The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-14
WESTMINSTER WEST.
Local School Sets the Pace.

Local School Sets the Pace
Portfolio correspondence which will
acquaint the children of at least one
school in France with the real life and
surroundings of children in this state
on the one hand and the children of one
school of this state with the life of the
children of France on the other hand has
been entered into by the South Valley
school in Westminster West, of which
Miss Ethel III. Wing of Putney is the
teacher
The South Valley school is the only
school in Vermont to take up the pro-
lect, which is a part OF the junior Red
Cross program and which can be taken
up only on approval of the director of
junior service and after giving assur.
ance of a reasonable interest in other
parts of the junior program. The school
has the 100 per cent Red Cross poster
in one window and at Christmas time
sent gifts made by the pupils to children
in France. \ large number of toys, also
gathered by the pupils. is being sent by
the New England division headquarters,
through which all correspondence goes,
TO the same school to which the letters
will be sent. The letters have been ar
| ranged in portfolio form.
A letter received last week by Miss
Wing regarding the portfolios reads in
part as follows:
"They are perfectly lovely. They
have been passed around the division Of
ice so that everyone might see them,
and all agreed that they are splendid.
We have forwarded one for school in
France. and have kept the other here
We wanted awfully to keep them both,
for every one of the pictures are so nice
that we hated to let any 60. Please
extend our thanks and appreciation to
all YOUR pupils and let them know how
much we enjoyed the portfolios 1t
| Is our hope that when the replies reach
You they will bring as much pleasure to
you as your book is going to bring to the
children over there
The portfolio was made in duplicate
so that one might be kept by division
headquarters for exhibition purposes in
inspiring other classes in New England
to undertake similar work. 1t consisted
of two large loose leaf note book covers
filled with blank sheets of black mount
ing paper. On these were mounted
snapshot pictures of children at work
and play, farm animals and pets, farm
buildings and growing crops, school
houses and school children and other
pictures of buildings and scenery of
Putney and Westminster West.
The school as group wrote three long
letters,-One telling of their school, one
about the state and one about the
farms and home life of that section.
The outside cover was decorated with
the word 90 PortfOlio' and the name
and location of the school. An envelope
also was filed with pictures, cards and
papers as little gifts for each child in
the French school.
Not only does the correspondence
build a bridge between America and
Europe which links together the girls
and boys of many lands by means of the
spirit and organization of the Red Cross,
but the conditions under which it can
be taken up insure high standards and
make the work privilege and a reward
and broader interest in the school work.
both for the pupil and the teacher, but
of necessity nourishes community pride.
The junior Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY. win meet Saturday afternoon with
Rev. Walter Curtis at the parsonage.
Mrs. L. NJ. Sanborn is i'll with pneu-
monia. Her daughter. Mrs. William
Treadwell. of Putney. is caring for her.
Mabel Harlow of Bellows Falls came
Saturday and visited until Tuesday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Har-
low.
The sugar season is over frogs are
croaking trees are budding. crocuSes are
in blossom-sure signs that spring is
with rs.
Gorham Bralev has returned to Mrs
Lund's to board, after several weeks
visit with his daughter. Mrs. Nettie
Wightman of Walpole, y. III.
Westminster West school began Mon
day after three-weeks vacation. Will
lis Braley carries pupils over the west
road because of the bad condition of the
other road.
Mr. Winslow will be here Friday aft
ernoon. April 81, at $50 O'Clock with
County Agent II. w. Harvey to give a
pruning demonstration at Seymour Mi
nard's apple orchard. All interested are
invited.
Miss Nellie Houghton. who has been
spending the winter with cousins in
Haverhill, Mass, returned Tuesday and
opened her home here. 1t seems good
to see the homes opened again on the
village street, that have been closed all
winter.