ISeu Line Expected to Boost
Silver Spring Water Pressure
Relief from e low water pres
sure problem in some Silver
Spring areas was promised this
weep by the Washington Subur
ban Sanitary Commission.
A reinforcing line to boost the
pressure is expected to be
installed soon, according to a
spokesman for the WSSC.
Some apartment owners and
office building superintendents
have reportedly noted weaker
water pressure on the higher
floors of their structures.
A spokesman for the Silver
Spring Volunteer Fire Impart
mem denied a report his com
pany had experienced difficulty
with low water pressure in
fighting tile recent East Silver
Spring Elementary' School blaze.
The new reinforcing line, how
ever. ‘‘will greatly facilitate our
job.” he said.
A WSSC official said when the
new line is put into operation
there will be a alight discolora
tion of the water. But it will be
only temporary and the wuter
will be perfectly acceptable for
drinking purposes he said.
Tile new line will not provide
permanent relief, however, he
wanted. As tall buildings are
erected at a rapid rate in fast
growing areas, She problem will
continue, he empiiaslzed.
Takoma Park
P-TA Members
Pick Berries
A good portion of the next
two days will be devoted by
members of the Takoma Park
Elementary School P-TA to pick
ing and cleaning strawberries In
preparation lor their annual
“strawberry festival" Saturday
at 4 pjaa.
Eed by Takoma Park Mayor
George M. Miller, tile group wtll
go out tomorrow to the Harrow
strawberry farm in Glen Dale
to pick an estimated 400 pounds
of the choice berries which will
be featured at the Saturday sale
on the school grounds.
Other parents will get up
•arly Saturday to cap. stem and
wash the berries, which will be
put on sale along with a variety
of homemade cakes, ice cream
and cold drinks. In addition to
the sales the festival will in
clude a "clothesline art exhibit”
featuring the talent of pupils;
carnival-type booths stocked
with arteraft, needlework, beach
hats and evening bags along
with varied other articles, In
cluding baseballs autographed
by the Washington Senators
and Baltimore Orioles
An added feature will be the
sale of azalea bushes at special
price# to support Che commu
nity's recently • inaugurated
azalea project. Specially select
ed for die Takoma area, the
{dents will be accompanied by
for planting and
culture
As a prelude to the festival,
TV and radio personality
"Ranger Hal” visited the school
last week to present awards to
students who turned in the top
ranked posters advertising tha
coming week. The prize-win
ning posters currently are on
display in business places
throughout tiie Takoma Park
area to herald the Saturday
program.
“Older” 4-H Youth.
Learn Leadership
Montgomery County 4-H
Clubs were represented by lour
members at the annual “older
youth leadership camp” held
lecentiy In Harford County to
stimulate leadership in the 4-H
‘ program
Participating in the three-day
program were Nancy i-echhder,
of Jatytonsville; Susan Enbrey,
of Washington Grove; Jon Ken
ney, Olney, and Jerry Savage,
of Gstiiersburg. Assistant
County Agent Robert Raver
also attended Hie camp session.
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•vary 200 sq ft of ranted space), 20 minutes from
downtown Washington and in the business center
of Silver Spring, one of America's most advanced
communities.
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Teacher Here For 42 Years
Mrs. Hersperger to Retire
To "Wit’s End.” her home near Poolesvilie School, Mrs.
Virginia Hersperger will retire soon to look back on 42
years of teaching in the count y school system.
But they wouldn't let her go
wifiiout a party. Friends, par
ents, fellow teachers, and stu
dents gathered at Cornu* Inn
under the sponsorship of the
school faculty and at a recep
tion at the high school given
by the P-TA for the veteran
teacher.
Miss Virginia Gartrell, then
17 and fresh out of Sherwood
High School—one of only two
in the county then—faced her
first pupils at Oakland Eiemen
tary, a one-room school on Red
dick Road near Dawsonville.
There ware 26 students In
grades one through seven. And
one of her pupil* was older than
tlie teacher.
When the Oakland school was
closed the next year, Virginia
moved on to another one-room
school house in Dawsonville, re
maining there until it, too, was
dosed in the move to consoli
date the county schools. She
then came to Poolesvilie School
to teach the fifth and sixth
grades, and continued there
after tier marriage in 1925.
