The Yale expositor., 1912-11-07
STATE TEACHERS
CLOSE MEETING
Sixteenth Annual Convention
Ends in Grand Rapids.
NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Kalamazoo Man Named President
Association Will Try to Bring Ma
tional Industrial Education Con-
vention to Michigan.

Lansing. - The Michigan State
Teachers association closed it's six
teenth annual convention in Grand
Rapids, recommending that the newly
elected officers cooperate with the
Grand Rapids Association Of Com
merce to secure the 1913 convention
or the National Society for the Promo
ton Of Industrial Education in Grand
Rapids, and if not there, in Detroit.
The convention was prompted in it's
action to secure the big next years
event for Michigan by the fact that
1t would afford Wolverine educators
an opportunity to participate with the
foremost specialists in industrial and
vocational education in the discussion
or problems now confronting the coun-
try, and also would stimulate public
interest in enacting Michigan legisla-
ton extending the scope of industrial
education with the school system of
this state.
The resolution also clinched the ar
guments for vocational training, the
keynote Of the convention, Endorsed by
Charles A. Prosser of New York, who
spoke here, and marks the initial step
toward such education in Michigan.
Prosser appealed for the federal gov
eminent to aid in the great movement,
and efforts will be made to stimulate
the work in the different states.
The new officers elected are: Pres.
ident S. o. Hartwell, Kalamazoo; first
president, E. e. Ferguson. Bay
City; second vice-president. Miss Mar
jorie Kinnan, principal of the city nor
NAL training school, Muskegon third
vice-president, Superintendent L. l..
Forsythe, Ionia; treasurer, Superin-
tendent F. A. Jeffers, gainesville;
members of executive committee. Com
missioner T. II. Townsend, ST. Johns,
and President Thomas c. Blaisdell,
Alma college.
The convention unanimously voted
to assist in the erection of a memorial
or monument to Rev. John ID. Pierce,
founder of Michigan's educational sys-
tenn.
The textbook committee was grant.
cd another year to formulate it's re.
port on making the system state
wide, as statistics from several states
had not been compiled.
The majority of the delegates favor
holding the next convention in Detroit,
and the executive committee is ex-
pected to reach a decision within 80
days. Owing to Kalamazoo landing
the presidency, Battle Creeks desire
to secure the next convention proba-
bly, will lose out.
The resolutions recommended legis-
lation for a fractional mill tax for the
state normal schools, the same as the
state university and agricultural col
leges; new acts to provide for city
school board bill; compulsory town
ship unit BILL a medical inspection
and sanitation bill; for greater facil-
tiles for the care and training of de-
fective and delinquent children;
minimum wage law for teachers;
teachers retirement or pension fund;
the strict enforcement Of the child la
mission to inspect and condemn all I'M
sanitary and unsuitable school build
ings.
At the annual meeting Of the Mchi-
gan Federation Of Teachers Clubs the
following officers were elected: Pres
ident, Miss Euretta C. Banister, Grand
Rapids; first vice-president, Charles
l.. Spain. Detroit; second vice-presi-
dent, J. b. Edmonson, Jackson; third
ice-president, John f. Thomas, De-
troit; treasurer, Paul Stetson, Grand
Rapids; directors, S. Kennedy, Sagi-
nav, and Miss Ella Hirsch, Adrain.
Clubs at Hastings and Menominee
were admitted to the federation.