Evening star., 1940-12-01

Only a few years back, squar
and Fourteenth streets, south OF
Independence avenue to the rail-
road tracks, were removed for pub
lie buildings, and more recently the
Social Security Building has been
erected in square 534, between Third
and Fourth streets, Maryland ave-
nue. and c street and the Rail-
road Retirement Board Building in
the block to the south of the So
cial Security Building. Other prop
erty has been purchased by the
Government in the last few years
in this section of Washington, and
other buildings for this locality are
being planned.
Naturally, every time new pub
lie building is erected, 1t means the
removal of many dwelling houses,
some of which date back to the
Civil War, and others to an earlier
period, or to a time when the
"sunny Southwest" was made up OF
many of the pioneer families OF this
city, who, though they may have
removed from here long since, still
hold for this part of Washington q
fond affection that increases even
more and more as the years come
and go.
Recently the writer drove through
the section of the Southwest where
is the new Thomas Jefferson Memo
rial Junior High School and branch
of the Public Library, which extends
from Seventh to Ninth streets and
H to 1, and to the north Of this
fine school building he found work.
men removing all the buildings in
SQUARES Ala and 438, which is being
done to provide space for a recrea-
ton area.
Corner Stone Laid.
The corner stone of the new JEFF
ferson School was laid on Monday,
December 4, year ago, with an in
teresting program and on Saturday
evening, December Z, the building
will be dedicated, with ceremony
well befitting the occasion, which
men and women prominent in civic
and educational life have been in
vited to attend, and no doubt many
of those who have graduated from
the old Jefferson building, replaced
by this fine structure, will be present
to honor their alma mater.
The date selected for this dedi-
cation, December 7, was set because
the old building was dedicated on
that date in December 68 years ago,
when remarks were made by Joseph
M. Wilson, one of the school trus-
tees; j. Ormond Wilson, superin-
tendent of public schools; Thomas
E. Lloyd, member of the Building
Committee; Henry D. Cooke, Gov
ernor of the District; w. M. Muir
tagh, school trustee; John Tyndall,
professor of national philosophy in
the Royal Institute of Great Brit
ain; Jugoi Arinori Mori, Charge
d'Afaires of Japan; Senator James
w. Patterson from New Hampshire
and John Eaton, jr., United States
commissioner of education.
The principal address was made
by Birdsey Grant Northrop, secre-
tary of the State Board of Educa-
ton of Connecticut. Prof. Joseph
H. Daniel, whom many will recall,
was there with a choir of go voices,
who sang, it is said, "in fine style. !"
The Rev. Byron Sunderland in
voked divine blessing, and Gen. u.
s. Grant, then President, wrote ex-
pressing his regrets that he was un-
able to be present. And upon the
coming occasion the Joseph H. Dan
iel Glee Club of Mckinley High
School, of which Frank Daniel, son
of Joseph H, is principal, will rem
der some of their best selections and
will be directed by the same baton
once used by the elder Daniel many
years ago.
First Teachers.
The first teachers assigned to the
old Jefferson were: John E. Thomp-
son, Mrs Mary E. Martin, Miss Mag
gle A. Pumphrey, Miss Mary A.
Lee, E. H. Thompson, Mrs. Sarah
E. Wise, Miss Annie Van Horn,
Miss Susie A. Langley, Miss Vic
toria v. Trook, Miss Annie M. Ad-
ans, Miss Rachel A. Garrett, Mrs.
Mary A. Bowen, Miss Elizabeth J.
Riley, Miss Harriet L. Davis, Miss
Ellie Dunn, Miss Margaret E. Gar
rett, Miss Annie E. Fowler, Miss FL
len E. Halliday, Miss Adele B. Gray
and Miss Bette A. Robinson.
The Jefferson Junior High School,
which opened its doors for the first
time in September last, has for its
principal Hugh Stewart Smith, a
member of an old Washington fam
lily His mother, whose maiden name
/. was Stewart, was born in this city
on Twelfth street, opposite the
Raleigh Hotel, and her father,
Charles Alonzo Stewart, was born in
the center Of the three brick houses,
still standing on the south side of
% the 1000 block of E street NV.
and his father, William Hudson
Stewart, was once engaged in busi-
ness in the old Medical Building
which stood for many years at the
northeast corner of Tenth and E
streets.
New Faculty.
The faculty of the new Jefferson
includes the following instructors in
special subjects: Mrs. Margaret
Chevrier, Mrs. Alpha Clarke, Mrs.
Elsie Davidson, Miss Lea Engel,
Mrs. j. D. Ferguson, j. T. Gallahorn,
jr.: Bernard Gillian, Miss Alicia
Harmon, Miss Ida Harmel, Mrs.
Irene Hepting, Miss Agnes Hessler,
Mrs. Laura P. Hester, Irvine Irving,
Miss Ruth Jehle, j. j. Lowrey, STAN
ley Lyles, Miss Evangeline McGroar-
. ty, Franklin Pagett, Adolph Rich
mond, Miss Erna Riedel, Mrs. Mary
= Snow, Mrs. Helen Springman, Wal
ter J. Wondrack, Miss Floy Wolfen-
barger and John Tanner.
- Miss Catharine Crawley is the
school secretary; Mrs. Anna Auth,
. school matron; Mrs. Edgar Hart,
!. manager of the lunchroom; Edgar
NJ. Jones, engineer, and j. E. Myers,
head custodian. The staff includes