Evening star., 1942-11-08
Washington Students
10 Resume Radio
Series This Week
Four Programs q Week
Will Be on Schedule
BY End Of Month

0y 6nQ OF MOntn
AS Education Week is observed
throughout the Nation. during the
next five days, the public school
system of Washington will be get
ting into full swing with its an
nual radio education project. Pre-
pared and broadcast largely by
school children and teachers with
the cooperation OF The Evening
Star and Station WMAL, the begin
ming of the second and third sep
arate weekly series on Wednesdays
and Fridays marks the third con-
secutive season of broadcasts under
this joint sponsorship.
BY the end Of November when
the program will be fully under way
four days of each school week will
have been on the regular broadcast
schedule.
The presentation Wednesday at
ais pm. of the combined senior
Junior high and vocational schools
will be the first of new series
entitled Schools for Victory" while
the series opening Friday at the
same hour deals with Our Ma
tion's Home Front" The weekly
program, News for Schools" has
been in progress since shortly after
the beginning OF the current semes-
ter.
A departure from last years
broadcasting policy in which the
senior high-vocational and Junior
high conducted two disassociated
series directed by separate school
radio committees, the present setup
aims for a more direct concentra-
tion on subjects related closely to
the Nation at war and the role of
school children in the war effort
Last year the upper-grade sections
devoted half-hour broadcasts to the
background of American democracy,
and the junior high schools elabo-
rated on the nations Of the Amer
icas.
Limited to Is Minutes.
For the current season, all pro-
grams will be limited to 15-minute
periods. It has also been agreed by
the school committee that follow-up
study in classrooms shall be op-
tional and that no study plans be
formulated and distributed as was
the former practice.
The schedule for Schools for
Victory" calls for participation by
81 school groups in as many pro-
grams, ranging from physical edu-
cation and vocations to war activi-
ties in the school. Education for
Free Men" Keeping Fit for Vic
tory" What Graduation Means to
Me-" What of Youth After the
War" are characteristic titles. In
dividual broadcasts will be broken
up variously into dramatic skits,
discussions and musical numbers.
The Friday series is to be pre-
sented mainly for the benefit of
shut-in children. Purpose is to
acquaint physically handicapped
youth with the scope and progress
of Americas productive ability both
in the factory and on the farm.
There will be II, such broadeasts;
and, purely for entertainment pur-
poses, 1t has been proposed that
seven of this number be devoted
to dramatizations suitable to such
holiday celebrations as George
Washington's birthday, Thanksgiy-
inr and christmas
DR.. Clyde M. Huber of Wilson
Teachers College is chairman of
the General School Radio Com
mittee. Lawrence G. Hoover, prin-
cipal of Central High, and R. w.
Strawbridge, principal Of Stuart
Junior High, head the subcomniit-
tees for the senior and Junior
grades, respectively.
Elementary School Series.
Meanwhile, plans are proceeding
for the Inauguration of the ele-
mentary school series November 30
which also will be broadcast at
2:15 pm. each Monday throughout
the first semester. The subcom-
mittee for this group, headed by
Mrs. Gertrude Howard, has an
nounced that the theme for the
current season will be Men Who
Found Out" The careers of out
standing yet not -too-wen known
scientists whose contributions are
felt in our daily lives will be dis
cussed and dramatized by the
s,o,,,oe+ore cohool fro,,, oocl, IF
the eight elementary school divi-
sions will be represented in these
broadcasts.
The regular Thursday feature.
"News for Schools" which is pre-
sented each week especially for
classroom listening this year has
met with the same enthusiastic sp-
proval on the part of pupils and
teachers that greeted its inception
more than year ago. Mrs. Flor
ence Rogers, supervising principal
of Division vi, serves as advisor for
these programs, which are prepared
and delivered by Howard P. Bailey
Of The Star staff. ss
Members of the general school
committee, other than those named,
include Mrs. Roberta S. Barnes,
Miss Julia E. Brooks, j. Francis
Gregory, j. G. Logan. Miss Edith A.
Lyons, Edward D. Reed, Mrs. La
Verne c. Walker, Mrs. Octavia E.
Reed, Miss Leonora C. Randolph and
Robert Botkin.
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