Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
EDUCATION SOCIETY
PLANS CONVENTION.
President Leaves Washing
ton After Appointing Impor.
tant National Committees.

The 1880 Summer convention OF the
Ma Cional Education Association will be
held in Columbus, Ohio. June % to
July 4, according to an announcement
of Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle, president of the
association, who left Washington this
morning.
Miss Pyrtle, who goes to resume her
work as principal of the Bancroft
School, in Lincoln, Nebr.. has been in a
three-day conference with members of
her headquarters staff here relative to
the Columbus convention and to the
appointment of important national COM
mittees.
New committee chairmen appointed
include: Miss Anna Laura Force, prin-
cipal of Lake Junior High School, Dem
yer, Colo, who takes the place of Miss
Pyrtle as chairman of the committee on
retirement allowances: Miss Annie Carl
ton woodward, teacher in the high
school at Somerville, Mass, chairman
of the international relations commit
tee, member of the committee since
the organization of the Representative
Assembly in 1921, who takes the place
of Dean William F.. Russell of Teachers
College. Columbia University. Miss
woodward is a prominent student of
international relations and has just re-
turned from a Summer spent in Eu-
rope in attendance att international
meetings where the relation of educa-
ton to world understanding and good
will was the chief topic of discussion.
New Committee Formed.
A new committee was organized to
draft resolutions to be presented to Dr.
John Dewey on behalf of the member
ship of the National Education Associa-
ton at his birthday anniversary, when
he will be presented with a life men,
bership in the association.
Other members of this committee are
Harold o. Rugg, professor of education,
Teachers College. Columbia University;
Uel w. Lamkin, president, State Teach
ers' College, Maryville. Mo-; j. M.
Gwinn, superintendent of schools, San
Francisco, Calf. George D. Strayer,
professor of education, Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University; Ida Lee
Tall. principal, State Normal School,
Towson, Md.
Other committees appointed include:
Appointment of delegates and kindred
questions, chairman, A. l.. Threlkeld.
superintendent of schools, Denver. Colo.
committee to cooperate with the Ma
tional Association of Teachers in Col
ored Schools. chairman, N. c. NeWbold.
State director of Negro education, State
department. Oh 1CdlelSI, IN. ~. ,
economic status Of the teacher, chair
man, B. r. Buckingham. Boston: joint
committee on health problems in educa-
ton, DR.. Thomas D. Wood. Teachers
College, Columbia University, who has
been chairman of this committee since
1917: legislative commission, chairman.
William j. Davidson, superintendent of
schools. Pittsburgh, Pa, and the COM
mittee on the problem of tenure, chair
man. Dr. A. L. Rowland. superintend-
ent of schools, Elkins Park, Pa.
Miss Pyrtle is the eighth woman pres
ident of the National Educational Asso-
citation since its organization in 1857.
She won this recognition through her
outstanding leadership among the ele-
mentary principals of the State of Ne
braska and her frequent service on i'm
portant committees of the National
Education Association.
The first woman president of the as
ISOLATION was Miss Ella Flagg Young.
superintendent of schools in Chicago,
who was elected to the presidency in
1911. Since the election in 1917 of Mrs.
Mary C. C. Bradford. who was State SUI
perintendent of public instruction in
Colorado, it has been the practice of
the organization to elect man to the
presidency one year and woman the
next. Miss Pyrtle follows President Uel
w. Lamkin, president of the Northeast
Missouri State Teachers College, Mary
Vile Mo