Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1935, Page 18

A—18 ABBOTT SCHOOL TAKES NEW HOME Larger Quarters Occupied by Art Institution on Connecticut. The Abbott School of Fine and Commercial Art has just completed moving from 1624 H street into new and larger quarters, at 1143 Connecti- cut avenue. The school has taken | over two floors in the Connecticul avenue building and is using the show windows on the ground floor for a dis- play of the work of its students, The enrollment for the Fall term: | was twice that of last year, due in| part to several new courses and addi- | tions to the teaching staff. A course in archiecture has been | added and students will be instructed | by Alonzo W. Clark, 3d, now connect- ed with the Treasury Department. Mr, Clark, a graduate of Georgia Tech, is a registered architect of New York State. A new course in etching has been provided this year, backed with mod- emn equipment and a large press. A second section of the Fall term will be enrolled in October. CLASSES TO BEGIN IN ACCOUNTANCY Benjamin Franklin School Will | Start Its Day Division Tomorrow. The day division of the Benja- | min Franklin University Accountancy School will get under way at 9:30 to- morrow morning with an opening ad- | dress by John T. Kennedy, president. ‘Two evening sections of the freshman class will open tomorrow, one at 5:30 and one at 7:30, while two other scctions, meeting at the same hours, | l | even an expenditure for school books | tity. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,- Washington Public Schools Owe Much to 1862 Mayor Richard Wallach Was First to Visualize and Put in Act ion a Plan for Wider Education. BY JESSIE FANT EVANS. HEN a boy or girl can go at public expense in the Na- tion’s Capital from the kin- dergarten uninterruptedly through Teachers’ College without it is a tribute to far-seeing democracy. Until the time of President Jeffer- | son, who served as first head of the | city’s School Board, education at pub- | lic expense was an unknown quan- But even with the arousing of pub- | lic opinion as to the city's delinquency | in educational policy, it would have been difficult to have decided which was the more indifferent to the out- come, the people of Washington or the Congress of the United States. The result was a hand-to-mouth existence, not only for the schools themselves, but even more so (if that were pos- sible). for the structures in which they were Nbued. It is to the everlasting credit of the press of Washington that then, as now, their columns, their owners and their [ editors, were zealous crusaders for more schools, more teachers and bet- | ter buildings. “New Deal” in 1858, In 1858 a “new deal” school plan was agreed upon by the citizens of | | Washington and indorsed by the Con- gress, but still action lagged. | Then came the man of the school | hour in the dynamic personality of | Richard Wallach, mayor of Washing- ton from 1862 to 1868 and later an| | important factor in Washington jour- nalism. His daughter, Mrs. Rose Wal- | lach Merriam, is today one of Wash- ington’s most distinguished socialites and a leader in philanthropic causes. | An aristocrat by birth and breeding, | Mayor Wallach was the champion of will have their first sessions Tuesday evening. The size of the entering class this Fall has necessitated the formation | of eight sections and the extension of | registrations until October 7. Regis- trations are now being received for the day class opening tomorrow, the 7:30 to 9:30 class opening Tuesday and the 5:30 to 7:20 class beginning October 7. Thomas F. Callahan, has been| added to the law faculty and will lec- ture on the law of corporations and on negotiable instruments. Callahan is senior attorney in the general coun- sel's office, Internal Revenue Bureau. | STILL SUPPORT PATROLS Although opposing the substitution of schoolboy safety patrols for regular police service in directing traffic, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers will continue to support the patrols as a part of its Nation-wide school safety program, according to announcement of Mrs. B. F. Lang-| worthy, national