Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 28

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GIFT MEETINGS WILL FEATURE P.T. A. PROGRAM Many Councils Will Hold Special Exercises as Pre-Yule Features. The heaviest program of meetings of local councils of Indianapolis Parent-Teachers associations is scheduled for next week, according to Mrs. H. L. Stenger, city chairman of publicity. Most of the meetings will be held Wednesday afternoon or evening. The Rev. William A. Shullenberger, pastor of Central Christian church, will speak at School 57 at 3:15 p. m. Children will sing Christmas carols. Emerson School 58 will meet at 2:15 p. m.. with the Lord’s prayer recited in unison as the opening, followed with carols by the boys of the BA. The Rev. L. C. Trent will be speaker. The mothers’ chorus will sing, and W. E. Tallentire will give two violin solos. Miss Blanch Harvey will sing, accompanied by Mrs. J. R. Paxton. A double soprano trio of girl students will close the program. Pastors Will Speak School 15 wiU meet at 3:15 p. m. The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of University Place Christian church, will speak and Airs. C. A. Scearcy will sing. Mrs. Frank J. Lahr will be the speaker at School 34. at 7:30 p. m. Christmas carols and a playlet complete the program. A Christmas program and business meeting will be held at School 48 at 3 p. m. Mothers will sing Christmas songs and primary grades will give an operetta at the P. T. A. meeting of School 3, at 3:15 p. m. A short business session of School 31 at 2 p. m.. will be followed by a play by the children. The Mothers’ Glee Club will be in charge. P. T. A. of School 7 will hold a business meeting at 3:15 p. m. Christmas carols by department girls and a program by students will be features of the meeting at School 16, at 3:15 p. m. A party without exchange of gifts will close the program. World Traveler to Talk Mrs. Demarcus Brown, world traveler, will speak at School 66 at 3:15 p. m. The Dauner trio will play, and a food and candy sale will be held in the gymnasium all afternoon. The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren will speak cn “If Christmas Comes,” in the William Watson Woolen school auditorium at 2:30 p. m. A musical program will be given by the children’s choruses. A Christmas grab bag will be one of the features of the School 67 meeting at 2:15 p. m. Pupils will have charge of the program. Santa Claus will visit School 61 at 3 p. m. during the Christmas party. Each mother is asked to bring a small g!ft f for the grab bag. Carols will be sung and games played. Mrs. Arthur L. Duncan will sing a group of songs at School 41, at 2:30 p. m. in the aduditorium. Primary carolers in the rooms of Miss Myrtle Freeman and Mrs. Leo Pritchard will give several numbers. Children of Miss Nellie O'Donnell will sing Christmas songs, and Mary Rebecka Gordon will give a skit. Children of Miss Thelma Smith will give a play, and there will be numbers by the junior choir of St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church, directed by Mrs. O. E. Rundel and Mrs. F. M. Weston. Haramy to Speak John J. Haramy v/ill speak at School 28, at 3 p. m. Children of Miss Pearl Nteal, Miss Alma Waldvogel, and Mrs. Marion Kemper will give a Christmas program. A short business session will close the meeting. P. T. A. of Charity Dye School 27, will meet at 2p. m. Several songs and a Christmas program will complete the program. Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak Wednesday night at School 49. A Christmas bazar will be conducted by the Camp Fire Girls and seals and stamps will be sold. Pupils of Mrs. Maude Williford will give a playlet The school orchestra will play, and the Men’s Community chorus will sing. P. T. A. of School 47 will present the school with a Christmas present, at 3:15 p. m. Music will complete the program. Ernest G. Hesser, head of the music department of the public schools, will sing at the meeting of the P. T. A. at School 62 at 2 p. m. Carols and the processional will end the program. Bazar Is Scheduled Washington School 55 will hold the annual Christmas bazar all day Friday. Luncheon wil be served at noon. December meeting of School 78 has been postponed from Dec. 12 to Dec. 20 at 1:45 p. m. A short business session will be followed by a Christmas program. A story will be told by Mrs. Raymond Keiser, with music by Mrs. Herbert Eberhardt. Orchestra of School 12 will give a program at the Marion County infirmary Monday. The mothers’ round table discussion group of School 33 will meet at 9:30 a. m. Thursday in the home economics room. E. C. Wolcott of Chicago wil speak on “Nutrition.” Mothers frgtn other schools have been invited.

