The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-22
DOCTOR PAL MFR ACCEPTS
 MONTEVALLO PRESIDENCY

 industrial work of the school has been the board now has more money than was ever before at its disposal and 1t is empowered to carry out whatever trustee e put % tss situation M today in ahese words: We have the money now the Alabama Girls Industrial School will be made equal to the best of its char
 Mir. Joyner.s speech.
 The commencement orator at this mornings final exercises was snperin- His address alone would have made the commencement unusual for it was one of the most telling. and eloquent educational speeches made in Alabama in decade.
 The final O Ki was put on the plans of Architect William E. Spink by the his specifications at once. The presi- dent and the building committee were instructed to let contracts for the new buildings as soon as the specified
 All salaries were raised. The board formally established a general system each officer. received the benefits of this general raise. The salary of the president was raised to ss,oo0 annually. finai a meeting of the board held this morning: in taking it the. board in a measure reversed itself For on of t the committee recommending that
 It is understood that President Pal mer was unwilling g,,oo, 10 aeeepf tbs ths o1S ssars q5 a ies Rsws sshSS eapert the the department of agriculture at Wash ington. appeared before me 9oarS 9oaaS,n9 ,o scieh'ii'c oid S Teachers Endorsedl In the election of faculty, yfsa the w9rk 31 W those teachers were retired who re. tired voluntarily. The department or natural science was estannsnea ,aas ana p1assa Prof e st T t. hm hsad. The department of domestic science was also created ana put in charge of Miss Merte stephens or department of English. and Miss Mary M Young was elected to the place. MISS McMath resigned as teacher or sls nographhy ph9ssn and fdr MISS she nae vacancy. Miss Bertis Allen was placed in charge of the special students and MISS Neti Peterson was selected as asas ser mads sssis- Miss Sidney Lula hyie ""S A"No 'aTi The % members of the board who at tended three meetings ar hsrI hsnnerintendent Goverhor nnnels. Judge H. -Austill. Sol Rioeh. H. s. D. Mallory, M; A; & Gra- ham. J, T.. Mangmm. anmps Virgil Bo1idin snS 5nSsss Sam n' viii fiji John. ''' ..,,... clear. lofty and eloquent address on education was the SommehcSSner. S,,ner. HdaTess ;ntsnasnt t of Pubic Instruction of North caroIina. MT. Joyner Is one or that s%aii class of men in the South in the front rank of Southern educators a class which includes such men as prssident Alderman of the University If Virginia, President Cratgnead oI tha Tuiane University. and President Abercrombie of the University Q, Aa .s ark accorded 5istinauished North Carolinian, and justly. o..r,.,..
 Superintendent Joyner IS aa smais. is Du, an orator and no less an orator than a tbinker--a combination of qualities that is none too common. His wealth or thought is clothed in language as ohee nee fore MontevaIlo's graduating class to- day was one of the splendid enorts which have characterized the wonoer- full campaign for educatlon ,Iis m AshaDahf AnaDa his word pictures, his eloquence heIo close the attention of the large com mencement day gathering.
 MT, Joyner was presented to the au- dience by Professor Moore in a hap py style. First of all the speaker con gratulated Alabama on its splendid ad- vance in education and he congratu1 1- lated the State on having among its citizenship and its officials such men as led in that campaign.
 q come to you to speak on that sup pect which is the basis or all ciVii,1 prosperity and all religion--the educa- tion of a little child" said MT. Joy ner and in saying it he uttered the keynote of his spledndsa pda+,on's adcsess sdvanca- not only in Alabama. but throughout the other Southern States he said:
 q thank God that in our fair and child has been made the center of our civilization that the little Southern child is leading us to the heights of development, of prosperity, of power and of morality. I thank God that we see in our Southern life the fulillment of that beautiful prophecy of Holy Writ. And a little child shall lead them.'
 Education. he defined, as money
 With these three elements as a plan he developed splendid and convinc- ing argument on education as the fu- tense interest of his hearers was broken now and then with sudden, spontaneous applause.
 The commencement program was enlivened by the rendition of Mo zart's Fantasia and Sonata by Misses Lenoir and Crawford. and Mascagni's Intermezzo by Miss Eunice Gay.
 Trustees Worked Late.
 The Board of Trustees with the mass of labor it had before 1t. work ed far into Monday night. The work had in the beginning been apportion- ed among the committees and these committees with the execution of the Education Committee submitted their reports. The reports were cconsid- brary room of the school with Cover nor Conner at the head of the table.
 The Committee on Education whose work has to do with the selection of the faculty by consent withheld its report until President Palmer should have conferred with the members of
 William E. spink, the Birmingham architect. whose plans for the in- crease and addition of the school buildings have been adopted was be- fore the Board and discussed the plans were not familiar with them The plans in general contemplate the com ing, by the addition of a wing to the building which has been incomplete for a number of years; the enlarge ~--------------------------