The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-11
Talent Secured by Kansas State
Teachers Association
Fifty-Eighth Annual COnven'
ton in Four Kansas Cities.
TO Be HELD NOVEMBER 3-4-5
Entertainment Program for
All General Sessions. y
Distinguished English Singer
VIII Be Here.

The executive committee Of tbs
Kansas State Teachers association has
already placed under contract a large
number OF speakers and entertain
ments for the fifty-eighth annual
peka, Salina, Wichita, and Pittsburg
November 3. 4. and 5.
For one general session at each OF
the meeting places, the committee has
planned a program purely Of an en-
tertainment nature. At two of the
meeting places this entertainment will
consist Of dramatic interpretations by
Charles Ram Kennedy and Edith
Wynne Matthison (AIrs. Kennedy.
Author and Actor.
Kennedy is an author. an actor. a
playwright and producer. He wrote
The Servant in the House" THE Ter
rible Meek" and THE Army With
Banners" As an actor he has carried
such roles as Prospero and Sir Peter
Teazle.
Edith wynne Matthison has taken
leading roles in the plays written by
her husband Mrs Kennedy was born
in Warwickshire, England She was
Sir Henry Irving's last leading lady,
and on the night the great actor died.
she played Rosamond to his Beckett
Thomas WIlfred ON Program.
For the other two meeting places
the committee has secured Thomas
Wilfred. a distinguished English sing
er of folk-songs and PLAYER Of the
twelve-string arch lutte. The instru-
ment Wilfred has brought to the
United States with him is more than
200 years old, and in his collection
there are several others, among them
a replica of the favorite lutte of Queen
Eliza beth, and a Venetian lutte of 1920.
One of the chief speakers for the
general sessions is DR.. Edward Howard
Griggs, president of the department
OF philosophy of the Brooklyn Insti-
tutes for Arts and Sciences. For ten
years Doctor Griggs was professor OF
ethics and education at Leland STAN
ford university. but now devotes him
self entirely TO lecturing and author
ship.
Other Speakers Secured.
other speakers to be heard at the
general sessions are: Herbert Quick,
author of The Brown Mouse" the
eGitcr of a farm paper of national
circulation, and known as the holder
of an important position under the
federal government; Charles Zueblin,
lecturer on civic life: DR.. c. A Pros
ser. of the Dunwoody Industrial in
s-ttute OF Minneapolis, Mimi; Supt'
Fred Hunter. of Oakland. Cal, presi-
dent Of the National Education asso-
citation. and Will C. Wood, state SUI
perintcndent of schools in California
Departmental Speakers.
among the speakers for the depart
mental meetings are: President John
/ Ei.lman, of Simpson college. In
6lznoIa, Ind, and Prof. H. l. Miller,
O. the University of Wisconsin, for the
college department; Prin. John r.
Powell. of Sedan high school. st:
Louis, No. and Supt. 1. NJ. Allen, of
Springfield, Ill, for the high school
department; Prof. William S. Gray.
dean of the school of education of the
University of Chicago. for the graded |
school department; Miss Edna Dean
Eaker. president of the National Kin
q e--srten and Elementary college, of
Chica~o. and Miss Alice Temple, of
the school of education, University of
Chicago, for the primary school de-
Pertinent; Miss Mabel Carney, OF
Te2cs-e-s' college. Columbia university,
New York City. and Kenyon r. But
I -ield. president of the Massachu-
so-ts Agricultural college. at Amherst,
NJ IS. for the rural school department.