The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-07-15
J0YNER ELECTED
N.E.A. PRESIDNET
BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECON-.
MEND SAN FRANCISCO FOR
NEXT CONVENTION.
DEPARTMENTS
WORK sIMPLIFiED BY CUTTING
OUT SOME SECTIONS AND
CHANGING OTHERS.

Denver-The National Education
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
NJ. Greenwood. superintendent OF
schools OF Kansas City. Mo.
Member OF the Executive Commit
perintendent OF instruction for Ala
bama.
The Board OF Directors. by vote
merely expressing its opinion. and
leaving final decision to the executive
co.nmittee. recommended that the
next convention go to San Francisco.
The vote stood: San Francisco, 2l:
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 recognizing the depart.
ment system.
Az 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
4 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 Bayliss 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. f. 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
I ondary education. including the old de-
oartments of business education and
science instruction.; the department of
higher education; the department of
Industrial education. to include man
ial training, rural and agricultural ed
ucation, technical instruction and do
nestle 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 II. 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, ]. H. Green and
Pres. ]. Y. Joyner.
Senate Passes Tariff RiII