The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-23
REDPATH JUNIOR CLUB

The first meeting of the Junior Red
path club. a new adjunct of the local
Chautauqua, under the direction Of
Miss Grace Cowan Tatum, was held
Tuesday morning, there being more
than one hundred present. The as
sembling place was the park, after
which the library building was utilized
for the purpose of transacting the
business of organizing. Following is
the list of officers elected: President,
Katherine Shane; vice pres, Beatrice
Longacre; sec., Thos. Marsh; Mrs. M.
T. Wright was unanimously chosen by
the young people as assistant presl-
dent.
The purpose of the organization is
educational and ethical and is pursued
on the basis of the child being one Of
the community's richest possessions,
his value being dependent upon the
care and protection which the town or
city affords him.
Meetings of the Junior club will be
held throughout Chautauqua week.
The morning meetings will be held in
the tent from $3.50 to 10, for members
only. The afternoon meetings will
be held on the lawn Of the grammar
school from 8 to A; the latter meetings
will be open to all boys and girls.
The programs of the meetings will
be under the direction Of Miss Martha
Giltner of the Columbia College Of Ex-
preston, Chicago. Each morning Miss
Giltner will give Nationality Tales"
and corresponding folk games from
Indian, Russian, Scandinavian, Ger
man, Japanese and English folk lore.
Miss Giltner will appear in appropri-
ate costume for each nation. The af-
ternoon programs will consist of or
ganized playground work. Appropri-
ate games will be given for different
ages Of boys and girls. Through sys-
tematized games, habits of kindness,
courtesy, unselfishness, courage and
social relationship are established.
On the fourth day of the Chautau-
qua Miss Giltner will give lesson on
the art of storytelling. Lists of stor-
les and books will be given for the use
of mothers, Sunday school workers,
teachers and playground workers. The
last night of the Chautauqua, from
7:15 to 7:45, members of the club will
give program consisting of folk
games, singing games and story told
by one of the boys or girls. The Red
path Chautauqua offers three prizes
for the three best stories. Every boy
and girl in Medina is invited to sub
nit story in the contest. No story is
to contain more than 500 words, and
should be deposited at Wright's Book
store before July 26. Mrs. Wright
will appoint committee of three cit
izens to act as judges in the contest.
Three splendid prizes will be awarded
on the second night of the Chautau-
qua.
The prize stories will be published
in the paper issued by the Redpath
bureau, together with the pictures Of
the winning contestants. These papers
will circulate to every member of all
the Redpath clubs.
The one city having the largest at
tendance at club meetings during the
Chautauqua will be given champion
club banner. This will hang on stand
ard in the children's room of the pub
lie library building. Each member
will wear a club button. Following is
the club yell:
Who are we?
Who are we?
Hippo, Hippo, vi, vi,
J.R. C.
Miss Tatum is an enthusiastic work.
sation with the Sentinel editor Tues
er for and with children and in conver-
day afternoon expressed delight with
the reception accorded her while in
Medina. About 35 members were en-
rolled Tuesday morning,
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