Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1949 — Page 51

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MONDAY, OCT. 17, 1949 Schools—

Students at Howe High May Find Their School Classed as Second-Rate

Downgrading May Come About if 55-Minute Classes Aren't Instituted By CARL HENN STUDENTS at Howe High School may find themselves attending an institution classed as second-rate by the Indiana State Ba of Bducation next fall. ; ow credi with first-class standing, along with all other Indianapolis high schools, Howe may be lowered one step if 55minute tlass periods are not universal there by September, 1950, according to Dean E. Walker, state superintendent of public/one, according to Principal Rusinstruction. sell A. Lane. This action, in turn, could mean, “wp gare moving up gradually,”

expulsion of the school from “ membership in the North Central|"® 53id. “Last semester we had

Association of Secondary Schools Pine 40-minute periods. This seand Colleges, a self-policing and mester we have five 45-minute peaccrediting group, and a loss of|riods and three 50-minute periods. prestige in the educational world. we intend to change to seven 55-

A lesser possibility exists that! i Arsenal Technical and Crispus|™ ute Periods by fall, 1950.

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Attucks High Schocls could undergo the same down grading by the state, and for the same) reason. | » ” ® AS EXPLAINED by Mr. Walk-| er, a board ruling requires that|

Indianapol high schools already have adopted the recommended class routine Their first-class commission by the state board is not endangered. State Supt. Walker declined to sy that any action would be en immediately against Howe:

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Activities Appeal Various Classes To All Ages Offered Members “Pro-om-en-ade! Koster went from one set to the “Gents to the center and back other, instructing them in the 0 The DAS, thE rr ams : movements of the next dance, “Ladies cen form and putting them through their a star with a right hand cross. paces beforehand. “Ladies swing out and the gents When she was satisfied that swing in, and form that Arizona everyone knew what it was alll Star again. “Everybody swing! her mike, gave the signal “Promenade! for the music to start, and

“Meet your honey and come on home!” It was the voice of Mrs. Norma Koster directing the swinging and do-ci-doeing of a group of couples dance held in the . Mrs. Norma Koster dancing time to the lively old tunes played |integral part of the recreational by a three-piece orchestra on the life of the people. stage. | s = =

Chest. a» | 3 Clubs, classes and all forms of| “YHEY'RE always livelier on, SCHOOLS stoptel Sauats SonC

athletics are offered to every age a stormy night,” Mrs. Koster ex-| “ » group. Included in the program plained. ET re Tie Yale Of ay panty games, | are classes in dramatics, singing, sician helpers, Marcia Quinlan, th or h app 5 civic and social studies as well who plays the piano; Jessie Spen-| Je a oy a ans ul year as the square dances which give cer, a grandfatherly man who p80 en po Md the y the adults so much pleasure and plays the fiddle, and Jim Man-| Dackwoods Bt muse remy healthy exercise. |ning, a young fellow with a pretty| urday. As Mrs. Koster, recreational wife who goes along to keep him| They invented these play party director for the Indianapolis Park company while he plays his guitar §ames, and stepped them off to Board, directed the dance, couples and harmonica. : |the clapping singing of nonstepped from their places, swung| At the end of intermission, the| Participants un enterprising each other about, circled around dancers rearranged themselves in|fiddlers saw a chance to be useeach other, and promenaded in! six sets of three couples each. Mrs. ful. Courting was a popular side - — issue of these dances.

Association is an agency of the Community

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about, she hopped up on the stage, crowd of veterans ordered out

Of Tyndall Towne

“Get out and don’t come back.”

With these words, an angry

Follow Bill-Passers One veteran, Robert R. Cooper, 190-A~ Forrester St, saw the pamphlet left at his door and went out to pick it up. When he read the contents, he went to the

settlement and organized a group to follow the bill passers. His group followed after the bill-passers, picking up the pamphlets they had left. Before they

all Indiana high schools must/and other schools in ihe svent they overran the de e. e have adopted a daily routine of sald ‘each school would retain its seven 55-minute class periods bY first-class standing until inspec-

eo IS Luther Flora, ident of the Airliner Loses Trans-Ocean iu, fm president of thelever, they learned another group

could catch up with the trio, how-

{that is on sale during intermis-|{told them not to return.