president, in a radio | address. Her statement was designed to clear up misunderstandings which have grown out of the action of the Execu- tive Committee, which adopted a reso- lution deploring the practice prevalent in some cities of using the boy patrols | instead of policemen as an economy measure. This indictment was interpreted in some quarters as a move to abolish the patrols, which Mrs. Langworthy declares was not its intent. Mrs. Langworthy’s statement calls upon the 23,000 local parent-teacher asso- ciations affiliated with the national | congress to continue their support of the boy patrols. National University Registration Now Open SCHOOL OF LAW School of Economics and Government Resistrar’s Office Open for Registration ® a.m. fo 3 p.m. 818 13th STREET N.W. Tel. Nail. 6617 Enroll for classes now forming in GERMAN nm-u"n.n-u Somaersational Method LY FLAN YERSIN METHOD OF FRENCH Miss Bessie Reynolds Specializing in pronunciation and diction for singers. The PFrench lan- guage presented in a simple and inter- esting way. and l’rlvlle Lessons, hone Dec. 3183 “EaREaINERaLl Advertising Costume Design Fashion Drawing Lettering Posters Life Drawing. Interior Decorating Dressmaking and Millinery Day & Evening School Catalogue Tlustration PEIEFENEETNIRNNNRRRINIE ACADEMY~ 1138 Conn Ave. MEt. 9605 | Iesmsl L F Poteet’s foies Commerefal. Secretarial, Civil Service Courses. 14th and Eye Sts. N Natl. 4 PREPARATORY COURSES FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN SERVICE The management ¥ i |3 I3 ¥ |3 v 1 ¥ h ¥ [ 13 v 3 H H H " H ¥ H . H H H ¥ H i ¥ |1 BpETRCEIEAL the democratic cause of adequate free | | school education. Not only did he be- | lieve in education for the masses, but | he determined to signalize his term as | | mayor by giving Washington the best | school houses in America. | Not even the disasters of the Civil War itself deterred him from achiev- ing this avowed purpose. Despite the exigencies and makeshifts necessary in | keeping the schools open during this time of sectional strife in a city punc- | tuated at all times by the flux of opin- ions and marching armies, Mayor | Wallach, believing no less ardently in | the support and advancement of the public schools than he did in the Union cause, promulgated this motto | | as president ex-officio of the School | | Board: “Schools for all; good enough for the richest, cheap enough for the | poorest”—a catch-line which would do | credit to one of our highly specialized fund-raising experts of today. Planned Building Program. The outgrowth of this slogan was the provision “to build a school house | |in a central position in each of the | | four school districts large encugh to i hold all of the schools of a hlgherf | grade and then to distribute around these school units at convenient The Temple School SECRETARIAL TRAINING Register Now for Fall Classes —Day and Evening School Special Announcement Beginners’ Class, Principles of Gregg Shorthand October 9, 5:15 P.M. Review Class, Principles of Gregg Shorthand October 14, 5:15 P.M. Dictation Classes Slow—Medium—Rapid Register for Pitman Review Class October 7, 6 P.M. Special Instruction in Stenotypy 1420 K St. N.W. National 3258 Send for Catalogue Complete your high school classes. Specialized Instruction 1736 G St. N.W. Experienced teachers. Typewriting and Drafting offered. points, school houses to accommodate all of the primary pupils. It was wisely decided to inaugurate this plan by erecting the first school building of the contemplated series in the third school district, which com- prised all of Washington south of the Capitol, for its taxpayers were out- spoken in their demands that since the Capitol itself faced their holdings it was their just due to have first con- sideration in the city’s development. There was unanimous agreement upon the present site on Pennsylvania avenue southeast, between Seventh and Eighth streets. This at the time belonged to Georgetown College, which had narrowly escaped being located on the nearby Carroll property, on South Carolina avenue. When the college authorities agreed to sell the entire plot of 107,834 square feet for $7,000, or such part of it as was desired for the. contemplated school, Mayor Wal- lach forcefully pronounced: “We will take the whole square.” Cluss Plans Accepted. It is reported that certain doubting Thomases among his fellow School Board members had difficulty dn seeing how a “modern school house archi- tecturally attractive, containing 10 school rooms, eack with seats for 50 | to 60 pupils and a large hall in which all the pupils could be assembled for general purposes” could be paid for out of the balance of the $15,000 ap- propriated for the entire project, site and building as well. However, Mayor Wallach’s resourcefulness apparently was sufficient to carry the less progres- | sive along in the wake of his enthu- siasm, since after a city-wide compe- tition the plans of Adolph Cluss, who had made a study of the best school architecture in this country and Eu- rope, were presently accepted. Dedicated in the presence of a “large assemblage of interested persons with formal ceremonies” on July 4, 1864, the same year that compulsory school attendance became a law in the Dis- trict of Columbia, the completed build- ing was appropriately called the Wal- | lach School in honor of Mayor Wal- lach. To the mayor was thus given | the unusual privilege of realizing his ideals and having his school slogan | come true not only in his lifetime but SHORT-STORY WRITING A 4-month course in the tech- nique of the salable story. Ad- vanced work. Twelfth Year Opens October 1st Registration dally, 5 to 6 pm. ider on request. Nat. 8092. THE MONEYWAY STUDIOS The PENTHOUSE, 912 19th N.W. PLAY SCHOOL Supervised after-school and Saturday recreation for your boy. Transporta- tion. Columbia 8235. ABBOTT ART SCHOOL NEW CLASSES START OCT. 1st CHILDREN ® 1woavur * SATURDAY CLASSES NEW LOCATION 1143 Conn. Ave. NA. 8054 Washington Preparatory School EVENING HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES FOR ADULTS (Co-Educational) education at night. Small - Also Shorthand, on Desired Subjects » Come in and discuss your problems with us Y. M. C. A. Preparatory School NA. 8250 Fau sm Machine Design Airplane Desisn ENGINEERING (Also Standard Four-Year Eng,-Courses) Heating and Vent. Ens. Eni Special Short Courses in All Branches of DRAFTING enl Iollu‘ Sheet H!ll‘. Airer: Lettiring: :leculen. Landscape and sAnlluflIrlL aps), - ithoxraphie, Aero Ground Course Steam and Gas Pow. Eng. Radio Ens. Architecture Surveying and Mapping Reinforced Concrete Ens. < tion, and each of them has been a in his term as mayor, for the archi- téctural, hygienic and pedigogic ar- rangements of the Wallach School were not only in advance of their time in America but the vanguard of better educational conditions in Wash- ington. For the first time 10 grades of several schools were brought to- gether in one building with the teach- ers in daily intercourse. JImproved methods of school discipline were the natural evolution of this closer con- tact, with broadening horizons and professional outlook as an inevitable concomitance. Praised by Bostonian. Supt. Philbrick of the Boston School Board and City Coun- cil, while on a Nation-wide survey and inspection of schools and school build- ings, formally reported that “the Wal- lach School was in external archi- tecture the most attractive school visited, while the Franklin School, then in process of building, promises to be in size, plan, etc, unsurpassed in this country.” ‘The Wallach School has had com- paratively few principals since its erec- leader in the community, sharing alike the confidence and respect of children and parents. Notable among them has been William McCatheran, the first principal, who seems to have worked out the problems of those early days with tact and patience. Miss Anne Duvall Beers, who died 8 few years ago, was the first woman to be made a principal of Wallach, a headline event for women gen- erally when ' the appointment was made. A product of the normal school, established in 1873, and a leader among its coterie of brilliant | young teachers, she continued in the capacity of building principal until she was made the supervising princi- pal of the fourth