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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
GLADDEN., Underwood and
Williams Will Act as
MiIIer'S Aids.

The 1928-1929 school year will
start Monday with three new faces
among the administ ,t've personnel
in school board offices. Z
The new assistants of superin-
tendent Charles F. Miller are Fred
T. GLADDEN., former assistant super
intendent State department of pub
lie instruction; Byron B. Williams
formerly State school statistician,
and G. G. Underwood, who recently
resigned as school superintendent
at Charlottesville.
They succeed the three assistant
superintendent, Dan T.. Weir,
Joseph F. Thornton and Miss Flora
Drake, and Research Director Muir
ray A. Dalman, whose positions were
vacated through order of the school
board early this year.
All three deposed assistant super
intendents were given teaching posi-
tons, Weir and Thornton in high
schools, and Miss Drake in the
primary department. Dalman &C
cepted a position in Chicago.
GLADDEN. holds the position of
transfer clerk, to supervise disburse-
ment of administration budget,
transfer of pupils, redistricting of
schools and similar work.
Underwood is director of clement
airy education and William is di-
rector Of publicity and research
work in elementary schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
REvAMP SCHOOL
AT VALPARAISO
Departments of University
Are Reorganized.

BIZ Times Special
VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. IA
new school has grown up within
the old in the internal re-organiza-
ton just completed by Valparaiso
University in preparation for its
opening Sept. 80.
1t now includes a college of liberal
arts with fourteen departments, a
college of pharmacy, and school
of law.
The fourteen departments include
new departments of business man
agement, engineering, home econon1-
les, fine arts and arr and music.
The institution now is faced with
the task of completing its basic en-
dowment of a half-million dollars.
The faculty has been re-organized
to number forty-five. This includes
five new members: Miss Edna M.
Robinson of Missouri, head of the
department of English; Dale Wat
son, Purdue, head of department of
pharmacy; DR.. j. G. Abbotmeyer,
assistant instructor in English;
Ralph Blodget, Syracuse University,
instructor in economies; and A. j.
Lynn, Bowling Green, KY, head of
business management section.
Freshmen will register Sept. 20,
and upper claSSmen, Sept. 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
DORM COST $4,000
Terre Haute Normal ErectS
Girls Building.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. IT,
A new dormitory for women erected
at a cost of $4,000 will be ready for
use when school starts at Indiana
State Oct. l. The building will
house 100 girls, equaling the capac-
ity of the old dormitory.
Freshman week is scheduled to
start Sept. q.
DR.. Leslie K. Meeks, Baltimore, is
the new head of the English de-
partment and DR.. Richard Shriner,
University of Michigan, becomes
head of the mathematics depart
ment.
Between twelve and fifteen men,
bers of the faculty have been given
leaves Of absence for this year to
work on their master and doctor
degrees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
EARLHAM ADDS
SUPPLY HOUSE
Richmond College EreCtS
$4,000 Building.
By Times Special

By Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. T.
Earlham College will open its doors
Sept. 10 with many additions and
changes in the faculty in hope Of
strengthening the teaching corps.
A new building for housing school
supplies just has been completed at
a cost Of $4,000 A new cafeteria
has been installed in Earlham hall
for $4,000.
New instructors include Prof. G..
A. Lahman, Dayton, voice; Donald
Gilley, Oberlin, Ohio, group singing
and organ; Edward T. Thompson,
Chicago, history; William P. Kis-
sick, European history; Roger Hicb-
man, Harvard, physics; Miss Julia
Sharow, Chicago, classical Ian
guages; Mrs. Lois Smith Goodrich,
freshmen English; DR.. Frank r. Ell
lott, Ohio State, biology; Miss
Helen Sharpless, librarian; Miss
Helen Winnemore, Iowa, assistant
librarian, and Miss Bernice Brock
enridge, domestic science.
Virgil Dinford, business manager
of Indiana Central College at Indi-
annapolis, comes here this year in
similar capacity. School opens Sept.
IT, registration starting Sept. -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
new BUILDINGS
WAIT STUDENTS;
COST $5OO,OOO
Extensive Program Mapped
for Expansion During
Year.

