East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1957-12-19
MERRY CHRISTMAS

| EVERY clcIHSnCdIy SIHOOA III GdSb I
| Cleveland was a-buzz last week
with preparations for the Christ
mas season. Every downstairs hall
| had its Christmas tree, newly dec
grated or just being decorated, US
ually by the younger citizens Of the
! school. In some room in each build
ing, carols were being rehearsed.
Each room was either garlanded
with Yuletide decorations, or its
occupants were busily making
gifts for their parents or for hos
pital shut-ins, or both.
Fridays Christmas programs
climax everything, of courss, as
far as the schools are concerned.
At CHAMBERS, on an auditorium
stage made up to resemble the
choir and pulpit of a church, will
be presented what is perhaps our
most traditional Yuletide service.
For, as ne does each year, Cham
bers' Principal Kenneth r. Ver-
million will read the ever-new,
ever-old story of Jesus birth, to
the ,interspersed accompaniment of
Christmas songs by each room Of
the huge school. Ask anyone who
has attended Chambers for the last
how-many years; they know.
SUPERIOR'S children are pay
ing a visit to the Christmas tree
in the downstairs hall in advance
of their Friday afternoon program.
On Wednesday morning, tn e
younger children visited the tree,
to sing songs and hear carols
played by the twenty-piece Super
ior Orchestra. Then on Friday NOR
ming the Upper School assemblies
at the tree, for a brief concert by
the Glee Club and the children,
themselves.
PROSPECT is especially proud
of an extra service this year by one
of its newer groups. On Monday
the Prospect Glee Club, forty eight
fifth and sixth grade carollers,
|. went to the State Hospital on Tur-
tt-iney rd. to sing Christmas songs,
under the direction of Elementary
Music Supervisor Miss Janice Con-
kiln, assisted by Prospect teacher
Miss Edith Porter. Eight of these
children are also in the Prospect
Orchestra. another flourishing
group which is TO perform two
numbers at the schools Christmas
program.
CALEDONIA is presenting not
one, but two Christmas programs,
Identical in content. At two o'clock
today, the afternoon Kindergar-
teners and the three lower grades
welcome their parents to the Au-
ditorium; and at ten o'clock on Fri
day morning, parents of the NOR
ming kindergarten children and of
the fourth, fifth, and sixth grad
ers will hear the same program.
Special parts of the Caledonia
concert will be as follows: Christ
mas Medley by the Orchestra. by
Elementary Music Supervisor Ken
meth Williams; merry Christmas"
by the kindergarten, by Mrs. Sar-
ah Johnston and Miss Jean Vo-
koun; Deck the Halls" by the fifth
grade, Miss Iva Budd teacher; and
the Professional 80 Come, All Ye
Faithful" by all the fourth grade
rooms and their teachers, Mrs.
Ethel Brickel, Miss Marilyn Con-
rath, and Miss Nadine MacNeill.
MAYFAIR'S biggest Christmas
excitement seems to be centered
in two rooms where extra special
projects have been under way. Mr..
Robert Chaunce's Hearing Glass
has been outdoing itself in produc-
ing Yuletide art work, including
Santa Claus, his sleigh and rein
deers, lots Of blue winter sky,
yards and yards of streamers and
garlands, and may other sorts of
decorations. And Mrs. Barbara
Newcomers first graders made
real gingerbread men.
This latter project was quite an
elaborate thing, for it involved
three steps. First, the children cut
out paper gingerbread-man shapes,
to get the hang of the thing. Next,
they nodded the same shapes out
Of clay, to get the feeling for
them in their hands and fingers.
Only then did they take real dough
(from prepared mix" but that's
a Seccetl and oo down IN tho pTA