Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1928 — Page 17

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PUPILS GIVE WASHINGTON PANTOMIMES High School Students Present Colorful Memorial Programs. Famous paintings depicting George Washington’s life and revolutionary events were pantomimed today by George Washington High School pupils in what probably was one of the largest programs honoring the first president given by Indianapolis schools during the week. The program opened with a short play entitled “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” directed by Mrs. Sanders Wright of the faculty. , Students in the cast were Leroy Heinricks, Fred Arnold, Ralph Wade and Robert Stangler. The pantomime followed. The students in period costumes and make-up took their first position in imitation of the painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” The costumes and settings were planned by Miss Amy Keene of the faculty. It was presented by the cast of the play. “Making the flag” was directed by Mrs. Ina S. Gaul, dean of girls. Students taking part were Ellen Grenard, Pauline Clark, Gladys Brooke. Marcella Beamen and Helen Kendall. “Molly Pitcher” was represented by Marian Radcliff, a student. “The Spirit of Seventy-Six” was directed by Miss Marie Sangernebo of the faculty. Geraldine Kuntz and Marian Ratcliff, students, imitated portraits of George and Martha Washington. Following the pantomime Charles Mooney of the faculty talked on the President's life, and Miss Mil- , dred Schencke sang. The program ended with songs by the Girls’ Glee Club under the direction of Robert Shepherd. The members were in Colonial costume, which they wore throughout the day. CONTRACTS TO BE LET County Will Award Courthouse Sky- j light Cleaning Work. Contracts for cleaning and re- ; pairing the courthouse skylights I i will be awared early next week, 1 commissioners said Thursday. Bids; will be received today. It will be the first tune in many j years that the skylights have been j cleaned, old-timers about the build- j lng said. Other bids to be received today! are for filing cases for the Center I Township asssessor. Contracts will be awarded for filing cases for the asssessor, road machinery and seven Ford automo- | biles. MAY INVITE CONCLAVE Medcial Group Considers Asking j for 1930 Convention. A special committee of the Indi- j anapolis Medical Society will meei | Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce to consider extending an invitatlon to the American College of j Physicians to hold its 1930 con- j vention in Indianapolis. The committee is composed of Dr. J. A. McDonald, chairman; Dr. Ada Schweitzer. Dr. C. R. Strickland and Dr. Robert Moore. The 1928 convention will be held March 5 to 9, at New Orleans, with an attendance of 1.200 physicians. SCHOOLS HOLD TESTS Prepare for City Wide Series to Open Monday. ' Preliminary tests were held by several elementary schools this week jn preparation for the series of citywide punctuality and attendance contests which will begin Monday. Mrs. Maude Moudy, principal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson School No. 58, is general chairman. Reports of the individual school contests will be filed each month with Charles F. Miller, school superintendent, and the winning schools announced. AWARDED HARMON PRIZE Lawrence Fugit Receives Scout Scholarship of SIOO. Lawrence Fugit, former Arsenal Technical High School student, was one of the fifty-two Boy Scouts throughout the United States to be awarded the SIOO Harmon Foundation Scout Scholarship by the Boy Scouts of America executive board. The Indianapolis Boy Scout Council presented Lawrence with a gold Harmon Foundation Scholarship pin. Four-County Church Meeting j ]}y Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 24.—Men from Christian churches of Henry, Wayne, Randolph and Hancock Counties will attend a banquet here this evening. Between 150 and 200 delegates are expected. Speakers will be R. H. Kennedy, Indianapolis; the Rev. James H. Welch, Anderson, and the Rev. Charles E. Shultz, Newcastle.

Slippery Pep By Times Epecial BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 24. In these days of vitamines, even truck engines can be pepped up. Through a mistake, Palmer Lehman, truck driver, filled the crank case of his machine with cod liver oil instead of the regulation kind. Increased vim of the engine and a strong odor resulted.

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This group will get the “laughs” at the Shortridge Hijh School Junior Vaudeville Saturday afternoon and night in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge. They will give short performances between acts. Left to right: Charles Fell, Robert Bates, John Thompson and Walter Cohns.

