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children’s Victory Gardens. This was a compulsory course for 
teachers, one delegate being chosen from each school district of 
the City. At the close of the course the Borough of Queens 
asked for a similar one to be set up in its own Borough; and 
alter that two more were requested—one by elementary teachers 
of Brooklyn and Manhattan, and one by local high school teachers. 
In all 144 teachers took these courses which extended from mid- 
January to mid-April. This helped compensate in numbers for 
teachers who dropped from our regular courses on account 0 
short compulsory ones set up for war emergency work by the 
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Board of Education. 
Then, too, school classes were not 
So a poster was sent out to Brooklyn schools 
pernutted to make visits to 
outside institutions. 
offering talks and demonstrations to be given at the schools for 
Grades 3-6 and for Junior High Schools. From March 2 until 
mid-June, every schoolday, two or more members of the Depart- 
ment were at local schools. Often but one talk for one class was 
requested, but it resulted in most cases that auditoriums were 
packed. It was impossible to continue the strain of long subway 
and bus trips, however, and to give so much time to one activity. 
So in the fall a poster was sent out stating that Mondays and 
Fridays would be our visiting days. The announcement had been 
out less than a week when our fall schedule was filled and enough 
requests left over a fill the spring of 1943. We covered in this 
work over 200 sessions, and reached over 28,000 children. The 
Board of Education in the meantime had raised its ban on school 
visits, but only a few schools took advantage of this. The private 
schools, Adelphi Academy, Berkeley Institute, Community School, 
and the [ethical Culture Schools of both Brooklyn and New York 
have continued their visits uninterrupted, but their groups are, 
as always, small. 
The children’s Saturday classes continued with no change in 
Ikach child brought a note from home 
desire to have him attend classes. 
air raid protection and drills for 
attendance because of war. 
as an evidence of the parents’ 
Arrangements were made for 
the same were given in the summer. 
dJecause of war measures the plan of summer teaching was 
changed, and Miss Carroll and Miss Hammond remained for July 
and August, setting aside their usual summer work. 
