Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-22
ANNUAL MEETING

OF the ELM City Kindergarten Ass0ci-
atiOn-Ex-MayOr Peck to Presfde-
Address by Miss Lucy WheelOck,
Celebrated for Her Kindergarten
Work.
The annual meeting of the Elm City Kin
dergarten association will be held at United
church chapel tomorrow (rhursday) even
ing at 7:30 o'clock. The various commit
tees have been holding meetings lately. A
room has been engaged at Welcome hall,
Oak street, wherein to open and conduct
the work, and q competent teacher, Miss
Belle s. Pearson of Boston, has been Sc
cured to take charge. The opening of the
school will take place December 4. At the
annual meeting the president of the asso-
citation, ex-Nsyor Henry F. Peck, will pre-
side and there will be reports of commit
tses-from the executive committee by
Chairman F. s. Bradley, ex president of
the Yale National bank; from the finance
committee by Chairman John T. Doug
lass of B. Douglass & Sons, and
from J. Preston Strong, the treas
urer. Officers for the ensuing year
will also be elected. About 500 has been
contributed to carry on the benevolent
work which the association has in hand.
The room where the kindergarten work
will be done is already we'll equipped, and
accommodations for seventy-hve children
have been provided. A rare treat has also
been provided for all who nttend the meet
ing TO- morrow evening, and large attend
ance of the membership and from the gen.
eral public is assured. A cordial invitation
l.. b. &1a v,r1l{o IN orfay1 he
speaker of the evening is Miss Lucy Vince.
Boston. Her subject is "The Child in Oul
Midst" Of Miss Wheelock the KindergaE
ten News says: ''The kindergarten cause II
America has no wiser or more beloved teach
or than Miss Lucy Wheelock. Whether as
| teacher of children, or a teacher of teach
| ers,' her sympathetic temperament, we'll
stored mind and executive ability unite In
| personality as strong as 1t is lovely, and
no one can come under her influence with
out feeling the meaning and richness o.
life and the value of purposeful work
| The young women who every year attend
| her lectures can testify to her clear eluci
dation of Floebel's philosophy and he!
| ability to induce others to work anc
think In 1886 Miss Wheelock took charg,
of the kindergarten department. at thu
Martha's Vineyard summer institute, anl
at the annual sessions since has lecturei
daily and conducted model kindergarten
class. Her name Is equally we'll known q
writer upon educational subjects and a
the translator of Madame Speyn's charm
ing tales.
No Kindergarten in the country ha
done more efficient service as
lecturer than Miss Wheelock. A
St. Paul and st. Louis ant
throughout the west she has addressed ed
Vocational conventions. It 1892 she lee
tured for two weeks at the Universit
State school of Minnesota and spoke TO
the Free kindergarten association of Min
neapolis at a meeting held at the home O
Senator Washburn. During the winter @
'o2 and 1913 she lectured at Pittsburg an
Scranton, Pa, Wilmington, Del, an
places in Connecticut and Massachusetts
and as result of the enthusiasm whic
crystalizsd into effect in one of these place
alone seven free kindergartens were estat
lished. Last summer she addressed tn
kindergarten congress at Chicago, and ais
| smoke at the woman's buiIdinp