divison, with head- quarters at the Jefferson School. Miss Beers was the second woman ever to be given a position of administrative and supervisory responsibility in the school system. Her close friend, Miss Flora Hendley, was the first woman to | be so honored. Miss Hendley, now | resides at Stoneleigh Court and con- | tinues an active interest in civic affairs. Noted for their vision, judg- ment and influence among their fel- low teachers, as well as for their ability as organizers, these two women pio- neers until their retirement were tre- mendous factors in the securing of | such benefits as medical supervision, | school nurses, a pension system, and a| score more of wise innovations which | Estelle Allen Studios Diction and Intonation Voice Production and Public Speaking Technique of Acting and Characterization Rehearsal Group ADULTS AND CHILDREN 2151 Calif. St. Po. 5990 PACE COUHSE BERJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY School of Accountancy and Business Administration Announces the Seventh and Eighth Sections of Its Beginning Class 7:30 to 9:20 5:30 to 7:20 have come to be looked upon as mod=- ern necessities in public school edu- cation. Dr., E. G. Kimball was an esteemed supervising principal of the third divi- sion with headquarters at the Wallach School. Changing centers of popu- lation made redistricting necessary and the Wallach School became divi- sion headquarters for the seventh di- vision eventially. Miss Elizabeth Hummer, a graduate of the School of Education of George Washington Uni- versity, who had won her spurs as a normal school teacher, succeeded to the supervising principalship of the division after the retirement of Dr. Kimball. Miss Ella Crook, also a George Washington University graduate, is now the principal of the Wallach School, and wears well the mantle of her distinguished predecessors. A character known to all of the school children in the vicinity of the Wallach School was Alec Parsons, the janitor for many years. He was friend and guide to many a lad, being a zealous custodian of the building and grounds, a self-constituted at. tendance and truant officer, a friendly arbiter of school-boy tussles, a lover of sports and a strong right hand of justice and fair play whenever the need arose. A frequent remark ad- dressed to Miss Beers by her janitor, which inevitably brought forth smiles from the teaching corps, was: “Now, Miss Annie, you're going to think I've been exceeding my authority again, but I didn't see no use reporting that playground rumpus in the grade to the new teacher, so I just settled it myself. I'll guarantee there won't be no more trouble in that quarter.” And usually there wasn't.| The Wallach School nas served as | proving ground, as it were, for many | young Washington teachers who have | risen to positions of trust and respon- | sibility in the school system. From 1864 to 1934 represents 70 years in school history, but so wlsely and well was the Wallach School built that it still serves the school system of Washington. In the same city boundary with the Wallach School, the Towers School | came in the course of time to be| erected, as did Eastern High School, | one of the first four high schools pro- vided for by Congress. Having out- RE “T\‘.‘ / Any Shndard Mdkz 3Manths §7:50 Adding Machine % perMosp TYPEWRITER SALES | & SERVICE_COMPANY TRANSPORTATION BLDG= (V] 811 174h STREET,N.W. SEPTEMBER 29, Class, Opening October 1 Class, Opening October 7 Registrations are also being accepted for the Day Class, Opening September 30 For information telephone MEtropolitan 2515 or call at Room 304, Transportation Building, Seventeenth and H Streets N.,W. SECRETARIES IN DEMAND The Pay Is Good BOYD COURSES ARE THOROUGH AND PRACTI- CAL—UNUSUAL in MANY WAYS. Learn by DOING. Small group instruction. In- dividual Promotion for Those Desiring Work Quickly. SAVES Easily !5 Usual Time. BOYD TRAINS EXPERTS. Opportunities Numerous SECRETARIAL AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COURSES— Among the subjects offered are Gregg and Boyd “Simplified” Shorthand, Touch Typing, Jr. Ac- counting, Comptometer, Calculat- ing