The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-22
BOUCHER
NOW HEADS
TEACHERS
State Association Elects
Valparaiso Veteran
Unanimously.
ELIMINATES 7 OTHERS
Committee Picks Nominee
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ELIMINATES 7 OTHERS
Committee Picks Nominee
on Sixteenth Ballot.

Fifty years of service to the cause
ed today by the election of Superin-
tendent c. w. Boucher. Valparaiso,
as president of the Indiana State
Teachers Association. Not a dis
senting voice was raised when the
veteran teachers name was placed
before the business session at noon
today by the nominating committee.
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Miss Ada Bicklng was chosen as
recording secretary, but will be re-
placed by the committe. as Il was re-
ported that she is leaving the State.
Wins on Sixteenth Ballot
Whatever politics was present was
cleared in the committee room.
While eight candidates were first on
the list, when the committee met
this morning, Boucher received the
endorsement on the sixteenth ballot
according to Z. o. Munsy, Madison,
chairman.
Bishop Frank J. Mcconnell. Meth
odist, of Chicago, addressed the
Cadle assennblage on the subject of
The Higher Leadership" while
Ambrose L. Suhrie. University of
New York, was the main speaker at
this mornings meeting at Tomlinson
Hall.
School Bands Play
Music Music was furnished at
Cadle by the Edinburgh High School
band and at Tomlinson Hall by the
Milford High School band. The
Tomlinson Hall meeting adjourned
to take part in the business session
al Cadle. Teacher tenure and other
resolutions were up for considera-
ton.
Bishop Mcconnell was on the Tom.
linson Hall program this afternoon
and the Rev. Ralph Fackman. New
York City, and Paul c. Stetson, Day
toni Ohiol school superintendent.
were on tfA Cadle program. The
girls glee club of Arsenal Technical
High School. under direction of Miss
Elizabeth Kaltz. was also on the
Cadle program and the EdinburS
High School band at Tomlinson Hall.
Whiting Williams, Cleveland, will
speak on What's On the the Work
er's Mind?" at the general meeting
at Cadle tonight. and Miss Mabel
Carney, Columbia University. is also
scheduled for an address. Music will!
be provided by the Shortridge High
School band, under the direction Of
William Wise.
Shift ia Presidents
Rabbi Wise was introduced by
President Martha A. Whitacre, Rich
mond, who received the reins Of of.
flee Thursday night from retiring
President William p. Dearing. In
farming over the gavel. DIR. Dearing
urged a greater cooperation among
all sections of the State in the teach
ors' association and condemned sue
cession and the forming Of b.ocs and
cliques for internal politics. lie cited
the example of the election fight of
last year as decidedly unbecoming.
In closing he urged that the newly
elected president be placed in power
at once, become a member of the ex-
ecutive committee and have some
thing to say regarding the program
over which she is to preside. At
present the new president does not
take Office until the following year.
President Whitacre, in her inau-
gural address, outlined the various
modern trends in education and
pointed with pride to the accom-
plishments of the past $50 years in
American education fields. Both the
and new president urged an
adequate teacher tenure law for
Indiana.
The program opened with music
by an all-State high school chorus
and, orchestra. directed by Ernest
Hesser. supervisor of music in the
Indianapolis schools, and Reginald
Brinklow. Goshen music supervisor.
DR.. w. A. Shullenberger, pastor of
Central Christian Church, pro-
nounced the invocation.
At p. m. Thursday the teachers
assembled at the tabernacle to choose
delegates to the N. e. A. and repre-
sentatives TO the nominating COM
mittee, which met this morning.
These meetings were conducted by
congressional districts and took on
the complexion of political conven-
ton. Much spirited contesting for
district offices and delegates were