The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-03
TEACHERS OF STATE
MINNESOTA EDUCATIONAL Asso-
CITATION WILL MEET HERE
IN DECEMBER
LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Programme Will Be Intervening
Booker t. Washington to Deliver
an Address -Pan-American
Exhibit Will BE Shown.

Great preparations are being made.
thus far in advance, for the thirty ninth
annual meeting of the Minnesota Educa-
tional association, which we'll be in ses-
sion at the state capitol on December
20, q and Is. 1t is expected that over
LOCO teachers from all parts of the state
will be in attendance. For many years
these meetings have been a most valuable
portion of the educational work of Min
nesota, and each year the association
has grown in size, enthusiasm and in
f1uence
r. The leading educators of the state are
in attendance at these annual meetings.
College professors. county superintend-
ents city superintendent. principals of
and teachers of the rural schools of the
graded and high schools, grade teachers
state, all meet together to discuss in
the most practical and helpful manner
the topics with which they have to deal
every day during the school year. Spe-
cialists in all the various departments
give the results of their experience and
practice. and the individual teacher re-
ceives suggestions and information that
bears directly upon the peculiar problems
which he has to contend with.
This year the programme VIII De one
OF the most complete that has ever been
L
ing will be Industrial Training a topic
which has been discussed very generally
during the past two years all over the
country. but particularly in Minnesota.
One of the big events of the present ses-
sion will be an address by Booker I.
Washington on the work of the Tuskegee
institute and it's value as an educational
factor The associat ton always has some
distinguished speaker from outside the
state as a star attraction. Last Decem-
Der they secured Prof. c. I. Winchester,
the distinguished literary critic and trav-
eler.
T.. C. Lord, now the president of the
State Normal school at Charleston, ILL.,.
but formerly president of the normal
school at Moorhead, Mimi, is expected
to be present at this meeting to address
his former associates.
The educational exhibit made by Mime
sofa at the Pan-American exposition and
which was awarded first rank among all
the states, will be exhibited at this ses-
sion of the association. 1t was prepared
under the supervision of D. E. Cloyd, OF
the association.
Association.s Officers.
The officers of the association and Of
the various sections are as follows:
President, Supt. ]. A. Van Dyke, Fer
gus Falls; vice president, D. E. Cloyd,
University of Minnesota; secretary, Miss
Sarah Brooks, St. Paul; treasurer, Supt.
L. P. Harrington, Hutchinson:
High School Section-President, Supt-
G. A. Stanton, Sank Center; vice presi-
dent. supt. L. P. McWerter; secretary.
Miss Nora Frye, saltwater.
College sectionPre adas D y;cs An nlesy
dent. Dr. Wahlstrom. Gustavus Adolphus
college; secretary, Prof. George D. Innes,
President James Wallace, Macaiester;
Dr.. S. W. CLANCY, Carleton; j. E. Gran
rud University of Minnesota.
Graded School Section-Presldent, Shpt.
William Park Virginia; vice president,
Prof. H. L. Harter. Mile Laos; Heretary.
Prof. A. H Turritin Royalton,
: County superintendent Sectlon-Presi-
dent. Supt. E. F. Fink. Willmar; vice
president. supt. w E. Freeman, Man
kato; secretary, Supt. Hattie S. Booth,
Grand Rapids. ze
School Board section-President. J NJ
Brown. Austin; vice president. y. f.
Sharp. Moorhead; secretary, D., T.
Hodges, Sleepy Eye; treasurer .. y.
Music section-President, Miss Elsie M