Evening star., 1934-04-12
MRS. DOYLE TELLS
Of SCHOOL NEEDS
Vice President of Board of
Education Hits Teaching
Principals.

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ship" as the biggest blot on the city
of Washington" Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle. vice president of the Board of
Education, last night told the Ameri-
can University Park Citizens Associ-
alton that the board was endeavoring
as rapidly as possible to change these
teaching principals" to admins
trative principals"
"It is too much to ask a teacher to
run her building and teach her class,
BESIDES" declared Mrs. Doyle. "She
has to meet all callers, answer the
telephone, receive reports from other
teachers and then take care Of her
own classes. It is not only hard on
the teacher, but it is very hard on
the class"
The administrative principal, Mrs.
Doyle explained, can give her full
time to tine school administration, and
has no classes to teach.
Tells of Economies.
Explaining the methods to which
the Board Of Education has resorted
to maintain all services of the school
system of Washington without DROP
ping any of them, the speaker told of
economies which had been put into
effect all along the line.
The greatest problem facing school
authorities, she said, was the lack Of
construction, with the junior and
senior high schools overcrowded, and
no new buildings going up. Junior
high schools, she said. had 1888 more
than capacity. and senior white high
schools, 1000 over capacity, with
Eastern and Western High Schools on
a double shift. The elementary
school population is falling of. how
ever, Mrs. Doyle said.
Members of Congress insist, she ex-
planned, that a community in order
to obtain a new school must show
sufficient pupils to fill 1t completely.
Mrs. Doyle praised the teachers and
other personnel of the schools who.
she said. were carrying the burden"
of longer hours and larger classes,
with lower pay.
Building to Be Started.
Work should start soon, she pre-
dicted, on the new Woodrow Wilson
q contract March IA. The building
Is to be completed November IA. 1885.
The association. meeting at Hurst
Hall, on American University campus,
went on record "as objecting to the
sale of Tenley School building and
grounds appertaining thereto" which
was said to be under consideration.
A motion by Henry L. Colman OBJ
jecting to such proposed sale stirred
considerable opposition. with Patrick
Henry Loughran, chairman of the
Education Committee of the associa-
ton, insisting that the question
should be referred to committee for
investigation Of facts and report at
the next meeting Mr.. Loughran,
who said he was in sympathy with
the principle of expanding the school
facilities of the city, voted for the
Colman resolution, but served notice
he did so in order to ask for a re-
consideration of the matter at the
next meeting. Colman explained that
the Janney Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton had investigated. and reported
that st. Anne's Parish had made an
offer for the Tenley School and
grounds, which join the Janney
School grounds. He insisted that
sale of the Tenley School would too
sharply curtail the playground of
the Janney School.
Opposition Urged.
Thomas E. Lodge contended that
the idea Of organized citizenship
throughout the city was for increase
of school facilities, not for their de-
crease. and the association should
oppose the proposed sale.
Donald O. Woolf of the streets
and avenues reported that city off,
cials had denied the request Of the
association to make Forty-sixth street
in the community an arterial high
way.
Mr.. Lodge predicted the measures
for taxicab insurance, and fixing re-
sponsibility for drivers of other We
hicles had a better chance than ever
OF enactment by Congress.
Mrs. Frances Williams, chairman
of the Membership Committee. re-
ported 81 members, and received con-
gratulations from A. j. Driscoll,
chairman of the Membership Com
mittee of the Federation of Citizens
Associations.
w. T. Belts. chairman Of the Sani-
tation and Identification Committee,
reported organization of a Garden
Club as an auxiliary" of the Citi-
zens' Association, to conduct the an
nual garden contest, and for other
purposes. The officers of the club, all
of whom are association members,
are: Mr.. Belts, president; Jett Way
land, vice president; Mrs. Thomas E.
Lodge, secretary. and Mrs. o. G.
Visel, treasurer; garden contest chair
man. Dallas Buch; Purchasing Com
mittee chairman, Mr.. Lodge; Ex-
hibition Committee chairman, Mrs.
George Rutley, and program chair
man, Mrs Anna Belts Smith.
The meeting was in charge of the
woman officers Of the association,
headed by Mrs. Blaine McCollum,
vice president, who presided, and
Mrs. Smith as secretary. Refresh
ments were served.