The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-24
TEACHERS MEET
AT SP0KANEIN
COMING MONTH

Tor entertaining some 3,UUO teachers
|twenty-first annual convention of the
Inland Empire Teachers association
are being made by educational and
commercial interests of this city.
The convention which, according to
plans announced by James A. Burke
of this city, the secretary, will be In
reality thirty conventions in one, is
to be held here on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, April 2, 3 and 4.
While the forenoon sessions each
day will consist of general meetings
at which nationally prominent edu-.
Gators will discuss questions of vital
interest to the teaching profession in
general, during the afternoon the at.
selves into twenty-nine sections. at
each of which questions having to do
with some particular department or
branch of educational work will be
taken up. Each of the Twenty-Five Sec
lions has its own set Of officers, and
l. I
these will be chosen in the sectional
meetings. Exhibitions of manual
training work and physical education
drills may be part of the program
|of those sectional meetings. /
{ Aside from men at the head Of edu-
cational institutions of the northwest,
ern states, the principal speakers at
this years convention will be DR..
Strayer profession Of educational ad-
ministration in the teachers college,
Columbia University, president of the
National Educational association and
chairman of the commission of the
national emergency in education, and
DR.. ]. R. Jewell, deal of the college of
education at the University of Arkan-
sas. A prominent. place on the pro-
gram also will be taken by Miss Sarah
E. Richardson, assistant federal di-
rector of vocational education, Wash
ington, D. G.
/ DR.. Slayer and DR.. Jewell are down
for three addresses each during the
convention, and with Miss Richardson
are expected to speak at the annual
banquet of the association, to be held
on the. evening of the opening day,
which is to be followed by a dance
and reception given by the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce. A number of
past presidents of the organization
are also expected to talk on that oc-
casion.
| This years sessions will be pre-
sided over by Miss Ethel E. Redfield,
state superintendent of instruction of
Idaho, the second woman to be elected
president of the association in the
twenty-one years of it's history.
Among the prominent educators Of
the northwest who will have places
on the program Of the general ses-
sions of the convention will be Presi-
dent Kerr of the Oregon Agricultural
college; DR.. E. G. Holland, president
| of Washington State college; DR.. Ed
ward c.. Elliott, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Montana, and DR.. E. H.
Lindley, president Of the University
OF Idaho
The annual meeting of the Washing
ton State Music Teachers Associa-
ton will be held in conjunction with
the teachers convention. In the past
the music teachers OF the state have
held their session at separate time
and place. Members Of the Music
Teachers association will give con-
cert during the afternoon of Aprli 2,
for the benefit of members of the In
land Empire Teachers association.
On the afternoon Of April 4. after the
close of the convention proper, DR.. J.
G. Freund OF New York City will
make an address under the auspices
OF the Music Teachers association.
NEW NORTHERN CALIFORNIA