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FY : WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919 School Board Head Explains Location and Type of Winnetka's Proposed New School Site The annual report of the Presi- dent of the Board of Education in Winnetka has just been issued. It shows an appallingly rapid growth in the Winnetka School population, and a corresponding need for more adequate building facilities. After a tabulation of the expenses of the schools for the past three years, and an analysis of these figur- es, President Bell presents graphic- ally the relative rates of growth of scnool buildings and school enroll- went. His chart shows that while in 1914 there was room for every child enrolled in the schools, that in 1015, althouch the Skokie school pro- vided for an increased attendance of 100 children, the attendance actually increased by 140.. From that time on the growth in school population has steadily outdistanced the building growth, until this year the school enrollment has broken all records, and crowded ' the schools to the breaking point. Mr. Bell explains how the Board of Education has contrived to house a number of pupils which is nearly double the proper capacity of the school buildings. He says: "The assembly rooms 'in all the schools are used as class rooms. In the Horace Mann school the assembly room has been cut up for use as two class rooms. There is no general assembly place except the corridors. Even part of corridors in this school have heen partitioned off for rooms. A former. dicssiig rooiu at Greeley! school is used for classes. At Horace Mann classes are held in the base- ment and attic. Rooms without windows at Skokie school, intended for manual training and domestic science, are used as class rooms. The Horace Mann kindergarten has been moved to the Parish house, and so on. Comprehensive relief gauged by our future as well as our present needs is imperative. We 'have exhausted, ~ the temporary expedients. schools are far better than the aver- age, but they will run down hill rapid- ly unless relief is forthcoming." President Bell then goes on to sketch the building program of the Board of Education to relieve the congestion, He says that the three present schools, the Horace Mann, Skokie, and Greeley, will continue to be used, but for the smaller child- ren only. Two rooms will event- Our | ually be added to Skokie and two or four to Greeley when thé need arises. But the 8th, 7th, and probably the 6th grade from all parts of Winnetka will be housed on the new school site. This site, he reminds us, was purchased a year ago after securing the advice of the best available ex- perts. It is located on West Elm street, six blocks west of the station and contains 12 acres with an ex- cellent site for the school building proper, and exceptional possibilities for playground and other facilities, which a modern school requires. On this new site it is planned to build a modern school of the best, but not most extravagant type which can be designed. It will be operated on the departmental principle, that is, one teacher especially equipped for the work will teach geography to all three grades in turn, one will teach history, and so on, instead of the "little red school house" system of having one overworked and irritat- ed teacher teach all subjects. The plan is already in operation in the three buildings. Answering the possible objection of the distance of the new school site, Mr. Bell points out that it is the nearest available site to the center of school population. "It is," he says, "also positively the only site where anything like adequate playgrounds can be secured. No site can be picked out in Winnetka, regardless of expense, to which some students would not have to go at least one and one-half miles. Almost half of the students will have less than six blocks to go to the new site. They would have had to go as far if the Board could have secured a site in the exact center of the Village." To fortify this somewhat surpris- ing statement Mr. Bell presents three maps, showing the location of every child in Winnetka, and demonstrat- ing beyond the possibility of doubt that the region between the present Horace Mann school, and the pro- posed new school is the most thick- ly populated part of Winnetka from the standpoint of school children. Mr. Bell closes his report with an expression of appreciation of the constant and intelligent assistance of the Parent-Teacher association and the Woman's club in many of the problems which have arisen. TRAINED INSTRUCTOR - OPENS KINDERGARTEN Committee In Charge Announces Set of Rules For Mothers, Govern- ing Kindergarten The afternoon kindergarten-nurs- ery opened up this week with every promise of success. Miss Winifred Weedon of Wilmette is the 'teacher in charge. She is a graduate of a Kindergarten college, and has had experience in kindergarten teaching on the north shore, and in settle- ment work. Many parents have tak- en advantage of this opportunity to have their children cared for and educated at the same time for a very nominal amount