Evening star., 1936-01-05

Riggles, M. Townley, w. Buckley. r.
Cissel. B. Tubman, Lizzie Byram,
William Scrivener, Eva Moxley, r.
Appler, M. Lavton, j. Gallagher, B.
Hoffman, John Maury. Alice Clokey
and B. Hoffman. Opposite w. Ever
ett's name, violations of Order" was
marked CO.: Standing In Studies"
"E': as was also the case with Glenn
Morse and Edward McKnew. Hollyday
Needs, even in his first grade days
with Miss Nellie Fisher, evidently
gave promise of the brilliant future
that is his today as the junior member
of that distinguished Arm of Laird,
Bissell and Needs, in Wilmington,
Del. Throughout his entire first year
at school the record unvaryingly reads
to the effect that he was an exemplary
student, no times tardy, always with
the highest marks In his studies and
without q blemish as to the violations
Of class room order.
Thirty-five years ago, the old records
further tell us that Walter Patterson,
beloved to generations Of Washingto-
mans as one Of the city's most brilliant
schoolmen, a text book author of note
and first executive oficer of our spe-
cial school for the mentally defective
and physically handicapped, was prin-
cipal Of the Grant School. He HIM
self painted the white lines on the
basement floor, which for so many
years served as indicators for the form
ty,eP 1fvaa~ af vattvHlle In thA vVAnrVfN0 O
recess and after lunch. Serving in
one of the Grants primary schools was
r. A. Woodward, who Is now the prin-
cipal of the Gordon Junior High
School.
Miss Reeves As Principal.
An early principal Of the Grant
School now living in retirement out
side the city, was Miss Reeves, -af-
fectionately known In hundreds OF
Washington homes as Miss Fanny"
AS was in the case Of so many school
neighborhoods, Miss Reeves not only
lived in the vicinity. but was promoted
from the first grade on up to the
eighth grade principalship with her
pupils. Another principal of the Grant
School was Miss Alexandra Louise
Galeski, who has passed on to the
beyond. Her interest In and after
school avocation in art projects and
her paintings brought her considerable
fame not only in local circles. but
even beyond our midst.
Miss Viola NJ. Offutt, chairman of
the Committee on Text Books for our
graded schools, is the present admins
trative principal of the Grant and
Weightman schools. The latter is a
school especially set apart for Grip
pied children. Her Office is at the
Grant School, space ingeniously set
apart in the upper end of one of its
broad halls. With Mr.. Henry w.
Draper. the supervising principal of
the division in which the Grant and
Weightman schools are located, she
has given generously of her after
school hours in the motivation of
many worthwhile projects for the
alienation of the problems which are
particularly those Of these two school
municipalities.
AOAdy IA ih0 - SAooo TWINS AAOaiA
the kindergarten through the sixth
grades 400 children are served what
changes in class room procedure the
half century since the school was built
and named has witnessed. To my left
as I entered was the class room Of
Miss Edith Church. the teacher of the
sixth grade. AS I stood upon the
threshold of her class room could
scarcely detach her from the inter
ested semi-circle of students about
her. Movable furniture at will seemed
to be adjusted to the needs Of the
moment. phonograph was in one
corner of the room. and basket Of
library books in the other packed
up and ready to be returned that
new intellectual horizons might sur
plant old ones. .
In another Of these class rooms,
where age-old facts are being pre-
sented in a delightfully."- modern way,
Miss Anna Endicott, daughter of that
| distinguished seaman. Admiral Endi-
colt. is at home by birth and tradition