The Winslow mail., 1925-09-22
PARENT TEACHERS
WILL HAVE FULL
YEARS PROGRAM

With the advent of the present
school term, the local Parent
Teachers association and the Moth
ers club, which is a member also
OF the National P. T. A, are plan
ming an eventful year. 1t has been
announced that fathers will be ask
ed to join the Mothers club this
year, and it is hoped by those in
terested in the work, that the
Winslow organizations will have an
excellent report for the next an
nual state convention which meets
in the spring at Phoenix. Winslow
is represented in the executive part
of the state organization by Mrs.
G. T. Stevens as yice-president,
while Mrs E. A. Johnson has been
recently appointed as one of the
state nominating committee.
One problem to which the local
association will probably give con-
siderable concern this year in CO.
operation with the state and ma
tional organizations, is that of
illiteracy A goal of "No illiteracy
been set, and since it developed at
the annual convention of the ma
tional association at Austin, Texas,
held last spring that one Arizona
county has the greatest percent
age of illiteracy of any county in
the United States, with the state
standing 7th in the list of states
h of
illiteracy. Arizona will have con-
siderable improvement along this
line to bring about.
The Parent-Teachers association
which is now nationwide Organi-
zation with branch associations in
every state, with the exception of
Nevada, and on seven different is
lands of the Pacific ocean, started
over 80 years ago, with one small
association that grew from group
of parents who were invited to
meet at different intervals with a
teacher Of a small eastern school.
The association now has a member
ship of 875 ,240. Last year Arizona
showed an increase of 500 members
over the number for the year be-
fore.
According to the report of Mrs.
Helen Mar Bollinger, state presi-
dent of the p T. A., who was a
delegate to the national convention
the work of the associations in the
different states has gone SO far as
to create a new department in
many schools and colleges, that of
Parent-Teacher courses, where
teachers and parents may receive
special training for leadership in
the associations. The subjects of
parent-teacher plans and programs
are given as credit courses, count
ing toward teaching degrees.
In one instance a chair for Par
enthood Training has been placed
at the Agricultural college, Athens,
Georgia, land grant college doing
large extension work. A dona-
tiOn of $4,000 has been received by
the school from the Rockefeller
Fund to which $1,000 a year will
be added from local funds, for a
three-year program which will be
statewide and carried on as ex-
tension work from the school
Press notices and publicity of
different sorts, including the use
of the radio are to be used pro-
fusely during the coming year to
further interests through the states
in the undertakings of the nation
wide P. T. A.
A spirit of cooperation will be
sought with the Federation of Wo-
mems clubs by the P T. A organi-
cations this year, and the co-opera-
tion between the P. T. A. and differ
ent branches OF the United States
government, including departments
of agriculture and commerce and
the bureau of education and the
divisions of home economics will
be maintained. 1t is also anticipat-
Sed that the P. T. A. and churches
Will work in unison on many civic
and social problems.