Time Of Sorrow, Relief; School Starts Tuesday

What's beginning this week that probably brings sorrow to students, relief to parents and mixed feelings to teachers and administrators? School. Summer vacation is over early this year for most Ann Arbor elementary and secondary students, as school is slated to begin Tuësday for pupils in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and Redeemer Lutheran School. Wednesday is the opening date for St. Paul's Lutheran School, while classes will begin next Tuesday, Sept. 8, at St. Thomas and St. Francis Catholic Schools, Clonlara, and the Seventh Day Adventist School. The latecomer this year is Greenhills School, which opens its doors Thursday, Sept. 10. An estimated 22,755 elementary and secondary students are expected to return to the elassrooms in Ann Arbor this week and next week. This is an increase of about 1,000 from last year's total of ápproximately 21,700 pupils. The Ann A bor Public Schools - which enrolls the largest number of Ann Arbór pupils - expects about 20,975 students. This is a hike of 836 over last year?s total of 20,139. Enrollments at the city's parochial schools are expected to remain fairly static, with islight increases expected at Redeemer Lutheran, St. Paul's Lutheran and S t . Thomas School. Nearly 1,550 students are anticipated at -the parochial schools. St. Francis School will have a new principal this year: Sister George Marie. Greenhills, Ann Arbor's I vate co-educational day school I which first opened in the fall of I 1968, is expecting about 155 I pupas this year, and has added I a new grade - the llth. By the I fall of 1971, Greenhills expects I to be complete with grades 7 I through 12. Greenhills will have a green I carpeted chemistry lab and I three new classrooms this fall, I along with a new exercise I room, faculty room, book store, I business office, conference I rooms and a new set of I rooms. Clonlara, Ann Arbor's "free school," will no longer be just á nursery school and kindergarten this fall. For the first time, it is accepting first-grade aged children, too, as the first step in its plan to edúcate youths up to age 13. About 75 children are expected at Clonlara in September, with the 5, 6 and 7 years olds beginning school Sept. 8. The I nursery school pupils will not begin school until Sept. 14. Clonlara, an ungraded facility patterned after A. S. Neil's Summerhill in England, first opened in 1967. All pupils in the Ann Arbor Public Schools will go to class Tuesday - some to register, some for a shortened day of class. Regular full-day classes begin Wednesday, except for the kindergarteners, who start school Thursday. There will be no school on Labor Day. Kindergartners in the Ann Arbor Public Schools will be enrolled Tuesday and Wednes. day. Enrollment for children in grades I through 6 begins at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. For Ann Arbor's junior highs, shortened days on the split and staggered schedules are planned. The early shift at Slauson Junior High will go to school Tuesday from 7:30 a.m to 9:55 a.m,, the later shift from 12:45 to 3:10 p.m. At Forsythe, the other junior high on a split shift, the early shift will be in classes Tuesday from 7:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m., the later shift from 12:45 to 3 p.m. At Tappan and Scarlett, the junior high on eight - perïod staggered shifts, the early groups Tuesday will go to school from 8:05 to 10:20 a.m., the later groups from 1:05 to 3:20 p.m. At Pioneer and Huron High Schools, a half day of classes will be held Tuesday, from 8 to 11:30 a.m. For the first time in many decades, there will be no classes this year at University I School. It was closed last June, by order of the U-M Regents.