Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 41

Parent-Teacher Activities All copy for this column must reach | structor in domestic science, presented | plano class, under Miss Crowley, played the State office, Rooms 501-3, N. E. A. | their work in the form of an exhibit. | Several numbers. Bullding, Sixteenth and M streets| porthwest, not later than first mail on Wednesday preceding the Sunday on which publication is desired Miss Bertie Backus, principal of the Alice Deal Junior High School and chairman of the Committee on Charac- Education in the schools, will be e featured speaker at the conference of the District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers, in Wilson Teachers’ College, at 8 p.m., December | 15. Her subject is “The Program of Obaracter Education in the School.” Miss Grace Myers, dramatic teacker in | the Park View School, will furnish dra- matic entertainment. Mrs. Cecll P. Clark, director of the music chorus of the congress, will lead in singing Christ- mas carols The Child Guidance Committee met December 2 in the N. E. A. building with Mrs. J. F. Hamaker, State chair- man, in charge. It was decided to change the date of meeting from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Wednesday. Mrs, Milton Otterback gave a talk on the Christmas party to be held at the Receiving Home. Miss Terrett, executive secretary of the Ju- venile Protective Association, and Mrs, | 4. M. Byler spoke Mrs. Ceclle P. Clark, director of music of the congress, is anxious to se- cure members for the parent-teacher | ehorus, which will rehearse the second Priday in each month. Mrs. Joseph N. Randa bership chairman Langley associatio president of the ad- dressed the class in acher work at ge Washington University Monday qvening. Tomorrow evening Mrs. O. G. Bankins, State chairman of inside publicity; Mrs, Walter S. Jones, State chairman of publications, and | Mrs. Edward R. Seal, State editor of the Sunday column, will speak State mem- Barse. The ehairman of program service announces the following associations have sent in their year's programs Keene, Key, John Burroughs, Benning, Park ~ View, Weightman, Langdon, Woodridge, Gordon Junior, Kingman- Plerce, George Truesdell, John Quincy | Adams, Shepherd, Tenley-Janney, | Whittier, Bowen-Greenleaf and Wheat- | ley. Programs must be in by January 1to gain credit for the honor roll Mrs. E. C. Rittue, State legislative ehairman, has called a_meeting of leg- islative chairmen for December 17 at 8 pm. at the Thomson School. Mrs. J. N. Saunders, State president ent Wednesday at the Juvenile ourt, assisting in the parent-teacher room, and also spoke at the meeting of the Thomson Association on Thursday evening. Mrs. Saunders was hostess at a silver | tea at her home on Tilden street, De- cember 4, for the benefit of the House Committee. She was assisted by Mrs. Oliver P. Bowjes, chairman, and the members of her committee. Mrs, | Emile Berliner and Mrs. Andrew Stew- | art presided at the tea tables. | Whittier. Miss Margaret Klein of the United Btates Children’s Bureau will talk on “Worthy Home Membership” at the | meeting of the Whittier Assoclation to- morrow at 2:30 pm. The reports of the teas given by the grade mothers, the | Guidance Hine Junjor. The Hine Junior High School asso- ciation will meet December 17, at m. Christmas music will be played y the Hine Orchestra under the di- rection of Miss Sprenkle and there will be singing of Christmas carols. Dr. Harold E. Wan th principal Paul Doerr, J. eck and George Spangler will speak Adams, The grade mothers, with their chair- man, Mrs. George Cornwell, were host- esses at a tea in the school December 4 A feature was monstration of completion of the Summer round- up. Nineteen children were presented with blue ribbons by Mrs. Roy Srygley She was assizied by the past president Mrs D. Rus Two membe: entertained crest at the midseason play Jacqueline Caswell and : Behren, two pupils of Miss Ellen Keni's fifth grade, under the direction of Miss Clara Stack, sang selections at the ceremony for the presentation of the