Evening star., 1932-06-11
Tribute Is Paid to Pioneer
in Junior High Work
Here.
PORTRAIT AND TABLET
PRESENTATION IS MADE
Service and Devotion in Advancing
Public Education Is Praised
by Speakers.

Alice Deal, pioneer in the Junior high
school field in the District public school
system, was extolled by speakers repre-
sentative OF the various agencies with
which she was associated last night at a
memorial service in the Alice Deal
Junior High School at Thirty-eighth
place and Davenport street.
The service, planed by the Alice Deal
Memorial Association, included the
presentation OF framed portrait of
Miss Deal and a bronze memorial
tablet to the junior high school which
bears her name.
Describing her as "a woman Of force
and power, an uncompromising advo-
cate for that which she believed to be
right, a tireless and consistent con-
tender FOR progress and an enlightened
attitude" DR.. Stephen E. Kramer. first
assistant superintendent of schools in
charge Of high schools, who was speaker
Of the evening, declared that Miss Deal
Is memoraliZed mot so much to honor
her as to again bring up before us by
the necromancy of fond memory the
spiritual presence Of q friend and
leader"
Fostered Summer Schools,
Without Miss Deals devotion to the
junior high school movement. Dr.
Kramer said that this splendid de-
velopment" might have been delayed for
years. The Summer high school in the
District also is the result of her de-
termination, he added. Continuing,
DR.. Kramer said he would have Miss
Deal live in memory.
Il hold" he said, that we must
believe that in some way the contribu-
ton OF our lives to the service of our
fellow men becomes part of q great
mystical force which continues in
beauty and power beyond that narrow
confine which we call life and becomes
very real part of the corporate exist
ence In the communion Of the spirit
so we pass on, remembered not only for
what We have done. but for what We
have been, and can render no tribute
to Alice Deal better than the hope that
this building shall memorable her for
what she was and continues to be-"
The portrait of Alice Deal was pre-
sented for the Deal family by Dr. Lillian
Welsh. president emeritus of Goucher
College, Miss Deals alma mater. The
bronze tablet was presented for the
memorial association by Mrs. Edward
L. Glenn, a former president of the
schools Parent Teacher Association
The portrait and tablet were unveiled
by Charlotte and Priscilla Patterson,
little nieces of the dead educator. Miss
BERTHE Backus, principal of the Alice
Deal Junior High School, accepted the
gifts.
Others Give Talks.
Other speakers on the lengthy pro-
gram included Miss Irene Rice, repre-
senting the Gaucher Alumnae: Dr.
Louise Taylor-Jones. representing the
Washington branch OF University
Women; Dr. Robert Scott Lamb repre-
senting the Association of Social
Hygiene; Howard P. Stafford, repre-
senting the Junior High School Prin-
cipals' Association: Mrs. N. E. McIndoo,
representing the Parent-Teacher Asso-
Citations; Mrs. Florence N. Cornell,
representing the faculty Of the Columbia
Junior High School, the first junior
founded, and Harold T. Scott. a former
pupil of the school. Frank ]. Sabotka,
president of the Alice Deal Memorial
Association, presided.
Music by a section OF the Chadwick
Orchestra, and vocal selections by Miss
Mary Frances Glenn and Adolph
Turner, former pupils Of the school: the
Columbia Quartet, composed Of Albert
Powers, Huron Smith, Bill F1ack and
Benedict Genua, all former students of
the school, and Dr. Robert H. Harmon
completed the program. Rev. j. Fred
eric Wenchel said the invocation and
Rev Henry w. Snyder pronounced the
benediction.