Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1933 — Page 10

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RIPPLE SENIOR PLAY WILL BE GIVEN FRIDAY Margaret Hitchcock and Gordon Combs to Take Principal Roles. Gordon Combs, president of the senior class at Broad Ripple high, and Margaret Hitchcock, will play leading roles in the "Play Without a Name," Friday afternoon and night 4n the auditorium. Others who will take part in the play are: William Thompson, Helen Carrier, Frances Robishaw, Milo £aton, Harold James. Jack Klein, Harry Thain, John Butler, Loraze Brackett. Lucille Hamill, Wilda Hobson, Roberta Mikels and Russell West. Mrs. Winkle Is Sponsor Mrs. Earl Winkle, sponsor of the •enior class, is sponsoring the production. * The play originally was entitled Violets.” Ripple pupils, however, did not like the title and Several others were considered and then discarded. i Underclassemen at the school, Jvho will see the production at the friday matinee, will submit names tor the play. * K. V. Ammerman, principal, announced that the pupil choosing Jhe title "best liked” by the senior class, will be presented with an award. The award will be presented to the winner at the night performance. Combs will present the award. ‘ Stunts Advertise Play * { Members *of the graduating class jvill appear at the school Thursday Jn the old-fashioned clothes available. ' The idea of the novel dressing yras one of a series of stunts arranged by the school publicity cominittee to advertise the play. I Members of the publicity committee are: Norval Ayres, chairman; Paul Fleddcrjohn, Gladys Fry and Fred Kiser. Albert Kettler is faculty advisor for the publicity group. ‘LEGISLATURE’ i IS ORGANIZED * ♦ Public Speaking Classes at Tech High Study Procedure. Members of the four high public Speaking classes have been organized by Charles R. Parks, instructor into a junior state legislature, for the purpose of studying the principles of parliamentary law. * The procedure of the state legislature is followed closely, and pupils endeavor to pass bills. Most of the bills are those that have failed to pass in the state legislature. ; Officers chosen to preside over the various classes are: Charles Fisher, speaker: Victor Vollfath. speaker pro-tem: Dorothea West, secretary; Georee Miller and McCord Odleshv. clerks, and Harold Lone, ser-aeant-at-arms for the second hour group. . Lewis Voeler. speaker: John McAnallv. speaker pro tern: Alberta Hancock, secretary. Dale Smith and Dick DeTar. clerks. nd Frank NofTke. serncant-at-arms for the fourth hour group. * Hollister Gahan. speaker: John Flick. Speaker pro tem: Anna Bridges, secretary: Cuba Rae Flags and Roy Pope, clerks, and Herbert Hunt, sereeant-at-anns for the seventh hour group. . George Mcssmcr speaker; Harlan Craig, apeaker pro tem; Eleanor White, secretary; Gilbert Easlev and Robert Hickman, olerks. and Hubert Curtis, sergeant-at-arms for the ninth hour class. GRADE LUNCH TRAYS OF 3,000 AT TECH physical Education Class Conducts Work As Part of Health Week. 5 In connection with the nationwide observance of health week, members of the Tech high physical Education class conducted a ‘‘lunch grading." - Lunch trays of the more than 3.000 pupils who lunch daily at the school cafeteria were graded by sixty-five girls from the Physical education I class. ! Trays containing milk, a vegetable ®ther than potatoes, dessert or other substantial food were marked "A.” 'TREES OF INDIANA’ TO BE TALK TOPIC 4- B. Carr, Children’s Museum Di- } rector, to Address Science Class * A. B. Carr, director of the children's museum. 1150 North Meridian iftreet, will speak on “Trees of Indiana," at the closing general science class of the year, Saturday tfiorning at 9:30, at the museum. Jt will be the thirtieth class of the jjear. and will close five years’ work. * Robert Davidson, local artist, will Jive a colored chalk talk of costumes and need of transportation of European countries at 10:30. The silk will be open to pupils of all £hool grades, and adults. TRIBUTE PAID MOTHERS fVashington High Senior Girls I Group Conducts Program. * * The Washingtonians, senior girls’ organization at Washington high, today presented a Mothers' day program in the school auditorium. Paul C. Stetson. superintendent of schools, spoke. . Delores Easley, president of the Washingtonians, presided. Josephine Kennedy, gave a vocal solo, accompanied by the Girls’ Glee Club. The program closed with a •grayer for Mothers" by Margaret fommons. *RYTHM BAND' FORMED School 82 First Grades Organized for Music Week. I First grade pupils of School 82, at 4700 English avenue, recently organized a "rythm band” and played Several numbers during the celebration of music week. * Forty-six pupils in the room were equiped with home-made musical Instruments and played under the firection of 6-year-qld Glenna hompson. * J Talk Given On Spain 2"What Spain Really Wants," was <sscussed by Keith Shock at a reoent meeting of the Spanish Club at Tech high. Shock is a former president of the dub.

