Evening star., 1921-05-01
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Members of the Washington High
School Cadet Corps are being given
intensive training in extended order
movements, in preparation for the an
nual competitive drill. which VIII be
held at the American League Bal
Park May % and "A. The extended
order movements are one of the fea-
lures of this event.
Students of Eastern High School
gave their final performance OF
Jerome n Jerome's four-act comedy
"Robina IN Search of Husband.
last night in the auditorium OF the
school. The play was one of the pest
presented by Washington High Schn"I
students this year. and much or the
credit for its success is due TO the
acting of Thomas Haywood and Miss
Willye Garner. Others in the east
who handled their parts well were
Miss Gladys EelticId. Lewis Davie.
William Mckinley. Ma1y RiNler and
Austin SnaNtly.
J. Harry Phillips. ir.. was elected
president OF the eighth grad" gradu =
ating class of the Maury School at Il
meeting Tuesday. Other officers
chosen are: Christine jackson. vice
president: Graham Lowden, treasurer:
.
Girling. prophecies.
"romsnd~r Walk" Louis \ Par
ker's play. will be repeated by stu
dents of Central High school in the
auditorium of the institution Friday
and Saturday nights. 1t was per
formed Friday and last night before
capacity audiences. All the scenery
and costumes used in the product, on
are the handiwork Of Central stu
dents. In the cast are Mary Barr.
Ned Leckie. Kenneth Williamson.
Mannix Walker. henry palby. Louis
Tame nbaum. Clarke Beach. Myrtle
Lewton. Alice Dickey. Evelyn Ritchie,
Wilma Jcrman, Els Talbert. DorIs
Jeffrey. Margaret benty. Margaret
Furse. Louis SeiboId, Vivian Racan.
Helen Marks. Bernard Goldstein. Da-
NId Taran. Bliss Austin. Ernest COL
John Saunders, Emery Fones and Fir
man Lyle.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. superintendent
of schools. returned To Washington
yesterday from Baltimore. where he
spent last week sitting with "A board
of educators who made study of
the results of survey made of the
Monumental city's public school sys-
TEN.
There will he meeting of the board
OF education at the Franklin School
"Wednesday afternoon. New rules and
regulations governing the use of the
public schools by the community CEN
ters will be adopted.
\ team composed of officers of Com
pany l. of Western High School won the
annual war map games OF the Washing
ton High School Cadet Corps. This team
also won an exhibition war map game
played in the Franklin School last Mon
day evening before d large gathering of
A off i.,i. .,,l
ents and friends of the cadets Mem
bers of the team have been awarded
two gold bars and five-poin, gold star,
IN addition to special insignia all of
which will be worn on the left sleeve of
their uniforms.
A large Copley print of the Shaw
memorial was presented to the NJ
Street Junior High School Friday by the
League for the Decoration of Public
Schools. Appropriate dedicatory ex-
ercises were held in the assembly
hall of the institution. They consist
ed of remarks by Principal Lucy d.
Slowe. songs and recitations by the
students, and brief talks by Joseph
H. Douglass and representatives of
the decoration league. Among the
guests were Mrs. Coralie r. Cook.
member of the board of education (:
Mrs. b. *. Bruce. Miss Temple and
Mrs. Richardson.
The Business High School Alumni
Association will give it's final dance
or the season at 2i00 18th street Sat
urday night at o'clock. 1t will be
informal Refreshments will be serv-
ed
The spring number of the NJ Street
Junior High School Review has just
come off the press. This issue con-
tains numerous plates and page of
student cartoons.
The May number of the Fastener.
Eastern High Schools official organ.
made its appearance last week. 1t
10 the best of the present school year.
NJ Street Junior High School has
been officially listed in the catalogue
of Columbia University of New York
city as Its extension center in Wash
ington.
AS part of the campaign to re-
cruit girls in the teaching profession
faculty and students of the Wilson
Normal School Friday afternoon enter
tained the graduating classes of
Business and Tech High Schools. In
small groups, the high school stu
dents inspected the teaching plant of
the Wilson Normal School and OBJ
served the senior department at work
with classes of grade children. The
academic department, the gymnasium.
the cafeteria and the garden were
thrown open to the visiting students
in order that they might get a COM
prehensive idea of the institution in
which Washington trains its public
school teachers.
The kindergarten of the Wilson
Normal School was open Wednesday
afternoon to visiting teachers under
the direction of Miss Jane McKnew
and Miss Nell Taylor. Many kinder
garten teachers took advantage of
the opportunity TO visit the school
from which they graduated.
School officials regard the kinder
garten rooms the most attractive in
any school building. The one at the
Wilson Normal has been made un-
usually so by the addition of A copy
in colored paper of a stained glass
window in Notre Dame. Paris 1t
represents the work of Miss Mcknew
and Miss kalb of the art department
AMERICANIZAT SCHOOLS.
Students of the ri MI