Evening star., 1953-09-27
Education
Notes

President Eisenhower is Sched-
uled to deliver the opening
speech at the 36th annual meet
ing of the American Council on
Education which convenes here
October s. The two-day meet
ing will be held at the Hotel
Statler. One discussion group
will deal with congressional in
vestigations of teachers.
st. Johns College, in Annapo-
lis, is sponsoring a series of adult
great books seminars at Pierce
Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV, starting October
13. The sessions will be held
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at
8 pm.
The Dance Playhouse. 1742
Church street NV, opened its
fall season Saturday. Adult
classes start tomorrow.
RefreSher courses Tor arch1tec-
tural examinations in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia will
be offered by the University of
Virginia Center in Arlington
starting October 10.
Patricia Edelin,, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence c. Edelin,.
432 Randolph street NV, is en-
tering Wilson College at Cham
bersburg, Pa, this fall.
Day and night courses in a
variety of subjects will be Of
fered starting tomorrow IN
the YWCA's adult education
program. Catalogs are available
at the YWCA, Seventeenth and
K streets NV.
Four District youths are en-
tering Dartmou College
this fall They are Ricardo j.
Alfaro, 4210 Forty-second street
NV; Carl F. Frandsen, 6713
Second street NV: Richard B.
Leavitt. 300 Livingston terrace
Sc, and Eugene P. Stichman,
4420 Seventeenth street NV.
Joan Bussler of Langley Park,
Md. has been elected secretary
of the freshman class at Trinity
College. Carolyn Lux of Utica,
N. Y, is president.
DR.. Jonathan M. Williams, as
sociate in neurological surgery
at George Washington Univer-
sity, has been elected an honor
ary member of the Medical So
ciety of the Dominican Re-
pAblic.
Wellesley Colleges freshman
class includes 10 Washington
area students. They are Helen T.
Austern, 3506 Garfield street
NV; Betty j. Bloomer, 4201
Massachusetts, avenue NV;
Lenore o. Hale, 5504 Fourth
street NV; Claudine B. Malone,
5342 Ames street NE; Margaret
A. Lacy, 3045 Fifteenth street
NV: Ruth j. Rudolph, 4707
Connecticut avenue NV; Alex
andra NJ. Scheele, 3317 o street
NV: Harriet B. Whisman, 2400
Thirty-ninth street NV: Eliza
beth A. Heap, 5408' Edgemoor
lane. Bethesda; Carmita de Silva,
Brookeville, Md; Estella Case,
Kensington, Md. and Karen A.
Signell, Laurel, Md.
Josef Solterer, economics de-
partment chairman at George
town University, will lecture in
Austria this winter under a Full
bright grant.
Workshop Center of the Arts,
1900 New Hampshire avenue
NV. will open registration to-
morrow for classes in art, music
and other subjects.
George Washington Univer-
sity's off-campus division will
offer 40 courses at the Pentagon
this fall. They start October 5.
George K. Smith is the new
executive secretary of the Assoc
iation for Higher Education, a
department of the National
Education Association. He sue
ceeds Francis H. Horn, recently
appointed president of Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn.
DR.. L. G. Lederer, medical
director of Capital Airlines, and
DR.. John E. Smith, chief of air.
mems standards for the Civil
Aeronautics Administration, will
do research on a heart-testlng
machine at George Washington
University this fall.