Evening star., 1939-08-02
Barrett Maps
Playground
Improvements
To List 10 More
Areas for Opening
This Summer

With the atmosphere cleared for
the time being of reorganization of
the Districts recreation agencies,
Recreation Director Lewis r. Bar
rett set to work today to improve
Fairgrounds and open additional
play areas.
With the aid of District, school
and Park Service designers and
buildings and grounds experts, he
set about formulating plans as to
how to pool the resources of the
District Government, his own de-
partment, the schools and the Of
flee of National Capital Parks in
order to effect improvement work
needed on areas in the recreation
system as planned by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mlsSlCn.
Would Open 10 More Places.
With the aid of his assistants
he worked up list of 10 ad-
ditlonal play areas which it would
be best to open for the duration of
the summer. The District Recrea-
ton Board at its meeting Monday
allocated $3.50 from existing ap-
preparations with which to open
new areas.
Mr.. Barrett said today he would
probably be able to open the follow
Ing Fairgrounds tomorrow:
Curtis School, Thirty third and P
streets NV; Seaton School, I street
between Second and Third streets
NV; Blake School, North Capitol
between K and L streets NV:
Cranch School. Twelfth and G
streets Sc; Brent School, D street
and North Carolina avenue Sc;
Randle Highlands School, Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Thirtieth street
Sc; Truesdell School, Illinois ave
nue. and Ingraham street NV; Bell
School, Second and D streets S.W.:
Crummell School, Gallaudet street
and Central avenue NE. and Ma
gruder School, Seventeenth and M
streets NV. The last three are
colored schools and all 10 are in the
central portion of the city, where
congestion is greatest and play space
most needed.
Mr.. Barrett already has opened
four additional school grounds and
two park areas for the use of small
children during the summer. Added
to this and to the 10 he expects to open
tomorrow with the $3.50 ALLEGATION.
he will attempt others providing he
can get enough w. P. A. leaders to
supervise them. At present, he said.
he is losing about as many of these
leaders as he gets new ones in.
Those he is losing are taken from
the w. p. A. rolls under the 18-
month employment limitation in
the current relief act.
To Consolidate Program.
Mr., Barrett said today that no
new play program would go into
effect for the duration of the sum-
mer but that the "co-ordinated'
program used last summer and in
effect again this summer would be
consolidated to preclude overlap
ping.
Personnel appointed yesterday to
top positions in the new setup today
were being sworn in to their new
positions. They are Miss Sibyl
Baker, new director of community
centers; Richard S. Tennyson, as
siStant director of city-wide white
programs; Harry English, assistant
superintendent in charge of white
sections and supervisory personnel
in the recreation system; Thomas
j. Anderson, assistant director in
charge of city-wide colored pro-
grams, and Miss Maude M. Parker,
supervisory recreation director un-
der Mr.. English.
The other colored assistant direc-
tor has not yet been appointed.
One was ratified yesterday by the
Board of Education but has not yet
accepted the post.