Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1928 — Page 10

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FARM AND HOME STUDY PLANNED; 1,001 EXPECTED Purdue and Government Arrange for Two-Day Course Here. Aporox'.mately 1.000 people are expected to attend the annual twocay Agriculture and Home Management course given by the Purdue Agriculture Extension Division under direction of the United States Department of Agriculture at Warren Central High School Tuesday ancl Wednesday. The course is divided into sections for the men and the women headed bv four professors of the Purdue agriculture department. K A. Danner will direct the dairying section; K. E. Beeson, roil and crops: Mrs. Anita Beads!, home managetr.eni; and Miss Kathryn McMahan, a general question box session. Mrs. Beadel's section will include discussions on planning meals, care of the sick, serving, and etiquette. Plan All-Day Session The sessions will begin both days at 9:45 a. m. and continue until S :30. The first day’s course will end with an entertainment at 7:30 in the Warren auditorium. Each Indianapolis high school is expected to provide short musical programs or physical training stunts. The Warren High School orchestra, band, and glee clubs will entertain with other city school groups. A final banquet will be held at 7 p. m. Wednesday. Two features of the program will be a dog-calling contest for the men and a husband calling contest for the women. Prizes donated by the Farm Bureau will be awarded to the winners by C. Henry, county agent. Walter Shearer of the Marion County Farm Bureau, will be toastmaster. Soil demonstrations, including tests with lime, sulphur and nitrogen will be made during the course, md types of dairy cows will be exhibited. Chairmen of the arrangements committees are: Mrs. Walter Shearer. reception: Tom Searly, finance; Dale Sargent, finance treasurer; Miss Vivian Carter, home-manage-ment division, and Mrs. John Shearer, program. CURRENT EVENT CLASS MEDALS ARE OFFERED Awards to Outstanding Students to Be Made in June. b'j Times Special COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 17.—Medals will be awarded in June to leading students of current events in public and private schools, according to an announcement of the American Education Press, Inc. The medals, to be known as the Charles Palmer Davis Medal, will be conferred to a student of each building who is selected by his teacher or principal as being the best student of current events. Each principal who makes application for the medals will determine his own conditions for awarding them- They will be furnished the schools free of charge by the Education Press, Columbus. SENIORS TO GIVE PLAY Arsenal Tech High Production Planned for ApriL “Fannie and the Servant Problem,’’ a comedy in three acts, will be presented by the Arsenal Technical High School seniors in April, Miss Clara M. Ryan, faculty director has announced. Try-outs will begin. Monday Twenty-three students will be cast. The play has to do with a poor girl who presumably marries a poor man, but who later finds he is a count. She becomes mistress of a score of servants who are, in reality, her own relatives.

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Present School Playlet

This grciup presented “King remmand aim His Spouse,” a playlet, at a Valentine party given at Washington High School Tuesday afternoon in honor of the freshman girls. They are, left to right: Thelma Foster as King Ferdinand of Spain: Alice Jones. Queen Isabella: Lucille Farley, reader; Thelma Ogden, the maid, and Mary McElwee, Christopher Columbus.

Basket of Doughnuts Leads to New School

Old P. T. A. Wanted Better Building, So Tried Gentle Bribe. The first fruits of the efforts of the first Indianapolis FarcntTeacher club happened to be a basket of doughnuts. The small frame school house where it was organized was inadequate and surrounded by muddy streets and walks. Parents, teachers, and pupils wanted anew building. At the same time another city school wanted anew building. The home of the P. T. A. was the Tuxedo School No. 58 (now the Ralph Waldo Emerson School) and was known as the T. P. A. (Tuxedo Progressive Association). The T. P. A. wanted anew building and didn't want to wait. So it surprised the reluctant school board by placing a large basket of fat, brown doughnuts on the table in its official meeting room. The first “fruits” proved to be irresistible for the morning papers read: "No. 58 to have anew school building as soon as possible.” Kate Mason Was Founder The original idea of a school mothers’ club (which first was the T. P. A. and later the P. T. A.) belongs to Miss Kate Mason, who is now principal of the Theodore Vonnegut School No. 9. Miss Mason formerly was principal of the old Tuxedo School before it was rebuilt by a basket of doughnuts. She saw the need of greater cooperation between the parents, pupils and the school. It was she who went first to Calvin S. Kendall, then school superintendent, and asked for help in organizing mothers’ clubs. Kendall hesitated at first, but Miss Mason, aided by Mrs. Charles L. Hartmen. 5040 Pleasant Run Pkway, established a club in 1906. The first officers were Mrs. Hartman, president: Mrs. Alice Beem, treasurer; and Miss Mason, taryMrs. Hartman, who lived near the school, recalls that, the children didn’t steal her apples after the club was organized. Movement Grows But the success of the first club iiKluenced other schools. In 1909 there were fifteen mothers’ clubs in the city and the present Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher association was organized in the new Emerson School, Linwood Ave., and E. New York St. Mrs. Hartman was made the first federation president. “I was very much frightened at being made president of such a group,” said Mrs. Hartman, who realized its possibilities. “About all

