Evening star., 1926-04-14
SCHOOL PATRONS
AND HEADS CONFER
Citizens and Parent-Teacher
Representatives Outline
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sections NeeoS.
Sixty-three representatives of Wash
ington Citizens and Parent-Teacher
associations. gathered at the semi-an-
nual citizens conference with. the
Board of Education, last night ad-
vised DIR. Frank w. Ballou, superin,
tendent. of the items in the five-year
school building program they regard
the most urgent for their respective
communities, and should therefore be
included in the 1928. school estimates.
DIR. Ballou and members of the
Board of Education made careful
notes of all of the requests made at
the meeting, and also the eXplana-
tory briefs filed by each of the. rep
resentatives. At the outset of the
meeting tho citizens were told school
officials will ask for S., ,340, 500 for
school needs In the 1928 estimates.
Under present plans" DR.. Ballou
explained, I'VE will apportion this
sum as follows among the various
divisions: First division, $616, 400; third
division, $473, 900; fourth division,
$434 900; fifth division, $472 100; sixth
division, S161 900; seventh division,
5000; eighth division, S566,35O;
tenth division. 1857 $50; eleventh divi-
sion, $245, 200; twelfth division, $175,-
500; thirteenth division. $541 900; voca-
tional schools. $4,000. and high
schools, $1,047 900,
Urges AppOrtiOmment Study.
What we are anxious to learn to-
night, and l feel certain that further
informal conferences among various
Of your number will be necessary be-
fore the board makes definite decisions,
n lh
your individual divisions spent,
Many of the speakers last night de.
clared that they were more interested
in the purchase of land for school |
sites and playground purposes than
they were for erection of schools.
They took the view that the available
land is rapidly disappearing, and IT Is
better to have the land and no school
than neither land nor school.
DIR. Ballou and Edwin c. Graham.
president of the board, both advised
the delegates that the board is hearth
ly in sympathy with their stand for
prompt purchase of school and play:
ground sites. They urged the citi-
zens te--carry their appeals right to
the doors Of Congress,
Gordon Completion Asked.
In the first division request was
made by W. D. Owen of the Jackson
PareiifcT Teacher Association for the
purchase of a lot next TO the Jack |
son School. r. Il. Conner. secretary
of the Fillmore-Parent Teacher Asso- |
citation, urged early completion of the |
Gordon Junior High School, while o. |
II. Helsley, representing Potomac
Heights and the president of the Con.
duit Road Citizens Association, ar
Sued that an eight. and not four |
Is nA pntn
mac Heights School.
Finis d. Morris, president of the |
Chillum Castle Heights Citizens |
Association, one of the third division |
representatives, stated that the four |
room addition at the Woodburn |
School will certainly not prove ade- |
quate. Frederick G. StelZer. chair
man, school committee, Piney Branch |
Citizens Association urged the push
ing forward OF the new Business /
High School and erection of school
at Sixteenth and Webster streets.
Mrs. Lucy Swanton. representing the
Columbia Heights Citizens ASSocia-
tion, reiterated her plea that the
available school land in this vicinity
is rapidly disappearing and urged |;
prompt action before apartment
houses are erected on the few strips |
which are left.
OptdhlHS LOT Lne fdlOT3lnd AlLlZenS !
Association, Judge Milton Strasburgeri
for consideration of the pur-
chase of Il strip of land adjoining the
Henry ID. Cooke School. He submit
ted a. brief giving the assessed value
of the land and explaining that II 1t
is not purchased at once it probably |
will be lost. Mrs. Albert Baggs of
the Force-Adams Parent-Teacher AS.
soCiation requested an addition to the
Force School of an assembly hall and
one or two classrooms to do away with |
portable structures. Mrs. o. l.. Veer-
hoff. president of the Columbia Junior
High Association. recommended that
one of the old schools in the fourth
division be converted into a trades
school for girls.
Seeks LangdOn Abandonment.
Abandonment of the Langdon
city, and the erection of a modern
building was recommended by Ira B.
Nutting of the Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association. Mrs. +. A.
Hodge told of the need of an assem-
bly, hall at the Monroe. A. II. Fast of
the Brookland Citizens Association1
told of his neighbors' interest in a.
playground for Brookland, while L.
Radcliffe, president of the Dahlgren
ed for early erection of a school on
the site at Twelfth street and Rhode
Island avenue northeast. He said
there was one area 16 blocks square |
where there wasn't a single school in
his section.
George r. Marble and Martin A. 1
Cook renewed their request of last
year on behalf of improved school
facilities for Edgewood.
In the sixth division Mrs. William
Fl. Rowe, president of the Carbery
Parent Teacher Association, renewed
her request for Ii playground at Car
berry. Better vocational school IA /
cilities in the southeast was presented
by Allan Davis, representing the
Southeast Washington Citizens Asso-
citation.
DR.. John X. Rector. president of the
Midico- Chirurgical Society of the Dis
irict of Columbia, made q plea in be-
half of improved conditions at the
Harrison Health School. Prof. Kelly
Miller of Howard Park Citizens As
sociation urged the wiping out of