Monday Morning July 4, 9:30-10:30 o'clock First business session of the Representative Assembly to which all members of the Association are welcome. Report of the Committee on Salaries- O. Williams, Superintendent Shelby Report of the Committee on Pensions- July 4, 10:45-12:00 o'clock Report of Committee on Reorganization of Elementary Education - Margaret S. McNaught, Commissioner Elementary Education, Sacramento, Calif., Chairman; Olive M. Jones, Principal Public School No. 120, New York, N. Y. Symposium: The American Program in Education as It is Related to the Work of the Principal-Ida Lee Woody, Principal Hamilton School, St. Louis, Mo.; J. J. Zmrhal, Principal Herzl School, Chicago, Ill.; Geoffrey Morgan, McBurney School, New York, N. Y.; Lewis W. Smith, Principal, Joliet, Ill.; John A. Sexson, Principal Union High School, Sterling, Colo. Monday Evening July 4, 8:00 o'clock Musical Program- RESIDENT FRED M. HUNT PER, of the National Education Association, whose strong program promises to attract a large attendance at the initial meeting of the reorganized Association the first week in July. Mr. Hunter is superintendent of the Oakland (California) Schools. Before going to California he was prominent in public-school work in Nebraska. Response for the National Education Association-J. A. C. Chandler, President College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. Address-Calvin Coolidge, Vice-President of the United States, Washington, D. C. Address-Henry J. Ryan, Chairman Americanization Commission, American Legion. Tuesday Afternoon July 5, 1:30-2:00 o'clock Health Pageant July 5, 2:00-4:00 o'clock Symposium: The American Program in Education as It is Related to the Work of the Normal Schools and TeacherTraining Institutions-Robert H. Wright, President East Carolina Teachers' Training School, Greenville, N. C.; F. J. Kelly, Dean School of Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.; John A. H. Keith, President State Normal School, Indiana, Pa.; John R. Kirk, President State Teachers' College, Kirksville, Mo. Report of Committee on Health Problems in Education-Thomas D. Wood, Professor of Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., Chairman. Report of Committee on Illiteracy-Cora Wilson Stewart, National Illiteracy Commission, Frankfort, Ky., Chair man. Tuesday Evening July 5, 8:00 o'clock Musical Program Address-The Parenthood of the StateJudge Ben B. Lindsey, Judge of Juvenile Court, Denver, Colo. Address-Social Hygiene and Its Place in the Schools-Charles A. Barker, Representative International Rotary, Chicago, Ill. Wednesday Morning July 6, 9:00-10:15 o'clock Second business session of the Representative Assembly. Report of the President on the Program and the Development of the Association-Fred M. Hunter, Superintendent City Schools, Oakland, Calif. Report of the Legislative CommissionGeorge D. Strayer, Professor Educational Administration, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., Chairman. Discussion of Previous ReportsIntroduction of New Business for Special Order July 6, 10:30-12:00 Symposium: What Part Shall the Colleges and Universities Play in the American Program of Education?-L. D. Coffman, President University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; Irving S. Cutter, Dean College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebr.; W. A. Jessup, President University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; C. H. Judd, Head Department of Education, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Report of Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education-William B. Owen, Principal Chicago Normal College, Chicago, Ill. Wednesday Evening July 6, 8:00 o'clock Report of Committee on Thrift Education -Arthur H. Chamberlain, Secretary California State Teachers' Association, Chairman. Discussion of Previous Reports and Introduction of New Business July 7, 10:30-12:00 o'clock Report of the Committee on Coördination of Research Agencies-Jesse H. Newlon, Superintendent City Schools, Denver, Colo., Chairman. Symposium: What Shall be the Program in Education for City School Systems in View of the Objectives of the American Program in Education-Randall J. Condon, Superintendent City Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. M. Gwinn, Superintendent City Schools, New Orleans, La.; J. W. Gowans, Superintendent City Schools, Winfield, Kans.; Peter Mortensen, Superintendent City Schools, Chicago, Ill.; W. L. Stephens, Superintendent City Schools, Beach, Calif. Thursday Afternoon July 7, 2:00 o'clock Long Report of Committee on Foreign Relations-A. O. Thomas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Augusta, Maine. Report of Committee on Payment of Expenses of Delegates-Cornelia S. Adair, Teacher Public Schools, Richmond, Va., Chairman. Symposium: The State Program in