The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-10
JOYNER ELECTED
N.E.A. PRESIDNET
BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECON-.
MEND SAN FRANCISCO FOR
NEXT CONVENTION.
FEWER DEPARTMENTS
WORK SIMPLIFIED BY CUTTING
OUT SOME SECTIONS AND
CHANGING OTHERS.

Denver.-The National Education
Association Thursday elected the fol,
lowing officers:
President-James Yadkin Joyner,
superintendent of public instruction
of North Carolina.
Treasurer Arthur Chamberlain,
dean of Throop Institute, Pasadena,
Calf.
Member Board of Trustees-James
M. Greenwood, superintendent OF
schools of Kansas City, Mo.
Member of the Executive Commit
tee-John Herbert Phillips, state SUI
perintendent of instruction for Ala
bama.
The Board of Directors, by vote
merely expressing it's opinion, and
leaving final decision to the executive
committee, recommended that the
next convention go to San Francisco.
The vote stood: San Francisco, 81;
Boston, 4; Milwaukee 10.
BY action of the Board of Directors
the whole departmental organization
was torn to pieces, with ten depart
ments instead of twenty-three former
active departments.
The change in the association was
effected by consolidation of some de-
partments and the total elimination of
others. The departments unprovided
for in the new scheme are: Physical
education, the Library department and
the Indian department. The latter
threatened to withdraw and the associ-
alton leaders forestalled the with
drawal.
In the election of vice presidents ten
of whom are elected and one holding
office ex-officio, Colorado was honored
by the selection of Katherine Cook
state superintendent of public instruc-
| ton
Aside from the election of officers,
which met in the morning, and the
conforming action of the active mem
bers at noon. the big event of the day
was the action of the Board of Di-
rectors in reorganizing the depart.
ment system.
AS a result of the eliminating of
three departments entirely three sets
/ of officers who had already been elect
ed are without positions, and in half
dozen cases departments have been
| consolidated or reorganized entirely
with the result that it is impossible to
determine which of the various sets
of officers already elected or to be
elected at the close of department
! meetings today are to have control.
! This tangle has been referred to the
executive committee for solution.
Alfred Bayiss of Illinois, chairman
Of the committee of reorganization,
which has been working for several
years, reported at o'clock yesterday
to the new board of directors.
The report was signed by Bayless,
Nicholas Murray Butler and Ben
Blewitt, and was also concurred in by
William A. Maxwell of New York and
W. H. Chancellor of Virginia, who were
on the committee but not at the last
session.
In substance the report, which was
adopted, is as follows:
THE present departments of the
N. E. A:
National council of education; de-
partment of superintendents, including
the old department of school admin
istration; department of professional
preparation of teachers, which in
cludes the old departments of child
study and normal schools; depart
ment of elementary education, includ-
ing the old department of kindergar-
ten education the department of sec
ondary education, including the old de-
partments of business education and
science instruction; the department of
higher education; the department of
Industrial education, to include man.
lal training, rural and agricultural ed
ucation, technical instruction and do
mesuc science; the department of mu-
sic education, and the department of
school patrons, which is to be the old
| department of women's organizations.
The report was fought hard in the
| board of directors, Elmer Ellsworth
/ Brown, Charles H. Keyes and L. D.
| Harvey being among its opponents.
Now that the maze of departments
has been cut down, some new depart
ments are expected to be added. in
/ cluding a department of engineering.
For this purpose the old committee
| was continued with the addition of
| Lorenzo d. Harvey, j. H. Green and
| Pres. ]. Y. Joyner.
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