Evening star., 1934-02-08
SCHOOLS TO HANG
c: v. A. ART WORKS
Committee Named by Board
of Education to Select
Paintings.

to select such works by C. w. A.
artists as they found suitable and to
place them in the Districts schools.
This much-discussed question was
settled after a report by Superin-
tendent of Schools Frank w. Ballou,
in which he said that some of the
sketches exhibited for the past three
days at the Corcoran Art Gallery
were entirely worthy and proper to
be placed In schools" He said he
thought the school board should CO.
operate with the Public Works of Art
Project Committee, and stressed the
Importance of expeditions action, SO
the artists can 60 ahead with their
work The fact that many of the
paintings are on canvas. he asserted.
increases their value and suitability
for schools.
Given to Committee.
On DR.. Ballou's recommendation
and on motion of George WhitWell,
board member, the board voted to
place the entire matter in the hands
of its Committee on Buildings,
Grounds and Equipment, composed of
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, Henry l.
Quinn and Charles H. Houston.
The committee will call in art di-
rectors of the various schools for
suggestions and proceed at once to
place the paintings which are found
suitable. The group is empowered to
act without further instructions. Mr..
Whitwell said he was opposed generally
to painting the walls of the schools.
The committee also was instructed
to take up with the Public Works Of
Art Project Committee the proposal
to have c. w. A. artist paint a
portrait of former Chief Justice Will
liam Howard Taft for the Taft Junior
High School.
Efforts Of school authorities to
secure further schooling for 237 post
graduate high school students, unable
to pay their way or get jobs. was dis
closed by DR.. Ballou, who said he had
sent a list of these students to num-
Der of colleges and universities.
100 Howard Scholarships.
Announcement was made that
Howard University is making avail
able to District students 100 scholar
ships, 70 arranged in cooperation
with the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration. The university for
merly awarded only 13 scholarships
here yearly.
DR.. Ballou told the board of the
formation of class at George Wash
ington University by President Cloyd
Heck Marvin with an So registration
fee the only tuition requirement.
Benjamin Franklin University, he
said, has offered two scholarships to
the District, one to go to pupil at
Mckinley High School and the other
to Central student.
DR.. Ballou reviewed the history of
free school lunches for needy pupils
and suggested that Assistant Super
intendent of Schools Haycock be re-
lieved of supervision of the project.
The board relieved Mr. Haycock after
being told a competent person had
been placed in charge of the luncheon
system, financed in cooperation with
the G.! w. A.
Nursery Center Undecided.
The nursery center planned for the
old Wisconsin Avenue Manual Train
ing School, and crowded out by the
proposed central lunch kitchen there,
may be placed elsewhere, DR.. Ballou
said. He reported that plans fer
nursery centers throughout the city
are going forward.
The board voted to request c. w. A.
funds for finishing uncompleted rooms
on the second floor of the Murch
School which have been used by the
overflow from the Alice Deal Junior
High School. 1t was told that, in
their present condition. it was diff
cult to heat the rooms in cold weather
and that recently they were closed
for two days for this reason.
Preston E. Wire, who proposed to
erect a "Park-Shop" store develop
ment on the block of Connecticut
avenue south of the E. v. Brown
School, appeared before the board and
attempted to persuade it to withdraw
It's objection to the project. He was
directed to ascertain the sentiment
OF the parents Of the E. V. Brown
School before the board would decide.