Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-05-02
TIE FURTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL MEETING
Of the West Virginia Education AS.
socIation VIII Be Held In Nor
SantoWn In June.

The fCrty-fOurth annual meeting of
the West Virginia Education Assoc l.
ton will be held in Morgantown.
June 1913, 1871. The meeting co H.
lng S il does Immediately after the
university CONN cncemeut and imm : i
lately preceding che opening of The
tnIvu. Sity Summer School prom
l5es to be more largely atien io,l
than any meeting in the history os
the organization
The Educat oneI Exhibit
Another feature that promises 10
attr CT visitors is he educational OK
hlbltS. At no former meeting has
an exhibit representative Of the ed
attempted. But this year, the entire
ArmOry Building Of TN un .ver5ity Will
Armory Building Of the univet 5 ty Wi4l
tiVitleS tne industrial school work
OF the state; the progress in ru.al
architecture and equipment; ths
evolution Of ideas regarding the :.
giene and sanitation Of schools, 30.
gether with attractive pictures, maps
and charts illustr~t We OF cCndiIiCne
as they have bee. al ROW are. /.
addition to these exhibits ,ne Co
lege of Agriculture will have d un:ql.
exhibit in the Wy Of model bar.
silos, dairies, and the like, togeth>.
with aSr cultural Io.Cducts and llJ.
ern farm implements. The State
Board OF Health and the Anti-tuber-
culOsis League will have on eXhibi-
ton certain attractive features Of
their health material.
The Program.
The outside talent secured for the
program represents men and women
who are noted nationally for the big
things they have done educat.onal!y
MIS-. Cora Wilson Stewart the great
popular triumph OF the recent nation
al meeting OF pcrintendents IN
Richmond, noted for her great work
inreducing liteIacy in Kentucky; DR..
d. y. Phillips, University Of Denver,
author and lecturer Of d stinction
and West Virginian by birth DR..
Lee T. Hammer, NewsTork city, Ill
rector of the RUSSELL Sage Founia-
tion Department of Recreation; Dr..
\. p Bourl4fd, Washington, d. c.,
OF the SoYhorn Education Board,
len W. Freeman, of Richmond, Viz
$ MIA, representing the American
Medical Association; DR.. J. l.. Hen
dersOn, State High school instructor
Of Texas and DR.. Glenn Frank, Of
Northwestern University noted lee
tucr Oh education, all these as we'll
as prominent state educational lead
ers will dignity the Morgantown meet
ing by their partic: patton on the pro-
gram.
The University City.
The management Of the public
schools Of MOrgantOwn and of the
university, together with the local
committee Oh arrangements are max
ing extensive and elaborate prepara-
tiOns fer the meeting in June. Con-
sidering the number of unusual at
fractions, the university commence
ment, the Summer School, the big ed
ucatioral exhibits, and the attractive
program, the attendance at this 44th
annual meeting promises to be unuSu-
ally large. It viii be an opportunity.
rarely to be had, for teachers through
out the state to attend the biggest
educational mee;ng ever held in West
Virginia.
That the interest among teachers
in the meeting is unusual is eviden"-
ed by the tact that more than three
hundred teachers have already seut
in their advance cnrollments 20
Treasurer J. F. Marsh, Charleston.
The officers Of the association for
1914, are. Otis G.. Wilson, Elkins,
president: a. p. Morrison, Clarks-
burg. secretary; and ]. F. Marsh,