Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1928 — Page 22

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SEVENTH GRADE WORK FEATURED IN MANY ROOMS Advent of Departmental System Reviewed by School Editor. Miss Helen Ashcraft, Times school editor, is Koing through school again, from the first grade to the end of high school in twelve days. The nimble student will be promoted a grade a dav. She is doing this to give Indianapolis parents intimate pictures of what their children do during the long school hours when they are away from home. The story of her adventures will be printed a grade at a time—on The Times school page each Friday for twelve weeks. This is the story of the seventh grade. By HELEN ASHCRAFT “Departmental” isn’t the word, although that’s what they call the upper grades in Indianapolis common schools. It is too serious and high-sound-ing to express the gay life in the seventh grade under seven different teachers and seven different roome. At Woodrow Wilson School No. 75, W. Fourteenth St. and Belle Vieu PI., it was a little bit of “seventh heaven.” Change Teacher, Rooms As in other schools, of course, this means changing teachers and rooms with each subject along with amazing interludes of passing through the halls to classes as though we were in crowded high school corridores of college walks. “Departmental” fun began with opening exercise under Miss Maude B. Dome. Added to the novelty of changing recitati:n rooms was an agreeable inclination of our teachers to allow us to conduct class or criticize our j classmates’ work, ask questions, and take her place in the management of affairs. Pupil Starts Class Work When Miss May E. Moran, English teacher, entered the room a little late, she found Herman Fisher “playing teacher” and work in pro- I gress. The supervised study period corresponds to high school “assembly.” Everyone began work with only a simple statement of Mrs. Leona B. Knight, civics and music teacher. The first hint of the intricacies of “simple and compound interest” was offered by the instructor Miss Kate Voris, who knew how to magically turn arithmetic into mathematics by “causual” discussions of banks and banking. Girls Sew, Can’t Cook We marched to the auditorium for exercises under direction of Miss j Dorothea Gaily. But, now ws are seven, shop work ; and sewing and cooking were added j to the department course of study ! Mrs. Ruth Calvert, domestic arts j teacher, had written the following directions on the blackboard, which everyone seemed to follow: “Stitches are little, but don’t you know A row of stitches, a seam will grow; And seams, however short or long, Need all the stitches to make them strong.” The girls were working on white dresses. Part of the work consists of discussions of the history and manufacture of different materials with experiments on laundering. Boys Learn to Build At the. same time, the boys were pounding away in the manual training shops under direction of Charles L. Davis. Self-government was at its height at the Civics Club meeting directed by Mrs. Knight. This group is managed and presided over b„. the pupils while the teacher sits in the back as a spectator. It observes parliamentary rules and carries on pre-arranged programs on civic duties and current events. They were discussing the general subject: “Co-operation Between Individuals, Neighborhoods, States, and Nations.” Charles Benner, Paul Vcllester, Ruth Toms, Mary Johnson, Janet Ernst and Dorothy Vievegh gave talks.

SURVEY SHOWS MODERN AIRPORTS IN 43 STATES California Leads with 115; Total Is 1,075 in U. S. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Avitors can now fly to any State and find modern airports and supplies for their planes according to a survey made by the commerce department. The United States now has 1,075 airport landing fields and nearly 4,000 other places on which planes can make landings. Aids for day or night flying are available at 231 fields. California with 115 air fields leads all other States but Wyoming with twenty-one fields has the highest proportion of most modernly equipped air posts. Texas is second with ninety fields, Pennsylvania third with sixty-eight, and Illinois fourth with fifty-eight. Purdue Play Opens By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 27. “Castles in the Air,” nineteenth annual production of the Harlequin ®kub of Purdue University, to be Jlwented Monday at the Murat Theater, Indianapolis, opened here Thursday night, and will continue tonight and Saturday. Bede to Speak in Wabash By Times Special WABASH, Ind., April 26.—J. Adam Bede, former Congressman from Minnesota, now speaking in Indiana in behalf of Herbert Hoover’s presidential candidacy, will make an addrees at the courthouse here Saturday night.

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These two Warren Township High School students have the leads In the “Eelle of Barcelona,” ar. operetta to be presented by the V.’anen seniors, Saturday nighc. in the school auditorium. James Lawrence, above, as Lieut. Harold Wright, is shown making love to Senonta Margarita de Montero, played by Edith Carr. Mrs. Doroth/ Moon cf the faculty is directing.

PARENTS ARE GUESTS Fathers and Mothers Given Idea of School Courses. Washington High School ParentTeachers’ Association invited the students’ parents to attend school Tuesday night and experience a

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i “school day.” Each class met for | eight minutes. ; Teachers explained the courses to ; the parents and answered questions j concerning courses and pupils Sesi sion room 115 was given a box of candy for having the greatest number of parents A thirty cent want ad often j brings thirty dollar results.

