The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-11

Charles w. Clark, Baritone, Who vii
Sing in Concert at the Auditorium.
directors and an executive committee
| with enlarged powers.
Want a Paid Secretary.
| A paid secretary with permanent Of
| flee is considered imperative for the
good of the organization. The secre-
| tary would be expected to collect valu-
able educational statistics.
Another recommendation of the
committee will be the establishment of
permanent educational council similar
to the educational council of the Ma
tional Education association.
The committee will propose that the
mem bership fee be one dollar annually.
There has been a one dollar fee for
new members and a fifty cent fee for
old members
The members of the committee in
revision of the constitution are:
NJ. E. Pearson, superintendent of city
schools in Kansas City, Kan; w. D.
Ross, state superintendent of public
instruction; J. Q. Hall, superintendent,
Hutchinson; w. o. Stein, county su-
perintendent of Dickinson county, and
L. D. Whittemore, assistant state SUI
perintendent.
In a circular letter sent out to the
educators of the state Supt. NJ. E.
Pearson said in part:
THE teachers must have paid sec
rotary on the job the whole year round
with an office in the state house. This
person must be free and independent
and a powerful advocate of the cause
of education and the rights of teach
ers. Kansas teachers need to have a
champion for their cause and their
work. A state council of education is
Cd fn fc6a re- a he
al interests of the state.''
President Heusncr the Meeting.
President w. S. Heusner of the as
sociation is enthusiastic over the pro-
gram that has been arranged for the
meeting. He said:
The executive committee has spared
neither labor nor expense to build
program that will touch the vital
points in education and that will in
terest every teacher. We are fOrtu-
nate indeed to present such men to the
teachers as DR.. L. D. Coffman, Uni
versity of Illinois; Prof. J. A. James,
Northwestern university; Prof. K. L.
Hatch. University of Wisconsin; Dean
w. P. Burris, University of Cincinnati;
DR.. o. w. Caldwell, University of Chi
cago; Supt. John Kennedy, Batavia, N.
Y; DR.. c. A. Smith, University of Vir-
ginia; Dean J. E. Russell, Columbia
university; Prof. J. c. Brown, Horace
Mann school, New York City, and 9TH
ers. Each speaker has been selected
with great care and because we be-
lieve he has a distinct message to
some part of this great teaching body.
Your committee has been especially
generous in it's provisions for the ru-
raj teachers and for the primary
teachers. In addition to the men men
toned above the program furnished by
those of our own Kansas teachers who
have been invited to take part will
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attention of any teacher. These men
and women have been selected pri-
marily because they know of the Kan
sas situation and can speak specifically
on Kansas problems.
Through the courtesy of the To-
peka Commercial club the teachers will
be entertained on the first evening of
the association with a musical pro-
gram of unusual brilliancy.''
School Board Section.
Two or three hundred members of
boards of education in Kansas are eX-
pected to attend the annual meeting
of the school board section of the meet
ing of the Kansas State Teachers as
ISOLATION November Z and s. Hender-
son Martin will preside over the ses-
sions.
George H. Hodges, governor of Kan
sas, and w D. Ross, state superintend- J
ent of public instruction, will be the
leading speakers. At the round table
there will be discussions by various
prominent school board members.
The following letter has been sent to |
boards of education and superintend- |
ents in the state by Superintendent !
Ross:
With an attendance of approximate |
ly 5000 the fiftieth Kansas State Teach /
ers association last year was one OF
interest and profit. 1t is the /
aim of President w. s. Heusner and /
his executive committee to make the !
coming meeting at Topeka, November I
5 and Z, fitting opening for the second /
half-century of the associations ex {
istence. To that end some of the most
eminent educators of the United States /
have been drafted into service for the
occasion. To indicate this it is necessary
to mention only two or three out of
the 10 or II names, as for, instance,
those of Superintendent John Kennedy,
of Batavia, N Y, famous the world
over as the originator of the Batavia
SYSTEM Dean John Russell, head of
the teachers college, Columbia univer-
sity, and Prof. j. A. James, of the
university, historian, ed
lcator and orator.
"A new departure this year is the
plan to have these distinguished speak
srs appear not merely at one general
Or departmental meeting, but at two
Or three different times and places, in
order that all in attendance may have
srs and the things they most want to
hear. There will be something for
and everybody will be given
L chance to hear it.
The sessions of the school board sec
ion last year were most interesting