American Forestry bronze medals at the New National Museum. The Adams group was well represented, winning 1 medal, 2 blue ribbons and 3 yellow ribbons. The study group, under Mrs. P. K Lawrence, met Tuesday ers’ room at the school The association met Monday ev Mrs. J. M. Rogers was elected first vil lent, Dr. Sinclair Bowen, was guest 25 High Jerry Von ning. The hospitality Mrs. Wil- liam Gill, w members of her committee and mothers from the seventh and eighth grades Members were requested to send fo the school old toys, where they will be reconditioned and passed on Christmas time by the thrift chair- man, Mrs. Karl Hubner, to those less fortunate. Among the guests were Miss Janet McWilllam, formerly supervising prin- cipal of the third division; Mrs. Ber- tha Eldred, associate chairman of home education of the District Con- gress, and 8. M. Ely, vice president of the District Congress. The prize of $2 and the pennant was won by Miss Lanman’s seventh grade. Shepherd. The Alexander R. Shepherd asso- ciation will meet December 17 at the home of Mrs. N. J. Gould Wickey, 7516 Sixteenth street, with Mrs. J. J. Trav- land and Mrs. R. E. Latimer as co- hostesses. Dr. Wickey will_speak At the last meeting, Mrs. E. J. Dow ing, State student aid chairman, and Mrs. W. H. Ross made addresses. Wallach, Association will meet School December 14 at Miss Poulsen of the child Clinic, will speak on the work of the clinic The Wallach at Wallach 2:30 pm. The pupils of the sixth grade are| reparing an entertainment in the | form of an Egyptian pageant and e: | hibit X Members of the Wallach Glee Club will render Christmas carols. Edmonds-Maury. The Edmonds-Maury Association will meet at 7:45 p.m. December 14 at Edmonds School. Stephen Kramer will be the speaker of the evening. 1l luncheon and the Thanksgiving | Christmas carols will be sung by the donations will be given. Business High. ‘ President Edward R. Williams of Busi- | ner awarded to the class having the | Dess High School Parent-Teacher Asso- clation addressed a special meeting of | at each meeting. e new members in the principal's office at | displayed in the class room until some | Tuesday evening by Dr. | other class succeeds in winning it the high school last Monday morning. The meeting had been called by Mrs. | A.J. Fant, vice more teams for the membership drive started at the last regular session, Prin- cipal Allan Davis also spoke Johnson. ‘The executive meeting was held De- cember 7. The monthly meeting was | held December 8, at 3 p.m., the presi- | dent, Mrs. Paul White, presiding. Miss | Armstrong, kindergarten teacher, an- | nounced a play to be given by the kin- dergarten December 18, Rev. George Schnabel spoke. A piano | duet was offered by Misses Alice and Helen Manning. A trombone solo was rendered by Dewey Gardner, ac- companied by Miss Kathleen Perry. Miss Gregg's class gave Christmas songs, poems and plays. Miss Short's pupils | showed pictares of Greece which had been drawn by the children of Miss Bhort’s class. They also read a Christ- | mas story. The attendance honor was won by Miss Glenn's class. Emery-Eckington. The assoclation met December 4 at Emery School. J. A. Kamerow of the speakers’ bureau of the Community Chest delivered a lecture, accompanied by stereopticon views, on the “Social and Health Work in the District of Co- lumbia.” Miss Annabelle McCullough sang, accompanied by Miss Gilligan. The attendance prizes were awarded to Mrs. Trainor’s 2AB grade at Emery and Miss Shewmakers 1A grade at Ecking- The next meeting will be January | 8, at Eckington School, at 3 p.m. | W. B. Powell Elementar; resident and chairman | pointed to the State Congress of the Membership Committee, for the | 17 blue ribbons which were won purpose of soliciting ‘'and organizing ' the children 100 per cent physically Plans were discussed and arrange- | ments completed at the board meeting last Monday for the children’s Christ- mas party the afternoon of December 23. The next association meeting will be in the school auditorium tomorrow, | at 8 oclock. It is being dedicated to | the