Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-18
Teachers Meet Oct.
29-3O. Portland

The next annual convention of the
Maine Teachers Association will be
held at Portland on October 20 and 80.
Secretary Adelbert w. Gordon of Au-
gusta announces that the arrange
ments for the program are unusually
we'll advanced and that this years
program promises to be one of the
strongest and most comprehensive
ever presented by the association. The
program in brief will be as follows:
Wednesday evening, two keynote
meetings, men and women; Thursday
forenoon, school mugfc exhibition;
Thursday afternoon. ten departmental
sessions, meetings of affiliated organ
izations and alumni reunions; Thurs
day evening, women educators ses-
sion; Friday forenoon, ten department
tai meetings; Friday afternoon, gen.
eral session.; Friday evening, general
session.
The school music exhibition will be
given wholly by the pupils of Port
land schools, with the purpose of show
ing in a practical way the regular
| work in this subject. The women ed
ucators' session on Thursday evening
! will be an entirely new feature and
promises to be an unusual attraction.
The lady vice president will preside
and the program will be made up
wholly of women speakers and musi-
clans. The general session on Friday
afternoon will also be a new departure
and the program will consist of a
symposium with the general topic of
Character Training" The speakers
| will be prominent men and women of
Maine representing the various profess
sions. and will include the State COM
| missioner of education, Augustus o.
| Thomas, and Governor Ralph o. Brew
ster. On Friday evening the speaker
will be DR.. George Vincent, president
| of the Rockefeller Foundation and
author. He is expected to prove one
! of the ablest speakers who has ap-
peared before the Maine Teachers
| Association. In connection with the
| general sessions, musical features of
unusual merit have been arranged.
Out Of State Speakers
Among the out of State speakers of
| prominence who will appear upon the
| departmental progress are Prof. Macy
| Campbell, head of the department of
| rural education, Iowa State Universi-
| ty: Prin. Walter II. Downey of Eng
| lish High school, Boston; James NJ.
| Glass. director of Junior High schools,
| department of public instruction.
| Harrisburg. Pa; Prof. r. G. Rey-
| nolds, director of Bureau of Ed
ucational Service Columbia Uni
versity; Miss Mabel Bragg, assis-
tant superintendent OF schools. New
| ton, Mass; Prof. John ]. Mahoney,
| Harvard and Boston Universities: DR..
Victor Redman. Yonkers. N. Y; A. P.
| Williams, divisional agent for the
Federal Board for vocational educa-
tion, Washington. D. c.; Miss Amy r.
| NNhitfiar Moc A.
| school, Boston; and Miss Lucy J.
| Franklin. dean of women, Boston Uni
versity
A number OF additional speakers
| will be announced later for other de-
partments. Plans are being made to
! present one-act play as part of the
program for the English department,
| and 1t is expected that the New Eng
! land Chemistry Teachers Association
| will meet with the department of Sci
ence with arrangements for joint
program. Motion pictures will be
! shown at several of the departmental
meetings. --4
The officers of the Association for
| the ensuing year are as follows:
| President, John A. Partridge. princi-
| pal of Caribou High school: vice presi-
| dent. Ava II. Chadbourne. assistant
professor of education, University of
Maine; secretary Adelbert w. Gordon.
State school agent, Augusta; assistant
secretary, William E. Chaplin, head of
Commercial department, Portland
High school; treasurer, Charles E.
Lord, superintendent of schools, Cam
den; auditor. J. Burleigh Thompson,
superintendent of schools. Milo: men,
bers Of the executive committee,
Thomas P. Packard. superintendent of
schools, Houlton: Frank d. Rowe, SUI
| perintendent of schools, Warren; Fred
w. Burrill, superintendent of schools,
Augusta.
List Of Department Chairmen
The chairman of the various depart
ments are: Rural Schools, S. L. Pre-
BILE, sub-master of Aroostook State
Normal schools; intermediate Schools.
Fred w. Burrill, superintendent of
schools, Augusta; Mathematics, c. f.
Taylor. principal of Gardiner High
school; Science, Harrison C. Lyseth.
head of department of science. Cony
High school; English, C. l.. Smith,
Notice Of First Meeting OF Creditors
In the District Court OF tho limited