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ITEACHER AND parent groups PLAfs SESSIONS Nine Meetings Scheduled for Wednesday of Next Week. i Varied business and entertainment programs will feature nine Parent-Teacher meetings scheduled Wednesday next week The association of Irvington School 57 will receive from 2 ' to 5 p. m. at the Children's Mu- ! scum, 1150 N. Meridian St.- A special invitation is extended to patrons of the George B. Loomis School 85. Teachers of the John McCormick School 30 will entertain mothers of the Parent-Teacher Club with a program at 3 p. m. Annual election of officers will be held. Mrs. W. C. Gardener will talk on “Nature Study Work” before the Parent-Teachers of School 32 at 3:15 p. m. A May day play will be given by pupils and election of officers field. Plan Sacred rageant A sacred pageant will be given at the final Parent-Teacher Association meeting of School 46. Superintendent Charles F. Miller . will speak. It will be a guest day : meeting and friends as well as pat- ! tons are invited. Mrs. A. Baum- ; hofer will sing accompanied by Mrs. Harry Badger. The association of School 70 will meet at 3: 1 5 p. m. Music will be provided by the pupils. The club will elect officers. Mrs. Thomas Perine will*give her “World Cruise" talk before the Parent-Teachers of School 35 at 3:10 p. m. Miss Mary Webb, cellcist: Miss Thelma Rouboush. vioj linist, and MiSs Gertrude Wheeler, i pianist, all of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will entertain. The mothers quartet, composed of Mrs. Harry Childers, Mrs. E. Gibson. Mrs. H. Todd and Mrs. Fiank Mershon, will sing. Annual officers’ election will be held. Style Show is Planned “What Every Woman Knows” will be discussed by Mrs. Blanche Chen- : oweth at the Parent-Teachers As- ; sociation meeting at School 51 .at 3:15 p. m. The primary band | will play and Miss Elizabeth Cori burn, of the Metropolitan School of Music, and former pupil of Np. 51, ! will sing. Electio nos officers will I be h<dd followed by a social hour. Tile association of School 35 will : meet Wednesday at 3:15 p. in. in | the school auditorium. Miss Lulu Kanady, assistant music supervisor, will talk on “Music.” There will be community singing, with Mrs. A1 Schnell at the piano. The department chorus, directed by Mis3 Ciaudie Ballard, will sing. There j will a style show conducted by Mrs. A. Codings. The annual election of | officers will be held and mothers of I the department pupils will have a food sale. The association of School 14 will meet at 3:10 p. m. A brief program of music will be given by pupils of the different grades. Offl- < ers for next year will be elected. A sicial hour will follow the program.

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Pupils of Benjamin Franklin School, No. 36, are taking major parts in “The Pied Piper of Hamclin,” an operetta to be given at the North Park Christian Church tonight by the entire student body. Above: Max Brandt, as the Piper, “leading the children out of the town.” Left to right are Thomas Edward Kibbe. Anna Mae Mendenhall, Elda Merle Warrenburg and Rosemary Mclnturff, all "children:” and Billy Bromley, a of the village;” Florence Card, “cook;” and Arthur Hoffman, “seer.” Front: George Paugh, “toy man,” and Kenneth Smartz, “father.”

SCHOOL PLANS PARENT NIGHT No. 15 Will Hold Classes for Observation. “Going to School” .light for parents will be observed at School No. 15, from 7:15 to 9 tonight. Miss Anna Rahe, principal, is in charge. This is-the second year No. 15 has held special night session for parents. The school will hold only half-day session today. The pricipal’s purpose in inviting the parents is to bring about a closer connection between the home and the school by exhibiting the teaching methods, the problems confronting teachers, and the pupils' reaction. Miss Rahe has arranged for regular work in all the rooms and ciasses in sewing, cooking, and shop. Special gymnasium classes will be held for the benefit of the fathers. PUPILS GIVE TWO PLAYS Classes of School No. 16 Present Two Productions. Pupils of the SAB classes of School No. 16 presented two plays. “The Necklace” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter." Tuesday night in the school auditorium. Miss Clara Fischer directed the first and Miss Maebelle Glynn the second. Pupils taking part in “The Necklace” were Wilma Smith. Jimmie Peters. Louciel Dunnavant, Louise Gladson. Bertha Warthen, Nema Moody, Kathleen Mclntyre, Victoria Hanna, Louise Dunnavant, Dorothy Eaglen and Diana Fenic. Presents School Bird Bath lone Linaburry, 3A pupil of School No. 78. presented the "School with a cement bird bath on Arbor day. A program was held on the grounds. Primary choruses sang spring songs.

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The annual school play, “Peg O’ My Heart," successfully was presented by members of the senior class April 20, in the school auditorium. Those taking the leads were Thomas Carey, Paul Davis and Edward Fillenworth. Brother Agatho directed. Edward Fillenworth, senior, was awarded the championship of the Central Indiana area in the Lincoln oratorical contest held April 21 in Caleb Mills Hall. Shortridge. Ho was given a gold watch. The victory entitles him to compete in the finals with northern and southern area winners. HEAD OF P. T. A. URGES PARENTHOOD TRAINING Mrs. Logan Hughes Says IT. S. Program Should Include Child Care. “Parenthood is a real profession, perhaps the most important, and one which millions are entering each year with no preparation at all. or with the merest fragments picked up at random.” This, in the opinion of Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the Indianapolis Federation of ParentTeachers, is one of the reasons why educators should favor the plan to establish a section on parental education in the United States Bureau of Education recently urged by George J. Hecht, publisher of “Children, the Magazine for Parents." "If such a bureau could be established the effects would have to be far-reaching and result in better homes, schools and citizenship,” she said. Will Attend P. T. A. Convention Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Clubs, will attend the thirty-second annual convention of the National Congress of Parent-Teachers in Cleveland, Ohio, April 27-May 5.

Class Play Is Selected “Neighbors,” a one-act play by Zona Gale, has been chosen class play by the senior class of George Washington High School. It wiil be directed by Bess Sanders Wright, of the faculty. Shortridge Play Postponed Shortridge High School senior class play, “The Poor Nut,” has been postponed until May 4, because of the illness of Charles McNaull, leading man.

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