Smyrna times., 1923-03-28
STATE PARENT TEACHERS HOLD
FINE MEETING At HARRINGTON
ORGANIZATION HAS GROWN TO
MORE THAN $500 MEMBERS
Thirly-twO New Organizations Have
Been Added Since Last Year-Supt.
H. V. Holloway Addresses AssO.

been AQQeQ since Last lCdA-Oupts
H. V. Holloway Addresses AssO.
The twelfth annual convention of
the State Parent Teacher Association,
held in the New Century Club, at Har-
rington Saturday, was one of the most
successful in point of work accom-
plished and the number present ever
held by the association. Membership
in the association throughout the State
now shows substantial gains. Since
the last convention 80 new assOcia-
tions have been formed. The Parent
Teacher movement in Delaware now
has a membership of $3.50, divided as
follows: 1,642 members in New Castle
county, 1,475 members in Kent, and
3,416 in Sussex county. Mrs. B. j..
Eghtner, of New Castle, made the
membership report. Eight hundred
or more persons attended the cOnven-
ton at Harrington Saturday. Of this
number 283 were delegates. Sixty
delegates were present from New Cas-
tie county, 72 from Kent county and
ISL from Sussex county.
DIR. Holloway Addresses Association
DR.. H. V. Holloway, superintendent
Of Public instruction, extended greet
ings to the convention. He said the
program of the Delaware schools fol-
the next two years would be finally
decided upon in the next two weeks
He went on to explain that there are
g., - IN In,
catiOnal matters in Delaware. First
: there is that faction which advocate!
State aid for schools and then thu
. second group believes in State suppOr
, 1t was DR.. Holloway's opinion tina
public schools supported by the Stat
5 would be of the greatest benefit. A
the executive meeting of the board o
t managers of the Parent-Teacher AS
= sociation held during the noon houl
: Mrs John B. Cleaver, state president
/, was nominated a candidate for col
= responding secretary of the NatiOna
/ Parent Teacher Association. She wa
: also elected a delegate to the natiOna
1 convention to be held in Louisville
i Kentucky, in April. Resolutions wer
+ passed by the association at the clos
u of the convention asking that the chi
+ dren of Delaware be given an equ;
f opportunity with children of otht
e states in the matter of education, {
e far as the state wealth permit
e Every child should have an opportun
e ty to be educated, physically, menta
Il ly and morally, the resolution pOinte
/ out. The convention went on recol
$ as favoring state supported publ
d schools rather than state aided publ
/ schools.
IS Newark High School Gives a Pageal
1t The senior class of Newark Hig
,e School entertained the members of Il
e Parent-Teacher Association with
If pageant. The pageant depicted VIII
i'd art, music and literature can do for
OF home and also showed what a hon
a. is without these assets. The pagea
n was given under the direction of Mi
ey Elizabeth Neal, a senior student teaC
re er at the University of Delaware, a
nd Miss Mary Houston, also of the IN
n versity of Delaware. Members of
lg Executive Committee have volunteer
". this spring to assist in the visiti
e work. Mrs. Howard A. Pool, of Mi
a dletown, Mrs. H. D. Boyer, of SIN!
he ma, Mrs. Mabel Draper,Of Milton, NJ
be Ella Emery, cf Seaford, Mr.. Geor
We S. Williams, of Millsboro, and NJ
zee William B. Jester, of Delaware CT
II have visited evening meetings a
I'D paid personal calls on presidents
nd that the state office might have
ill curate reports concerning the work
ale local associations.