Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1928 — Page 8

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P. T. A. GROUPS PLAN BUSINESS. SOCIAL AFFAIRS Fifteen City Leagues Have Programs for School Meetings. Fifteen Parent-Teacher groups will hold combined business and entertainment meetings Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Eighth grade pupils of the John G. Whittier School No. 35 will give a demonstration on Civic Club work in the school at the association meeting Wednesday afternoon. The association of John McCormick School No. 30 will meet Wednesday at 3 p. m. Mrs. Jeanette Williams will talk on “Exceptional Children.” The primary chorus will sing. Judge Frank Lahr will address the association of Florence Fay School No. 21 Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. on “Our Children’s Leisure Hours.” The school glee club will sing. Miss Louise Swan will play a piano solo and Miss Katherine Leonard will sing. The association of School No. 12 will meet Wednesday afternoon. A group of mothers will present a playlet. “Art as Applied tp the Home” is the subject of a talk to be. given by Edwin Stitzman at the meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association of School No. 82 Wednesday at 3:15 p. ni. Dr. Ada Sweitzer will talk on “Good Health for Children” at the meeting of the association of School No. 14 Wednesday at 3:10 p. m. Music will be furnished by the school orchestra. The association of School No. 3 will meet Wedensday afternoon. This is one week earlier than the regular date in order to accommodate Charles F. Miller, superintend-

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The newly elecled June senior class officers of Manual Training High School, left to right: George May, vice Parvhi' Hagan president: Jean Davidson, secretary, and Richard Witte, treasurer. Hagen held the same office last semester. He plays on the second basketball squad. May is the school yell leader Both are members of the Roinnes Club for boys. Miss Davidson was vice president of the class last semester. She p lays the violin in the Manual Trio and the school orchestra, and has taken part in this year’s musical entertainments. Witte is on the bas eball team and has been active in sports since his freshman year.

ent of schools, who will address the meeting. School No. 22. will hold its P. T. A. meeting in the school auditorium Wednesday at 3:15 p. m. There will be a talk on “Girl Scouts” and Florence Richards will talk on “American Motherhood.” Music will be provided by the school orchestra, and the department chorus will sing patriotic songs. The Parent-Teachers of Riverside School No. 44 will meet Thursday at 3:15 p. m. There will be a talk on laundry methods by a representative of one of the city laundries and Lydia Teriene will talk. Miss Margaret Scott will talk on the work of the Girl Scouts and Mr. Bright, of the State Board of Health, will give an illustrated lecture at the meeting of the association of School No. 16 Wednesday at :30 p. m. The Boys’ Glee Club of Washington High School will sing a group of songs. Mrs. Annie Moore Daughtry, secretary of the Girl Reserves of the Y. W. C. A., will speak on “Girl Reserves and Their Work,” and Miss Flora Dutcher will talk on “Our Girls and Boys,” before the association of School No. 35 Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. in the school auditorium. There will be community singing, with Mrs. A. L. Schnell at the piano, and poems read by Curtis Baker and Marie Haynes, pupils. The mothers of Miss Ruth Jenkins’ and Miss L. Snyder's rooms will conduct a food sale. Visitors are always welcome. The president, Mrs. Wilfred Weiiand, will preside. At the March meeting of the association of School No. 12, Wednesday afternoon, a playlet will be presented by Mrs. G. R. Kossman. Mrs. R. A. Bunting, Mrs. J. A. Brunnemer, Mrs. T. E. Williams, Mrs. George Stattler, Mrs. Arthur Dobbins, Mrs. L. E. Huckriede and Mrs. L. R. Gaither. Special invitations have been extended to the fathers of School No. 20 to attend the meeting of the Par-ent-Teacher Association Wednesday at 7:45 p. m C. F. Miller, superintendent of schools, will be the principal speaker. Mrs. Charles H. Smith will speak on “Parent Responsibilities.” There will be readings by Mrs. Frances Cook and Harry Cook and a duet by Harry Cook and Byran Saunders. The Tri-Art Glee Club will sing.

