Evening star., 1917-12-30
IN THE. SCHOOLS.

either war savings stamps or certifi-
Gates. Next week drive win be made
to bring Techs percentage Of sales up
to the 100 per cent mark.
Roberts of the Tech rife team leads
the team in the last shoot held before
the schools closed for the holidays.
The scores follow: Roberts. ss; Brum-
ss: Kearfui. 81: Hansman. s6: Cure
vich, So: Berlin. 81: Hall, 81. and
Lloyd. 81.
A cash total of $e2.7s has been raised
by the pupils. faculty and alumni as
sociation Of Business High School to
make and send comfort bags and pres
ents to the Business boys in the service.
One hundred and four Christmas pack
ages were mailed just before school
closed for the holidays
A talk on insurance will be given to
the pupils Of Business High School by
one of Washington's insurance men at
the school the morning Of January 3
William ]. P1unkert, a freshman last
year, has the honor of being the youngest
Centralite represented on Central High
Schools service flag. which was pre-
sented to the school at the alumni war
reunion last Wednesday evening Punk
ert is but seventeen years old. He en-
listed in the United States Navy August
in New York city and is now serving
on the receiving ship Yacona.
Marie Louise Fontaine, q graduate
of Central, who witnessed the battle
of the Marine In France. when the Ger
man armies were, stopped in their rush
on Paris, has organized an "old clothes
club. to send clothing. shoes. shirts and
other articles Of wearing apparel to
the peasantry OF France. which has
been forced to, leave it's homes by war.
alumni association to do what they
can toward helping the people OF the
devastated districts.
"A senior class ring has been adopted
by the graduating class at Central High
School.
stalled in the girls gymnasium at Cen
tral High School last week.
Proceeds from the play The Sleeping
Car" which was presented by the
pupils Of Tech December IA. will be
used to buy supplies for knitting and
sewing for the soldiers. The play. which
was presented by the faculty for the
beneft of the Kenneth Proctor Littauer
Auxiliary of the Red Cross, netted a
total of $13. --.-s
player. has shipped for South America
with a contingent of marine engineers
L. T. Brown, teacher in machine shop
work at Tech, left last week for the
aviation training camp of the United
gins, former Maryland State backfield
foot ball star. who coached Techs fol-
lowers of the pigskin to second place III
the interhigh school foot ball series last
fall. has, enlisted in the ordnance bu-
reau of the War Department.
Harold Davis, graduate of the class OF
1913 at Tech, who has been, at Camp
Meade for three months, was recently
promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Every student. or former student OF
Central High School who hears of a
Centralite entering the military or
been urged to send in the names OF
those enlisted to Principal Emory Will
son in order that another star may be
added to CentraPs service flag.
Among the former Centralites who re-
ceived Commissions at the second train
ing camp at Fort Myer are the follow
ing:' Waldo Burnside, '0S. and p. Powell
Browning. '0S, first lieutenants of in
fantry; Theodore S. Cox, Is, first lieu
tenant. field artillery; William J. Flood.
'16. second lieutenant. Signal Corps:
Alex M. Hitz, 10, and Alan Payne, IA.
second lieutenants. infantry; Sewell w.
Hodge. IL. and Norman c. Rogers, '15,
second lieutenants Of infantry.
"One hundred per cent bought by
those under the roof of Eastern High
School," Is the slogan Of the teachers
and pupils Of Eastern regarding war
savings stamps and war certificates.
A mammoth Thermometer has been
built in the hall on the second floor.
and as each> pupil or member of the
faculty buys or subscribes for a war
savings stamp or certificate the indi-
Gator on the thermometer goes up a
notch. With 412 notches on the ther-
mometer, indicative of the entire en-
rollment of the student body and fac
ulty at Eastern, more than SO per cent
have bought the governments stamps
or certificates. We want Eastern to
lead all the high schools of the District
of Columbia in buying these assurances
of good investment" said Mr. Warner.
supervisor of the school bank, yester-
day. Every pupil and teacher in the
school Is taking an active interest in
the sale of the stamps, and has been
pushing the movement from the start"
Thirty-three paid-up memberships in
the American Red Cross were taken out
by pupils OF Eastern High School dur
ing the campaign which ended last
week.
Girls of the senior class at Eastern
High School go to the Marine Corps
barracks on 7th street southeast once
every week, to do sewing for the Red
Cross. The girls are accompanied by
Mrs. Cook. Miss Bucknam and Mrs.
Maxon.
Hundreds of Christmas bags and
boxes have been made and sent out to
the soldiers by the Red Cross auxiliary
Of Western High School. The auxiliary
meets every Thursday afternoon to
work on comfort bags for the soldiers.
twenty-five hospital books were sent
out last Friday.
RUMANIA TO REMAIN AN
AIlY nEcpITE pucc,A