Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-11-13
GOVERNOR IN
ALBUQUERQUE
Returned This Afternoon to
Leave for Ell Paso
Tomorrow
WITH IRRIGATION COMMITTEE
Superintendent for Schools of
Taos Comes From Odessa,
Texas.

Governor Curry returned this after
noon on belated Santa Fe train No.
2, from flying trip to Albuquerque
where he was summoned TO an import
ant conference. He will leave again
tomorrow for AlbuQ lerque and from
there will go to' Ell Paso, Texas, to
meet the Senate Irrigation Committee.
He will escort the committee to Las
Cruces, Belen, Roswell and Carlsbad,
returning to Santa Fe the latter part
CT next week. 1t is his plan then to
go to Taos and Rio Arriba county.
Superintendent of Taos Schools.
Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
tion j. E. Clark announced today
that H. B. Copeland of Odessa, Texas,
has accepted the superintendency OF
the public schools at TAOS. Mr.. Cope
land has a life certificate from Ok
lahoma which entities him to life
certificate in New Mexico. He is
young man of family and comes high
ly recommended.
Wants Attendance Statistics.
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
]. E. Clark sent out circulars today
asking for a report within ten days
of school attendance statistics and
answers to the following questions:
After how many half days absence in
succession is pupil dropped from the
rcll? What are your best devices for
improving punctuality and attend
Nftn do hn1 h.
ers' meetings and wnat is your plan
for those meetings?
The Roswell Meeting.
A circular urging the attendance OF
county school superintendens at the
annual meeting of the New Mexico
Educational Association at Roswell in
December, has been sent out by Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction j,
T.. Clark as follows:
Gentlemen: No doubt, you are max
ing definite plans to meet with the
teachers at Roswell, December 28th to
Both, 1909. | am confident that we
shall have an excellent program for ali
who are interested in education in the
territory, and | am decidedly OF the
opinion that the conference of the
county superintendents will aid us
very greatly in arriving at unanimity
of action on matters of great import
ance in the administration of school
affairs of the territory. l am anxious
to have all institute workers and all
county superintendent present in the
institute section in order that we may
discuss face to face many of the prob
lens that are presented in the man
agement of the institute. The discus
sion CT the common school course Of
study in connection with the county
superintendents program will certain
ly bring out many important points in
connection with the grading of olh
schools. | am personally somewhat
disappointed$in the form in which the
common school course of study is
printed, but am confident that half
hours discussion of the material will
put us in q position to work out the
contents of the outlines and the unsat
loldCtOl lOi III hldS NC OfCliooANb.
| note that Superintendent Stroup,
the chairman of the county superin
tendent's section, has assigned to each
county superintendent a place on the
program, and trust that every county
superintendent will attend this meet
ing and have his ideas boiled down to
two or three minute talk on the sub
ject assigned.
Each year there is little strife
among the county superintendents to
secure the honor of taking to the asso-
citation the largest per centage OF
teachers employed in the county.
Very naturally those counties located
nearest to Roswell will be able to en-
roll the largest number of teachers,
but distance will be taken into con-
sideration, therefore counties that are
at a great distance from the place of
meeting have equal advantage witt
those that are near.