Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
ELLIOT JUNIOR HIGH
| DEDICATION ENDS
EDUCATION WEEK
School Named In Honor Of
Great Harvard Educator
Opened.
CEREMONY FOLLOWS
CORNER STONE LAYING
DR.. Ballou and Late Educators
Grandson Praise Memorial-Mrs.
Hoover at Hearst Building.


Washington's observation of Ameri~
can Education Week was concluded last
night with dedication of the Charles w.
Eliot Junior High School to the memory
Of Harvard University's eminent late
president.
The dedication followed laying of
the corner stone at the Phoebe Hearst
elementary School in the afternoon
when Mrs. Herbert Hoover and two
United States Senator's participated in
the program.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
OF schools, who was a speaker at the
dedicatory exercises in the Eliot School.
explained the diversified program Of
instruction in the present-day junior
high school is the kind of enriched
curriculum for which DR.. Eliot cam
paigned. Declaring DR.. Eliot was con-
ceded TO be the greatest college presi-
dent In the United States, DR.. Ballou
said I'VE honor ourselves by associating
his name with this institution and this
school system"
Grandson Speaks.
Charles w. Eliot, I'd, director of
planning of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and grand
son Of the eminent educator, spoke
briefly, relating incidents in his own
recollections of Dr. Eliot He said that
on two other occasions Re acted in a
capacity similar to his participation in
last nights program. Once, he said,
he went to New York to receive on be-
half Of his grandfather gold medal
from a learned society. At another
time he was presented with large
parchment bearing testimony to the
comforting Of high degree upon Dr..
Eliot. Both these awards disguised"
the Harvard president, his grandson
said, because each was Of no use.
But this living kind of memorial
which you are dedicating to him In this
type Of school," Mr.. Eliot said. would
have been highly pleasing to him"
Mai. H. l.. Robb, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Of the District, presented
the school building to Mrs. Philip Sid
ney, Smith, board member. In the
presentation Mai. Rob0 said the school
was built at a. cost Of $452000 and
represent and additional expenditure of
10000.
Mrs. Smith Takes Charge.
Mrs. Smith, insaccepting the struc-
ture on behalf Of the school board, ex-
pressed the boards appreciation to the
Commissioners and to Congress. She
Agnes I. Kinnear, its principal, who
assured the board member she and her
star would exert every effort TO make
it an institution worthy Of the name
it bears
Former Chief Justice Walter I.
Mccoy presented q portrait Of Dr.. Eliot
to the school on behalf Of the Harvard.
for the school by Raymand White,
member Of the schools first senior
class.
The exercises were opened by Rev.
John c. Copenhaver,t pastor Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and were
presided over by Joseph l.. Gammell,
president of the Lincoln Park Citizens
by selections by the Eastern High School
Orchestra under the direction of Mrs.
Frank Byrarn, and tenor solos by Earle
Nails. George Green, president OF the
schools Parent Teacher Association
spoke briefly.
Tribute TO Mrs. Hearst.
Mrs Hoover paid tribute to Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst, for whom another OF
Washington's newest schools will be
named, as the greatest influence in
education we had" in California, where
she said she knew Mrs. Hearst. When
she came to the White House with Mr..
Hoover Mrs. Hoover said she was sur
prised to learn tkat the pioneer worker
in the kindergarten had extended her
influence over 30 broad an area.
At the exercises marking the placing
Of the corner synne Of the Hearst School
Senator Simeon D. FesS of Ohio ana
Senator Henry p. Ashurst Of Arizona
were among the speakers In exercises
presided over by George r. Wales. civil
service commissioner. Senator Tess de-
nj ~
ton is measured by the character Of
its men and women, and he declared
that any movement looking to the de-
velopment /and education Of the child
should be appreciated and supported.
The development of the kindergarten
system from its beginning in Washing
ton, he said, was the inspiring move
ment launched by Mrs. Hearst.
Landed by Senator.
Senator Ashurst traced briefly the
life of Mrs. Hearst, 1auding the works
she accomplished.
Miss Catherine =. Watkins, director
Of kindergartens, also spoke. She said
she was an alumnus Of the Hearst
in the Interests Of children. Miss Wat
kins presented a group OF kindergarten
children, who sang typical kindergarten
songs. The children were pupils Of the
Janney and the John Eaton Schools.
Mrs. Joseph N Saunders, president
Of the D. c. Congress Of Parents and
Teachers, paid tribute to Mrs. Hearst's
work in the pareLt-teacher movement
She named Mrs. Alice M. Birney as the
moving force in the work.
Dr. Frank w. Ballou, school super
intendent, expressed pleasure at the
naming Of the school for Mrs. Hearst
The exercises were completed when
william Randolph Hearst, jr, and John
Hearst, grandsons of Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, welded trowels of cement
which closed into the stone foundation
and metal container documents of in
terest to the school and its sponsors.
Rev. Charles Warner, rector Of St.
Adams Church, pronounced the invo-
cation and the benediction.