Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1930 — Page 16

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LOCAL P. T. A. CROUP TO HEAR TALK ON PEACE Several Meetings Arranged for Next Week by Organization. Patriotism will be the subject at the February meeting of the Brookaide Parent-Teacher Association at school No. 54 East Tenth and Dearborn streets, Wednesday. The principal address will be ‘'Patriotism in Time of Peace.” by .Jesse Martin. Music by the Mothers’ chorus of school No. 3. at 23 North Rural street, will feature the program. Several other Indianapolis ParentTeacher meetings have been announced for the coming week. Mies Florence Lanham will address P. T. A. of school No. 28 Thursday. Pupils will entertain with a special program. Fathers’ night will bp observed by the Parent-Teacher members of school No. 48, at 7:30 Wednesday. A musical program will be followed by an address by Dr. O S. Jacquith on “Preventive Medicine.” Pupils will appear in a patriotic program and dances. William H. Ecton will speak on **The Criminal Text Book,” at a meeting at school No. 31 Tuesday at 2:30. Pupils of the 6 A and 6 B grades will entertain. Marion Bunton and Jimmy Kohl will appear in the “Fussy Cat.” Dr. Helen Langner will discuss “Child Behaviour at the P. T. A. meeting of school No. 18 at 3:15 Thursday. Parent - Teacher members of school No. 80 will entertain with a Jitney supper from 5 to 7 Friday. A colonial program will be presented at school No. 62 at 2 Thursday. The Mothers’ chorus, directed and Mrs. C. S. Cox will sing. with Mrs. Jessie Bardach, accompanist. Mrs. U. B. Hir.e will read and Mrs. C. S. Cox will sing Hostesses for the meeting will be Mrs. N. Prater, Mrs. T. Neal, Mrs. F. Btallard, Mrs: L. Warner, Mrs. C. Mitten and Mrs. G. Lyday. The Kendall Dramatic Club will give a play entitled, “Fun in a Theatrical Troupe." at school No. 62. Feb. 27 and 28, under auspices of the P. T. A SCHOOL 16 PRESENTED BUST OF LINDBERGH Eighth Grade Graduating Class Donor of Gift. Walls at school No. 16, Bloomington and Market streets, were brightened this week by addition of a large bust of Colonel Charles A. Lindberg to the collection of schoolroom adornments. * The bust was presented by the 8A graduating class at commenceffiient exercises last week as a clast memorial. Virgil Fisher, member ot the' class, made the presentation speech. Members of the class were Raymond Bly, Thelma Biech. Alfretta Boone. Major Cook. Virgil Fisher, Max Glaze Edith Hooser. Maude Houchins, Arthur O'Brien, Elizabeth Slusher, John Stafford, Jeanette Taber, Adela Tanner, Mildrc-J Washburn, Nellie Wilson, Billy Blithers and Howard Woodward. P. T. A. GIVES RADIO Pupil' Use Device for Exercises and Special Programs. Parent-Teacher Association members of school No. 13. Noble and Buchanan streets, recently installed a radio for pupils. The radio was placed in the school auditorium and is used for auditorium exercises and special programs. One hundred and fifty pupils listened to the dramatization of Christopher Columbus’ life over the American School of the Air, Tuesday. Miss Corimie Rielag is principal, and Mrs. E. M. Fullenwider is P. T. A. president.

Shortridge

BY JAMES STEWART Additions to the Shortridge high school faculty, recently announced. Include Miss Grace Maude Custer, mathematics; Miss Helen Smith, history, and Miss Louise Reiter, foreign language. A group of Shortridge high school graduates recently attended a graduate dfhner given by the John Herron Art Institute. They included Marjory Williamson. Lois Sherrill, Jeanette Waughtell. Elizabeth Etamm, Verna Wysong, Marjorie Mann. June Woodworth. Bonna Lees. Flora Walters, Alice Dimmick. Josephine Bifminger. Joy Wyant. Gauden Bohme. Virginia Waller. Helen Briggs. Edna Shover. Elsie Long. Constance Forsyth and Evelyn Forsyth. French classes at Shortridge have obtained phonograph records of French poems and songs for use in teaching pupils correct rhythmn in pronunieation. Mrs. Florence C. Porter, domestic science teacher, has announced the domestic science classes netted $lB3 profit in a recent cake sale. Proceeds will be donated to the Shortridge organ fund. Julian Kennedy. Shortridge pupil, is one of five representatives from city high schools who are in charge of H.-Y club initiatory work in this district. Pupils in advanced shorthand class are preparing a play based on life in a business office, to be presented under direction of Miss Helen Frances Starr, Shortridge graduate. James Funkhouser is chairman of the junior vaudeville this year. Tryouts will be held soon, it is announced. Freshmen girls will be "mertained next week by the True Blue Club. comprising Shortridge upper-class girls. Mrs. Della Thompson, dean of girls, is sponsor.

