present member of the Committee on Education of the 
Chamber of Commerce. 
ELLIS SCHOOL, 
The Ellis School was opened at its present location, 
1860 Ellsworth avenue, September, 1916, with an enroll- 
ment of only 40 pupils. The aim of the school primarily is 
to prepare girls for college, and to give those not going to 
college a thorough training in an elective course of study. 
The first class of three girls was graduated in June, 1918. 
Since that time 64 girls have been graduated from the school 
and 42 of these have entered college. 
The French Club composed of advanced French students, 
meets monthly, and in this way its members become more 
conversant with the French language. The children of the 
primary grades are interested in their work through projects, 
hand work and industrial art. There is also a successful Art 
club and the annual Art tea is one of the interesting social 
events of the school. The Geography club adds interest to 
that subject and the work planned and carried out by the 
children. 
This year the eighth-grade has published two issues of 
the Ellis Chronicle, and one issue of the Freshmen Flurries 
has also been published. These magazines add much interest 
to the English work. A large gymnasium and a study hall 
were added to the school building last summer, and have 
been of great value to the school work. 
Sara Frazer Ellis, head mistress, and Marie Elder Craig- 
head, associate head mistress, are assisted by a teaching 
staff of 14 women. 
OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY 
A four-story brick building on Penn street became in 
1843 the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy; and it was 
there, the next year that Mother Francis Warde furnished 
two of its rooms and opened a select school for girls. In this 
humble beginning was laid the foundation of the present 
Mount Mercy Academy. To a new structure. erected al