The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-04
FEW TEACHERS TO
ATTEND CONVENTION
High School and Grades to Be Renre-
sented, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and Hotel Expense Large

Contrary to the usual custom only =
small number of Brattleboro teachers will
attend the annual Vermont Teachers as
| ISOLATION convention, which will be held in
Montpelier Oct s, 9 and TO- as the mn
| Dental committee of school district No
| . did not feel justified in bearing the f.
| nancial burden of the trip, the railroad
| expenses of which would be approximate-
| " $780, as it is the custom for the dis
| trict to pay the travelling expenses of all
teachers when the meetings are held in
distant points in the state. Moreover in
view of the high hotel charges the com
mittee did not wish to oblge the teach
ers to bear that expense.
| A visiting day, however, will be granted
the teachers Oct 10, when each member
of the faculty will be given an opportun-
ty to visit whatever school he or she
chooses, and each. teacher will be given
So towards travelling expenses. The To-
cal schools will be closed Monday, Oct
Is, in observance of Columbus dav. Tins
giving the teachers and pupils four-day
recess
In adopting this course the committee
feels that the local school system will be
strengthened materially, as those who 90
| TO hOnCpelleE VIII IetuIH Win MANY new
ideas gained from the convention. while
those who visit other schools will return
with ideas of what they have seen in ac.
tual use in other states and other schools
| Those who will go from Brattleboro to
Montpelier include Principal Julius f.
| Warren, who is on the program for Thurs
day morning, Oct. 9, to give talk on
English Courses As Modified bv the War
his subject dealing with Timely Themes,
Topics, Four Minute Speeches, Current
Literature, Correspondence, and Debates:
Miss Florence NJ Wellman, superintend-
ent of the Brattleboro schools and seere-
tary of the association; Miss Hazel Ly.
ons, who will represent the high school
faculty; Miss Ruth Bruce, who will rep
resent the grade teachers; and Robert
Holmes, instructor in manual training for
| both the high school and the grades. who
will give a paper on The Need of Practi
cal Arts Miss Ethel A. Eddy, superin-
tendent of schools for the southern dis
triet, also will attend the convention.
The program indicates an extremely in
teresting and profitable gathering with
many strong speakers from other states
including DR.. P. P. Claxton, commission
er of education, of Washington, ID. c.;
Miss Lillian B. Poor of Boston; DIR. Tai
colt Williams. dean of Columbia Univers
ity School of Journalism; Hon. Paysor
Smith of Boston, Massachusetts commits
sioner of education; H. B. Smith of tbs
federal board for vocational education
DR.. c. H. Judd of Chicago university;
Miss Agnes Pourke of the Teachers col
lege of Columbia university; Arthur B
Targett of Boston; Miss Ella NJ Brown
ell of the Victor Phonograph Co.; Prof
Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard uni
versity; DIR. George ID. Strayer of Column
bia university; Miss Sarah NJ. Holbrook
visiting teacher of Henry Barnard School
Hartford, Coma, vice cpreshdent1,of til.
National Visiting Teachers association
DIR. Alfred c. Thompson. principal of TIN
state normal school at Brockport, n Y
DR.. Thomas A. Briggs, professor of edu
cation, Columbia university: Miss Flor
ence NJ. Hale of Augusta, Me-; Miss En-
ma 4. Winslow, Teachers college of Co
umbia university. Many prominen
speakers from various sections of tn,
state also are on the program.