Spring Term Projects at School 5 Are Completed

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Upper, left to right—Dan Hood, Maurice Mitchell and Hilda Groover, and the miniature drug store at School 5. Lower—Preston Vilbert, with a Dutch windmill made by second grade pupils of School 5.

Miniature Drug Store and Dutch Windmills Built by Second, Third Grades. Second and third grade pupils at School 5, at California and Washington streets have completed their spring term projects. Following a trip to the Hook Drug Company commissary at 27 North California street, and a visit to Hook’s drug store at Senate avenue and Washington street, third grade pupils of the school, under the direction of Miss Bessie Rundberg constructed a miniature drug store. Materials for the construction of the “drug store” w r ere brought to the school by pupils. John Murphy, Clinton Thomas and Steve Kass were elected head carpenters. Each pupil participated in construction of the project. Furnishings were obtained from the Hook commissary. Dan Hood was elected “soda jerker” and Maurice Mitchell w'as appointed pharmacist. Second grade pupils of the school, following a study of life in Holland

MUSICAL PLAYLET TO BE PRESENTED Seventh Grade -Pupils at School 12 Present Program. “The Musical Ship," an eight-act musical playlet, will be presented to the public by the seventh grade pupils of School 12, at 733 South West street, at 8 tonight in the school auditorium, under the direction of Mrs. Hazel Callahan. Pupils in the playlet portray the parts of passengers aboard the "Musical Ship" starting on a voyage. Stops in Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain, with proper settings for each country have been arranged. Sophia Camhi. Henrietta Schwartz. Morris Pardo and Moses Levy, eighth grade pupils, will assist in presenting the production. The playlet will be presented later in the term for the benefit of other pupils at the school. WORK ON ROCK CHARTS School 54 Fourth Grade Pupils Gather Various Species. Fourth grade pupils of School 54, East Tenth and Dearborn streets, have been working on rock charts, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Aufderheide, teacher. The work was cojrelated with geography and nature studies, and started about six weeks ago. The pupils gathered rocks of various species, in Brookisde park and from gravel being used in building new homes in the city. Take Trip to Germany An imaginary trip to Germany, arranged by Thelma Coleman, chairman of the program committee, was featured at a recent meeting of the German club at Tech high.

last March, made Dutch windmills. Small windmills were made first, and then a larger one wsa made. The children were divided into working groups by Mrs. Jessie Dyar, teacher. Foremen selected for each division of wor were: Everett Harrell, lumber foreman; Henry Underwood, carpenter foreman; Bert Rainsford, painter foreman, and Preston Vilbert, paperhanger foreman. Blue and white curtains were made by girls in the class, with Emilia Tiplick and Mary Ellen Dillon as head seamstresses. Corrugated pa per boxes were cut into weather-boarding by pupils. A flower box was made by the carpenters, and filled with tulip bulbs which had been planted last fall. This was placed under one ot the windows in the windmill. The project is large enough for nine children to enter at one time, a crank was placed on the inside of it, in order that the paddles may be turned. The class has written a Dutch playlet, in correlation with their English studies, and will present it at an auditorium exercise, Friday, May 19.

