Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-09-26
The Chevy Chase School.

The trustees of the Chevy Chase county
school have issued the following circular
letter:
Friends and neighbors of the Maryland
community of Chevy Chase:
Your new public school will reopen al
8 A. M. on Monday, September 20, or
Rosemary street, macadamized street
with granolithic sidewalks, in Section A, :
one square north of Bradley Lane and
about one square west of Connecticut ave-
nue., near the stand pipe Four competent
and qualified teachers have been engaged
three of whom were with us last year, all
Normal School graduates, three from the
District. All grades, with the first and
probably second years of the hieh-school
course, will be taught, and provision made
for bridging gaps between corresponding
years of District of Columbia and Mary
land curriculum for those newly entering.
Through the substantial cooperation of
public-spirited residents and a generous
Alta Vista patron of the school it was
made possible to finance, at total ex-
pense of nearly SIS 900, the providing of a
frame structure of portable type for the two
years intervening before the permanent
structure is available. The unsatisfactory
arrangement and size of the only dwellings
available for the school made this highly
desirable. The new building affords four
large rooms 20 by 80, all on the ground
floor. well lighted, ventilated and heated,
with sewer and water connections. This
temporary home will eventually become
the property of the county school commits
sioners.
Every child attending the school. and
particularly the High School department.
will be most valuable asset in the su-
preme effort before us at Annapolis this
winter to secure legislative sanction for
bond issue by the county for new schools,
particularly for a suitable school building
for this section to house both a grade
school for Chevy Chase and a high school
for this portion of the county, including
KensingtOn.
If you have children of school age, will
you not help in the most effective way you
can to aid in securing for the community
what our taxes fairly entitle us to in the
matter of school facilities The success of
the present movement means the main
tenance of property values; its failure will
keep away the investor of the class we
desire to interest.
Our resident school commissioner, DIR.
Devereux. has been n tower of strength,
and the board of school commissioners has
done all in its power to aid us. With a
larger local interest in the school, we can
not fail of success. Without it, we may
be seriously defeated in our hopes and ex-
pectations for the future school facilities
of the community.
Every child of the community attending
. the d. c. schools will serve as an argument
against our needs, especially as to high
school instruction.
GUY W. A. CAMP, President,
MRS. EUGENE f. STEVENS,
VERNON f. HODGES.
Trustees of the Chevy Chase Public School.
1t is urged that parents of all children
DESTROYS of taking the first or second year
high-school course. especially the latter,
and that can more conveniently 90 to
Chevy Chase than to Rockville, communi-
cate with Mr. Camp. p. o., Chevy Chase,
Md, or send the children to the school on
Monday morning next for enrolment.