Evening star., 1943-05-20
Child Recreation
Plan Drafted
In Montgomery
Committee Leaders
Named; Ten-Week
Program Mapped


Program Mapped
Impetus was given Montgomery
County's recreational program yes
terday with election of officers of its
Co-ordinating Committee and adop-
tion of definite plans by the COM
mittee for certain phases Of the
program in which more than 5000
children are expected to participate
this summer.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, county
superintendent of education, In whose
Rockville Office the meeting was held,
and Park Commissioner E. Brooke
Lee wa selected co-chairmen of the
committee. Mrs Dorothy Kurtz,
director of the County Welfare De-
partment, and Fred w. Tuemmler,
director Of planning of the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, were named
co-secretaries.
Representatives of the County
Board of Education expressed the
belief yesterday that at least 40 or
SO of the county school teachers
desire employment in the recrea-
tional and day-care programs as
recreational instructors and super
visors. 1t has been estimated by
Lewis Mitchell. director of recreation
OF the Park and Planning Commits
sion, that more than 100 persons
will be needed as recreational in
structors, supervisors and assistant
supervisors in the program.
Salary Schedule Approved.
The committee approved a sched-
ule of salaries for the 10-week pro-
gram commensurate with salaries
paid for similar recreational activ-
tiles in Washington. Applicants are
requested to apply through the prin-
cipal of any suburban school, at the
office of the Board of Education in
Rockville, at the office of the Park
Commission in Silver Spring or to
Mr.. Mitchell at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Recreation Center.
School buses are to be used, it was
decided, to allow the greatest pos
sible ne oe the parks for recrea-
tio1V Z.=.61s. Also to be used are
I|sting school cafeterias, assembly
halls and gymnasiums as we'll as the
school rooms themselves on rainy
days. Through this method the
fullest advantages of Rock Creek
Park, Sligo Valley Park and even of
the recreation centers at Bethesda
and Jesup Blair Park will be realized.
1t was also voted not to attempt
to build any cafeterias or other
food-serving facilities in the parks
this year, but to base the meal por-
ton of the day-care program en-
tirely on the school cafeterias.
Centers Are Located.
The tentative locations for day.
care centers for the western sub
urban area are the Bethesda Ele-
mentary School on Wilson lane, the
Leland Junior High School and the
Glen Echo-Cabin John Elementary
School. The Woodside Elementary
School is planned as one of the day
care centers for the eastern sub
urban area of the county, with one
available for Takoma Park if the
need appears sufficient in that To-
cation.
The location of additional day.
care centers on the axis of the Four
Corners, Parkside and Montgomery
Blair High School has not yet been
settled.
Charges indicated on the recent
questlonnaire circulated in the sub
urban schools were approved They
are IS cents for lunch in the day
care program, with a dollar a week
additional charge for goods used for
the children in their recreational
work. Milk and crackers can also be
purchased for 10 cents day in the
day-care programs. with the chill
dren bringing the rest of their lunch.
In the general recreational pro-
gram, charge of SO cents week
will be made for goods used in the
training and recreational groups.
Programs Extended.
The committee decided to support
and increase the recreational pro-
grams already in the course of Or
ganization at the Chevy Chase Ele-
mentary School, at the East Bethes-
da Elementary School. to which the
children from the Bradley Boulevard
School will be transported by school
bus. at the Westbrook School, the
Parkside Elementary School. the
Takoma Park Els smentary School
and the Woodsde Elementary
School.
The other suburban schools do
not have programs planned for the
coming summer except for those
now available through the school
administration and the Park Com
mission.
In addition to the officers. men,
bers of the Co-ordinating Commit
tee, which will meet again next
Thursday, are Mrs. Wesley McCune,
county co-ordinator of extended So
cial services. State Department OF
Education; DR.. Eloise Casson, county
school sociologist: William r. Hall,
landscape architect of the Park
Commission, and DR.. v. L. Ellicott,
county health officer. Mrs. Helen
Walker of Chevy Chase, a member
of the county Board of Education,
was asked to participate in yester-
days meeting.
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