In 1930, Mrs. Hersperger took
leave to have her son, who is
now Army Major Webb Sell man
Hersperger, an ear, nose, and
throat specialist, stationed in
Georgia with his wife and two
daughters. Following her hus
bands death, Mi*. Hersperger
took up her career again at
Bethesda Elementary in Janu
ary, 1933. She was then living
in Poolesvilie so welcomed the
chance the following September
to transfer to another one-room
school house in Comus. She re
turned to teaching at Pooles
viiie when the building at
Comus was moved to the Pooles
viiie school site where it was
used to house the home arts
classes for many years.
Over the years, Mrs. Here
perger, in addition to raising
her son, keeping house, and
teaching, has managed to con
tinue her own education at var
ious institutions, induding the
University of Maryland, the
State Teachers College at Tow
eon, George Washington and
Johns Hopkins Universities
At Poolesvilie, she taught re
medial reading and coordinated
the elementary school program
in addition to teaching a regular
class. Finally in 1941 she be
came “director” of the eiemen
tary school, a title that arose
from the fad that until last
year Poolesvilie School housed
all grades, kindergarten through
twelfth, and only the head of
the high school rated the title
of prindpal- In December, 1960,
Mrs. Hersperger became princi
pal of the new Poolesvilie Pri
mary School which next year
will be a full elementary school
with the addition of 12 class
rooms.
Now a silver haired grand
mother with a kind smile that
embraces all children, Virginia
Hersperger laughs as she points
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out that for the first time in her
long career she opened a school
instead of closing It.
To her the most notable
change in the county since that
opening day of school in 1918 is
the tremendous growth in the
number of people in recent
years. It seems just a short
while ago when the late Dr.
Edwin W. Broome could hold a
meeting of all the teachers in
the county in one classroom and
Virginia Hera perger knew all of
them by name.
Following the teachings of
Dr. Broome and his assistant,
Thomas W. Pyle, Mrs. Hers
perger pradiees what they
preached in meeting the individ
ual needs of children. Her “open
door” policy is a real one as any
visitor to her office will soon
discover. Her children are free
to come at any time to read
their favorite stories to her and
show her their latest efforts in
writing compositions. She has
many samples of these which
she is proud to read to anyone
who is interested. When she ex
changes the principal's office
for her cottage at the end of
this month she hopes to keep
the door open to any of her
children that may need her.
Suinuning Classes
Offered By YWCA
Co-ed swimming classes are
Included in the county YWCA’s
summer program scheduled to
kick off June 24.
The classes will be offered to
children over six years of age
on Monday, Wedneoday and Fri
day at Columbia Union College,
Maple Avenue, Takoma Park.
Mrs. Peg Sandberg will teach
all levels of B#d Cross instruc
tion.
Other classes offered include
drama for young girls and
teens, to be taught at YWCA
headquarters, 4700 Norwood
Drive, Chevy Chase, by Mrs.
Barbara Rodbul. Art for teens
and girls seven to 12 will be
taught by Mrs. Jane Lake.
Tennis lessons for adults and
children will be given June 24
through July 29. Additional in
formation can be obtained from
the YWCA at 656 3366.
‘Fair* Appointment*
Two Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission represent
atives have been named to
serve on the Maryland Commit
tee for the 1964-65 World’s Fair.
Gov. J. Millard Tawes an
nounced the appointments of
WSSC chairman, Blair H Smith
and commission secretary John
T. Bonifant.
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Coveted ACG
Award Won
By Marcus
Philip Marcus, a 14 year resi
dent of the Wheaton area and
long-time participant in civic
affairs, was awarded the annual
Charles G. Stott Award of the
Allied Civic Group at the
group's banquet held at Indian
Spring Country Club Tuesday
night.
Marcus was given the award
primarily for his work in con
nection with the ACG Govern
ment Operations Committee's
200-page Survey of Montgomery
County government which was
published in December. He is a
member of the Glenmont &
Vicinity Citizens Association.
The award is donated by the
Charles G. Stott Company.
Mrs. Blanche T. Cawton was
presented with the Allied Civic
Group's Distinguished Service
Award given for the first time
this year to a member of ACG
who has "worked beyond the
call of duty*’ for the group. Mrs.
Cawton received the honor from
William R. McCallum, outgoing
president of ACG- She is a
member of the Pinecrest Citi
zens Association and is a dele
gate emeritus of ACG.
