Evening star., 1925-12-06
Parent-Teacher Activities

The executive board of the District
Of Columbia Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations, will hold the
regular monthly meeting Tuesday at
, pm. in the home of the president.
Mrs. q. s. Rafter, 500 Eighteenth
street. These board meetings are al
ways important and il is most neces-
sary for every member to be present
so that every department will be rep
resented.
Every member of a school assoCia-
ton should know that he or she is a
member of a great national organia
tton known as the National Congress
OF Parents and Teachers. which has
"a membership Of more than million,
with State branches in every State and
the District of Columbia, which
is organized and conducted exactly the
same as those in The States, having
the same sort of communities and
problems as the States. The office
OF the national congress Is located
here at l20l Sixteenth street.
Through the efforts of Mrs. David
Mears Ma lional child Welfare day
chairman. there has been reprinted an
edition Of Mrs. Theodore Birney' $
book, "Childhood Mrs. Brney was
the founder of the National organiza-
tion. which was organized in Wash
ington February Il. 1897.
The Brookland Parent Teacher As
sociation met Monday night, with the
president. Mrs. J. \. Cox. III the chair.
This association is having d member
ship drive and the meeting was a
very large one. The speaker was Mrs.
e. r. kalmbach chairman of educa-
ton in the District of Columbia con-
gress. AS part of the membership
drive the associa ton gave a reception
10 the teachers Friday evening.
Mrs Joseph Randall chairman of
the shoe and rubber fund for the Dis
trict Of Columbia congress, held "A
meeting of her committee Wednesday
afternoon and arranged for "a card
party to be held in the Elks Hail
January % at s o'clock. Every year
Mrs. Randall receives requests for
proper footgear from the teachers
and school nurses from every part of
the District of Columbia and hun
dreds of children are enabled to at
tend school by having shoes and rub
bers given to them. Mrs. S. r. Carter
has charge of the table reservations.
Peabody Hilton Parent-Teacher AS
sociation met Tuesday afternoon, with
Mrs. G. W. Lady presiding. Miss
ent and director of mental testing.
gave a talk on Habit Forming Period
of Children" The GaSque elective
school board bill was indorSed. The
children of primary grades repeated
several short plays given during Ed
uCation week. y donation was given
10 help purchase a brace for d Grip
pied child in the school. 1t was also
voted to purchase one dozen chairs
Ill Nd y-r-ta 81 20 fnn lon sol Tp->
McCullah, chairman of Juvenile Court,
asked for helpers in the room in
charge of the District of Columbia
Congress of Parent-Teacher Associa-
tions Wednesday afternoons. Mrs
Mann, vice president, told of the mem
bership drive.
The Peabody Card Club will meet
with Mrs. Window, III Third street
northeast tomorrow at pm.
The regular meeting of the Bryan
Parent. Teacher Association will he
held December II. instead of Decem-
her IS. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, presi-
dent of the Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations. will be the
speaker of the evening. Miss Esther
Celander. student of George Wash
ington University. will present a mum
Der of musical solos in costume.
The Parent-Tea cher Association of
the Bradley School met Tuesday at the
school, with the president, Mrs. G.. z.
Leishear. in the chair A report of
the supper held November 20 was
given by the chairman, Mrs. William
Leishear, as sos cleared, The same
corps of officers was reelected TO serve
The coming year. They are as follows:
Mrs. G. P. Leishear. president; Mrs.
J. c. Hungerford, vice president Mrs.
William Leishear. secretary; Mrs. &.
II. knight, treasurer.
The Powell-J ohnson- Bancroft Par
ent-Teacher Association met in the
Mount Pleasant Branch Public Lib
rary, Tuesday afternoon, with the
president, Mrs. Manly, presiding.
After committee reports. a talk was
given by Miss Mary Dabney Davis,
kindergarten primary educationalist
of the Bureau of Education. on the
subject of Certain Available Help for
Child Study" The attendance banner
was won by the 6-B grade of the Ban