The Penn's Grove record., 1907-05-03
Salem County Teachers. Meeting.

The second meeting of the Salem Coun.
ty Teachers Association for the present
school year was held in the Assembly
room OF Salem High School on Saturday,
April q. Nearly all the teachers and
several school board member OF the Coun-
~ were present, as we've also many other
persons interested in school work.
The morning session opened at 10. SO
wlthan anthem entitled; Oh, How Excel
lent, very beautifully rendered by the
High School pupils OF Salem, under direc-
ton OF Professor Charles f. Glaspey,
teacher OF music i'll Salem schools. At
all the County educational meetings held
III Salem the singing of the High School
students is a very pleasant feature.
Prayer was offered by the Reverend De
Witt @. Cobb, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Salem. Twelve
High School girls sang a trio, after which
Mrs. Lizzie M. Clarke, in the absence of
Mrs. Virginia Bronson, Secretary of the
Association, read the minutes of the last
meeting, the minutes were adopted as
read.
Reverend DR.. Madison c.. Peters, the |
theatre preacher of New York City, was
the speaker for both morning and after
noon. His morning address was on
"What the Jew Has Done for the World"
and he thoroughly interested the audience
with the history of the famous people of
the race, the part which the Jews have
lad in almost every turn of the worlds |
progress as pointed out by DR.. Peters is a
revelation, and he predicts an increasing
greatness for coming generations in inHu-
ence and power, because of the Jewish
zeal for knowledge. OF one hundred and
torty-siX graduates from the College of
New York the past year, one hundred
and twenty-five were the sons of Russian
refugees, and of the student of Columbia
University fifty per cent. are Jews, the
Jewish names in the lists OF promoted
pupils in the public schools far exceeds
all other names.
At the close of DIR. Peters's address
superintendent ]. A. Wentzell
made some announcements in relation to
the County Pupils Examinations which
will be held the week commencing April
70, and to the reports required of depart
ment teachers at the close of the school
year, after which the meeting adjourned
lntii 1.30 P. NJ. Members and visitors
ssed the social time usually enjoyed at
lunch, which has been at former meetings
served in tie building.
The afternoon session began with a
piano solo by Miss Frances Eckert OF
Penn's Grove High School, which was
appreciated by the audience. DIR.
Peters was then introduced and he gave
the address Of the afternoon, his subject
being Show to Make Things Co." The 4
able discussion OF the qualities necessary
to make things go, and the entertaining
in which the address was deliv-
cred were not the only virtues, it was
calculated to stir ambition and to bring
inspiration to both teachers and commu-
mites, Both addresses were greatly en-
ioyed.
A discussion on "Marking Examina
Jon Papers, was taken part in by the
teachers for a period of twenty minutes,
principally along the lines of credit which
could justly be given to pupils for par
tally correct answers to questions ON
heir examination papers, and under
what circumstances class standings should
count along with examination averages as (
part of the basis for promotion or gradua-
ion.
The meeting adjourned at $50 P. M.