Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1929 — Page 22

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PROGRAMS ARE ARRANGED BY P, T. A. GROUPS Several Meetings Slated, Following Vacation of Week in Schools. After p Ipp'p of a wppk. fine (0 firing vnVatiott In city schools. Par* •-Tea'hr as'.oriations have rerr] activity and many meetings mi w !>r-diiicfl for next week, p T A of School 81 will meet ■ 3 4") Wednesday afternoon with 'll Havinond Johnson presiding. \ program has been arranged, ini hiding the Lord's prayer; piano i:io. Max Harrell; recitations, Robort Hawkins and Frank Weir; a i 11 dance, Mary Ellen Han. Mary • Iherine Siler, Anna Margaret ! aprr.au and Bernice Hessel; reci<t,ions, Rihli and Paul Rice: piano 16, Lee Clifford Jr. Dr. William Yoeppers v ill be the principal peaker. i\ T. A of School 75 will meet .* 2:30 Wednesday. Joel Hadley of ortriflce high school will speak. \ program of music and readings ,li be given.

Priilplure Talk Scheduled McKinley School 33 will hold Us . eating at 2.30 Wednesday. Myra n Richards will talk on soulpture. 'the Sahara Belle glee club will sing. A night meeting at 7:30 will be ! rid at School 55 Wednesday. A .'Perial program has been arranged. Dick Miller will talk on “Civic Responsibility’’ at School 60 on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Mary Traub Busch has arranged the musical program. P. T. A. of School 50 will hold its annual fathers’ night meeting at 3 o'clock. Wednesday. Mayor Slack will be the speaker. A play will be given by the millinery class of the school. Mrs. Schilling's orchestra will furnish the music Refreshments will be served following the meeting. April meeting of the Study Circle of Sciiool 76 will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday, at the school building. ••Present Day Knowledge of Child Educ.oion; Changing Objectives in American Schools’’ will be discussed by Mrs. Julius C. Travis and Mrs. Ralph E. Carter. Mrs. C. H. Fenner will speak on “Girl Scouts.’’ P. T. A. of 80 to Meet. P. T. A. of school 80 will meet at 3:15 Wednesday. Mrs. Logan G. Hughes will speak. Children of the school will furnish musical numbers. The Rev. J. C. Johnson will speak at the P. T. A. meeting at Schol 6 at 3:15 Wednesday. Manual hich school glee club will sing A business meeting will follow the program.

School 11 will hold its meeting at 3:15 Wednesday. A social hour will follow the business meeting. Dr. Frank Lee Roberts will talk on “The Long Trail” at the meeting of Sciiool 70 at 2:30 Wednesday. Mrs. George Kadel will have charge of the music., Mrs. Demarchus Brown Will be the speaker at the Fathers’ night meeting May 1. School 42 will meet at 3 o'clock Wednesday. Walter Jarvis will speak on the “Cleanup Campaign.” Mrs. Ruby Langford's pupils will nve a playlet. Children of Mrs. Clara Hill's and Miss Hazel Wooltolk's rooms will furnish music Mrs. F. E. DeFrantz. president, will preside. Hevves’ Pupils to Entertain The pupils oi Mile. Theo Hewes will entertain at the P. T. A. meeting of School 18 at 3 o'clock Wednesday. Noble Pearcy will sing. P. T. A. of Sciiool 22 will meet at 3:15 Wednesday. Miss Belle Scodeld. director of art in the public schools, will give an illustrated talk on Spain. There will be music by the primary chorus. Miss Rousseau McClellan of Shortridge high school will give a nature talk at the P. T. A. meeting of School 8 Wednesday. Miss Lucille Milan will play a piano solo. Refreshments will be served. Mothers Round Table Discussion group of School 33 will hold a special guest meeting at 1:30 Thursday at the school. Mrs. Jeanette Williams will talk on "Behavorism ” All mothers are invited. STUDY COLLEGE OPERA Boys of School 6 Plan Music Program The procedure of college opera organizations is being followed by the boys of the 7AB grade of School 6 in order to add interest to their music work. Dancing the minuet to Bach’s music, with some of the boys taking the feminine parts will be one of features of the program. Mids Margaret Teachout is in charge of the work.

