The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-18
SCHOOLS WILL
CLOSE NEXT WEEK
TEACHERS WILL ATTEND S. D..
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
MEETING AT ABERDEEN
PICTURE EXHIBITION PLANS COMPLETED
200 Copies of Great Masterpieces Will
Be Secured and Shown from Dec.
6 to 11-Other School News

Bookings schools will be closed
Thanksgiving week and the pupils will
be given a weeks holiday as the teach
ers will attend the thirty-third annual
session of the South Dakota Educa-
tional Association to be held at Aber-
deen next Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
President E.. C. Perisho of State Col
lege will deliver an address on THE
Vocational Aspect of Our Problem of
Economy" Tuesday evening at the gen.
eral session and also give the greet
ings at the meeting of the Music
Teachers association at the Aberdeen
high school building Monday morning.
Miss Nola X. Fromme of State College,
vice-president of the Home Economics
Department of the S. D.. E. A, will de-
liver IN address on Home Economics,
the Meeting-ground of the Home and
the School, at the meeting of that de-
partment Monday morning. Miss Dilla
E. Wimple, secretary of the School
at the meeting of her department.
Superintendent j. w. Browning will
deliver an address on "The Problem
of a Consultation Period in Compost.
ton Work" at the meeting of the Eng
lish Teachers Association Monday
morning.
Wants Large Attendance
L. A. Fell Of Lead, president of the
Associated School Boards of South Da-
kota, issued the following statement
this week in regard to the Aberdeen
meeting:
To All Friends of the Schools:
The Associated School Boards of
South Dakota will meet at Aberdeen,
with the South Dakota Educational
Association, on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, November %, % and "a.
Every City Board of Education and
every district school in the state
should be represented at this meeting,
by at least one delegate.
A fine program of live topics has
been prepared and you are invited, nay
requested, to attend that the people
you serve may profit by the helpful dis
cussions Of your every day school prob
lens.
Will you not compare your exper-
fences with those of others for the
benefit of all?
Will you not make some personal
sacrifices, if necessary, in order to
assist in making South Dakota schools
better, that we may reach the plane of
being the best?
We want exchange of views on the
status of the county and the state SUI
perintendent who are now elective
officers; shall their powers be enlarg-
ed so that they be given authority to
direct courses of study and supervise
methods of instruction?
Do you wan economical business adj
ministration, equitable taxation, with
more professionally trained teachers
in the rural schools?
Do you believe in better sanitary
conditions, with all proper safeguards
for conserving the health of your
pupils, as a prime necessity that full
value be returned for money expended?
Your attendance upon our state
meeting will bring you in touch with
the experience and ripe judgment of
your fellow-workers, resulting in your
home schools being made better.
We aim to serve o We desire
your assistance and advice. The
school children of the state will profit
most by your attendance upon this
annual meeting which bids fair to
be the biggest and best in our his
tory. Decide at once to attend on
Tuesday and Wednesday, 23rd and
oath.
Much Interest in Exhibition
Much enthusiasm has been aroused
among both teachers and pupils in the
Brookings schools over the coming ex-
hibition of pictures, to take place in
this city from December 6 to II, the
proceeds from which will go toward
purchasing pictures for the schools.
The schools, with the cooperation Of
the Civic League, have arranged with
the Elson Art Publication Co. Inc. of
Belmont, Mass, for a loan of over 200
pictures, all of them copies of great
masterpieces. Genuine artistic merit
is the quality for which these pictures