The Washington times., 1916-05-31
WASHINGTON TO GET
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Plans Approved to Convert Bust
ness High School Into Real
Vocational Institution.
CONTINUED from First Paee.)

semester, will be thrown with the
older ones OF the same study group.
the younser students will get the
S Ssnsfit OF advice dt, and assistance OF the
get valuable training In leadership.
Teachers and pupils, working to-
gether for q common end. on the same
special lines. will work together more
Develop Special Aptitudes.
Teachers, as we'll as pupils. will be
encouraged 20 develop special apti-
tudes. and will become expert in the
teaching OF some one subject.
The arrangement will develop a per-
manence In seating. lockers, and other
toward better business Organization OF
Pupils viii get credit, under the plan.
for outside business training.
Teachers are enthusiastic about the
arrangement. Principal Davis said. and
cialized on certain lines and were
anxious to take classes In these fields.
Assignments Made.
Some of the groups already have
been assigned to teachers. These In
clude:
Consular service and foreign trade.
Reuben Fink: languages. Miss Mary z.
Heller: librarian and bookseller. Miss
Edith B. Lowe: literature. Miss Jessica
F. Murray: newspaper correspondence
DR.. Colyer Meriweather: teaching. min
istry. iecturinG. Miss May p. Bradshaw
college preparation. Miss Margaret
Graham; advertising and salesmanship
Miss Rebecca e. Stanley and Miss Shy
Baker; office devices. Miss Kettle B.
Bell: printing. Mrs. Louis Y. Roberts;
commercial art. Miss Estelle C. .Drane
and Miss May s. Malone: music. instru-
mental. Joseph F1nckel: music. vocal
Miss Marjorie II. Moulton: medicine and
nursing. Miss Elisabeth B. Baldwin,
domestic science. sanitation and n.y.
Mas Katherine NJ. Raber: law. Miss
Hester z. McNelly; stock broker AND
investments. Mrs. Nav d. Merrill: pub,
lie speaking and debating, Miss Anna L
Dunlap: dramatics. Miss Louise Kings.
ley Z; private secretary, Miss Mabel Pier
pont: house decoration. Miss Anna g
Haxleton: farming. Percy B. Crandall
expert penmanship. lettering, Miss Mar,
]. Gibson: automobile. Miss Mary J
Watts.
Teachers for electricity. photograph
10 processes. pharmacy. real estate and
INSURANCE and publishing have not We
been assigned.
Credit Outside Work.
Business Is the one primarily voca
| tional school In the city,, said Prtnci
pal Davis. Pupils come here. in tn
kgreat majority OF cases. expecting I
prepare for a living. In the past W
| have given some credit for outside work
| but this arrangement will compel ever
pupil to do outside work along the lin
| Of work he prefers.
"In planning this three things wer
| considered: the purpose Of the schoo
| which l have just outlined, the char
| scter OF the city, and the teachin
corps. The vocations selected are thos
| which we believe the Washington boy
and girls wish to follow. II any nee
to be added pr dropped we can lear
/ that by experience.
| Upon coming into school each fresh
man pupil will be given one semester I
| adjust himself and with advice OF teach
ers. 10 consider which of these lines h
wishes to take up"
! The plan has been laid before schoC
| officials and experts OF the United State
| Bureau of Education, and they hav
approved 1t.