Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-21
STATE TEACHERS TO
DEDICATE BUILDING
Educational Institutional at Seaside
Ready for Opening.
MEETING ON JUNE 29.
Governor GoldsbOroush Judge Jones
and Others to Take Part in the
Exercises.

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viii gather al Ocean city on June 70
for the forty-eighth annual meeting OF
the State Teachers Association with
more interest aud enthusiasm than
has been known among them in the
whole life of the Association.
They now have a building oe their
own by the seaside,which is to be ded-
icated with elaborate ceremonies e
their use. Meetings OF the Associ-
alton have been held heretofore at va
rious points in theStateup in Western
Maryland. in Annapolis, Baltimore
md on the Eastern Shore-but tho
favorite place for the teachers TO
combine recreation and instruction
mas been Ocean City.
The project to have a State Educa-
tional Building, at which o sumner
school for tho teachers might be hell.
and IL which they could gather for
their annual conventions, became a re-
allty at the last session Of the Legisla
teure. when the Ocean City School
Building Commission. including Gov
ernor Goldsborough, president Of the
State Board OF Education. State Su-
perintendent H. Bates Stephens, Pres
ident Samuel w. Onley. and Secretary
Edgar W. McMaster, of the Worcester
County School Board was created and
an appropriation of $25 600 was made
for the States contribution to the new
building NJ the Ocean resort.
AZ s o'clock on Tuesday night, jane
%, the members of the State Teach
ers' Association will be welcomed in
the new building by Associate Judge
Robley tones, of the First Judicial
Circuit in which Worcester county is
looted Judge Jones, a former school
teacher lives at Snow Hill. Dr. Ste
phens will speak, and the president Of
the Association, DR. Edward f. Buc-
nncr, OF Johns Hopkins University,
vii deliver the annual address.
Dedicatory exercises are to be held
on Wednesday evening Mayor W. s.
p Powell, Of Ocean City, will present
the deed of the lot on which the build
ing stands by the Ocean City munich
pality 10 theStateand Govern0rCodls-
borough viii make tho speech Of ac-
ceptance, after which the key TO the
building Will be handed over to the
State Teachers Association by DR..
stephens and the dedicatory address
viii follow 1t will be delivered by
Or. Nathan c. Schaeffer, for many
years State superintendent of Public
instruction in Pennsylvania
Dr. john T. Latane, of Johns Hop
kins University, will speak to the
teachers on Thursday night, and the
fraternal delegate from the Teachers
Association Of Virginia, Dr. Edward II
Russell, president OF the Virginia Nor
NAL School, will also be heard
On the morning of Friday. July 2
Miss Mollie W Tarr. Of the Normal
School, Baltimore. VIII present the re-
port Of the State Teachers Reading
Circle. Assistant superintendent b. X
Purdum, of Hamilton that of the com
mittee on educational progress. Coun-
~ Superintendent John r Edwards,of
Allegany county, that If the commit
tee on resolutions. Or. Stephens that
Of the legislative committee. Officers
of the State Teachers Association. viii
be elected at this session.
The rural educational and agricuI-
tural sections will meet "Wednesday
mOrninl Thomas W. Troxello of Mont
gomery couty. being president OF the
former and W. r. G. Connick. Of
Prince Georges county, president Of
the latter, with S. y. Stabler, OF Fred
erick, and Earl C. Batty, Of Hartford,
secretary.
The topics to be discussed are the
following: The Ideal Rural School"
A. Monahan, Of the Department OF
agriculture. Washington; Agriculture
IN Rural Schools r. A Miller. also OF
the Department Of Agriculture. Wash
ington; School Credit for Home Pro
iects in Agriculture" K. A. Brown. of
Baltimore county: Merits and Defects
of the State Course Of Study in Agri-
culture. Prof. G. o Nudge. Preston
High School general discussion led by
Earl c. Batty, and Prof J. r. Metzger.
Of the Maryland Agricultural College.
Topics in elementary eduction will
be discussed in the primary section on
Wednesday afternon by Superintendent
Albert S. Cook. Of Baltimore county.
superintendent W j. Holloway, Of vi
comico county. Commissioner .. p.
Coblintz Of Frederick.
Secondary education topics viii be
taken up Thursday morning By Will
iam b. Tinker Of the Allegany High
Sehol Arthur r. Smith. OF the Iona
coming High Schol. Prcf. ". II. wiz
cox. Of the Normal School Baltimore.
Joseph Blair of the Sparrows Point
school, is chairman Of this section.
Grammar school topics on Thurs
| day afternoon, are 70 be discussed by
Principal Edward r. Welsh. of the
Normal School. FrostbLrg; z II Nor
man, of the Baltimore Business Col
lege, ana Professor Wilcox, Of the
Normal School. Of Baltimore