Milton M. Rodes of the Whea
ton Forest Civic Association
was installed as incoming presi
dent Serving with him will be
James French Jr., vice presi
dent; Dr. Robert Allgaier, re
cording secretary; Mrs. Clinton
Sisson, corresponding secretary,
and Raymond Mahaffey, treas
urer.
At its final meeting of the
year held last week, the group
voted to donate 325 to the Mary
land Citizens Committee for
Fair Congressional Redistrict
‘ ing. Dr. Rowland I. Perusse,
head of the committee, was pre
sented with a check for that
amount at the Allied banquet.
In other business before the
group at its meeting last week,
three resolutions based on the
ACG Government Operations
Committee Survey were passed.
The first would amend the
county charter to have the citi
zens’ rights as to referendum in
clude ordinances adopted by the
County Council as well as local
laws. At present only local laws
can be considered for referen
dum by petition even though
ordinances passed by the Coun
cil may have as far-reaching
effect as laws.
The second resolution asks
that the Council, so far as pos
sible. at least one month before
submitting legislative proposals
; to the county delegation, make
them known and available to the
public and, 1 1 a request for
bearing be made, such hearing
be held.
The third resolution is direct
ed at bringing about a better
correlation of capital improve
ment budgets of the various
governments and agencies with
in the county through the prep
aration and circulation of long
range capital Improvement
plans among the various govern
ments and agencies.
The Park and Recreation
Lions Aid Camp Echo Lake
Robert Bridges, a director of the Rockville Lions Club,
presents a S3BO dub gift to Mrs. Alma Durham, secretary
of Camp Echo Lake to help provide free summer camping
to needy children of Montgomery County.
Glenmont Apartment Okay
Is Hit By Citizens Group
A motion for reconsideration
will be filed by the executive
committee of the Glenmont &
Vicinity Citizens Association
with the County Council follow
ing the Council’s granting of
several zoning reclassification
applications in the Glenmont
area, according to Frank Vrat
aric, zoning committee chair
man for the group.
The lour applications in ques
tion, two of which would allow
approximately 33 acres of addi
tional apartment land use in the
Glenmont area, were presented
to the Montgomery County
Planning Board and to the
County Council earlier in the
spring. The Planning Board
was split in its recommendation
on the applications which have
been considered together be
cause of the proximity of the
areas involved to each other.
Master plans for this area show
the land as remaining in its pre
sent R-90 classification.
Following a vote of 3-2 by the
Planning Board to disapprove
the applications and a detailed
study by the planning commis
sion staff on the area which
also recommended against any
Committee brought in several
matters which were approved
by the group including: an
elected county executive (or if
none, the president of the Coun
ty Council) and a member- of
the WSSC should be ex officio
members of the Park and Plan
ning Commission; eliminate re
quirement of commission that
department heads should live in
different counties; retention bv
M-NCPPC of the Park Police, as
opposed to turning this func
tion over to the county police
department; uniform park and
administrative tax throughout
the county; one metropolitan
district for Montgomery Coun
ty; indude all park maintenance
costs in the M-NCPPC budget,
lather than assess the Recrea
tion Department with 75 per
oent of this cost; and establish
ment of a public swimming
facility by the M-NCPPC.
change, the Council voted to
allow the reclassification.
Filing of the motion for recon
sideration by the Glenmont
group will automatically defer
any action the successful appli
cants for rezoning can take in
the immediate future.
Tarm’ Draws
Over 28,000
In Three Days
More than 28,000 persons
visited Old McDonald’s Farm in
Wheaton Regional Park on
Memorial Day and the two Sun
days that preceded it.
Of the 2025 cars counted on
May 19, 90 came from the Dis
trict of Columbia and there
were 33 from 23 states Includ
ing Hawaii, according to Frank
Rubini, associate director of
Parks for the Maryland-Nation
al Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The attendance for the three
days, Rubini said, was: May 19,
9275 persons; May 26, 10,300,
and Memorial Day, 8500.
Rubini said that the lake in
the “farm” area will be ready
for fiahermen by late June, with
rowboats available on a rental
basis for those who desire to
fish from them.
The Commission plans to get
out bids for construction or re
surfacing of 20 tennis courts
within the next two weeks, ac
cording to Rubini. Six of the
new courts wtij be at the Areola
activity area; with two new
ones each at the Pinecrest, FOur
Comers and Capitol View-Home
wood recreation centers. Resur
facing of courts at Argyie.
Kensington and Cabin John will
also be included in the contract.
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