The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-11-01
MAN
NAMED AREA
MEA LEADER
2 from Valley Chosen Officers
at District Convention of
School People

n northeastern district of the
Montana Education association. ac-
cordlng to announcement by the
election committee at the closing
session of the annual convention i'm
Glasgow high school Friday night.
MI. Friesleben succeeds Superinten-
dent R. F. Sando of Poplar.
New first vice president will be
Miss Grace Van Duser, principal of
Glasgow high school, with Superin-
tendent D. H. Welsh of Frazer
chosen second vice president. Super
intendent E. Ford Slaght of Wolf
Point was chosen a member of the
state M.E.A. executive council. The
convention opened here Thursday
morning with a series Of panel dis
cuSSions.
President Guy H. Vande Bogart
Of Northern Montana college at
Havre and Willard S. Goslin, super
intendent of schools at Minneapolis.
were the speakers at the first gen.
eral session of the convention
Thursday afternoon. President San
do presided.
Music on Program
The program opened with music
provided by a brass sextet and a
brass octet from the Glasgow high
school band, directed by Alonzo
Hartwig. The Rev. FIR. A. E. Foley
delivered the invocation and dele
gates were welcomed to Glasgow by
Mayor E. !. Kjelstrup, to which
superintendent Friesleben re-
sponded.
we will have to PROFESSIONALISM
education as we have not done be-
fore" said President Vande Bogart
in his address. He spoke of the power
of the school in the formation of
public opinion and the responsible
ity CT the teacher in promoting a
better understanding of American
ideals. New industries, inventions
and social orders will bring a new
standard of living. The prospect is
a challenge to education.
Teachers, like others, may have
been swayed to believe the postwar
years will be happy years with many
new gadgets and luXurieS, but there
is a price that must be paid in cur
effort and thinking" he declared.
Returning veterans will be i'm
patient of education that is not
practical. There will be a greater de-
mand for the types of education they
consider important. The higher edu-
cational institutions will have TO pro-
vide a better means of inspiring
teachers for a great democracy, and
teachers will have TO take more
pride in their profession and help
TO create the public opinion that
5eaching is a highly important and
specialized profession, he
laid.
Many Uneducated
There are about two billion peo-
Die in the world today, half CT whom
lave never attended a day of school
their life and one-third of whom
nave never been well fed" said
superintendent Goslin. Children will
laVe to live in a world where these
people have become their neighbors,
lie said.
The schools should be interested
n the ehAa's physical development,
motional stability, skills and be-
iefs. The teacher needs to under
tand the individual child's back
round and provide a pattern of
ducation that fits that particular
hid, the Minneapolis nan stated.
Children get their ideals from
he people they live with, he said.
10 adult generation & say, Youth
degenerated, unless that adult
e|neration has been negligent in
eaching the youth. 1t is our duty
D bring on a generation OF young
.mericans who believe in the prin-
iples of Democracy
LOucks Presides
Mrs. Zada Sales Dickson, pianist.
nd Mrs. Titus Kurtichanov, vocal
It, from the Montana state college
resented a musical program at the
OF the closing session, at
-hich H. V. Loucks, superintendent
f schools at Nashua, presided.
Mrs. Lillian Petersen of Helena,
ate supervisor of elementary
.hools, spoke briefly in apprecia-
of the 100 per cent coopera-
of the group in making the
invention a success.
Prof. Charles Hertler. state sup
visor of physical education stressed
lie teachers need of philosophy and
4 understanding CT the interde-
sndence of the physical and mental
,e.
DR.. Baker Brownell said that the
award report ON General Educa-
on in a Free Society recently pub
she'd had given one-third of its
to high school education, and
in his opinion the universities
.ould turn their attention in the
ure to improving education in the
condary schools.
The schools should teach appre-
ition of the value of democracy
id DR.. Ira w. STAN Of Northern
college.
Goslin Last Speaker
DR.. GoSlin was the closing speaker.
; compared the child's growth and
ucation to the growth Of a tree
revealed by the rings e e in the
imp of an old tree. There n
ars CT drought and years OF
Each teacher should try to
axe the year she has each indi-
iual child a year of growth in his
1t is also part of her RESPONSE
ity to help provide a suitable en-
'onment for him. She must think
the worlds problems such as
eping the peace, the need Of the
read of education. the necessity of
2 United States being willing to
re up some of its sovereignty for
2 common good. Children must be
light about our own country and
constitution, the Unied nations.
d the San Francisco charter, so
1t we can quickly develop a type
world-citizen to work for the
,~servation Of freedom and democ-
" and the conservation OF the