INTEF^SCHOJLASTIC LEAGUEF Vol. XXXII AUSTIN, TEXAS, OCTOBER, 1948 No. 2 Fretwell to Speak Eligibility Rule Grade Schools Register Early AmendmentOffered For Big Year in UIL Activity At UIL Breakfast Fall-Training Rule Judging from the number of grade schools which are Dr. Elbert K. Fretwell of New York City, nationally rec­ On Council Agenda sending in membership cards to the State Office, totaling ognized leader in extracurricular activities and high-school The annual two-day session of 552 at this date, there is a renewed interest in grade-school education, will deliver the main address at the Interscho- the Legislative Advisory Council participation in League contests^ lastic League breakfast in Dallas during the convention of will be held in Austin, October 31 Any group of grade schools conveniently located may the Texas State Teachers' Association. His subject will be and November 1, in the Maximilian "* organize a meet. Principals of the "School Contests as Training for Room of the Driskill Hotel, begin­ ning Sunday at 2 p.m. The Mon­ schools, or persons designated by Citizenship." day meeting will start at 8:30 a.m. them, constitute the Executive Com­ The annual breakfast for admin­ and close with a luncheon. Schools to Observe mittee for the meet. istrators and contest directors and While many principals are famil­ The agenda includes these recom­ iar with the League program and coaches is scheduled for Friday, mendations which will be consid­ United Nations Day its effectiveness as a stimulus for November 26, at 7:30 a.m. in the ered by representatives from Con­ interest in school-work and extra­ ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel in ferences AA, A and B and the City curricular activities, there are a Conference, in addition to others V.I.B. Lists Films Dallas. number of principals who are just that may be submitted at the time For* Celebration beginning their firs't year's work in Noted Writer the council meets: United Nations' Day will be cele­ this key position. To these new­ Dr. Fretwell is the author of 1. A recommendation that Ar­ brated October 24, the anniversary comers, the State Office wishes to "A Study in Educational Prog­ ticle VIII, Section 14, be amended of the date when the Charter of point out the type of competition nosis" and "Extracurricular Ac­ in such a way as to limit ineligi­ the United Nations became effec­ open for grade-school boys and tivities in Secondary Schools," and bility to the sport in which a boy tive, that is, when the required girls. is a frequent contributor to educa­ participated. number of ratifications of the tional magazines and yearbooks. Contests Listed 2. A proposal that preliminary Charter was reached. Contests open to elementary He is a member of the National fall training be confined to the A committee of distinguished schools are: Music, Declamation, Association of Secondary School local school campus. national leaders, feeling the neces­ Spelling and Plain Writing, Story- Principals, National Educational 3. A proposal that member- sity of mass participation in the Telling, Ready Writers, Number Association, College Teachers of schools be allowed to continue foot­ purposes and value of the United Sense, Junior Tennis, Volleyball, Education, American Camping As­ ball practice from the close of the Nations, is making plans to have Junior Track and Field and Play­ sociation, and National Society for "School Contests as Training season on December 1 to the date this day observed in schools, col­ ground Ball. the Study of Education. for Citizenship" will be dis­ of the final championship game leges, churches, community organi­ In the literary division of League During the First World War, cussed by Dr. Elbert K. Fret- and that the date of fall training zations, and, in general, v every­ activity, Junior Declamation is open Dr. Fretwell organized for the well at the League's annual be set for September 1; that no where people can be reached. to grade-school pupils. The term Surgeon General's office the pro­ Breakfast in Dallas, November preliminary football conditioning A number of films have been "junior" is defined as a student who gram of physical education and 26. program be permitted prior to Sep­ prepared on the United Nations reached his tenth birthday the first recreation for all the reconstruc­ tember 1, under the direction of which will be of assistance to day of the preceding May. Com­ tion hospitals in the United States, the football coach or any school schools planning special United plete rules for this and all other and later became National Director official. Nations' programs. Twelve films contests are given in the Consti­ ef Recreation of the American Special reports will be made by are now available, according to tution