we did the first year was to feel our way.” Seventy-seven individual associations now form the city federation. Mrs. Logan G. Hughes is president. The federation holds three annual meetings, and the individual clubs meet each month. The discussions at each meeting surround the following subject: “The responsibility of the school and the home in relation to the physical and mental growth of the child.” * Association Presidents The presidents of the various associations are: Mrs. George Underwood. Shortridge High School; Daune Dugan, Broad Ripple High School: Mrs. Edward S. New. School No. 2: Mrs. Mllfred Vestal. No. 3: Mrs. Jessie Settles. No. 4: Mrs. Albert Dixon, No. 6; Mrs. Lawrence Meece. No 7; Mrs Harry Morris. No. 8: Mrs. R. F Starker, No. 9: Mrs. J. D. Irwin. No 10: Mrs. Arthur Dobbins. No. 12; Mrs. P. B. Hall. No. 13: Mrs. Mayme Armstrong. No. 14; Mrs. R. L. BlaKeman. No. 15: Mrs Dora Minkner. No. 16; Mrs. Elizabeth Gailowav. No. 17: Mrs. Irvina Yeagv, No. 18; Mrs. Lillian Whlteiy, No. 19: Mrs. Walter Hardy. No. 20; Mrs. Fred Da Vee. No. 21: Mis. Lilly Statler, No 22; Mrs. Georgia Martin. No. 23; Mrs. Lillian Rice. No. 24; Mrs. Alice Moss. No. 26; Mrs. Edward H. Mayo. No. 27; Mrs. Lee Buchanan. No. 28: Mrs. Oscar Jones. No. 30: Mrs. Harry Unger. No. 31; Mrs. L. C. Litton. No. 33; Mrs. William B. Laramore. No. 34: Mrs. Wilfred Weiland, No. 35: Mrs. C. L. Zechiel. No. 36; Mrs. Clarissa Coats. No. 37: Mrs. J. O. Rhoades, No. 38: Mrs. C. N. Hadley. No. 39: Mrs. Katve Cornett. No. 40: Mrs. Frank Slangier. No. 41; Mrs. Richard Tanner. No. 42: Mrs. C. F. Vovles. No. 43; Mrs. C. L. Witham. No. 44; Mrs. O. B, Brown, No. 45: Mrs. Della Prestln. No. 46; Mrs. Ben H. Grimes. No. 47: Mrs. Hattie Awbrey, No. 48; Mrs. A. C. Brown. No. 49; Mrs. Leon A. Lockwood, No. 50: Mrs. C. W. Welsh. No 51; Mrs. Annie Gooden. No. 53: Mrs. Lawrence Carter. No. 54: Mrs. Flo Hornadav. No. 55; Mrs. Vandaline Bradford. No. 56: Mrs. A. W. Kurst. No. 57; Mrs. R. R. Mills, No. 58; Mrs. Verd Mayer. No. 00; Mrs . Bulali Walker. No. 61. Mrs. Ed Keallng. No. 62; Mrs. Estelle Hodge. No. 63: Mrs. Opal Wright. No 64; Mrs. Katherine Grissom. No. 65: Mrs. W. E. Tinney, No. 66; Mrs. K. B. Fitchev. No. 67: Mrs. Ernest Crickmore. No. 68: Mrs. Walter Barton. Vo. 69; Mrs. Roderio Rae. No. 70; Mrs. Ethel. No. 72: Mrs. Edna Vasvinder. No. 73; Mrs. Willard Stineman. No. 74; Mrs. Roger Lawton. No. 75; Mrs. William Balch. No. 76; Mrs Fay Soothers. No 77; Mrs. Charles Moore. No. 78; Mrs. Lula Jones. No. 79; Lillian Weller. No. 30; K. J. Larkin. No. 81: E. C. Ballinger, No. 82; and Mrs. James Williams. No. 33. NAME 6 NEW TEACHERS Appointed for High and Elementary Schools in City. Six new teachers for high and elementary schools were appointed by Charles F. Miller, school superintendent, and passed by the board of school commissioners this semester. Names follow: Emma Stradling, elementary; Lester Spangler, part-time physics assistant at Manual Training High School; Demorest C. Davis, parttime manual training in elementary schools; Wilhelmina Luten, physiolphysiography, Shortridge High Solqool; Jane Messick, commercial art, shortridge; Ira E. Melvin, industrial arty Washington High School; Canis A. DeWitt, Latin, Crispus Attucks High School; and J. Curtis Weigel, history and social science. Broad Ripple High School.

