The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-06
TEACHERS OF
STATE T0HEAR
FINE SPEAKERS
Varied Program Is Arranged
for State Convention to be
Held Here This Month
TO BE THE LARGEST
North Dakota Education AS.
s0ciation to Bring Teach
ers From all Parts of State

A varied program has been ar.
ranged for teachers of the state
who will flock to Bismarck on No
vember 81, %, and % for the annual
convention of the North Dakota Ed
ucation Association. 1t will be the
seth annual session of the organiza-
tion and, according 20 officers of the
association and local committees as
.sisting in the preparations, it is
hoped to make the convention the
best ever held.
Many prominent speakers are on
the program for the convention, in
Guiding Governor Arthur NJ Hyde
of Missouri; J. O. Engleman, field
secretary of the National Education
Association; President Harold W..
Foight of the Aberdeen Normal and
Industrial School, and Governor
Nestos. The feature musical enter
tainment of the convention will be
the appearance of Thomas Chalmers.
baritone of the Metropolitan Opera
House of New York, who will appear
two nights.
Anticipating hundreds of visitors,
the officers of the association are
arranging for headquarters for reg
istration, assignment to lodging ac-
commodations, for the general and
sectional meetings, reunions and
luncheons and scores Of other de-
tails.
Opens at Night
The convention will open at 7:45
p. m. Wednesday, November 81, in
the Bismarck municipal auditorium.
Superintendent Nelson Sauvain, past
president of the association, will call
the convention to order, and after
invocation by Rev. l. G. Monson Of
this city, Mayor A. P. Lenhart will
give an official welcome. w. C. Steb-
bins, president of the association,
will follow with the presidents an
nual address, and committees will be
named.
Governor Hyde Of Missouri will
speak the first night on "The Teach
er's Opportunity" and State Super
intendent Miss Minnie Nelson will
speak on "What We Are Getting For
What We Pay"
The next morning will be devoted
to sectional meetings and Thursday
afternoon, j. o. Engleman, secretary
of the national N. E. A. will speaA,
to be followed by President Foight
of the Aberdeen Normal and Indus
trial School on "The Making of an
American" Thursday evening, Cover
nor Nestos will address the conven-
tion on the subject, Education for
Citizenship and Service" and an
other speaker, not yet announced,
will address the convention.
President Thomas F. Kane of the
University of North Dakota will
speak Friday afternoon, November
%, on the subject, Suggestions For
Curing Financial Ills of Education
in North Dakota" Musical numbers
will be interspersed in each general
session program.
Many Departments
The following departmental meet
ings will be held during the morn
ings Of the convention: Higher and
Professional Education, Secondary
Section, Superintendents and Prin-
cipals, County Superintendents,
School Administration, Principals of
oioOCSS OOuoVlAuotCU ouu AuIIu AldSS
schools, English, Science and Mathe-
matics, Modern Languages and Latin,
History, Civics and Social Science,
Rural Schools, Elementary Education,
Parent-Teachers Association, Music,
Commerce, Agriculture, Home Eco
nomics, and Art.
In the sectional meetings various
problems Of the schools will be taken
up in detail and discussed. More
than Is addresses are ON the pro-
gram for the convention.
While the teachers will be engaged
most of the time in serious discus
sion in the various departmental or
the general sessions, it is expected
that there will be scores of reunions
of various kinds arranged during the
convention.
The one speaker not yet named on
the program, being secured by local
people, may be either Count ToTstoy
Of Russia or DR.. Nansen, famous
arctic explorer. Negotiations are now
under way to obtain one of them.
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