Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-01-05
TEACHERS OF STATE
neeocIATIoN,s ANNUAL CoNVEN-
TIoN IN MILWAUKEE.
Many interesting Addresses ana
pers Observation-Disclosures
Join OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
elected for Ensuing Year.

Milwaukee correspondence:
With a larger audience than ever Do
fore at the first session of convention
of the Wisconsin Teachers Assocla-
tion. the fifty-third annual gathering
opened at the Davidson Theater III thls
city Wednesday.
The occasion was marked by several
new departures. In the audience Ior
the first time were noticed the SOM
ber-hued garments of the Catholic Sis
ters who are teachers in the parochlal
schools of Milwaukee and who nave
been received into membership in the
association this year.
One Of the speakers was a represen-
tative of union labor, and in the audi
ence were leading Social Democrats
and union labor men attracted by his
speech.
Another speaker was the rabbi OF
Jewish temple who pleaded for ethlcal
teaching in the public schools and sug-
gested a commission to make UP
textbook for the public schools when
should contain the highest thoughts OF
the leading minds of the worlds MS
| tory. be they pagan or Christian, Bud
dhist or Jewish, agnostic or OF what
ever faith, so long as their thoughts
are lofty and inspiring.
The meeting was called to order by
| President McLenegan, whose annual
| address, however, was not delivered
until later in the session.
A. B. West, of Lake Mills, urged the
| members to secure the cooperation OF
| their school boards in putting into eff
feet the new law which permits school
! boards to form mutual insurance
| company The law requires that insur-
! ance totaling $25O,OOO must be applied
| for before the State mutual company
can be formed.
In the evening the Milwaukee Teach
ers' Association and the Milwaukee
Principals Association entertained the
visiting teachers, the Milwaukee School
Board and all interested in educational
matters in the Colonial room at the
|
| informal There were music and re-
freshments.
That Bible stories should be told to
school children as part of their Ian
| guage lessons is a recommendation
made in the report Of the committee
appointed to investigate language
study. This proposal caused a sensa
| ton among the teachers. Under a de-
cision of the Supreme Court reading
of the Bible is prohibited in the public
schools of the State. Prof PatZer Of
the Milwaukee Normal School is head
of the committee.
Through the efforts of Principal A.
| N. Fairchild, of the Seventh District
school, twenty-siX sisters who teach
| in the Catholic parochial schools have
joined the Wisconsin Teachers Associ-
alton. This is the first time that the
| parochial schools have been represent
| ed in the association.
| At the closing session of the conven-
ton the list Of officers other than pres
ident was submitted to the convention
| NY LIC NSlulAllLCV duu
elected as follows: First Vice
President, Superintendent T. f.
Converse, Beloit; Second Vice
President, Frances NJ. Walsh, Mil
waukee; Third Vice President, Super
| intendent J. L. Hooper, Ashland. Mem
bers of the Executive Committee, f. S.
Hyer, Stevens Point; Treasurer, Miss
Julia Rockafellow, Waukesha. On mo-
ton of G. c. Shuts, of Whitewater,
President John T. Sims election was
made unanimous. Secretary Catherine
Williams will hold over two years
| more.
| A plea for the country school teach
| er, the teacher in the little red school
| house, (which is generally white" as
| the speaker said, was made by Alfred
Bayliss, superintendent of public in
| struction in Illinois.
| The superintendent and Supervis-
| ing Principals Association elected the
| following officers: President, W. III.
| Hickok, Amigo; Vice President, J. E.
| Hall, Augusta; Secretary and Treas
| urer, G. e. Loomis, Waupun.
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