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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1930
Page
10
An operetta The Old Singing Woman will be staged at the 2 p m Parent Teacher meeting of School 62 by the mothers chorus. Special selections will be sung by Mrs Otto Bell Mrs J M Shaw and Mrs L H Crockett.
Shortridge Jean Chenoweth elected president of the junior section of the Shortridge Matinee Musicale with Margaret Jones as secretary and Emsley Johnson Jr. as treasurer. Lucille Wade earned Mortar Board membership at DePauw. Fiction Club entertainment featured Meyer Efraymeon and others. Several students presented national park reports. Jeannette Le Saulnier won Bryn Mawr scholarships. Shortridge senate held impeachment trial with listed participants. Camp Fire Girls named new officers. A French examination contest offered a $250 necklace for top scorer among many entrants.
Warren Central high school newspaper the Warren Owl earned honorable mention in a statewide copy editing contest by the Indiana High School Press Association. South Side high school Fort Wayne took first place and Conyersville high school was second.
Fred T. Gladden, county schools superintendent, estimates Marion county students will save about $12,000 on textbooks by purchasing them at school buildings. High and elementary texts will be sold to pupils at no profit, with books ordered directly from publishers for September opening. Each pupil now spends about $5, a projected $1 saving per student.
Washington announces Anice Shirley as top performer in senior class plays. A prize for best review is offered. May Queen crowning will follow the mother and daughter banquet of the Girl Reserve Club at Washington today. A novel radio system announced senior plays using a miniature broadcasting setup in the school auditorium.
Warren Central High School held Warren Day on Thursday with athletic contests gym exhibitions and musical concerts. About 1500 attendees watched displays of work from all departments as students showcased skills including a boys exhibition pyramid building and range activities.
Miss Sara C Ewing of the Tech English department is elected president of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers succeeding Miss Anna H Lloyd. Two Tech alumni serve on the Purdue Agriculturist staff Charles Hughes and George Ryfield. Steengrafe Veneer Company donates veneer wood to Tech wood shop including African and Brazilian pieces. Thirty pupils had perfect papers on a hurdle test in the English department. Seventeen others with high grades are listed with names of students from local schools.
About 250 pupils joined a circus exhibition at School 62 on Wallace and Tenth streets Wednesday night. Teachers and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Witt supervised as physical training classes presented gymnastic stunts and other acts.
A feature notes a special program held for the benefit of the school Par ent-Teacher Association. The event supported classroom needs and involved community participation to raise funds for student programs.
Twenty high school piano and violin champions from sectional contests in Gary Fort Wayne Indianapolis and Bloomington gather at Indiana University for the second annual state meet. Winners receive gold silver and bronze medals. top names include Mary Ellen Kapp Walton Jane Buche Ladywood Indianapolis Beulah Cole Whiting Mary Eleanor Fields Bedford Rosemary Humphreys Linton and others for piano. Violin contenders include Anna Elizabeth Baker Fort Wayne Florence Grosvenor Fort Wayne Maxine Palma Ladywood Indianapolis Josephine Roberts Emerson Gary William W Stuart Crispus Attucks Indianapolis Austin Smith Moral School London Mary Ellen Kapp Walton Edwin Patton Bluffton.
Mothers of Cathedral high school entertained pupils and patrons with a musical program in the school auditorium Thursday night. Mrs Joseph L Conley directed a chorus of nineteen mothers under the auspices of the school Parent Teachers Association.
Fourth graders at School 43 159 West Fortieth Street reply to a Dallas Tex pupil asking about Indiana state flower and flag. The class of forty pupils not only answered the questions but added information about other city and state features.
Fifteen Manual high school pupils receive typing awards announced by Wilbur Barnhart head of the commercial department. Ida Bernstein set sixty two words a minute on a Royal machine. La Verne Wagener typed thirty words a minute for fifteen minutes without error. Royal Award winners include Lucy Belle Cashaw Leota Arndt Virginia Ashley Margaret Rosenberg Johanna Addématis Helen Marie Gause and Beryle Short. Underwood Award recipients are Helen Curts Flora Iling Willa Mae Vaughn Jennie Klausner and Ruby Williams. L. C. Smith Awardees include Maxine Hervey Esther Thurston Helen Curts Clara Carson Thelma Biehl and Mary Fuller. Bernstein averaged fifty nine words a minute on the L C Smith. next are Esther Thurston fifty, Cashaw forty nine and a fraction on Royal, and Helen Curts forty eight on Royal.
Four Indianapolis students among nearly nine hundred honored at the University of Illinois for superior scholarship. George Robert Fink and Charlotte Ruth Wainwright are named among the fifty four recognized. bronze tablet to be inscribed and displayed. Other Illinois awardees from Indiana include Margaret Carr, Paul Herman Lohes, Donald Doughty, Mary Elizabeth Guenther, and several more.
Edna M. Levey notes puppet theater has stormed school life as part of curricula with Orchard school and School 36 presenting plays. She traces puppet history from ancient Egypt to Go un as puppet stages, marionette operas, and shadow plays in Asia and Europe, naming works and books in the public library collection. Evansville starts census push as 20,000 students aid effort aiming for 100,000 population in 1930.
Broad Ripple High School reports girls outpaced boys on the honor roll for the month. Principal K V Ammerman lists twenty five girls and twelve boys among honorees with top marks across subjects. Names include Dorothea Hammon and Mary Sawyer for girls and Keith Roberts and Henry Nordsick for boys.
R C T C News notes advanced classes in military training at Washington high school as cadets audition for top officer with a medal prize. Manual high school R O T C figures include Kenneth Jarvis Raymond Ader John Paswater John Schurman and others. Cadet Major Charles Ayres of Manual resigns, to be replaced by Captain Melvin Henselmeier.
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