Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-24
MEETING OF ADDISON COUNTY
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

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Patrons ASSOCIATION will meet in YER
gennes April 30-May l. The officers of
the association have spared no time or
expense to make this one of the most
interesting meetings of on educational
nature to be held in the State. 1t is
hoped that Governor Fletcher will be
present. On Thursday afternoon Miss
Ethel Gowans will speak on "How to
Make Our Gardens more Productive?"
Miss Gowans is graduate of Cornell
university and for eight years was in
structor at Hampton institute, Virginia.
She is now taking an advanced degree
at Teachers college, Columbia, prepar-
atory to taking position at Peabody
institute. Miss Gowans is disciple of
M. B. Hillegas, who wrote the report
upon rural schools for the Carnegie
Foundation. This report criticised the
country school.program in this State.
1t will be interesting, therefore. to hear
her as she will tell how to relate the
work of the country school to the en-
vironment of the country child.
In the evening Hon. ]. L. McBrien,
specialist in Rural Education for the
National Bureau of Education will give
public address on "Our Young Peo-
pie" Mr.. McBrien was formerly
Supt. of Education in Nebraska. He is
a lecturer of considerable note and is
called "The Educational Evangelist of
the Bureau of Education. All of the
meetings will be open to the public, but
it is hoped that our people will turn out
to hear Mr.. McBIien.
During the various programs music
will be furnished by local artists and by
pupils of the schools. Complete pro-
gram follows:
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1000 A. M.,-
Opening.
Invocation, Rev. R. G. Woodbridge
Greetings Franz Abt
High School Girls
Welcome, j. A. Harrington.
Mayor of the City of Vergennes
Response, Prin. J. C.. Walker,
Vergennes High School
"Queen of the Night"
Eric Meyer Helmund
High School Girls
Address, 1.-The Readjustment of the
Elementary School," Superinten-
dent Of Education.
Victrola Recital, Courtesy Bailey's Mu-
sic Rooms, Burlington.
Announcement of Committees.
Adjournment.
The Village Improvement society will
serve dinner in Grange hall, over Her
rck's store.
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1:15 P. M.,-
CITY HALL.
Violin Solo, Der Sohn der Haide,
Keller Bella
Miss Bresnahan
Address, Teaching for Efficiency"
Prin. w. l.. Powers, Washington
Normal School, Machias, Me.
The Function of the Play Festival in
the Public Schools. Illustrated by
cantata, THE May" composed by
Miss Daniels, with the assistance of
the pupils in Grades 2-3 and rs.
Miss Beatrice M. Daniels
Address, "How We Can Make Our
Gardens More Productive" Miss
Ethel Gowans, Teachers College,
Columbia University.
thursday, APRIL 80. 8:l5 P. M.-CITY
AUDITORIUM.
Prin. J. c. Walker, President of the
Association. presiding.
Music, Selected
Address, "Our Young People," Hon. j.
NJ. McBrien, Specialist in Rural
Education, U. S. Bureau of Educa-
ton, Washington, D. c.
FRIDAY, MAY /, 9 A. M.-CITY HALL.
Opening.
Music, Selected, V. H. S. Orchestra
Address, ''Vitalizing Agencies in Edu-
cation" Hon. j. l.. McBren, Wash
ington, d. C..
Music, Selected, V. H. S. Orchestra
Address, ''The Community's Debt to
the Dull Boy" Prin W. l.. Powers,
Machias, Maine.
Adjournment
Dinner Grange hall.
FRIDAY, MAY l, 1:l5 P. M.-CITY HALL
Opening.
Business Meeting.
Soprano Solo, Miss Thesse M. Powers
Address, Education for Proficiency"
Prin. C. H. Morrill,, Brigham Acad-
emy, Bakersfield.
Announcements and DISCUSSING.
MiddIehurv Granoe Meetino