Milford chronicle., 1922-04-14
PARENT T-TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION MEETING
Continued from first page)

I personally believe that standar
schoolroOm conditions can be create
for these children at a cost of 5000
per room.
Our problem then is to raise 81
100000 outside of Wilmington. III,
value of real estate in Wilminstor
and the rest of the State is about tb,
same. Wilmington has an assessed
valuation of Sill 100000; New Castle
County has an assessed valuation nj
S55,5OO,OOO; Kent of $7,7OO,OOO anG
Sussex Of $29,OOO,OOO.
IF we bond the State at four ner
cent it will give S4,4OO,OOO for State
needs. Sussex county is at present
carrying two million dollars worth of
road bonds. This amount, supplied to
schools, would seat every child in a
room equipped with everything which
modern education calls standard.
Roads VS.. Schools
"The State is carrying $3.50 900
worth of road bonds. The roads we
are building cost $4,000 per mile. A
standard school would cost us as
much as 264 feet of. concrete road.
One plan that might be suggested
is to go to the legislature and ask for
the privilege of issuing bonds to the
extent of mills on the dollars for a
series of years until this program is
completed. l believe all could be fin
1shed in from five to eight years."
Dr. Richard W. Cooper discussed
plans to continue State school Iibrar-
les, and spoke also on the building
program.
Mr.. Ide G. Sergeant, of Paterson, N. I
j., discussed what modern schools
may mean to a community.
A board of managers, consisting of /
the State officers and the president of .
each association, forming a group of /
200 people, was selected. They met at .
noon and elected three to serve on the .
executive committee. Mrs Addie Cul-
yer, of Delmar, Mable Draper, of Mil
ton, and H. B. Boyer, of Smyrna, were
elected. Mrs. Culver was named as
delegate to the National Parent-Tea-
chers' Association, to meet in Tacoma,
Wash, May to II.
The Morning Session
In the morning session, Mrs. John
B. Cleaver presided, and Mrs. Floy E.
Booth was the parliamentarian. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. J. B.
Cleaver, of Middletown; vice presi- :
dent, Miss Agnes P. Medill, of Newark, !
for New Castle county; Mrs. Garrett !
Harrington, of Harrington, for Kent
county; Mrs. Knight for Sussex coun-
ty; SECRETARY, Mrs. Robert E. Lewis, J
of Dover; treasurer, Mrs. William B. T
Jester, of Delaware City; members of h
executive committee, Mrs. H. c. Boyer, y
of Smyrna, and Mrs. Culver, of Del +.
mar.
Presidents Report o
The presidents report, in part, was n
as follows: u
81 wish particularly to refer to first: n
The cordial relationship which has ex- n
isted during the year between the "
State Parent-Teacher Association and
he State Board of Education. Our n
record today would have been impOs- M
;ible without the splendid support of
Dr.. Holloway and his staff, particular h.
Y the supervisors who in their visits tb
o the schools have never failed to en-
DhasiZe the value of community Or f.,
anization. And second, the financial fe
nd secretarial assistance furnished hi
y the Service Citizens of Delaware, d,
which has made possible many activ-
ties that would otherwise have re- ed
NAMED undone. =
'I wish we had time today to hear
II splendid ways in which the school
are proving their value in
lany districts. I want to mention,
rst, PrimGhoOk Neck, in Sussex cOun-
2, which has furnished a splendid il sic
of what a few interested sic
eOple can accomplish. Three months FIR
go, in response to a request from the fat
Istrict, your President visited this no
chool to assist in organizing an assO-
alton. Only three people besides the lar
acher, were present, just enough by TIL
everyone there to accept \
,me Office, to effect organization. To- Do,
ly that association has eighty mem We
RS.
"It is impossible to report the num-
n of associations that have succeed Ian
in purchasing for their schools the l.
irty books recommended by the VIII
ate Committee as a beginning of a +
hool library We know that q MIN his
r of associations have done this N
ring the winter. We shall be able GrC
tell Won how MANY at orr summer MOI
Getting. Delmar, we believe, was the OF
ST to actually place thirty hooks on and
e shelves. Fairmount, in Sussex, IN
Us JuG ul6I OUC-lCdCuCI 6CuOOl 10 -
rchase the books. Marvels in Sus- day
K, has gotten in touch with the day
-ner of property adjoining the M
loOl, who has consented to release lam
! amount of land required for a on
and the association is M
eparing to buy equipment. Christi Wer
a, colored, in New Castle, is rails M
!, funds to have a fence around the son,
lool property. st. Georges has sup vile
ed both school and playground M
lipment. The last mentioned asso- rela
ton has reached the enviable po- v;
on where it is possible to reserve Visit
entire period of the regular meet M
night for study of school prob spen
Is, and have the social program on q.
second evening. In the larger relat
ms the work of the P. T. A. and the on 5
cational committee of the New Ca
ltury Clubs sometimes Overlaps. near
! duplicates the others effort Mid he
,own and Newark, during the year, ed
e afforded pleasing demonstrations Gay.
cooperative effort on the part of Qu
Sc two associations, which have re- the
ed in a number of helpful things ringt
the school. MI
The Parent-Teacher Association as Mills
organization of citizens, on S
do many tbings to add tn tbe eff Mr.
cv of the local district But the Mr..