Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1929 — Page 24

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SCHOOLS PLAN PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH WEEK Talks. Plays and Pageants to Feature Observance April 28 to May 4. More ti.an 50,000 school children ;n Incianapolis and Marion county uill celebrate Child Health week, April 28 to May 4 and Child Health day, May 1. Each of the eighty-seven public schools throughout the city will make special efforts to stress the necessity cj child health conservation. Posters, based on the rules of health, will be made by the school children and health talks will be given in the class rooms. Special talks and demonstrations by the school nurses arid talks on corrective exercises and physical fitness by the school doctors, will feature the programs. Stage Playlets Playlets will be staged in many of the public schools, all based on health week. The Marion County Tuberculosis Association is instrumental in issuing the material for such playets ns “Health in Toyland,’’ for younger children; “The Champion,” for intermediate grades and Madame Rantc's Fashion Show,” for older girls. Each clay during health week will be devoted to one particular phase of health in the parochial schools. The program worked out by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association stresses every phase of health promotion. In St. Philip Neri. Our Lady of Lourdes, and St. Patrick's schools the eighth grade girls will give first aid and home nursing demonstrations for their mothers. The programs will be composed of ten demonstrations, five of home nursing such as bed making, five of first aid, such as applying simple bandages. Re-Examine Children Miss Flora A. Dutcher. educational secretary of the tuberculosis asscc atiori. will be In charge of the mo ion pictures and talks with slides lor the special programs to be given at public schools. A special health exhibit is being held this week at the Speedway school, Wayne township. Activities of the medical health inspection and school nursing departments of the city beard of health for observance of Child Health day and Child Health week Include: Re-examination of the children attending the kindergartens and those who were in kindergartens last semester and who were transfeared to public schools in February. Elect Queen of May Audrey Dietz, first grade, elected bv popular vote, will be crowned with a wreath of flowers as “Queen of May” in connection with the May clav program to be given at the Speedway school. Wayne township. Mary Ann Hayes will be her attendant. There will be a health parade of the first grade, each child representing either a vegetable or fruit end each room will contribute a song, recitation or playlet to the program. The first grade of forty children. Miss Irene Robey, teacher, built a health house to illustrate good health habits. In co-operation with Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, director of the child health division of the Indiana state board of health. Governor Harry G. Lesiie has issued a proclamation for Child Health day, the climax of Child Health week. President Herbert Hoover recently issued a statement in which he indorsed Child Health day Make Many Visits "Interest in Child Health day observance is shown by the fact that many child health programs have been in progress throughout the year.” reports Dr. Scheitzer. "Children have been acquiring habits that contribute to their health and will be awarded honors on May 1. Between the middle of January and March 10, child hygiene physicians and nurses from the state department of health visited sixty counties, making 1.403 calls and giving seventy-seven talks.

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RY CLARENCE MAXWELL An oratorical contest will be given bv the English department Friday night in the auditorium. A prize will be awarded to the winner. Anew club was formed by Miss Henrietta Herod recently and named the Book Lovers Club. Many students have joined the group. F'.rst operetta to be given by students of the school is under the direction of J. H. Brown. The cast is rehearsing. Next week the R. O. T. C. unit will be reviewed by Major Cathro. herd of the reserve corps of the city. The following clubs are approved by the office: English. Dramatic. Mathematics. Science. Language. Art. Athletic. Book Lovers, Big Sisters Bovs and Girls Hi-Y. Girls Reserve. Debasing. Industrial, Music. History. Civic and other special clubs. SCHOOL PLANS CONCERT Students Prepare Program for National Music Week. The orchestra and department classes of School 22. under the direction of Miss Ruth A. Lewis, are preparing material for a concert to be given some time during Music week. The 5B class of the school is making booklets or. pioneer life in connection with their study of Polly, the jrfoneer. To increase interest in the spelling work being done at the school contests are being neld and the results recorded on a chart.

Health of School Children Guarded

PUPILS GATHER 17,000 COCOONS School 66 Classes Compete to Collect Most. School 66 is again on the trail of the bagworm. Last year more than fifteen thousand bagworms were collected by students. This year the number is over seventeen thousand. The cocoons nave been placed in cardboard boxes and are exhibited in the main corridor. A contest was conducted with each of the rooms trying to bring in the greatest number of cocoons. An exhibit of wild flowers in the children's room of tne library has attracted much attention. The flowers were used in a talk given at Cropsy hall Monday night for grade teachers. As an incentive to geography study, a world conference is held each term by the 6A classes. Each child takes the role of a delegate from some European country and must know what ship he takes from his country to the United States, the time and the cost of the voyage and other details to be found in steamship circulars and reference books. A pupil is selected to act as the President of the United States and be host to the others. This conference is held at the end of the school term and the students are beginning to study up their parts.