TECH HIGH FORUM IS TO BE HELD THURSDAY Sixth of Parent-Teacher Discussion Series Is Scheduled. Sixth of a series of parent-teacher discussion forums at Tech high will be held at the school Thursday afternoon. The forums are under the direction of De Witt S. Morgan, principal, and are conducted by Miss Gertrude Thuemlsr, dean of girls. Topic for discussion at Thursday’s meeting will be “The Best Use of the High School Four Years for Pupils Not Planning to Go to College." PUPILS MAKE STORE Model Grocery Is Used as Aid in Arithmetic Lessons. Third grade pupi’s of School 82. at 4700 English avenue, recently completed a model grocery in their classroom, and have been using it as an aid in their arithmetic lessons. Two boxes brought by the pupils serve as shelves and a small bench takes the place of the counter.' Each child contributed empty cartons or pictures of fruits and vege-s tables. FIRE ALARMS DECLINE 92 Fewer Calls in April Than in Month Year Ago Reported. Decreases in the number of fire alarms and loss was shown Tuesday in the fire department report for April submitted to the safety board of Chief Harry Voshell. During the last month, there were 262 alarms, ninety-two less than for April, 1932. Loss last month was $27,000 against $36,898 in April, 1932. The department rescue squad made seventeen runs during the month, and gave first aid in five cases, and revived fifteen persons and two were dead on arrival of the squad.

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‘DRAMUSICAL’ IS DEDICATED TOJLK. LILLY Ducats for Two Performances Were Purchased at Price of One. Elmer Steffen, director of the Mendelssohn choir, has extended an invitation to Will F. Wise, head of the music department at Shortridge high, to give the premier presentation of anew “dramusical.” It is entitled “Following Foster’s Footsteps,” written by Gordon Balch Nevin, New York, and dedicated to J. K. Lilly, founder and builder of Foster Hall on Cold Spring road. First printed copies of the new production were donated by Nevin to members of the Shortridge girls’ gle club, and to Will F. Wise, Shortridge director of music, to whom the privilege of a first performance of the work has been extended. “The “dramusical” will be presented before the Shortridge faculty and student body, today and Thursday, in Caleb Mills Hall. Excerpts from the work wil be given at the final meeting of the P.-T. A., of the school, Tuesday night at 7:45.

P.-T. A. GROUPS WILLCONVENE National Convention Will Be Held at Seattle This Month. R\j Times Special SEATTLE, Wash., May 10—Delegates representing approximately 20,000 Parent-Teacher Associations in the United States will meet here, May 21 to 26, for the thirty-seventh annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Topic for discussion at the meetings will be “The Child and His Community." Relationships between, the community, the home, the school, and the responsibility in providing wholesome environment for children will be analyzed in conferences. Mrs. Hugh Bradford, national president, will call the first session to order at 1:30 Monday afternoon, May 22, in the Metropolitan theater. Formal opening ceremony will be preceded by three days of pre-con-vention activity, when business meetings of special committees, national committee chairmen, state presidents and the national board will be held. An informal demonstration of the mechanics and technics of parentteacher organizations will be given on the second day of the convention. National, state, district, council and local unit organization relationships will be demonstrated through discussion groups and discourse by national board members. NATURE STUDY CLUB CONTEST IS STARTED Annual Hunt for Flowers and Birds Is On. Members of the Nature Study Club at Tech high recently started their annual “flower people” and “bird people’’ contest. The club was divided into two groups, one being elected to search for various kinds of wild flowers and the other to look for species of birds. The flower group is leading at the present time, 59 to 54. The contest was inaugurated by Clare F. Cox, club sponsor. Pauline Dye records names of flowers, dates observed, and the person who reports the discovery. Marcella West keeps a similar calandar for the bird group. The contest first was started in 1927, and calendars of each group have been kept each year. The old calendars are being compared with the ones now being made.

