the means by which C. F. Cox of the botany department “sugar coats” the science of his pupils. He has a theory that “botany should teach us to really live and not merely to make our bread and butter.” Because he believes ifi cultural as well as practical botany, he has been chiefly responsible for the | school wild flower preserve which now is famous for its original • beauty. Plot Originally Unused The plot was originally unused. Old trees and a few species of wild flowers grew there. Cox saw the possibilities for a unique type of garden, and under his supervision

den. J. Hahan. D. Zimmerman, H. Sehrich C. Schilling (accompanist!. R. Mandabach, V. Meunier, W. Zeunick, J. Cummings. P. Burkhart. J. Ryce, J McDowell, J. Wolfe. K. Strattman, R. Schneider, E. Fromhold. V. Rohrman, T. Carey, J. Taylor .J Carr. J. Theobald. W. Hunt. E. Burkert. J McCarthy. C. Schilling, D. Rogge. H. Gillespie, T. Lysaght. E. Bloomer. R. Minton. W. Fitzgerald, L. Wilberding.

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the plot has become the habitat for practically all types of wild flowers except water plants. It now contains over two hundred species of native trees, shrubs, herbs, as well as the flora. Most of the plants were gathered and brought to Technical by the instructor from all parts of the

NIGHT CLASSES OPENED Butler Extension Courses Begin at Shortridge High. Butler University extension courses started Tuesday at Shortridge High School. Classes will be held at night. The subjects include botany, education, English, German, history, journalism, music, nature study, public speaking, romance language and sociology.

State, including the Sand Dunes region, New Harmony, Madison and many parts of central Indiana Others have been transplanted from Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. Proud of Rare Species Cox will admit pride in the rarity of certain species in the garden. Orly a few plants remain to complete his “flower-garden” dreams. He plans to use a soil acidity—determing instrument which will aid in making ground suitable for growing such uncommon woods flowers as the fringed genetian, the trailing arbutus, and the mountain laurel. He has been interested in ecology and especially relation of plants to soil. The last two summers he has worked at a high altitude in the Alpine region of the Colorado Rockies, completing his field work. Cox came to Technical in 1917 from an Illinois township high school, where he taught botany and chemistry. He took his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois and has taken post-graduate work in botany at Chciago University. He lives at 528 N. Oxford St.

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SCHOOLS WILL STAGE CONTEST IN PUNCTUALITY First of Series to Start Feb. 27; Flags Will Be Awarded. First of a series of attendance end -punctuality contests to be held in Indianapolis public schools this semester will start Feb. 27, according to Charles F. Miller, city school superintendent. Mrs. Maude Moudy, principal of the Ralph 'Vyaldo Emerson School, is general chairman of the contest arrangements. The city is divided into seven districts. At the end of every month the winning school in each district will be awarded a specially designed flag, which it will keep until or if it loses the succeeding contest. Seven flags, six small and one large, will be used. The large flag will be presented the individual school making the highest record of all. Winning schools will be determined by dividing the average per cent in attendance and punctuality of the building by two, Mrs. Moudy said. The contests will cover tha entire semester. The following principals will act as district chairmen: Mrs. Mary B. Knowlton, E. J. Black, Miss Mabel Keller, Walter M. Price, K. V. Ammerman and Mrs. Moudy.