Manual

BY GEORGE HICKS First military ball of the R. O. T. C. was held this afternoon in the girls’ gymnasium. The Masoma Club give a Christmas party this week, directed by Frances Dearborn. Plans were discussed for the party to be held in January at the home of Elizabeth A. King. The 125 members of the chorus classes are learning Christmas carols under direction of Harold Winslow and Miss Louise Ewing of the faculty. Thirty students will sing carols in the downtown district Dec. 21 at the statehouse, courthouse, Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, city hall, school office, and the Chamber of Commerce. The Roman Saturnalia will be held by the language classes Dec. 18. PLAN ATHLETIC” MEET Students of Ball Teachers College to Hold Carnival. Bd/ Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 7.—An athletic carnival will be held Dec. 18 by students of Ball Teachers college of this city. Several track and field events are scheduled, and the carnival will end with a basketball game between the Triangle Club and the Navajo Club. The Boosters Club and the student aotivity committee headed by Dr. E. L. Austin is conducting a campaign to promote student athletics. Blanks have been given students to determine their eligibility to participate in dramatics, debating and music.

New Toys Greet Kindergarten Pupils

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Play houses and hobby horses greeted the children who enrolled recently In the new kindergarten established by the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten society on College avenue at Sixty-third street.

MANUAL SENIOR CLASSJCTIVE Officers Named; Yuletide Party Dec. 21, January senior class activities at Manual high school got under way this week with the election of Arnold Thielman, yell leader, as giftorian; Louise Carter, will maljer, and Robert Wagoner, prophet. Officers, with Robert Tilford, historian, and Arthur Braun, president, will read the literary accomplishments at the class day exercises Jan. 16. A Christmas party is planned for Dec. 21. Each girl will bring a gift and each boy will bring money. All gifts will be sent to the Day nursery. , The Senior Booster will be distributed Jan. 18, according to Elvy Allen, editor. Club pictures are being taken, and all senior pictures have been taken. Literary work on the magazine is being pushed.

HONOR ME ISSUED ‘A Plus’ Student List at Shortridae Announced. The “A plus” honor roll of Shortridge high school was announced this week. The following students made the grade: Josephine Davidson, Harold Duukle, Barbara Fowler, Mildred Grayson, Thirston Harrison, Marion Jenckes, Krystal Kegerreis, Dorothy Leedy, Jeanette Le Saulnler, James Henry Prescott, Helen Riggins, Virginia Sanders, Emma Thornbrough, Mary Vance Trent. The following Shortridge high school students made averages of “A”: Martha Adams, Ruth Akers. Martha Banta, Barbara Baumgartner, Evelyn Bentley, Rebecca Blackley, Dorothy Blackwell, William Bossart, John Bradshaw, Leroy Breunig, Hattie Bridgford, Helen Briggs, Jean Brown, Virginia Brown, Charlotte Bruce. Edna Cabalzer, Walter Cohn, Leslie Colvin, Harry, Cooper, Nelson Cooper, Julia Craig, Roberta Cramer. Jane Crawford. Frederick Cretors, Amy Crise. Dorothy Dauner, Jane Davis. Mary Eleanor Davis, Robert Deupree, Mary Francis Diggs, Margaret Dirks, Edward Donnell, John Donnell. Charles Feibleman, Charles Fell, Grace Ferguson, Marjorie Fogas, William Foreman, John Forrtey, Virginia Fosler, Jeanette Freyn. James Funkhauser. Estelle Gabriel, Ardis Gardiner, Jane Gent, Ethel Greenburg Catherine Hammitt. Norman Hanna. William Hausman, Philip HausS. Martha Hedrick. Esther Helgeson. Jean Helt, Thomas Henderson, Robert Henrv. Florence Hessong, Mary Margare* Hill, Agnes Hinkle, Jane Hodges. Mary I. Imes, Elizabeth Huff. Irene Hunter. Bruce Johnson, Helen Johnston, Celeste Jordan. Nancy Kalleen. Frieda Kamlot, John M. Kitchen, Billy Klee. Gerelda Landfeth. Marian. Laut. Frances Lecky. Alberta Lee. Sam Lesh. Leona Lischke. Mary Frances Litten Marcella Long, Winifred Jean Louden, Elizabeth Lupton. Helen Mattice* Genevieve Maxwell. Howard McChord, Alene McComb, Mary Catherine McLain. Dorothy Melchoir, Gladys Merchant, Martha Metcalf, Ada Miller. Don Miller. John Mlllett. Maxine Mitchell. Nancy Moore. Marcia Morrison, Sidney Muehl. Howard Nichol, Mary Alice Norris. Frank Oliphant. - Maud Margaret Platter, Curtis Plopper, Lois Power. Harriett Preston. John Ragsdale. Margaret Ramsey, Glno Ratti, Dorothy Ricketts, Harry Rominger, Alice Russell. Elise Schmidt, Doris Schoen, Joe Schuyler, Angelina Shaneff, Warren Shearer, Margaret Sissenguth. Robert Smith, Frank Snyder, Mildred S. Sommer, Jean Spickelmier, Margaret Stayton. Mary Jane Steeg, James Stewart. Jessie Strickland. John Robert Sutherlin, Frederick Swain. Harry Taylor, Joseph Taylor. Nancy Thompson, Richard E. Thompson, Pauline Trester, Harvey Trimble, Martha Tutew.ler. George Underwood. Fred Vedder. Pauline Vonnegut. Gordon Ward. Mildred Warner, Warman Welliver. Elsie Wells, Mary Louise Wheeler. William Williams, Dorothy Wilson, Fletcher Woodbury* Edward Wright.

