Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 18

Parent-Teacher Activities The delegates to the National Parent-Teacher Association in Aus- tin, Tex., returned Wednesday morn- ing. They report an interesting and successful convention. One of the keynotes sounded at the convention v haracter training for boys and A daily chart is kept by the child, and at the end of a certain number of weeks the chart is signed by the parents and teacher. There are 13 daily exercises on character building for the child; doing 50 or more exercises each week is counted toward a title. The annual reception and enter- tainment of the Peal.ody-Hilton A soclation was held Tuesday evening, with Mrs. Lady, president, presiding. The glee club, composed of 60 boy sang four songs. grades also sang. Harry Stull, rep- ' Mrs. The Hecht Co. |resentative of the advisory council to the District Commissioners, made an address. Miss M. G. Young, prin- cipal of the school, also gave a brief talk. Mrs. Lipscomb is chairman of the luncheon to be held May 21. The sixth grade, Mrs. Moore, teacher, won the attendance banner. The Mary Taliferro Thompson As- sociation will hold a business meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, at 1322 Ver- mont avenue, and later elect officers. The Thomas P. Morgan School As- sociation met April 28 at 2:45 p.m. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley presided. Mrs. Bannerman spoke on the platoon sys- tem, giving an account of the organi- zation and history of this mode of education. The following officers were The two eighth | elected to serve for the ensuing vear: Harvey W. Wiley, president; F St. at 7th Mrs. F. E. Wright, vice president; Miss M. Moore, secretary; Mrs. W. Kochenderfer, treasurer, and Mrs. k. R. Oliver and Mrs. V. Kelsey, dele- gates to the District of Columbia Parent-Teacher Congress. Committee chairman were appointed as follows: Membership, Mrs. S. Johnston; entertainment, Miss B. Kent; re- freshment, Mrs. Mrs. C. H. Willi eighth grade assisted Mrs. Tompkins in serving tea. Hine Junior High School Associa- tion, at a recent meeting, was enter- talned by the music department, under the direction of Miss H. W. Merriam, and by Miss McIntosh’s Dra matic Club. In addition to selections rendered by the orch ilee Club and the G solos were renderad by Dorothy Lin- ger, Richard Mudd and Harry Schon- rank. Catherine Parner, Dorothy Chandler, Ruth Woody and Leila Dyer gave the sketch, “Mrs. Brown's Visitors,” for the dramatic club. R. K. Middleton, president of this asso- ciation, and Mrs. Middleton have just The Hecht Co. > | Olive Keith will give a talk on “Music WASHINGTON, completed a large model of an ideal plant for the institutional care of de- pendent children. This will be ex- hibited throughout the United States by the United States Bureau of Edu- cation. The monthly meeting of the Tenley wssociation was held at the school May 4, with the president, Mrs. Way, pre. siding. After a brief business meet. Ing. a play entitled “‘A Trip to Health- land,” was given by the nutrition clinic assisted by the seventh grade under the direction of Miss M. D, Riggles, teacher. Seven A and six B grades, Miss Hutchinson, teacher, had the most mothers present. The Maury association will meet to- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the Fp- worth M. BE. Church South. Miss Avpreciatiol T program will be furnished by the Kin- dergarten Band. Refreshments will | be served. - | presided. The Bryan association will meet in the assembly hall of the Friday at 7:30 p.m. Business of im- portance will be transacted. Repre- sentative Calb Powers of Kentucky will be the speaker of the evening and entertainment will be furnished by pupils of the scho The Johnson-Powell-Bancroft asso ciation will hold an election of officers for the coming year next Wednesday at 2 pm. in the Powell School. All members are urged to attend. An open discussion on ““Good Manners for Chil- dren” will follow the business meeting. Representatives of the Parent-Teach- er Association to the Juvenile Protec- tive Association will meet Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the headquarters, Vermont avenue northwest. The Thomas P. Morgan School as- sociation met April Mrs. Wiley Mrs. n spoke on the platoon s he organ- 1zation the hist interesting report on this mode of instruction. The May meeting of the Blair-Hayes assocfation will be held next Friday at 1000 | D. C, MAY 10, 1925—PART 2. school next |8 p.m. at the Good Shepherd Church, NEw JAPANESE ENVOY INSTALLED AT MOSCOW Sixth and I streets northeast. The annual election of officers will be held. Miss Bratton will demonstrate the Compton encyclopedia and there will be a speaker on musical appreciation. A musical program will follow and re- freshments will be served. The an- nual school luncheon will be held May 19 at the Blair School. | FAMOUS HOTEL CLOSES. Netherland, Facing Central Park, to Give Way to Apartments. NEW YORK, May 9 (A.F.).—The Hotel Netherland on Fifth «avenue, overlooking Lower Central Park, con sidered one of the city’'s finest hotels 35 years ago, closed its doors today. The building will be converted into stores and apartments. The hotel was owned by the Baron William Waldorf Astor _estate and sold a few months ago for $2.100,000 cash. F St. at 7th SILENCE LOSES HUSBAND. IAdmits Failing to Tell of Mater- Foreign Office at Tokio Advised ofi nity Before Marriage. Formal Seating of Ambas- By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May to Russia, was formally installed at | ¢/leved Moscow tod: Russian was received by the foreign -office. | Zayas Coming to U. S. HAVANA, fredo Zayas will lea family, West for New York, to months. to take 11 am. BROCKTON, Mass., May 9 (A.P.) — |In recovering her son, who had heen {lost to her since his infancy, Mra. rd Sturtevant of this! ed with her husband, on her return from where she said sha Woodward, held in il as the kidnape cille Chatterton s the child she sador Tanaka. 9.—Tekichi Tanaka el | Adaison by the Soviet government |of 1]t Word of the action of tne|Granville Eovernment seating Tanaka | et i nt Middlebury to he | Heights returned from home at Brockton ifter o two-day shand, t, was not at home, t he had lefi in 1901 a Mrs May ©.—President and later she They were 1 have five chi 2 ant has said that she failed to tell her hushane ! she had been a mother marriage. probably Ma; President-elect Machado is the oath of office May 20 at The Hecht Co. 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