The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-23
DEVILS LAKE Will
ENTERTAIN GROUP
AT 5-DAY SESSION
PROGRAM Combines Work and
Play for Heads Of County
School Systems
SET SPEECHES ARE BARRED
instruction Will Take Form OF
Discussion to Provide for
Exchange OF Ideas
SET SPEECHES ARE BARRED

Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 20
(AP)-North Dakota's county school
superintendents will open their sum-
mer meeting here Monday with a
discussion Of problems confronting
them.
A program Of recreation, ~instruc-
ton and demonstrations has been
arranged to continue until Friday,
according to plans announced by
Bertha R. Palmer, state s%uperinten-
dent of public instruction.
Miss Palmer said the program ar
ranged has been with a view toward
combining work and a vacation for
the superintendents. There are no
set speeches scheduled and topics
will be taken up in the form of dis
cussions. Business sessions will be
conducted until noon of each day,
with a program Of recreation ar
ranged for the balance of the day.
Miss Palmer will open the confer
ence Monday with a demonstration
of the teacher program for 1880.
She will be followed by Miss Luella
King, assistant rural specialist in
the office Of education, Washington,
D. c., Miss King will conduct five
periods of instruction on principles
and programs of supervision in rural
schools giving one instruction each
day of the meeting. On the OPEN
ing day she will discuss the applica-
tion Of the laws Of learning to super
vision.
Organization, program and 9th
grade completion program will be
taken up by the School Officers As
ISOLATION, under the direction of w.
P. Olmstead. LaMoure county super
intendent, who is chairman Of the
association. John A.. Page, director
of secondary education, is scheduled
to discuss the program of secondary
education.
Choir to Entertain
On Tuesday, the county choir is
to give q statewide music program
under the direction Of Mrs. Adele P.
Lien, and Jean G. Jones, director of
music at the Mayville state teach
er's college. Miss King will then
discuss the planning of q supervisory
program.
C. C. Swain, preSident Of the North
Dakota Education association, is
scheduled to speak on the program
of the state education association.
He will be followed by a discussion
of countrywide activities under the
direction of Caroline Evingson, Cass
county superintendent.
Superintendent Harold Wakefield
will open the Wednesday meeting
with a discussion Of uniform account
ing systems. Miss King will o n
duct a period of instruction bearing
on executing and checking of super
visory programs.
H. H. Hanson, director Of rural
education in the state department Of
public instruction, is to lead a dis
cussion on inspection problems, in
Guiding time limit blanks and the
use of aid.
H. X. Jensen. Mandan, will dis
cuss the work of the codifying COM
mittee, after which Miss King will
conduct another period of instruc-
tion on the ideal qualifications of
a supervisor. Sara c. Guss, rural
supervisor for the department of
public instruction, will lead a dis
cuSSlon on state examinations. their
trend, type and form. DR.. R. w.
Allen. director of the bureau Of pre-
ventable diseases. State Health de-
partment, is on the days program
for a talk on the county su%perinten-
dents responsibility for health pro-
grams.
The final day of the meeting will
open with a discussion of methods
Of raising the standard of teacher
qualifications in rural schools by w.
E.. Pick, specialist in teacher train
ing at the University of Minnesota.
Miss King will then instruct on the
teaching of children to study.
The county superintendent discus
sion session for the day will be led
by A. M. Waller, Ward county super
intendent. and is to be devoted to the
subject Of cooperation between state
and county offices.