Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-01
Statewide Educational
Program at Pressure Isle

announcement was made at the Edu-
cational Department Tuesday of the
program for the educational rally in
! the Statewide campaign for better
schools. which will be held Thursday
and Friday Dec. . and 10 at Pressure
/ Isle.
The business session will be held
. Thursday morning and in the after
noon a brief statement OF the service
of the National Education Association
will be given by Mr.. Harold A. Allan
OF Augusta, state director of the Ma
tional Education Association.
Supt. T. P. Packard of Houlton wilt
be the chairman of the group meeting
OF the teachers of the lower elemen-
Ftary grades. Papers will be read by
Miss Winifred Taylor of the Maine
Public Health Association on THE
Modern Health Crusade" Miss Mary
| L. Hastings Of the Gorham State Nor
! mai School on "Some Practical Sug-
gestions for Seat Work and by Miss
Rachael of the Presque Isle Training
School on Demonstration in Sound
Work"
The chairman Of the group meeting
I. of the upper elementary grades will
| be Mrs. Alice H. Kelley of Caribou
Addresses will be given by Principal
William d. Hall of the Castine State
Normal School on Interesting Pupils
in Nature Study by Miss Minnie
Harding of the Presque Isle Training
School on THE Socialized Recitation.
and by Miss Ida NJ. Folsom of the
Aroostook State Normal School on
Teaching Geography
"An Experiment with Intelligence
Tests will be the subject of a paper
by H. E. Rollins of Pressure Isle be-
fore the group of secondary school
teachers Thursday afternoon. A dis
cussion of this topic will be opened by
Prof. J. W. Taylor of Augusta. state
agent for secondary education. and
! Prof. r. A. F.. Macdonald of Pates
! College. a paper will be read by Mrs.
! Iva Woodbury. Waddell of Pressure
! Isle on School Credits for Music and
there will be general discussion Of
| the topic Winter Sports on the Physi-
cal Training Program
\ "Get-Together Dinner will be
, served at the Perry Theatre at $50
u ClOCh dtteTHOoH
! An address will be delivered in the
| evening by President Clifton D. Gray
| of Bates college and by Dr. Augustus
| Q. Thomas, state superintendent Of
f! public schools. on Names Education.
al Program
! Supt. G. 4. Grant of Caribou will be
! the chairman of the group meeting Of
| rural school teachers which will be
/; held in the high school assembly room
| Friday morning. Addresses will be
/ given by Miss Florence NJ. Hale of
/ Augusta state agent for rural educa-
! ton. on 1.-THE Rural Teachers Oppor-
, tuhity,' by Supt. Fl. e. Clifford of
| Hartland on Bringing Good Books to
| Teachers and Pupils by Supt. Cath
! crime Ouelette of Fort Kent on what
| Our Helping Teachers Are Doing
and by Mr. Harold A. Allan of Angus
| ia. state agent for rural education, on
Rural Schools That Render Service"
| Miss Florence NJ. Hale of Augusta
state agent for rural education. will
! also address the teachers of Grade 7
| and V on "The Cultivation of the
/ Child's Love of Finer Things
| Supt. C. z. Glover of Fort Fairfield
will be the chairman of the group
| meeting of teachers of Grade III. Pa
| pers will be presented at this meeting
by Miss Mary L. Hastings of the Cor :
ham State Normal School on "Sug-
gestions in Project Teaching" By Miss
Mildred A. Beatham, school secretary
Savings Division. on Teaching Thrift
/, AS Project and by Miss Nellie W.
Jordan of the Aroostook State Nor
NAL School on Local History
Miss Ethel Chamberlain Of Fort
Fairfield will present Il paper entitled
"Correlation of English anI History
with Other Subjects before the group