Send in News This is an open invitation to all grade school principals of Indianapolis schools. The editor of the weekly schol page of The Indianapolis Times invites principals to send news of their schools to The Times for publication on the school page. The Times school page has the indorsement of Charles F. Miller, city superintendent, and Byron B. Williams, director of publicity and research. Articles should concern the activities of children, school projects and unusual stories of the general nature of those found weekly on this page. Letters should reach The Times Wednesday for publication the following Friday. And remember: "Events that WILL happen make much better news than events which HAVE happened.” Send in your school news and let the mothers of your pupils know what they are doing in school.

School Mothers Make Hit in Play

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Top Row (left to right)—Mrs. Frank Baker, Mrs. Charles Fisher and Mrs. William Bottin. ' Center Row—Mrs. Newton Pruitt. Mrs. George Amick, Mrs. Stewart Snell. Mrs. Merwln Heller and Mrs. William Maltsberger. . . ... Front—Mrs. Charles Francis. Mrs. Ross Manley. Mrs. Hembrow. Mrs. Harry Bell. Mrs. Edglnll Thompson and Mrs. Claude Franklin. 1 - These women, mother? of pupils of School 39. recently gave the play. Cornelia Pickle. Plaintiff, foi the benefit of school activities and the demand for seats was so heavy that another performance will be given tonight at the school. Mrs. Peter Ruppe directed the cast, assisted by Mrs. Esten Blanford.

FLYING COURSE TO GO ON AIR Aviation Lessons Will Be Broadcast Tuesdays. Fundamentals of flying will be taught to the school children of the United States in a course in aeronautics to be broadcast by the Croslay radio station, WLW, for the Ohio School of the Air. The first of the practical talks on flying will be broadcast on Tuesday. April 16. at 1:30 p. m. and will continue at the samp time on following Tuesdays. Merrill Hamburg, secretary of the Airplane Model League of America, will be in charge of the course. He plans to introduce noted airplane pilots during the lessons. In presenting the subjects of aviation to school children, Hamburg will teach them how to construct and fly their own model planes. The Ohio School of the Air program for the week starting Monday is as follows: Monday Story plays and rhythmic activities, for lower tirades. Alma Ruhrruehussel. Dayton (O.t schools. Current events, for upper grades and hlfth school. Harrison Sayre. History dramalog. Tuesday Course in aeronautics, provided by the Guggenheim Foundation for the Advancement of Aeronautics. “Joan of Arc” (Bastian Lepage', art appreciation talk by Mrs. J. E Clark, chairman, art extension Ohio Federation | of Women's Clubs. The duties of a Lieutenant-Governor, civil government by those who, govern, Lieutenant-Governor John T. Brown. Wednesday Stories for grades 1. 2 and 3, kinderrarten and primary teachers of Cincinnati I schools. Stories for grades 4, 5 and 6. by Julia Carter. Plays and playlets for grades 7 and 8. by selected castes of school children. Thursday Drama for high schools. Stuart Walker and Schuster-Martin players. Problems of the New Nations of SoutliI eastern Europe” (geography). Dr. W. R. ! McConnell. Miami university.

Washington

BY ROSS DORSETT The winner of the discussion con- j tests in the preliminary tryouts this j week was Virginia Miller. Second j and third place winners were Jo- j sephine Habling and Louis Fuller! respectively. The Go-Get-Em-Dress-Em-Up i committee has its headquarters inj the office where they received replies for the party this week. The honor system has again been adopted for the baseball and track tickets. Each student going to the game is asked to buy a tag and wear it. All games are played at Rhodius park and admission to the game is free. A talk on "Betsy Ross and Her Descendants” was given by Miss Laurel Thayer, lineal descendant of Betsy Ross, at a Colonial tea sponsored by the Washingtonians, senior girls club, recently. The women of the faculty and the girls I glee club, whose members were dressed in Colonial costumes, were guests. A short musical program was furnished by June Darnell. Edna Pittman and Charles Holmer. Hotel Provides for Pets NEW YORK. April 12 —One floor i of a hotel recently built here rcserves the thirty-first floor for the dogs and cats of its guests. The | hotel also furnishes a veterinary, j kennel maids and a cook for the pets, as well as bathrooms, a "beauty parl r” and a screened-in exercise run on the roof. Pupils Bt ild Bird Houses Bird house building is one of the projects undertaken by sixth grade pupils of school 53. Three of the best houses built are to be selected and placed in trees on the school grounds. School 21 Grades Plan Pageant The 4A and 5B grades of School 21 will stage a pageant soon based \on general ethics. It will be called 1 ‘‘Keys to Success." The exact date has not yej een named.

