The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
CITYS SCHOOLS
JOIN IN HONOR
TO WASHINGTON
Programs to Commemorate
Inauguration on
April %.

the George Washington bicenten-
NAL celebration which will take
place Friday, April 20.
The various schools will have pro-
grams concentrating the inaugu-
ration Of the first President.
Plans Tor the occasion are under
direction of Milo H. Stuart and the
Rev. Maurice O'Connor, co-chair-
men Of the school committee for
the bicentennial.
Feature Of the ceremonies at
George Rogers Clark school No. 1
VIII be the planting of tree. Each
grade will provide patriotic exer-
cEes with the first grade youngsters
proVldlng patriotic poems and music
by the primary band. Second and
third grade pupils will present THE
Gnosts Of Bygone Years" A flag
orlil VIII be given by fourth and
NTH graders and the older pupils
VIII have charge Of the tree plant
ing
Give Pageants and Plays
musical play, THE Mother
Speaks, will be presented BY pupils
OF all grades at Thomas jefferson
School No. 7. Mary Eta Curtis will
take the part of Mother. joseph
Rybolt as Little Jack will sing
Charlotte Summers, as Columbia
appears in the final scene. There
VIII be a primary band. Virginia
reel camp fire scene. minuets. NAV
pole dance, flag drill, appropriate
songs and a tableau.
A playlet from each of the three
rooms Of Julia H Goodhart school
NO. II will form the main part of
the program The primary room
VIII contrast the life OF a little bow
OF today with one of the 17O0s. The
upper grade room will present
Planting Memory Trees for the
Colonies" The Making of the
First Flag will be given by the adj
Justment room Stories and songs
VIII complete the program.
WITHIN pageants, tableaus. dra-
matte episodes, dances and songs.
the pupils OF Mary E. Nicholson
school No. 10 will revive the colo
NAL atmosphere. The ga class will
present a dogwood tree which will
be accepted by the 1B class. 1t is
planned to plant the tree near
redbud bush on the school grounds
similar to the Mt. Vernon land
Scaping.
William Penn School 40 will give
a pageant-play based upon I'm the
Hearts Of His Countrymen," by Ma
ran HoRbrooke The episodes deal
with events in the life of Washing
ton. The earlier scenes will be given
by the primary children. The later
scenes, by the Older groups, show
important events in his manhood.
On Arbor day the pupils planted an
American elm tree in memory of
Washington.
Honor Washington, the Farmer
School No. u, in its bicentennial
exercises, will seek to honor George
washington, the farmer. Planting
OF trees, shrubs and seeds will be
accompanied with song and cere-
mony. The community gardening
project will be inaugurated and the
school garden acreage dedicated as
the washington bicentennial gar
,dens.
The committee in charge of the
Washington program for school No.
67 has worked out a pageant which
is a combination OF parts of
washington, the Patriot and
Washington Returns" Every
teacher is responsible for the part
taken by her room. More than one
hundred characters will appear,
and the extra curricular organiza-
tons will assist. The P. T. A. pro-
vided a Chinese elm, which is plant
ed in honor of Washington. The
committee consists Of Miss Ruth
Amos, chairman; Mrs. Gladys Muir
chic, Mrs. Mae RoudebuSh, Mrs.
Josephine Morgan and Mrs. Eliza
beth Slocum.
"A Mt. Vernon Garden" a play
with incidental music, is a project
OF the Benjamin Franklin school,
No. SO, in observance both of Music
week and of the bicentennial. The
pupils OF grades to have written
dialog, adopted the words of some
of the songs to the material of the
play, and made Illustrations for the
scenes. Fifth grade children have
made q model of Mt. Vernon and
are making a miniature formal gar
den. which will be a model for the
staging of the play. All children
will take part in the performance
by stage designing, dancing, sing
ing. pantomime or dialog.
Pupils of Oscar c. Mccullough
school will plant two American
Gins in their school yard, After
the trees have been planted and
named an appropriate Washington
program will follow.
Pantomime on Program
The eighth grade boys and girls
of the st. Joan of Arc school will
nut forth in pantonime many of
the minor scenes Of his life. The
scene. "Oh. for the Life at Sea-"
is played by Leroy Reach and JOS
epll Cowan. The girls will enter
tain with many of the dances of
Colonial times. Francis Swindler
plays the lead as Washington, and
James Mcnamara as General Knox.
"MamTny's Hoodoo Charm" is to be
presented by the seventh grade
girls. Miss Betty Early as George
Washington, and Miss Marie Aloyse
Lines as Lafayette, take leading
roles in this scene. The primary
hovs and girls. costumed as George