Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-03-03
18th Annual
Meeting OF School
administrators
Attended By 800
Negro Educators


three hundred Negro school ad-
ministrators and educators were
present for the 77th annual con-
vention of the American Associa-
ton of School administrators,
held here last week.
AASA, department of the Ma
tional Education Association, with
headquarters in Washington, is
open for memberships to all per-
sons serving as school admins
traitors within the United States.
Vhe association has large Negro
membership and its is believed
that more Of these members at
tended than ever before.
Many Negroes who hold impor-
tant commission and committee
posts in the NEA were in Atlantic
City for special conferences held
'urino the AASA convention. DR..
III. Council Trenholm headed q
subcommittee from the joint COM
mittee of the American Teachers
Association and the NEA, which
appeared before the MEAS execu-
tive committee.
Others serving on that commit
tee were DIR. Ambrose Caliver, as
sistant to the commissioner, u. S
Office of Education, and DR.. Fred
McQuistion, head of the division
of Negro education, Arkansas
State Department of Education
Little Rock, representing the NEA.
DR.. Caliver represented the Alta
Heads of national education as
sociations in attendance included
Dr. George w. Gore, Jr., president
of the American Teachers Asso
citation, and president of Florida
A. & M. College, Tallahassee, Fla.
and DR.. c. V. Troup, president o.
Fort Valley State (Georgia) Col
lege, who heads the Conference Of
Presidents of Negro Land Grant
Colleges.
Commission members of the
NEA seen in attendance were DR.
John w. Davis, West Virginie
State College, chairman of the Ma
tional Commission for the Defence
f Democracy through Education:
Dr. Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta
University, member of the Com
mission on International Affairs.
md Dr. FELTON, G. Clark, Southern
University, of the Commission on
Higher Education.
Representing NEA committees
were Walter Ridley, Virginia State
College, secretary of the NEA-
Alta joint committee; and DR.. R.
B. Atwood, Kentucky State Col
leee, NEA members of the joint
committee of the NEA and Amer
lean Legion. DR.. Clark is a mem
hor of the executive committee of
the MEAS National Conference
Cor the Mobilization of Education.
Several affairs were held dur
ing the convention which involved
Negro interests. The Alta and
the Atlantic City Study Center en-
tertained the visiting guests at
dinner meeting at the Atlantic
City Junior High School. The Ne
gro Land Grant College presidents
and the National Committee on
the Education of Negroes held
special conferences.
A number of Negroes who serve
on school boards were present for
the Association of American School
Board members and Negroes par
ticipated in all sessions of the con-
vention and shared the facilities
of the Boardwalk hotels and SER
vice establishments.
DR.. Warren Travis White, Sup
erintendent of Schools, Dallas,
Tex, is retiring president of AA-
SA. He will be succeeded in
March by DR.. Kenneth Oberholtz-
cr, Superintendent of Schools,
Denver, Colo.
Due to the size of this conven-
ton, next year the association
will hold three regional meetings.
It is believed that they will be
held at Los Angeles, st. Louis,
and Atlantic CITY,