indianapolis school pupils will en-
ter new buildings constructed at a
cost of more than 100000 Monday
when they enroll for the fall Sc
mester.
These buildings include two new
wings on the Arsenal Technical
High School administration build
ing, $250,000; new School "a, Fifty
Seventh st. and Central Ave,
100000. and an eight-room addition
at School 70, Thirtieth and School
Sts., 100000.
New Shortridge High School, Me-
ridian and Thirty Fourth ST., cost
ing more than $1,25O,0O0, will not be
completed before late in November.
While the sbuilding program for
this year was limited because of
lack of funds, the school board al
ready is planning a more extensive
program for this winter and next
summer.
Sites Obtained
A 100000 bond issue for three
new additions and one new build
ing is before the State tax board
for review.
The new building will be School
80, Sixty-Thir and Bellefontaine
Sts., for which construction bids
were received Wednesday.
Additions will be at School 43,
Capitol Ave. and Fortieth ST.;
School AZ. Ray st. and Warren Ave,
and School 66, Park Ave. and Maple
Rd. Blvd.
In addition, a new grade school
in vicinity of new Butler University
is planned for next year.
Sites for new Irvington and
Broad Ripple High School buildings
have been obtained by the board;
the Irvington site at Riley Ave. and
E. Washington ST., at a cost of $22,-
900, and the Broad Ripple site, i'm
mediately south of the present
Broad Ripple High School, costing
$4,000.
Board members feel at least one
of the two, and possibly both, high
school buildings, should be con-
structed next year. Present plans
call for expenditure of about $780,
900 on each of the schools.
CrippIes School Inadequate
Plans for construction of new
School 81, and an addition to School
Is also are under consideration for
1929 or 1880.
Other needed schools, according to
Superintendent Charles F. Miller,
include new buildings to replace
portable buildings at Schools 90, 81
and 81.
Miller emphasized need of a school
for crippled children. At present a
part of School 5 at 612 w. Washing
ton ST., is used, but is inadequate
both in space and in special provi-
sions necessary for crippled children.
Suggestion has been made that the
new crippled school be located on
Arsenal Technical High School
campus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
TEACHERS GET LEAVES
OF ABSENCE TO STUDY
Four to Be Gone From Indiana
State This Year.
BIZ Times SnecinL

BIZ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. T.
Paul D. Wilkinson of the science
department of Indiana State will
remain away next term in order that
he may study for his doctors de-
gree at Iowa State College, at Ames,
Iowa.
Miss Florence Curtis, head of the
department of physical education for
women, will work toward her mas
ter's degree at Columbia University
next year.
Miss June Rynerson Of the art
department will remain away for
two years at Columbia University,
where she will work on her doctors
degree.
Benjamin H. Smith, science de-
partment, will also study for his
doctors degree. Miss Helen Ederle
of the department of education will
do work for her masters degree
next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BUTLER U. TO
ENROLL MANY
new STUDENTS
Other Colleges Here Make
Provisions for Large
Registration.

