Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-18
DEAF MUTE TEACHERS.
Important Meeting at Kendall Green to Ar
range for a Conference Next July.

Important Meeting at Kendall Green to Ar
range for a Conference Next July.
Ameeting Of unusual interest has been held nj
the National Deaf Mute College during the pas,
week OF prominent representatives OF deaf mute
education in the United States and Canada
The profession of deaf mute instructors in
America, like many other professions holds
conventions and conferences at stated times.
, and these meetings are arranged for by stand
ing executive committee, which Is elected by
the larges: body, the convention.
The first of these meetings was held in New
York in 1850, when there were but twelve
schools for the deaf in this country. Thirty
four persons only responded to the invitation
to this convention, representing six schools.
Similar meetings were held in Hartford, Conn,
ColuInbus Ohio, Jacksonville, ILL.,. and Staun-
ton Va, before the time of the civil war, when
they were suspended for ten years.
In 1868, on the invitation of President Gal
laudet a conference of principals Of American
schools for the deaf was held at the college at
Washington, and since that time meetings have
been held at regular intervals Of two years at
indianapolis, Flint. Mich: Belevile Ont
Philadelphia, Columbus, Ohio; Northampton.
Mass; Jacksonville H.: Fairbault, MINI.
Berkeley, Cal; Jackson, Miss, and New York.
At the last meeting, held in August. 1880,
fifty schools out of the eighty-one then exist
ing were represented by 3i6 delegates In this
convention schools of every variety of method
united and subjects of interest to all branches
OF the work OF teaching the deaf we're presented
in forty papers. which naturally gave rise to
much instructive discussion.
The standing committee, which met here
last week to arrange for future meetings CT the
profession. consists of President Gallaudet,
chairman Dr. Isaac l.. Post principal of the New
York Institution; DR.. Philip G.. Giiiett super
intendent of the Illinois Institution: DR..
Jonathan l.. Noyes, superintendent of the
Minnesota School: Miss Caroline 4. Yale,
principal of the Clarke Institution at North
Gmpton. Mass; W. D. Connor, principal Of the
Georgia Institution, and Il. Madison, superin-
tendent OF the Ontario, Canada, Institution.
All the members of the committee were at
Kendall Green last week except Hiss Yale.
The chief business OF the committee here was
TO arrange for q conference OF superintendent
and principals, to be held at Colorado Springs
next July and general convention a. Chicago
IN the summer of 1888. The latter meeting
will take the form of an ecuElencal congress
of teachers of the deaf, under the auspices of
the worlds congress auxiliary, and it is hoped
tha5 representatives will be present from many
foreign countries.
President Harrison gave the members of the
committee a private audience and DR.. Gallau-
det entertained them at his residence, inviting
the officers of the college and school at Kendall
Green, with their families, to meet them.
On TINS occasion an unexpected but very well
come guest appeared, the Right Honorable
William Woodall, NJ T. of England, q member
OF the royal commission on the deaf and dumb,
before which DR.. Gallaudet was invited to ap-
pear in 1856. Mr.. Woodall Is recognized as the
champion of the cause of deaf mute edu-
cation in the British parliament. and it was a
great pleasure to the members of the commit
tee and tie officers OF Cur institution to meet
him.