Evening star., 1950-11-20
Conference SET
On 0n|ntercuIturaI
Education Here
Sessions Nov. 29, 80
On Schools Part in
Easing Race Tension

as OCnef community organizations,
can do to foster intercultural ed
ucation will be held November 20
and 80 at the Interior Depart
ment auditorium.
Intercultural education is aimed
at alleviating the tensions be-
tween various race and religious
groups that make up the popula-
ton of the United States.
The conference has been called
by local group, the Citizens
Committee on Intercultural Edu-
cation for the District. This
group, made up of well-known ed
ucational and civic leaders of the
city, has been working quietly in
the last few years promoting the
theory of intercultural education.
To Work Through Schools.
The movement is not a direct
strike at the segregated school
system of the District. RatheS,
it hopes to work within the frame
work of the dual school system
by promoting the idea that knowl-
edge of all race and religious
groups should be taught to stu
dents.
The public schools have an In
tercultural Education Committee
already in existence. Public school
officials are members of the COM
mittee sponsoring the conference
and have been active in promoting
the work.
The conference will open at 8
pm. November 20 with DR..
Richard B. Kennan quilting the
aims OF the sessions. DR.. Kennan
is secretary of the National
Commission for the Defense Of
Democracy Through Education, a
national education association or
ganization. DR.. Frederick E. Reis-
sig, executive secretary of the
Washington Federation of
Churches, will preside.
Three Sessions November 80.
The program on November 30
will be divided into three general
sessions. The first, beginning at
10 am, will take up the School
Community Relations With Refer
ence to Intercultural Education"
with DR.. John ]. O'Connor, secre-
tary of the Catholic Interracial
Council, presiding.
Speakers will include Miss Lau-
rentine B. Collins. director, school
community relations. Detroit pub
lie schools; Mrs.~J. Rene Heming-
way Of the Montgomery County
Parent Teacher Association; vii.
liam E. Leahy, director, District
Selective Service. and Mrs. Henry
Riblet. chairman. Committee on
Parent Education, Arlington
County Council of PTAs.
The second session will discuss
"The Responsibility of School
Administrations for Intercultural
Education" with District School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning presid-
ing. Speakers will include DR..
William Jansen, superintendent
Of New York City's public schools,
and DR.. Ward I, Miller, superin-
tendent of Wilmington Del)
public schools.
Teachers Role to Be Given.
The third session will take up
the Role of the Teacher in Inter-
cultural Education" Isaac Frank,
executive director OF the Jewish
Community Council of Greater
Washington, will preside, and
speakers will include DR.. H. H.
Giles. director, Center for Human
Relations Studies, New York Uni
versity.
Members of the Citizens Com
mittee on Intercultural Education
of the District include Mr.. Frank,
DR.. Reissig. DR.. Kennan, DR..
O'Connor. Herman Edelberg, di-
rector. B'nai Birth Anti-Defama-
ton League; Miss Hope Lyons,
dean of students at Miner Teach
ers' College; DR.. Edwin B. Hen
derson, head of department Of
health. physical education and
safety for the Districts colored
schools; DR.. Stephen Gill Spotts-
wood, president, district branch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
Mrs. Alice C. Hunter, member
of the District Recreation Board;
DR.. Walter E. Hager, president Of
Wilson Teachers College; DR..
Francis j. Brown, staff associate
of the American Council on Edu-
cation; Mrs. Frank A.. Linzel, Of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews; Miss Pearle e.
Minor of the Federation of Par
ent-Teacher Associations; Emmer
Martin Lancaster, adviser on
Negro affairs at the Commerce
Department, and DR.. Carl Hanson,
associate school superintendent in
charge. of white elementary
schools.