Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-06

Extension of the normal school
course in Washington from two to
three years was tentatively approved
nv members of the Board Of Educa-
ton at a regular meeting yester-
day afternoon.
The action of the board members
followed a statement by DR.. Frank w.
Rallou. superintendent. that he and
other, school officials were in accord
with the frightening of the normal
school course to three years, as was
recommended by United States Com.
missioner of Education John ]. Ii
CERT in an exhaustive report of local
normal school conditions
When the recommendation to extend
the course was reached by the board
Il being the tenth of sixteen recon-
mendations to be discussed and
tentatively adopted, DIR. Ballou
described it as the most important
recommendation which we have con-
Sidered."
During the discussion it was de
veloped by DIR. J. Hayden Johnson,
member of the board. that school
officials plan in the distant future
to develop, if possible, a junior col
lege or collegiate course in the
SCHOOLS.
Teacher Promoted.
Miss +. c. Harris. graduate of
Howard University, was promoted to
the position of head of the department
Of mathematics in the tenth-thirteenth
divisions by order of the Board. Miss
Harris has been serving as teacher in
charge of educational guidance at the
Armstrong Technical High School.
In promoting Miss Harris over other
teachers who have served consider
ably longer in the local system, the
board evidenced that it is determined
to encourage special preparation by
teachers for higher positions.
Mrs. Lillian I. Heron, as chairman
of a special committee on the naming
of schools, made the following recon-
mendations, which We're adopted by
the Board:
That the junior high school which
is to replace the Garnet-Patterson
elementary school buildings now To-
Gated at Vermont avenue and L street,
be named the Garnet Patterson Junior
High School.
That the new junior high school
located in Brightwood be named after
Edward A. Paul, former principal of
the Central High School.
That the new school building con-
structed to replace the Brightwood
School on Georgia avenue be known
as the Brightwood School and not
referred to by school officials as the
new Brightwood School.
That the school building on Georgia
avenue formerly known as the Bright
wood School, in which building are
now located junior high school classes,
he hereafter officially known as the
Brightwood Junior High School
Annex.
That the name Cardozo be trans
ferred from it's present building to
the Randall building, Immediately
across the streets and that the build
ing in which the Randall Junior High
School is located be named the
Randall Junior High School Building.
That the school building heretofore
known as the Anthony Bowen School
be named the William Trent Rossell,
after Capt. William Trent Rossell,
former Engineer Commissioned of the
District of Columbia.
Says Chairs Disgrace"
A complaint was read by Maurice
Otterback, president of the Anacostia
I'm the Van Buren, School. Mr.. Otter
hack described their condition ''as
disgrace to the city
President E. G. Graham, who pre-
sided, explained the inability to get
funds from Congress for needed re-
placements of furniture and said he
thought Mr.. Otterback's letter was
good ammunition to take up to the
Capitol when they are pressing for
school appropriations.
Resignation of n. L. Guy, teacher
in the school system for IS years.
was accepted by the Board upon the
recommendation of DIR. Ballou. DIR.
Ballou said that Mr.. Guy had resigned
following a recent transfer.
The board voted to consolidate the
departments of domestic art and do
mestic science in the tenth-thirteenth
divisions and transferred Mrs. J. w.
Shaw from director of domestic sci
ence to director of household arts.
The retirement of Brent Wilson,
janitor at the WOODBURY. School. was