NOTES AND NEWS

GOVERNOR PINCHOT has appointed Dean George E. Walk of Temple University a member of the Board of Trustees of Eastern State Penitentiary. Dean Walk's influence on the educational activities of the institution should be especially valuable.

LEE L. DRIVER, Director of Consolidation Projects, has been appointed by President Mary McSkimmon a member of the N. E. A. committee of 100 on rural teaching problems.

JOHN LOUIS HANEY, president of the Central High School, Philadelphia, has established a trust fund of $5,000 in memory of his close friend, the late Edward Zeigler Davis, former member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty. The fund will benefit Central High School pupils and students of the University.

CHARLES BEESE has been made head of the industrial engineering department at Pennsylvania State College, succeeding J. Avis Keller.

SUPT. H. O. DIETRICK of Norristown is doing an interesting and constructive work in a series of surveys of the Norristown School System which he and his teachers have been conducting the past few years. The investigations are self-surveys, a study from within, and comprehend comparisons with the most advanced systems in the country. The results of these studies have been made in the form of reports to the school board and citizens. Surveys V and VI, the former a comprehensive study of school finances; and the latter, the report for the school year ending July 6, 1925, are worthy of study.

JAMES KILLIUS, Director of the Vocational Education Department of the Johnstown Public Schools, has been appointed principal of the million-dollar Central High School now under construction. Principal J. D. Ripple will remain in the old building as principal of the Central Junior High School.

J. ERNEST WAGNER has been promoted to the supervisorship of the industrial work in the Johnstown schools. Principal Killius will be associated with the Vocational Department in an advisory capacity.

HERBERT J. STOCKTON, formerly superintenIdent of the Johnstown Schools, was recently elected a member of the Board of School Directors in that city by a popular vote, running three thousand higher than the next successful candidate.

OSCAR KEIM of Boswell won the 1925 award of $100 given by the Baltimore and Ohio railway for the best club work done by any member of a 4-H club in the seventeen counties traversed by the Baltimore and Ohio. Young Keim plans to attend Pennsylvania State College.

MRS. GRACE PERHAM, Assistant Superintendent of Wayne County Schools, reports a county enrollment of seventy N. E. A. members.

ANNA HADDOW, a senior at Pennsylvania State College, was awarded the Edwin Erle Sparks Prize for scholarship at the Scholarship Day exercises November 5. Miss Haddow has won the medal for highest scholarship four times. During her first three years work her grades averaged more than ninety per cent.

DEAN WEST of the Princeton Graduate School states that there is a revival of interest in Greek and Latin among the colleges and preparatory schools. Dean West, who is president of the American Classical League, bases his statement upon a statistical study made by the United States Bureau of Education. Reports from many colleges indicate increased interest in the classics although the decrease in the classical requirements has lessened the proportion of students taking classical courses when compared with the proportion twenty years ago. At Princeton the number of juniors electing the classics as a field for special study increased 50 per cent this year. Four years of Latin is the most generally available college entrance requirement.

THE Pennsylvania Society for Vocational Education has issued Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Vocational Education News, a bi-monthly publication which deals with the progress of vocational education within the State.

WEST PHILADELPHIA High School, of which C. C. Heyl is principal, will produce its own film depicting a story of student life. Two pupils, Clayton Jones and Joseph McClosker, have written the scenario.

They

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE debaters have an interesting debating schedule for the year. will meet Bates College, Maine and Boston University in March. A triangular debate with Bucknell University and Franklin and Marshall College was held on December 4.

OXFORD debaters are with us again. On October 29 they and Gettysburg College debaters argued at York the question of an International Court of Justice. An unusual feature of the debate was that one Oxford man was represented on the negative side and one Gettysburg man argued affirmatively as colleague to the Oxford team.

FOOTBALL season saw many youthful "tramps" in heavy sweaters and checkered shirts tramping the broad highways whither football and school spirit called. Just as Christmas makes everybody indulgent to children so football season makes everyone kind to these gay young vagabonds. The Student Council at Lafayette extended formal thanks to Dickinson freshmen for offering sleep and refreshment to Lafayette boys hiking (?) their way through Carlisle to Pittsburgh for a foot

ball game. Lafayette was likewise hospitable to the Penn State travelers on their way to the State-Georgia Tech game in New York. How is that for "entente cordiale"? And isn't it truly characteristic of American university life?

