The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-19
HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS
 COMING TO MONTGOMERY
Three Educational Associations Will Meet Here Next Week and Eminent Men and
 Women Will Be Present.

Five hundred of the leading educa-
 tors of the southern States are expect
 ed to come to Montgomery during next
 week, to attend the joint conventions of | the Southern Educational Association. | the Southern Association of College ! Women. and the Southern Society for | Philosophy and Psychology, which will be held in this city. December 27 to 29. This number will include Presidents of the leading Southern colleges, super | intendents of education of all the
 Southern States. workers along special | lines, members of college faculties, and | many teachers in public schools, not only in Alabama, but from other States as well. The entire Alabama State Department of Education will be in
 attendance, and Governor Jelks, as we'll
 as several other State officials will de- liver addresses. All ip all, the Mont gornery meeting Is looked forward to as being one of the most important educational conventions ever held in the South.
 The three days of the meetings will be well filled with speeches and re- ports from the pedagogues covering the progress made in practical1 yevery branch of work now being carried on in scholastic institutions in the South.
 These will be made by men eminent In their callings. and recognized as ths
 leading authorities in their particular departments.
 The opening session of the conveu- tion will be held Thursday evening. It will consist of addresses of welcome by Governor Jelks, State Superintend-
 ent of Education Isaac W. Hill, and Secretary of the City School Board, A.
 D. Sayre, Responses to the addresses will be made by President c. R. Glenn of the North Georgia Agricultural Coll
 lege of Dahlcnega, Ga, and Hon. o. B.
 Martin, State Superintendent of Edu- cation of South Carolina, for the South ern Educational Association and by
 Miss Selestia $. Parrish. Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy at the State
 Normal School of Athens, Ga, for the Southern Association of College Wo- men.
 Following the opening addresses, President J. W. Abercrombie of the University of Alabama will make his l annual address as President of the Southern Educational. Association, and Miss Grace Landrum of Atlanta. Ga,
 President of the Southern Association
 of College Women, will also make an ! annual report. It is expected that at ! this session, Prof. J. Mark Baldwin of
 
 report on the years work of the South ern Society of Philosophy and PsychoI- ogy, but the program for this organiza- ton has not as yet been made out. Friday and Saturday will be given over to the regular program of the
 three Conventions. Among the promi- nent educators who will make reports
 before the Southern Educational Asso- citation will be the State Superintend ents of the South or their representa-
 lives. including State Superintendent-
 elect H. c. Gunnells of Alabama, Super
 intendent J. J. Doyne of Little Rock,
 Ark; Prof. s. M Tucker of Tallahas- see Fla; Superintendent ". B. Merritt
 of Atlanta, Ga; Superintendent J. H.
 Fuuua of Frankfort, Ky; superintend-
 ent J. B. Aswell of Baton Rouge, La {;
 Superintendent M. B. Stephens of An ! napolis, Md; Superintendent H. L. Whitfield of Jackson, Miss; Superin- tendent w. T. Darlington of Jefferson
 City. Mo, Superintendent J. Y. Joyner
 of Raleigh, N. C., Superintendent L. w.
 Baxter of Guthrie. okla. Prof ". H.
 Hand of Columbia, s. C., Superintendent
 S. A. Mynders of Nashville, Tenn. Su
 perintendent R. B. Cousins of Austin,
 Tex, Superintendent J. D. Eggleston of
 Richmond, Va, Superintendent T. c.
 Miller of Charleston. W. Va
 Among the prominent speakers who will make addresses before the asso- citations will be President E. B. Craig