Evening star., 1927-12-04
Parent-Teacher Activities

! One of the developments in the cur
riculum of the public schools is The
work of the department of music ap-
probation. under the direction of Or.
| +. \. G. Barnes, director of music in
the public schools in the Nation S
| Capital.
| The Three Ages of Childhood in
| Relation to the Soven.fold Program of
! Home and School will be the theme
! of the next convention of the Nation
al Congress Of, Parents and Teachers,
which will lie held in Cleveland. ONO.
April 28 to May 5. Headquarters are
to be at the Hotel Cleveland.
The committee on Congress puhlca
/ tions has heen made a bureau, and the
! former chairman. JOY Elmer Morgan.
has been elected its manager.
The Imperial Quartet. assisted hy
| Mrs. Cullen and Miss Adams, will give
a concert tomorrow in the Sunday
School auditorium of Mount Vernon
| Place Church for the benefit of the
Parent Teacher Association Of that
church.
Mrs. T.. r. kalmhaCh will be the
speaker at the December meeting of
the Blair-IIayes PIT. A. Her subject
will he Requirements of a Standard
ORGANIZATION" The chairman of the
program committee has arranged Il
Christmas program. and refreshments
will he served The meeting will be
held at the Blair School at 7:45 pm
The executive board of the Bancroft
Association met at the school Monday
afternoon. November %. Among the
resolutions adopted were: That the
assOcia ton donate $40 to the fund for
the District tornado sufferers and 50
to the shoe and rubber fund Plans
were made TO buld up parent
teacher library. with a resolution
passed to appropriate So as the be
ginning of a fund fer that purpose
The question Of reduced car fare for
school children was discussed.
Announcement was made of the
monthly meeting which will be held
next Friday night at the school. In
vited guests will include DR., Lowell
of the Mount Pleasant Concrecation-
al Church. DR.. Ballou, Mrs. Rafter and
Miss Lind. the new principal of John
son and Bancroft Schools. DR.. Lowell
will deliver an address on the Re
ligious Training of Our Children" A
playlet will he given by the children
Of Mrs. Duganne's class. Refresh
ments will be served.
The Blow PIT A. has elected Off
GERS as follows: President. Mr.. Ralph
Aiken; vice president. Mrs. thinner
man; secretary-treasurer Miss Mary
Armstrong.
The annual bazaar Of the Brent
Dent p. r. A. was held November Is.
The monthly meeting preceded the ba-
zaar. Miss La Sale gave an address
on Intelligence Miss Grace Rich.
ards was the soloist. 1t was voted to
place a moving picture machine in the
Brent Dent Schools.
DR.. Winifred Richmond, on the staff
at st. EliZabeth's Hospital, will speak
at the Central High School PIT. a.
meeting to be held in the library of
the school December S at pm, on
The Problems of the Adolescent
Child" from the viewpoint of the spe-
cialist outside of the school system,
Stephen f. Kramer, assistant super
intendent of schools. will discuss the
subject from the viewpoint of the par
ent and specialist within the school
system.
At the November meeting of the
Gage PIT A. Mrs. Dexter gave re.
port of a recent meeting of clothes
conservation chairmen. Mrs. DitZler
made a detailed report from the Dis
trict PIT. A. meeting. 1t was decided
to revise the constitution. and the leg.
islative chairman, Mrs. Warthen, WAS
made chairman Of a committee to do
this and report at the next meeting.
Miss Turnage. principal, reported the
new table was ready for the room
where the childran eat their lunches.