Education: Little White Schoolhouse

Three years ago, bustling, red-haired Mrs. Clarence Norton (“Gussy”) Goodwin, a Washington socialite, organized a session of Spanish classes for friends in her Shoreham Hotel apartment. The teacher: a suave, rumba-dancing bachelor, Senor Ramon Ramos. When Bess Truman left to become First Lady, Gussy’s class lost a star pupil.

Last week into the sedate Green Room of the White House marched Gussy and Senor Ramos. The room had been fitted out with blackboard and chalk. Mrs. Truman still wanted to learn the language of Good Neighborliness. Among other scholars who will gather at the White House at 11 every Monday morning: Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Miss Florence King (daughter of Fleet Admiral Ernest), Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. James F. Byrnes.