The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-17
New Term
Will Open
Wednesday
More Than Eighty Will
Form Glasses at
Orchard School.
BY CARR

TIVE peal Of the bell Of the Or
chard Country Day School
Wednesday viii summon more than
eighty youngsters and a teaching
staff home from a summer Of va
Red activity.
Loaded with relics OF Indian civ
ilization Of bygone centuries and
specimens Of desert animal life.
Hills HOWE has returned from his
fifth annual expedition for the
Children's museum 70 resume his
duties as headmaster al the school
After a summer Of study and
travel in the Black Hills. Mrs. Mable
Gunner viii continue her teaching
duties. and Miss Mary Chase is
back after a summer az the Mil
Hollow camp In New Hampshire.
Miss Frances Allen. who comes 10
the school from Boston. Mass, ar
rived from a trip on the Pacific
coast and in Yellowstone park in
time 10 attend tOday's staff meet
ing.
Miss Mary Collicott has been n
gagged in social service work in Ken
lucky. and Mrs. Marie Rice and
Miss Virginia Elliott cOntented
themselves with short trips. Gordon
Thompson was a member Of the
Turquoise trail group which jour
neyed 10 New Mexico and Arizona
and Herbert Sweet, a icy member
Of the faculty, conducted the Lit
tie Acorn tricks this summer in the
city.
School Renovated
While the BOYS and girls have
been looking up school books and
pencils and their parents have been
getting their wardrobes in readiness
for classes Wednesday. the school
itself has taken on a new garb.
Painters. carpenters and cleaners,
armed with paint brushes, tools and
mOps. descended upon the class
rooms and freshened up the color
schemes.
A group Of mothers headed by
Mrs. A. Dickinson Smith decided
that the drab gray walls Of the as
sembly hall and several Of the rooms
needed to be "perked up" and so
went to work with a vengeance.
Mrs. Smith welded the paint
brush more than once and found
herself selecting draperies and di-
recting workmen. The result Is
most gratifying. Yellow and white
checked material curtains n room
whose walls now are a Dutch cream
color and the assembly room has a
new coat of paint and brown cur
tains.
With its play productions, its
camp life, its practice in salesman
slip and organization. the school
gives not only instruction in read
in. ritin' and 'rithmetic." but in
the three RS Of the progressive in
stitution, reasoning. responsibility
and resourcefulness.
Make Toys for Needy
The Youngsters are taught to rea-
o problems for themselves; to
meet people and situations with
level heads and are allotted respon-
sibilities which give them conf
dence.
AT Christmas they design and
manufacture toys in the workshop
and give them to poor families.
They stage plays and entertain
ments and potential lawyers plead
cases before a judge and jury. On
nights when parents come to school
to discuss the progress Of their chill
dren, the older pupils present folk
dances. do clay modelling and ex-
hibit their work.
When classes are over, regular
cleanup periods are held. Two new
enterprises have been added for
after-school activities this fall. One
group of girls viii continue cook
ing. hiking and wood lore started
last year by Miss Collicott and Mr.
Sweet Will direct the Wolf Cub out
ht Of boys whose activities will in
clude w~oodcraft. nature study, hik-
ing and cooking.