Evening star., 1939-12-31
1910 Parent-Te teacher
Program Is Viewed
With Confidence
Mrs. Lowe Outlines
ProIembs and Is
Certuin of Success
BY MRS. c. ID. LOVE,

Certain Of Success
BY MRS. c. ID. LOVE.
President D. c. Congress Of Parents and
Teachers.
During the next few days there
will be MANY words written pertain
ing to the old year, with its record
of accomplishment or failure. and to
the new year, with its promise of
hope and opportunity.
To people everywhere the year
will undoubtedly be one of grave i'm
portance, for in these days of tur-
moil and world upsets, anything may
happen at any time. Therefore, it
behooves us to order our lives as
near to level of normalcy as pos
sible, maintaining in our homes the
semblance of security and peace
which will follow us wherever we
may go.
Many Child Problems.
Parent-Teacher people are look
ing forward to the new year with
its program of service for children.
They are seeking in it an oppor-
tunity to continue the many WORTH
while projects which they have in
augurated in the past, and are oed-
icating themselves to renewed ef-
forts. There will be many children
who will need help from our student
aid department; there will be those
who will need glasses and whose
| parents are unable to provide them;
there will be mothers who will grasp
eagerly at the opportunities for self
improvement, knowing that as they
grow mentally and spiritually, so do
their children grow. And then there
will be the many instances where
parents and teachers will gather for
their regular meetings, to listen to
programs as varied as the colors OF
a kaleidoscope, pausing for few
moments afterward for a friendly
chat over a cup of tea. where many
times understanding and friendship
are established which will 60 with
them both through life.
| Stresses Growth.
The program of the parent-teach-
er organization is essentially one OF
growth; under it there is no stand
ing still, for there is constantly the
striving after more information on
child-rearing methods, on ways
whereby better relationships may be
established between children, par
ents and teachers: on new trends in
education and new opportunities for
service. Somehow, one has the men
tai picture of parents and teachers
climbing eagerly together the noun
tain of progress and finding at each
new turn in the road some nugget
of information to be passed on to
succeeding searchers.
So we approach the year 1910 with
confidence that it will prove tc be
one of benefit to every person vino
makes the honest effort to give to it
something of himself, thereby re-
ceiving something from every one
with whom he comes in contact.
There will be a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the D. c..
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Tuesday, at 10 am, in the State
Office.
Central High.
The annual card party will be held
at 8 pm. January %. General
chairman in charge is Mrs. Harold
Evans and assisting her, as Commit
tee on Prizes, are Mrs A. N Schroe-
der. Mrs. Hugh Dryden; candy.
Mrs. Murice Eanet. Mrs. Paige Nc
Leod, Mrs. H. Hipkins: hospitality,
Mrs. Joseph Kurz, Mrs. A. R.
Thompson, Mrs Emil Ventre. Mrs.
r. L. Blalock. Mrs. Yorick Mathes;
cakes, Mrs. John H. Rogers.
The Executive Committee will
meet Thursday at II 80 for luncheon
in the home economies dining room.
to be followed by the business meet
ing.
Hubbard.
The Executive Committee will
meet Tuesday at Ills pm. in the
work room.
John Burroughs.
An executive meeting will be held
Thursday at l:30 pm.
Over 300 pupils from all grades
took part in the Christmas pageant.
It is an annual event and is spon-
sored by the Parent Teacher Asso-
ciaticn.
Wheatley.
The Fathers Council. under the
leadership of j. H. johnson, will be
in charge of the meeting January
10 at pm. Thomas E. Lodge,
former president of the Federation
of Citizens, Associations, will speak
on "Firsthand knowledge of School
Conditions Affecting the Child"
Miss Susanne Mellichampe, Girl
Scout captain of Troop So. which is
sponsored by the Wheatley PIT. A.,
has turned over to the association a
complete layette made by members
of the troop for a needy family.