Evening star., 1936-10-08
HOOVER SELECTED
HEAD0F CENTRAL
RAWL|NS SHIFTED
Action Deferred on Changing
of Hour for School
Opening.
EFFECT OF LATE CLOSING
OUTLINED BY BALLOU
Requests Of 0ut-of District Pupils
to Attend Glasses Are
Denied.

LdWTeuCe ". hoover, assistant prtn-
cipal at Central High School since
1928, yesterday was chosen principal
Of that school to succeed DR.. Harvey
A. Smith, recently appointed an
assistant superintendent of schools.
He has been acting principal since
last July.
At the same time, DR.. George M.
Rawlins, jr., instructor in chemistry
at Wilson Teachers College, was made
head Of the department of science Of
the white high schools. He succeeds
DR.. Ellis Haworth, recently appointed
head of the science department at the
teachers college.
In long communication, DR.. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent asked the
board to defer for at least two weeks
action on the proposal to change the
hour Of opening the schools. Or. Bal
lou was absent, being confined to his
bed with an attack of influenza, and
his report was presented by Robert L.
Haycock, first assistant superintend-
ent.
DR.. Ballou presented a review Of
traffic and accident data during the
hours from to 10 am. supplied him
by washington officials, in which he
cited their recommendations to change
the hour from to $50 am. In con.
Guiding, however, he set up seven
objections to the later hour because
Of educational effects" Of closing the
schools at $3.50 instead of nm AZ
at present.
Results Of Late Closing.
These were: CD Employment of
pupils after school hours would be
reduced; (2) Supplementary instruc-
ton Of pupils In art, music and drama
after school hours would be curtailed;
90 A later closing hour would inter-
fere with cadet drill, foot ball, basket
bail, playground activities and the
entire program Of physical training
for pupils; 90 A later hour would
interfere with in-service after-school
classes for teachers at Wilson, Miner
and other colleges; (5) It would inteA
fere with after-school classes now
being conducted by the Community
Center Department; 90 It would cur
tail necessary conferences of teachers
with administrative and supervisory
officers, and CD, the $50 opening
hour would create "a difficult, II not
impossible, condition in the custodial
service"
THE superintendent expresses the
hope that before taking any action the
hoo ri Wi tnh hi
fully" DR.. Ballou wrote, mot only from
the standpoint Of traffic and accident
hazards, but also from the point OF
view of the parents Of school children,
as well as the effect Of the change on
the established educational program
carried on in the public schools"
The board denied a request of John
s. Kemp, a Government employe living
in Clarendon, Va, to permit his IL.
year-old daughter Lois to attend
classes at Gordon Junior High School
pending the outcome of his petition
for a writ of mandamus to compel her
enrolment there.
Dawson Request Denied.
A similar request from Philip N,
Dawson, 4523 Walsh street. Chevy
Chase, Md, to allow his son, Philip N,
jr., to enter Woodrow Wilson High
School, was turned down. It was ex.
planned that lack of teachers at Wood.
row Wilson made the rejection neces.
sary, since the enrolment there this
year increased 433 with only eight
teachers added to the faculty, an aver.
age of almost so pupils per teacher.
Haycock, acting superintendent. said
that more than 100 similar request,
are pending, with the only vacancie.
In junior or senior high schools being
at the John Quincy Adams School, in
the seventh and eighth grades.
I'VE expect our own pupils to Al
these few vacancies" he said.
DR.. Smith told the board that l2t
nonresident pupils who graduated
from District junior high schools last
year have been allowed to enroll al
Central and Mckinley High Schools
the only schools in the city to admit
outsiders.
Henry Gilligan voted to admit both
Lois Kemp and young Dawson. ex.
planning that he believes the law gov.
erning nonresident pupils Is manda.
tory and that the board has no righi
to turn them away. Other lawye,
members of the board, however, dis.
agreed.
1--WE most assuredly cannot compel
{ckr IN Admit
these pupils" Robert A. Maurei
asserted, when we haven't provided
them with the facilities necessary foS
our own District children"
A proposal to employ i've colored
and two white teachers OF physical
education in the central area Of the
city under q special appropriation Of
$4,000 was approved by the board
The teachers will confine their activi.
ties to the district bordered by North
Capitol street, Florida avenue, Twelfth
street and the Mall. This area has
more juvenile delinquency proportion
ately than any other section Of the
city. and Congress set aside the spe-
cial fund for training youngster
there.
The board refused to approve an
experiment proposed by Miss BERTHE
Backus, principal Of Alice Deal Junior
High School, under which the children
would have class periods ranging n
high as IS minutes. The time would
be divided between recitation and
supervised study, but would not bs
designed to abolish home work, which
is the purpose Of an experiment at the
Anacostia School.
Maurer objected strenuously to the
proposal, pointing out that even COLI
lege classes do not extend more thar
so minutes, and that such long period
Of concentration on single subject
would endanger the health Of the
children Of Junior high school age.
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