Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-21
EDUCATORS MEET
HERE THIS WEEK
Great Conference Planned on
Work of Schools of
State.
SOME PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Many Entertainment Features.
Convention Sits in Several
Separate Sections.


More than 1000 delegates are ex-
pectcd to assemble here this week for
the Tenth Annual Educational Confer
oncc of superintendents. Trustees. Prin-
cipals and Teachers OF Virginia.
On Tuesday morning will begin what
promises to be the most memorable
educational conference ever held in
Virginia. Preparations for the sessions
have been going forward for months
Special programs have been prepared
for cacl Of the many divisions and sub
divisions of the conference. promi-
nent educators from several other
States Will deliver addresses to the
Virginia educators. and men and women
prominent In educational work in this
state will be among the speakers each
day.
The original idea of forming
Teachers Association in this State has
been claimed by a number of educators
ana among those who are recognized
as entitled TO credit in developing or
CARNATIONS of teachers are Willis a.
jenkins and Dudley 4. Cowlcs Mr.
Cowles. at the Summer Normal at Mt.
jackson in 1895. organized n Teachers
Association and promulgated u plan Of
constitution, under which number OF
teachers were brought into close CO.
operation.
NUMEROUS SiBNSSOCIATIONS
AFFILIATED WITH CONFERENCE
Tho following year at the Summer
Normal held under the direction of
l.. c. Glass at Roanoke, Mr.. Jenkins
continued the work which had been
begun By Mr.. Cowles. The year fol-
lowing II. c. Stearnes. then superin-
tendent of Roanoke County, became
president Of the State Teachers Asso-
citation, and under his direction now
life and new system of organization
was planned. out of this system have
grown the numerous subassociations of
the conference and the numerous local
associations
Reports for this year show that there
are now lis local associations organ
lied in Virginia, while under the innu-
ence OF the Co-Ol~erative Education
Association, of which Mrs r. b. Mum
ford is president, there are now 957
leagues. local and civic.
Provision has been made for the re-
ception and entertainment of the visit
ing teachers, the arrangements for re-
ccption OF all visitors being in the
hands of the following committee:
Miss Loulie c. Kelley. Miss Eva
II. Branch, Miss Mary T.. Pennell. Miss
Lucy r. Henderson, w. II. Adams. ].
II. Saunders, Miss Clara NJ. Tisdale.
Miss Lena NJ. Duke, Miss Margaret
Craig, Miss Cornclia &. Adair. Mss
Hannah Cohn. Miss Alice c. Rouse.
Miss Katherine l.. Bullock. Miss Flor
cnce =. Duke Miss Josephine Ialloran,
Miss Virginia r. Roberts Miss Kathe-
rine X. Scott. Miss Arabella s. Pitcher,
w II. Magee, Miss Bert c. Myers. Miss
Matte w. IIaskcr. Miss Julia s. Wool
bridge. Miss Edmonia Shepperson Miss
Charlotte Wray, G.. w Morris, j. 7.
Fentrcss. Miss jamie Walsh, Miss
Eliza L. Nealc, Donald Z. Boyer. Miss
Mabel Glinn, Miss Mabel Engclbcrg.
Miss Bessie NJ. Powell. Miss NJ Lou
EgGleston.
ENTERTAINMENTS FOR
VISITING DELEGATES
On arriving here the visiting teachers
will be required TO report at the regis
try bureau, where they will be enrolled
by the committee in charge of the reg
istration hooks. This committee con-
sis,s of the following:
j. T. Fentress (chairmam. W. H.
Magee. w. NJ Adams. Miss Matte w.
ljaskcr. Miss Edmonia Sheppcrson. Miss
Arabclla s. Pitcher, Miss Cornelia s.
Adair, Miss Julia S. Woodbridge
On Wednesday afternoon from 1890
TO . o'clock the Virginia School Supply
Company, 1T its building. corner Of
Broad and Meadow Streets, will give q
luncheon to the trustees. visiting SUI
pcrintendcnts. supervisors and prin-
cipals.
At the same hour. at the Masonic
Temple. the Retail Merchants Associa-
tion OF Richmond will give a luncheon
to all visiting teachers.
On Friday at o'clock the pupils OF
John Marshall High School. under the
direction of Walter c. Mercer. will give.
for the bcnetit of the entire conference,
the operetta. ~ Nautical Knot"
The Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities. through it's
president Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson. has
opened the John Marshall Home TO
visitors every day from to 3 o'clock.
except Thanksgiving Day on which day
the building will be closed. Members
of the Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities will be on hand
to receive the visitors.
NO MEETINGS HELD
DURING FOOTBALL GAME
There will be no general meeting Of
the association Thursday afternoon at
the time of the annual football game
between the University of Virginia and
the University OF North Carolina. For
those visitors who do not attend the
game, moving picture show will be
given in the William i. Fox School,
1900 Hanover Avenue, presenting edu-
catonal films.
The School Board. through Superin-
tendent Of Schools J. a. C. Chandler,
hns inNited the ednca flnnnl fnrcau e