The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05
EXPECT BIG CROWD
Kansas Teachers Meeting Prom
ises to Be Large.
viii Open With a Banquet to
Officials.
MANY STRONG MEN.
No Expense Spared to Bring
Leading Educators.
School Board Feature Promises
to Be Interesting.

Conferences We're held this morning
in the office of State superintendent
E. T. Fairchild and many of the de-
tails We're worked out in connection
with the meeting of the State Teach
ers' association and the representa-
tives of boards of education from all
over Kansas, November 9 and 10.
It was decided to hold the meeting of
school board members simultaneously
with the sessions of the State Teach
ers' association on Thursday and Fri
day November 8 and 10, instead of on
the Saturday following as was pre-
viOuSly planned
H s. Martin of Marion, who viii
preside over the meeting of board
members, was in the office in the early
morning, and later NJ. E. Pearson.
president of the State Teachers asso-
citation and superintendent of the
Kansas City, Kan, schools, conferred
with superintendent Fairchild.
The first event which will be pre-
liminary will be a banquet on Wednes-
day evening for all ex-presidents of the
association, college presidents, ex-State
superintendent and present officials.
mo expense will be spared to give
a strong program said Superintend
ent Fairchild today. Formerly the de-
partmental and round table meetings
had to depend mostly on state talent;
this year we have the finest array of
talent which has ever been brought to
Topeka for an educational meeting
1.-The school board representatives
will meet on Thursday forenoon and
afternoon Friday morning they will
be invited to attend the session of the
teachers meeting which will include a
strictly Kansas program. Then there
will be another meeting Friday after
noon.
'Bion Whelon, of Hillsdale, Mich.
one of the most prominent men of tina.
state. who is president of the school
ri nf n t. III
versed as to the leading educational
problems of the day will speak Thurs
day afternoon. The rest of the after
noon will be given over to the discus
sion of live Kansas educational prob
lems.'
Friday afternoon superintendent
Fairchild will give an address which
Will be followed by a general discus
sion of topics of interest in connection
with which everybody will be allowed
to take part.
It is expected that at least 400 school
board members will be present for the
meeting. but as this is the first affair
of the kind ever held in the state it
is difficult to estimate the attendance
N advance At least 1000 teachers will
be here. is the prediction of President
Pearson, Of the State Teachers asso-
citation.
Pipe Organ Concert.
One of the big features of the meet
ing of the knowledge dispensers viii
pe a concert on the big pipe organ in
the famous organist which is being ar
ranged by the Commercial club and the
management of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION.
superintendent Pearson this morning
gave out an incomplete list of the
prominent speakers who will be here
for the meeting of teachers.
Commissioner D. Calvin Kendall, of
New Jersey, who is paid a salary of
$4,000 year for his educational work.
and who was formerly superintendent
of the public schools of Indianapolis,
Ind, will be here
John E Gunckel, president and
IoGncer OF the National NeWsboys' as
ISOLATION, who has recently BUILT a
100000 building for boys in Cleveland.
o., VIII be one of the distinguished
Some of the other prominent men. and
women who VIII be on the program
are:
Miss Adelaide HoIton of Minneapolis.
Mimi; Prof. P. ]. Holton of Iowa col
lege. who will speak on Vocational
Training" DR.. Brander Matthews of
Columbia university New York, who
Will speak on English and Litera-
ture;" DR.. Charles A. Bennett of Pc
oria, IL, who will talk on manual train
ing; DIR. John NJ. Coulter of Chicago
university. the expert speaker on sub
JectS pertaining to botany; President
Samuel Avery of the University of
Nebraska. who will discuss points re-
latlng to chemistry; DR. E. Bessey, of
the University of Nebraska; Miss Mar
garet Lennon of st. Paul Mimi, who
will discuss Ethics and Manners at
the ward principals round table; Miss
Isabel Ely Lord of Pratt Institute, New
York, who will talk to the household
arts sectiCn-