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Two one-act plays will be given Saturday night at Warren Central high school, Post road and Tenth street. Derwood Wise and Mary K. Hester are stars of “The Telegram,” and Agnes Helms and Dorothy Moulton are the leading characters of “To Be Dealt with Accordingly.” Mrs. Doris Williams and William Beavers, junior class faculty sponsors, have charge of the plays.

Children Who Play in Street to Be Reported

Police to Watch Out for Violations of Safety Rules. Because of the number of children hurt while playing in the street or ■crossing the street in the middle of the block, every member of the police department will report to the accident prevention bureau every child found violating the rules. Asa further guard against these evils, The Indianapolis Times today publishes four more verses of the safety alphabet contributed to the school page by Police Chief Claude M'. Worley. When all the verses have beep published, thfy will be broadcast over WFBM, it was announced by Lieutenant Frank Owen of the bureau. Because of the interest aroused by the verses, the chief will forward the rhymes to any child who writes for them. r v Following are the verses: • 7 Q —ls for Queer ' It often Seems queer People rush into danger Without any fear, R—ls for Railway Doing its best •To keep you from harm Won’t you do the rest? S—ls for Safety Be on the safe side Let care be our motto And caution our guide. T—ls for Trouble That carelessness brings When you are careful Danger takes wings.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SET DEDICATION DATENEXT MAY New Organ at Technical Is Finest in State Schools. Workmen are planning the installation of the newly purchased pipe organ at Technical high school and dedication ceremonies will be held in May, it was announced recently by Milo Stuart, principal. The organ is being buijt by Pilcher’s Sons, and it is said to be the largest of its kind in any Indiana high school. A total of more than 5,000 pipes are in the entire organ, and many special features have been included. It will be placed in the new auditorium which has a seating capacity of 5,000 students. 3 PLAYS TO BE GIVEN Dramatic Club of Earlham College to Present Productions. Bn Times Sioccial RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 7.—Three one-act plays will be given tonight by the dramatic clas.‘- of Earlham college here. This is the fourth public appearance since the class wag formed in the fall semester of 1927. Professor Lawrence B. Goodrich, of the English and public speaking departments of the college, is in charge of the plays.