SPEECH MOVES PUPILS TO VERSE Appreciate Failure to Tell Tunny Stories.’ By Times Special NEW YORK. Feb. 24.—Public speakers arc mistaken in thinking <hat they must get a laugh out of children, according to Miss Rosa M. Burmaster, principal of the Washington school of Muncie. Ind. Writing to the Eyesight Conservation Council of America, which is conducting an education campaign for better vision in Middle West schools, from New York headquarters. Miss Burmaster said that the absence of arbitrary attempts to create laughter among her pupils 1 by the Council’s field secretary re- J cently helped to move the children I to poetry. “Straight talk as to their physical; and moral well-being impresses even! the very young,” Miss Burmaster de- ; dared. "Pleasantries should growi out of normal situations and not be; lugged in. Fourth grade children In the Washington school wrote spontaneous rhymes on saving sight after hearing an address by Charles F. Southard of New York, the council’s field secretary, she said. PUPILS PRESENT PLAY ‘Charm of Fine Manners’ Written by High School Girl “The Charm of Fine Manners,” a one-act. play, was presented Monday by the Washington High School Girl Reserves in honor of the January freshmen girls. Marlon Ratcliff, a student, wrote the play. Those in the cast were; Alice Timmons, Lorrine Wallus, Marguerite Schnell, Mary Dulley, Marlon Ratcliff, Thelma Fleck, Corrine Gingery, and Irene Gaston. Each character represented a courtesy point for the benefit of the new students, Mrs. Ina S. Gaul, dean of girls, said. STRESS TRAFFIC RULES Loving Cups Are Aid to Work at School No. 43 Four large loving cups made of “silver” paper are the newest device of the Junior Civic League of the James Whitcomb Riley School No. 43 to keep the pupils from breaking traffic rules. Each room of the fifth and sixth grades made a paper cup eighteen inches high. On one side they marked the room numbers and on the other one-half inch spaces. When a student disobeys a traffic rule the committee in his room cuts space out of the cup. The winning rooms are those with no cut spaces and are named at the monthly meeting of the league. RULES OF WASHINGTON George Washington's life and rules of conduct were reviewed by the seventh and eighth grades of the Woodrow Wilson School No. 15 in a Washington day program Tuesday in the auditorium. The pupils who took part were Edith Jones, Eva Lane Murrell, Helen Urgrinovitch, Frances Sheets and Herman Fisher.

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Lew Wallace Sqhool Students Build 100 Bird Houses in New $3,000 Shot)

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Above: Howard Watts (left), and Albert Cochran with some of the bird houses made under direction of A. R. Skomp (below)^ Use Factory Production Plan to Distribute Work Through Class. One hundred bird houses were this week completed by the manual training students of the Lew Wallace School No. 11 as their first big project since the installation of approximately $3,000 worth of new shop equipment. Under the direction of their instructor, A. R. Skomp, the pupils accepted the request of S. L. Perkins, president of the local Audubon Society, to build boxes for the cityparks. They used the factory production plan and each student hada part in building all parts of the houses. The class already has contracted building a dozen screw and brad cabinets for use in the public schools. Their production method enables them to work faster, Skomp said. With the additional equipment,

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instructor Skomp has outlined several interesting building programs for the class. They are learning to use the new woodworking facilities to make all types of cabinets. In their sheet metal work they are going to make cake cutters, sugar scoops, cooking measures, funnels, and cabinet drawers. The shop is one of the few city schools to have concrete equipment. The class will make lawn seats, flower boxes, bird baths and book ends. Skomp is giving the pupils practical work in electricity by teaching them to wire their own shops and installing call bells. They also have

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TEACHERS AND PUPILS HOSTS TO OFFICIALS Brookside School Entertains Guests at Building Luncheon. Brookside School entertained Tuesday with a building luncheon in honor of public school officials. Miss Lena Swope, principal, was hostess. . The guests of honor were Super- ; intendent Charles F. Miller, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Charles W. Kern, a patron; Mrs. Lawrence Carter, president of the Mothers’ Club, and the following school board members: Mrs. Lillian Sedwick. Theodore F. Vonnegut. Charles W. Kern j and Fred Kepner. | The 8A pupils under Miss Mary I Jane Headley, domestic science in- | structor, and Miss Ella Shelt. art ; teacher, prepared the food and ar- ! ranged the table decorations. All the appointments were in pale green and yellow. The table was lighted by green tapers tied with yellow tulle and a large bouquet of ferns and daffodils formed the centerpiece. The school orchestra, directed by Miss Georgia Hechman, played during the luncheon. Later the guests were taken on a tour of the bulld- ' ing.

instruction and practice in upholstering. “The new work is not given as purely vocational preparation.” Skomp said. “The variety of projects will only teach enough of one thing to provide a choice in a later vocation.” ANNOUNCE OPENHOUSE Junior, Senior Trustees to Be Hosts at Children’s Museum. The Children’s Museum. 1150 N. Meridian St., will hold open house Wednesday from 8 to 10 p. m. The senior and junior trustee boards will be hosts for the special museum exhibit. The annual business meeting will be held at 8 o'clock.

