Evening star. [volume], February 20, 1938, Page A-14, Image 14

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SCHOOL OFFICERS
TOATTENDPARLEY
' f
60 in Group Planning to Go
to Atlantic City Meet- *
ing Friday.
More than 30 public school officers
and about as many teachers are plan
ning to leave Washington beginning
Friday to attend the sixty-eighth an
nual convention of the American Asso
ciation of School Administrators, open
ing in Atlantic City Saturday and
running through March 3.
The Washington delegation wHl be
headed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou and
Assistant Supts. Robert L. Haycock,
Harvey A. Smith. Chester W. Holmes
and Gannet C. Wilkinson.
At the same time a group of clerks
in the school system are also planning
to attend the fourth annual Eastern
States Convention of the National As
sociation of School Secretaries, open
ing in Atlantic city on the same day,
according to Miss M. Alvina Carroil,
a member of the Executive Committee.
Topics on Agenda.
Among the topics to be discussed by
the school administrators are the
problems of the Nation's youth, the
relations of the United States with
neighbor nations in the Western
Hemisphere, the responsibility of the
Federal Government for the education
of its citizens, the long-term policies
and objectives of American education,
better qualified teachers and the rela
tionships of the schools and the public.
Washingtonians featured in the
youth discussion will be Dr. John W.
Studebaker, United States Commis
sioner of Education; Mrs. Wilson
Compton and Homer P. Rainey, di
rector of the American Youth Com
mission of the American Council of
Education.
Envoy on Program.
On the "good neighbor” phase of
the program the group will hear Am
bassador Francisco Castillo Najera of
Mexico and Assistant Secretary of
State Francis B Sayre.
A principal speaker in connection
with the teacher training phase will
be Dr. George F. Zook, president of
• the Council on Education.
The more serious convention sessions
will be interspersed with a round of
festivities which will include a "friend
ship dinner” and an ice carnival. The
scene of the activities will be the At
lantic City Auditorium.
The delegation of clerks will have
. their meetings in Haddon Hall. Fea
ture of the convention will be a din
ner Sunday night, with Gov. George
H. Earle of Pennsylvania and Senator
Josh Lee of Oklahoma as guest
speakers.
PARK SERVICE QUERIES
WILL BE ANSWERED
Dr. Harold C. Bryant to Talk
Wednesday at New Interior
Department Auditorium.
Questions concerning the operations
of the National Park Service and the
far-flung playgrounds over which it
has jurisdiction will be answered by
n. tt __i j *
Bryant, assistant
director of the
service, at an
open forum*
Wednesday at 8 ,
p.m. in the new :
Interior Depart- :
ment Auditorium,
Eighteenth and
C streets NW.
A short talk, in
which he will ex
plain major ob
J e c t i v e s and
standards of the
national park
THYiornm. thp nnl
Dr. Bryant.
lcies underlying them, and the prob
lems of wild life and wilderness pro
tection, will precede the general dis
cussion.
Dr. Bryant, former biology profes
sor at the University of California
and for 16 years in charge of the
educational and research program of
the California Fish and Game Com
mission, was connected with educa
tional work in the natiqnal parks
before being made an assistant direc
tor of the park service in 1930. He
is the author of a number of technical
and popular articles on ornithology
and conservation.
Guild Sponsors Picture.
The “Scarlet Pimpernel” is to be
shown at 10:30 a.m. next Saturday
In the Rialto Theater as the third
In a series of motion pictures for boys
and girls sponsored by the Junior
Cinema Guild. _
RIMLESS
GLASSES
Complete
Lemes &
Frames
For your best appearance
wear rimless glasses. Any
single vision, white lenses
your eyes require, with smart
rimless mountings.
Optical Dept.—Street Fleer
Use Yptt Charge Account
DR. BOWERMAN PRESIDES
D. C. Librarian Aide at Closing
Session of Bibliographers. -
Dr. George P. Bowerman, public
librarian of the District, presided at
the dosing session of-the first confer*
ence of the Inter-American Biblio
graphical and Library Association
yesterday at the Library of Congress.
The scholars gathered here for the
conference from Latin America and
the United States heard an address
by Rafael Heliodoro Valle, professor
of American history at the Univer
sity of Mexico, on "Tlje Bibliograph
ical Wealth of America," at the Anal
meeting.
Orphans’ Court Postponed.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. IS (Spe
cial).—Became Tuesday is Washing
ton’s birthday, Orphans’ Court will
meet on Wednesday and Thursday.
PLAY TO BE GIVEN
Pali* Church Community Theater
•
Plane Production March 1.
FALLS CHURCH. Va„ Feb. 19 (Spe
cial).—The Falls Church Community
Theater will present its second play,
"Gold in the Hills," on Tuesday, March
1, at the Madison School. Mrs. J. H.
Chambliss, play director, will be as
sisted by Mrs. H. P. Sheldon, Mrs.
Emily M. Gillette, Mrs. Guy Church,
Mrs. J. O. Martin and Mrs. Macon
Ware, and Miss Betty Styles, who will
haye charge of costumes; Mrs. Roger
Blake, Mrs. Edward V. Rowan, Miss
_:_X_
Anne Donovan, properties; Mrs. E. D.
Voebury, stage technician; Capt. Craw
lord, tickets; R. O. Staebner, program;
J O. M#rtm, publicity; Mrs. Mortimer,
Palmer; Mrs. E. D. Voebury, posters,
and Edward Rowan.
The sun and the nearest star are 25
million million miles apart.
Soviet Control to Be Topic.
Eliu L. Tartak, author and lec
turer on Russia, will give a talk on
recent purges by the Soviet 'govern
ment before the Social Democratic
Forum at S o'clock tonight in the
Forum Hall, 150J Fourteenth street
N.W.
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