Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-21
SCHOOL DEDICATED
ATFALLS Church
County Officers Take Part in
Exercises at New Building
on Lee Highway.
Special Dispatch to The Star!

SPECIAL DlSpaLcn 10 Inc StdE'
FALLS CHURCH, Va. September
21.-The new elementary school build
ing. which has just been completed
here, was dedicated last night with an
impressive program in the auditorium.
Charles A. Stewart, chairman of the
school board, who presided at the oc-
casion, announced that the building
has been named the Madison School
and gave a brief account of the efforts
by citizens, school board and town
officers for a new school building,
which began four years ago.
He commended the work of the
special committee which resulted in
an amendment to the town charter
making a school board issue possible,
and also that of former Mayor Fl. A.
Fellows and his special committee
who sold the bonds.
Contains II Rooms.
The building, which is located on
the Lee Highway in the center OF the
town, is a handsome structure of ma
tive stone, with brick facings, and
contains Ia rooms, with modern heat
ing. lighting and plumbing fixtures.
Five of the rooms have new furni-
ture throughout, including pupils
desks and teachers tables and chairs.
The pupils will enter the building
from side streets and Fairgrounds
are all in the rear.
Grading and planting Of shrubbery
remains to be done. Russell r.
Mitchell of Washington was the
architect.
s. A. Rohwer, clerk Of the School
Board. showed slides displaying the
receipts and expenditures on the
building. The total cost to date Is
S6.5O1.7O and receipts from various
sources amounted to $86,2O2.6l, leaV'
ing a. deficit of $4,000 to be met out
Of this years appropriation.
The sum of 1929, which was raised
bv the children of the school, was
used to furnish a new piano.
Former Mayor Fellows, in speaking
of the value of the building to the
town, said that it, with the new roads'
was but a forerunner of other I'M
prOVementS.
Support of Teachers Urged.
Prof. Fletcher Kemp, division super
intendent, Arlington County, ana at
one time principal Of the rails Churcn
schools, spoke Of the rapid grown o.
both counties, which will necessltate
more such buildings. He also urged
loyal support of the teachers.
Prof. M. D. Hall, division superln'
tendent of Fairfax County, who has
served for 40 years, gave much OF the
credit to the vote and influence OF
the women Of the county. lie com
pared the value of Fairfax County
| property 40 years ago, at $4,000, with
the present valuation of 100000.
Harris Hart, State superintendent
of public instruction, placed Virginia
| and Texas at the head of the educa
| tional list in Southern States, and sale
the present public school acts as
public service station to the children
of the land He urged continued co
| operation in improving the service.
Representative Il. Walton Moore Of
| Fairfax, In Stressing the need OF pubic
education, also urged better home dis
cipline and ascribed the prevalence OF
crime in this age to a definite lack Of
the influence of home and church
such as existed in former years.
A Pioneer Teacher.
Representative Moore said his father
was the first superintendent of Fair
fax County and he was one of the hrs
| teachers.
The Music Study Club, under direc
ton Of G. N. McGroarty, gave the fol
| lowing selections: Come Where the
Lilies Bloom; 1.-The Old Road; 1.-The