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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1931
Page
4
The Christian Science churches and societies in Illinois broadcast each weekday from 8 15 a m over station WBBM in Chicago keeping listeners informed.
Mr and Mrs George Shipman of 432 Warwick road Kenilworth are home from a summer at Waban ingo Mich Mrs L M Branch and children spent weeks with them at A La Ba Ma cottage Miss Elizabeth Shipman visited a friend in Houston Texas for ten days this summer
North shore children will visit Chinatown in Chicago this Saturday September 19. June E. Gilbert will lead the trip visiting Chinese churches schools stores city hall and a restaurant. Wilmette children meet at the Wilmette Village hall at 8 45 Saturday morning. For more information contact June E. Gilbert Greenleaf 1182.
Chil dren's School opened on September 16 with six elementary grades kindergarten and nursery. Fifty three percent of advance applications are boys and forty seven percent girls. Enrollment expected similar to last year with room distribution changes. Each pupil undergoes physical and intelligence tests. ratings show 6 percent Gifted 35 percent Very Superior 28 percent Superior 31 percent Normal. Teachers anticipate working with a healthy north shore group and emphasize arts crafts creative work and outdoor play alongside core subjects.
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously to resume fall activities and hold its traditional annual banquet, typically staged on a November evening.
The W S Hopemans of 1008 Ashland Avenue left early this week for Wilmette from their Buck Forest summer home on Lacle Saulmere at Fifield Wisconsin. They expect to travel in a few days. Miss Eleanor Zemek of 300 Greenleaf Avenue departed recently for Pasadena to attend Flentridge College Preparatory School for Girls as a senior.
Major R W Schroeder, co manager of Sky Harbor near Glencoe and former government test pilot, spoke to the Wilmett Chamber of Commerce about aviation as a vital transportation factor. He warned that aviation relies 95 percent on the human element and urged careful training and supervision for young would be pilots.
Miss Peggy Welch and Miss Nancy Welch daughters of Mrs William O Welch of the Kenilworth Inn enter the University of Wisconsin this fall with Peggy enrolled as a freshman and Nancy beginning her junior year. Miss Phyllis Fuermann daughter of Dr and Mrs Fernando W Fuermann of 835 Greenwood Avenue leaves Tuesday to enter Sullins College in Virginia Park Bristol Virginia.
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