The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-03
WOMEN SEEKING ID EXTEND WHITE WAY ID THE WEST PARK
Henley School Improvement Association Suggests Park Be Named Henley Park.
 ,ToAppear Before Board

Birmingham women are going to petition the board of commissioners to rename West park, across from the Henley school, and call it Hen ley" park.
 They are also going to ask that the proposed white way extending from the Terminal station past the new postoffice may be extended to the park, two blocks to Sixteenth street. They will go before the com missionerS as soon as possible.
 Those behind the movement are the members of the Henley School Im- provement association, whose presi- dent is Mrs. S. A. Middleton, and Mrs. Idyl King Sorsby, founder of Ala bama Day, who is interested in help ing make that section of the city more beautiful.
 There are 35 members of the asso- cistion-and they have been working extremely hard for the past year to get number of things done in Hem ley school, which is attended by e50 children and which is badly crowded.
 Reasons For Change
 The reason the the women wish the name of West park changed is pri- marily because a great number of people confuse it with West Lake park at Bessemer. short time ago, when the association gave band concert and picture show, number of people did not go, because tn y thought it was being staged at Bes- semer.
 Besides. since the school is the Henley school, Henley park would locate it for most people at once.
 The reason for the extension of the white way to the park is that it would improve the appearance of all tho neighborhood make the park pretty and give better all round setting to the post office and the suggested federal reserve bank branch on the northwest corner of s Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street. It is also declared that band concerts in the park, municipal and otherwise, might appeal to those connected ith the post office.
 16 NntionaIfties
 The little association. which looks after the welfare of the 16 national ities represented in the school, las already reported to the commission CTS the pressing lack of a lunch. room. It is hoped that a building
 
 be obtained where the lower floor could be used for lunchroom and t nnstairs for classrooms. Dr. J.
 Pnillips granted the association a ipnehrorn, until he was forced to ifa it over for a classroom. The ob- snihE of the building next door
 lla cost about $500 to $500 fo rthe
 Rni 1t Is yet a question wheth-
 pe board will do anything
 iiddleton said that during
 ast school period, the association
 little children, because they
 % hungry they could not study.
 c.g. acceded to the request last
 for the etreet to be roped off Ng he recess period at Henley
 eai te insure safety for the chill e0
 thsss are other officers of the Neniey improvement organization. ! atfs E e. Spangburg, vice president; Nfs H. smith, secretary: O. C. t'Hi 1iensel, treasurer. Finance com n'tfee Mrs Carmichael. Mrs. Dan t"oieyi Mrs. M. A. Hannon. The ghstman of the welfare committee is Mrs H. L. Auman. Two Jewish mothers particularly take an active interest in the clubs life-Mrs. H Webber and Mrs. Fannie Mendelsohn The association equipped the neigh borhood playgrounds, it's work being done under the supervision of Miss Alma Graves, who. Mrs. Middleton declares. has done splendid work.