WINS PEACE AWARD Shortridge Pupil Gets Cup in Contest. First place in the Peace Discussion contest of the seventh district finals held at Washington high 1 school Monday went to Curtis C. ; Plopher, Shortridge high school student. He was awarded a silver cup. 1 Miss Virginia Miller, Washington high school, and Joe Cooper, Warren Central high school, were the other speakers in the contest. "American Responsibility for World Peace" was tire subject of the discussion. Each contestant w'as given eight minutes for his constructive discussion and three minutes for a rebuttal speech. Judges of the contest were Rav S. Trent. Indianapolis realtor; Mrs. W. S. Lockhart, executive secretary of the Indiana council of International Relations, and Sewaru Craig, teacher at Manual Training hign school. Plopher will represent the seventh district in the state finals to beheld at Bloomington. April 36. HONOR PLAN TRIED I School 31 Pupils Will Get Prizes for High Marks. A spring program was given last Thursday by the 3A and 4B classes j of School 31 for the P. T. A. meettine at the school. An honor system has been introduced based on the citizenship recI ord of the pupil. After receiving the first A, the pupil is given a red ribbon as an honor award. A white ribbon follows the second A mark j and a blue ribbon is given the student, making three consecutive A's in his citizenship record. Two writing clubs have been organized by Room 5, one of boys and the other of girls. Certificates are awarded for proficiency in writing and the club getting the least number of certificates will entertain the other group.

FLOWER CONTEST HELD Students of School 82 Vote for National Plant. A national wild flower ballot in all grades above the primary room was conducted recently by the 8A class of School 82. In oral composition each pupil outlined the purpose of such a vote end described the national contest being conducted by the American Nature Association. Five of the best out lines were se’ected and the students making them gave a two-minute talk before the class. A “Be Kind to Animals" club has been organized by the 3A and 4B pupils of the school. Scrap books have been made. WILD FLOWERS STUDIED School Students Collect 33 Specimens for Work. Much interest has been aroused in the children of School 7S by an unusual collection of wild fllowers arranged by Miss Cora Smith. Thirty-three specimens were collected in a three day round up staged by the students under Miss Smith's direction. The object of the project was to familiarize the student* with wild flowers and inspire a greater appreciation for them. •

Top photo shews school physician and nurse administering diphtheria toxoid at Woodside kindergarten. 2530 Southeastern avenue. This is part of the program carried out by the city health department that wall be explained during Child Health week, April 28 to May 4. . Lower photograph show's children being weighed as part of the better health campaign of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association in parochial schools of the city under direction of Miss Helen rteal, city health education worker. These children are at Little Flower school, 1401 Bosart avenue.

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BY WILLIAM FROSCH Home Economics Club held Its first meeting of the semester last Tuesday. Officers elected were Miss Katherine Dieckmeyer, president; Thetus Davidson, vice-president; Miss Mary Margaret Hickey, secretary; Miss Mary Ellen Bryant, treasurer, and Miss Edith <saph, historian. Meetings will be held every other Tuesday in Room 122. Room 178 has been equipped with fourteen new' laboratory tables, cabinets and other zoology equipment. Two new r courses, art appreciation and advanced shop practice, in ground mechanics of aircrafts, will be organized next semester provided

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I epough students wish to enroll for the w'Ork. All three prizes in the poster contest, sponsored by the Girl Scouts for their Cookie day sale, Saturday, were won by students in Mrs- Roberta Warren Stewart’s art class. PUPILS WORK OUTDOORS Children Plant Flower Beds, CleanUp Grounds. Out-door work for every child in the school is the aim at School 70, now that warm weather is here. Flower beds on the grounds are being prepared and planted by the children in the intermediate grades. The smaller children are engaged in a clean-up campaign, picking up all bits of paper. Department boys are working on the shrubbery.

CITY STUDENTS TO SEEK NEW COLLEGE PRIZE High School Seniors Urged to Try for Northwestern Scholarship. Indianapolis high school students of high excellence in their studies and personal qualities were urged today, in a letter to city high school principals, to make formal application for one of the new' Austin scholarships for the training of business executives, available at Northwestern university next year. The Austin scholarship foundation was created at Northwestern recently by F. C. Austin. Chicago capitalist, who gave the university over $3,000,000, the income from which is to be used exclusively for scholarships. Ten students will be selected for the year 1929-30, but when the full income from the foundation becomes available a larger number of scholarships -will be offered each year. Scholarships will be awarded without reference to nationality, religion or wealth, and applicants will be examined in such qualifications as scholarship, leadership, character and health. Those will be selected W'ho have the greatest potential capacity for proficiency in business, this proficiency to be measured in terms of public service rather than in the accumulation of private fortunes. The university will grant to each scholar the financial assistance deemed most beneficial to him, the amount varying from the cost of tuition to $1,500 a year. It may be in the form of a loan or a direct grant. No scholar will be compelled to abandon his desire for a<}aquate training because of lack of funds. This training may necessitate study and travel abroad and attendance at institutions other than Northwestern.