and Rules which is sent free Red Cross. He was chairman of New Contests Head these committees: D. W. McCavick, director of the of charge to all schools becoming the Camping Section of the White 1. A report of the committee Visual Instruction Bureau, The members of the League. The Pre­ House Conferences on Child Health appointed to study revision of the University of Texas. scribed List of Junior Declamations and Protection in 1930. He has City Conf. Agenda amateur rule. Members of this A ten-minute motion picture, is issued by the State Office to also served as advisor of the High committee are: Principal R. B. directors of this contest. School Section of the National Session Scheduled "Grass Roots," No. So. $356, shows Norman, Amarillo, chairman; Su­ Courtesy of the Texas Rangers, American citizens making their Ready Writing is a contest in Safety Council. For October 17 perintendent H. John Morris, essay composition and can easjly be \ graph is his book "Adventures With a Texas voices heard to help bring about Chief Scout Claude; Superintendent correlated with English classroom D. T. Roy Bedichek is now on limited retirement with Naturalist." Under his guidence, the UIL has be­ enforceable world law. This is a Active as a Scout Leader for A study of new contests which Loyd, East Mountain, Gilmer; the University Interscholastic League which he has work. One of the most popular con­ have been proposed for the City come the largest organization of its kind. constructive, educational, documen­ more than thirty years, Dr. Fret­ Superintendent W. T. Hanes, served since 1917. In the back of the above photo- tary sound film. tests, and probably the one most well now holds the position of Chief Conference will be made October Cameron. Texans h»ve entered at some time 17 in Austin at the meeting of rep­ Scout of Boy Scouts of America. 2. A report from the committee The drawing up of the United during their school days, is the resentatives from Dallas, Houston, Before September 1, 1948, he was of Texas Music Educators' Asso­ Nations' Charter in 1945 at the Spelling and Plain Writing Contest. Fort Worth, and San Antonio Roy Bedichek, Director of League, Chief Scout Executive. ciation. San Francisco Conference is pre­ The 1948-49 Word List, containing schools. - sented in No. So. 3298, "Pattern Identified with the Boy Scouts of 3. A report from the «ommitfcee over 2,400 words, is now being pur­ for Peace—Charter of the U.N." America since its earliest days, he Athletic events which have been of Texas Speech Association. chased by schools. Few, if any, of served on its National Executive suggested include golf and swim­ 4. A report on the recommenda- Retires After 31 Years of Service "Now 'the "Peace," a two reel the words appearing in the list will Board from 1933 until 1943. Be­ ming, a possible State Champion­ tionof the State Meeting of Dele­ Roy Bedichek has added a new* film, No. So. 1465, gives a summary be found in the adopted spelling ship in baseball and volleyball and of the basic United Nations pro­ fore becoming Chief Scout Execu­ gates from Conferences AA, A title, that of director emeritus, to ment from the League was made and natural history. His favorite texts or in last year's,spelling list. basketball tournaments for girls. gram for world security, and plans tive in 1943, he was professor of and B, and the City Conference. the list he has held with the Uni­ in June. Rodney J. Kidd, who has American poet is Walt Whitman, The bulletin starts with words for In the speech department of League to solve relief, food, and money education at Teachers College, Co­ The Advisory Council meets to versity Interscholastic League dur­ been director of athletics since 1938, because he is the supreme poet of the fifth and sixth grades and con­ activities, suggestions have been problems. lumbia University. consider and study all proposed ing the past thirty-one years. Since was named to succeed him as direc­ democracy, of health, of the joys tinues through the list for high made for the addition of original Dean T. H. Shelby of the Divi­ legislation and recommendations 1917 when he became a regular staff tor and editor of THE INTERSCHO­ of decent living. A dramatic, animated summaryj|school oratory, prepared oratory, poetry submitted by member-schools and For the boys and girls in the sion of Extension will preside dur­ member of the League, he has LASTIC LEAGUER. "Thoreau," he says, "is my of the world atomic situation and reading, radio newscasting, radio to recommend to the State Execu­ second and third grades, the Lea­ ing the meeting as he has done at exercised tremendous influence in Before he was officially connected favorite naturalist because of the need for world control of atomic commentary and radio drama.