San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-10
SCHOOL DOORS
OPEN MONDAY.
FOR $4,000
Cafeterias Will Be in Op-
Grafton for Noon
Lunch.
SEVEN YEAR LIMIT
Instruction in High Schools
Will Not Begin Until
Wednesday.

With an enrolment of 10000 antici-
pated. San Antonio public schools
opened their doors Monday for regis
tration. Since the junior high school
idea has been introduced for the first
time in San Antonio, school board adj
ministrative officers find the problem
Of organizing the schools along the
new line slightly more difficult than
the organization work experienced here
tofore.
The work of organizing elementary
schools is comparatively simple. and
the classes will be ready for real work,
Tuesday morning. Senior and junior
high schools will not be opened for
classwork until Wednesday morning,
Monday and Tuesday being devoted to
registration of new pupils, arrange
ment of programs and organization OF
classes.
With the opening of the fall term,
school cafeterias will be under the
management of the school board for
the first time in the history Of San
Antonio schools. The cafeteries will
be placed upon a self-supporting basis.
The school board has entrusted Mrs.
/. Il. Browne. as director of cafeterias,
with the responsibility of seeing that
wholesome food is served to school chill
dren at a minimum cost.
Serve Balanced Meal.
Mrs. Browne has announced that the
school cafeterias will specialize on the
serving of a plate lunch in which a
balanced meal will be prepared for
the children. There will be nothing
fancy served in the cafcterias. Mrs.
Browne said. Food viii be purchased
in wholesale quantities. Each cafe
terra will be under the charge Of a
manager who will be directly response
bill TO Mrs. Browne.
Seven cafeterias will IL opened Tues
day morning, and the cafcterias at
Main Avenue and Breckenridge high
schools will be opened Wednesday
morning. No cafeterias will be oper-
ated in schools where halliday ses-
sions are in effect. Cafeterias to open
Tuesday are ut Beacon Hill. Travis.
Bonham. Collins Garden. Herff and
Smith elementary schools. The Thorn
as Nelson Page junior high school. the
only junior high to hold full-day ses-
sions. will also have >afeteria in
operation at the former Breckenridge
grammar school.
In conformance with a prior an
nounccment of the school board, Junior
high schools. with the exception Of the
Thomas Nelson Page school. will hold
sessions at elementary schools until
In I,,.1l,n1c n araatQ1
This will necessitate halliday sessions
both in the junior high schools and in
the elementary grades Oi those schools
where the junior high classes Will be
temporarily quartered.
Seven-year Age Limit.
With the addition this year OF the
Sam Houston senior high school, it is
believed at the school board office that
this school will greatly relieve over
crowded conditions at the two older
high schools. With the third high
school and the junior highs in opera
ton. it is believed at the school board
office that halliday sessions Will not
be necessary in Main Avenue and
Breckenridge high schools. Halliday
session. however. will be held at the
Sam Houston high until n new elemen.
tary school building under process OF
construction in the vicinity of the Ben
Milan school is. completed and the Gle
mentary grades in that school can be
transferred to the new building.
Incidental 10 the opening of schools,
tbe San Antonio school board office
has been bombarded with hundreds of
ouestions. One Of the most frequent
questions is concerning the ruling upon
the minimum age limits. No child
NAV be admitted to the public schools
until it is seven years of age. Paul
Scbolz. business manager for the school
hoard has announced.