September of 1950 to retain their first-class commission standing. | “It was decided upon by the

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board in order to give students|; neq) to the state board for spe-

longer and better teacher super-|cja] consideration and could be their given exemption because of con-

vision of recitations in classes and the opportunity to do; more and better work in school,” | Mr. Walker said. Howe High School now has

nine class periods a day, each of dents would be penalized, the

which runs 42 minutes, according to Principal Charles M. Sharp. Mr. Sharp said the recommended routine has been impossible to adopt at Howe up to this time because the school lacks sufficient

tion was made by the state. Even after an inspection was made, Mr. Walker revealed, the school would have the right to

ditions impossible to overcome. Being reduced from first to sec-ond-class rating by the state does not mean that graduating stu-

state superintendent said. The still would be accredited toward entry into colleges and universities. Accreditation from the North Central Association of Secondary

Schools and Colleges, however,

Race With Stork—It's a Ro |sions, and generally directs activY ities. Other workers in the club SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland, Oct. 17 (UP‘—An American Were also on hand, Frank Hopper, Overseas Airlines’ Constellation left New York with 38 passengers the executive director, and Miss yesterday and arrived here today with 39 after losing a race with Esther Benjamin, who directs acthe stork. tivities of women and children. Mrs. Darink Parker of New York, wife of an American Soldier They were all most enthusiastic stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany, gave birth to a four-pound son about the Yalge of fun and Soup 12:3¢ a. m. (Indianapolis| activities of a recreation ) hres ay the Constellation’s crew (b" Hed down the gangplank from for adults and children alike in compartment. plane. their Community Center.

U. 8. Air Force officials at| As the part ssed The baby was born while the Wiesbaden identified Mrs. Park- voice of Py Totter atied — plane was still 400 miles from e's husband as M/Sgt. James C. and again:

The manager of Tyndall Towne said the trio had not asked. his office for permission to distribute the handbills,

OES Official to Visit

A dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday by the Prospect chapter, OES, in the Prospect Masonic Temple will include an official visit from Lucille Geyer, Worthy Grand Matron, at 7:45 p. m, Harold Daringer, worthy patron, and

Shannon and 5000 feet above the Parker of Alderson, W. Va. an| * " Atlantic. It was believed to be|electronic specialist. 5 Swing a Parte! the first air birth in history on | se a + a trans-Atlantic plane.

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classroom space and is cramped in shop and music facilities. Virgil Stinebaugh, Indianapolis superintendent of schools, said Standing Na Jost ly penalizing the city board was aware of the gi ante it would be a blow to need for expansion at Howe, but|iye school’s standing. that there were “a good many «In that case, you've lost your i's and uncertainties about itleqyucational status, like someone and there is a long while yet to/who loses his social status,” Howe > Principal Sharp said. “The school At Arsenal Technical Highlis no longer a member of a select School, Principal H. H. Anderson group with the highest standrevealed that his school presently ards.” is operating on a schedule of S————— — nine 45-minute periods a day, and 9 will continue to do so through the Clyde McCoy ’ Band spring suester, To Play at Roof e y expect to change 1 « r over to the required schedule DY pa a® MeCoy and his Sugar next fall. I don’t know how we'll 1ndiana Roof for do it, but it's orders, and we're Wednesday, Oct. 26, and the folgood soldiers) a lowing week-end, Oct. 28, 29 and 30. EXPERIMENTAI schedules Mr. McCoy recently reorganhave been tried at Crispus At-|ized his orchestra after several

could be withheld froin the school in the event first-class

tucks High School in order to|years retirement from the music|as lustily as any when he and his |

make the changeover a gradual world.

both mother and son were reported “doing well” at the airport {hospital here. Radio Tells Story The story was told in radio mess. ges before dawn today from| the piane’s pilot, Capt. John Hen-| nessy of Newton, Mass. “A passenger aboard appears] to be in labor,” Capt. Hennessy radioed. Request have doctor | available at Shannon. We have a doctor aboard to assist if] neceszary.” | “rew members 10 minutes later carricd Mrs. Parker into their compartment. She was attended by Dr. I'red Henschel of New| York, a passenger, and hostess Mary Jane Hinckley of Melville, N. J., a registered nurse. ! Airlines officials, a doctor and an ambulance met the plane here. | The baby was born prematurely | {at 712 months. However, he cried |

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