Evening star., 1943-06-28
Mclean Gardens
Child Center
To Be Opened
Wednesday Afternoon
Set for Formalities:
20 already Enrolled

The Child Care and Voluntee
Training Center at Mclean Gar
dens, project of the District Uni
of the American Women's Voluntary
Services, will hold its formal open.
ing from to $50 pm, Wednesday
according to an announcement.
With accommodations for SO chill
orsrl IRON families living in Mclean
Gardens and from the nearby neigh.
borhood. it already has an enroll
ment of 20.
It's two-fold purpose will be to
provide all day care for pre- school
age children whose mothers are
holding war jobs and to offer a
training center for volunteers TAX
ing the District of Columbia child
care aide training course.
The District AWVS has the re-
sponsibility for stating, equippine
and operating the center The
child care aide course is to be
sponsored jointly by the Child Care
Committee of the OCD, the Emer-
gency Committee for the Day Care
of Young Children and the AWVS
A professional nursery school
staff will be headed by the director,
Mrs. Elizabeth Paddock Highly. who
has had extensive experience in
nursery school teaching and STU
dent training. Three nursery school
teachers also will be associated in
a professional capacity.
Trained AWVS volunteers, how
ever, will have an important part
in the functioning of the center.
Some who have completed the
child care aide training course
will serve as assistant teachers
under direct supervision of the pro-
fessional staff.
All food at the center will be
prepared and served by volunteers
trained by the AWVS canteen unit
Menus and purchasing Of food will
be in the hands of volunteers
trained in nutrition and dietetics
and all Office and housekeeping de-
tails will be managed by AWVS
volunteers especially qualified for
the work.
The center occupies building al
$500 Thirty eighth street NV. on
the site of Old Friendship, famous
former home 70 Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean. The Defense Homes Corp.
which erected Mclean Gardens as
housing development for Federal
war workers on the old Friendship
estate, made the building available
for the center.
Designed to operate on a year
round basis. the child care center
will be open six days week from
7:30 am. to $50 pm. 1t will care
for children from 21a to years
of age.
Its concern will be with all aspects
of the child's development-physical
emotional and social
In addition to two large playrooms
the building will have an admins
trative wing, containing a profess
sional staff room, a student-volun-
teer conference loom, a children S
isolation room and a kitchen. The
outdoor play space, with a sunny
exposure for winter days, also has
the shade of century -old oak trees
for protection through the summer
months.
Each playroom will have a one
way vision screen for observation of
the children with minimum of dis
turbance to their normal daily rou-
tine. Some of the women taking
the child care aide training
course also will be practice teachers
there. These volunteers will be
trained to serve wherever they may
be needed in wartime child care CEN
ters for pre-school children through
out the District and nearby Mary
land and Virginia.
Mrs. Robert Emmerich is chair
man of the AWVS Child Care Com
mittee.