P. T. A. Events Miss Blanch Merry, state attendance officer, will speak at Glenns Valley Parent-Teacher meeting next Friday at 7:45 p. m. A business meeting will precede the program and officers will be elected. The Parent-Teacher Association of John Strange school will elect officers tonight at the April meeting of the association. K. V. Ammerman, principal of Broad Ripple high school, will speak. Wednesday evening at 7:45 the Warren Central ParentTeachers Association will hold their April meeting. The farmer's f ederation of Warren township and the association will unite in a joint program. A play, “Deacon Dubbs,” will be given by the University Heights Parent-Teachers’ Association Saturday night in the Warren Central auditorium. Mrs. Alletha Catt is director. The regular meeting of the association will be held next Friday.

GIVE BLIND COURSES State Needs Teachers to Instruct Handicapped. A law appropriating funds for the education of handicapped children is no v effective in Indiana. It is expecied that sight-saving classes will be established in many centers of the state and that Indiana will, therefore, need a number of teachers with the necessary special training. To prepare teachers adequately for this work, summer courses will lie offered this year, in co-operation With the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, by the University of Chicago, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Southern Claifornia (Los Angeles) and Columbia university. Information concerning these courses may be secured from the respective universities or from the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. 370 Seventh avenue, New York City. ORATORY CLUB STARTED Eighth Grade Boys of School 6 Meet Each Friday. An oratorical club has been organized by the 8A boys of School 6. Meetings are held each Friday at 3:15 p. m. A girls glee club has been organized by the eighth grade girls and meetings are held on the same day and hour that the boy’s club meets. BOARD TO ENTERTAIN Teachers of School 58 to Be Guests of Parent-Teachers The executive board of the Parent - Teacher Association of School 58 and the hostesses of each school session room are giving a party for the teachers of the school next Wednesday night.

Shortridge

BY WILLIAM HOFFMAN William T>ito. Shortridge '26. was the outstanding speaker at the recent Purdue-Notre Dame debate. Otto has been a member of the Purdue team since his freshman year. The Parent-Teachers’ Association made $133-35 at their paper sale held during spring vacation. C. L. Stubbs, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident last summer, resumed his position in the mathematics department this week. Dorthea Smock won the Shortridge Constitutional essay contest with her essay, "The Modem Patriot.” The essay will be entered in the district contest. Pupils Make Plantation Replica Pupils of the 4A grade of School 75 are planning a replica of a cotton plantation. Workers in the fields and the recreational life on a plantation will be shown. The cabins are being constructed by the bdYS of the class. Miss Martha Phaws Is directing the work.

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SCHOOL 68 WINS IN ATTENDANCE Gets City Flag for March With Record of 98.913. Sciiool 63, of district 3 won the attendance contest for March, Mrs.. Maude Moudy, chairman of the attendance committee, said today. The attendance record for the month at this school was fa. 913 per cent. This gives School 68 possession of the city attendance flag until the attendance awards are made again in May. Percentages of the schools having the highest rating in the other districts were: District 1, School 46, with 96.949 per cent; District 2, ! School 39. with 97.913 per cent; ! District 4, School 55, with 97.331 per | cent; District 5, School 86, with | 97,685 per cent and District 6, School j 75, with 97.697 per cent. I The schools having the highest I attendance record in their districts were awarded district flags.

