The log cabin Democrat., 1916-08-05
AFFAIRS Al NORMAL BELIEVED SETTLED NO MORE CHANGES LIKELY Conway Citizens Pleased With Presi- dents Retention, but Regret
 Denney's Retirement.

l Conway citizens learned with great Democrat yesterday afternoon of the victory of President J. J. Doyne, won
 in the attack brought against him be- | fore the board of trustees of the Ar | kansas State Normal School at it's meeting yesterday. The sentiment in 1 Conway was practically unanimous that it would have been a great mis- l fortune to the school to have made a change in the presidency and Mr. Doyne has been warmly congratulat- ed over the successful outcome of the wrangle unfortunately precipitated in an effort to embarrass him.
 Much regret, however, is felt that Prof. C. c. Denney was not retained l at the head of the department of | pedagogy Prof. Denney has made a fine record in this state and his many friends here are sorry that he was not reelected. Prof. F. H. Harrin, who was named to succeed him, is head of the normal training depart ment of the Little Rock high school i For the past two summer sessions | Prof. Harrin has assisted in the ped agogy department at the Normal and | he is said to be an unusually fine instructor.
 Although Supt. George B. Cook, chairman of the board of trustees is reported in the Gazette this morn ing as saying that the Normal affairs are still unsettled, it is practically certain that there will be no further changes. Secretary B. w. Torreyson issued a statement to the effect that
 the controversy was settled, so far as the board is concerned.
 l MT. Torreyson's statement follows:
 "All the board members were pres ent, and they were familiar with Mir.
 Findley's audit, MT. Doynes reply and Mir. Findley's counter-rej ejoinder, as they had been provided with copies of these documents. The controversy was settled, so far as the board was
 concerned, by the election of J. P. Machen as registrar and bookkeeper. l MT. Machen will assume his duties | August 15 and is directed to take i charge of the books of the school and go over all the accounts careful ly, reporting his findings to the board at its next meeting.
 "The committee of board members
 was appointed to adjust whatever | financial differences shall be found to exist between the board and Mr. Doyne, due to inaccuracies of book keeping.
 "The board feels that as a better system of accounting has been pro- vided for and some other minor changes contemplated, the school will be better able to serve the state in preparing teachers for it's children. It therefore invokes the confidence of all patriotic and interested citizens" It has been the policy of the board since the establishment of the school not to take up the election of any members of the faculty unless it was desired to make change, it being the rule that motion to declare the position vacant should be put and carried before an election was gone motion was offered in two cases, the motion was offered intwo cases, the heads of the departments of peda- gogy and of mathematics. By vote of to the department of pedagogy was declared vacant and Prof. Harrin elected to succeed Prof. Denney. A motion to declare vacant the chair of mathematics, held by Prof. K. A. Brennan, was offered but was defeat ed.
 The president and all remaining members of the faculty were thus continued in office, with the excep- tion if Miss Maria Copeland, instr.c tor in piano music, who had with drawn from the faculty. Miss Louise Huddleston, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Huddleston of Conway, was elected to this position.
 In order to relieve President Doyne of the task of keeping the books and accounts and give him more time for administrative duties the board elect ed J. P. Machen, settlement clerk Tn the state auditors office, formerly of Magnolia, to the position of regis trar and bookkeeper. Mr. Machen will assume his duties on August Is.
 With reference to an editorial statement in the Log Cabin Democrat yesterday to the effect that members unfriendly to President Doyne had recently been appointed on the board of trustees, a talk with President Doyne today developed the fact that this statement was incorrect. The members referred to supported Mir.
 Doyne at the meeting. T consider