Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-15
Helpful Womonhood Energies
From Chest-Aided School
St. Roses Technical Directs Girls
Toward Tokine Their Places in World


family life should not operate to
deny them individual friendships or
pleasures during their adolescence,
it Is felt.
Many Uses for Funds.
What is the Community Chest
money used for at the school? Ex-
penses Of operating the living quar-
tiers, making repairs, in fact. every
thing but providing the courses Of
instruction, which Is the concern
of the sisters.
Not all is as the sisters would like
it to be at St. Roses, for the Chest
budget is planned to supply the
absolute minimum for continuance
OF. the work of member agencies and
capital expenditures for new boilers
and other improvements to the 81
year-old building are needed ur-
gently, but they are full of gratitude
for the means to keep up their work
of readying bereaved girls for use
full and congenial role in society.
Before they departed with their
friends that day, the theater-bound
couple had discharged the response
bilities assigned them in the organ
lied community within the walls Of
the big building at 1900 California
street N.W.-dusted, assisted in the
kitchen or performed some other
household task. Although st. Roses
now is a high school offering five
x,~or . M Iay,;o oo,,rco or1 rov,4 mar
cial training, teaching of the homely
arts has not been abandoned, and
the graduate finds herself fully
equipped for management Of home
Job Training Provided.
Because they were in their last
years at the school, the two girls
were able to look forward to actual
experience in employment prior to
graduation, for, definite vocational
training is provided by allowing the
students to accept positions by the
day as typists, store clerks. or in
some other work In which they are
interested" in order that they may
have some. comprehension Of the
sphere of activity in which they may
find themselves after leaving the
place that will have been home for
five years.
Because they were students Of a
high school dedicated to the special
requirements of girls deprived Of in
dividual homes because Of death or
disappearance of one or both par
ents or because particular problems
indicate institutional care. they
could enjoy such usual extra cur
ricular activities as voice and piano
lessons, art work, dramatics, school
paper and oratorical contests.
st. Roses is accredited by the
Middle States Association Of COL
leges and Secondary Schools.
It does not accept problem"
cases, but q full time social worker
is available for individual attention
to the emotional troubles and ambi-
lions of the students, which usually
number 80, full capacity, or q few
less
Orphan Sisters Included.
Among those whose development
has been guided at st. Roses are
three girls of family of four, all Of
whom were obliged to avail them
selves of outside assistance when a
hospitalized father found himself
unable to keep them with him after
death took the mother out of the
family group.
Rearing a family is no novelty to
the staff of the school. They think
of the four girls who came to them
after progressing through st. AIMS
Infant Asylum and st. Vincent's
Home and School, also Chest mem
bers, never having known other than
institutional care.
The sisters and lay workers. real
izing how much adolescent girls
want to become part of the world,
to see q future for themselves, are
proud of the manner in which their
charges have succeeded. They think
of that talented girl who became the
chapel organist, of the student
whose scholastic excellence won her
q scholarship to Trinity College.
Proudest are they of the record of
worthwhile lives made by graduates,
young women who have their own
homes, have become Chest contribu-
tors. An increasing number of en-
ployers have become accustomed to
draw additional personnel from st.
Roses, having found them capable,
reliable, well hammered.
Other graduating classes are be-
ing readied in the massive brick
building, because the Community