The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-07
Play SCIENTISTS
GIVEN WELCOME BY
MAYOR A|NS[|E
Sessions Of Big Recreation
Congress Formally lnaugu-
rated At Jefferson
MASS MEETING AT
AUDITORIUM TONIGHT
Annual Banquet Tomorrow
Night and Demonstration
Of Play Activities F riday.
Old Officers Reelected

Of Play Activities Friday.
Old Officers Reelected
wednesday Morning, May 7. 1913.
Jefferson Hotel
$50 A. M.
Section 4.
"Thc Administration of an In
dustrial Playground" sidney a.
Teller, director Stanford Park
West Chicago Park Commission,
Chicago, III.
"Rural Recreation and Rural
Health" Wallace Hatch. secretary
Rhode Island Anti TubeTculosls
association, Providence. Rhode
Island.
$3.50 A. M.
Section 2.
Boys. Clubs In the Recreation
Center" Charles Howard Mills,
supervisor department OF munich
pal recreation, Grand Rapids
Mich.
1.-THE Recreation Center as n
Neaghborhoo<i Institution" Anna
Della Melvin. West Park recrca-
tion center, Baltimore, Md.
$50 A. M.
Section 3.
"The Fencing OF Fairgrounds"
Edgar S. Martin. superintendent
department OF playground COM
missioncrs, Washington. d. c.
1.-THE Snrfacing OF Play
grounds" William ID. Champlin-
executive secretary board Of rec
reation, Philadelphia, Pa.
1880 A. NJ.
Section 1.
THE Promoting Of Desirable
Games" Joseph Lee. president Of
the Playground and Recreation
Association of America. Boston
Mass; George ". Ehler. director
department Of physical training.
University Of Wisconsin. Madison.
Wisconsin; John r. Murphy.
NJ. D., director Of athletics, hoard
OF education. Toledo. Ohio.
1880 A. NJ.
Section 2.
..Socialixing the Class Room
Furniture" fiilustrntesi). Lee f.
Hammer. director department of
recreation, Russell Sage Founda-
ton. New York city.
THE Aims of Adult Recre-
ation." Mary p. FniIetf. Women's
Municipal league, Boston, Mass
1880 A. NJ.
Gcx,tion &.
Round Table Conference
Equipment Problems.
1880 A. NJ.
General Session.
News From the Front" Row
land Haynes, field secretary Play
ground and Recreation Assoeia-
tion Of America; Francis r. North.
field secretary Playground and
Recreation Association of Amer
lea; Julia Schocnfeld. field secre-
tary Playground and Recreation
Association of America; Charles
r. Weller, associate secretary
Playground and Recreation Assoc
citation Of America
Wednesday Evening, May 4. 1918.
0lty AuultfWIuHl-
The Need and Value of Play,
Recreation and Divcrsional Occu-
patton Among the Insane" Cliff
ford W. Beers, secretary national
committee for mental hygiene,
New York city.
Recreation In the Village
High School," Frank l.. Boydcn.
principal high school, Decrfieid,
Mass.
"Play for the Blind" (illustrat-
ed), O. III. Burritt, principal Penn
sylvania Institution For the In
struction of the Blind, Over
brook, Pa.
with the simple formality of
ordial welcome to Richmond extern
d by Mayor Ainsiie- at the openir
Meeting in the Jefferson hotel aud
orium yesterday afternoon. the hui
red or more delegates to- the seven'
.nnual session OF the Playground al
Association of America
arrest men and women, who a.
doctors OF the science OF play
,lunged into the discussion of ii
imely. vital and largely unfamili'
of the employment Of leisu
ime.
Two sessions were held yesterday
.fternoon and evening--in the Jeffe
on hotel auditorium. and there W
70 two session Of the association toda
he morning meeting at the Jeffersc
and the evening session
he City auditorium, which Will
by the address Of Clifford Y
seers, the man who spent two yea
n an asylum and cured himself by
ystem OF mental hygiene. Thursds
nd Friday will be marked by simili
with another mass meetir
n the City auditorium Friday nigh
I which Mrs. August Belmont. be
nown as Eleanor Robson. the fan
us actress, will be the attractto
friday afternoon there will be gre
demonstration Of play activities on Il
reen at Reservoir park In which q
chool children will participate. +
morrow night the annual banquet
he association will take place IN Il
Of the Jefferson hotel, vii
eumas MAcManus, the famous Iris
uthor. ~ the speaker.
Old OnlCerS REELECTED.
I Following the regular program Ia
light . business session of the del
No. was held In the Jefferson aud
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