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WILMETTE LIFE June 8, 1928 Wilmette Again. Honors Men Who Died in Nation's Wars Q inaugurated \ V ilme ttc's community ~{emorial Day observances. H e r e we have ' pictured two sections of , the parade. At th e right is a group of Camp Fire Girls followed by the \Vilmette grade sch ool band. Below is picturrd th e \tVilmctte Legion Drum and nuglt. ' corps in its initial public appearance. -Lehle Photo AK ittlpre sive street procession .... I 42 Sears Pupils Awarded Places on May Honor List Forty-two names appear on th e list of honor society students at the Joseph Sears school, Kenilworth, for the month of May. They are: Uonor Soclt't;r Do~ald Kimball, Elwood :\Tons, Tom Sinding, Fred \Vette rer, Frank \Villi ams, Roger Barrett, Clinton D~>mrnon, Orove r Hermann, Billy Holmes, Earl l\Ioss, .J ack Stebbins, Billy Tinu~ins, Harry \Vt>{ ·SP, Woodl'o\\' " -i!Ron, r.eorg-e \Voodl nnd, Priscilla \Vht>t·loek, .Tean n(·tt t> Post, .Tant> :\Tdntosh. Catherine H enhurn, .Mar.ion Hedrick. Lu ·illt> Bre nner, Verna Tnnmtn R, Agn t'S Frast'l', ~Iary Fowler, Phyllis Duh-;k~·. n ea trke DriY er. :\Tary ('randall. Ph:rllis Rosley, Doris Bland, .Janice Barr, George Benson, Roger Crowe, Joe HarriRon, John Mathieson, Jim ~fcArthur, Jane Bisbee Hester Dillon, Virginia Johnston. Dorothy Raggio, Bettie Rich, Joy Mervis, .:\lary Snoddy. The following students received a grade of "E" in effort: Honor Roll Grade III-Arthur Bonnet, Arthur· Cruttenden, Charlene Driver, LeRoy Eggert, Edith Gillett, Helen Glennon, Peggy Ketcham, Benjie MacKinnon, Kenneth Smith, .John Weese, Mary Barrett, Geraldine Cox, Jack Fyfe, Cora Harvey, Arend Knoop, Jeannette Robertson, Burton Smith, Billy Stebbins. Grade TV - June Babcock, Janice Bouchard, Dolly Brown, Frank Carpenter, Michael Conley, Peggy Crandall, Gridley Dement, Bruce Granstrom, Barbara H ess , .Tack Holden, l\Tiriam Holmes, Horton .Johnston, Stephen Johnson, Aurica Sirrion, Junior Smith, .Junior Timmins, Richard Holmes, Gilbert McIntosh, John Sprenger, .John Stallsmith, Luci e Dix, Shirley Hermann, Doris Heaton, Marsha Huck, Mabel Sample, Jean Small, Margaret Tideman, Annette .Williams, Doris Wolfe. Grade V-Bobby Berger, · Shirley Botthof, Barbara Clark, Elinor Clark, Russell Cooke, J ean CosnH, Tom Cruttenden Dorothy Deacon, Roy Demmon, David' Elmgren, . .Jane Harrison, Tom Hildebrandt, Mary Huck, Cecilia MacKinnon, Charlotte Manlove, Janet Mathieson, Irving Moss, Anton Paulsen, Rose Phillips, Verna Peterson, ·Dorothy Richards, Billy Robertson. Carleton Ross, Nick Simon, Dorothy Smythe, Louise Watson, Fred Workman, Ruth Swanson. Grade VI-George Benson, Jack Byrne, Peter Gilbert, .Joe Harrison, Cy MacKinnon, .Jim McArthur, Jack Sinding, Jane Bisbee, Hester Di)lon, Virginia .Johnston, Joy Mervis, Dorothy Raggio, Bettie Byrne, .Jane Weese, Mary Snoddy. Grades VII and VIII-Girls: Priscilla · Wheelock, Jeannette Post, Jane McIntosh, Catherine Hepburn, Marlon Hedrick, Lucllle Brenner, Verna Timmins, Agnes J.<'raser, Mary Fowler, Phyllis Dubsky, Beatrice Driver. Mary Crandall, Phyllis Bosley, Doris Bland, Janice Barr. Boys: George Manlove, Elwood Mons, Tom Sinding, Fred Wetterer, Frank Williams, Roger Barrett, John Beckman, Clinton Demmon, Grover Hermann, .B111y Holmes, Earl Moss, Jack Stebbins, Billy Timmins, Woodrow Wilson, George Woodland. I VOTE NEXT THURSDAY ON SCHOOL ADDITION (Continued from page 3) details are given their final 0. K. to make certain of including the most desirable features. Experts Endorse Project "The opinions of all experts . and educators consulted by us. without exception, heartily endorse the project. of including an auditorium in the bmlding. Letters from our neighboring superintendents, Roy Skiles, Frederick E. Clerk and E. L. Nygaard. confirm the judgment of all the others. "An addition to the Hov.