Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-14
2 GRADE SCHOOLS
SHIFTED IN DRIVE
TO REDUCE COSTS
Board Groups as Many as
Three Buildings Under.
One Principal.
N. R. A. PARTICIPATION
AGREED BY MEMBERS
Preparation for Opening Next Mon
day, Includes Appointment OF
New Board of Examiners.

lie elementary schools WHICH LIE bodiu
of Education ordered late YESTERDAY as
part of its determined efforts to i've
within the appropriation tor the COM
ing academic year
The REORGANIZATION, designed to eff
feet more economical administration OF
the elementary schools, was one OF the
most important actions taken by the
board at its first meeting of the new
school year. Other subjects handled be-
fore the late adjournment at 6:2Z
O'Clock last night included entrance OF
students to the two teachers colleges,
transfer of the Johnson elementary
School to use of the Powell Junior
High School over protest of certain al
fected parents, participation of the
schools IN the N. R. A. campaign, ap-
pointment of new boards of examiners
and a host of minor details concerned
with the reopening of schools next
Monday.
In general, the reorganization of the
elementary schools embraced reduc-
ton in the number of principals by
grouping as many as three schools under
a single administrator. The Wallach-
French School group in the seventh
division was dissolved and new group to
be known as the Cranch-TylerWall
School, was set up. The Lenox Voca-
tional and the French School were
united as the Lenox-French School.
Miss E. M. Crook. administrative prin-
cipal of the former Wallach- French
School, was made administrative princl-
pal of the new Cranch- Tyler-Wallach
School, which was formerly classified
as 30-room school.
Miss Knighton Transferred.
Miss H. M Knighton. administrative
principal of the old Cranch-Tyler
School, was transferred to the Bowen
Greenleaf School as its administrative
principal Miss r. L. Mcnamara, for
mer administrative principal OF the
Bowen Gil eenleaf School in division 7,
vas transferred to the Cooke School in
the third division.
The former Gage-Henry School group
vas dissolved in the fifth division and
the Henry School was classified as a
12-room school.
The Emery, lexington and Gage
Schools were consolidated into the En-
Gage School, under the
administrative principalship of Miss M.
r Lyddane, in the fifth division.
Miss L. A. Shoemaker, administra-
tive principal of the old Gage-Henry
School. was transferred to the Eaton
School in the first division. Miss Ber-
tina E. Taylor, teaching principal OF
CQe ReS6TNOlT SCllOOl, LII Tic LII 81 OlNl-
sion, was transferred to the Henry
School in the fifth division.
The Rose Lees Hardy School-the
new Foxhall Village School-the Fran
els Scott Key School and the Reser-
voir School were consolidated to form
the Hardy School in d.
vision l and classified as a 16-room
school
Miss NJ H. Llufrio, teaching principal
at the Key School. was transferred to
the Oyster School, also in the first
division.
The Kingsman-Pierce School group
was dissolved and the Blow, Pierce and
Webb Schools were consolidated to be-
come the 24-room Blow-Plerce-Webb
School in the sixth division.
The Edmonds, Kingsman and Maury
Schools were consolidated as the
24-room Edmonds Kingsman Maury
School.
Mrs. F. N. Cornell, administrative
principal of the old EdmondS-Maury
School, was transferred to the New Ed
4monds- Maury-Kingsman School, and
Miss K C. Darlington, administrative
principal of the old Kingsman-Pierce
! school. was transferred to the new Blow
Webb-Pierce School.
Miss M. A. Turner, administrative
. principal of the Blow-Webb School, was
made administrative principal of the
,Brookland-Bunker Hill-Noyes School.
Miss M R. Pepper, administrative prin-
cipal of the Brookland- Hill
Noyes School, in the fifth division, was
made administrative principal of the
Brown School in the first division.
Logan and Young Schools.
The Logan and the Young Schools
were transferred from the thirteenth to
the eleventh divisions. The Harrison
Wilson School group in the tenth
division was dissolved and in its place
was set up the Morgan Wilson School.
The Harrison School then was clas-
sifled as a 16-room building and the
Morgan Wilson School was classified as
q 24-room school.
The question of the proposed estab-
lishment of the johnson School as an
annex to the Powell Junior High School
at Lamont street and Hiatt place was
introduced in the meeting when group
of parents of johnson School children
appeared at the session to voice vigorous
protest against the change. In oppos-
ing the plan, the parents, through Mrs.
Marie Flynn Maddox their chief spokes-
man, cited the danger to their smaller
children in the necessity OF crossing
Fourteenth street and Sixteenth street
traffic to reach the buildings which the
children of the johnson Elementary
school would be obliged to attend.
They commended further that they had
been given no warning of the proposed
transfer of the johnson School and de-
Tended their hardness in protesting on
this ground.
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, first assist
ant superintendent in charge OF high
schools. answered the o-warning charge
nv citing his own address to the john
son and the Powell Junior High School
Parent-Teacher Associations, prior to
the closing of school last year. He
added that the proposal to transfer
the johnson School to the junior high
school system also was fully described
in hearings on appropriations for sew
eral wears, as funds for the conStruc-
tion of the eight-room addition to the
bancroft School we're sought and SUISSE
ouently allowed on the ground that the
transfer of the johnson building would
produce a need for the additional ele-
mentary class rooms.
DR.. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent,
proposed as compromise for the salts
faction of the Johnson School chill
dren's parents that the kindergarten
and first grade be continued in the
Johnson building so that at least the
Youngest children in the school would
not have the traffic hazard to face.
He asserted that the junior high school
organization, at least for the present,
could spare two and possibly three
rooms for this purpose.
Opponents of the johnson School,
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