Evening star., 1928-11-04
Parent-Teacher Activities


ceding the Sunday on which publica
tion is desired.
The training class for leaders will b,
held the first session Tuesday at II
o'clock in the Burlington Hotel.
This will be study class to trair
leaders so that each school association
will function in the best and mos
efficient manner according to the aims
and purposes of the national congress
OF parents and teachers.
There viii be six sessions on six con-
Becutive Tuesday mornings, and there
will be different topic for study anC
discussion at each session.
At each meeting it is proposed to
have speaker who will be an expert
In the particular subject under discus
sion. There will always be a question
box and time for discussion.
The topic on Tuesday viii be 1.-THE
National Congress of Parents and
Tcachers-ItS Aims and History" and
the speaker on this subject will be Mrs.
Arthur Watkins, executive secretary OF
the national congress of parents and
teachers The discussion viii be led by
Mrs. FiniS Morris. president of the
president of the Peabody Hilton as
of the new national handbook
Mrs. A. H. Fast, chairman of ways
and means has arranged card party
of the District of Columbia Congress of
Parents and Teachers at the Chestnut
Farms auditorium, Twenty-sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, November IL,
at pm. Either bridge or five hundred
may be played.
Mrs. E. r. Kalmbach, third vice presi-
dent of the District Congress of Parents
and Teachers by appointment of Mrs.
S. M. N. Marrs, the president of the
National Congress OF Parents and
Teachers, is a member of the national
publicity bureau and is in charge of
the publicity exchange She receives
interesting projects and plans from all
over the. United States telling of the
publicity work in many States.
Opportunity is offered to chairmen
of children's reading committees of
local parent -teacher associations, to
program chairmen or others interested
in the subject of good reading for our
boys and girls to get f1rst-hand infor-
nation and advice from an expert
cf1ildren's librarian, Miss Latimer of the
Public Library
Mrs. w. H. Ross, state chairman of
cllildren's reading has arranged a
meeting at the Public Library at Ninth
street and New York avenue tomorrow
night at o'clock.
Mrs Roop's class in social hygiene,
~The Way Life Begins" will meet every
Wednesday from 10 to 1880 am. in
the Burlington Hotel.
Mrs Armes' class, "Parenthood and
Character Training of Children" will
meet every Friday from 10 to 1:30
am. at. the Mount Pleasant Library,
Sixteenth and Lamont streets. This
class has been changed from wednesday
to Friday. sss. sss.z
The correspondence course in Parent
Teacher publicity offered by the Ma
tional Bureau of Publicity to all SOCIAL
press chairmen flimited to ten from
each state) will start october 25.
The Child Welfare Magazine chair
man for the District Of Columbia IS
Mrs. L. H. Magruder, 1923 Seventh
street northeast.
Health chairmen and presidents of
ell associations are requested by Mrs.
SanderS, chairman, Department of
Health, to offer their services to the
principal of their school in The weigh
Ing and measuring Of the children.
Those associations having new officers
elected will be Interested In the installa-
ton ceremony for Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations prepared by the National Con-
gTeSS of Parents and Teachers. This
ceremony is In printed form and may
be obtained5free from the State chair
man of national publications, Mrs.
Fletcher Shedield, s32I8 Macomb street
This ceremony may be conducted by
q State officer or by the retiring presi-
dent.
A meeting of the Parent Teacher
Association of Grant School was held
at the school October "a. The president
called the meeting to order and ap-
pointed legislative, membership, old
clothes and publicity chairmen. Miss
Gaieski, principal, talked on several
subjects of vital interest to parents.
There were also talks by Mrs. Bowling,
district State chairman of clothes con-
Eervation on that particular branch of
the work and by Mrs. Bannerman, State
legislative chairman on legislation.
Plays which had been written and
acted by the children during the various
assembly periods of the month were
again given for the benefit of the par
ents. They were as follows: Seventh
grade, Scouts" Girl Scouts and Boy
Scouts gave practical demonstration
of their work.
Sixth grade: Safety First" a play
which effectively told a story of great
value in preventing traffic accidents.
Fifth grade: Thrift play depicting
thrift and the life of the thrifty man.
Fourth grade: Health" play in
keeping with the fourth grade special
duties Of keeping the yard and building
clean. n. A
Recent appointments to the executive
board are as follows: Safety, Mrs. Henry
d. Aller, 1927 Chaplin street, from the,
Cooke School;s thrift Mrs. R. It.
Wyche, Kennedy street, of the Keene
School; ways and means, Mrs. A. H
Fast, 3615 Seventeenth street northeast,
of John Burroughs School; child well
fare magazine, Mrs. L. H. Magruder,
1928 Seventh street northeast, of East
ern High School.
A meeting of the Tenley-Janney Par
ent-Teacher Association win be held to-
morrow. Miss Jessie La Sale, assistant
superintendent of schools in charge of
educational research, will speak on
intelligence tests. The meeting will be
held in the auditorium of the Tenley-
Janney School at pm.
''Tle Junior High School System" will
be the topic to be discussed at the
meeting of the John Easton Parent
Teacher Association tomorrow afternoon
in the Cleveland Park Community
Church, Thirty-fourth and Towel
streets. The speakers will be Frank
Woodward, principal of the new Gordon
Junior High and Henry w. Draper.
supervisor of the first school division
and former principal of the Langley
Junior High School,
The Bryan Parent Teacher Associa-