The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Scores of State Speakers on
Teachers Program.
Waters, Brandenburg and Stone
to Address Educators.
HIGH SCHOOL PROBLEMS UP
College Reunions and Round
Table LuncheOnS Scheduled.
Art Exhibit and Lectures at
City Library.

The state punch will be felt in the
programs of the teachers association
tkis year. according to d. A Ellsworth,
secretary of that organization The
bill for outside talent has never been
as large in other years, but the num-
her of Kansas people on the program
may. for all that divide honors with
the visitors There are a lot of local
pinch hitters' listed, and they will
show up in the score
The first thing that strikes you Is
the fact that very few of the school
people who were on the program last
year, and it was acknowledged to be
the best in the history of the associa-
ton, will appear this year. There has
been a complete change of cast SC far
as the state teachers go-that is why
seine of the people who ought to be
there, are not, but such are the gen
Henry Jackson Waters will give an
address. All the speakers from out
of the state want to hear him-for he
has a great record in American edu-
cation.
81 do not believe that any school
man in Kansas will leave greater
impress on the lives of the people OF
this state than President Waters" Mr..
will probably make the record crowd
for any round table, when he speaks
before the teachers of agriculture on
Friday, November 12-''
Another man who has made good is
President w. A. Brandenburg, of the
Pittsburg Normal. Practical as a man
can be, and the head of a school that
was built to make educational prac-
teal his address before the manual
training teachers on Saturday morn
ing will be great one.
Julia Stone is a Kansas teacher
who will bring a message to the home
economics teachers that is needed as
much as any message ever was.
hTOSR
Beach, the Kansas singing man, when
he speaks before the music round
table and outlines a course of study
for music in the Kansas schools, is
going to do something that we have
needed in Kansas for years. Ellis
worth continued, discussing the pro-
gram. Professor Beach has a ma
tional reputation now, and he made
it here
The high school round table will
have a paperNon The Curriculum of a
Small High SchooI'-C. c. Brown,
high school inspector will give it
Mr.. Brown is a man who is second
to no teacher in the state in hard,
sane sense-and his training and sue
cess match it. The small high schools
have been the knottiest problem in
the whole scheme of things, and
Supt- G. c. Brown is the man to cut
the knot it is believed.
The above names are taken from
show the mettle of the Kansas school
people who will take part in the
meetings to be held. There are fifty
others deserving special mention.
Trained men and women of the pro-
fession, who have been making good
in the schools of the state, and who
have for that very reason been asked
to take part.
Some of them would be called
youngsters in other walks of life
teachers ha
long. VIM. J. Neuman of Rosedale is
one that has been recognized. His
work in science. The household arts
program has given a half-dozen of the
younger teachers a chance to contrib
ute to a strong program. w. w. Nc
Council of Council Grove is new
man. superintendent Harry Mcclure
will put humor and sense in his part
of the program. And there are a LOT
of other teachers, older or younger,
who have a part.
Kansas will do something more
than just listen, she generally does, of
course. And the Kansas punch is
going to help make the coming meet
ing one of the greatest on record.
The president of the association,
Miss Lillian Scott, has asked that all
the college reunions shall be held on
Thursday, from five o'clock to seven.
The colleges are arranging to do so.
The> University of Kansas will re
une" at the First Baptist church;
Washburn college, at the First Con-
gregational church; Baker university,
the First Methodist church, and ar
rangements are being made, or have
been made. for the other colleges.
These Institutions have engaged din
ner for o'clock. There will prob
ably be 5000 in all at these reunion
dinners.
The round tables will hold lunch
cons on Friday at II. There are
twenty-one of these and most of them
are arranging to lunch in groups. One
of the characteristic ones, the German
round table, will meet at the Lutheran
church, and only German will be
spoken. This has been an annual af-
fair for years. The drawing teachers
will lunch together at the United
Presbyterian church. The manual
training and mathematics round tables
at the First Presbyterian church, the
kindergartens at the First Congrega-
tional church, and other round tables
at other churches.
One of the many dinners to be given
to groups of teachers, is that rendered
the president. Miss Lillian Scott, by
the Commercial club. This will be on
Wednesday evening, and will include
all the officers of the association. The
Schoolmasters club will dine Friday
evening, giving place to the official
dinner as a compliment to Miss Scott.
The Kansas Dinner club will hold
their dinner on Wednesday evening at
Methodist church as usual. The big
craze 1edcHeIS lunCHSOH Will be HSlu
on Friday and Mrs. Ann Gilchrist
Strong will be the guest of honor.
Governor and Mrs Capper will give
a reception to the teachers on Friday
afternoon from to 6 o'clock at their
home on Topeka avenue. There will be
no programs held during this period.
in order to give the teachers of Kan
sas the opportunity to enjoy this func-
ton.
One of the unusual affairs planned
for the meeting this year is an exhibit
aDd recention at the city library from