Boys Given Chance to Show Talent

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Evidence that every pupil has a talent for a particular vocation if you only find the right job for him is demonstrated in success of the opportunity classes at Lew Wallace school, Capitol and Thirteenth streets, where vocational work is taught boys who do not care for regular book subjects. These boys, in completely equipped shops, study woodwork, mechanics, and other vocations. They are pictured with some of their work, above, back row left to right, they are: Donald Cox, Earl Brackett, Ardus Brown, and Frank Chambers: front row, Harold Ulrey, Gene Hiensley. and Harry E. Rash. Frank Chambers is demonstrating method of cutting a figure with the shop band saw in the lower photo.

LIBRARY SHOWS CREATIVE WORK Art, Literary Pieces Among Articles Exhibited. Creative ability is being encouraged in school children through a campaign launched co-operatively by the Indianapolis public library and the art department of city schools. An exhibit of art work and literary pieces demonstrating outstanding creative effort is being shown this month at the teachers’ horary in the school office building, Market and Meridian streets. Several public schools contributed art pieces for the exhibit, arranged under direction of Miss Florence Fitch, art supervisor of city schools. Publications put out by the different schools are being shown by library authorities along with numerous pamphlets and books relating to the subject of self-expression. Included in the exhibit are wall plaques by pupils of school No. 44, and special types of art by pupils of schools No. 73 and No. 41. Outstanding in the exhibit is a puppet show, a stage setting with actors made of wood, prepared by pupils of school No. 3. The puppet show idea originated with Charles Herman, pupil of school No. 3. He was assisted by Mary Caldwell, Dorothy Haas, and Isabelle Wright in making the scenery. Pupils wrote a play to go with the show. The exhibit is open to the public. CITY SCHOOL PUPILS HELP PORTO RICANS Shortridge to Aid in Answer to Appeal for Funds. Indianapolis school pupils are being given opportunity to help school children of Porto Rico. Shortridge high school is planning to send aid. Gifts from Shortridge are to be sent as St. Valentine’s day remembrances tb Porto Rico. George Buck, Shortridge principal, recently received a letter from Gratia A. Countryman, school secretary in Porto Rico, asking help. Governor Theodore Roosevelt cabled this message to the United States: ‘‘We need help desperately. Thousands of children have but one small meal a day. These future American citizens are suffering more than any other children under the American flag.” SKATING PARTY SLATED Girl Reserves Will Sponsor Event at Community House. Girl Reserve members at school No. 30, 40 North Miley avenue, will sponsor a skating party at Hawthorne Community house, 2440 West Ohio street, Saturday, Feb. 15. Skating will begin at 7 p. m. and last until 9. Miss Eula Blake is sponsor of. the group, which is headed by Irene Elliott, reserve leader.

Technical

BY RYAN HALL A rector scholarship to De Pauw university has been awarded Vom Ochiltree. January <1930) graduate. He has been pledged to Delta Chi fraternity. Frank Reissner has been appointed sergeant-at-arms of the Senior A class, to fill the position left vacant by Wayne Murphy, who is entering Butler university. Post-graduates of Tech have organized and e’tcted Howard Campbell president. Other officers are Louise Troy, vice-president; Mildred Miller, secretary; James Goulding, treasurer: William Hopper, ser-geant-at-arms. Members of the vocational dressmaking dess, under direction of Miss Hazel Barrows, are taking orders for dresses to gain practical experience in dressmaking.

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School Activities Are Controlled by Pupils

Council Organized by Class Members Supervises Playground, Government by pupils in playground and other activities at Benjamin Harrison school, 710 North Delaware street, where much of the responsibility usually borne by teachers is assumed by a council of pupils. Richard Middleton is president of the council of twenty-eight pupils, two representatives from each grade room. Other officers are Morris Murphy, vice-president; June Deupree, secretary; William Boyd, judge of the court, and Meredith Westerfield, court clerk. Meetings are held weekly under direction of Miss Wilma Hession, sponsor. Council members supervise playground games, help keep school ground clean, and manage other school activities. Members of the council from upper grades are Louise Colbert, Frank Coleman, Marjorie Mayfield, Ethel Hedge, Kenneth Miller, William Boyd. Mavilla Rainey, Richard Middleton, Morris Murphy, June Deupree, Harold Stephenson, Mary Ann Berger, Mary Dehne, Dorothy Green, Edward and Leroy New, Virginia Smith, Eugene Hensley, Elizabeth Hurd, Earl Parke and Meredith Westerfield. Primary representatives are June Saunders, Jack Auman, Doris Lewellen, Ralph Canter, Rosemary Smith, Robert Shaub, Bertha Gray, Carl Hoffman, Mildred Vanstan, and William Utterback.

