The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-16
HELD REGULAR YEARLY SEES
SION WEDNESDAY
GREELEY NAN PRESIDENT
The Organization Now Has . Mem
bership Of 1,5OO-T0 Take Ac-
tive Part in National Edu-
Gators Meeting In Den.
ver Next Month


Normal alumni attended the annual
meeting Of that association at the
Normal school Wednesday afternoon.
It. was business meeting. bat did
not lack the social aspecr In the re-
vi al Of cid friendships.
Van Churchill, a Greeley product
who Is making his mark in Denver.
was elected president of the alumni
for the coming year and Florence
Howard Of Denver is the new secre-
tary.
The alumni of the State Normal
has now a grand total of 1,5OO mem
bers, all of whom keep up dues and
manifest a commendable pride in
their alma mater.
During the convention of the Ma
tional Educators association in Den
yer next July the Normal alumni
will open headquarters for their as
sociation at the Brown Palace and
will be an important factor of the
big gathering. A fee Of 81 has been
assessed each member to defray the
expenses of the headquarters and en-
tertainment.
Mr.. Churchill is assistant to Mr..
Hollingshead, who has charge of the
N. E. A. membership for Colorado.
and states that up to Tuesday night
when lie left Denver the total enroll
ment for the state was 1900. Colo
RADIO has promised $500 member
ships and must get move on to
enroll the other 100 before July l.
II the big association Ia to survive
1t is absolutely. necessary to secure
the $500" needed for their running
expenses tnr the coming year by the
addition OF these $500 membership ps
at 81 each. Heretofore this S-,"oo
was collected by the railroad COM
panies, who paid the association 50
for each ticket sold over a certain
amount In the future this is i'm
possible on account of the regula-
tions of the interstate traffic commits
| sion.
Mr.. Churchill says that Weld coun-
ty shows an enrolment of over fifty
per cent of the total number of teach
ers. which is better showing than
| that made by any other county in
| the state outside of Denver. which
has an enrolment of ninety-fve per
| cent The \. h. A has total II en-
bership of 5000 teachers, besides
the $500 which will be added by
Colorado.
Prof. Churchill or Van" as he
would rather be called, is a member
of the national council ct the ~ E.
A., an honor of which he is justly
proud. Out of these 5000 instruct
ors = 90 are pickef, by me association
for their reccgi ized ability upon all
educatlonai matters and this commit
tee is called the national council.
The council practically rules the or
ganization and from its brain ema-
mates the great innovations, moral.
physical and mental. that have tend
ed to uplift the systems of instruc-
ton in the public schools of the
nation To be one of this council
is a flattering recognition.
Another Greeley boy who is at the
top rung of the ladder in Denver
is Fay Brainard, superintendent of
the manual training department of
Wyman school, where Churchill IS
also an instructor. Each of the forty
Denver schools has manual train
ing department and out of the entire
forty the work of the scholars from
the Wyman school under Professor
Brainard has been selected as the
best and will be placed on exhibition
at the East Denver high school dur
ing the big convention. During the
closing week of the term just ended
the boys of the Wyman school placed
the work on exhibition and charged
an admission fee of ten cents. In
this manner they collected $65 70"
their gym.
Churchill and Brainard have both
been retained at the Wyman school
for the coming year with all increase
of salary, more testimony for the
worth OF The State Normal.
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