The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
KANSAS PROGRAM
Achievements of Fifty Years
VIII Be Discussed.
State Teachers VIII Celebrate
Friday Morning, Nov. s.
BANQUET FOR FAIRCHILD
He Will Be HOnOred Guest at
Officers Dinner.
Principal E. F. Stanley VIII
Provide Rooms for Teachers.

sas program of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION in Topeka Friday morning,
November s. This meeting of the KAN
sas association is the half century
mark in the life of organized profess
sional work in Kansas
John Macdonald, known and below
ed of all educators in the state, Will
sneak on Looking Backward
L b. Kellogg. of Emporia, former
president of the Kansas State Normal
school and former president of the
State Teachers association, will give
an address on the achievements OF
Fifty Years. THE Coming Half Cen
tury' will be the forecast by Superin-
tendent William NJ. Davidson of WASH
dngton, D. c., and who was for quar-
ter of a century an inspiring Kansas
leader as superintendent of the Topeka
schools.
This Kansas program will be fitting
~ introduced by short addresses by
President H. ]. Waters. of the state
association, and Superintendent T. l.
Fairchild, president of the national as
ISOLATION. President Waters has ar
ranged as special guests to sit on the
stage the teachers of longest expert
ence in the rural schools in each cOun-
ty and the other educators of the state
of over 80 years experience November
will be a great rally day in the MS
tory of Kansas education.
Taught Over Thirty Years.
recent letter from Chancellor
Frank Strong, of the Kansas State
university. to the publicity depart
ment of the State Teachers assOcia-
ton, reveals the fact that there are
six professors at the state university
who have taught for over 80 years
1t is not believed that this record for
longtime service is surpassed in any
other institution in the state.
Gators is composed as follows: Prof
William Herbert Caruth, Prof.
Ephriam Miller, Prof. Edgar H. Bailey,
Prof. James Wood Green, Prof. Frank
o. Marvin. Prof. Miles Wilson Ster
ling.
VIII Honor superintendent FairchiId.
One of the special features of the
coming meeting OF the Kansas State
Teachers association will be the honor
that will be paid to E. T. F7airchild,
state superintendent, who was honor
ed this summer with the highest posi-
ton in the gift of the teachers of the
United States of the presidency of the
National Education association. On
the evening of November 6, preceding
the general sessions of the state asso-
citation, there will be the usual officers
banquet, which is given with the COM
pilmentS of the Topeka Commercial
club. The banquet will differ from
preceding ones. however, in that there
will be a special guest of honor, State
Superintendent Fairchild. Through
out the sessions of the association,
too. Mr Fairchild will be a figure of
the greatest prominence. He will de-
liver an address before both the asso-
citation and the board of education
conference.
Commercial Club as Entertainers.
The Topeka Commercial club will
give a high class entertainment at the
Auditorium for the teachers Thursday
evening" November Z. Friday evening
q Inv xrrf11 h.
ed by the club. A jubilee quartet will
be here from Kansas City, Kan, and
Dean Horace Whitehouse will play on
the organ.
Program Is Strong.
President Waters and his executive
committee have arranged. a strong
program for the coming meeting of
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton. November and s. Every de-
partment of education in every con-
ceivable kind of school is represent
ed in one way or another. Special
emphasis has been placed on the work
of the rural schools and village grade
schools.
It has been the aim of the COM
mittee to prepare a program strong
enough to inspire the most progress
eive educators of our high schools and
colleges, yet practical enough to ap-
peal to the great rank and file of
teachers. In addition to strong ar
ray of talent representative of all the
schools of Kansas, the following out
side talent has been brought in to in
spire the teachers of Kansas to rise to
still higher standards: DR.. Reuben
Post Halleck. Louisville, Ky; Hon.
/. B. Kellogg, Emporia, KAN; Supt
VIM. NJ. Davidson, Washington, D. c.;
DIR. David Starr Jordan. Stanford
Cal; Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thompson
teachers training school. Chicago uni
versity, Chicago, Ill; DR.. David Eu-
gene Smith, author of the Kansas
Arithmetics, Columbia university,
New York City; DIR. Frank NIcMurray,
Columbia university, New York City;
DR.. ]. l. Merriam, State university,
Columbia, Mo-; DR.. r. A. Milliken
Chicago university, Chicago, Ill; DR..
Maurice A. Bigelow, Teachers college,
Columbia university, New York City;
DR.. Percival Chubb, College of Eth
cal culture, New York City; DR.. F.
o. Miller, Latin department. Chicago
university, Chicago, Ill; DR.. Isabel
Bevier, professor of home economics.
Urbana, Ill; DR.. Geo. Herbert Belts
Cornell college; Miss Alice Inskeep
supervisor of music Cedar Rapids
Iowa; Prof William H. VogeL super
visor of art, Cincinnati Ohio.
Former Topeka Educator Here.
In inviting superintendent William
NJ. Davidson of Washington, d. c.. to
give one of the leading addresses at
the Kansas Day program, President
Waters has but called back to Kansas
her own. The educators of the state
recall that for 25 years Superintend-
ent Davidson was the efficient superin-
tendent of the Topeka schools and an
inspiring leader of the educators of
Kansas.
He has been for many years a con-
spicuous figure in the National Educa-
tional association, and the educators
of Kansas will be proud to welcome
him home at the coming state pro-
gram November s.
How tn Cook a Dinner
That eccentric EngIishman, DR..