Evening star., 1947-01-30

StuQenIS OF Cle IL SeIllOI dlu
Junior high schools In Montgomery
County tomorrow will conclude a
week devoted almost exclusively to
completion of individual projects"
rather than attendance at regular
classes.
Since Monday the approximately
$500 high school pupils Of the
county have been enjoying virtual
freedom from classrooms, with q
good many participating in activi-
ties away from the school.
Officially known as project week,
the program is the second step
in a threefold plan aimed at pre-
pairing the students for future voca-
tions and to study their work habits
and aptitudes, according to DR..
Edwin B. Broome, county school
superintendent.
Career Week in March.
The first step-instructional tests
similar to midyear examinations
was conducted last week. The third
phase-career conference WEEKS
scheduled for March 1914.
Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School, with its 800 students, is one
of the most active in project week,
which was resumed last year for
the first time since before the war.
Other schools engaged to varying
degrees in a similar program in
clude the Montgomery-Blair, Rich
ard Montgomery, Sherwood, Damas-
Gus, Poolesville, Gaithersburg and
Lincoln (colored) High Schools and
the Kensington, Takoma Park, Le-
land and Montgomery Hills Junior
High Schools.
AT the Bethesda School, an esti-
mated one-third of the pupils are
busy in other locales, including a
delegation of five teen-age boys who
have volunteered to mark trails in
the nearby Appalachian Mountains.
The group, led by a 17-year-old
senior, Henry Helmholtz of 4910
avenue, Bethesda, is re-
portedly camping out" for the five
days.
Another senior, Elaine Skipper, Is,
5015 Battery lane, Bethesda, yester-
day spent most of her time modelling
for a downtown department store.
She learned about the selection of
materials by accompanying a store
buyer to Philadelphia.
Some Teaching.
Lifesaving courses are being taken
by 80 boys at the YMCA and Wash
ington Boys Club and by 8 girls at
the Ambassador Hotel pool. Ten
girls are instructing in elementary
schools of the Bethesda area, while
other students are doing research
work at the Library of Congress, or
out as nurses aides at the
nearby Suburban Hospital.
Dick Latimer, 16, of 5623 Oak
place, Bethesda, Is training hunting
dogs. John Ross, II, 314 Grosvener
lane, Bethesda, is renovating first
aid equipment of the Bethesda Fire
Others, who are work.
ing away from the school, are oc-
cupied with home decorations and
painting, sales work in suburban and
downtown Washington stores, radio
and other activities.
Three youths, Dan Wilson, II, OF
1920 Fairfax road, Bethesda; John
Hinkle, 18, Of 5527 Fairglen lane,
Chevy Chase, and Edwin Curtiss, 16.
Of 709 East Leland street, Chevy
Chase, have been surveying the main
roads of the area, including Con-
necticut avenue and the East-West
highway.
John M. Corn, 16, of 6504 Meadow
lane, Chevy Chase, and 10 Ann
Hyde, Is, have been studying organ
music and recording it at the Christ
Lutheran Church, Bethesda, and
the Church of the Latter Day
Saints in Washington. Both are
students on the organ. Another
organ pupil, Omer Raup, is, OF 56l0l
wisconsin avenue, is learning the
intricacies of the instrument itself
In the school, activity Is centered
around the art, language and music
departments and wood and metal
shops. The largest group, 81 stu
dents, has been making model air
planes, jewelry, woodwork and other
handicraft in the two shops. One
boy. Ronald Newhouser, II, OF 45l8I
Chase avenue. Bethesda. has de-