Evening star., 1927-05-15
TECH PREPARES'FOR
SOCIAL MEETING
Spring Gathering to Be Held
May 81 With Work on Dis
play for Parents.

Teens evening at nome 10 us lIleiluS
in the Fall term was so successful that
Principal Daniel and a committee or
teachers are getting ready Tor a
Spring social meeting on Tuesday.
May 81. All the shops. drawing rooms,
home economic classes and art studios
will be in full swing on the evening or
the "at home" that parents of pro-
spective students may see the school
of their and their children's choice at
work The teachers of other SUBJECTS
than those occupied in handicraftman'
ship and art will act as hosts to assist
the principal to entertain the guests.
The musical organizations of the
school will give a concert, and gen
era! meeting will be held later in the
evening in the school auditorium.
Radio listenersin Of Washington,
who have often been entertained over
the air by Franklin Jackson OF the
Wardman Park Trio, with his musical
numbers, will have an opportunity TO
hear him in person accompanying the
Tech Mandolin and Guitar Club at the
concert of all the musical oiganiZa'
tions of Mckinley Technical High
School to be given in the school audi
torium at o'clock on TUESDAY eve
ming. The program of the cluD VIII
include "The March of the Strings
fby Thompson).~ "Nola" tby Arndt) and
an attractive arrangement or Soutn-
ern melodies. The well known Tech
Orchestra, the Tech Opera Club and
the Joseph Fl. Daniel Glee Club are
the other school organizations taking
part in the concert. The ensemble
pieces of the glee club will be sister
Months (by Johnstone) Moonlight
and Music" fby PinsutD. when the
Banjo Plays" tby Wilson, and Mighty
LAX q Rose" Cby Carrie Jacobs Bond).
Harry Schonrack will sing the bari
tone solo Because" fby dHardelot.
The Tech Opera Club, known to
Washingtonians by its annual hght
opera programs, will present arranged
selections from the Bohemian Girl
the soloists being MISS CaIherlne tI,ne
Birch, Miss Norvelle Newton. Charles
Formosa. George Callahan and Henry
Macdonald.
The concert ia being arranged under
the direction of the faculty advisers
for the musical organizations: Mr..
Dore Walten, Miss Florence r. keene'
Miss Belle Thompson, Mr.. Franklin
Jackson and Sergt. Frederick Hess.
At the last meeting of the senior
class the date of the prom was decldeo
on as June Is, but there was a dis
agreement among the members as 10
whether to hold it at the Columbia
Country Club or the City Club, so the
matter was left over to the next meet
ing Of the class The president, Mr.
Martin appointed the following com
mittee chairmen for the class night
and graduation exercises: For class
night-Richard Schmidtman, general
chairman: Shaw Blackstone, decofa-
tions; William Armstrong, lnVltatlonS'
Hugh Hussey, ushers; Ruth Miles, pro
grams, For aduation--Wllliam Gott-
hardt, general chairman: Olga Sonnen-
berg, diplomas: Wilhelmina Guide, deco
rations; Hugh Hussey, ushers; IhomaS
Hall, programs.
Miss Genevieve Marsh, the head or
the history department of the school.
recently presented a number of books
and pamphlets on history and eco
nomics to the school library. The pub
lications given were the more accept
able as they are well known and stand
ard school reference books. MISS
Marshs donations are mostly late edl-
tions, TO take the place OF older ana
used-up editions. Other recent acceS-
sions to the library are a handsome
copy of views of Cornell University
presented by the Cornell oAub or WASH
ington, and history of the leaders OF
the humane movement in the United
States by Sidney II. Coleman, the gift
of the American Humane Association.
After the conclusion of the business
meeting of the Tech Latin Club on
Tuesday, Miss Irene Colt gave an ex-
ceptionally interesting account of the
architecture of Roman dwelling houses
in Ciceros time. Miss Colts black
board illustrations gave suggestive pic
lures Of what to her auditors seemed
queer houses for the Roman mobiles to
live in. The travelogue back into an
tique days was continued by Miss Ada
Conklin, who sketched and described
the clothing of the old Romans. The
transportation methods of the Romans,
by Mr. George Aetopolus; their amuse-
ments and sports, by Miss Edna Ruth
Carr, and the outstanding literary
achievements of the Augustan age, by
Miss Elinor Webb, We're the other pa
pers read.