MERCERSBURG grade school building was destroyed by fire on October 21. The loss is estimated at $30,000.

THE Mount Pleasant Township Vocational High School at Hickory, celebrated its tenth anniversary on November 10. Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and L. H. Dennis, Deputy Superintendent in charge of Vocational Education were the speakers. From 1918 to 1925 the school has graduated 166 students who are now engaged as follows: Home economics supervisors, 2; auto salesman, 1; business, 8; mechanics, 2; married home-makers, 23; unmarried homemakers, 7; farmers, 18; kindergarten teacher, 1; college students, 33; grade teachers, 32; engineer, 1; optometrist, 2; graduate accountant, 1; dentist, 1; tree surgeon, 1; high school teachers, 6; salesmen, 3; veterinarian, 1; nurses, 6; stenographers, 3; mines, 4; clerk, 1; unclassified, 9.

THE Beallsville High School Auditorium addition was dedicated with appropriate exercises of the grades and high school October 30. The addition is a "triplicate" arrangement. The regular combined auditorium-gymnasium idea is used, and in addition there are high folding doors, which when not rolled along the side walls, may be so placed as to form three large class rooms. Additional space may be used on a large stage.

CENTERVILLE Borough is transporting pupils to such an extent that in four one-room rural schools there are not more than two grades in any school. Thus pupils receive advantages of better gradation. Supervising Principal O. A. Rodefer has thirty-seven teachers on his faculty.

THE new Trinity High School (composed of pupils from Amwell, Canton, North Franklin and South Strabane Township) has added agriculture and domestic arts to its course for the present school term. Major improvements at the school include the moving of the commodious gymnasium nearer the main part of the school. The old gym grounds have been converted into an ideal athletic field. One building is nearing completion after a complete remodeling begun early in the spring. This school already is the largest rural high school in the State. Future improvements to the twenty-five acre plot of campus and additional remodeling to other buildings will make the school one of the best in the Commonwealth.

THE voters of East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, approved a bond issue of

$27,000 for the erection of a new consolidated school.

MANOR TOWNSHIP has partially completed one of the best four-room school buildings in Armstrong County and is now occupying two of the rooms. The structure is of brick and has a basement well lighted and equipped with corner heaters, lavatories and electric lights. The building, which cost $25,000, was dedicated October 30. Deputy Superintendent R. C. Shaw made the principal address.

THE Coatesville High School Glee Clubs, 100 members strong, gave a creditable rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera, "The Mikado," in High School auditorium, November 12 and 13. The High School Orchestra of 21 pieces accompanied.

CURWENSVILLE dedicated a new grade school building on November 17. Wm. H. Robinson, a former Curwensville boy, made it possible to include a gymnasium in the new building.

IN the bulletin issued in connection with the Wyoming County Institute held November 1620, Superintendent Morgan writes as follows concerning high schools: "Wyoming County is justly proud of her high schools and of the character of the work they are doing. We have only five boroughs and each maintains a high school of the first grade. In addition we have three township high schools well organized and equipped, and a vocational school that has proved its worth in an agricultural community."

THE Bradford County Rural Letter, issued in November, 1925, contains a constructive program in health education for rural schools in Bradford County-grades I-VIII. The program is an outgrowth of a series of zone meetings which were held in the early part of the year. The bulletin contains an outline of a reading course for seventh and eighth grades and the required poem list for all grades.

ON October 31 Charlestown Township, Chester County, dedicated its new four-room consolidated school. The erection of the building completes the consolidation of all the schools of the township. The three acre plot upon which the building is located was donated by Anthony Alleva, and $20,000 toward the expense of the building was contributed by Frank Foster-both citizens of the district.

GREENE-DREHR Joint School District dedicated its new community school November 14. Greene Township is located in Pike County and Drehr, in Wayne County. For the past ten years these districts have maintained a joint, consolidated and vocational school in the Drehr School Building. Because of overcrowding, the new five-room structure was erected and is now used to house the pupils of the elementary grades, thus releasing the old building for use as a high school. The school maintains a four-year high school with vocational, agricultural and home economics