LEARN OF TEXTILES Children of Schools 2 to 42 to Hear Lecture Saturday. “Textiles with methods and examples” will be the subject of the lecture to school children at 9:30 a. m. Saturday at the John Herron Art Institute. Miss Anna Hasselman, curator, and Miss Mary Margaret Miller, muesum assistant, will be in charge. The lecture is the next to the last in the series of eight to children of Schools 2 to 42. The lecture will explain methods of construction showing examples of finished work. The final session will be held Dec. 8 when note books of students will be graded. A second course will start after the Christmas vacation for childhen in Schools 42 to 87. DEAN TO gTveT ADDRESS Miss Emma Colbert Will Speak at Cincinnati Meeting. Miss Emma Colbert, dean of the Teachers college of Indianapolis, will speak on “The Child At School” at a meeting of the Hamilton County (0.,) Teachers’ Association in Cincinnati Saturday morning. She will be the guest of Mrs. Nelson Trowbridge, formerly of Indianapolis, who will entertain with a lunch-eon-theater party. Futuristic Scenery to be Used Stage settings for the senior class play at Manual .high school are being made in futuristic design by students. This is the first time the school has used such effects.

ADD MATERIAL TO ASSIST IN VISUALSTUDY Schools Show Progress in Education by Slides, Motion Pictures. An increase in the demand for visual aids by Indianapolis public schools in November was shown In a report released this week by tne visual education department of the schools. New material is being added each day to answer these growing needs, it is said. At present in the collection there are more than 2,500 pictures and photographs, 2.000 stereographs, 5,000 slides, thirtythree motion picture films, and sixty combination exhibits. Indiana University Aids The visual education department of Indiana university has given the use of its slides and motion picture films to the local schools. Expenses are paid by the board of school commissioners. Perhaps the most unique part of the department is the combination exhibits which are said to be used exclusively here. Subjects include industry, travel, nature study and lives of musicians, artists and scientists. Although the department buys many slides, many are made here from prints, illustrations, photographs and original drawings. Teachers Offer Subjects Teachers send in anew suggestions for subjects each week and many are adopted. The use of moving pictures for visual education is increasing all over the United States, and several cities recently have purchased large numbers of projecting machines and other equipment. Several Indianapolis schools have picture machines now. and preparations are being made to add several more.

Tag! Who's It Bad Citizens of This School Are Marked by New System.

BAD citizens wear tags at Benjamin Harrison School 2, Delaware and Walnut streets, and good citizens go tagless. This part of the character education system put in effect in the 2A-3B class room of Miss Lois Hagedorn. Each morning the children check themselves on a chart on their activities of the previous day. The points of obedience, industry, and respect for property and persons are stressed. The charts are divided into the three headings. Under the first division are questions: Did you obey quickly and pleasantly? Did I obey every traffic rule? Under the second heading are such questions as: Did I learn anything interesting yesterday? Have I listened well to orders given? Under the third heading are: Did I say anything to mother that made her happy before I came to school this morning? Did I laugh or giggle at a mistake of a classmate? The rules of good conduct and deportment thus are incorporated in the makeup of the child. “All of the pupils take great pride in their records,” said Miss Hegedom. TYPING AWARDS GIVEN TECHNICAL STUDENTS Certificates, Bronze and Silver Pins Received by Winners. Many typing awards have been received by Technical high schoool students for October, it was announced today. Certificates were awarded'to Kenneth Koelling, June Brossart, Marian Stiers, Viona May, Madge Adams, Gladys Brant, Eunice Crismier, Kathleen Edwards, Dorothy Altizer, Mildred McCormack, Martha Olsen and Hannah Newman. Brr 'Ze pins: Nellie Passons, Zelda Freije, Marcella Katzenbach, James Robbins, Elizabeth Munden, Neola Pitcher, Frank Baird, Mary Schwimmer, Kathryn Eaton, Evelyn Bergmann, Bernice Goss, Madge Adams and Rosemary Towles. Silver pins: Masy Frances Kneer, James Robbins, Madge Poehler, Charlotte Wehmtier and Emmett Cox. Neola Pitcher and Beulah Reynolds attained the highest speed.