fathers. Representative Martin | Dies, jr., will preside. Dr. William Cul- len French will speak on “The Century Child.” A moving picture of Porto Rico will be presented by Mr. Lazo Musical numbers include a solo by Charles Burton, boy soprano, accom- panied by Mrs. W. R. Litile, and Melvin Holober, saxophonist, accompanied by Adelaide Holober. Refreshments wiil be served Barnard The Barnard Association met Monday evening. Miss I. Lowell, kindergarten principal, spoke; piano selections, Mrs Carl Goodman; Miss Catherine Watkins director of kindergartens, spoke A benefit card party was heid at the school Thursday afternoon for the Childhood Education Association, spon- sored by the Barnard Parent-Teacher Association Park View. The Park View association met De- cember 3. Mrs. Giles Scott told the org: tion what the Dis trict Congress has done for the he: of children. Mrs. James W. Byle State vice prerident, was a guest msociation reindorsed the elective school board bill. Donations will be gl o the Recelving Home and hristmas presents to the children of Gospel Mission Rafter | ‘The | membership drive is being con- | ducted by the grade mothers, under the direction of the chairman, Mrs. McKay A flag will be presented to the chil- @ren of the school by the association. Pupils of the chool participated in the program by giving musical num- bers, Nancy Heffner of the fifth grade med & plano solo. Marvin Bramell, grade, sang, accompanied by Mrs. Fred 8. Walker. Three eighth grade Pupils took part, Misses Prances Reeves #nd Teresa Capone sang duets and Miss Mirlam Bushlow gave a piano | solo. Langdon. The Langdon association met Thurs @ay afternoon. “Home Economics Was the subject of the meeting, and Miss Emma Byler, a former pupil of Langdon, now chairman of home eco- momics for the District of Columbia Gongress of Parents and Teachers, was speaker. Mrs. Moore, instruc- in domestie art, and Mis Hill, - | Edmonds-Maury Glee Club, At the executive board meeting last Monday, it was voted to have a ban- largest number of parents represented The banner will be Fourteen delegates have been ap- The by Association | in the teach- | at | perfect on entering school, will be pre- sented soon at an assembly. Buchanan. ‘The Buchanan Assoclation met Tuesday afternoon. Mrs, M. Kudolla, president, announced the program, The The Buchanan Girls' Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Maloy, sang. Lorraine Dyer and Mary O'Neil were the accompanists. Miss Catherine Watkins, director of kinder- gartens in the pubiic schools, and Miss Moore, a former teacher at Buchanan, spoke. Plans were formed for Christ- mas welfare work, and money was donated for this purpose. The prizes for attendance were won by Mrs. West and Miss Smith, fifth and sixth grade | teachers, respectively, Grant, | A meeting was held Monday, there being carol singing by pupils from the | upper grades and speaking by children from the second grade, taught by Miss Landis. The second grade won the parent attendance banner. Refresh- ments were served Blow-Webb. the December meeting -Webb Association, a committ appointed to consider books the Blow-Webb children’s library. In the recent forestry note book contest four Blow-Webb children received hon- orable mention. Thres of these chil- dren are in Mrs, Beller's sixth grade at Webb School, while one is in Mrs. Mann’s fifth grade at Blow. | The glee clubs of both schools are | working on the Christmas programs | The Red Cross club is reconditioning | toys for the poor children, | "The members of the Blow-Webb Ath- tic Club are champions of the sixth division in schlag, and soccer. Miss Parks is director of the club. The ixth grade of Webb School is con- nplating printing a school newspaper. Mre. Mann's fifth grade at Blow School is planning a puppet show at of the P-T. A. meetings in the future, Miss Graff's study group met in the Webb School Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock. Wheatley, Accompanied by their teachers and P.