New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
Work of Schools Will Be Shown AtPublic Exhibits April g to l2
 In HIS. Gyms" and Auditorium
Composite Picture of Edu- cation Plant and Efforts of Teachers and Pupils to Bring Whole Story Be- fore Taxpayers in City.

At meeting of a committee ap- pointed by Superintendent of Schools Stanley II. Holmes yesterday plans fei. a public exhibition of the work of the city school system were made. It is proposed to hold the eX- hibit in the Senior High school gym- nasiums and auditorium on the aft ernoons and evenings of April 9, 10, II and r. As far as possible every phase of school work will be shown. Not only will there be samples of written work, charts and note books present in small groups to demon- Strate their daily work to parents and interested citizens. School or chcstras will play. Short plays and dramatizations of history and relat- ed subjects will be presented by the pupils. Motion pictures showing the schools at work will be used. The attempt will be made to have each visitor obtain an accurate view of what is going on in the schools
 The executive committee in charge is made up of Louis r. Slade, prin- cipal of the Senior High school, chairman; Mary A. Campbell, su- pervisor of elementary grades; Dew cy Van Cott, supervisor of art; Will liam c. French, principal of the Central Junior High school; Ever cit D. Packard, director of the trade school; Adele Bassctt, principal of the Benjamin Franklin school; liar ry Vessels, principal of the Nathan Hale Junior High school; Edward l.. Weeks, principal of the Nalen- tine B. Chamberlain school and the Roosevelt school Helen J. Bunce, principal of the Camp school; Amy (. Guilford.
 It is planned to exhibit the fol- lowing subjects and activities:
 Wall exhibits-Arithmet lan- Guage. English; civics. sciences, bookkeeping, art, algebra, language, foreign; geography, spelling, type writing, health records, geometry. etc., history, reading and literature, penmanship, shorthand, measuring charts.
 Table and booth cxhiblts-Hanl work. shop work, pottery, painting, etc, charts, etc, sewing, embroidery, linoleum prints, art work in Sencr- al, cooking, dressmaking, poster work, machine shop products.
 Live exhibits, booths, auditorium and floor-Physical education drills, dancing, games. apparatus work, music, choruses, etc., individuals, orchestras, etc, open air school, q typical school, ant classes, dicta- phone class, first grade activity au- ditorium, dramatics, use of visual ads, home repairs, drafting, sight saving sch ol, special school, type writing, penmanship class, forum moving pictures, science, woodwork ing, sewing and dressmaking, school immigrant; stenography, music class, library class, civic league, stereopticon, electricity, printing, cooking.
 International exhibits-Form of ~->hicieS' pOolClSJ ClldIlS, d1llpTlGLS, plans, photographs, drawing. Sub- lects of exhibits: Our best and wors, buildings: Contrast, little red school house with a modern school; Gen. eral aims of the schools; The need and value of an education: Our school playgrounds and needs of piaygrounds; The school plant as ;t community center, New Britain needs awakening to the value of an all year recreational program; The cost of the schools, compared year by year for ten years, compared with other Connecticut cities, per cent of total income used for schools for 19a5-26, 1926-7, 1927-2S, 1925 29, 1929-5O; costs for elementary schools per year per pupil, costs for junior high schools per year per pupil, costs for senior high school per year per pupil; skeleton state- 'hent of subjects taught in elemen- tary schools, junior high schools. senior high school; the teaching staff, numbers professional prepara- ton, service in New Britain, re- uIIire