Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-30
State Teachers
Convention at Bangor

wall no SOEHSlhihk uOiHk
Bangor on Oct. 2S-29, when the big
State meeting of teachers takes place
there. if anything can be judged from
the talent that the executive commit
tee of the State Association has Sc
cured. 1t looks as if the program
would be the strongest ever presented
to group of Maine teachers. Prac-
tically every man or woman who has
been engaged for the meeting is 4
known Quantity-no guess work about
the kind of addresses they will give
bright, snappy, up-to-the-nlnute
speeches with full measure of sane,
practical. thought compelling ideas.
One of the headliners is owen Love
JOY of Washington. u. G.. who will
speak on Thursday night of convention
week on the subject, Education for
Efficiency" MIR. l.ovejoy is general
secretary of the National Child Labor
Committee and he is recognized as
one of the best speakers in the codn-
try on child welfare subjects. on
Friday evening Maine Will welcome
back her own Payson Smith. former
ly State superintendent of public
schools. and now commissioner of
education for Massachusetts,. DR..
Smiths subject is Five Planks of
an Educational Platform" He is
known throughout the country as a
fluent, forceful speaker ana one who
always has a live educational mes
sage. He viii require no introduce
ton to a Maine audience but those
who have not heard him recently will
Re impressed with the keen insight
which contact with and heavy re-
sponsibility in the larger educational
world have given him in dealing with
some of our most pressing problems
DR. Smith will also speak en- Friday
morning before the department of
grammar schools
Then there is Dr. Thomas H.
Briggs of Columbia, who Will address
the High school teachers: James NJ
Glass, principal of the Washington
Junior High school in Rochester, N
Y. one of the best known in the
country; DIR. Henry W. Holmes, head
Of the Department of Education of
Harvard University; Miss Mabel Car
ney of Teachers College, Columbia
Cnivers ity. rural school expert al
ready tavorably known in Maine be-
cause of her work in the summer
school for rural leaders at Castine
for the past two years; Miss Amelia
EenSston. county superintendent of
schools in Minnesota. who. has made
an enNiable reputation in rural school
-f,r1- h,t I'LL
the line of health work in the schools:
President Paul F. Voelher of Olivet
College. Michigan: Supt Ernest w
Robinson of r1tchburg. Mass and
Prof. James Il. Callan of Harvard.
The above does not by any means
exhaust the list, as there arc several
others from outside the Safe who
can be depended upon to give interest
ing and instructive addresses before
their departments. while the talent
represented on the program by
speakers within the State is equally
good.
AS for several years the first part of
the meeting will consist Of school
music festival in which Will be a cto-
rus of between 400 and 500 students
from the High schools of the eastern
and northern parts of the State.
There will be large orchestra and
military band. also made " Of High
school students. to assist in the CON
cert 1t will be held on Thursday
morning at the Bangor auditorium and
the whole project is under the direc-
ton of Elmer + Towne Of Madison.
who has been SO successful in organic
ing and training the Madison Boys
Band.
Another feature. is expected to be
gwen in the first showing of a part Of
the State of Maine centennial moving
picture films made this year n ali
sections of the State as a part of the
celebration of our Tooth anniversary
CT statehood. These ~.c.u-es WI be
shown in City hall on Friday evening
of convention week