Milford chronicle., 1931-06-19
GOSLEE AGAIN HEADS
DEL. CITIZENS ASSN.
IContinned from Fra Paqel

The association has dedicated IL
resources, to an Interpretation o
the findings of the investigator il
the field of education and to thu
demonstration of practices resulting
from it, for the benefit of the State!
school system. It's major activities
are the provision of educationa
programs for the use of groups
meeting in the schools; cooperation
with the Bureau of Adult Education
publicity and publications; a dem
onstration school, the joint project
of the State Department of Public
instruction and the Delaware Citi-
zens' Association.
Mrs. Frank G.. Tallman was chair
man of the meeting in charge of the
luncheon. She was assisted by Mrs
A. D. Warner, Sr., and Mrs. Harry
+. Speakman, of Wilmington; Mrs
Alden B. Richardson. Dover, and
Mrs. Ella Amery, of Seaford.
J. E. Goslee was reelected presi-
dent of the association. Other Off
GERS elected were Lammot dupont,
Hugh NJ Morris, William H. BOyce
and Julian Townsend. H. Fletcher
Brown was reelected treasurer.
The following were elected to the
board of directors.
f. c. Bancroft, H. Fletcher Brown,
Mrs. J. Thompson Brown, Governor
c. Douglass Buck, Julian B. Towns
end, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Bish-
Op Philip Cook, Irenee dupont. Lam
mot DUPONT, Jr., J. E. Goslee, Dr.
Frank Grier, Mrs. Francis deli. Jan
vier, former Judge Hugh NJ. Morris,
Robert H. Richards, Harry Speak
man, Frank G. Tallman, Mrs. A. D.
Warner, Judge William H. Boyce
and Frank NJ. Jones.
The board will meet in the near
future to elect a secretary in place
of Harry E. Speakman, recently re-
signed.
In discussing parent education,
Miss Eta Wilson said the Organiza-
tiOn has maintained active contacts
with ten per cent of the parents of
Delaware outside of Wilmington.
During the past year between 10000
J and $4,000 parents have been COM
ing to school houses once a month
to attend 1881 meetings, many of
which have been attended by over
400 parents. Two hundred and four
Parent-Teacher Associations have
been formed in the State.
Miss Wilson described how these
organizations have helped to insure
the success of evening classes con-
Quoted by the newly-created State
Bureau of Adult Education. Trained
leaders were provided by the Della
ware Citizens Association after
questionnaires stating the desires Of
the community had been ascertained
with respect to the curricula. This
year, said Miss Wilson, 2,505 individ-
ualS enrolled in SO class units.
Miss Wilson praised the work
done at the demonstration school at
Georgetown where teachers of the
State are kept in touch with the
most modern trends in educational !
technique. Parent educations needs |
of the State is to be advanced by
the organization as the result of the |
recent White House Conference on
Child Care and Protection which |
was attended by 25 Delawareans.
Among the miscellaneous activi-
ties touched upon by Miss Wilson |
were the part played by the organi- /
zation in the development of the
States new art and music depart /
ments, the furnishing Of the resi-
dence for teachers in the demonstra-
tion school, and the Summer
runOd-up," a play by which Parent
Teacher Associations will induce
parents to bring their children of
school age to a stated place for med
ical examinations prior to the open
ing of the fall school term.
How special consideration is Civ
en- to problem" children at the
demonstration school by dealing
with them as individual cases was
one of the interesting phases of a
pedagogy discussed by DR.. Allen
Hulsier. He also described the cur
riculum of the school by which the
Ory has been combined as much as
possible with concrete realities and
muck time devoted to recreational
activities.
Several outstanding phases of the
schools work discussed by Mr.. HUI
sizer We're the school library, its
restaurant and nutrition work, safe !
ty education, music department, and :
industrial arts. The 400 teachers of
the State visit the school twice :
yearly to acquaint themselves with :
problems that arise in /;
the class room. One of the most :
prominent activities of the school :
has been its use as a teacher-train-
ing agency, he said.
Cooperating with the State
Board of Health visiting nurse will
be placed on the school staff who
will also visit the children's homes I
when necessary. Mr. Hulsizer ac- :
knowledged the cooperation of nu- 6
nerous state agencies in the schools
work. \
A motion picture of activities of 4
he school was shown.
Among those present were: T. G.. i
rallman, Mrs. F. G. Tallman, A. o.
H. Grier, H. Fletcher Brown, Mrs. (
Charles Warner, Helen S. Garrett, @
Mrs. A. D. Warner, Ethel J. Webb,
Burton P. Fowler, Harry E. Speak f
nan, Mrs. Burton, P. Fowler, Col v
George A. Elliott, Mrs. J. S. Ham
lton, Irenee DUPONT, Mrs. Clarence f
Fraim, all of Wilmington; Jesse S. o
Shepherd, of Middletown; George S. a
of Millsboro; Ira S. Brin-
er, of Newark; Miss Winifred J.
robinson, of the WOmen's College, !