Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-25
STATE EDUCATORS
HERE FOR MEETING
Virginia Educational Conference
Opens Today With l,5OO
Visitors.
WCE-PRESIDENT MAY SPEAK
Invitation Extended to Thomas
r. Marshall to Address
Teachers Tomorrow.
IICE-PRESIDENT MAY SPEAK
The detailed program of the cdu-
chti0ral conference for today will
he found ON PaSe 3.

School-tcachers and educators from
| every part of Virginia, numbering ap-
proximately 1900, were thronEing into
Richmond last night to attend the an
nua! sessions OF the virginia cduca-
tional conference, which opens here to-
day. The conference will continue for
four days. closing Friday night
Efforts are being made TO induce
Vice-Presidcns Thomas Z. Marshall
of the United states to- deliver an ad-
dresS M to , the delegatss at the John
Marshai! High School Wednesday even
inG, after his scheduled address takes
place at the City Auditorium, which
VIII DC held under tho auspicA Of the
, kichmond Lodge of the Loyal Order of
Moose; y teIesraphic invitation was
| extended Mr.. Marshall by Supcrintcnd-
ent of Public Instruction Harris Hart
yesterday, to make short talk IN
the schoolinaams and professors. but
no reply had been received from the
Vice President up TO late hour last
night.
Mnny Prominent Speakers.
Many prominent professors of col
ieSes and unire rsities OF Virginia have
accepted invitations to make addresses.
registration Will start at room lis
OF the John Marshall High School at
10 boRrdinG-houses and other accom-
inooa'ions viii he given the visitors
ny inc registration committee mem
Trains hearing delegates and visit
| ing teachers are being met by cadets
rom John Marshall and escorted to the
Gencral meetings OF the conference
Will be held at S.15 o'clock Wednesday,
thursday and Friday evenings These
miHetiaSI meet . viii be held in the audito-
rum OF the John Marshal! High School
Whiie other meetings will be at the
NiEGin!a Mechanics Institute. Eleventh
ana ana Broad Streets; the Administration
Eutner school Building, on Twelfth
Street near Clay, and in the rooms OF
mo John Marshall High School Build
Several Meetings To-day.
To-day there will be a conference q.
division superintendents in the audi.
torNln of the Mechanics Institute.
rom o'clock in the morning until
.st ctock IN n the afternoon. AT the same
d meeting In the classrooms of the
same building. These meetings will
aed DE PEgsided re oyer over by Richard A. Dobie
From > until ) O'Clock this ar,o-
noon noon mere viii be a joint meeting of
a,vasnGn iNsonGd ,superIIntendents I and Trustees
stitutc. III"
Various reception features have bccn
n,,fnsGn m;,tea ~ nr the entertainment com
posed OF the following: '''-
4 A. y: Hill. chairman. Lucille Harrison
Muime Martnn ffsnon fmiiiS mson Helen Dickinson
Jui;. woairidhei " Lou EgEieston
Hn.si. Moor:dGs Eva Hewitt
Cornclia s %dair : y'oITfnGS r. i,,,faIet Garnett
Emma Lamb Janr. i-"tITn
Lucy Henderson +; r, Sn,;,h hhtar"ood
NirGie Gary l. T,,ctn..'
kKaihcrinc Bullock w.It""rr "rhG: 'Tprs Terssr
Hannah Cohn w f.,v5o 7 .neIGer
ioSephinc Halloraa EARNEST Sh.,nr
Icna r,e rt,S,uSe Joseph II. Saunders
Josephine W. Holt l. Morrn,..
State Executive Committee.
Inc executive committee of the con-
it.ence is composed OF the following.
State Superintendent OF I,uh,ic In", ,.nS
man. iio'iu' chair-
Secretary of State Board of Education 7
,,dp ,,dnresiident Of Virginia Teachers Associa.
ton tersWiary Of Virginia Teachers Assotia
P5esden ccnfcrsn%ce OF Of GdiSihm9nd diyis"9 1nor
'cnu'.niS Richard 4. Dnbir Of NorfniiLt"-
,ecretary conferences OF division sDnn vM.
ford. " ""Parich. OF East Rad !
J., frcesdSnt Of School Trustees. ..ssoo;.,,or
~: BrlEgs; Of Portsmouth
NJ r WSc:o OF School Trustees Association.
IiTe:tdent of Co Opera tive Eiucatio, A,
of Rich1,or irhn of Virginia. Mrs. T. Il. MHnrorS
s,si,c SGictIetary OF Co Operative Edncotion .
Rchmondo RiGclha1on of Virginia. Gcorgo ". Guy, % Of
!, Gbnsirmfn best Il ,91IfI, entertainment committee
Tie comm;ties" ;;i OF IN Richmond. Shnd
tT alton consists of J. 4. Fentrcss w.
NJ. Adams and Miss 4 r,hon. ~, w . |