·ard school building as worked out by the schoof architects includes four sc hool rooms and an auditorium. This addition will balance architecturallv at the north end of the building, ti1e gymnasium at the south end. "The auditorium ft>ature of th(' proposed n ·w addition caust>d C'onsiderahle discu~sion . W er e we to build an auditorium adt>quatt> in !o;ize fnr eRtimatt>d requirt"m nts ftft··{> n or twenty yt>at·s in the futurf', it would lw ~r Nltly in e xe l'~S of present m·{>ds. On the other hand were w·· to huild an addition adequate for prese nt net>ds, it would eventually he too small. The problem was solvE-d hy a suggestion from Superintendent Harper which was eagerly accepted and work(·d out by the architects. Two rooms will be built on each side of th·· audltorimn. When the growth of the school makes necessary a larger auditorium, it can be increased In size by the removal of the dividing walls. The proposed auditorium wfll seat 400 pupils. It can In time, by adding the four rooms, be enlarged to necessarily expen:;iYe. T~e average cos~ seat 800, which is about the prese nt Rhr.e per school child was estimated recentl) of the new HaYen School auditorium ill from the annual reports of our own and Evanston. I neighboring districts as follows: Cites Andltorlun1 Uses North Evanston ............... $103.79 "Mr. Harper, in discussing the adYisaSouth Evanston ............... 104.21 bility of including an auditorium in thiR Wilmette , ..................... 117.92 addition to the Howard school with the Kenilworth ..... , .. .... .. ..... 124.15 Board of Education, said: 'The auditorWinnetka ......... , ........... 180.75 ium adds to the elementary school an enGlencoe ......... , ........ ..... 178.00 tirely new and important socializing unit At a m eeting of the Wilme tte Civic the possibilities of which are almost un- Luncheon club held Friday, May 25, the limited. When its possibilities are prop- 1 building proposition was unanimously inerly worked out it will probably be found dorsed. The question of the developto be one of the most effective eduea- ment of the Central school was also tional forces in the entire organi?.:ttion. brought up at that time . The board It provides a place for creative socializ- recognizes two needs with reference to ing activities that cannot take place in the Central Sehool plant. In th e first the class room. Here pupils m eet some- place the need of larger school grounds tim es in small groups, sometimes in and in the second place some reconstruclarge r groups of their fellows, but al- tion of the buildings with provision . for ways in an atmosphere which makes a separate auditorium and gymnasium them conscious of their social relation- a11d perhaps some other rooms better ships and teaches them how to act and adapted to the modern needs of a school. reac t among their companions. The re are so many problems involved in " 'It also provides a means of moth·at- this project that the board is not ready ing a large part of the school work. 'l'ht> for a r ecommendation at this time. This child that takes part in dramatizing a whol e matter is being car efully considpiece of literature, prP)mring to sing n ered and a program for the development group of songs or to give a folk danct> of the central plant will be worked out. with the idea of prt>senting the finished The board is unanimously in favor of product to I\ group of his fellows, ha:;: the proposed addition to the Howard an altogether uifferent inct>ntive for good school and asks you to vote at the ViJ. work than he would ha~·e with no such lage hall, Thursday, June 14, 12 to 7 end in view.'" p. m. OutlhlP Vurlt·tl T s~s Members of the Board of EducationA sug-gested list of the \Vays .in which President, Enoch Steen. Mrs. Laura an auditorium may be utilized follows: Durgin, Mrs. Helen H . Simonds, Henry Literature-Story telling, d bate, recita- . E. Cutler, Linco ln C. 'rorrey, Gale M. tion, parliamentary procedurt>. Drama- Brooks, Ralph H . Durham. dramatization based on literature, history, pageants, pantomine. l\Tusi ~"-choruR, orcheMra, cantata, piano, victrola, comMr. and Mrs. G. C. Lowell of 900 munity singing. Physical training- Ashland avenue left Wilmette for Bos?ances, m~rches, drills. Pictures (pro- to u yesterday. They are to attend the Jection)-hlstory, travel, nature, story, . geography, art, industry, current events. commencement e~erc1ses at 1mmo~s Special activities-national holiday pro- college where the1r daughter Mary ts grams, general assemblies. a student. The Lowells then are going Is Jo~xp.-nse WnrrantNI! to Europe ·sailing from Quebec on All tax-payers, interested as they art> ,' in school costs, have a right to ask June 13. fhey expect to be abroad for whether our schools in Wilmette are un- three months. I ... I s· I