New Britain herald., 1929-05-08
5T. INSEPn'S SCHOOL
 HAS BEST SELLER

started school teachers and other approached the doors and requested AAmittancs. No one was turned away although every available sea vas occupied and there were man! standing.
 The program opened at 7:3t o'clock with music by the Boys clut and drum corps under the direction of Peter w. McCrann. Among othel selections played by the boys wa! the Y. M. T. A. and B. march ani the Boys club march, both compos d by Mir McCrann.
 Spelling Bee Begins
 F At o'clock the meeting wa! opened with the introduction O spoilers. the presentation of photo graphs by Johnson & Peterson and the reading of the rules. At S:2t o'clock the program was turned over to l.. P. Slade. principal of tn. senior high school. The spellcr. were seated in three rows. Tw; rows remained seated while the o.h. CT row was spelling.
 In the rear of the stage were seated J. M. Ward. member o1 the board of education. Ernest J C. klopp, principal of St. Matthews school, Rev. Thomas F. Lawlor principal of St. Mary's school; John. stone Vance. managing editor of the Herald. and Judge B. F. Gaffney former chairman of the board ol education. Dr. Henry Martin, a member of the school board, was an interested spectator.
 On the main floor, directly in front of the stage were the judges P. F. King. chairman of the board of education: Stanley H. Holmes superintendent or schools and Rev William H. Alderson, pastor of Trim ity Methodist church and president of the Rotary club. The Herald spelling bee editor was master of ceremonies. The spelling bee editor from the Hartford Times occupied a seat in the audience.
 Defeated Spoilers Dry Eyed
 The audience was enthusiastic, so much 50 that it was necessary for Mir. Slade to stop and ask for quiet frequently. Applause was frequent and persistent, while cheers, whistles and stamping of feet added to the noise. Everyone was good natured, and not tear was shed by q defeated speller.
 The words were taken from a set of new spelling books purchased for the occasion by the Herald upon lr. Slade's recommendation.
 The book is known as 'The Iowa Spelling Scales, Their Derivations, Uses and Limitations" It was com- piled by the Journal of Education Research, and written by Ernest J. Ashbaugh, professor of school ad- ministration and assistant director of the bureau of educational research of the Ohio State university. The book is published by the Public School Publishing Co.,, of Blooming ton, III. -*
 Small Words Tricky
 Tho usual conditions existed, in that the words missed were not ne- cessarily the hardest. The first speller down was Emma Schaffer of St. Matthew's school, who failed ont the word coy" It was new word to m m hn a,,ii understnh it.
 Irene t.abbe of St. Mary's school also met an unfamiliar word. The word WIS gee" used in driving oxen and sometimes in driving horses. Irene could not get it straightsned out in her mind. what the word was. She finally took a chance and spelled "gep."
 When uniformed as to the correct word. she replied ruefully, "Oh, Gee, is that what l missed?"
 Fred Donati of the Nathan Hale school was the first boy to fall Fred lost out on represented"
 Aida Ptcosky of the Central Junior High school missed on exercise. |" Mary O'Brien of St. Joseph's school went down on reference" Dorothy Meehan of St. Mary's school met a new word. Dorothy was unfamiliar with the word. but spelled one which seemed more applicable to the mod ern generation. She spelled "dater'' but was called out.
 You'd" Is High Hurdle
 Chrissa Barrett of the Camp school found Junior" too much for her. while Catherine Coffey went up against an abbreyiation and missed out on You'd
 Mildred Pich Of the Nathan Hale Junior High school lost out an medi. cine, while ''license," word no, used as freely as in an earlier gen. fration was the Waterloo for Yer onica Shea of St. Marys school Agnes Steege of St. Matthews schoo spedied past for passed and join cd the ranks of those on the bac! seats. Blanche Murray was giycl essential" Blanche said she spelie, 1t correctly, but it sounded 10 th, audience as well as the judges 6. though 'she started 1t with an "A'' cause Of her defeat. Rose Katz O. cause of her defeat. Rose Kjtz 0 the Nathan Hale school, left out on, "n' in unnecessary and found it wa. an essential letter.
 Margaret Phalon of St. Mary. school misspelled annually" Waite, Rival of St. Matthew's school. say, his spelling book spelled semeste, with an TT but the men who com piled modern dictionaries left out th, TT and Walter was out of luck,
 Roderic Linnehan of S;, Josenh I school was d popular speller anon. . large group. Roderc made a splen did record until he added one 70 too many in losing and he wa lost.
 Rose Horwitz stumbled over tw, previous words and was permitted f, proceed after the judges expresset doubt. but failed 10 successful, handle ''scientific"