Evening star., 1914-12-20

| Christmas holidays near
NAx the thoughts of all in the
wv schools are turned largely
| toward the festive season
Plans are being made for exercises
throughout the city Plays are to be
| given at a number of schools, Christ
mas trees are to be trimmed by some
classes and hardly Il pupil in the en-
tire school system but will have some
part in getting ready for the season
which to many is the most popular of
| the year.
| Arrangements for the Eastern High
School Alumni Associations reunion,
| to be held "Wednesday afternoon from
3 to 9 o'clock, were completed at a
| meeting of the executive committee OF
president, DIR. NJ. P. Eslin. recently.
| DR.. Willard S. Small, principal OF the
school. is to be invited to speak. The
| executive committee is to give its an
of officers is to be held. Following the
brief business meeting the afternoon
is to be turned over to festivities, the
| chief of which is to be dancing.
| Plans for the sixth annual reunion
| of the Central High School Alumni AS
! sociation were one of the principal
| topics for discussion at meeting of
| the executive committee of that body
at the school Tuesday evening. The re-
union is to be held from 3 to o'clock.
| Officers are to be elected and IL brief
| report of the years work made In
| cluded in the special program which
/ has been arranged are Il number OF
brief addresses and musical numbers
Plans for laying the corner stone for
the new Central High school building
| were also discussed.
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| Pupils of Western High School prac
| ticed singing Christmas carols Mon
day morning under the leadership OF
Prof otto +. simon
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James B. Mahoney was elected vice
president and Walter l.. Miller was
chosen secretary of the boys student
| council of Business High School last
| school, is at the head of the organiza-
ton, but most of the work is left in
the hands of the pupils, the members
of the faculty acting in an advisory
| capacity.
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| of Central High School Tuesday morn
ing,
| A meeting of the Western High
Schools student council was held
Thursday afternoon.
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| Several charters for organization
were considered by the general organi-
zation of the Mckinley Manual Train
ing School at a meeting Friday after
noon. Under the new plans for student
| activities at Tech all organiza tions
| must receive their charters from the
general organization
One of the features of the current
| issue of the Alumni Record of Cen
trail High School is an account of the
| life of Mrs Nora Hoegelsberger a
| Mrs. HoeGelsberger has been identified
with Central for twenty-five years.
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Miss Ida NJ. Campbell. a teacher at
Business High, who has been absent
all this school year as a result of an
| school Thursday.
| Members of the cast of John Ken
rick Bangs The Fatal Message" to
afternoon. are Walter Graves, jose
phine Waight. Anthony McAuliffe, Ray
mond Clarke, Gilbert Clark Ruth
| Dick, Marian Tucker and Marcella
| Cook.
| Supt Ernest L. Thurston held a
meeting with his supervising princi-
pals Tuesday afternoon. Meetings of
these officials are to be neld regu-
larly in the future the afternoons of
the second and fourth Tuesdays.
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Section l. AL of Eastern High wit
messed playlet presented by four of
its members, Marjorie Haines George
Ellis. Minor Ellis and Gilbert Clark,
Thursday afternoon.
Sophomores were victorious in an
q ntr-1l igI,
School Wednesday afternoon, making
a score of 167. The members of the
victorious team We're Kendall Gibson
Walter Stokes, Ralph Day and Han
son Perkins.
| Arrangements are being made for a
| reception by the Washington High
School Press Club in the near future
Six organizations of Eastern High
School are planning dances to be held
soon. Following is a list of the
dances planned: PhiloIogian Club,
at the school. December &c; Com
pany % F, at the Cairo. January p;
ber 30; lambda Kappa Sorority. at the
Highlands. aJnuary 1 Phi Alpha Ep-
silon Fraternity, at the Jardin de
| Danse, December %, and Delta Sigma
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| - iCtuIeS Hidue Oy pupils Oh central
| High School have been placed in the
| office of Supt. Ernest L. Thurston and
| in the anteroom of his office. They are
| thought by the officials to be excellent
| specimens of the art work being done
| in the public schools of Washin gton.
| Plans for making awards to high
school publications We're adopted at a
meeting of the Washington High School
| Press Club at the Public Library
| Thursday evening. Also arrangements
| We're completed for a dance to be held
| December 80. b. Howard spoke to the
| club on the difference between daily
papers and high school publica tions
| a standing committee on awards was
chosen, comprising Miss Josephine
| Bedinger of Business High. Miss Caro-
line Stone of Western High, Charles
| Barnes of Technical and Walter
Graves of Eastern. \ committee was
appointed to select pin, it's members
| being John Ruddy. Technical; Miss
| Peck, Western; Miss Marcella Cook,
Ea stern. and Paul Bragg, Business.
| The revised constitution was adopted.
The object of the organiZa tion, as out
lined in the new constitution, is as
follows:
ITO raise the literary standard of the
| various school papers, to facilitate
| business management and exchange, to
! promote better understanding be-
| tween the various schools, to strength
en- the bonds of fellowship between
their student bodies, to gain and help
| int in he rjf,h of lat high