The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-20
MISS ALLEN HEARD
~ BY MANY MOTHERS
Splendid Meeting of Parents and Teachers Held
Yesterday When Association Was Addressed
By Miss Ava Allen of Winthrop College,
Association Plans Many Improve
nients in City School Buildings
- III New President Presides

The regular October meeting of the
Parent7 Teacher association was held
yesterday afternoon at four o'clock
in the graded school building and
either the change Of place Of meeting
from the high school building, the
announcement. that Miss Allen, su-
pervising primary teacher of Win
'throp Training school was TO speak,
or a Renaissance among the mothers
of the school for some unknown
cause, resulted in one of the largest
audiences so far present at meeting
of the association. ~
The new president, Mrs. R. c. Phil
son, was in her chair promptly at the
hour set for the meeting to begin and,
as the clock struck four, Mrs. Phil
son called the meeting to order. Rev.
A. J. Derbyshire, rector Of Trinity
Episcopal church, had charge of the
devotional exercises. Following these
Miss Rebecca Jones read the minutes
of the last meeting which were ap-
proved without change. The president
then announced that the next feature
of the program was social one Civ
EN- by the primary grades of the city
schools.
With compatible assortment of
Columbus Day songs and >recitations,
a flag song, and a touchi Of goblins,
broomsticks, black cats and witches,
the little folks presented very en-
joyable half hours entertainment.
Little Mis- Sara Neuffer, of six weeks
experience in school, was very good
in her recitation and stood bravely
and unafraid before the large assem-
blage Of big mothers. Also little. Miss
Eugenia Swetenburg of the second
grade in a goblin piece was almost
perfect in her elocution and gestures.
!"Buddie" McCuen proved himself a
regular pigmy Damrosch as con-
ductor of a chorus.
Following this interesting primary
program the president introduced
Miss Ava Allen, supervisor Of primary
Methods in Winthrop Training school
and teacher of primary methods to
students in Winthrop who expect to
become primary teachers soon. Miss
Allen is a,native of Mississippi, for
several years supervisor of primary
methods in the Mississippi College for
Women in Columbus, Miss, and also
sometime supervisor in city schools.
Miss Allen proved to be charming
person., a sympathetic speaker, and
an expert in her chosen profession.
During her observation work in the
mill and city graded school all morn
ing yesterday it was noticeable how
readily she, was able to secure imma
diate response from the different
grades while talking to them and ask
ing them questions regarding their
work. So the teachers who had op-
portunities to observe Miss Allen in
the morning were prepared for the
mastery address which she delivered
the Parent Teacher association in the
afternoon.
The speaker selected "Co-operation
Between Home and School" for her
subject apd treated the subject in
rather technical manner, tracing the
history of modern education from
Pestalozzi to the present day through
the different phases, and showing
that it has ever been impossible to
school and home. Miss Allen
the need of cooperation as
viewed from the standpoint Of the
school. In part she said: "The school
needs the cooperation of the home
for the same reason that the home
needs the school, as I have said they
have a common aim, in this both pro-
Tossing to make character-building
paramount. If the two social groups
do not work in harmony, the life of
the child is torn asunder. The child
must be able to pass from one social
group to the other without experience
ing a conflict in demands, a relaxation
in authority, a lessening of sympathy.
After all, the common aim of home