Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-22
CAMP CURTIN JOINS
IN BETTER SPEECH
Pupils of New Junior High School in Nationwide Move
ment; Faculty Has Many Experienced Men and Women
Who Have Specialized in Their Work

Speech Week in November
The history of American Speech
Week is brief but comprehensive.
The organization of a speech COM
mittee in 1915. by the National
Council of Teachers of English, and
the observance of English week in
the Eastern District High school,
Brooklyn, N. Y, are two initial
events of the significant movement,
vital in determining the success of
the movements of Americanism and
of Americanization. Since 1915, al
most every State in the Union has
had somewhere within its borders
an English week. Notable agencies
supporting this movement are the
National Council of Teachers of
English, the Chicago Woman's Club,
the National Federation of Women's
y Clubs, the National Association of
Teachers of Speech, the department
established by the government for
aiding the stranger within our
gates" in the use of the English
language.
Miss Claudia Crumpton, secretary
of the American Speech Committee
of the National Council, that all
parts of the country join in the
celebration of Better Speech
Week." this autumn, the Camp
Curtin Junior High school has
begun preparations for its part
in the celebration. The event will
be city-wide in scope. The entire
faculty and study body, including
the four to five hundred anticipated
students, will form the nucleus of
workers upon this project. which to
be successful, requires the Coop
Grafton of the entire city. John j.
Brehm, principal, has appointed the
English department to serve on the
general committees: Miss Lois K.
Booker, who has inaugurated this
celebration of English Week" in
this city, Samuel Wilson, adviser of
the editorial staff, Miss Ellen Rein,
Miss A. May Title, Miss Katharine
Aumiller, Miss Elda Stambaugh.
Miss Grace Mclaughlin, Miss Ruth
Brumbaugh, and Miss Carrie Fair
les.
Specialized Teachers
The faculty of the Camp Curtin
Junior High school have an inter-
esting professional record in which
specialization is the dominant fea-
ture.
Professor John ]. Brehm, the
principal, has notable record,
which has won for him public rec
ognition as one of the city's fore
most educators and supporters Of
greater and better Harrisburg ac-
tivities. He received his early pro-
fessional training at Eastman Col
lege, Grove City College and Glens
Falls Scientific Institute.
Recently, upon election % the
position of principal of the Camp
Curtin Junior High school, he took
summer courses at Columbia Uni
versity in organization and admin
istration of the junior high school,
one of his instructors being Profess
sor Thomas H. Briggs, national
authority on the junior high school
problem.
Before coming to Harrisburg he
held the position of high school
lie schools of Mechanicsburg. His
first position in this city was prin-
cipal of the Cameron building Later
he was made one of the first two
supervisors of the Harrisburg
schools and for several years has
been the city's chief supervisor.
Two years ago he was elected to his
present position and upon his cleo
tion began serious, thorough study
of the Junior high school, including
visits to junior high schools in Gin
cinnati, Ohio; Rochester, New York,
and Montclair and Trenton, New
Jersey.
Gettysburg College has conferred
upon him an honorary masters de-
gree. Before the university extern
sion courses became an opportunity
in this city, one of the many pro-
fessional courtesies that he had ex-
tended to the city teachers was to
accept the presidency of roundtable
study clubs interested in studying
masterpieces of literature during
the winter seasons
Capable Assistant
To help him with his heavy du-
ties. of school organization, Mr..
Brehm has a highly capable assist
ant, Miss Anna May Miller, who is
graduate of the Harrisburg High
school and of the School of Com
merce and has taken cultural chau-
tauqua courses.
The English Department. - This
department comprises ten teachers.
Miss Ruth NJ. Brumbaugh is
graduate of Gettysburg College. She
has spent two years at Irving Col
1ege, and during study abroad, has
taken a years instruction in French.
Miss Brumbaugh is also an lnstruc-
tor in the French department
Miss Katharine Aumiller Is a
graduate of Irving College and has
spent summer at New York chau-
tauqua.
Samuel Wilson, a graduate of
Bucknell University, has been a stu
dent one winter at Columbia Uni
versity, and attended the recent sum-
mer session at that institution. He
has spent three previous summers
at State College.
Miss Elda Stambaugh is a gradu-
ate of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal at Shippensburg, and has
also attended summer chautaqua
lecture courses.
Took Special Courses
Miss Anna Weitmeyer, a graduate
of the Harrisburg High School, has
specialized with tutors in Latin and
general science. Miss Wieitmeyea,
has obtained a leave of absence
which she will spend in visiting the
battle area Chateau Thierry to the
Vesle, and Rheims.
Miss Ellen Rieff, her substitute.
has been a Columbia University stu
dent, a student at several chautau-
quas held in New York, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts,. She is a gradu-
ate of the Kutztown State Normal
School, and has had a long and
varied career as elementary and
high school teacher in Buffalo, New
York, Oxford, Ohio and New Cum
berland. She has been an instructor
at the State Normal School. Cali
fornia. and Training Teacher and
Teacher of Methods and Supervision
of Elementary Grades, in Columbia,
South Carolina.