Evening star., 1926-04-25
Parent-Teacher Activities

All notices for this column must be
received by the chairman by noon on
| the Wednesday preceding the sun
| day on which publicity Is desired.
Address Mrs. ]. n. Saunders, 36lS
Porter street.
The monthly meeting of the Dis
| trict of Columbia Congress of Parent
| Teacher Associations was held Tues,
day afternoon in the Hamilton Hotel
| with Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter in the
chair. Mr.. Currey, of Philadelphia
spoke about the sesquicentennial
exposition to be held in Philadelphia
this coming Summer. The treasurer
reported a paid-up membership of
| 5,322 and urged each president start
a membership campaign in Septem-
| ber so that the District membership
will be 10000 next April. Mrs. Carl
| Smith recreation chairman, pre-
| sented a resolution of Endorsement
| for the bathing beach bill now be-
| fore Congress, which resolution was
unanimously adopted. Mrs. T. ii.
Young, chairman of the special com
mittee. reported on the parent.teacher
| banquet to be given April 80. The
WayS and means committee chairman,
| Mrs. Louise CaStel, was elected a dele
gate to the national convention In
Atlanta. The program was in charge
of the. education chairman, Mrs. f.
r. Kalmbach, who introduced Miss
Edith Peckham. from the Junior Red
Cross, who told of the work of that
organization, and DR.. Morrison, from
the District Dental Society. who
spoke on dental health.
The annual State convention of the
District of Columbia Congress of
Parent Teacher Associations will be
held in the Hamilton Hotel next Fri
day.
There will be two sessions; the first
will convene at 10 o'clock and Will
be given up entirely to business. At
the close of this session officers for
the next two years will be elected.
The nominating committee. which will
take charge of the election. is COM
posed of the following: Mrs. j.
Hooker, Mrs. G.. S. Fraser, Mr. Rus
sell, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Moffett. At
the close of the morning session, the
regular Parent-Teacher Association
lunch will be served in the main din
ing room of the hotel. At 2 o'clock
the afternoon session will convene and
the following department chairmen
will report on the work accomplished
during the past year: Mrs. w. 7.
Bannerman, legislative chairman;
Mrs. Joseph Sanders, health chair
man: Mrs. James Byler, Juvenile
Court chairman, and Mrs. G. 5.
Fraser, clothes conservation chair
man. There will be a banquet in
the evening at the Franklin Square
Hotel. The toastmaster will be Rep
resentative Frank r. Reid. Repre-
sentative Brooks Fletcher will be the
speaker. Specially invited guests In
clude Representative and Mrs. Allard
Gasque, Representative Mrs. Mary
Norton, Engineer Commissioner Maj.
Bell. Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warner, Mrs. II. o. Holland of New
York. Mrs. F. NJ. Hosmer of New
York Mrs. H. L. Parkhurst of Mary
land, Mrs. l.. T. de Nalliere and Mrs.
Maxson of New Jersey, Mrs. William
Brice, jr.; Mrs. Schoff and Mrs. Ar
buckle of Pennsylvania Mrs. Brooks
Fletcher will sing and there will be
a musical program. The attendance
has been limited TO 200. Mrs. T. II,
Young, 500 Eighteenth street, is in
charge of the arrangements.
The Mid-Atlantic Council of Par
ents and Teachers will meet in the
Hamilton Hotel next Saturday for two
sessions. The morning session will
convene at $50 O'Clock with the chair
man, Mrs. Henry o. Holland of New
York, presiding. The morning will
be devoted to business and to reports
from each of the five States com
posing the council, and from Canada
of work accomplished in preventing
the sale of Objectionable printed mat
ter. The afternoon session will con-
vene at o'clock and will be devoted
hxy "a
presidents of the States represented
lumbia will be officially represented
by the president, Mrs. G.. S. Rafter,
and by five delegates. but all p. r. A.
members may attend the sessions.
The delegates from the District of
Columbia are Mrs. +. K. kalmbach,
Mrs. James Byler. Mrs. G.. S. Fraser.
Mrs. Louis Castell and Mrs. Joseph
Sanders.
An Arbor day program was given
by the Takoma Park Home and School
Association, April Is, at the Takoma.
d. c., school. l.. G.. Everard, editor
of the Forestry Service, United States
Department of Agriculture, gave a
talk on the work of that service. The
association voted 81 to the District of
Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Associations for it's share in pro.
viding the president, Mrs. Giles Scott
Rafter. with life membership
in the Womans City Club. Mrs. A.
J. Dennis, chairman of the equip
ment committee, recommended that a
speedograph be purchased and that a
demonstration of the machine would
be arranged for Stephen S. Kramer
assistant superintendent of the Dis
trict of Columbia schools, made an