The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-17
FINE PROGRAM RENDERED AT
 SCHOOL SHOW

Tho Empress theater was we'll filled yesterday, the occasion being an en- tertainment given by the Cordova pub lie schools for the purpose of raising sufficient money for the purchase of geography slides to be used in the moving picture machine at the school house.
 sA, An excellent program was rendered, which was thoroughly appreciated, and was as follows:
 Piano solo, "The Dorothy Dooley.
 Vocal solo, Because I Love You, Dear"-Mrs. Harry Kerr.
 Piano solo, "A Polish Dance''- Ophelia Howard
 Illustrated lecture on South America -Senor Carlos Coloma of the Univer- sidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
 Piano solo, Minuet''-Headlee Lam prey.
 Vocal solo, Swiss song''-Mrs. E. F. O'Brien.
 Spanish dance-High school girls, direction of Miss Ellen Fraisure.
 An Expression of Thanks
 Miss Keever, principal of the schools, shows her appreciation of those who contributed to the success of the entertainment in the following communication:
 Usually it is not difficult, with paper A and pencil at hand, to say what needs to be said, but ones vocabulary seems very inadequate when an attempt is made to express appreciation of the overwhelming kindness shown on all sides in order to make yesterdays school benefit a success.
 From all who contributed to the sue cess of the entertainment-Capt athrop, who donated the use of his beautiful theater, and all his employees, who offered their services so willingly; MT. Steele, who gave us all our print ing; Senor Carlos Coloma, who came all the way from South America to tell us about his native land; and all the others who gave so generously of their time and talents in providing a most interesting program; to the public who patrOniZed our effort so literally everyone did everything possible to make the entertainment the complete success that it was, and all have our hearty thanks. This experience proves that the COrdova public and the Cor dova public school thoroughly under work and cooperation is the greatest success possible in any undertaking.
 We did what we set out to do raised enough money for the purchase of 8 special set of six hundred geog- raphy slides for next years work. Knowing that our commissioner of ed ucation, MT. Henderson, had a chance to examine this set while in attend ance at a recent convention in Cleve- land, Ohio, a letter was written asking for his personal estimate of their value. His reply is appended, and is probably more convincing than any word of ours, that the money is to be used for a worthy purpose:
 My Dear Miss Keever: I examined the set of six hundred slides put out by the Keystone View Company while in Cleveland, attending the convention of the National Educational Associa- tiOn, and was verey much impressed with the fact that they are highly de- sirab1e for use in the schools of Alaska so informed the manager of the com pany, and gave him a list of the vari- Ous school superintendents of the ter ritory, with the request that he for ward them literature concerning the StereOgraph and slides I had Origi- naIly intended to write to each of you with the recommendation that either the stereOgraph or slides be purchased, but in view of the fact that I had taken up with the schools the matter of the purchase of DeVry projectors, concluded that it would be best for me to voice no sentiment in this matter, thus leaving it to the discretion of the various school executives.
 "I am very glad to learn that you contemplate making such purchase and that you have such a well-laid plan for securing the necessary money.
 'FVery sincerely yours,
 n LESTER D. HENDERSON,
 "Commissiouar of Education"