Machines, Dictaphone, Vocab- ulary Building, Business Letter ‘Writing and Civil Service Courses. BOYD Graduates Earn More, Enroll at Once—New Classes Monday, September 30 BOYD BUSINESS UNIVERSITY 1333 F St. wo (Opp. Fox Theater) - ODWA SCHOOL *Nat. 2338 RD DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS (Accredited) Where Boyhood is Developed into Manliness in Mind and Body Grade 6 through High School. Small Classes of 5 to 15 boys. Each boy recites every period. Supervised periods. study Boys taught how to study. Special make-up classes. Men teachers who know boys. The school life at Woodward—the thorough instruction, kindly but firm discipline, ideal en- vironment, combine to make a boy a REAL BOY —mentally, physically and morally. 1935—PART ONE. grown its usefulness as a high school, “the old" Eastern” now does service to the community as the Hine Junior High School. Each of these schools is an enviable monument to Mayor Wallach, who nearly three-quarters of a century ago had the vision and the courage to say to his City Council, “We will buy the whole square.” SHORT-STORY CLASSES TO OPEN WEDNESDAY Moneyway Studios Ready for Twelfth Season—Beginners Meet Friday. The Moneyway Studios of Short- Story Writing open for the twelfth year Wednesday, when the advanced class meets for the first time this season. The beginners’ o’'clock, meeting on Monday and Fri- day of each week thereafter. Lewis Lofton Moneyway, director, | will be in the studios in the penthouse at 912. Nineteenth street daily this week from 5 to 6 o'clock to interview applicants for vacancies. Registra- tion will be completed this week. For Practical Paying Results, Study at Master School of Interior Decoration Specializing in Interlor Decoration an Accredited. Prac- fieal *and"" Protessional Course. ~ Expert Teachers. vidual Instruetion. Rudoiphe de Zapp. Director Representing Arts & Decoration. ew York 1206 CONN. AVE. NA. 6136 Training Indi- De Jardin School of 'FRENCH LANGUAGE Classes and Pri Days an 908 14th St. N.W. BOARDING and DAY STUDENTS Grades 1—8, experienced masters, 200 acres of play- fields o . » « o reasonable. LONGFELLOW SCHOOL FOR BOYS College Park, Maryland Greenwood 2942 Corcoran School of Art Will Open October 1 'TUITION FREE ; Annual Entrance Fee, $25 Day and Evening Classes in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture For Prospectus and further information address MISS AGNES MAYO, Secretary d N. class will | hold its first meeting Friday at 5:10 | Met. 1832 * | STAGE CLASS FORMED Estelle Allen Studios to Include Rehearsal Group in Program. clude a rehearsal group this semester | for those who have had actual stage | experience or who have studied and | who would enjoy practice in the| creating of roles and practical appli- cation of the technique of the | theater, In addition to this new activity a| class in public speaking especially | adapted to law students and other | professions, acting, voice and radio| broadcasting will be given. STENOTYPE The machine-way in 150 to 250 words per minute TAUGHT BY SPECIALISTS | ca, write or phone for fall information. THE STENOTYPE COMPANY 604 Albee Bldg. shorthand | Enroll classes now forming in SPANISH- x (IJ;nurutklll Meim The Estelle Allen Studios will in- 1Ui° Woop's School , SECRETARIAL HARGRAVE 1oy ACADEMY “MAKINA MEN—NOT MONEY™ Full ains munths aceredited prepratory and junior school, ta healthful P)tdl"-l Individual attention. Smsll Cla pirimced, mater Cortit ety iports. Moderste rate. For Inllr'uvl— write 3 N. Camden, Pres, Bz § Vo s we Unitia g "Awaciation. Pres Builtsg, WAionss 3570 ICEARN SPANISH ECONOMICAL COURSES for Beginners | | Intermediate ‘and anced Students Deginning October it Spanish School of Washington 1343 H St. N.W. Phone NAt. 5369 30° Phone NAtional 8320 ! ~M> MoUNT [P UfA\§A\N1f ScrooL Slta:lplflm RIES Opening New Classes Day and Evening TIVOLI THEATER BUILDING 14th Street at Park Road Telephone COlumbia 3000 C. P. A. Preparation * Instruction by the same men who prepared more than one-fourth of those successful in passing this year’s examinations for Certified Public Accountants in the District of Columbia. * One-Year