Evening star., 1932-01-31
.15,O1O EDUCATORS
TO CONVENE HERE
National Education Group De-
partment to Hold 66th
Meeting.

Fifteen thousand educators will as
Semble in Washington next month for
the Sixty-seCond annual convention OF
the Department of superintendent Of
the National Education Association.
Opening February 20, to continue
through February Is. the ConVentiOn's S
participants will include H. 900 register
ed delegates of the Department OF Su-
perintendence itself and 1000 other
delegates of various allied educational
organizations, who hold their annual
meetings concurrent with the major
group.
Interior Secretary Wilbur DR.. Will
liam John Cooper, United States COM
missioner of education, and more than
a score Of other prominent Interior
Department officials will speak at the
various conferences which will COM
prise the convention.
Other Prominent Speakers.
Besides the Secretary of Interior and
the commissioner of education, the
prominent speakers will include DR..
Leonard V. KooS, associate director Of
the National Survey of Secondary Edu-
cation; DR.. E. S. Evenden, associate di-
rector OF the National Survey OF the
Education of Teachers; Miss BeSs
Goodykoontz, assistant commissioner OF
education, and DR.. Paul R. Mort, aSso-
ciate director Of the National Survey
of School Finance.
While no Washington hall is large
enough to accommodate the entire dele
CATION here for the convention, the con-
Vention will be divided into confer
ences. The Washington Auditorium
will house exhibits of more than 200
manufacturers Of educational appar-
atus, supplies and equipment. General
sessions of the convention will be held
in Constitution Hall. while the sessions
of the IA allied organizations will be
held in Memorial Continental Hall
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building, Department Of Agriculture
Building, National Museum Depart
ment of Commerce Building, various
churches and hotels and the head
quarters building of the National Edu-
cation Building.
Edwin c. Broome, superintendent Of
schools in Philadelphia, president Of
the Department of Superintendent
has planned the convention program
around timely topics, including the
present crisis in public education
adaptations Of education to changing
economic and political world, promo
ton of the physical and mental health
of school children and art in education
Character education will have a proml-
nent place on the program OF discus
sions
Wilbur Speech Topics.
Secretary Wilbur will speak on ma
tional Aspects of Education" on the
closing day Of the convention. He also
will address a meeting in the Red
Cross Building, February %, on Food
and Good Citizenship
DR.. Cooper, who will preside at meet
ings of the Department Of Superintend-
ence and allied organizations during
the convention, will address the Nation
ments Of Education on The Functions
of the University College of Education"
Commissioner Cooper will speak at the
dinner meeting devoted to home eco
nonics education on February %. He
will speak at the general sessions on
the closing day of the convention.
Miss Goodykoontz will speak on
Social Economic Survey of Com
munity as a Basis Of an Educational
Survey" before the American Educa-
tional Research Association on Febru-
ary 10. prior to the major convention
She will speak before the Department
of Supervisors and Directors Of InStruc-
ton on Supervision in Progressive Ele-
mentary Schools"
Progress and findings of the National
Survey of Secondary Education will be
reported at sessions of the Department
of Secondary School Principals on Feb
ruary % to "a at Wardn1an Park Hotel
bv DR.. Koos, DR.. Belmont Farley, as
sistant director of the N. E. A. division
of publications; DR.. Roy o. Billet, Spe-
ciaiist in. school administration at the
office Of education here; DR.. w: G.
ReaVis, professor of education, UnlVer-
sity of Chicago; DR.. Arthur K. Looms,
principal of the University High School,
University of Chicago; DR.. Charles H.
Judd University Of Chicago; DR.. Roy
Brammell of the office OF educatlon
and DR.. Francis T. Spaulding Of Har-
ward University.
Others who will participate proml-
nentlv in the educational conferences
include DR.. Guy c. Gamble, senior sur
vev specialist; Miss Ellen c. Lombard,
parent education specialist; j. O. Malott,
commercial education specialist, and
Miss Alice Barrows, specialist in school
building problems, all of the ONCE OF
Education.
Membership is EEo,UUU.
The department Of superintendent
is one of the largest departments OF
the National Education Association. 1t
has membership of 225,00O. Viz
tually every city school superintendent
in the country is a member Of the de-
partment and each year, with the ex-
ception of four, since the department
was created in 1866 they have met in
national conference. The convention
city is chosen a year in advance and
the intervening period is occupied by
preparations for the various sessions
which constitute the convention.
The last convention held in Wash
ington was in 1926, when, on Wash
ington's birthday anniversary, Presi-
dent Coolidge addressed the session on
The Father of His Country and Edu-
cation" The first President will be
honored at this years meeting in cele-
bration OF the Bicentennial. The edu
Gators will make a pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon, where they will place WreathS
on the tombs of George and Martha
washington. Already 125 busses have
been chartered for the trip and, &C
cording to bus company officials, the
procession will be so long that if the
operators drive at the legal distance
apart the last bus will be leaving the
Capital as the first bus is diScharging
its passengers at the national shrine.