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PLAN SAFETY PRIZES Highway Board Announces Contest for School Children. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, March 2.—The Highway Education Board this year offers cash prizes and medals valued at $6,500 in its 1928 National Safety campaign conducted from headquarters here. School pupils of the fifth to the eighth grades inclusive, who are under 14 years, are eligible to enter by submitting essays on “Why We Have and Practice Traffic Rules.” A gold medal and sls, a silver medal and $lO, and a bronze medal and $5 will be awarded winners in each State. A free trip to Washington will be given the pupil who writes the best essay of all submitted and gold watches will be awarded for the three best essays from the entire group. Teachers also will be given prizes of SSOO, S3OO and S2OO for the best lessons on highway safety. Essays must be handed to school principals or teachers not later than May 7. P. T. A. MOTHER SWILL PRESENT TWO PLAYS Cast of Eighteen Will Give Two Comedies. Two one-act comedies will be presented March 21-22 by eighteen mothers of the Parent-Teacher Association of School No. 16 entitled “Not a Man in the House,” and “The Colored Woman’s Political Club.” Member: of the caste are Mrs. Harry Minr.ner, Mrs. Vernon Heath, Mrs. Fred Wright, Mrs. Walter Schneider, Mrs. Herchel McDaniels, Mrs. Harry Howard, Mrs. Ray Downin, Mrs. Harry Stearns, Mrs. Cyrus Broman, Mrs. Eda Elsasser, Mrs. Harry Franklin, Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. Bert Ashley, Mrs. Mark Montague, Mrs. Irwin Keith, Mrs. Willis Milam, Mrs. Ralph Arnold and Mrs. Lewis Rose. Vaudeville stunts will be given between acts. Mrs. Leonore Peavey of the faculty is directing.

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Charles Philips of the English department of Notre Dame University talked last week in the auditorium on the “Beauties of American Literature.” He is an author and play producer and has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. Debating has started in the sophomore English classes under Brother Simon. The instructor plans to select boys for the future varsity teams from these classes. WILLIAM PENN SCHOOL PUBLISHES MAGAZINE Louis Fullen Is Editor-In-Chief for The School Penn. The first issue of the School Penn, magazine publication of the William Penn School No. 49, appeared this week. The cover colors are deep yellow and black and the design is a silhouette of a baseball player. The cut was designed and made by the art classes and all the printing was done in the school shop. The staff members are Louis Fullen, editor-in-chief; Ruth Sharpee, assistant editor; Forest Cox, assistant editor; Allyeene Sutherland, business manager, Bessie Stephenson, secretary to the editor, and Lillian Coughlin, editor’s assistant. ATTENDANCE SPURRED Trophies are Offered by William McKinley School PrincipaL Miss Ida B. Geary, principal of the William McKinley School No. 39, has originated a competitive plan within the school to increase the pupiis’ interest in the city attendance and punctuality contest. She will present temporarily a silk American flag to the room with no tardy records during the week and an Indiana banner to the room with the highest attendance record. . The winning rooms will keep the flags one week.

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WEIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN FOR HEALTH WORK Five Hnudred to Be Entered in Nutrition Classes for Instruction. Every child in twenty-five Indianapolis public schools was mounted on scales during this week and last for weighing and measuring in a malnutrition examination carried on by a local staff of doctors and nurses. The examination is made once each semester to select underweight children for nutrition classes held weekly at the buildings by the staff. Approximately five hundred children will be placed in the classes this semester for health instruction. Dr. James H. Stygall, board of health nutrition director, said. Thirty Per Cent Underweight Dr. Stygall reported that about 30 per cent of those examined were underweight for their height. The examination reports will be sent the parents of the underweight group with instructions for home care. Children whose parents consent will be given special attention throughout the year. The following nutrition program is planned: Weekly physical examination; use of a weight chart; proper food and health habits instruction; increased rest periods; restriction in such activities as gymnasium, swimming and outside lessons; early bedtime; candy-eating restriction (except after meals); and general correction of defects. Malnutrition Decreasing Nutrition classes are established in fifty schools every year including three high schools. “We find that malnutrition is

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SCHOOL GETS BOOKS Manual High Given Memorial to tfliss Foy. Thirteen illustrated books weia presented the Manual Training High School library by Manual alumni in honor of Miss Beatrice Foy a faculty member from 1895 to 1918. The list includes “The Cruise of the Cachalot,” by Bullen: “As You Like It,” Shakespeare; “Midsummer Night's Dream,” Shakespeare; “Two Years Before the Mast,” Danna; “Deerslayer,” Cooper; “The Scottish Chiefs,” Porter: “Black Arrow,” Stevenson: “Book of American Spirit,” Pyle; “Cranford,” Gaskill; “Oliver Twist,” Dickens; “Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales,” Hawthorne; “Robinsood,” Vreswick, and “Golden Treasury,” Palgrove. Miss Foy was interested especially in literature and founded a girls’ club which later developed Into the present Saturday Afternoon Literary Club.