Thousands of students will enroll
within the next two weeks in local
schools of higher education for the
1928-29 terms. Many physical i'm
provements have been made this
summer and several schools an
nounce changes and additions to
faculties.
Butler University will move to the
new campus at Fairview, and an in
creased enrolment of several hun
dred is anticipated. About eight new
instructors and professor have been
added to the teaching staff. Stu
dents will register Sept. II and 10,
and the fall term will open Sept. 10.
Indiana University Extension
School probably win enroll 1900
students an increase over last year,
in the rev building at 1872 E. Michi-
gan ST., the old Bobbs- Merrill Pub
fishing Company building.
More than 5000 students can be
accommodated, it is said. Emphasis
will be placed on freshman work
this year, off1tA IS said.
Courses Are Added q
Several new courses have been
added, bringing the total to sew
enty-six. New courses are history
and appreciation of art, advanced
traffic, two courses in French and
Latin, three new history courses,
advanced short story writing and
seveal new lines of psychology, ac-
cording to Miss Orvis, publicity di-
rector.
Professors who will teach this
year for the first time are Theodore
Douglas. Logan Esarey, Babel
Martz, William T. Morgan, Blanche
Stillson and Walter Treanor.
Normal College of the American
Gymnastic Union will open for
registration and examination Sept.
1929, and school will start Oct. l,
according to Miss E. l.. Foster, Sec
Rotary to Dean Emil Rath. About
$50 normal students will be en-
rolled.
Registration at the Teachers
College of Indianapolis opened
Thursday and continued today. The
semester will open Monday for
about 1000 students. Mrs. Alice
Corbin Seis is president.
Little Law School Change
No radical changes in teaching
staff or in the courses offered are
contemplated this. year by the Ben
jamin Harrison law school, said w.
R. Forney secretary-treasurer
About 160 students will be enrolled
Sept. II, it is estimated. Registra-
tons are being received.
Principal addition to the equip
ment of Indiana Central College is
the six and half inch refractor
telescope used in the astronomy
courses. 1t is the gift of Prof. L. S.
Boblitt of the college.
The entire school has been re-
modelled and refurnished during the
summer for the 500 students ex-
pected to enroll Tuesday.
A completely new Sterilizing room
and an additional X-ray machine,
said to be the last word in
equipment, has been added to the
Indiana University School of Den
tistry, according to Frederick r.
Henshaw, dean. i
School will open Sept. "a for
eighty-seyen seniors, sixteen Juniors,
thirty-two sophonores and about
fifty freshmen. The small junior
class was caused by The tive-year
course inaugurated in 1926.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
ADD MUSIC COURSE
VincenneS University Plans
Moving in Two Years.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
VINCENNES, Ind, Sept. RE-
pair work at Vincennes University
has been held to bare necessities
during the summer in keeping with
tentative plans to move the uni
versity to a new site within the next
two years.
Freshmen registration will start
Sept. IL and classes will meet
Sept. II.
Miss Esther Dean of De Paw has
been named new head of piano
teaching in the music department.
A two-year course of public school
music has been added to the curri-
culum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
COURSE is EXTENDED
College of Pharmacy to Offer
Fourth Year Work.

The indianapolis College of Phar-
macy will offer fourth years work
for the first time this year, leading
to the bachelor of science degree.
The work is optional, and the three
year work still will lead to a State
license, according to Dean Edward
H. Niles.
About $50 students will start work
Sept. lib. Additions to the staff
this year include Thomas F. Ran
dolph, professor of chemistry; Ma
than L. Kitchener, assistant profess
sor of chemistry; Lowell A. Mullen.
professor of biology, and Oliver G..
Andrews, professor of materia
medica.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
PURDUE FRESHMEN
REGISTER SATURDAY
Daylight Time

School clocks will run on
daylight saving time at the
start Of the fall semester Mon
day.
Superintendent Charles F.
Miller today called attention
of parents to the recent action
Of the school board in voting
to conduct schools on fast time
until Sept. 80.
Schools continued on Central
standard time last spring, de-
spite action of city council in
decreeing daylight saving time
for the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
COLLEGE CHAPEL BUILT

New Auditorium at Wabash College
Seat LOO.
BIZ Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Sept.
Wabash Colleges new chapel will
be opened for use for the first time
when school convenes this month.
The chapel will seat LOO persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
LAW SCHOOL TO OPEN
$50 Enrolment Is Predicted by
Indiana University.

