The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-20
EVENING HIGH SCHOOLS
TO CLOSE MARCH 81.
Comprehensive Exhibit to Be
Shown at Hamburg Place.
"Gym" Classes to Perform.

Examinations for promotion ana
graduation of the pupils of the four
evening high schools of the city Will
begin Monday night, with cooking
continuing Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
and the following Monday night. Dr.
plomas and testimonials will be award
ed by members of the Board of Educa-
ton. Tuesday night. March 81, when
the schols will close for the season.
In place of the usual closing exercises
the faculty of the Hamburg Place
School is arranging an elaborate ex-
hibit of the work done by the pupils
during the year. Considerable space
will be devoted to a display of the re-
suits of the manual training and cook
ing lessons. Randall d. Warden, the
director of physical training, Is ar
ranging for exercises in the schools
well-equipped gymnasium. Programs
are being arranged in the Franklin,
Central and Thirteenth Avenue Schools.
The annual athletic meet of the girls
of the school will take place
in the Newark Armory the latter part
of May or early in June. A separate
gymnastic meet will also be held, six
preliminary trials for which will take
/ place III Tie IIdIhlht 4SAAAiOtfN
Hamburg Place, South Eighth Street,
Fourteenth Avenue and Avon Avenue
Schools. The three winners in each of
these contests will compete in a contest
to take place In the High School audi
forum for prizes.
The office of James G. Cumberland,
assistant director of physical training,
H.. ,.orr -, tho fa,tt.th Anhr nf the CITY
Hall, in a corner of the lecture room
of the Board of Education.
physical Training will be the sub
iect of discussion at the next meeting
of the Parents Association of the
Franklin School, to take place the early
part of next month. A talk will bt
given by Randall d. Warden. Physica
exercises will be performed by tn
pupils.
Martin l.. Cox, principal of the Thir
tenth Avenue School, talked to tn
pupils of the Eighteenth avenue school
at their special exercises. yesterda!
morning. on THE Power of an Idea,
Next weeks speaker at the school will
be Assistant Superintendent ]. Whine
Kennedy.
The instructors of the Eighteenth
Avenue M the Livingston Stree
schools will give a reception n tel
in the Eighteenth Avenue assembl.
room Monday afternoon, March 30, II
honor of Miss e. Jane Peer, a forme
Eighteenth Avenue assistant, who ha
been recently promoted to the vice
principalship of the Oliver Stree
School, and Miss Frances Faiies, VIII
will resign March Fl. and whose mar
riage to Carroll Hoagland win tax
place early next month.
The last in the series of concerts Il
the Elliott Street School will take plac
next Wednesday night. The artists wi
t be Nine. Elena Morovam. the Russia
} pianist, and the members of the Ne'
York Ladies' String Quartet. who ar
E Mrs. Dora Becker Shaffer and tn
3 Misses Carrie. Marie Louise and Lucil
2 Neidhardt.
The members OF the Senior Club {
t the Thirteenth Avenue School gave
Z banquet in the school Wednesday nigl
Z in honor of william Brown. the il
{ struetor in English.
s The following grade meetings haA
been arranged, to be held with Aaais'