Graduate Course leading to the Master of Commer. cial Science Degree * Class opens SEPTEMBER 30 * Phone, write, or cal STRAYER 1 for special booklet. COLLEGE of ACCOUNTANCY P. J. HARMAN, Homer Building F Street at 13th Director NAtional 1748 STRAYER COLLEGE Announces the Openirig of Its ACCOUNTING COURSES Undergraduate Department: September 30 and October 7 Three-year course leading to B. C. S. degree Graduate Department: September 30 One-year course leading to M. C. S. degree C. VAUGHAN DARBY, M. Dean of the Graduate School (Principies of Accounting) Secretary, Board of Acrnumnncy ot Colu Practicing Bublic Acconnhnt WILLIAM GORDON BUCHANAN. CPA. (Curriculum Counselor) Treasurer, Board of Accouniancy ¢ Columbia Partner, Cuunulnr & Buchanan Accounting Faculty C.S., CP.A. (Mat for the District Acacla Mul Pract! for the District Practicing Public Accountants Head of Department of Business Administration, Comptroller, Georgetown University FREDERICK M. BLUM, M.CS., C.P.A. (Advanced Accounténg) Blum & Company Partner, Ball (Pri; Passea C. P. Practicing Public Accountants Resldent Auditor, Association WILLIAM BALDWIN BUCHANAN, M.CS., C.P.A. The American Automobile JOSEPH Mathematician, BERNHARD LEMON, AB, AM. hematics of Accounting) Home Office tual Life Insurance Company DOOLEY L. MITCHELL, BS,, CP.A (Advanced Accounting) Statt Member, Councilor & Buchanan icing Public Accountants THEODORE NICKSON, AB, CPA. (Cost Accounting) Federal Housing Administration PERCY E. SACKETT, B.B.A, AM. ncipies of Accounting) A. examination in the District of Columbla S. ZUCKER, AM., Ph.D. (Ecomomics and Corporation Finance) Technical Advisor, Technical Statf United States Bureau of Internal Revenue (Income Taz Accounting) Statt Member, Councilor & PracticingPublic Accountants RICHARD S. CLAIRE, M.B.A. inciples of Accounting) ant Instructor in Marketing and Finance, University of Michigan Formerly A C. MILTON CLARK, (Auditing) Accountant, Farm Credit Administration Buchanan JOHN Partner, CPA. W. CROSS, B.S,, LLB. (Business Law) Denning, Cross & Company, Practicing Attorneys Member of District of Columbla Bar EDWARD HEFFRON, AB, LLB. (Business Law) Member of District of Columbia Bar CHARLES F. CRONIN, BS,, CPA. (Principles of Accounting) Auditor, General Accounting Office HARRY L. DARNER, BS., MBA. (Principles o©f Acoounting) 'ormerls Professor of Accounting, quesne University JOHN J. Faculty, ALLEN MacCULLEN, LLM. (Business Law) Practicing Attorney Member of District of Columbla Bar O’CONNOR, AM., LLB. (Business Law) Georgetown University announces their pre- paratory courses for this examination. The six months’ course will start October 15th, 1935, and the short in- tensive course will be four and a half months ending just previous to the examinations. Franklin Roudybush Director, Roudybush Foreign Service School Interviews by Appointment Only WEST 0684 3034 P St. N.W. Athletic training for every boy in Foot Ball, Basket Ball, Base Ball, Swimimng, Boxing, etc., under trained coaches. Unexcelled equipment, two gyms and two pools. C. CLIFTON OWENS, LLB. (Business Law) Practicing Attorney Member of District of Columbla Bar Bullding Construction Ens. Structural Steel Eng. Combustion Enines Landscape Architectur Air-Conditioning Eng.- Highway and Bridge Eng. ‘onstruetion. i %y “:‘ I.llmrln .nl ing. '=I=| Intm:uu TRADE SCHOOL Refrig. Rep. & Serv. Hn- n—oll Blrnerl mbustion En Camatoy "Automobile) « LEO'KERSHENBAUM, C.P.A. (C.P.A. Problems) Member, Kershenbaum and Kershenbaum Practicing Public Accountants EVENING SESSIONS Co-educational HOMER BLDG.—Telephone NAtional 1748—F Street at 13th P. J. HARMAN, Director Q Civil Ensineering - n Siieal Sieams Erte aetica] Stea leal B e'muy "-l‘l!. Wll Commerclal Art Send for Special Commerciel Art Brochure Columbla Technical Institute Paul J. Leyerone, Principal Rlcallg:‘ for 26 Years Entrante Reauirement f"“‘"‘tm Tes purungt 2 B e Rea e for Catatobue.or Cal lall F F St N. Radlo z-;.lnmm r All-lenr [ de Enrollment is in order now ‘Woodward School for Boys Y. M. C. A. Building NA. 8250 1736 G St. N.W. Secretarial Classes Form September 30 and October 7 Day and Evening Sessions .