Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
MANUAL TRAINING
TEACHERS TO MEET
Annual Convention Opens Next
Week at Atlantic
City.
SEVERAL EXHIBITS SENT
FROM NEWARK SCHOOLS
Interesting Program of Talks
and Lectures Is Pre-
pared.

this week at Atlantic City beginning
Thursday. The members will con
vene three days, the headquarters
being the Hotel Holmhurst and the
Atlantic City High School.
Manual training stenciling, sew
ing, drawing, designing and poster
work from the grade schools, high
schools and the normal school of
Newark We're sent to the exhibit
vention. Criticisms and suggestions
are exchanged by the various super
visors.
Those representing the local Board
of Education in attendance are Miss
Eva Struble, supervisor of drawing;
Miss Mabel Chase, assistant SUPER
visor of drawing, and Hugo B.
Froehlich, director of manual arts.
The officers of the association are:
7. D. Sensor, president, Trenton;
Miss Irene Il. McDermott, vice-presi-
dent. Pittsburgh, Pa; Fred p. Rea-
gle. secretary. Montclair; Morr' S
Greenburg. treasurer, Brooklyn: Miss
Eva Struble. auditor Newark, and
Royal B. Farnum, editor, Albany.
The members of the council are:
Clawson S. Hammett. Wilmington,
Del; Alvin r.. Dodd Boston; Miss
Mary b. Hyde, Brooklyn; A. w.
Garritt. Brooklyn; T. r. Coggeshall,
Philadelphia, Pa. and Z. Il. Mac
nary, Springfield, Mass.
Miss Emma Br!tton is chairman of
program committee. Those assist ng
her are Royal B. Farnum, r. D. SEN
SCR, Miss Mary 3. Hyde and Alvin u.
Dodd.
Exhibit Committee.
The exhibit committee consists of
A. w. Garritt, chairman, and James
Il. DUNCAN and S, +. Pelton 5. t..
Pe,ton heads the committee for gen
eral arrangements and Is assisted by
Margaret Wier. Alberta Mayo. Helen
E. Foulke. Frank r. Flower, Mary u.
kayler, NJ. Lois Taft. Anna l.. LIE
Fevre, Henrietta Gregory, Elmer l..
Low and Albert w. Hall.
The program, which has been sub
mitted, Is as follows: Thursday,
opening session at 10 o'clock st the
Atlantic city High school, address:
THE Fine Industrial and Household
Arts in Public Education" by Calvin
n. Kendall, commissioner of educa-
ton for New Jersey; address, How
Far Is Art n Factor in the Present
Need for Indnstriel Education" by
Charles A. Prosser. secretary of tho
National Society for the Promotion Of
Industrial Education. Royal b.
Farum, chairman Of the American
committee, will speak on Announce
ment Concerning the Paris Congress
for 1916, Thursday afternoon, O'Clock,
round table talk, manual training
section. Lewis II. Carris, assistant
commissioner of education for New
Jersey, presiding, topic, "Prevoca-
tional Schools-A Scheme of Educa-
ton for the Motor Minded" by Ed
ward @. Emerson, department of
manual arts, Boston. Discussion,
James II. Dougan. Newark; SylVeser
f. Pelton. supervisor of Industrial
work, Atlantic City; Willard Z. King,
PennsylvaDia State supervisor of in
dustrial education. Topic, Short
Unit Courses in the Elementary In
dustrial School," by Frank II. Bal,
director of Industrial training, PITS
burgh. D. M, round table talk,
household arts section, Miss Irene e.
McDermott, director OF household
economy Pittsburgh, presiding.
Topic. draining for Homemaking i'm
Elementary Schools" by Miss Anna
NJ. Cooley, director, household arts
education, Teachers College, New
York. Topic, Opportunities for Vo-
cational Training in Household
Arts Courses" by Mrs. Mary
r. Marshall, William Penn High
school, Philadelphia. Discussion,
art section, round table talk. 2
o'clock, c. Valentine Kirby, Pitts
burgh. presiding; topic, what the
Average Grade Teacher Can Accom-
plish in Blackboard Drawing. Nor
ris Greenberg, of the Commercial
High School In Brooklyn, will be the
speaker. Designs in the Common
Thing" win be the subject of the dis
cussion to be led by Mr.. Farnum.
Other discussions will be led by Miss
Struble, Miss Rose Fetterolf, State
supervisor of drawing of Pennsyl~
vania, and Miss Helen Cleaves. as
sistant supervisor of drawing of Bos-
ton.
Thursday evening, in the high
school auditorium the topic will be
1.-THE Art of Teaching" James p.
Haney, director Of art In high schools
of New York city, will be the speak
er. The speaker viii use drawings
made before the audience, showing
the method used in teaching very
large class Of children in the Art
museum In New York.
will open at $3.50. Address, "Voca-
tlonal Guidance as an Opportunity
for Teachers OF the Practical Arts,
by Frederick O.. Bonser. School of
Practical Arts, Teachers College,
New York; address. THE Conserra-
ton Of Beauty in the Industrial!
Arts" by Miss Emma NJ. Church,
director, Chicago School of Applied
and Normal Art, Chicago, and former
Of he taYI
and Manual Training Association;
address. School Decoration-The Art
Supervisors Opportunity, by Mrs.
Ada Tillinghast, art director, Emery
School Arts Co., Boston; address,
Pottery" by George c. Greener,
North Bennett Street Industrial
School, Boston.
Friday afternoon at $50. Round
Table on Technology and Function
of the Manual Arts. Arthur W. Rich
ards win preside Discussion, led
by Fred p. Reagle, School Crafts
Club. New York city; NJ. W. Murray,
chairman education committee, Bos-
ton Manual Training Club; Charles
X. Allen, Massachusetts state Board
of Education
Friday evening, left open for visits
to exhibits and informal conferences.
Saturday morning, $3.50 o'clock. Cliff
ford 3. Connelley, dean, Carnegie
Technical Schools. Pittsburgh. Pa,
presiding. Topic: Vocation Courses
In the High School," by Frank q.
principal Technical and
Department, Dickinson
High School, Jersey City, n. ]. Topic:
1.-THE Supervisor as an Art Influence
In the Community" The speaker will
be Harry w. Jacobs, Director of Art
Instruction, Buffalo, n. Y. Topic:
THE Training of Taste Through
by Henry Turner Bailey,
Editor School Arts Magazine.
Saturday afternoon. o'clock, busi-
ness meeting, general business, re-