The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-31
STATE TEACHERS
MORE THAN A THOUSAND At
SPOKANE.
II. c. Sampson Elected President OF
Educational COunCiI-AddreSSeS
by J. H. Alderman, OF oregon,
and OtherS-ReceptIOn at Hotel
Spokane.

thousand teachers are here to attend
the annual convention Of the State
Educational Association, and hundreds
more will arrive during the day.
Business opened last evening with a
session of the educational council,
which elected the following officers:
President, II. G.. Sampson, of the
Washington Agricultural college; Sec
rotary and treasurer, G. M. Sherman,
of Snohomish county; member of the
executive committee, w. E. Wilson,
principal of the state normal at FL
lensburg.
Leading educators Of the state
crowded into the parlors and corridors
Of the Hotel Spokane in the evening at
the reception with which the Washing
ton State Teachers Association opened
its eighteenth annual meeting. The
real sessions of the association do not
commence until this morning. The
convention probably has the largest
number of delegates of any convention
ever held in Spokane, and it Is attend
ed by many more teachers than ever
attended any former session of the con-
vention.
Address by Oregon Nan.
Prior to the reception an address
was given by j. II. Alderman, state
superintendent of public instruction
in Oregon. His subject was THE
Public School System From the Stand
point of State Superintendent
The educational council of the asso-
citation met at the high school in the
afternoon and considered the three
subjects laid over from last year. j.
A. Reed, principal of the Minor school
at Seattle, read the report of the COM
mittee on examinations school, county
and teachers. This report favored ex-
aminations as now held, but said too
much stress should not be placed upon
them. Some objection was made to
examinations for eighth grade pupils
who wish to enter high schools, but it
was decided that it was perhaps a
poor, but still the best, method of get
ting at the qualifications of the appli-
cant.
Miss Ella 1. Harris, of the normal
school at Ellensburg, read report on
the teac hing Of English in the public
schools.
Report by A. II. Yoder.
A. H. Yoder, professor of pedagogy
at the University of Washington, read
report Of the committee appointed to
investigate the needs of a system Of
public school instruction for defect
i've children. His report was received
with great deal of interest, hundreds
of teachers not mem bers of the council
coming in to hear it.
Some time during the session of the
association the committee appointed
last year on salaries of teachers will
report in favor of the appointment of
some person to devote his entire time
to cultivating sentiment in favor of
higher salaries, the man to be paid by
the association. The committee will
also recommend that the legislature be
asked to fix minimum teachers SAL
airy of $50 per month for teachers hold
ing first grade CERTIFICATES, $50 for Sec
ond grade certificates, and $50 for third
grade certificates.
The committee on legislation will
recommend that the association ask
the state legislature to add to the pres
ent legal school holidays Labor day,
Decoration day and Washington birth
day, and that school attendance be
compulsory between the ages of eight
and fourteen years for the full school
year.