El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-09
School Notes.

OCitOOL ANOLCO.
Discussion of the plans for the form
ing of the permanent treasury fund for
the Sam Houston debating society
occupied most of the meeting of the
society held Friday night in the high
school building. This fund Will be the
topic Of an address to be made by the
president Fred L. Eunter, at the meeta
ing next Friday night Eugene Thurs
ton viii give humorous talk at this
meeting and George Newell Will talk
on DemOsthenes.
Mrs. Edith Graham COyne entertained
the children of the lower grades of the
public schools with two interesting
fairy stories Friday afternoon at the
weekly story hour Of the public library.
The stories told were Peter and "Tle
Twelve Wild swans There was Il
large number Of children present. Tile
stories are told once a week, on FRI;
day afternoons, Immediately after the
close OF school
Whether Mark Antony, or Brutus. was
the greater patriot of old Rome, will be
debated by the members of the Web
ster-Hayne Debating CLUB OF the high
eighth grade of the Lamar school next
Friday afternoon. On the side uphold
ing Brutus will be Virginia Hall aHJ
Hermine Niece. -Erntred Berg and
Rosa Rodriguez will defend Mark An
tony. The debate will be heldgat the
meeting of the club Friday afternoon
after school.
Shaksperean selections were given by
J. StraWn de Silva. "a Portuguese actor,
at the high school auditorium Friday
night, under the auspices Of the high
school Mr.. de Silva gave the readings
in costume and was assisted by several
of the high school students. Cardinal
WOlsey's farewell speech from Henry
WIZ was the first reading with JEFF
ferson Mitchell as Cromwell VOL
sey's servant and Mr.. de Silva as the
cardinal ShylOck's reply to AntOniOs
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given first by Mr.. de Silva burlesQuing
an amateur and then in costume with
Ashley Gillett as Antonio. Between
the readings were musical selections.
Miss Ida Hunter played piano solos and
William Bias played violin solos. Miss
Coral Bias played his piano accom-
Haniment The entertainment was well
attended.
Parents of the Bailey school children
were entertained by the Parent-Teach-
ers' association of the school Friday
night with an interesting program
given in the kindergarten room of the
school building. T. s. Settle the field
secretary of the National Playground
association, gave a most interesting
talk on playground work. Miss Lula
Jones, director Of the kindergarten Of
the Bailey school. talked about The
kindergarten work in the school a
particularly pleasing feature of the
program included the talks on the do
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work of the school given by pupils of
the school The fifth grade was rep
resented by Roy Shields and Margaret
Spence. The sixth grade speakers
were Irene Morrison and Dan White.
For the seventh grade, Edward short
and Betty Stafford talked. The eighth
grade representatives were Berenlce
Logan and Gerald Houck. The children
described the value of the, work and
the kind of work done in these courses
and the two eighth grade students re-
viewed the manual arts work from the
kindergarten to their own grade.
The meeting was opened by Rev
Perry J. Rice with a prayer. America"
was sung by the audience, Miss Mary
Heermans playing the piano accom-
paniment Miss Constance Pateman
sang From the Land Of the Sky Blue
Water" by Cadmau. Kenneth MacCal-
lum played her piano accompaniment
At the close Of the program refresh
meuts of coffee and sandwiches were
served by the high eighth grade do
nestle science class. The Parent
Teachers association of the Bailey
school will meet the first Friday Of
every month during the school year