The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-07
ANNUAL MEETING
 OF KINDERGARTEN Board of Directors and Officers
 Are Reelected REPORTS ON YEARS WORK Miss Agnes Wilson Has Been Elected Supervisor to Succeed Miss Drew. Plans to Increase the
 Membership.
REPORTS ON YEARS WORK

The annual meeting of the Birmingham Free Kindergarten association was held yesterday morning at the Hotel Hilman. Both the board. of directors and the ad- visory board were well represented. Re- ports of the officers were made and the boards were reelected as follows: Mrs. J. H. Phillips, Mrs. W. D. Smith, Mrs. James Bowron. Mrs S. NJ Adler Mrs. Richard Massey, Mrs. Thomas D. Parke, Mrs. F. J. McCrossn, Mrs. C. B. Spencer, Mrs. Edwin Wilson, Mrs. J. D. Matlock, Mrs. Louis Saks, Mrs. Lily Frost, Mrs. Harold Samson, Mrs. Bruce Brewer, Mrs Culpeper Exum, these rorminfg the board of directors. Officers of the board of directors are as follows Mrs. J. II. Phil lips, president; Mrs. s. M. Adler, first vice president; Mrs. W. D. Smith. second vice president; Mrs. Harold Hanson, secre- tary; Mrs. Richard Massey, treasurer. | On the advisory board are MT. J. A. VanHoose, Judge N B. Feagin, MT. NJ. V Joseph, the Rev. Dr. J. A. Duncan, Mrs. John W. Stagg, the Rev. J. w.. l Canty Johnson, Miss Willie Allen, Miss Ruth Allen, Mrs C. s. Bssell, Mrs w. S. Lowell, Rabbie Newfield and Dr. J. H.. Phillips.
 Besides the reports several interesting [ talks were made on Kindergarten work. | Judge Feagn in discussing the Influence of the kindergarten in this city said that in his long experience as a police court judge that he had yet to find a kinder garten child in his court.
 "I thought that this record had been broken the other day said Judge Fea- gin, when little fellow in the police court in reply to my question as to where 1 he went to school, answered the kinder garten'
 Why, what are you doing here" l asked.
 Just a witness, judge"
 | Judge Feagin spoke also of the work of the kindergartens among the foreign colonies in this city. Along this line talks were made by others, among them by the Rev. J. w. canty Johnson. 1 The kindergartens closed last week after a most successful year. Miss Mary K, Drew, who has been the supervisor for the last two years, rendered her resigna- tion to the board few weeks ago. Miss Drew has accepted a position in Dallas, ! Tex, where she will engage in kinder : garten settlement work.
 The board has elected Miss Agnes Will son as supervisor Miss Wilson is a splendidly trained kinderSartener from the Louisville schools. She has recently been at the head of the Kindergarten in Chat tanooga.
 The training schools of the Birming- ham Free Kindergarten association will be under the direct supervision of Miss Wilson. special effort will be made to increase the number of pupils and to make the training school keep pace with the older and larger schools in kinder garten centers. The board sees no reason why Birmingham should not be the center of Kindergarten work in the south.
 Two of the Birmingham kindergarteners Miss Ullman and Miss Gelders have gone to the Gwynbrook farm. Baltimore.
 The annual report of the president, Mrs. J II. Phillips, was as follows:
 Report of the President.
 To the Board of Directors and Members
 of the Birmingham Free Kindergarten
 Association:
 Let us for moment regard the kinder garten work as national movement be- fore viewing it from a local standpoint At the meeting of the National Council of Education held in Boston few years Bowdoin college, read a paper. the sub ject of which was Education Progress ! of the Year so2-s." Of the kinderRartei