'OPEN DAY' PLANS MADE AT MANUAL Visitors Will Be Welcome to All Classes. Plans for the annual Manual high “open day” to be held Friday, June 2, are being made under the direction of Bertram Sanders, assistant principal. Classes will be open to visitors. Shops, drawing and gym classes will remain open from 3:30 to 5:30. A ‘supper will be served at 6:30 in the .school lunchroom, preceding a style show to be presented in the auditorium at 7:30, by members of the clothing classes. They will model dresses and hats made by them during the current semester. A special feature of the day will be roll room exhibits representing the year’s work of each pupil. STETSON WILL TALK Superintendent of School to Give Address for P.-T. A. Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, will address the P.-T. A., of School 19, at 1635 East Palmer street, Tuesday afternoon. It is the last meeting of the year for the organization. The school will present an exhibit of art, academic, and shop work completed by the pupils this year. Special classroom programs will be offered in each room from 2:30 to 3. ORGANIZE SAFETY CLUB Washington High Movement Sponsored by School Principal. Washington high school, in cooperation wdth the National Council of Safety, has organized a safety club, under the sponsorship of Walter G. Gingery, principal. Officers of the new club are: Evereritt Wood, president; Robert Moffet, vice-president; Ida, Vance, secretary-, and Frank Randolph, treasurer. John Wiltermood will act as president pro tern, for the re- : mainder. of the current , semester.

Sixth Grade Pupils at School 82 Give Japanese Program at Assembly

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Left to Right—Edith Simmons, Mildred Corya, Leon Cahen, Hazel Stewart, and Charles Dobson.

Costumes Worn Illustrate Type of Clothing Worn in Island Empire. Sixth grade pupils of School 82, at 4700 English avenue, recently presented a Japanese program, illustrating the various types of clothing worn by the Japanese, before the intermediate assembly. Principal characters in the program and the parts they portrayed were: Charles Dobson, as the Japanese man; Leon Cahen, as the Japanese boy; Edith Simons, as the Japanese woman at home; Hazel Stewart as the Japanese woman on the street, and Mildred Corya, as the Japanese girl. Margaret Taylor, Corinne Mann and Edith Simmons presented several musical records, illustrating the music and compositions of Japanese people. Mildred Corya, Edith Simmons and Hazel Stewart presented a Japanese dance, displaying fans and dresses. Ernestine Woodson gave an illustrated talk on the homes and customs of the Japanese. Lantern pictures used by Ernestine in her talk were made by/the entire sixth grade class. Jack Henderson contributed an original poem about the children of Japan. The program was presented under the direction of Mrs. Anna Grollman, teacher. Costumes worn by the children were loaned from the visual education department, ‘Clothes Line’ Playlet Given “High School Clothes Line,” a playlet, was presented recently by pupils in the Home Economics Club of Tech. high. The girls wore clothes made in the home economics class.

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50 Ripple Honor Pupils to Be Guests at Banquet

Affair Tonight to Close Annual Roundup at School. Fifty honor pupils of Broad Ripple high school will be guests at 7:30 tonight at a banquet to be given at the school by the Ripple P.-T. A, as a conclusion to the “Ripple RoundUp” held today at the school. The pupils will be entertained at the banquet by their classmates, who will present several acts of entertainment. Robert Summers, a senior, will present a number of musical selections, accompanied by the school music department. James Hoggatfc will conduct a science demonstration and explain the use of modern electrical appliances. The dramatic arts class, taught by Mrs. Earl Winkle, and under the direction of Wanda Britton, will present several skits. Girls in Mrs. Stella Richardson's home economic class will model clothes made by them during the semester. Artis Dawson will conclude the exhibitions with a typing demonstration. Pupils to be honored tonight w T ere selected Monday at a meeting of the entire faculty of the school. Five divisions were considered in making selections. Numbers of pupils in each division to be honored are: honor roll, five; departmental activities, twenty; senior activities, eight; extra-curricular activities, ten, and athletics, six. Margaret Van Meter will be awarded a medal, given by the