SCHOOL BUYS PAINTING School to Purchase Work of Carl Graf. School 35 is planning the purchase of a landscape painting by Carl Graf, Indiana artist, which he made before the department pupils of the school during a recent visit here. Each Friday morning the four intermediate rooms of Mrs. Mata Wittlin, Miss Hazel Street, Miss Alice Silloway and Miss Marie Holstein meet in the assembly hall for morning exercises. Each room takes its turn planning the programs, which include songs, poems and stories, illustration traits of character, and civic events. SCHOOL INVITES VISITS Meetings Held on Mondays at No. 4. Visitors are invited to School 4 at meetings held from 3 to 4 p. m. each Monday, the student council of the school said today. One of the topics to be discussed will be “Which Subject Best Fits One for Later Life?” The 8B class, with several pupils from the 7B and 7A recently visited John Herron Art Institute.

Technical

BY WILLIAM FROSCH Geraldine James, member, of the Cannon staff, won second place in the eighth week of the 1929 Indiana high school newspaper editorial contest. Columbus high school won first by taking the two first awards; Lebanon high school, second, with one first award and one second, and Sullivan high school, third, winning two second awards. Thirty-four bronze pins, given for speed and accuracy, have been won by students in the three machine calculation classes. In order to win one of these pins the student, must make 100 per cent at least two the five monthly tests sent out by the Comptometer Company, ‘‘Gypsy Born.” a poem by lone Gain, has been published in the April number of Magazine World. “The Advantages of a Music School to a Community,” is the title of an essay written by Betty Oglesby which won worthy mention in a contest sponsored by the Irvington Schol of Music. Allison Koelling and Byron Miller just completed the June senior class. Miller wrote the music and Koelling the words. Nickel, coral and sapphire blue are the colors chosen by the June seniors as their class distinction. Traffic Boys Given Raincoats Traffic boys of School 33 are all set when it comes to spring rains. The Pa rent-Teacher Association of their school recently presented each of them with anew raincoat and hat. P. T. A. Head Addresses Club Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the Parent-Teacher Association federation addressesed the Mothers’ cluh of School 36, Wednesday evening.

ESSAY CONTEST SPONSORED BY HIGHWAY BOARD Trip to Washington. SSOO Offered in National Safety Campaign. Bit Tape* Kpertnl WASHINGTON. D C.. April 12 Offering as principal awards a trip to Washington with all expenses paid to the pupil and the teach*)who submit the best, papers in theiF respective competitions, the higiivay education board today announced the eighth annual safety essay, and lesson contest open to elementary school pupils and elementary school teachers of the nation. The successful pupil also Will receive a gold medal, a check for §ls and a gold watch, while the teacher, upon her arrival at Washington, will be presented with a check for SSOO. Contestants from every state in the Union, and from Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Canal Zone are expected to strive for the many prizes, aggregating §6,500. offered for the best essays and the best lessons written in this annual competition. The contests in each state are conducted with the aid and cooperation of the state departments of education, and other educational authorities. The prizes are given by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. In the pupils’ contest, 442 medals and a like number of cash prices are offered as state awards. To the first national winner is given a visit to the nation’s capital and a valuable gold watch, while pupils whose papers rank second and third to the national winner also receive gold watches, appropriately engraved. of slightly less intrinsic value than that given the winner. National winners are chosen by a process of elimination from those whose essays have ranked first in their respective states.. Awards to teachers, according to the rules, are less numerous but more substantial. For the best lesson, the board offers the visit to Washington, of four or five days’ duration and a check for §SOO. Second and third national awards in the lesson contest are S3OO and S2OO. respectively, making SI,OOO in cash awards to teachers.

TEACH LIBRARY USE Pupils of School 52 Get Special Lessons. All fifth to eighth grade pupils of School 52 are being given special lessons at the Haughville library on the proper use of library material. Mrs. Miller and Miss Morgan of the library are directing the study. Special emphasis will be placed on the June issue of “Block and Type,” the school paper on account of not printing a mid-term issue. In the June issue there will be a picture in colors, an illustrated olory and a photograph of the graduating class.

