Evening star., 1932-05-01
CHILD EDUCATORS
MEET THIS WEEK
Hoover to Receive Conven'
ton Delegates at White
House Thursday.

Nationally prominent educators in the
field of the schooling of younger chill
dren will assemble in Washington this
week for the thirty-ninth annual Con-
vention of the Association for Child
hood Education.
The sessions of the convention, which
opens Wednesday to continue through
Saturday, will be held at the Willard
Hotel, Department of Commerce audi
torium, Washington Hotel and Me-
mortal Continental Hall. Headquarters
will be maintained at the Willard.
Convention Speakers.
Speakers at the various sessions Will
include DR.. Frank w. Ballou, supertn-
tendent of District schools; DR.. William
John Cooper, United States commlS-
sioner of education, and DR.. George
D. Stoddard of the University OF Iowa,
president of the National Association OF
Nursery Education. Secretary OF the
Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur also VIII
speak. Commissioner Luther Re!cneI-
derfer will extend the District of Co
1umbia's greetings to the convention at
its opening session.
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged under the general convention
chairmanShip of Miss Catharine X.
Watkins, director of kindergartens in
the public schools. The United states
Army Band will play in concert at the
opening evening session WEDNESDAY
President Hoover will receive the dele
gates at the White House on Thursday
and Dr. Leo S. Rowe will be host to
them at the Pan-American Union on
Saturday. Various luncheons and teas
will be held throughout the convention
period and the symposium dinner OF
the convention is scheduled for Satur-
day evening at the Willard Hotel.
Topics for Discussion.
Among the topics of interest to edu-
Gators and parents alike, which will be
discussed during the convention will be
nursery school problems, reading en-
phasis in school activities, future trends
in teacher training suggested by pres
ent-day needs, cooperative supervision
and teacher training.
Besides Miss Watkins, the general
chairman, who is past president Of the
kindergarten Union and a member OF
the Board of Editors Of Childhood Edu-
cation, the Convention Committee in
cludes the following:
Headquarters and accommodations,
Miss Marie Graft; places OF meeting,
Miss Ruby Nevins and Mrs. G. H. Lep-
Der; hospitality, Miss A. M. Swan and
Mrs. Miller; decorations. Miss M. Nc
Farland and Miss A. G. Clifton; badges,
Miss L r. Meloy: school visiting, Miss
I. Zeiders and Mrs: H. H. Bolton;
transportation, Miss E. Kemp and Miss
Shumaker; press, Mrs. Louise Hughes
and Mrs. r. K. sherwood; printing,
Miss England and Mrs. Hawxhurst;
symposium dinner, Mrs. E. H. Wood
ward and Mrs H. B. Krogh; finance,
Miss j. M Searle; credentials and cleo
tions, Miss c. M. Allen; commercial
exhibits, Miss Lydia Stearns; education
al exhibits, Dr. Julia Hahn; drives, Miss
Marie Woolnough; posters, Miss M.
Hayard, and pages, Miss Adele Price
and Miss N. T. Head.
The Association for Childhood Edu-
cation was formerly the International
kindergarten Union and its delegates
will come from every State in the Union
and from several foreign countries. The
field covered by the work of the assoeia-
ton embraces the nursery school, the
kindergarten and the primary grades.