Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-08
WILL
Be DRAWING card
Ex-PRESIDENT TO BE PERSONAL
SPEAKER AT TEACHERS CON.
vENTioN At DIES MONIES.
oTIUMWANS ON PROGRAM
Professor Lewis B. Null VIII Read
Paper-Miss Helen Lambert
Is Secretary Of Round
Table.

While Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
looms up as the biggest speaker on the
program at the fifty-sixth annual ses
sion of the Iowa State Teachers as
ISOLATION which will be held at Des
Moines, Thursday. Friday and Satur
day, November 8, 4 and 5, some of the
leading educators Of the country Will
deliver addresses to the hundreds OF
Iowa pedagogues who will be IN at
tendance. The general program for
the convention has been issued and
copies are now being distributed to the
teachers over the state Owing to the
fact that Colonel Roosevelt and other
noted lecturers and educators are on
the program, the largest number OF
teachers who ever attended the state
convention are expected.
Ottumwans on Program.
Miss Helen Lambert and Lewis Null
of the Ottumwa Public schools are the
only local teachers on the program,
although other Ottumwa pedagogues
will take prominent part in the dis
cussion of the various papers which
will be read at the round tables. Prof.
Null who is instructor in physics at
the Otumwa high school will read
paper entitled "The Value of Illustra-
lions and Applications in the Teaching
of Physics at the physics round table
which will be held Thursday Novem-
Der 8. Miss Helen Lambert, kinder
garten teacher in the Douglas school,
will be secretary of the kindergarten
round table.
Bell is President.
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Teachers association is Hill McClel-
Ian Bell. head of Drake university The
other officers are George H. Kellogg OF
Upton, first vice president, O. P. Bost-
wick of Clinton second vice president,
Miss Margaret Tolliver Of Sioux City,
third vice-president, o. E. Smith OF
Indianola, secretary and George w.
Samson Of Cedar Falls, treasurer. y.
G. Thornburg of Des Moines is chair
man of the local committee and he will
have complete charge with the assist
ance of the several hundred Des
Moines school teachers in providing
entertaining for the visiting teachers
and seeing that they are assigned to
the right places and that they have
good time while in Des Moines. Clay
D. Slinker, West high school Des
Moines is chairman of the enrolling
committee and is instructed to enroll
nv mail all, teachers who expect to at
tend the convention.
Convention Program.
The convention will open Thursday
evening in the Coliseum: Henr.-'s band
will play during the convention. At
the opening session, President Hill
will deliver his annual address. Fri
day evening. Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt will deliver his address, the sub
iect being American Ideals The
closes Saturday with a
business meeting at the Y. NJ G. A.
Among the prominent educators on
the program are Professor P. P. Clax-
ton, Knoxville, Tenn; State Superin-
tendent John F. Riggs; John S. Col
Inns. assistant superintendent OF the
st. Louis schools; Henry Wallace OF
Des Moines; DR.. Ida Bender, assist
ant superintendent of the Buffalo, n.
Y. schools: DR.. Richard Burton, Uni
versity of Minnesota; Superintendent
G.. w. Conn of Illinois, and E. r. Jack
SON from the forestry, department OF
washington, D. G. The round tables
will be held during the afternoon.
Ottumwa to be Represented.
Ottumwa will send a large delega-
ton of teachers to the convention
the school board will grant
them the two days vacation they
must secure if they attend every ses-
sion of the convention it opening on
Thursday. Not until last year was the
held until the holiday va
cation but the date was moved up last
year and it is the same this year. In
1909 the school board granted vaca-
tions to teachers providing they at
tended the convention. The matter
will be taken up by the school board at
the meeting next Monday evening and
it is thought that the members will
follow out the same plans as last year
and grant teachers desiring to attend
the convention two days vacation.