The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
LA. SCHOOL BOARD
ASSOCIATION,
Forty Out of Fifty-nine Parishes
Represented. Pres. Moss
Address.

The meeting OF the Louisiana
School Board Association in New
Orleans last week was most
successful one, 40 out of the SO
parishes of the State being rep
resented. AS the association is
but little over two years old, this
is an excellent showing.
The following address deliver
ed by DR.. N. P. Moss, the presl-
dent of the association. and who
was reelected for the ensuing
year. gives an account of the or
ganizatiOn of the association and
its purposes:
1t is with feelings of renewed in
terest and satisfaction that | greet
and welcome the members of the
Louisiana School Board Association,
and their co-laborers and well-wishers
upon this occasion the third annual
meeting of the Association; and l
trust that the few hours we shall have
the privilege of spending together to-
day may be attended with pleasure
and profit in full measure.
With its avowed mission of assist
ing the State in fulfilling one of its
most important duties-the training OF
sound and useful citizens-it was al
together fitting for this Association to
have had its beginning in notable
building on historic grounds-Garig
Hall on the campus of the Louisiana
State University. And it is equally
appropriate that this association
should meet to-day in another place
rejecting in a special manner the
larger and fuller life for which the
association stands-GibsOn Hall OF
great Tulane University.
The Louisiana School Board AS
sociation came into existence little
less than two years ago, having been
organized July 26, 1906, in the capital
city of Baton Rouge. by a small
band of earnest school men who were
impressed with the high value Of such
an organization in advancing the ed
ucational interests of the State.
The first meeting of the association
following its organization was held il
Shreveport, on April 5, 1907, and thu
degree of interest manifested at tina
meeting gave strong assurance of tht
permanency of the association
i Through the efforts of its officers ant
more active members the entire mas
is gradually being leavened. and i
will not be long before every one o
the fifty-nine Parish School Boards
comprised in the public school svsten
lof Louisiana, will be actively afiliat
ing with each other through thi
parent organization, and be enabled
, by strength of numbers and combin
ed wisdom to attain great and definit
results in the work of public educa
! tion throughout the length an
, breadth of our great commonwealth
y The amendment to the constitutio
adopted at the Shreveport meeting
allowing membership in the associs
ton to an entire parish board OF &c
ucation upon the simple payment
. annual dues of five dollars. has oper
ed better way of building the men
] bership of the association. BY thi
! plan it would have been. possible
5 enroll every school board in the Stat
9 in advance of the third annual NEE
t ing. but for the fact that every or
!. Of these parish school boards is upo
4 the eve OF retiring from Office und'
: the operation OF the new law. goir
], into effect next November, whie
G makes the school boards in Louisiar
1 elective by the people hereafter. II
d reason which has been assigned /
many boards for not joining the ass
8 citation at this time, is 'sour boal
Q will soon be out Of Office" tn
It announcement was made in spirit