Butler Sororities Pick ‘Prettiest ’ Entrants

Societies Select Girls as Beauty Contest Representatives. “Beauty” entrants for the Butler University Drift contest were announced Thursday night by the i campus sororities and the annual staff. Each sorority has two candidates competing for the honor of being pictured in the yearbook's special reserved section. “Favorites” were selected by each fraternity. A local photographer will reduce ; the contestants to thirty-five and j eight later will be selected for the : beauty section. The candidates follow : Kappa Alpha Theta, Annabelle Parr and Mary Louise Larmore; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mildred Payton and Adelaide Reeves; Pi Beta Phi, Ruth Mishlitz and Virginia Hill: Delta Delta Delta, Pauline Coffin and Irene Cravens: Zeta Tau Alpha, Thelma Williams and Thelma Gahan; Delta Zeta, Harriet Kistncr and Mary K. Campbell; Alpha Chi Omega, Constance j Glover and Thelma King: Alpha l Delta Pi. Lillian King and Martha Armstrong; Delta Gamma. Dorothy; Helmer and Mary Lou Ha ugh; Kappa Phi. Helen Cunningham and Grace Kibbe; Alpha Omicron Pi, Ruth McClurg and Dorothy Swift; University Club, Alice Mae Rhoades; Alpha Delta Theta. Mary Hargitt and Nan Frances Warren. CAST IN SCHOOL PLAY CHOSEN AT CATHEDRAL Will Appear in “Peg O’ My Heart” April 8. The cast for “Peg O’ My Heart,” a three-act comedy to be presented by Cathedral High School Dramatic Club April 8, have been chosen and are holding regular practice under direction of Brother Agatho. Almost half the cast have female impersonation parts. The plot is ' centered about the impoverishment cf a Mrs.* Chichester, who bequeaths ; a large estate to her niece. Peg, of whom she has charge. Students in the play are: Charles j Bell as Mrs. Chichester, Myles Sweeney as Ethel, Paul Davis. Ala- | ric; Edward Burkert as Christian Brent, Thomas Carey as Peg, Carl Freidmann as Montgomery Hawkes, Dan MoDuffee as the maid and Edward Fillenworth as Jerry. PROFESSOR TO SPEAK Cathedral High School students heard an address by Charles J. Phillips, Notre Dame professor of English literature, at an assembly Thursday. Phillips discussed his many travels and noted personages he has met. While in Poland in 1919 he met Pope Pius XI, then papal legate to Poland. Professor Phillips recently published his novel, “The Doctor’s Wooing.” He also has written a book of poems, “High 1 n Her j Tower.” Church Gives Movie Matine^ A motion picture matinee for j children was held Thusday at the i Roberts Park M. E. Church. H. A. Lucky, Bible School superintendent, was in charge. The church will | hold matinees each Thursday and j wili distribute tickets at Sunday! School.

RUSH COUNTY SCHOOLS TAKE MUSICHONORS Work Outstanding in State for Year, Federation Declares. Rush County public schools were named this week by the Public School Music Department of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs as having done the most outstanding music work of any other county schools since September. The county has sixteen elementary schools and eleven high schools. Six bands, composed of both high school and grade school pupils, are organized in the elementary buildings for which Rush County parents provided practically all the instruments. A traveling instructor paid by the school music clubs has given regular lessons to band and orchestra students throughout the year. Twelve glee clubs were organized and each school has its own mixed chorus. Ninety minute periods are devoted to chorus practice in the high school each week. There is one township mothers’ chorus. All the schools are equipped with pianos and victrolas to carry on regular music appreciation work. The county is one of the few with a music supervisor. Mrs. Florence Lietzman directs the work. PREPARE PUPPET SHOW Clay Figures of Dickens’ Characters Modeled by Pupils The 8A pupils of the William Penn School No. 49 are correlating their art and English work by modeling Dickens’ characters in “David Copperficld” in clay. Miss Helen L. Carr, art teacher, is directing them. Later, the pupils plan to use their clay figures in a puppet, show for the pupils and parent-teachers. Harvey Craig, a pupil, is writing the play, Jessie Savage will be stage manager, and Bonnie Wendall, will make the stage and decorations.

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200 STUDENTS TO APPEAR IN SCHOOL SHOW Have Parts in Shcrtridge’s Eight-Act Vaudeville at Caleb Mills. About 200 Shortridge High School students have parts in the annual eight-act junior vaudeville to be presented Saturday afternoon and night in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge. The class has practiced a month under direction of John W. Forney, general student chairman, and Mrs. Nell M. Thomas and Joel Hadley of the faculty. A ten-piece school orchestra will play between acts. The student chairmen are Charles Fell. Julia Bowman, Mary Louise Wheeler, Margaret Davis, Harrison Snider, Pauline Vonnegut, Rosella Hall and Mary Gottman. The faculty censors are Frank B. Wade. Mr. and Mrs. E. Carl Watson, Miss Ruth Armstrong. Miss Dorothy Dipple, Don R. Knight. Miss Elizabeth Matthews, Miss Leda Hughes and Miss Mary Pratt. The program committee li headed by Charles Fell; publicity, Richard Obbereich: stage and properties, John David Millett and Allen Helt; tickets, Jean E. Underwood; music, Joe Coffin; costuming, Jeannette Le Saulnier; finance, John and William Bertermann. Charles Fell, Walter Cohn, John Thompson and Robert Bates w’ill give short skits between each act. ORGANIZE HONOR CLUB Scholastic Leaders at Teachers College in Group. Honor students of the Teachers College of Indianapolis have organized a scholastic honor club sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Hall of the English department. The following honor students were named charter members; Mrs. Mabel Culrner, Mrs. Mildred Levey, Miss Ruby Marmean, Miss Orpha Corya, Miss Marcelene Ganna way, Miss Mercedes Harsin, Miss Esther Pritz, Miss Gwendolyn Sheering. Miss Mary Snyder, Miss Catherine Snyder, Miss Helen Sommer, Miss Helen Wolf and Miss Josephine Yarling.