Evening star., 1927-10-29
COUNTY'S SCHOOL
BODY .REORGAN|zED
Montgomery Federation
Changes Name and Elects
Dr.. Humphrey Head.
Dispatch to The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, October 90
After the Federation of Community
School Associations of Montgomery
County, at its annual meeting in the
high school building here yesterday
afternoon, had changed it's name to
the Montgomery County Council of
Community School Associations and
revised its constitution in other re-
spects, DIR. II. B. Humphrey of Cabin
John was elected president for the
ensuing year. to succeed Milton w.
Phillips of Barnesville. Mrs. Jones
.Hoyle of Dckerson and Mrs. Parker
Weller of Glenmont were chosen vice
president and secretary treasurer, re-
spectively.
The new officers We're selected by
a nominating committee, appointed at
previous meeting, consisting OF Mrs.
Edgar Rogers, f. Bache Albert, Mrs.
Charles Sellman. Mrs. Fred keplinGer
and r. +. Gould, and were unam-
mously elected.
Miss Mary +. Burton, principal OF
the Woodside School, and Thomas W.
Pyle, county supervisor OF hlSh
schools, We're selected as delegate
and alternate, respectively, TO repre-
sent the council at the State Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers to be
held in Baltimore, November 10, II
and II.
Has 65 Associations.
Two new organizations were ad-
mitted to membership, increasing the
number of constituent associations
to Go.
The meeting was conducted by the
retiring president, Mr.. Phillips, untll
the election of officers. when the new
president, DR.. Humphrey. took charSe.
Preceding the meeting of the
county wide organization, a JOINT
meeting OF the federation and the
public school teachers Of the county
was held, principally to hear DR.. JOY
Elmer Morgan, editor -in-chief of the
National Education Magazine, pub
lished by the National Educational
Society, talk on Child Welfare. what
Is 1t? How May the Parent-Teacher
Associations Help to Promote 1t?
$50 Hear Address.
DR.. Morgan was heard by approx
mately three hundred and fifty teach-
ers, federation delegates ana olhefs'
He stressed cardinal principles as
constituting child welfare.
A music program under direction
of Mrs. Edgar Rogers of Washington
Grove was feature of the joint ses-
sion.
THE teachers held their Fall con-
ferences in the morning under gen
eral direction of Prof. Edwin w.
Broome. county superintendent OF
schools, assisted by William Is.
Klingaman, State supervisor OF high
schools; Thomas w. Pyle, county su-
pervisor of high schools. and Miss
Huldah Brust, Miss Kristine Nilsson
and Miss Eleanor Smith, county su-
peryisors of primary, elementary and
one-room schools, respectively.
The more than two hundred teach-
ers in attendance separated them-
selves into groups-high school, ele-
mentary. one-room and two-room-
and considered problems in connec-
ton with their work.
The teachers later met as the
Montgomery County Teachers Asso-
citation and transacted routine busi-
ness under the direction of the presi-
dent. James w. White, prlnclpai Oh
the school at Potomac.
The association paid a tribute 10
Mrs. Blanche Braddock Creamef Oh
washington and the county, VINO is
understood to have been the nfsI
teacher in the State to be placed on
the retired list under the teachers
retirement law, enacted by the last
Legislature.