The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-15
People and Events 9s.e:
By Celia Myrovsr Robinson
Phone So
INNOVATION In
W0MEN'S CLUBS.

Some one has called the woman's
club post graduate course for wo-
men, and from the present day cor
relation of club and educational &C
tivities it would appear that this def
milton of the woman's club is very
apt one, says the Nashville Banner.
An instance of this is the Fedora
ton Day to be held July IA at the
George Peabody College for Teach
ers under the able direction of Mrs.
Claude D. Sullivan of Nashville,
chairman of club extension of the
Tennessee Federation of Women's
Clubs, when a group OF club leaders
will speak of the work of their
great organization of women, 1000
strong in Tennessee and 100000 in
the United States.
Another striking instance was the
course for club women at the Win
throp college summer school at Rock
Hill, S. c., which began June 27 and
came to close today. This sehed-
ule of classes was something unique
in the educational world, and it adds
another success to some brilliant edu-
cational innovations at this college,
whose able president, DR.. David Ban
cr0@@1 Johnson, is also the president
Of the National Educational associa-
ton, which has been in annual session
in New York this week. A matter
of pride to Tennessee club women is
that Miss Ernestin2 Noa of Chatta-
nooga is one of the faculty for this
! interesting course. She delivered a
series of nine lectures, studies in So
! GEOLOGY for club women, and condi-
tions in South Carolina were espe-
cially studied.
Miss Noa has been for some years
prominent in club life in Tennessee
She made some valuable sociological
studies at Peabody college for Teach
ers two summers ago, and last sum-
mer she lectured at Winthrop college
along that line. She has been an
investigation of rural conditions not
only in America, but Europe, having
been one of the few women who. went
to Europe some years ago to attend a
great international conference on this
subject, on which occasion she rep
resented both this state and the Uni
ted States.
Miss Noa thinks the value to the
club women of systematic study will
be inestimable. She thinks an ex-
cellent idea would be for state fed
Grafton to hold its annual meeting in
conjunction with such course as the
South Carolina college is giving. OF
this suggestion, she says: "Why
wouldn't that be the best possible
means of spreading vital truths in &
vital way? We would do well to lis.
ten for some days to experts instead
of merely listening to each other.
''The next point in my idea is thai
it would be such a wonderful thing
for the experts, the teachers, to get
into annual touch with women from
the big round world. The teacher
life Is a conventional life, and tho
teacher of long years standing needs
to be shaken out into realization Of
the social forces of the world, al
she cannot be sitting on her little
platform with the girls looking u
into her face. And it seems to mi
that our nervously acquisitive wo
men coming for a fortnight into al
atmosphere like this could do as mucl
| for the school life as the same coult
do for it.
"Then, lastly, there remains, 0
course, the ripping effect of the clu'
woman's return home from her com
bination federation meeting, with it
elections, functions, ETC., and the col
lege course, upon her neighbors i
and out of the club"