Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17
SCHOOL OPENING
TO BREAK RECORD
Enrolment Planned With I'M
portant Teacher PreIimi-
naries Friday.

With ecord-smashing rosters in pros.
pect. officials today prepared for the
opening of the public schools Mon.
day Important preliminary matters
will be discussed at meetings of teach
ers with their supervising principal
Friday morning at 1890 o'clock.
Instructors of division / will meet IL
the Curtis School; division 3, in the
Raymond School; division 5, in tn,
Langley Junior High School; division
6, in the Wheatley School; division
in the Bryan School; division 9, in the
Franklin administration building; divi.
sion 10, in the Morgan School; division
IL, in the Cleveland School, and divi.
sion IS. in the New Bell School.
Teachers of the teachers colleges
senior and junior high schools will
gather at the same hour in theil
schools. The assistant superintendent
in charge of supervision of grades one
to six of the white institutions will
conduct a meeting of new teachers OF
grades one to four in the Franklin Ad-
ministration Building at 2:30 pm. Fri
day. The director Of primary instruc-
ton will meet new teachers OF grades
one to four in the colored schools at
the Miner Teachers College at Ills
o'clock.
meetings WIN OHcCtOFbs
Directors of special subjects will meet
their teachers at 1880 am. Friday
under the following schedule:
Domestic science, white schools, Dem
nison Building; household arts, colored
schools, Berret School; domestic art,
white schools, Dennison Building; draw
ing, white schools, old Adams School;
drawing, colored schools, Berret School;
manual training, white schools, Frank
lin Administration Building, and col
ored schools, Berret School; physical
training, white schools, old Adams, and
colored schools, Berret; nature study,
white schools, old Adams, and colored
schools. BerTet; music, white schools,
old Adams, and colored, Berret.
Directors of kindergartens will meet
their teachers at 2:30 pm. Friday,
white teachers assembling at the Thorn
son School and colored at the Cleve-
land. Principals of the vocational
schools will meet their teachers in their
respective buildings at 1890 am.
Meanwhile, about 200 prospective
high school students had applied for
enrolment to the Senior High School
Board of Admissions in the Franklin
Administration Building today, indicat-
ing last years total of 450 would be
exceeded.
Admission Board Session.
The Board of Admissions, composed
Of representatives of each of the high
schools, will remain in session through
out today and tomorrow, while exami-
nations will be administered Friday to
applicants unable to show proof of ell
gibility.
The board has accepted credentials
from recognized high schools in the
vicinity of Washington with greater
dispatch this year than in previous
years, thus limiting at the outset the
potential examination list.
Members of the board: w. p. Hay
of Mckinley High School, chairman
Miss M. G. Halves, head OF the Latin
department in the high schools, secre-
tary; Miss Dorothea Sherman, Central,
Miss ]. B. Edmonston, Western; DR.. j
B. Holmes, Eastern, and DR.. A. L. How.
ard, Business.
A meeting of the board Of Education
scheduled for this afternoon was called
when 1t became apparent too many
members were absent from the city tc
enable quorum to be present. The
meeting probably will be held Friday In
stead.