The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
VERMONT STATE
TEACHERS MEETING
The 9th Gathering to Be
Held in Burlington Oct.
IL, IL and IA.
SPEAKERS
TO MAKE ADDRESSES
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago,
Noted Educator, Will Speak on The
Value of the Teacher - Mrs. Helen
King Cheeseman on Program.

This year the teachers of Vermont
are working as never before to reach a
degree of efficiency that will reflect
credit upon the greatest agency in edu-
cation-the public school. The summer
sessions brought together enthusiastic
groups at the colleges and normal
schools of the state. The sacredness
of the calling and the responsibility of
the work We're depicted in the faces Of
the eager classes intent upon growth
intent upon teaching the cultured stat
us that social efficiency demands The
teachers of the commonwealth are
proud that the hope of the state IS past
leader is being welded into a chain of
achievement that shall bind the strength
of the past with that of the future
October -, l3 and II there will as
semble III the city of Burlington the
great educational brotherhood in CON
vention, this being the sixty-seventh
| meeting in the history of the associa-
, ton. There will be many speakers in
Fthe 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 nation have
come under the influence of their loyal
~ 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
i speakers from abroad
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the great edu-
Gator, is to be present with the women
at their banquet Friday evening. De
tober 10. The subject of her address
will be The Value of the Teacher.
i Here are some of the good things
that have been said about this woman
whose leadership has made her name a
household word:
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young began to teach
in the public schools of Chicago in
1861. She is known as the "Mothel
of the text book. F" Her mind is as clear
as a bell. She has the decisiveness OF
a general. Her career has been worked
out in Chicago She was, successfully
teacher, principal, member of the facul
tv of the University of Chicago, head
of the Chicago Normal school, and
finally, superintendent of the schools
of Chicago. Mrs. Young is a strenuou.
: friend Of manual training-New Yorl
: Independent.
If q woman can successfully conduc
: the schools of the second largest cit,
in the Union, there ism I a littla cit,
5 school system anywhere to which
woman might not aspire to be supcrin
! tendent. DR.. Ella Flagg Young, who ha
so set aside precedent that she ha
made way for other women to folloy
r her, began school teaching as a cir
of eighteen at time when publ
; opinion placed outside a woman s spher
3 ever other position which she ha
since attained. Since those DAYS sh
has come all the way to the top of he
+ profession i'll the same city in whic
she started: grade teacher, principa
: district superintendent, professor q
Chicago University, and principal q
Chicago Normal school, before she bt
came superintendent. She has earne
her own living since she was gradual
ed at the Chicago Normal school. Sh
was more than forty years old and
district superintendent when she weI
to college and took her A. B. and fina
II ly her Phi. d., and to these has sine
/ been added LII. d. That is about a
of the honors that are coming the wa
of any scholar. Her dynamic person
atty has electrified the whole scho
systematic Delineator.
Mrs. Helen King Cheeseman, who w;
recently elected president of the Rhot
J Island Mothers congress and Paren
= Teachers association, will be heard l
= the women at their banquet in an i
} spring talk On Being a Good Felloy
The annual banquet of the Vernon
Women Teachers club will be held
t. the University of Vermont gymnasiu