Evening star., 1925-04-19

hold the first Gathers night" of the
season at pm. April % at the
F,bbitt Hotel. VIII C. Barnes of the
Forestry Service will give an illus
trated talk on The Flowers and Trees
of the National Parks" Nine, Won
Unschuld will present to the organi-
Zation an American flag, which is the
gift of a foreign-born mother to the
parents of the children of the Nations
Capital. There will be a program of
music under the direction of the music
chairman of the organization, Nine.
Won Unschuld. There will also be an
address by prominent speaker,
The monthly meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations was held Tues
day afternoon in the Ebbitt Hotel,
with the president, Mrs. G. S. Rafter,
in the chair. The Juvenile Court
chairman, Mrs. Z. r. Kalmbach, read
letter to the organization from
> Judge Sellers thanking the Parent
Teacher Associations for their support
for her reappointment as Juvenile
Court judge. The health chairman,
Mrs. Joseph Sanders, introduced a mo-
ton, which was indorsed, asking the
authorities to introduce vision
clinics" as part of the school health
system. The membership chairman,
-
the organization has increased its
membership since last April. The
music chairman, Nine. Won Unschuld,
reported that the neighborhood music
classes are proving a success. One
of the most important matters which
was presented to the assembly was
petition to the Board of Education
asking that the board in the next
budget request an adequate appro-
!, priation to maintain and supervise all
school Fairgrounds during the hours
of daylight every day in the year eX-
cept Sunday. This petition was signed
by the represer +atives of Parent
Teacher Associations from every part
of the District of Columbia. The or
Eanization unanimously elected its
president, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, as
a nominee for the citizens advisory
council The Edmonds Parent-TeacherI
Association had the largest represen-
tation present.
Mrs. William T. Bannerman, educa-
tion chairman of the District OF Co
lumbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Associations, will officially represent
that organization at the Progressive
Education Convention in Philadelphia,
April %, "a and %. Mrs. Joseph San
ders, the health chairman of the Dis
trict of Columbia Congress, will also
attend the convention. There will be
an address on Investments for
Women in the Mayfiower Hotel to-
morrow at II O'Clock by Mrs. Henry |
Clarke Coe of New York.
At the request for helpers from Mrs. |
G. S. Fraser the clothes conservation |
chairman of the District of Column |
bia Congress, the following Parent |
Teacher Associations have volunteered |
to help with that work during the |
Fridays in May: First Friday. the |
Central High Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton; second Friday, Maury Parent |
Teacher Association; third Friday, the |
Wallach-Towers Parent Teacher Asso- |
citation, and fourth Friday, the Brent |
Dent Parent.Teacher Association.
The three delegates from the Dis. |
trict of Columbia Congress to the ma
tional convention in Austin, Tex, will |
leave Washington on Wednesday
night, April %, and go to Austin by
way Of New Orleans. They expect to
reach Austin April 26. in time to
register before the formal opening of
the convention, April 81 The dele |
gates who will represent the District |
of Columbia are Mrs. Giles Scott RAT |
ter, Mrs. j. y. Saunders and Mrs. |
William Wolff Smith.
A meeting of the Blair-Hayes |
Parent-Teacher Association was held
Thursday, with the president, Mrs
Magruder, in the chair. The chair. |
man of the benefit movie per-
formance reported a profit of $40. |
A committee has been appointed to
arrange school luncheon in May.
The association voted to give $40
toward the convention expenses of |
the District delegates to the Texas
convention. The attendance banners |
were won by the classes OF Miss Gill |
bert of the Hayes and Mrs. Kennefick |
and Miss Naylor of the Blair.
The executive committee of the |
Langdon Parent Teacher Association |
entertained the teachers and the su. |
pervising principal, Mr.. Ely, at din |
ner, April. at the school. Mrs. ]. w. |
Byler, president of the Parent-Teacher |
Association, presided at the dinner, |
and also at the meeting which fol- |
lowed, when Mr.. Ely gave talk on |
Lead On" J. n. Sanford, head of |
the probation department of the |
Juvenile Court, spoke on the Work |
and Needs of the Juvenile Court" A |
chorus of pupils from the seventh |
and eighth grades sang. The pro- |
ceeds of candy sold at this meeting |
will be used to purchase balls and |
bats for the Lenox School boys, who |
have been printing notices for the
Langdon association this Winter. The |
Langdon Parent-Teacher Association |
is enrolled as "A Month" in the |
Homan Calendar of the District of |
Columbia Congress, by which the |
funds are being raised to send the |
District delegates to the national con- |
vention in Texas.
The initial meeting of the Parent |
Teacher Association of the Van Ness
School, Fourth and NJ streets south
east, was held April 8. Officers were |
elected as follows: President, Mrs. T. |
r. Goddard; vice president, Mrs. j.
p Bankston; secretary, Miss K. E.
Richardson, and treasurer, Miss NJ. |
+. Woolnough. The association plans
to meet April "a, at pm.
The Petworth Home and School AS .
sociation met April 7. The association
voted to purchase a new arithmetic de-
vice for the lower grades of the Pet
worth School, and voted money to
install chinning bars at the Allison
street portables. The surface OF the
school grounds is in a very bad con-
dition and a resolution requesting the
authorities to improve this condition
twas passed.
It was decided to hold the usual |
Spring lunch in May. All the money |
received from this lunch is used to
purchase playground equipment. Pia-
no solos were PLAYED by Miss kathe- |
rine Blake and Miss Murlei Io~s... = /,
sketch entitled the Employment |
Agent was presented by the mem |
1,ars oF tho literary committee of the |