The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
CO. SUPER|NTEND'7S
Of ENTIRE STATE
At DICKINSON
HELD PROFITABLE SESSION IN
THIS CITY. GIVEN FINE EN-
TERTAINMENT.
Auto Trip to Bad Lands on Closing
Day Was Pleasing Feature.
Many in Attendance.

| Day Was Pleasing Feature.
| Many in Attendance.
On Wednesday and Thursday of
this week the citizens of Dickinson
made the entertainment of the fifty
county superintendents who gathered
here for their semi-annual meet, their
primary object.
All meetings were held in the
Elks' auditorium, E. J. Taylor, AS
sistant Superintendent Laura B. San
derson and Deputy Superintendent w.
E. Parson of the state department of
Education being in charge.
Mayor White opened the sessions
with an address of welcome and Supt.
C. E. Ward gave the response.
State Superintendent E. J. Taylor
made the opening remarks, laying
special stress on the fact that this
was the first educational association
meeting ever held west of the Mis-
souri, river.
Assistant superintendent Laura B.
Sanderson showed in her paper the
necessity Of getting more teachers
from home and that they must be
trained at normal schools, a strong
argument for the normal at Dickin-
son.
Supt. C. L. Vigness, chairman, gave
the report of the county superintend-
ents' committee and several of the
articles were adopted by the associa-
tion.
Supt. M. Beatrice Johnstone read
a paper on the State Education As
sociatiOn, which was discussed by
Deputy w. E. Parsons.
Wednesday afternoon Hon. E. L.
Phillips gave an address on "The
Training Of Teachers in which he
urged higher requirements for teach
ers and the need of normal schools.
"The Most Important and Immedi-
ate Need for Improvement in Con-
nection with Rural Schools as to
Teaching and Supervision" was the
topic ably handled by Supt. Minnie J.
, Nielsen. It was very interesting and
contained many excellent suggestions.
The evening program for Wednes-
day was supplied by the citizens Of
Dickinson and consisted of a sump-
tuous banquet at $3.50, which was fol-
lowed by interesting addresses by
Gov. l.. B. Hanna and Hon. L. F.
Crawford. At 500 o'clock the
guests of honor and the other par
takers of the feast repaired to the
Elks hall to listen to the splendid
talk by Mary Antin, all the superin-
tendents being admitted to everything
free of charge. A short musical
program preceded the lecture and con-
sisted of a piano solo by Miss Kath-
leen Haggarty, piano duet by Misses
Thora Jessen and Bernice Frye and
vocal solos by Mrs. A. P. Nachtwey.
These numbers were very much en-
joyed and several en- cores gracious,
ly given.
Mary Antin's lecture proved her a
very clever woman. She is a fast and
deep thinker and versatile speaker,
being able to hold her audience for
any length Of time. In the short
while she was in the city, she gained
a remarkable knowledge of it's social
and civic life and made many inter-
esting comments on these points.
Supt. and Mrs. P. S. Berg enter
tanned number of superintendents
at a 700 o'clock breakfast on Wednes-
day, several Of the lady guests to
luncheon at noon and about the same
number of visitors at noon the fol-
lowing day.
Thursday morning the sessions
were opened by a paper on "To What
Extent Should Our Certificate Laws
Be Amended?" by Supt. Mary F.
Strand. This was followed by a
paper on the revision of the course
of study by Supt. j. H. Phelps. Both
papers contained sound recommenda-
tions, nothing radical, and were dis
cussed by Supt. P. J. Iverson and
Supt. Curl Wambheim, respectively.
4 Supt. A. C. Berg spoke on "Edu-
cational Legislation That Should be
Asked in 1917" He recommended
that no matters be put up before the
legislature unless agreed to by the
association as a body. This topic was
: ably discussed by Supt. L. M. Rockne,
who concluded the program.
At 1870 o'clock 23 cars furnished
!. and driven by our citizens, gathered
to take the visitors out on a sight
. seeing tour into the Bad Lands. All
where some took course about 10
1 view Of the scenery was obtainable,
4 as far as Sully Springs. 3s
\ Superintendentg g. Z: Vigness, q.
O.. Saxvig and Miss Peterson, the
committee on resolutions, included in
! their statement vote Of thanks to
the Dickinson people who SO royalty
E entertained them during their sojourn
here and particularly to Superintend-
!, ents C.. E. Ward and P. s. Berg Of
\ this city, who are in a large part, re-
] sponsible for the genuine success Of
e this meet. The resolution endorsed
! unanimously the establishing Of a
j normal school at Dickinson and was
r adopted by the association.
The Dickinson people are to be
J Continued on page 81.