The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-04
VT. TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Expected Educational Treats at Com.
ing Convention.

! ing Convention.
This year the teachers of Vermont
| are working as never before to reach
a degree of efficiency that will re-
| fleet credit upon the greatest agency
in education-the public school, The
summer session brought together en-
| thusiastic groups at the college and
normal schools of the state. The
| sacredness of the calling and. the re-
sponsibility of the worf were depicted
| in the faces of the eager classes in
| tent upon growth-intent upon teach
ing the cultured status that social
! efficiency demands. The teachers OF
| the commonwealth are proud that
the hope of the state past leader is
being welded into a chain of achieve
ment that shall bind the strength Of
the past with that of the future.
October II, 10 and IA here will as
semble in the city of Burlington the
great educational brotherhood in con-
vention, this being the siXty-seventh
meeting in the history of the associ-
alton. There will be many speakers
in the various departments-men and
women whose deeds have been those
of service-whose service has been
such that the rural schools, the high
schools, the universities and the ma
tion have come under the influence of
their loyalty and worth. New York
state about two years ago confidently
placed DR.. Finley at the head Of her
school system. DR.. Finley is to be one
OF the chief speakers from abroad.
Mrs. Ella F'lagg Young. the great
educator is to be present with the wo-
men at their banquet Friday evening,
October 10. The subject of her ad-
dress will be. The Value of the
Teacher"
Here are some of the good things
that have been said about this woman,
whose leadership has made her name
household word:
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young began to
teach in the public schools of Chicago
in 1861 She is known as the Mother
of the text book Her mind is as
clear as bell She has the decisive
| ness of a general Her career has
been worked out in Chicago. She
was, successfully, teacher. principal,
member of the faculty of the Universi-
| ty of Chicago, head of the Chicago Nor
man school, and, finally, superinten-
dent of the public school of Chicago.
Mrs. Young is a strenuous friend of
manual training. New York Inde-
! pendent.
IF a woman can successfully con-
duct the schools of the second largest
city in the Union, there isn't a little
| city school system anywhere to
which a woman may not aspire to be
superintendent. DR.. Ella Flagg Young.
who has so set aside precedent that
she has made say for other women to
| follow her, began school teaching as
a girl of eighteen at time when
| public opinion placed outside a wo-
mans sphere every other position
which she has since attained. Since
! those days she has come all the way
| to the top of her profession in the
same city in which she started: grade
| teacher principal, district superinten
| dent, professor at Chicago University,
and principal of Chicago Norman
| school, before she became superinten-
| dent She has earned her own living
| since she was graduated at the Chic
| ago Normal school. She was more
than forty years old and district sup
| erintendent when she went to college
and took her A. b. and FINALLY her Phi.
D., and to these has since been added
l.. l.. d. That is about all of the hon
ors there are coming the way of any
scholar. Her dynamic personality has
| electrified the whole school system
The Delineator.
| Mrs. Helen King Cheesman, who
was recently elected president of the
| Rhode Island Mothers Congress and
Parent-Teachers' Association, will be
heard by the women at their banquet
in an inspiring talk on con Being a
! Good Fellow" The annual banquet Of
the Vermont Woman Teachers Club
will be held at the University of Yer
mont Gymnasium at 7.30 o'clock Fri
day evening, October 18Th.
An opportunity viii be afforded 9th
er women of the state to hear Mrs.
| Young and Mrs. Cheesman and at the
same time enjoy social evening with
the teachers. Reservations have been
made for about thirty who are not
members of the club. Miss Marjory
Adeit, 394 Pearl Street, Burlington, in
chairman of the Burlington commit
tee of arrangements and will answer
any questions which you wish to ask
: relatives to the Woman's Club.