Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23


| Canal Zone, from Guam, Hawaii, the
| Philippines, Porto Rico. from the
Virgin Islands. And this year there
are III members listed as foreign"
| No small Job!
Miss McSkimmon Is remarkable for
many qualities Of mind and executive
| ability, but the thing her associates
| best like to tell about Is her real and
| answering devotion to the welfare OF
the child itself. Through her many
years of teaching experience, with all
| the honors that have come to her ana
with all the arduous duties attendant
| upon them, she has kept her direct
contact with the children in her own
school and her classwork with them.
For rs years she has been principal or
the Pierce Grammar School in Brook
line, Mass, and 1t was here in 1895
that she helped inaugurate the Brook-
line Education Society. one of the
EARLIEST parent-teacher organizations
In the United States. Her great aim
| in life, as she says, was in helping
other teachers to see. ! felt that doing
my own job successfully was the best
| way to accomplish that"
Headed State Teachers.
Miss McSkimmon has held many
positions of responsibility before COM
ing to her present one. For five years,
the full legal term, she was at the
head of the Massachusetts State Teach.
ers. She has studied continuously;
has lectured at Wellesley, at Boston
University, and at the Normal schools
near her home. She has published
numerous magazine articles. and Is
the co-author OF citizenship and Pa
triotism." This past year, in her of
fetal capacity, she has travelled all
over the country. lecturing and study
| ing problems at first hand. ;
Next to Miss McSkimmon on the
roster Of officers stands the name OF
J. w. Crabtreee. executive secretary
since 1917 of the National Education
Association, Mr.. Crabtree came to
Washington from the Middle West.
| having been born in Ohio; getting his
NJ. A. from the University of Nebraska
| in 1908: and weaving in and around
| the various stages of his work as a
student his own teaching. He has
been a city superintendent Of schools,
| a high school principal, instructor at
| his own university. State high school
| inspector. President of the Peru State
| Normal and the one in River Falls,
Wis; State superintendent for Ne
! braska, president of the Nebraska
State Teachers Association, member
Of the National Council of Education
and the National Academy of Science
And with all this. he has found time
for the writing of many books, pam
| phlets and reports. He has been a great
organizer, and it Is to his skillful and
continuous guidance that the astoniSh
ing growth of the National Education
| Association from a membership OF
only 1857 in 1918 to nearly 100000 In
| 1925 Is largely due.
| Turning TO the board of trustees, we
| find the name of Carroll G. Pearse, an
other pioneer. Mr.. Pearse is one of the
men who gives the opponents of the
| theory OF teaching being fit only for
| women and he-ladieS' the lie direct.
| Judging by his general bigness and the
amount he has accomplished in the
short lifetime so far, MIR. Pearse
should be able to hold his own in any
| sort of an argument. He is the type
| Of person who chooses teaching be-
cause he loves it and recognizes it as
probably the most vital profession out
of many that are indispensable. Ac.
| cording to Who's Who" he has been
a city school superintendent in Omaha,
| Nebr.. and in Milwaukee; a lecturer
| and instructor in normal schools in
Nebraska, Dakota, Montana. Michi-
gan. Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and
| elsewhere, and president Of the Mil
waukee State Normal from 1918 until
| 1922, when he Joined forces with a
large publishing house in Chicago. He
| was one Of the group instrumental in
bringing the N. e. A. from Ann Arbor
to Washington in 1917. He was its
president in 1912.
Miss Williams Notable.
| Another past president is Miss Charl
Ormand williams, formerly superin.
| tendent of schools in Shelby County,
| Tenn, which includes Memphis. Her