The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-12-27
SCHOOL NEWS.

The Board of County School Commis-
sioners will hold their next regular meet
ing on Tuesday, December 81, at the new
building at Highland which they will
visit for the purpose offinal examination
and acceptance, and to take part in the
opening exercises to be held there at one
o'clock The following program has
been arranged. which may be enlarged
as opportunity offers during the next
few days:
Opening song-"Maryland My Mary
land"
Scripture reading and prayer-Rev. S.
L. Irvine.
Address of welcome-Miss Grace Bur
kins, student of the High School Depart
rnent.
Response-Superintendent Charles T.
Wright.
A special program will then follow,
rendered by each of the three schools.
Mine Branch, Heaps and Sylvan Re
treat, which were formally closed on the
Goth.
Soloist-Mrs. Scarborough.
on-Superintendent Charles T.
Wright.
Address-Mr. A. w. Tull, principal
elect.
Address-John D. Worthington.
Music by quartette.
Informal remarks by interested patrons.
Address-Mr. Roger J. Whitetord, of
Whiteford, now principal of Sandy
Spring Montgomery county, High
School.
Closing song-"America" by the school.
The formal closing of the three primary
schools and the opening of one central
school to take their places and sup
plement the needs for higher education
in this prosperous section marks dis
tinct epoch in their educational world
and is in entire harmony with the modern
idea of concentration and consequent
strengthening of school work. No better
evidence could be given of the educational
spirit existing in this section than that
the three neighborhoods, almost to
patron, willingly and gladly surrendered
to the convenience of having a school
near home in order to have much better
one some distance away.
Surrounding Highland at distances
varying from two to three miles are
eight other single room schools each one
of which will act as a feeder to its high
school department and thus the large
children of wide area will have within
reasonable reach higher educational
facilities.
The building has been constructed in
most substantial manner. and should
answer the needs of the community for
many years to come. The first floor,
half under ground but we'll lighted, is
finished with cement floor, and is adj
mirably adapted for the use of a manual
training department, besides making an
elegant play room for girls and small
children during the winter season, ard
| for general assembly for the surround
ing neighborhood without interfering
with the school. 1t is high tribute to
the ambition and self-sacrifCe of these
people that they contributed 5000 in
cash towards the erection of this build
ing, especially fixing their desire on this
story. On the main floor are two fine
rooms with fire places and slate mantels.
which communicate by sliding doors. and
here the primary and intermediate de-
partments will work. On the next floor
is handsome room of liberal size, with
tached, where the whole school can as
semble when desired, but it will chiefly
be dedicated to the use of the grammar
and high school departments. The struc-
ture is of brick with slate roof trimmed
in yellow pine, finished in hard oil. 1t
has been constructed directly by the
Board, and they hope to find, when all
accounts are audited, that considerable
saving to the county has resulted, and
they know that the material and work
manship are all that could be desired.
With no disposition to draw compari-
sons in the energy and assistance furnish
ed by patrons, its erection in this way
would not have been practicable had it
not been tor the untiring efforts of Mr.
Edward A. Wilson, chairman of the
building committee, who has recentiv
been appointed member of the county
Board