Indiana University Law school
will open for enrolment Sept. 49,
20, and classes will start the fol-
lowing day. The school has been
moved to the third floor of the
building at l43 E. Ohio ST., doubling
the floor space, according to james
A. Rohbach, dean.
About $50 students will be en-
rolled this year, an increase over
last. Edward M. White, deputy at
torney general of Indiana, and
Henry M. Bowling will return to the
faculty this year, after several
years absence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BUILDS new DORM
De Paw to Open Women'S
Building Sept. II.
By Times Special

BIZ Tunes Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. T.
Lucy Rowland dormitory for wom-
en-, erected at a cost of $25O,0O0
will he opened for Use when De
PAW University classes take up
their work Sept. II.
The new building will house 100
girls. Plans are being made to
dedicate the building within the
next few weeks.
Meharry hall, housing the chapel,
has been redecorated during the
summer.
Sept. II has been set for begin
ing freshmen week. School will
take up the following Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
PUPILS 8 BY NOV. is
MAY ATTEND SCHOOL
Age Limit Time for Children Is Set
by Miller.

Pupils not years old, but who
will be by Nov. Is, may start in the
first grade Monday, superintendent
Charles F. Miller announced to-
day.
A similar rule applies to the sec
ond semester. Children whose sixth
birthday is on or before April 4
may begin school at the start of
the second semester.
All pupils becoming 6 years old
after Nov. Is or April can not be
admitted to school until start of the
next term following these dates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
VACATION time
END NEAR FOR
CITY CHILDREN
Buildings Painted, Cleaned,
Repairing for Opening
on Monday.

Precious hours of vacation time
were being licked away mercilessly
today as indianapolis grade school
children. who will resume their.
studies Monday, looked regretfully
back over pleasures Of the last three
months.
School officials we're busy putting
the finishing touches to The build
ings where the now carefree, youth
full vacationers will spend their next
nine months.
Carpenters, plumbers, painters,
ianitors, and other worklnen have
spent the vacation period in max
ing repairs and alteration.
The transition from vacations
pleasure to the routine Of school
work will be softened somewhat byl
half day sessions in grade schools
during the first week.
New Building to Open
One new grade building will be
opened Monday, school "a, Central
Ave. and Fifty-Seventh St., con-
structed at a cost of nearly 100000.
It has an auditorium, manual train
ing shop and domestic science
equipment.
Halliday sessions will be neces-
sary at school 70, Thirtieth and
School Sts. for about two weeks,
until a new addition there can be
completed.
Two new portable schools will be
established this year, one at Forty
Ninth st. and Boulevard Pl., and
the other at Paris Ave. and Twenty
Fourth St.
Altogether, the city has thirty-one
portable schools in use.
superintendent Charles F. Miller
reported tWenty-eight regular half
day classes will be necessary at the
start Of the semester, because Of
crowded conditions. Ten Of these
classes will be eliminated during
the semester by placing portables
at such buildings, he said,
School Is OvercrOwded
School A, Twenty-First st. and
Sugar Grove Ave, is expected to
be greatly overcrowded, and will re-
quire halliday sessions.
Other schools requiring halliday
sessions include School 43, Capitol
Ave. and Fortieth St., and School
sc, Park Ave. and Thirty Eighth ST.,
where additions are planned.
School administrative officials
have received many requests for
transfers from one building to
another during the last few weeks.
An unusually small number of
changes in the teaching staff of
grade schools was made this year,
Superintendent Miller said.
Only about forty-flve new teach
ers have been employed for the
coming school year in both grade
and high schools. In addition,
thirty-one other teachers returned
to active duty after being on leave
of absence for study, travel, or be-
cause of illness.
Increase About 20
With designations and other
teachers starting leaves of absence,
the actual increase in the number
Of teachers will not exceed twenty,
Miller said.
The number of teachers trans
ferred from one school to another
has been small also, Miller as
serted.
-Four principals haze been trans
ferred to other schools and eleven
new principals named to fill va
cancies because of deaths, resigna-
tons and retirements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
MEDIC OPENING SEPT. 18

No changes are announced in the
work of the Indiana University
School of Medicine, which opens
Sept. Is. Registration will be held
Sept. 14-17. There will be $50
Juniors and seniors and about 100
sophomores. Freshman work Is
completed at Indiana University at
Bloomington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
ADD FACULTY MEMBER
Amherst Man Will Be Teacher at
Boys Prep School.

