Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-02-24

In The Aetna Park school a special
program was given on Thursday be-
ginning at 1870. The Lincoln and Cen
trail schools will celebrate in the old
kindergarten room of the Central
school on Friday beginning at 100.
On Friday night, the movies viii
start at 7:45 with a community sing
led by Miss Sanders. Harrison Rob-
inson will play a flute solo.
A music rally viii be held in the
High School Auditorium at 300 sharp.
There will be community singing, num-
bers by the High School Orchestra
and the Girls Glee Club, also solos BY
Miss Selma Menninger and Mrs. 0. F.
Schmidtill. Miss Cumnock will re-
cite can Ode to Music.
Everyone is invited to come and
participate with US in the spirit befit-
ting the time and the occasion.
The summary of a report made by
State Superintendent Callahan few
days ago and submitted to the school
authorities, should receive the consid-
Grafton of every resident of Wauwa-
tosa. The summary follows;
/ am pleased with the generally
favored character of this report, and
/ am sending your board the chief rec
concentrations made by the supervisor.
l note first of all, that like many
other communities in Wisconsin, your
board is facing the immediate con-
nF
quate to care for the needs OF your
school. | understand that Wauwatosa
has grown quite rapidly in the last
few years, and that for this raeson
your building is now too small for the
number of pupils that should be ac-
commodated. | understand, however,
that your board is fully aware of this
situation, and that you are making
plans for the erection of new high
school building within the next few
years, which will look forward to the
accommodation of your high school
| pupils for number of years.
In the meantime your problem is
how best to care for the growing de-
partments of your high school to the
best advantage. While the building
is not an old one, it fails in many par
ticulars to serve the various depart
ments of your high school in an ade-
quate fashion.
Your library is quite small for a
school of this size, but as in other de-
partments the only remedy at the pres
ent time appears to be through new
building. The departments of physical
| education, home economics, manual
arts, and commercial branches, all oe-
cupy limited quarters, and the equip
ment is not such as to fulfill the de-
mands of an up-to-date high school.
am sure it is not necessary for me
to enumerate the deficiencies of you1
present high school building. They are
doubtless as well known to the board
as they are to the superintendent and
principal. / am calling them to your
| attention merely with view to inn
pressing upon you the necessity for
| prompt action in the line of a school
building program for your city if your
pupils are to be given the best in edu-
cation which feel sure is your desire.
The instruction observed by our
supervisor was in many departments
quite excellent. In a meeting with the
teachers on Friday afternoon, he found
them very much interested in their
work and anxious to adopt any sug-
| gestions concerning the improvement
of their work.
1t is noted in the report that it is
the policy of your school to allow a
considerable freedom to the pupils both
in the Railways and in the classrooms.
This is a policy which meets the APP
| prevail of our supervisors in all cases,
but at the same time entails a care
on the part of principal and teacher
| to see that this freedom is not abused
by the pupils. The relations between
pupil and teacher and among the pu-
pills themselves in your school was in
general quite commendable.
| am enclosing with this report
copies of a few tables prepared by
Superintendent Giles, showing tie
comparative conditions in twenty one
high schools nearest in size to Wau-
| watosa. From these tables it is read
lily seen that while the per capita cost
of the schools, the school tax rate and
the city tax rate are all comparative
| " low in Wauwatosa; the per capita
wealth is high as compared with these
other cities. These conditions seem to
indicate that while at the present time
you are somewhat HANDICAPPED for
school facilities, there is no reason
why you should not proceed at once to
plan an adequate school program.
In conclusion, may l congratulate
you upon the excellent conditions
tnund in your school, and assure you
that this department stands ready to
assist at any time we may be called
upon.
The Wauwatosa Hi-Y Club held their
weekly ,aeeting Thursday noon. The
meeting was turned over to Mr.. Bah