Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-11-08
County To Send
Delegates To
State P-TA Meet

State PA Meet
With large delegations from.
Montgomery County, the annual
session of the Maryland Congress
of Parents and Teachers will be
held at Annapolis, November ID
and 15.
The general theme Of the meet
ings is Together We Build" from
which it is anticipated many effec-
tive methods of promoting the well
fare of children and youth locally,
nationally, and internationally,
will be derived.
Featuring the first afternoon
session, a Symposium Panel,
Building Our Educational Pro-
gram form Maryland's Legislature
Blueprint, will give an inside pic
ture of the development of the
curriculum for the IL year public
school system as it is being formu-
lated.
OF particular interest the morn-
ing of November Is are conferen-
ces on Safety and Juvenile Protec-
ton. These will be followed by
an address, Cooperating with
Other, Agencies" by DR.. Charles
W. Phillips, second vice president
of the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers.
DIR. Earle Hawkins, high school
supervisor for the State Depart
ment of Education, will lead the.
panel on development of the ~
year curriculum. DIR. Hawkins was
in charge of the Workshop" held
this summer at Towson State
Teachers College, where Maryland
educators worked to adapt the
school program to recent legisla-
ton. The consultants, who also
Alder elementary field); Wilbur
Devilbiss (Junior high school
field); and DR.. E. Clarke Fontaine
(senior high school feld). Those
who will discuss the suject include
G. Gardner Shugart, superinten-
dent of education, Prince Georges
County; Eugene w. Pruitt, Fred
erick County supervisor and w.
Stewart Fitzgerald, Caroline
County supervisor of education.
Mrs. L. F. Ditman, president of
the Prince Georges County Coun-
Gil of PTA will direct the ques-
tons. This session takes place
Wednesday afternoon.
The convention banquet is sch
eduled for Wednesday evening,
November IA, at Carvel Hall, with
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor and
DR.. Phillips as principal speakers.
Building for the Future of Mary
land" and Building for World
Peace" are the respective subjects.
A new corps of officers for the
State Organization will be elected
on Thursday morning, as Mrs.
Stanley G.. Cook of Indian Head,
completes her second term as presi-
dent. Under her administration
there has been an increase of TO-
900 in State PTA membership
which now totals $4,000. Mrs.
Cook has been endorsed by the
Maryland Congress Board as
candidate for secretary of the Ma
tional PTA Congress. Mrs. Robert
Doty, Cumberland, program chair
man, has been nominated for the
Maryland presidency.
Resolutions will be presented by
Mrs. G. r. Clements, former presi-
dent. Two special luncheons, one
for local presidents and one for
County Council presidents have
been arranged for Thursday at
1890 at Carvel Hall.
At $3.50, following tour of
points of interest in Annapolis
Governor and Mrs. O'Conor will re-
ceive the delegates at tea at the
Government House. A professional
of national, state, county and local
officers, local presidents, delegates
and gueusts precedes the End gem
eral session on Wednesday after
noon. Music will be provided UNI
der the direction of Mrs. Paul
Erickson, head of the music de-
partment of the Annapolis High
School.
Arrangements for the conven-
ton have been made by a COM
mittee from the Anne Arundel
County Council, with Mrs. Walter
Muchow, its president, as chair
man