Education and Its Bearing Upon the Na tional Program-T. E. Finegan, State Thursday Evening Musical Program- Friday Morning July 8, 9:00-12:00 o'clock Final business meeting of the Representative Assembly. Report of Secretary to Delegate Assembly-J. W. Crabtree, Secretary, National Education Association. Report of Treasurer to Delegate Assembly-Cornelia S. Adair, Teacher Public Schools, Richmond, Va., Treasurer. Report of Chairman of Board of Trustees -C. G. Pearse, President State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wis., Chair man. Election of Officers Tentative Programs of Departments and Allied Organizations National Council of Education will hold conferences Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2. The Friday morning session, 8:30 o'clock, will have a meeting of the Committee on Membership, followed by roll call and report of the Secretary; the President's address, The Struggle for Power in the American Educational System; report of the Committee on State Administration of Schools; and preliminary report of the Committee on Character and Citizenship Education. The Friday afternoon session will be devoted to reports of the Committees on Membership and Rural Education. The Saturday morning session will include a meeting of the Executive Committee; address of welcome by F. M. Hunter, Oakland, Calif.; a symposium platform meeting with ten-minute addresses by P. P. Claxton, F. G. Blair, W. A. Jessup, Carroll G. Pearse, Fannie Fern Andrews, W. A. Brandenburg, and J. M. Gwinn; and reports of the Committee on Racial Well-Being by Helen C. Putnam, Providence, R. I., and of the Committee on Extension Education by L. H. Minkel, Fort Dodge, Iowa. The Saturday afternoon session will include reports of the Executive Committee and those committees not on the schedule before February, 1922, viz.: Thrift Educa tion, Democracy Applied to Education, American Teachers' Colleges, Educational Surveys, Participation of Teachers in School Management, and Reorganization of Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades. The Committee on the Elementary School Course, Katherine D. Blake, Chairman, will meet Tuesday morning, July 5. The officers are: President, H. H. Seerley, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Vice-president, Josephine C. Preston, Olympia, Wash.; and Secretary, Adelaide S. Baylor, Washington, D. C. Boy Scout Section will hold a conference at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, July 5, the place to be announced later. The following program will be given: How We Administer the Boy Scout and Girl Scout Movement in Our System, H. D. Ramsey, Superintendent of City Schools, Fort Scott, Kans.; How Closely Should the Boy Scout Movement Be Affiliated with the Public School System in a Large City? S. S. Baker, Assistant Superintendent Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Demonstration by a Des Moines Boy Scout Troop, Fred G. Davie, Scout Executive, Des Moines, Iowa; The Future of Scouting, James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, New York, N. Y.; The Report of the Committee on the Relation of Public Schools with Scout ing, Frank Cody, Superintendent City Schools, Detroit, Mich., Chairman; Summary of Situation, E. K. Fretwell, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Superintendent J. H. Beveridge, of the Omaha, Nebraska, Schools, is in charge of this meeting. Child Hygiene Department will hold sessions on Tuesday morning, July 5, and Wednesday, July 6, at a luncheon and again at 1:30 in the afternoon. President O. B. Nesbit, Director of Medical Inspection in the Gary, Indiana, Public Schools, has prepared an unusually attractive pro gram. Conference on Illiteracy-General topic, Illiteracy in the United States. Six subtopics are: First, The Crusade Against Illiteracy, Origin, Extension, and Goal; second, Illiteracy, A Rural or an Urban Problem; third, Illiteracy Statistics, How Obtained, and How Used; fourth, Suitable Texts and School Material for Adult Beginners; fifth, Types of Schools for Adult Illiterates; sixth, Campaign Methods. Main speakers are: State Superintendent Conway, of New Mexico; S. K. Mardis, Ohio University; State Superintendent Brittain, of Georgia; State Superintendent Bond, of Arkansas; W. L. Lou Gray, South Carolina; Sarah E. Luther, Alabama. Twenty minutes each discussion by State Superintendent Thomas, of Maine; Miss Kelly, North Carolina; Guhin, State Department, South Dakota; Smith, of New York State Department; Rundle, President Mississippi Illiteracy Commission; and one speaker from Washington State Department appointed by Mrs. Preston. Cora Wilson Stewart, President Kentucky Illiteracy Commission, is Chair man. Department of Business Education will hold two conferences, place and date to be announced later. The program for the first session will be as