-T. A. grade mothers, the three sec- ond grades visited the Museum Tues- day, while the first grades visited a neighborhood department store. The clubs, sponsored by the asso- clation, are ‘planning their Christmas | activities. Among those gttending the | recent showing of Wheatley pupil’s | Play, “Priscilla’s Dream,” to aid the | kindergarten convention fund, were | Miss 8. Craighill, administrative prin- | cipal of Blair-Hayes; Miss Pimper, ad- | ministrative principal of Ludlow- Taylor-Madison, and teachers of Blair- Hayes and Edmonds-Maury Schools. Miss B. McAuliffe’s fourth grade pu- pils, who were the winners of first prize for increased P. T. A. member- ship, purchased ten books for their private library | Miss L. Spitzer, teacher student aid | chairman, and Mrs. Walter C. Jones | represented the association at the Asso- clated Charities conference held in the Eastern Presbyterian Church Wednes- day evening to formulate plans for a |letter service for Christmas. The |grade mothers met with their chair- man, Mrs. N. Russell, in her home, to | formulate plans for parent-teacher | visitation to be held in connection with At Biov of the | 1e n | the January regular meeting The Basketry Club, under the super- | vision of Miss K. Bresnahan, domestic |art “teacher, is finishing “mother's” | gifts. Tuthill | _The Tuthill Association met Decem- [ber 4 " Miss Constance Tuthill spoke | A program of dramatic art was pre- | sented by Miss Tartwater, Dr. W, N | Freeman, former chairman of the voca- | tional guidance committee of the Ki- wanis Club, and Dr. George Losh, of | Chicago, also spoke. | Keene |, The Keene Association was addressed Julia Hahn, | supervising principal of the third di- vision, and Mrs. N. Saunders, State president; Mrs. L. B. Castell, first vice president, and Mrs. W. T. Bannerman, venth vice-president. 'The attend- For Christmas— Give Yourself New Glasses —Come in and let us examine and fit your eyes with a new pair of properly fitted glasses. A gift to yourself that will be a source of comfort for many years to come. Non-Tarnishable : —Beautifully engraved, non-tarnishable white gold filled frames, May be curved temples, Optical Dept. [ New Discovery brings Quick Relief; Curbs the Cause— WITHOUT DRUGS! 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All drug stores supply a large bottle of Sinasiptec at low cost, ance banner was won Mrs, Brun- house’s fifth grade. Henrietta King, principal, reported that 39 for- estry note books were sent to the exhibit in the new National Museum, and that from the 200 books selected for honor- able mention, Keene had 13 ribbo: one blue ribbon to Athol Ellis; one ribbon to Bernard Joy and one to Blannie Simms, and ten yellow ribbons to the following: Elisa Robinson, Mary Wyche, Samuel Jones, Albert Walters, Dorothy Glaves, Virginia Joy, Marie Larnack, Audrey Finnell, Arthur Far- rington, jr., and Samuel Blackman. Mrs. Brown, student aid chairman, stated she had six large bundles of | clothing ready to take to the District Student Aid rooms. The third grade, with Miss Hodge, teacher, gave a play- let “Toys in the Attic.” The association presented their presi- dent, Mrs. A. W. Taylor, and the State president, Mrs. Saunders, with Christ- mas gifts. CANADIAN TRAINS CRASH OTTAWA, Ontario, December 12 (7). —8even persons were injured last night when Canadian National and_Canadian Pacific Railway passenger fains col- lided in the Laurler avenue yards here Although four were taken to hospitals, | none was injured seriously. The Canadian National train was said to have ploughed into the last car of the Canadian Pacific train, telescop- ing the coach. Both trains were en- tering Ottawa from Montreal. SIXTIETH INSTALLMENT. ATHLEEN hoped she would not see Kenneth Hall in the Nook He would ask her about his book, and she would rather not have him know that she was | familiar with its status gt Drew & Co. | enneth was in the Nook. Cath- ‘lee?xucmxuughb he looked a bit Gown, as though he found life not exactly to his| order. He brightened, however when he saw Cathleen coming in with Julia and Joy. As soon as they were seated he Jjoined them. “Lucky for me you came in,” he said to Cathieen., “I was just going to look you up. Hear any news about ‘Cosmo- politan’ Commune?’ " | Cathleen shook her head. “No,” she| sald. She had not heard anything since the letter Tom Drew had dictated, and this could no longer be news to Ken- neth, “Old Drew's a crab” Kenneth | frowned. “Dry as dust and full of cob- | | webs. He's had me up at his place b the Hudson. Trying to persuade me fake the teeth out of fhs book. He's keen for it, but he's afraid of it. I've tried to make him see that his custom- ers won't go on blowing froth all their lives. They want cocktails with plenty of bitters in them.” “Personally I loath cocktails” Joy sald. She had just finished a real-life cocl‘:ml with a° double dose of bitters in_it, Kenneth scowled at her. “That makes | ou different,” he said, and implied that being different was not particularly to be desired. “Most women crave ‘em. | For example, a young lady I met at the Drews. There's a girl for you. Diana Draper. Stunning? Il name my next heroine Diana. She got what I was driving at immediately. And she agreed with me. You've got to blast the world | out of its sleep, not tickle it with a | feather.” Kenneth insisted that they all go on | to the new place Gypsy Estrella had | opened at the far end of the village. | ‘Gil Graber’s meeting me there,” ne said. “There'll be some others of the old crowd.” “Let’s g0,” Joy begged, eager for a change of scene. Cathleen wanted to make an excuse, but there was none she could invent that held water. And if she refused| Kenneth would think she was piqued because he had not again brought up the subject of marriage. He had not so much as referred to the promise she had given him; that if he made good) getting full of mean Mittie suspicions. 1 and they both rared enough she would | must stop it.” She took Kenneth's srm consent to seeM happiness with him.|and hurried him along to catch up with She decided now that she had better 80| ju1ia and Joy. with the others to the camp. . Kenneth managed to walk with Cath-| _Gypsy Estrella’s new place was called leen, to draw her back behind the | the Tent. Inside it c: e el sicsiate coges “It's been a long time since we had | one of our literary seances,” he said,| Were labeled with the names of the “Remember, Kit, how we used to quar- | Yarious animals that make up a cireus rel over my copy?” He laughed. | menagerie. “Yes.” She must be light, ga; They found Myra, the pallid poetess, seems years ago, doesn't it?” with her newest cavalier—a struggling “See anything of Neil Neilsen these zo\m% ggwflmb—ln the booth labeled days?” Casual question | “Hyenas, 3 “Rarely. .\Iquork keeps me busy.” Why pick hyenas?” Kenneth de- You haven't thought of going back manded. “I loath the darn things. home then and being a good little girl?” | ‘Me, too,” Myra said. “But you“mm “I've thought of being a good little admit the label is appropriate. “Selly girl, but not of going home.” | and I do plenty of braying, but all we “And I've decided that, after all, Dan Mmake is a horrible noise. Move in. Carroll is right. You can't be a stenog-| We'll get Estrella to take out the par- rapher all your life. There's nothing in | tition to the next cage. It's for the running & machine. You have too good | llons. You ought to feel perfectly at a brain to waste it in a factory.” home in that one, Ken! T donrt i1, " Cathicen motieed Bon Tunes “I don't blame you for balking about | settled. Neilsen, though. T told you he was & | face heralded his aproach, and that she bad egg. You see, I was right—all this | fr;ds room for him between herself and mess he's got his father into, Looks | JOY like the Né!uuns are mired all right.| Then Kenneth jumped suddenly to They ought to send Joe up the river, | his feet. i and all the sycophants that kow-tow| ‘“Here’s Graber!” he exclaimed eagerly. to him with him.’ Gil Graber was, in fact, coming along All the sycophants that kow-tow to the sawdust path that ran in front of him! Was Kenneth hitting at Dan Car- | th€ booths—Graber and a slender young roll? 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