The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-02

combine the qualities and powers and
 motives or her charge into products of worthy character. Such sympathy your
 association can and does give.
 Not having the official responsibility to criticise, your friendly advice on mat ters which your home experience ot children gives you the advantage over the childless teacher, will be all the
 more valuable as a help.
 T realize that much of this touch or sympathy must be a personal touch rather than as an association.
 But there is one almost direct form in which you can work as an associa-
 tion to show your earnest sympathy.
 This is by service for the Teachers
 Annuity Guild.
 "Identify yourself definitely as an as-
 sociation, as friend and co-worker for
 this guild, and you meet all teachers
 and managers of the school system as a
 helper in the line of the practical hu-
 manities. Not by taking new and great
 responsibilities for the success of the
 guild, but perhaps by appointing a
 permanent guild committee that would
 ever be ready to meet the members of
 that body in planning for its welfare
 Such action would help keep before the
 public two very important facts that re-
 late to it's welfare, viz. That the guild
 is sound business organization and
 that it needs endowments of the
 wealthy for it's permanent fund to reach
 it's highest possibilities at an early da e.
 The membership and committee of this association is in a position to know who
 | T Ri ion might be made to feel that bequest to
 the Guild would be among the most
 permanent benefits to humanity, by its
 direct help to the invalid or retired
 teacher, and by the gain to schools where those who should be retired are sometimes kept on for q reason to the great loss to the members of the school,
 I should be glad to give the origin, plan, scope, capital, membership and possibilities of this Guild to commit tee like that suggested, or to any one interested to know them.
 AS many members of this associa- ton are already honorary members of the Guild and yet have had opportunity to learn little concerning it in detail, I will give a brief outline of it's his tory, purpose and business standing.
 Several years since the late Princi- pal J. D. Whitmore of Hillhouse High School earnestly advocated the estab- lishment of an association similar to some being formed in other localities, for the purpose of furnishing annuities to broken down or superannuated teachers. While some favorable senti- ment was created at that time, it was not sufficient to accomplish an organi- zation, and the idea was dropped out of sight. In the Fall of 1895 Miss c. F. Hopkins and Supt. N. s. Bishop of Norwich headed movement among the teachers by which the desirability of such an organization should be placed before the State Teachers Association, at teh October meeting in New Haven. During the noon intermission of that meeting, October IS, 1885, meeting of those interested in the project was held in the United Church, and a committee appointed to go ahead and complete such an organization, if 25O teachers could be found who cared to join it.
 That committee soon found that number and framed a provisional con- stitution and in March, 1896, organiz- ed on temporary basis which be- came permanent October l. 1896, talk ing the name of "The Connecticut Teachers Annuity Guild" The pur- pose of this Guild is to supply annu- ities to teachers broken down in health and those retiring from the service af- ter 30 years of teaching
 This is to be done by the interest of a large permanent fund and by the yearly dues of one per cent of salary of members. The principal of the per manent fund can never be sued to pay and bills or annuities. One-half the yearly dues plus the interest of the permanent fund, less the current ex- penses is to be paid out to annuitists in proportion to the amounts of salary each has made the basis of annual dues When the interest of the per fund and the half of the year y dues Is sufficient to do so, each an- nuitant will receive fifty per cent. of the salary on which dues were and for at least five annual payments. Any friend of the teachers, is eligible to honorary membership, by paying ten which goes into the per
 
 under State laws, has charter from the Legislature, has a treasurer under bonds sufficient to cover all the money he ever has in his possession and each collector is also under similar bonds SO that it's standing for safety is just IS secure as the most carefully in spected savings bank. The Guild has now on hand over S16,000 in it's per- fund and about $2000 undivid- d funds of this years dues It has of about 600 teachers, and lbout 70 honorary members It is a purely volutary organization and has work before it that no other institu- ion in the State touches at all.
 "A prominent judge of the Superior Court drew up it's charter, and leading awyers and insurance men agree that is based on sound financial principles, The sooner its permanent fund ge,e suf- icieritly large to accomplish it, the ooner will it be able to pay the full fifty per cent. annuities that will finally ,e paid This increase of the per- nanent fund is the phase which touches he privilege of the Woman's School As- ociation Another suggestion I would make. which perhaps can be used only personally by opportune advice. That S. advise every teacher you know to lave some form of rational recrea ton. t may strike as superf1uous advice, mt T lxnou tbat f1sa cenSe of 5l1tu .