Crispus Attucks

CLARENCE MAXWELL “Come Out of the Kitchen” a play by A. E. Thomas will be presented by the senior class soon. Miss Henrietta Herrod will direct it. Gertrude Jackson is president of the senior class. A Memorial day pageant will be given soon. Miss Iva R. Marshall, history department head, will supervise and will be aided by other teachers in the department. The scenes will be derived from the Civil, Spanish-American and World wars. The Revolutionary war may also be portrayed in the play. Rehearsals are in progress. A review of the R. O. T. C. unit was witnessed by the students and faculty of the school today. It was the first held this year. Cadet-Major Robert Storms commanded the regiment, assisted by Captains Ralph Jones, John Ervin, Carl Anderson and Ernest Rice. About seventy-five boys went out for spring football practice, recently begun. J: A. Shelburn. coach, says this is going to be a great season and the boys will bring home the bacon. The play. “Midsummers Night’s Dream, ’ given by the English department Friday night was attended by almost 2,000 persons. Many were turned from the door as the play was getting under way. A repeat performance was given Monday night in the auditorium. BUTLER DEAN SPEAKS Addresses Girls of Washington High School. "Advantages of a College Education of Girls,” was the subject of a talk given by Miss Evelyn Butler, dean of women at Butler university, before the girls of Washington high school Monday. R. E. Robb of Evansville college, addressed the boys on "Life.” William H. Remy talked before the whole school Thursday on "Good Citizenship.” The Parent-Teachers Association of Washington sponsored a concert by Olive Cuyler’s orchestra, Wednesday. SCHOOL CLUB TO MEET Mrs. Clayton Ridge to Address Parent-Teachers Tuesday. The Shortridge Parent-Teachers Association will meet in Room 209, at Shortridge high school, Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Clayton Ridge, 27 South Denny street, will give the principal address, speaking on “The Tendencies of Youth.” Miss Helen Brooks, Shortridge student, accompanied by her mother, will sing.

Bovs Take Shop Work

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Left (holding the bowl)—Henry Werner, 939 East Minnesota street, right, Byron Enimert. 1838 North Rural street. These boys are holding examples of the work they are doing in shop work in the opportunity school at School 9. L. A. Reed is the instructor of the classes. The table is the work of several of the boys of the class and Is to be used as a shop model. The stand was made by Raymond Adams, a pupil of this school.

FATHER'S NIGHT PARTY Parent-Teachers of School 57 to Meet Wednesday. A “Father's Night” program will be given next Wednesday night by the Parent-Teachers Association of School 57. Entire charge of the program will be given to the fathers present. A dramatization of the making of the Constitution of the United

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States will be given by the 8A grade and Judson L. Stark, Marion county prosecutor, will give the principal address of the evening. Club to Give Minstrel Show The Parent-Teacher Association of School 48 is planning a minstrel show to be held during April. The proceeds of the show will be used to buy pictures to place in the rooms.

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NEW DRAWING. WOOD-WORKING COURSES READY Prepared After Year of Study: Standardize Instruction. New course: of study in mechanical drawing and wood working for elementary schools have been prepared in mimeograph form and are being distributed to industrial art. teachers in the citv schools. Committees under the direction of Harry E. Wood, director of vocational education and manual training. and W. H. Gossett, assistant, director, have been working lot the past twelve months revising the old course and have submitted their ricommendations to all industrial arts teachers for suggestions and criticism. These courses will not be available for public distribution until next year when they will be printed and distributed. The committee on woodworking was composed of Lawrence McCormack. J. S. McWethy and H. P. Knecht. Charles Youngman. C. E. Simpson and Harry Brown made up the committee on mechanical draw - ing. Drawing for the stencils needed were made by Orlando B Little These courses will tend toward uniformity in the processes of teaching these subjects. The manual training department is now working on a scale which can be used as a measuring device in grading wood working projects. PARTY TO BE GIVEN Grade Teachers’ Association Seeks Scholarship Funds. A party will be given at the Marott Saturday afternoon by the Grade Teachers' Association to raise funds for the scholarship given each year by the association. This is the only time in the entire year that the grade teachers try to increase their treasury balance.