Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Parent-Teachers

During the Summer months when
the local associations are in recess the
state Publicity Bureau depends on the
members of the local associations for
news items. Send all interesting Par
ent-Teacher news to State Office, Room
101, Burlington Hotel, before noon Of
wednesday of each week.
Summer Activities in the Keene
School Community" was the subject of
the radio talk by Mrs. FINS D. Morris
over station VOL last Tuesday evening.
Mrs Morris is a State vice president
and charter member of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers. For
many years she was the president of the
Keen ParentTeacher Association and it
was during her administration that the
association assumed the direction OF
the vacation activities Of the young peo-
pie of the community.
The girls of the community are max
ing two large quilts which Will later be
sold and the proceeds used to aid in the
athletic activities of the school.
Nature scrapbooks have a prominent
place on the vacation program.
Richard T. Wyche will be the speaker
for the Parent-Teacher program over
the radio next Tuesday evening. His
subject will be STORY Telling and Its
Value in Home Education"
Every Tuesday evening throughout
the Summer there will be a talk on
some phase of Parent-Teacher work
over station VOL from Z to ITO pm.
1t is the purpose of the Summer
roundup to stimulate community in
terest and cooperation in sending to
school in September its first-grade
children as free as possible from rene-
diable defects.
TO have ali children entering school
for the first time given a thorough
physical examination and to have all
remediable defects removed before the
opening of school Is the plan Of the
campaign.
The work is in accordance with the
| plan of the National Congress of Par
entS and Teachers and is carried on
under the general supervision Of the
District of Columbia Congress of Par
! ents and Teachers and all local Parent
J Teacher associations with the co-opera-
ton of the Health Department, the
Board of Education, the Washington
tuberculosis Association, the Visiting
Nurses Association, the Army School of
Nursing. the Red Cross and other local
bodies which have health programs or
which may promote health activities
aI1u IIlS PlAyoASAuAAS VA SAAS
| District of Columbia.
Any desired information on this sub
ject can be had from phoning or writ
! ing Mrs. Stull, 408 4th street northeast,
Lincoln 6241.
The Service School for Boys and Girls
at 1860 MintWood place has just re-
Joined the Parent-Teacher Association
after a meeting of parents and teachers
held July Is.
, The meeting. which was presided over
by Miss Constance c. Tuth1ll, prlnci-
| pal of the school, was addressed by
Z Mrs. j. N. Saunders. first vice president
= Of the District of Columbia Congress OF
Parents and Teachers.
| Mrs. Saunders introduced Mrs. FINS
! D. Morris, fourth vice president OF the
| District of Columbia Congress Of Par
! ents and Teachers, who told OF the In
! teresting Summer activities OF the
Joseph r. Keene School.
Mrs. Alta Lady. state chairman Of
parent education, addressed q special
meeting Wednesday evening on Child
Development"
There was an election Of officers and
Mrs. Saunders indicted the following
into office; Miss Constance G. Tuthll,
president; Mrs. G. Rain Sttlson, vice
president; Mrs. Earl Mcbride, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Richard McConaughy,
treasurer.
Until the Fall term opens Mrs. Still
. son was asked to be membership chair
man and Mrs. E. McKenna was asked
to act as publicity chairman.
The original membership Of the or
EaniZation was 80. The meetings VIII
be held regularly on the first Tuesday
of each month at 7:30 pm.