of money. "The only danger that I can see," Superintendent Washburne said re- garding this work, "is that those mothers who are not registering their children at the beginning will be left out in the cold. Miss Weedon can- not take care of more than 25 youngsters. This quota is almost reached. Any parent wishing to have the privilege of leaving their children in this afternoon kinder- garten should register them at once. Should the demand become great enough, of course, it may be possible in the near future to employ two teachers, and take care of a larger number of children. But there is likely to be a considerably lapse of time before that can be handled. "The project has been given much stability by the decision of the Board of Education to back it." Announce Rules The following rules have been adopted by the committee in charge of the afternoon kindergarten: 1. The afternoon kindergarten will be open every school day from 1:30 to 5:30. 2. There will be three classes of membership in the afternoon kinder- garten. a. Term membership for, those who guarantee a dollar a week for the full school term, payable in advance. bh. Weekly membership for those who wish to enter their children from week to week, at the same rate of tuition--one dollar per week. c. Day membership for those who wish to leave their children in the kindergarten occasionally for an afternoon. The fee for this is 40 cents a day. 3. Term members will have preced- ence over either of the other two .classes of members. Thus, should the full quota of term members be received, week and day members would be replaced by them. Sim- ilarly, week members will take PLAN 15 MILE BRIDLE - PATH FOR NORTH SHORE Would Extend From Wilmette South Limits Along Canal and To Lincoln Park A bridle path extending along the canal banks and connecting the north shore with the Lincoln park path, is the latest project of the Evanston Community Recreation association. At a meeting Sunday of the directors of the association it was decided to bring this project to the attention of the association. Through the courtesy of the sani- tary district officials the Evanston Recreation association has the use of the canal bank for a great dist- ance. This land will be used for the great community recreation project now planned and which will include a golf course, an amusement ground a football field, a baseball diamond and, if the latest plan succeeds, a bridle path. This path, according to the plans, will commence at Sheridan road. in Wilmette, lead down 'the canal bank and join with the Lincol- park bridle path at Lincoln park, making a stretch of pathway about fifteen miles long. This proposition will be considered at the next reg- ular meeting of the association. DANCE IS SUCCESS The dance g'ven Tuesday evening at the Jones' Hall by the Evanston Steppers, under the leadership of "Baumy", proved a great success, a large crowd attending. will hold another dance at a date to be announced later. precedence over day members. Day members will therefore, only be ad- mitted when the full number of week and term members is not present. 4. Any week or term members who do not reach the kindergarten by 2 o'clock and do not notify the direc- tor that they are coming will he con- sidered as absent for that 'ay, and vy be replaced for that way by a day member. Voluntary A endagce 5. Parents are at liberty to bring their children at any time of the afternoon they wish and to take them home at any time they wish. Regular attendance is not required, cure the: full allowed to attend regularly. Superintendent of Schools, C. Washburne. The Steppers |: but those parents who wish to se-| educational value of BE the work will obtain this to a much | : greater degree if their children are | 6. All payments must be' made in | 8 advance, and may be made either § to. the director in charge or to I ee . . . | | Parent Teacher Activities] Mrs. Arthur Dean will be chairman of the Jolly Tar hosteses for the coming year, assisting her this Sun- day evening are Mrs. N. K. Ander- son, chairman of the seventh grade and Mrs. Charles M. Thomson, chair- man of the second grade of Greeley school. Look over your fruit shelves and see if you can spare a glass or two of jelly or jam for the sailors at Jolly Tar. Contributions are to be sent to Mrs. Dean. This is the time to thin out shrubs. If you are doing so will you save the discarded ones for our school grounds and communicate with Mr. Washburne who will have them call- ed for. BOY SCOUT MOVIES Motion pictures which are shown each Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Community House under the Boy Scouts are meeting with much success. It is the aim of Com- munity House to show clean, whole- some and enjoyable pictures to the children. To this end these pictures are censored each week by a com- mittee before being shown. The fol- lowing Winnetka women have volun- teered to serve on this committee: Mrs. Ayres Boal, Mrs. John R. Dick- inson, Mrs. Gus Haas, Mrs. Sylvan Hirschberg, Mrs. William D. Mec- Kenzie, Mrs. M. 1. H. 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