MAKE BIRD HOUSES Plan Used to Keep Students Out of Streets. The problem of keeping children out of the streets during spring vacation week was solved at School 25 by a suggestion to the students that they make bird houses and bring them to school when studies were resumed. Nature work at this school will center around the school grounds. The children will be made familiar with a dozen different trees and shrubs to be found there. Later a trip will be made to Garfield park for further study. Twice a day in the corridors of the school a caller stands with a megaphone and announces the attendance and tardiness record for the day. The room with the best standing gets a plant to place in their room and keeps it as long as their record is highest. Entertainment at School 48 The Parent-Teacher Association of School 48 is planning an entertainment for the school to be given late in April.

Pupils Build Bird Houses

Left to Right—Eileen McHaffey, Ralph Terrill and Mary Freeman of School 73, with the bird houses they have built during their study of birds and their habits. Each of the twenty-seven students in the 8A class made a bird house this year.

Johnny Appleseed s Life Drama to Be Told on Air

Broadcast for Pupiis Will Relate Story of Backwoods Hero. Johnny Appleseed, barefoot hero of the Indiana backwoods, will live again for the school children of Indiana and twenty-eight other states listening to the School of the Air when the weekly history dramalogue is broadcast by the Crosley radio station, WLW, Monday, at 1 p. m. Johnny Appleseed, or John Chapman as he was christened, was the pioneer tree planter of the early part of the nineteenth century. His labors bore fruit over one hundred thousand square miles of territory. He believed that God had appointed him to a mission in the wilderness to preach the gospel of love and to plant apple nurseries that should produce orchards for the pioneers. The historical dramalogue written on events in the life of Johnny Appleseed has been prepared by William A. Duff, founder of the Johnny Appleseed society in which 1,200 boys and girls are enrolled. The School of the Air programs

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start at 12:30 p. m„ the week's program follows: Monday '‘Personal Hygiene— Keeping Health and Happy;" health talk, for upper grades. Dr. E. B. Hayhurat, consultant, division of Industrial hygiene. Current events, for upper grades and high school. Harrison Sayre. "Johnny Appleseed," history dramalog. School of the Air Players. Tuesday Course in aeronautics, provided by The Otiggenheim Foundation for the advancement of aeronautics. "Fog Warning." iWinslow Homer), art appreciation. Dr. Henry Turner Bailey. "Civil Government by Those Who Govern.” Wednesday Stories, for first, second and third grades, kindergartners of Cincinnati schools. Stories for fourth, fifth and sixth grades. Schuster Martin School of Drama. Plays and playlets, for seventh and eighth grades, the Juvenile Players. Thursday Drama for high schools, Schuster Martin, Stuart Walker Players. Geography. Dr. W. R. McConnell, Miami university. SCHOOL SHOWS MOVIES Educational Pictures, Music on Thursday Programs. Educational motion pictures are shown every Thursday morning at 8:15 at School 85. During the changing of reels, the school audience sings or is entertained by musical numbers given by the glee club, or individual students.

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INVITE PARENTS TO INSTITUTE AT PURDUE U, Session on April 29. 30 and May 1 Will Take Up Child Problems. In co-operation with the Indiana Parent-Teacher Association, the school of home economics of Purdue university is arranging a parents’ institute to be held at Lafayette, April 29. 30 and May 1. The program will be concerned with problems of children. Among speakers will be Mrs. Helen B. Paulsen, the "Mother Goose Lady" of Chicago; Mrs. Robert E. Cavanaugh of Indiana university; Dr Thurman Brooks Rice of Indiana university, and Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer of the state board of health. Purdue university faculty members who will take part in the program are Professor O. F. Hall and Dr. G. C. Brandenburg of the department of education: Professor Laura Partch and Dr. Marguerite Mallon of the instructional staff of the school of home economics, and Miss Neva Stephenson of the Boys and Girls Club division. Registration will begin Monday, April 29, at 11 a. m. Mrs. Homer J. Miller, president of the Indiana Parent-Teacher Association, will dLscuss, at the morning session, the aims and objectives of a parent's institute. A dinner will be given Monday night in the home economics lunchroom and Mrs. Cavanaugh will speak on “Never Too Late to Learn.” The welcoming address will be given by Dean Carolyn E. Shoemaker, dean of women, Purdue university. Persons desiring rooms in West Lafayette during the meeting should write to Miss Mary L. Matthews, home economics building, Purdue university, Lafayette. Spring Pageant at Sehool 39 A spring pageant, suggested, written costumed, cast and produced entirely by 3A and 4B students of School' 39. was a part of the school program to develop creative ability in the pupil. School 26 Pupils Plan Circus The primary grades of School 26 arc planning to give a circus May 3.