Chester G. Seamans, an Amherst
College graduate, will be added to
the history and English depart
ments with the opening of the
Boys Preparatory and Boarding
School Sept. 10, according to Cliff
ton o. Page, head master. About
eighty boys are expected to start
the term.
Several changes were made In
classroom locations, and the entire
school was remodeled. There will
be few changes in textbooks, Page
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
TUDOR HALL OPENING
SLATED FOR SEPT. 18
New Athletic Field Is Provided for
College Girls.

Tudor Hall will open Sept. 1913,
with about 325 girl students, &C
cording to Miss Nell Farrar, prin-
cipal. Athletic equipment has been
remodeled this year, and a new
athletic field will be opened at one
90 rtwo sites soon, it is said. An
enlarged sports program is planned.
Additions to the faculty include
Miss Marguerite Slawson, physical
education instructor; Miss Beulah
Humphreys, dietitian, and Miss
Matte Ellis and Mrs. Josephine
Ives, social directors.
All are university graduates with
special training in their lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
NOTRE DAME TO
OPEN sept. IS
Kokomo Man Named New
President.
BIZ Times Special

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Sept. T.
Notre Dame University will open
another term of school Sept. 10 un-
der the leadership of a new presi-
dent. The Rev. Charles L. O'Don-
nell of Kokomo, has been named
head of the institution and the Rev.
Michael Mulcaire of Ireland, is the
new vice president.
This will be Mr.. Mulcaire's first
position in America.
The Rev. Matthew Schumacher has
been named president of st.
Thomas School at st. Paul, which
is now under the same board Of
control as Notre Dame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
500 WILL RETURN
TO WASHINGTON HIGH
Registration Will Consume Monday,
First Day of School.

Thirteen hundred students will
lay aside their summer vacation in
favor of the proverbial scholastic
grindstone when Washington High
School opens its doors again Mon
day morning.
Registration will consume the first
day with previously enrolled stu
dents reporting at a. m. and new
students at 1870 p. m. Tuesday will
mark the actual beginning of the
study program.
Eight new teachers are included
in the Washington High School ros-
ter. They are Lillian Mienan, alge-
bra and, German; Jane Shockley,
English and coaching; Vivian Ely,
head of the mathematics depart
ment; Hester Baker, Latin; Martha
Finlay, botany; Gretchen MReller,
home economics; Eta Scherf,
music; and Elizabeth Workman,
physical training.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
New Mems Dormitory
Man Attacked by Bull

bW fWto NUtCTUt
ROCHESTER, Ind, Sept. will
liam Pownall. farmer of near here,
is in a serious condition following
an attack by bull. He was leading
the animal from the barn when it
charged him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
Hold Vegetable, Flower Show

BIZ Times Special
ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Sept. T.
The flower, fruit and vegetable show
which opened in the high school
gymnasium Thursday will close
Saturday night. Prizes are being
offered for the best displays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
CATHEDRAL EXPECTS
LARGER ENROLMENT
ParOchiaI High and Grade Schools
to Open Monday.


Increased. enrolment is expected
this year in Cathedral High School
and grade school, with the opening
Morday morning. Several new fea-
lures have been added to both
schools.
The grade school has a new play
yard, with new apparatus and other
equipment. About 500 children are
expected to start Monday and the
teaching staff will remain practi-
ca]ly the same as last year.
Students II the high school last
year numbered SGT, and this years
classes will reach about 625, it is
estimated. Only slight changes in
the high school teaching staff are
contemplated, and only minor
changes will be made in textbooks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BUSINESS SCHOOLS GAIN
EnrolIments Increase First and Sec
Ond Weeks in September.

Business colleges in Indianapolis
report increased enrolment this
week. Most of the schools take new
students each day, but enrollments
increase the first and second weeks
in September.