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!SCHOOL HEADS MAKE SPELLINO CONTEST PLANS' Pronouncers Named for State Match: Math Drill Discussed. Elementary school principals held a call meeting Thursday at Harrison chool No. 2. Eighty-thrcq attended. i Pronouncers for the State spelling contest were named. They are: Miss Grace Black, principal of No. 46; Miss Charlotte Carter, principal of No. 51; Miss Ida Helphinstinc, principal of No. 72; Miss Ella Pedlow, principal of No. 22; Miss Georgia Lacy, principal of No. 30, and Miss Mabel Keller, principal | of No. 30. J. F. Thornton, assistant school | superintendent-, presided. Miss Flora Drake, assistant superintendent, explained the contest rules. Discussion on the use of the j Lenr.es drill test in arithmetic was led by D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent, and William A. Hacker, social sendee director, talked on "Legal and Illegal Absence From School.” The meeting was the first held by the principals this semester. DEDICATE SHORTRIDGE ANNUAL TO OLD SCHOOL j 1928 Edition Last Published in Present Quarters. Dedication of the Shortridge High ! School 1928 annual will be made to ; the old building at North and Pennsylvania Sts., William N. Otto, faculty sponsor, announces. The book this year will be the i last published at the present quar- ! ters. Charles S. Bouslog is the S editor. Other staff members are Ruth Marie Price, literary editor; i Martha Crawford, liners; Abe Letiff. pictures; Iris Rollins.clubs; Thomas Kelley, sports, and Goldie Andrews, Ebner Blatt, Thomas Butz, Eleanor Cohn. Edmund Engleking, Myron Feinburg, Bemadine Grow. Virginia Holt. Caroline Hofft, Myron Jenckes, i Charles McNaull, George Pearce. Dorothy Tucker. Etta Warren and Mary Beatrice Whitemgn. Elizabeth Stone, editor of the art staff, and Elizabeth Savidge, associate editor. Shortridge P. T. A. to Meet The Parent-Teacher Association ! of Shortridge High School will meet | in Caleb Mills Hall Tuesday at j 8 p. m. There will be special music. A cast from thte Junior ! Drama League will present a one- ! act comedy entitled “Evening Dress Indispensable” by Roland j Pertwec. John Fornay, president of j the Junior class, will give a thrcc- ! minute talk. Cathedral Musical Draws 800 Approximately 800 persons attended the Cathedral High School musical entertainment given by the school band, orchestra and glee club Sunday in the auditorium. Brother Edwin of the faculty and Johnny Robinson, local entertainer, directed. Motorist Fa) ally Hurt I By Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 17. | William H. Floyd. 48, is dead of injuries suffered Sunday when the automobile he was driving crashed into a street car.

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School Given Flag on Lincoln Day

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Mrs. W. H. Makepeace (right), 806 N. Riley St., presented this flag as a personal gift to the Calvin N. Kendall school No. 62 at its Lincoln day program. Its dimensions are 12x15 feet.