Alliance Francais of Indianapolis, to the most outstanding pupil enrolled in French. Parents and friends of pupils at the school today viewed exhibits prepared by the pupils. Pupils in charge of exhibits were: Florence Vandermeulen, English; Ernestine Cline, mathematics; Marjory Davis, history; William Nelson, science; Margaret Albert, language; Wilda Hobson, commercial; Alice Remy, art, and home economics, Judith McTurnan. ELECT 7 JUNIORS TO ROINES MEMBERSHIP Annual Picnic of Manual Club Will Be Held on June 7. Paul Collester and John Nackenhorst, members of the Manual high school juniors recently were elected into the Roines Club, honorary senior organization at the school. Sven Hedegard, president of the club, recently was selected host at a luncheon which the club will give for members of the school’s track and tennis teams, at the close of the semester. The club will hold its annual picnic, June 7. Stamp Club Head Is Elected Betty Sullivan recently was elected president of the Stamp Club at Washington high school. Other officers elected were Betty Bamford, vice-president; Dorothy Puntney, secretary; Thomas Swindoll, treasurer and O. W. Nicely, sponsor.

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‘BARGAIN DAY' TICKETS SOLD TO TECHSHOWS Ducats to Two Disposed of for Price of One at Lunch Period. “Bargain day” was held at Tech high today during luncheon periods, when tickets for ‘”La Serenata," and "The Sketchbook of 1933” were sold for the price of one admission. “La Serenata," a three-act musical fantasy, will be presented by the girls’ glee club, under th direction of Mrs. Clanche H. Quirk. Friday night at 8. in the school auditorium. More than 150 pupils will take part in the production. Maxine Mertz and John Baker will play the leading roles. Other major characters will be Ruth Thompson, Henry Moffett, Joan McDermed. Charles Reed, Marjorie Byrum and William Hebert. The Tech Boys’ Concert Club, Tech concert orchestra and Tech Concert Club, with a group of pupils from voice classes at the school, will assist the girls' glee club in the production. A dancing chorus, composed of Eloise Harshbargcr, Alice St. Helens. Ruth Brullow, Ruth Stultz, Dorothy Davis, Anna Catherine Stewart. Marjorie Kasar, Juanita Kellar, Emma Putt, Pauline Ruth, Louise Clark. Virginia Hall. John Davis, Harold Woclf, John Atkinson, Bob Kickman, Edward Page, Earl Schull, James Westover, McCord Oglesby, William Robertson, Vernon Johnson, Edward Wischmier and Robert Jordan also will take part. “The Sketchbook of 1933,” a fif-teen-act all-student revue, will be presented Friday night, May 26, in the auditorium. SHORTRIDGE PUPILS WINNERS IN CONTESTS Place in Annual Competitive Projects Conducted by Purdue U. Six shortridge high school pupils won places in the annual junior and senior high school competitive projects held recently at Lafayette, under the sponsorship of Purdue university. Shortridge pupils who won places were Carl Sheidker, third place in first-year mechancal drawing; Rudy Makela, first and third places in advanced mechanical drawing; Charles Ward Jr. and Hugo Horner, third place in advanced mechanical drawing, and Elliott Scales and John Lowe, first and second places, respectively, in architectural rendering. Twelve schools competed in the contest. Shortridge placed sixth in school standing. P.-T. A. ro GIVE PARTY Public Card Affair to Be Held by Shortridge Group. The Shortridge high school P - T. A. is sponsoring a public card party to be given Tuesday afternoon at 2 in the Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Proceeds from the party will b used to help the association carry on its extensive student aid work.