R. 0. T. C. News

Washington high school has increased enrollment in its R. O. T. C. unit. Approximately 300 cadets now are enrolled. Technical high school’s rifle team recently was defeated by the Pennsylvania railroad team at the Penn rifle range. The Tech team is preparing to enter the Fifth corps area match. Wilford Maschunyer, former cadet in the Manual high school unit, has been appointed a cadet in the army air service, and will report at Riverside, Cal., for training next month. He was cadet captain while at Manual. Cadet officers at Crispus Attucks have announced a list of awards to be given to privates and noncommissioned officers making best records in R. O. T. C. work this year. Robert Storms has been elected president of the Crispus Attucks honorary guards. Cadet Captain C. Anderson is vice-president. Advanced classes in military science and tactics and special infantry drill will be held by the Shortridge Rifles, honorary R. O. T. C. unit, this semester. Midwinter enrollment in R. O. T. C. has exceeded the quota allotter Indianapolis high schools, according to Major Thomas E. Mathro. professor of military science and tactics in city schools. More than 100 boys have applied for entrance into units, but must await vacancies. CL 0 CKTELLSA L LTIM E A clock that will tell the time in all parts of the world ticks away the hours at school No. 27. Park avenue and Seventeenth street. The clock is a gift of the school’s Parent-Teacher organization, and was presented to • the school this year in honor of Miss Alice O'Hair principal. ,

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OBSERVE FOUNDING Parent-Teacher Groups to Celebrate Feb. 17. Parent-Teacher Association members throughout the United States will participate in Founders’ day ceremonies, Feb. 17, celebrating the thirty-third anniversary of the national congress of parents and teachers. Local P.-T. organzations, allied with the national association, will observe the day. IPree-will gifts will be collected at the ceremonies to aid extension work of P.-T. A. in the state and nation. Funds raised in Indiana will be applied to field service and district work in this state.

Broad Ripple

BY FRANCES COFFEE. Members of the Commercial Ripplets Club will be entertained at a Valentine party Thursday. Bessie Ryan, club president, is in charge of arrangements. A science club has been organized at Broad Ripple for pupils in the chemistry, physics and botany classes. L. P. McGhehey is faculty sponsor. Vance Waggoner has been chosen to represent the school in the state high school discussion contest. He also will participate in the Indiana State Bar contest, together with Thomas Wilmeth, also of Broad Ripple. Boys’ and girls’ student councils of Broad Ripple are arranging a joint program to be presented before the Broad Ripple Parent-Teacher Association. New officers of the Zoys’ Glee Club include Marion Martin, president; Russell West, secretary-treasurer; Robert Kelly, historian; Williamson Hardin, sergeant-at-arms.

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MUSEUM OPENS ANNUAL JUNIOR MEMBER DRIVE Trophies to Be Awarded Schools Reporting Best Records. Fourth annual junior membership enrollment of the Children's museum opened this week and will continue throughout February. The museum is supported by membership fees and donations. Last year 8.200 children of the city became members. Fee for children is 25 cents a year, with adults paying from sl, for ordinary membership, to SIOO annually, as benefactors. The museum Is less than five years old and was founded by Mrs. John N. Carey, in whose former home the museum Is housed at 1150 North Meridian street. At the time of its foundation, there were only two other such institutions in America, but recent statistics show that the movement has grown until now there are twenty-one children’s museums. Miss Florence H. Fitch, art supervisor of public schools, is chairman of the junior enrollment. When John Philip Sousa, band leader, last visited Indianapolis he gave a large silver loving cup to be awarded annually to the public school securing the largest porportionate number of museum members. School No. 66 now holds the cup. A similar cup, known as the Founder’s cup, will be awarded the private or parochial school making the best record in proportion to its enrollment. Tudor Hall now holds the cup. A junior board of directors will be chosen by schools witfc the best membership record during February, in eight school districts of the city. CHILDRENHEAR SCHOOL RADIO Studio, Broadcast System Operated by Teacher. Talks in the form of radio programs are used in giving instruction in better English, hygiene, traffic rules and other subjects at school No. 49. Pupils tune in daily at 9:15 a. m. on station WSBE, Room No. 23. This room has been transformed into a typical studio for the purpose of broadcasting oral English lessons. Occasionally, special programs are given by pupils. At the broadcasting hour pupils assemble in the room and listen to the talk, given by the teacher, radio announcer. Plans are for some of the pupils to give talks as soon as the system is instituted fully. The class is preparing a banner bearing the motto, “We Speak Better English,” and boys have made a toy microphone for the studio. Teachers say this novel method of instruction is interesting pupils in oral composition.

