The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-13
SCHOOL WILL
HAVE FINE
NEW HOME

largest OF their kind in the Capt.
tai. A third-year post graduate
course was added to the day
school ia 1927, and it's immediate
success was conclusive testimony
Of its popularity among advanced
students
The Marjorie Webster School
has always maintained a night
school, which was made a three
year course in 1925, and has since
become one of the schools strong
est educa tional units.
Before treating Of the future of
the institution, soon to be housed
in a beautiful Spanish-type struc-
ture in the beautiful Rock Creek
Park neighborhOod, brief sketch
OF Miss Webster's career will
make clear the reasons why the
school has become such a phe
ROmenal success, and why its
future bears promise of untold
advantages for prospective stu
dents.
Ia the first place, Miss Webster
il the youngest woman ever to
have founded a school. Such a
school was her dream for early
hood. AS a schoolgirl herself.
Miss Webster had always evinced
deep and sincere interest in the
promotion Of physical education
and the development of express
sion.
Never losing sight of the
dream which was to be realized
sooner than she herself ex
position as head of the physical
education and expression depart
meats in the Starrett School for
Girls, in Chicago. After a sue
cessfuI period there, Miss Web
ster was given an opportunity
to become head of the physical
education department at Shorter
College, Rome. Ga. She there
established the first accredited
physical education course in the
South.
Miss Webster's war work. in
which she established recrea ton
classes for Government workers,
with 1000 girls and women
working under her direction,
gave her achievements nation
wide publicity.
Motivated by charitable in
stincts, Miss Webster has not
only engaged in teaching her IA
VOrits subjects at Hull House, in
Chicago, famous the world over
as Americas greatest center for
ncffxyStiaSs h1,f he
promoted the interests of physi-
cal education in the Washington
City Orphanage, community cen
ters and charitable institutions.
Many public and private institu~
tions have been benefited by her
activities in developing interest
in physical education.
Miss Webster is known to
America not only as an unusual
teacher. but also has gained an
enviable reputation in the field OF
entertainment. She was readeE
for the Redpath Chautauqua in
1917. and has organized her own
companies for concert work.
She is the author Of many
poems, published and unpub-
lished. and has to her credit
several books on the dance. She
is 9, member of the Washington
Chamber TO Commerce, Soropti-
mist Club, League Of American
Pen Women and the Twentieth
Century Club. Miss Webster also
has demonstrated her interest in
church activities in many ways,
and at present is leader of the
teachers ira ming course in the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Such is the head Of the Mar
ioria Webster School Of EXPIRES
sion and Physical Education, Inc.
TRe school is rapidly outgrow.
ing it's present spacious quar-
ters. and it's new and beautifal
home is soon to be erected in a
large wooded tract at the inter.
section Of Seventeenth Street and
KaImia Road Northwest, adJoln-
ing Rock Creek Park.
This new building, a monu-
mental structure of the Spanish
mission type of architecture, Is
to be completed by September i.
1928, according to present plans
of Miss Webster and the build
ers. and it is expected that the
school will be transferred to its
new home in time for the open
ing OF the 1928 fall term.
Situated advantageously in the
midst Of a plot of about six
acres. the building will present
a frontage Of approximately 500
feet. including the four wings,
which will project beyond the
sides Of the main portion of the
structure. The central part of
the building alone will have a
frontage of $50 feet and the ad-
joining wings each will be 100
feet in length
The building will be three