The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-20
PLANS MAPPED
FOR DEDICATING
OF 3 SCHOOLS
Ceremonies Largely to Be in
Hands of Pupils, with
Few Speeches.

Plans for dedication Of the three
new grade school buildings which
we're opened last September were
announced today.
The new buildings are school No.
60, Keystone avenue and Thirty
fifth streets; Frances w. Parker
school No. So, at 240O Columbia ave-
nue., and Christian Park school No.
81, at 400 English avenue.
Arrangements and management of
the dedicatory ceremonies will be
in charge of the schools. There
win be a minimum of speech-mak-
ing by school officials.
I'VE want the children to realize
that the schools are their own" said
superintendent Paul G. Stetson, ex-
planning the small amount of par
ticipation Of school administrators.
Pageant Will Be Given
First of the exercises will be held
at school No. SO, where Feb. has
been set as the date for the pro-
gram.
The building will be open for in
spection at 7 at night, with the
program starting at 1880.
Feature Of the program will be
the dedication pageant, in which
approximately twenty pupils will
take part. 1t will be preceded by
the mothers chorus under the di-
rection of Mrs. Malcolm McDougal
and the childrens chorus, directed
by Miss Wilma Sonnefleld, music
teacher.
Presiding will be Russell Will
son, president of the school board.
Julian Wetzel, chairman of the
buildings and grounds committee,
will present the building to the
school commissioners. Stetson will
make the acceptance address.
Miss Maude Price, principal of
the school, and Mrs. Harry Newton,
president of the schools Parent
Teacher Association, will respond to
Stetson's speech.
Tell Christian Park History
The Rev. George Westphall of the
Second Moravian church, will give
the invocation and dedicatory
prayer.
The school, which has twelve
rooms besides the manual train
ing room, was erected at a cost of
$4,000.
Dedication of Christian Park
school will be held Feb. IL.
A playlet, depicting the history of
Christian Park from which the
school gets its name, will be given
by the pupils of the school. The
production was written by the chill
dren. Directing the playlet will be
Miss Margaret j. Martin and Mrs.
Anna Grollman.
Wilson, Stetson and Wetzel will
speak. Response to StetSon's &C
ceptance speech will be given by
Frank Echolds, principal; Mrs. A.
G. Broker, president of the Parent
Teacher Association, and Tom Price,
1915 English avenue, vice. president
Of the student council.
Playlet on Program
Music will be presented by the
children's chorus and the mothers
chorus, under the direction of Mrs.
J. c. Southers.
The Rev. Guy Carpenter of the
rrvington M. E. church will deliver
the invocation and the dedicatory
prayer.
The building will be open at $50
for public inspection. Cost of the
school, a colonial brick structure
with thirteen classrooms and man
ual training facilities, was $188,00O
The Spirit of Progress" is the
title of the playlet which will be
presented by the pupils of Frances
w. Parker school No. Sc, a colored
school.
Music will be furnished by Mrs
Viola Wilson and the children's
chorus. Mrs. Creella Lee, sixth grade
teacher, will direct the playlet and
the childrenS chorus.
Has Twelve CIaSsroOms
Responding to Stetson's accep-
lance of the building will be Will
liam A. Thomas, principal, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Martin of the Par
ent-Teacher Association.
Invocation and dedicatory prayer
will be given by the Rev. r. l..
Pope of the Bethel A. M. E. church.
The school has twelve clasSroomS,
but 20 manual training. 1t accom-
modates pupils in the first six
Grades only. Its cost was $4,000.