The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-12-02
STATE TEACHERS
HOLD BIG SESSION
PROF. r. II. WRIGHT SUCCEEDS
MISS MARY o. GRAHAM AS
STATE PRESIDENT.
HAD RECORD ATTENDANCE
Registration Was Biggest In History.
Subsidiary Divisions Elect Of
ficers In Separate Sessions.

Raleigh. = The North Carolina
Teachers Assembly elected as presi-
dent for the next year, to succeed
Miss Mary o. Graham of Charlotte,
r. H. Wright, president of the East
Carolina Teachers Training School,
and chose A. T. Allies of Salisbury,
vice president and reelected e. e.
Sans of the State Department of
Education as secretary. Members of
the executive committee chosen were
Miss Essie Blankenship, Charlotte;
DR.. w. H. Chase, University of North
Carolina, S. M. Brinson, Craven coun-
ty.
The elections were on recOmmen-
dalton Of the nominating committee,
of which Superintendent Giles of the
Wake county schools was chairman.
Right after the report of the COM
mittee was adopted there was
resolution offered by r. E. Ransom Of
Southport proposing that the execu-
from the co., >.tion the provision
for nomina' committee for cleo
ton of Office, and let the nomina-
ton of officers come direct from the
floor of the assembly and that the
practice of making the vice president
be abolished as a fixed policy
There was lively discussion that
was interrupted by a motion to ia
bic the resolution. Mr.. Ransom pro-
tested against any gag rule" meth
cd. The resolution was finally ia
-
of Raleigh raised the point that the
resolution could not be disposed of
in this way, making the amusing
explanation that she was not spe-
cially Ivy about the resolution,
but that she was a sport and play
ing the game"
John S. Wray of Gastonia moved
that the executive committee be re-
quested to consider the question of
changing the time for the meeting
Of the assembly, making it either
before the rural schools open in the
early fall, or some time in February.
H. B. Smith stirred much mirth by
commenting that the early fall would
not do because the teachers must get
in a few checks before they could
muster the money to make the trip
to the assembly.
Subsidiary divisions of the assem-
bly, elected officers in separate ses-
sions in the afternoon as follows:
City Superintendent, Joe S. Wray,
Gastonia, PRESIDENT; w. R. Mills,
Louisburg, vice president; Harry
Harding, Charlotte, secretary.
Primary Teachers, Mrs. J. A. Rob-
inson, Durham, president; Miss Mat
tie Heath, Newbern, vice president;
Miss Essie Blankenship, Charlotte,
secretary; Miss Mamie Griffin, Colds
boro, treasurer.
High School Teachers and Prin-
cipals, J. L. league, Stony Point,
presidents; J. B. Henson, Dallas, vice
president; R. E. Ransom, Southport,
secretary; Harry Lathaw, Almon,
treasurer.
Grammar Grade, o. A. Hamilton,
Wilmington, president; Miss Ursula
Blankenship, Charlotte, and Miss An
ME A. Vaughn, Highlands, vice presi-
dents; Miss Mary Mckenzie, Sails
bury, secretary and treasurer.
1t was II o'clock at night in the
city auditorium when Miss Mary 0.
Graham of Charlotte as the retiring
president of the assembly announced
that the registration this session has
been the biggest in the history of the
organization, and introduced r. H.
Wright of the Eastern Carolina
Teachers. Training School as new
president of the assembly. When Mr..
Wright had modestly expressed the
hope that the record of the registra-
tion and the achievement the coming
year may outstrip the past years fine
record, the thirty-second annual ses-
sion was declared adjourned.