New Britain herald., 1915-06-17
VACATION SCHOOL
 ID OPEN JULY {
Institution at First Church An-
 tiCipateS Successful Year

Plans for the Daily Vacation Bible school, to be held in the Center church again this year beginning July 6, are nearing completion. The vaca- tion school will be a continuance of the work which was inaugurated in this city last summer with such ex- [cellent results. The doors for the first session will be opened at 2 o'clock for registration and it is ex- pected that there will be a larger en- rollment than there was last year.
 Last summer 2Ss boys and girls were enrolled in the classes, repre-. senting thirteen different nationalities with an average daily attendance for the six weeks that the school was in session of 140. The children were taught the art of making hammocks, bags, raffia baskets, sewing, etc.. by thirty-five volunteer workers 5 The school is affiliated with the Na- tional Daily Vacation Bible School as sociation, of which Robert Speer of New York is the president and Rob- ert C.. Boville8 is the national direc- tor. Among the vice. presidents are John Wannamaker and Clifford Pin- chot
  strates the popularity and growth of the organization:
 Year 1907-Schools 19, Children B. oS3, Teachers 70, Cities 4; year 1914, Schools 295. Children 64,535, Teach CTS 1,940, Cities 66.
 Of all the years the movement has been growing last year showed the greatest increase by far Last year there were eighty new schools, 14,0OO children, 937 teachers and thirty-two cities added, almost double in every respect
 Thee demand for the vacation schools has become heavy in many of the larger cities. About 1,5o0, 900 children in largest cities formerly spent sfxty-two vacation days on the streets, unhelped by any philanthropi- cally inclined persons and were ex- posed to accidents and vice. There were many idle students and idle 
 The founding of the vacation schools helped matters a great deal. Besides enjoying the work of the schools the children learned things that would be useful to them in future life and were taught how to become good and useful 
 The Young Peoples society of the First church will again have charge of the work. The funds to defray the expenses of the school were raised by 8 recent entertainment given by the society. It is the plan to make the work more complete this year.
 New departments will; open, includ- ing the Penny Savings bank. A like bank was. conducted at the church For the Boys clubs during the win ter months, and proved to be huge l success Children will bring their | pennies to the bank twice a week in- stead of once, as was done at the Boys club. In this manner the generation will be taught thrift.
 Another feature that will probably be conducted this year will be the teaching of drawing to the pupils.
 An exceptionally efficient teaching staff has already been enlisted for the years work. Prospects of securing more instructors are bright. The fol- lowing subjects will be taught by the respective teachers:
 Sewing ng-Henrietta Flagg, Francis Parker, Edna Mills and Beatrice Pcr- ter.ss
 HaHla---Lael Mdcey dHu IulIl Doo- little.
 Reed-Lucy9C Clark Katherine An- dres and Baden Thompson sS sHammock-Mr. Thienes, Mrs. Seeyle and Herbert Andres.
 Kindergarten-Elsie Miles, superin- tendent; Mildred Church, leader; Myrtle Porter and Dorothy Latham. NJ Penny Bank-Pauline Curtiss.
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