Technical

BY WILLIAM FROSCH WILMA FISHER and William Henderson have been elected secretary and treasurer of the Tech senior class. Max Mansfield and Vera Subroch already have been named president and vice-president. The Demagorians will have charge of the Brightwood Christian church services Sunday. The Rev. Laurence Fugit, pastor, aided in starting the group six years ago. Mary Ellen Bryant, Edward Campbell, Robert Osier, Catherine Tate, Geraldine James and Francis Dezarek will participate in the program. SET SCHOOL DEDICATION Now No. 72 to Be Formally Opened Wednesday Evening. The Robert Browning School 73, Thirtieth and School streets, will be dedicated Wednesday evening. Miss Frances Newton, principal, will be in charge of the festivities, and Charles F. Miller, city superintendent of schools, will be the principal speaker. Members of the board of school commissioners will be guests of honor.

Varied Programs Slated by P. T.A. Organizations

Play, Speeches, Bazaar Arranged by Different Groups. Marion county Parent-Teacher Associations are planning Interesting and varied programs for December meetings next week, according to Mrs. E. A. Clark, press chairman. Mrs. W. F. Swain of Pendleton will speak on “Winter Birds and How to Attract Them.” Wednesday, before the Ben Davis Parent-Teach-er Association. A Christmas seal program vill be given. The association will give a Christmas gift of SIOO to the school to be divided equally between the grade and high school. The New Bethel Parent-Teacher Association will have a Christmas party and parcel post sale, Friday afternoon. Members are asked to brings gifts for the sale. The Bunker Hill Parent-Teacher Association will give a three-act play “The Path Across the Hill,” at the school house, tonight and Saturday, Mrs. Grace Hendricks is the director and the cast is: Nioma Smock, Rose Breedlove, Earnest Knapp, Edward Guest, Louise Wilson, Stella Copeland, Leland and Hendricks, Earl Breedlove, Ada Meyers and Omer Lyons. The next business meeting will be Dec. 12, 8 p. m. A program will be given by the school. The Township House ParentTeacher Association will hold a business meeting at the school house, Wednesday. Judge Frank J. Lahr will sneak before the Edgewood Parent-Teach-

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er association tonight when the fathers will be guests of honor. Community singing will be a part of the program, and refreshments will be served. The Parent-Teacher Association of the John Strange school will hold their annual bazar and Christmas show, at the school house, Friday evening. An interesting program is being arranged by Mrs. Grace Parris. Members of the association will pose for the reading “An Old Fashioned Album” which will be given by Miss Dixie McKay. Vocal numbers will be given by Mrs. Frank Dawson, and a trio of teachers. W. H. Cooper, township trustee of Warren township, will be the speaker at the Parent-Teacher meeting at Shadeland school, Tuesday evening. MOVE KINDERGARTEN Society Takes New Quarters for Child Training. The kindergarten conducted for several years in the Sutherland Avenue Presbyterian church by the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten society has been moved to 903 East Thirtieth street and will be known as the Fall Creek kindergarten, it was announced today by Bertha Wallace, secretary. This center has a large Mothers’ Club whose work includes a study group for the discussion of child training problems, under the direction of Mrs. Paul Shertzer, president. Miss Maxine Milliken is the teacher of the kindergarten.

.DEO. 7, 1928

TEACHERS SEEK ENTERTAINMENT FOR HOLIDAYS Big Demand at Libraries for Plays, Poems and Cantatas Now On. Plans for observing Christmas are being made in all of the Indianapolis public grade schools by teachers who are arranging playlets and other entertainment features. More than sixty plays in the teachers division of the library in the office of the board of school commissioners have been withdrawn by teachers preparing for the Christmas features. The Central library has about 150 plays for children, most of which sre now in use. A special exhibit in the teachers' division includes poems, plays and books on Christmas subjects. Many short stories and poems have been clipped from magazines and mounted in an appropriate manner. Teachers will be aided in their selection by Miss Kate E. Dinsmore, librarian of the' teachers division. An educational program on Christmas seals of anti-tuberculosis societies is advanced in the schools. Children are not asked to sell the seals, but teachers are acquainting them with the work carried on through-money raised by the sale. In addition to the Christmas entertainment work, eighth grade children who will graduate at the end of this semester are electing their high school and selecting their first semester subjects.