Public Speakers ‘Reared’ at Tech Are in Demand

Return Engagements Often for Arsenal Student Orators. When a student gets so good in the public speaking classes of Arsenal Technical High School that he ‘rates’ an “A plus” or an “A” he may be a Denjigod, a Demigogue. or a Dotnegorian. Usually he is a Demegorian! That means that his instructor thinks he or she can deliver a speech with enough poise, ease, and fearlessness to be a member of that already famous speechmaking group known as the “Tech Demegorians.” The work of the Demegorians entails giving five to ten minute addresses before some Indianapolis public gathering. Organized 5 Years Ago They were organized and named five years ago by Charles Parks, Technical public-speaking instructor, who still directs their work. He makes their engagements for them at local and Marion County churches, schools, and asylums, where they are given full charge of the program, each making his or

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Mrs. Makepeace’s small son Billy (left), of the 2-A grade, received it for the school. Kendall traffic squad pupils are holding it.

her original speech on some subject appropriate to the occasion. Parks believes this gives the public experience that they do not get by addressing the classes. During the last five years the “A” members have spoken at over sixty different institutions in Indianapolis and parts of the country. Most of these include churches, orphans’ asylums, and schools. Many Return Engagements The student-orators have had many return engagements. Their instructor says he has noted no “falling off” in the audiences when they have charge of the program. He does not allow them to write out and memorize their talks. They talk offhand from an outline. A few of their subjects assigned by Parks have been “Reverence.” “Ideals.” “Wealth That Lasts,” “Self Control,” and “Christ and the Young People.” The Demegorians will be in charge of the regular service hour at the Memorial Baptist Church Sunday morning. Those on the program are Catherine Tate. Mildred Beard, Farrington Bridwell, Lawson Clark, Craig Ransburg, and Wilma Fisher. Their subject is “The Test of Life." PLAN P. T. A. DINNER Board Prepare* for Annual Event to Be Held in March. The Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations will hold its annual dinner March 9 at the Broadway M. E. Church. Plans were made at the board meeting , Monday. Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president, 1 named the following committees; Arrangements—Mrs. William Hedrick, chairman; Mrs. C. H. Schwomeyer and Mrs. James H. Dunne. Program—Mrs. S. M. Meyers, Mrs. Clayton Ridge and Mrs. Clyde E. Titus. EQUIP SCHOOL’S STAGE Fixtures Are Presented by Brookside Parents and Teachers. New stage equipment was presented the Brookside school by the Parent-Teachers at the last, meeting of the association, Feb. 8. The fixtures Included a back drop, wings, lights and a monogramed i curtain.

MUSIC CONTEST ON AIR State Federation to Broadcast Memory Program, April 1. The Indiana Federation of Music Clubs will broadcast the music memory contest it is sponsoring among Indiana schools from station WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club. Indianapolis, April 1, during the federation hour from 3 to 5 p. m. Any State school is eligible to enter the contest. Mrs C. A. Maxwell, 3504 Winthrop Ave., Indianapolis announced that entrants should register at once with her. Three radio sets will be awarded the schools leading the highest scores. They were donated by dealers, Powell Crosley Jr., of the Crosley Corporation, Cincinnati; J. M. Bloch of the Gibson Company, Indianapolis, and Adolph Wagner of the local Hatfield Electric Company.

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NEW TEACHERS ARE GUESTS AT VALENTINE TEA Washington Faculty and Students Honor Instructors; Music Features. New teachers at Washington High School were honored at a Valentine tea by the students and faculty Wednesday in the school library. The teachers are Mrs. Grace Barker, Miss Geraldine Reep, and Miss Plioebie Conley. A musical was a feature of the entertainment. Robert Shepard of the faculty played a cornet solo, “The Carnival of Venice;” Helen Kendall and Geraldine Kuntz accompanied by Marjorie Lytle gave a vocal duet. , Miss Alice Treat of the faculty accompanied a violin solo by Mary Kiss, and two vocal numbers by Evangeline Lillenas, Miss Treat later played two solos “Folichinelle” by Rachmaninoff and “Cradle Song” by Brahms. Mrs. Charity Browning, presided at the punch table. She was assisted by Miss Mary E. Laatz, Miss Claria Headrick, Miss Kathryn Smith, Miss Amy Keene, Mrs. Ethel Hightower and Miss Marie Sangernebo. Those In the receiving line were Walter G. Gingery, principal, and Mrs. Gngerly; Mrs. Ina S. Gaul, dean of girls, Miss Martha Dorsey, and the guests of honor. Cathedral School Way April * “Peg O’ My Heart” has been selected for the annual Cathedral High School play. It will be presented April 8.