Washington

BY MARSHALL SMITH Civic Quest Club members met at the school Monday and arranged to hold a Valentine’s party. Several members who presented a program included Doris Wilson, Marcella Beaman, Herbert Crouse, Ruth Fitzwater and Margaret Schoen. Appointment of the usher hospitality committee is announced by Mrs. Ina S. Gaifl, dean of girls. Members of the committee are Maryland Bay, Shirley Harvey, Mary Lucille Traeger, Jeanette Wolf, Ray Allen and Marshall Smith. ART WORK IS EXHIBITED Designs by Grade Pupils Displayed at School Headquarters. Work of Indianapolis elementary school art pupils during the last term now is on public exhibition in the art department at city school offices, Ohio and Meridian streets. Art supervisors picked the best pieces from each grade school. The exhibit includes art panels made by pupils, illustrated literature, geography and history. Drawings made by art supervisors also are being displayed to show the type of work that pupils will be doing during coming months.

Bedroom Paxine Built

It is with a contagious smile that Paxirte St. Helens, a sophomore at Technical high school, demonstrates a model bedroom constructed by herself, the idea for which she got in an English class, reading Hawthorne's “House of Seven Gables.”

Study of Geography Is Made Easy at School 66

Slides, Phonograph. Radio Used in Visual System of Instruction. Study of geography has anew charm the way it is presented to pupils at school No. 66, 604 East Maple road, by Mrs. Adelia Brier, who purposes to take the dullness out of the subject. Like the magic touch of Midas, the new methods of teaching change otherwise disinterested pupils into lovers of latitudes and longitudes. Approximately 230 pupils are enrolled in geography courses of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The sixth grade now is using Indiana as a model in studying countries of Europe. Typography, products, industries and size of a faraway land are made realistic to the pupil by comparing them with similar features in Indiana. The phonograph and radio also are used so that pupils may become acquainted with the music of other countries. Friday is movie day for the geography classes. The teacher conducts an object review of the week’s work by using visual education slides, presenting the geographical features in pictures. Examination at the end of the

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course is replaced with special reports by all pupils. This is known as the world conference when pupils dress in costume of peoples of whom they have made special study and give short talks concerning different countries. The next project to be tried, according to Mrs. Brier, will be a sight-seeing trip through the United States. This is to be done with highway maps, each pupil taking an intra-state highway and studying geography of states along the route. MUSICAL ACTIVITIES ENGAGE SCHOOL 27 Choruses Organized; Orchestra of 12 Includes Three Pianists. Musical activities hold the interest of 129 pupils, who take part in choruses at school No. 27, Park avenue and Seventeenth street. Mrs. Erma Patterson, music teacher, recently organized an orchestra of twelve members, which is preparing to play for ParentTeacher meetings and other school programs. Three members of the chorus, Mildred Hume, Charles Bailey and Mildred Jeanette Sellers, are pianists and serve as accompanists for the mixed chorus.

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RADIO BRINGS SCHOOL PUPILS HISTORY SKETCH Local Institutions Receive First of Education Air Series. Lessons in history and literature were brought to approximately 15.000 Indianapolis school children this wrek through first, of the American School of tho Air series over WFBM, in a hookup with fortyeight stations of the Columbia Broadcasting system. City elementary and high schools are installing radio sets and many city schools are using this method ' of instruction. Bi-Weekly Broadcasts The nation-wide radio broadcasting educational campaign, with 5.000 schools co-operating, was launched Tuesday. Programs will be broadcast Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the next fifteen weeks. ; The federal radio commission and leading educators throughout the \ nation are co-operating in the first j attempt to develop possibilities for i extending education through radio > broadcasts. First Program The first program, heard by Indianapolis pupils Tuesday, was a dramatization of life and deeds of , Christopher Columbus, and a series of literary’ myth and folk tales : were presented Thursday. A faculty of fifteen educators, headed by ; Dr. William C. Bagley of Columbia ; university, will criticise and edit the ; programs. In some city schools, one set. has | been installed in the principal’s office | with loud speaker in all the class \ rooms of sixth, seventh and eighth grades. I The next broadcast will be a Sir Walter Raleigh program. The Tues- | day series will be devoted entirely to j history. PUPILS GIVEN HOME CONTEST MATERIALS Five Major Prizes Offered in Two Classes By Realtors. Fred W. Palmer, chairman of the miniature model house contest committee, is visiting city schools this week with materials for pupils who will compete in the contest to be held in connection with the annual Realtors’ Home Complete Exposition at state fairground, April 5 to 12. The contest Is divided into two classes, one for grade school pupils and one for high school pupils. Five major prizes are offered in each class as follows: First, $35; second, $25; third, sls; fourth, $lO, and fifth. $5. In addition, ten prizes of $1 each will be given for ten l next best models submitted.