Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-23
GEE, KIDS! SCHOOLS
TO START SEPT. z
Playground Athletic Contests to
Make Way for Desks and
Spelling Books
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS
Preparations for Fall Opening OF
Institutions of Learning
Nearly Complete
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS

Gee! Fellers, amt this great busi-
ness" yelled a small suntanned urchin
10 a group of his admiring followers,
as he dangled head downward from
crossbar on the gymnastic apparatus
at the Echo park Fairgrounds yester-
day afternoon. II have loined to do
oil these stunts this vacation-been
practicing every day-some class to me
soon as 1 get big enough I'm going
to Join a circus-be a real trapeze per-
former, with swell blue tights ana
spangles and things"
''Go on, Jimmie" retorted a comrade
you'll never get to be a circus per-
former. Guess you must have forgot
what happens in about two weeks"
"What'll happen" questioned jim
mic. swinging up to a sitting posi-
ton on the crossbar in astonishment
Molten goin' to happen"
"Ah,' Shucks!" yelled his friend in
derision. fSCHOOL COMMENCES"
That about sizes the situation for
the Youngsters. Nevertheless they are
resigned to it and already small groups
collect daily about the Fairgrounds
throughout the city and plan stunts
they are going to do Christmas Vaca-
next summer Or others talk about
the chance of the particular school
they are going to attend winning the
championship in football or baseball
or track and other forms of sport.
Yesterday, the youngsters who fire.
quent the Echo park Fairgrounds held
their final contests of the vacation per-
iod. A big group of them collected 10
trv their skill, tricks and stunts they
have been practicing all summer and
all went through them cleverly and
neatly. Some of the youngsters are
really becoming very proficient in ac-
crobatic work. Then there were sack
races and other kinds of fun.
BOARD OF EDUCATION BUSY
While the youngsters are lamenting
the cruel fate which will soon take them
from all which the American boy loves
so dearly, five days out of the week, the
city board of education is working dill
gently toward having all in readiness
for the opening of the school Monday,
September u. The board held meet
ing last evening and passed on the re-
ports of all standing committees and
the foreman and superintendents re-
ports. They set next Monday even
ing to meet and assign teachers to the
different buildings throughout the city
In regard to the opening of high
school at Wilmington the board voted
favorably on moving two bungalows
TO the beach city from the Polytechnic
high school to be used for high school
purposes there. The proposition to
use the Wilmington city hall as high
school had to be abandoned because
of the fact that the title to the prop
erty on which the city hall stands has
in it q clause forbidding its use for
other than municipal purposes. 1t
was the opinion of the board that the
bungalow plan was superior in many
ways to the other.
The following teachers were appoint
ed in the grammar and high schools:
Miss Ella Novel;, assistant sloyd SUI
pervisor in the elementry schools; Mrs.
George e. Larkey, teacher in the
grammar schools: Miss Bertha Newell,
teacher of free hand drawing In the
manual arts high school; H. L. De-
trick. head of the mechanical draw
ing department, manual arts high
school; F. j. Armstrong, teacher in the
commercial department of the manual
arts high school; Alfred A. Wright,
teacher in the commercial department
of Polytechnic high school; Miss Yer
ma Blythe, as head of the music de-
partment of Los Angeles high school;
Emily B. Carter, teacher of physics
and chemistry in the Hollywood high
school and Percy r. Rowell, teacher of
physics and chemistry in Gardena high
school,