Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-23
1000 ATTEND Big
EDUCATION MEET
AT TECH HIGH
Formal Opening of Municipal
Celebration Marked by
Educational Session
THIN THE KIDS DO
Dainty Foods, Wood Models,
Drawings, Compositions, In
spected by Hundreds
THINGS THE KIDS DO

Featured with addresses by the city
superintendent, president of the board
of school directors, former educators
of the city and county, a concert by
the combined orchestras of Central
and Tech High, while rooms and cor
ridors were lined with charts and
maps illustrating the progress made
in the city's public school system dur
ing the last fifteen years, the munich
pal celebration was formally opened
in the Technical High school last
evening. About 1000 persons we're in
attendance.
The program consisted of three
parts-the concert by the combined
school orchestras from 7.30 to 500:
the educational program from 500 to
800. and the inspection of exhibits
from 300 to 1890. So delighted were
the patrons as well as the players
themselves, with the renditions of the
combined orchestras under Prof.
George w. Updegrove, that there is
already talk of similar concerts dur
ing the holidays and next Spring.
The orchestra was composed of 80
pieces.
Tell of School Progress
The educational program. held in
| the auditorium, was in charge of ii.
n. Boyer, president of the school
| board. On the rostrum were seated
the speakers, Superintendent Downes,
Chairman Boyer, the board of school
| directors and the district supervisors,
the Rev. James +. Bullitt pronounced
| the invocation. In an address on edu-
cational progress, giving a chronolo-
gical review of the city schools dur
| ing the last Is years, superintendent
| Downes dazzled his listeners with
amusing statistics of how the school
system has progressed. His address
| is printed elsewhere in the Telegraph.
| Prof j. Howard Vert, principal for
| many years of the old boys high school
located at the place now occupied by
Tech, was the next speaker. He
stated that educational advancement
is continuous evolution, and that in
enjoying the improvements of the
present we should not forget those
whose labors in years past have made
these things of the present a possi-
bility. Prof. r. Nj. McNeal, former
county superintendent and at present
connected with the State Educational
| department was also reminiscent in
his talk. There is an increased in
terest in seeing that the work is prac-
tical, and that will fit the youth for
better citizenship The city has
caught the spirit and has provided
equipment for this end. Present pub
| lie sentiment as carried through these
plans suggested years ago." were
among his remarks
Home Makers VS.. Home Breakers
Attorney W. L. Loeser was the final
speaker of the evening. He empha-
sized his remarks by using two young
ladies from the domestic science de-
partment of the Central High school,
and two of the Tech boys. as illustra-
tions Young ladies must be trained
to be home makers and not home
breakers, and the youth of the land
must be so prepared that their educa-
ton Will tit them for making the world
better for their having lived.
In the library was exhibited the dis
plays from the domestic science de-
partment the music department, and
the Latin display arranged by Miss
McNiff. The first floor corridor con-
tained the displays of medical and
dental inspection, the work of the open
air schools and a statistical and chron-
illogical chart showing the advance
ment of the schools from 1900 to
1915, ON the second floor were the
grade drawings In the third floor
study hall was a commercial exhibit
from Central High school. Besides
many specimens in penmanship, type
writing, bookkeeping and shorthand
there were many testimonials as to
what the business men of Harrisburg
think of the Central graduates, and
list of where many of them are em-
ployed.
The Committee
The following committee had charge
of the school publicity and exhibits.
f. e. Downes, Chairman; ID. d. Ham
lmelbaugh, photographed and statis-
tical; c. b. Eager, Jr., Technical High
school; c. S. Rebuck. department of
medical inspection; L. f. Keller,
commercial; j. ]. Brehm, supervision
of exhibits; II. e. Todd. supervision of
construction; Il. G. Rose and G.. w.
lUpdegrove, music; Katherine McNif,
ancient languages; Mary II. Hogan,
drawing, and Frances Hamilton, do
mestic science.