The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1928-04-05
MISS COlRNEsLIA ADATR
M AGAR spokanes Guest This Week VIII Go
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ASSOCIATION on Evangeine Lodge of

Miss Cornelia Adair president of the National
Education Association is from Richmond Va and
she is what Southern women call "A 'fatfy" The
term is not used promiscuousy there as il is in
other parts of the country; must qualify in a
very definite way Being sin politics." as a woman
IN such a high executive position naturally finds
herself has not in any way robbed her of thar
charm that is distinctly Southern Miss Adair will
speak at the general session of the Inland Empire
Education Association on "Fhe New EmphaSs I'm
Education this morning at 1920 AT the Lewis and
Clark High School auditorium From Spokane she
will go direct to Hamilton, Ontario whore She Will
have the honor of making the international adj
dress comforting a life membership in the Ontario
Education Association the mother of Charles
lindbergh. Mrs. Lindberghs father was a Cana.
dian. She hopes to fly with Mrs. Lindbergh but
no definite arrangements have been made as yet
for this event.
Miss Adair does not believe that the South needs
great deal of sympathy edHeatonalIy We are
coming To the front 'cducationally" very RAPIDLY
cur colored people are being taken good care Of
too, through the Rosenwald foundation, which is
providing rural schools throughout the South for
coored children.
She has been Il grade school teacher for more
than 20 years, and is this year leave of absence
for the great work as head of the y. +. A. She
has been interested in organization work for years
and was head of RehmondS first teacher organiza-
ton Since then she has always held an office of
some kind or other and often many at a time
In the National Education Association she has held
once lor elGlN years, ana next year VIII he vice
president. She started out as state director WAS
treasurer. member of the executive committee
and 4 trustee; in fact she has held every office
within the gift of the organization.
She is chairman of education for the League
of Women Voters of Virginia, and until this year
was national chairman of education for that organi
cation. She is also chairman of education for the
Richmond branch of the American Association of
University Women. and is the Richmond president
of the Business and Professional Womans Club.
which she helped organize.
Always interested in suffrage, she belonged 10
suffrage organizations in the South
you way ahead of us there with your
Woman State Superintendent; we haven't even a
woman county superintendent, yet" she said
I suggested that following her term as national
president of the Education Association she might
Miss Adair, however, was noncommittal on the sub
tect. Getting rghtfui place in politics is
matter of slow growth" she said.
The emphasis in education in which Miss
Adair is interested is character training in thu
schools to protect the future America Il
believe that we have swung much farther out than
the founders of this country wished to do in
such vital natter she said Miss Adair be-
fieves that character training must be taught by
school activities, with student government and clubs
all playing part. She believes also that the
reading of the Bible has place in public school
training and that the teachers should be religious
people, though in way teaching sectarianism.
"The Bible is read in the Virginia public schools
by law, and in the high schools the old Testament