The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-07
STATE TEACHERS
ADJOURN SESSION
A. T. ALLEN ELECTED pREe,n
AND w. N. WALKER AS WIGS
PRESIDENT.
GOV. BRUMBAUGH sPEAKrO
Teachers Have Warm Sessions
Election OF officers.-Last Day
Was Busiest of Convention

Raleigh Governor Martin G Rrr,.
baugh, of Pennsylvania, in the cIo,i-
address before the North c..
Teachers Assembly, told the taacb ,,na
that in the next twenty years s+atS
legislatures and the congress of ~
United States will increasingly leaia
late to safeguard the people in tho.
hours of leisure. He foresaw ~
passing of the saloon, the gambIine
den and the development of com
munity amusement institutions 70 tn
extent that it will be said that ~
government makes it hard for men -
do wrong and easy for men tn d.
right.
Governor Brumbaugh's speech caro
at the end of one of the busiest dave
that the North Carolina Teachers As,
sembly has experienced. It cama
too, after the close of stormy sessions
when the problems of elections Of of.
ficers, constitutional amendments and
teacher certification had been fought
over in dead earnestness. Governor
Locke Craig and Governor-elect Rich.
EFT, who were on the program for ad-
dresses, were not present, Governor
Craig being out of the city and Gov.
ernor-elect Beckett having to return
home upon the advice of a physician.
Pressed into service with fifteen
minutes warning, Lieutenant-Gover
nor Gardner did the honors for both.
and presented the speaker of the even.
ing.
ALI associations making up the as
sembly adjourned after the election of
officers. Over nine hundred members
had been registered and President
Wright declared it the best session
the Teachers Assembly has ever had.
Following Governor Brumbaugh's ad.
the new president A. T. Allen, of Sal
isbury, promoted from the vice presi-
dency, according to the custom of the
assembly. The other officers elected
were Prof N. w. Walker, Chapel Hill,
vice president; E. w. Sans, Raleigh,
secretary-treasurer; D. F. Giles, Ra-
leigh, and j. D. Everett, Waynesville,
executive committeeman.
The officers of the various associS
tons elected were:
Association of Primary Teachers
Mrs. M. C. Gariessen, Goldsboro, presi'
dent; Miss Eleanor Tusk, Fayetteville,
vice president; Miss Ethel Terrell,
Asheville, secretary; Miss Mamie
Griffin, Greenville, treasurer.
Association of Grammar Grade
Teaehers-Mrs. G. P. Blalock, FuquaH
president; Miss Florence Fitzgerald
Rocky Mount, first vice president;
Miss Margaret Ware, Asheville' Sec
ond vice president; Miss Ida Ether
idge, Kinston, third vice president;
and Miss Maggie Holloway, Durham
secretary.
Association of City Superintendent
w. R. Mills, Louisburg, president;
H. P. Harding, Charlotte, Vlce-preSf
dent; Hoy Taylor Greenvflle' 'SecrV
tary.
Association of High Scchool TeacH
ers and Principals T. HenSon'
Dallas, president; M. B. Dry Cary
vice-president; Miss Laura 'one''
Franklin, secretary and treasurer.
Association of City High ocnUo'
Teachers and Principals-C. G. nv
worth Wilson, president; MISS Minnl'
Lou Kelly, Washington Vlce-peSs
dent: Miss Irah Bagley, AShe'i"'
secretary.
Association of Music Teacnelo
Miss Chelian Pixley, Henderson pro-
ident; Mr.. Conrad Lasher, u'' Vor.
boro, vice president; Mrs. W. o. ~
rill, Raleigh, secretary.