Smyrna times., 1937-11-18
TEACHERS OFF
TO STATE MEET
Smyrna Group Join Others
For Two-Day State Con-
vention Meeting
HELD IN WILMINGTON

Supt. George R. Miller, Jr., and
staff of the John Bassett Moore
School, are leaving this morning
for Wilmington to attend the nine
teenth annual meeting of the Della
ware State Teachers Association
Teachers = about 100 of them
from all parts of the State = will
take place of children in the class
rooms and school auditoriums to
listen to lectures, to see demon
strations, and to participate in dis
cussion groups. Noted authors
scholars, teaching experts, and lee
turers will address the general ses-
sions and several of the depart
mental meetings. At the general
sessions DR.. Daniel Polling, pastor
of Temple Baptist Church; Sena-
tor Josh Lee, of Oklahoma, Mr.
Harold r. Peat, writer, and DR.
William Lyon Phelps, author and
critic, will speak. Among the other
lecturers will be DIR. E. ID. GrizZeli
before the Secondary School De
partment; Mrs. ]. B. Tompkins and
DR. Claude Stokes, the Oak Lane
Country Day School, before the In
termediate Department; Miss Ag-
mes Burke, Horace Mann School,
before the Primary Department;
DR.. e. r. Lewis, professor of Eng
lish at Ohio State University, and
DR.. Florence Hale, past president
of the National Education Associa-
tion, before the Elementary and
Rural Departments. Speakers at
sectional meetings will be Miss
Ruth Wanger, principal Of South
Philadelphia High School for girls,
and Miss Cecile Buckles, Tower
Hill School, before the Social Sci
ence Sections; DR. G. r. Murick.
head Of the Mathematics Depart
ment Of Lincoln School before the
mathematics section; and DR.. Arno
Viehoever, research professor in
biology at the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy and Science. The
commercial section vii hear Mr.. w.
z. Douglas, president, Eastern
Commercial Teachers Association,
Professor f. @. Nichols of the
Graduate School of Education of
Harvard University, and Mr.. Leo
L. Lawrence, head of the CONNER
cial Department of Kennett High
School, "A number of groups are
planning informal discussions of
common problems in modern edu-
cation The intermediate Depart
ment will discuss An Assembly
Program as an Outgrowth of So
cial Studies" a discussion of libr-
ary problems will be preceded by
brief talks by Mrs. Margaret Ross,
of School Libraries in
Miss Frances Gold
stein, assistant librarian at the
and Pierre S. DUPONT
High Schools, and Miss Marian B.
Kee, librarian of the William Penn
High School, Philadelphia. The
School English Section
will present a panel discussion on
''The Skills Program of the Revis-
ed Curriculum" DR.. F. T. Rex, of
the Lincoln School, Columbia Uni
versity, will lead a discussion on
Problems in Foreign Language
in Delaware" The Art
Section will talk on Three Major
Crafts in the Art Field" At the
Citizens Section, DR.. Thomas S.
Hopkins, Curriculum Specialist of
the Lincoln School, will lead a dis
on education as guidance.
Several other sections will feature
of new techniques
IN teaching. The Sophomore Glass
Of the Claymont High School will
give choral readings before the
Secondary School English Depart
ment. Miss Violet Findlay, super
visor of Nature Study will demon
strate Arrangements of Flowers"
TO illustrate the Aesthetic Side of
the Home" and Miss Ethel Jones,
instructor of Home Economics in
will show a collection of