Catoctin clarion., 1921-11-17
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCI-
ALTON MEETS

On Monday evening, November IA,
the Thurmont School Improvement
Association held its third meeting of
this school year.
No special program had been ar
ranged for this meeting as the meet
ing held for the presentation and un-
yelling of the Alumni Memorial Tablet
which Immediately preceded, rendered
program of such nature as to make
an additional program unnecessary.
The president, Rev. Waltemyer, an
nounced that in the future the meet
ings would be held on the second Mon
day night in the month.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Program-Mr. F. r. Young, Mrs. H.
d. Beachley, Miss Linnie McGuigan,
Miss Maude Weller.
Social-Mrs. Joseph Mcdaniel, Miss
Frances Flory, Mrs. Maude Martin,
Mrs. Stanley r. Damuth, Mrs. VIM. J.
Stoner, Mrs. II. H. r. Brechbill, Mrs.
w. C. Waltemyer, Mrs. r. E. Cadow.
Membership-Mrs. Carl Gall, Mrs.
r. A. Tyson, Mrs. Rudolph Eyler, Miss
Stella Powell, Mrs. C. X. Banes.
After the routine business was dis
posed of, new business was taken up,
and under this head the pressing need
for additional school facilities was
discussed. Prof. Brechbill set forth
in detail the handicaps under Whicn
we are now laboring because of lack
of room and pictured what the future
would be like should we fail to induce
the School Board to provide adequate
room. Mr.. Lester Birely and DR.. +.
C. Kefauver took part in the discus
sion and their remarks were Of such
nature as to convince everyone pres
ent that immediate action on the part
of the patrons of the school and citi-
zens of the community was necessary.
A committee, whose names will be an
lounced later, was appointed by the
president to take this matter up with
The County Board of Education. This
committee should be backed up by ev-
cry citizen of the community, because
without united action, nothing can be
accomplished. If we fail to induce
the school board to provide additional
room the situation will be like this:
The seven grade rooms are now filled
to capacity. There are nearly one
hundred pupils in the High School.
The seven High School Teachers have
but two class rooms upstairs and must
use all the basement rooms to hear
recitations. In the one room the
pupils must stay all day and every
day. In rainy weather the water en-
tiers through the foundation walls of
one of the basement rooms rapidly
enough to flood the floor. None of the
basement rooms can be adequately
heated and there is always danger of
the children taking cold, yet because
of the present congested condition
these rooms must be used. Is this
fair to the children?
At least eighty of this years High
School students will be in school next
year, and there will be graduated from
the seventh grade In this school not
less than forty, and they together with
the pupils who will enter our eighth
grade from other schools, will make
an eighth grade of Approximately
fifty-fve who, added to the eighty in
the ninth, tenth and eleventh grades
will bring the number in High School
up to one hundred and thirty-five, and
only two rooms allotted to them that
are really safe and fit to use.
There is only one thing to do if we
want our children to have equal adj
vantages with the children of other
schools and that is to demand that the
School Board provide US with addi'
tional room, Viii you do it? Sure
you will because you have never YET
failed in a forward movement.