Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-23
LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 OBSERVE WASHINGTON'S BIRTH
Special Programmes Were Carried Out by Children on Thursday.

Tn the schools of the town on Thurs
 day special programmes in connection with the commemoration of Washing
 toms birthday were carried out. At ! Broadway school the exercises were as follows:
 Grade VIII, Senior room - Salute day, Nora Warwick: song. Mt. Yer non Bells, five girls; Biographical Facts About Washington, 90 pupils;
 reading, Adown the Years. Alice Kel- Washington's Rules of Conduct, 20
 pupils; reading. Washington's Kiss, Florence Rogers; Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. chorus; reading. Little Jonnie Initiates George Washington, Natalie Macpherson; Words of Wash ington, 10 pupils; recitation, Washing ton. William Asbury; Star Spangled Banner, chorus.
 Grades and VI = Gettysburg Ad- dress, school; recitation, Why Wash
 ington Was Great. 10 boys. recitation,
 Like Washington. Veronica Weyant;
 readings, Early Life of Washington,
 Helen Rose; Boyhood of Washington,
 Edward Mack; Character and Educa-
 ton Of Washington, Catherine Hayes;
 recitation, Iris Splendid to Live So
 Grandly, John Fellows; reading, Hartley Morse; recitation Washing,
 tons First Service to His Country,
 Mary Wyckoff: recitation, Serving the Country, seven boys; piano solo. Emily
 fly. Marjorie Merry; recitation, Tine
 Flag Betsy Made. Edna King; flag salute school; school, Star Spangled
 Banner, schools, reading, Washington Iaodn n the Revolutionary E.C,tl1td War. Daniel girls: reading, Washington as Com mander-in -chief, Leslie Gordon; reci- tation. Washington's Christmas Party Eben Learned. Old Glory,s Children, seven girls; piano solo. Helen Rose; reading, Washington as President, Helen Lowenberger; recitation, The Flag Goes By. fifth grade; song, America, school
 Grades III and Ix-Teachers Miss a Song of Washington, grade 3; poem, Our Flag. grade 4; recitation. A King. Dorothy Pendleton; song. Lincoln grade 4; recitation, Fling Out the sition. Madeline Thune; song. George Washington, both grades: poem, Your Flag and My Flag. grade 4; song. Our Blessed Land. grade 3; recitation, Bessie Bruckner; song. Our. Coutry's Heroes, both grades; acostic, Seven Little Builders. seven girls of grade 3; recitation, six pupils of grade 4; poem, Washington's Birthday, grade 3; reel | tation. pupils of grade 4; play1et. In Boy Washington's Army. 12 boys of I grade 3; poem, Out on the Breeze, ! grade 8; salute to the flag and Amer. | ica, both grades.
 Grade vII-Miss Spencer, teacher Song, Columbia, school; Washington | violin solos. cornet solo. Margaret | Cochrane, Patricia Cassidy, Mary Casey. Russell Rathbone; The Wash ington Tea Party. Constance Learned, | Smith, Ruth Dunn. Floyd Hill, Anna | Woll1, Annie Stockdale, Charles Dyer, | Sybi1 Palmer, James Holland, William | Browne, Pauline Mather; song, The | Star Spangled Banner. school; flag
 West Side School.
 The schools on the West Side each carried out a nenjoyable programme ) fmusic and speaking in comrnemora- ion of Washington's birthday. Pro- srammes of the grades of the Mt. Pleasant schools were as follows:
 Grades VII and VIII: Music, Speed the Republic, school; recitation, The Character of Washington, Sarah Hy- man, reading, The Old Revolutionary Muslxet, Harold Billings: music, With Fife and Drum, school; readings, With la at Mt. Vernon, Mary Wfl- jams, Cfpa Rosenberg; recitations, Tributes to Washington, Louis Gold ,tein, Max Bendett; stereopticon views # Washington and Mt. Vernon; music, dt- Vernon Bells, school: recitation, Devotion to His Coun- or Washington's Memory, Eleanor 3yrne: remarks, MT. Stanton; music, The Star Spangled Banner. school; l Salute to the Flag, school.
 MT. Stanton in his remarks empha- Iized the value of self control and 1 'bedience. These, he said. were mark ] d characteristics of Washington and 1. III great men and are qualities neoes- ary to all success in life.
 Grades III and ", Nina E. Perry ] nd Mary Hinckley, teachers: Song, ! dy Own United States, school: read ! ng, The Virginia Boy, Alton Alexan- 1 Ter; reading, Washington the Survey { r, Inez Williams; song, Three Little 1 1 'isters, Violet Didrilcson: Two Colonial ( George Angel; Washington's ( jules for Conduct, eight children; Bat { le of Trenton, Jane Moore; song, My a sonnfe Flag, school; song, Flag of t Washington, third grade; song, Mount s