Evening star., 1925-05-04
SHAW JUNIOR HIGH
GRADUATION PLANS
Judge George Of Chicago to De-
liver Commencement Address in
Dunbar Auditorium.

Judge Albert Is. George of the
municipal court of Chicago will be
the commencement speaker at the
graduation exercises of the Shaw
Junior High School in the Dunbar
High School auditorium June 15. He
is a graduate of the old NJ Street
| High School.
The Shaw Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton will meet Tuesday evening at
7:30 o'clock. This meeting will take
| the form of An evening session of
| the Shaw Junior High School," and
! will afford parents and friends, eSpe-
cially those who are employed in the
day, an opportunity TO observe the
school at work in classrooms. shops,
laboratories, gymnasium and audi
torium.
Miss Mineola Kirkland, principal
of the school, with Miss Rose Nixon,
] director of drawing, attended the
| 18th annual meeting of .'School Mems
Week" recently held at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
! The Child Health" program at
Shaw on May day included an infant
welfare demonstration with real
babies and their mothers as the cen
/ ter of interest. Brief talks were
given by DR.. Charles Tignor and DR..
Marie B. Lucas on the care of infants.
| The platform was appropriately set
with bassinets, layettes, baby beds
and toys.
At recess period, the street in front
! of the cchool was closed to traffic, and
| there were physical training exer-
cises and organized games, the girls
directed by Miss Davis and the boys
| by DR.. Cupid.
! In two recent meetings of the series
/ of educational faculty meetings, being
! held at Shaw, the subjects of history
ana domestic art and domestic science
were treated as to aims, content and
methods of the courses in these sub
| jects as taught at Shaw. Miss
1 Quander. Mr.. Bannister and Mrs.
Maloney were speakers at the history
meeting; Miss Sewell and Mrs.
| Daniels at the household arts meet
/ ing
Mrs. Esther Popel Shaw, teacher
! of French and Spanish, visited Ian
guage classes in Junior high schools
in New York City Friday. In the
evening Mrs. Shaw was guest at
/ the Award Dinner" of the first liter
ary contest conducted by the maya
| zine Opportunity, which magazine has
| published several poems by Mrs.
| Shaw.
The ninth grade commercial classes
| at Shaw are having the advantage
of instruction in penmanship by Miss
! {. +. Martin, director of penmanShip,
divisions 1913.
| The major classes in domestic art,
| Miss Sewell, teacher, visited the
Museum Monday morning. reporting
TO the Museum at 9 o'clock and spend
ing a double class period in directed
study of textile manufacture and
period costume.
Three graduates of Shaw Junior
! High School have recently won hon
ors for the senior high school. which
! they now attend-Manning Johnson.
a Junior at Armstrong Technical
High School, was chosen as his
! schools best orator in the national
oratorical contest, and was awarded
prize of 500 by The Evening Star.
In a different field of activity, Roland
Richardson and Joseph Miller, soph-
the Medley Relay at the recent Uni
noreS at Dunbar High School, won
the medley relay at the recent Uni
versity of Pennsylvania meet. Both
Richardson and Miller, when mem
bers of Shaw, had previously won
important secondary school athletic
events at such meets as Hampton,
BordentoWn and Howard University.