The range of interests represented in these topics gives some 
idea of what is being done with our older boys and girls. On the 
Saturday when these particular topics were given by the children, 
we were visited by students from the National Recreational 
School, New York City. This group was studying methods of 
instruction in Saturday leisure-time work with children. 
Public School 48, Brooklyn (Mr. Paul Kennedy, Principal, 
Miss IXatharine Redden, Head of Department), solicited our help 
with an educational problem as follows: 250 fifth year children 
representing five classes and five teachers assembled for fifty 
minutes in the school auditorium to receive instruction in nature 
study (Fig. 000). The Curator, or an assistant, went each week 
from October to December—nine times in all. The real value of 
the work was demonstrated through the fact that this group was 
welded into a solid unit of interest, that the children themselves 
became an active, contributing part and not a passive, receiving 
body. It should ‘be stated that the school authorities and the 
teachers were a background of enthusiastic support. 
Miss Kathryn P. Clark, A.B. (Vassar College), was appointed 
instructor beginning September 15, 1926, in place of Mrs. Maude 
Hickok Free resigning at that time. 
Personal Activities 
I continue to act as National Secretary of the National Plant, 
lower and Fruit Guild. I was appointed in December to the 
Council of the Brooklyn Girl Scouts. 
Respectfully submitted, 
LLEN Eppy Suaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction 