follows: The Articulation of University and High School Business Courses, C. O. Ruggles, University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, and G. L. Swiggett, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.; Qualifications for Teaching Commercial Subjects, C. G. Linn, Dean of Boyes High School of Commerce, Omaha, Nebr., and H. C. Yoder, State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis.; The Continuation School, Its Problems and Their Solution, L. L. Roberts, Director of Corporation School Swift and Company, Chicago, Ill. The program for the second session will be as follows: Coöperation between Business Houses and Business Schools, Williams Bachrach, Supervisor Business Education, Chicago High Schools, Chicago, Ill., and Ralph Faxon, General Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Des Moines, Iowa; A Business Survey, E. A. Zelliot, North High School, Des Moines, Iowa, and E. W. Barnhart, Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D. C.; A Commercial Program for Junior High Schools, Ivan E. Chapman, Principal Western High School, Detroit, Mich. The officers are: President, Thomas A. Beale, Director School of Commerce and Finance, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Secretary, W. S. Peterson, Commercial Department, Ogden High School, Ogden, Utah. Department of Classroom Teachers is preparing an unusually rich program. The officers of this department are: President, Sara H. Fahey, Manual Training High School, New York, N. Y.; Secretary, Margaret Richardson, Grade Teacher, Spokane, Wash. Department of Educational Publications will hold a conference, the place and date to be announced later. The following topics will be discussed: (A) How to Improve Textbooks-(1) Sensing the Demand; (2) How Can Publishers and Authors Best Coöperate to Make Better Textbooks? (B) How to Raise Standards of Authorship (1) Yardsticks for Measurement of Author's Productions; Educating the Public to Demand Higher Standards in Textbooks-(1) Acquainting the Public with Classroom Needs; (2) Informing the Public of Relative Costs of Classroom Materials. The officers are: President, George L. Towne, Editor Nebraska Teacher, Lincoln, Nebr.; Secretary, C. W. Taber, Western Manager Lippincott & Co., Chicago, Ill. Department of Elementary Education will hold sessions Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, July 5, 6, and 8. The Tuesday morning session will consider the subject, The Elementary School and the Readjustments of the Next Ten Years. It will be addressed by Geo. D. Strayer, Teachers College, Columbia University; J. B. Weaver, Des Moines; William M. Lewis, Savings Division, U. S. Treasury; Anna Baker, Ben Blewett Junior High School, St. Louis, Mo.; G. C. Minard, Superintendent of Schools, Arlington, Mass. The Wednesday session will be addressed by W. W. Charters, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; H. B. Wilson, Superintendent Schools, Berkeley, Calif.; Ernest Horn, University of Iowa, on the Limits of the Project. A report of the Committee on English will be followed by an address on The Relation of the Teaching of the Mother Tongue to the National Program in Education, by H. R. Driggs, Professor of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. The Friday afternoon session will be given over to a discussion of the Improvement of Instruction Through the Use of Standard Tests. It will be addressed by I. M. Allen, Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, Ill.; E. E. Chiles, Ben Blewett Junior High School, St. Louis, Mo.; J. Worth Osburn, State Department of Education, Madison, Wis.; Bessie Bacon Goodrich, Des Moines, Iowa; Maude McBroom, Detroit Teachers' College; Herman Hendrix, Mesa, Ariz.; Carroll R. Reed, Superintendent of Schools, Akron, Ohio. The officers are: President, P. W. L. Cox, Head Master Washington School, 17 E. 60th St., New York, N. Y.; VicePresident, Marion S. Hanckel, Supervisor Kindergarten and Primary Grades, Richmond, Va.; Secretary, Annie E. Logan, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio. Department of Higher Education has plans under way for an unusually significant program. The details will be announced later. Guy Stanton Ford, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., is president, and J. J. Pettijohn, Assistant to the President, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., is secretary. Department of Kindergarten Education will hold sessions July 5 and 6. On Tuesday morning, July 5, there will be a business session at 9 o'clock, followed by an address by Nina C. Vandewalker, Specialist in Rural Education, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., on The Kindergarten Meetings at Atlantic City and Detroit. Tuesday afternoon will be a story hour in charge of Irene Hirsch, of Drake University. On Wednesday noon will occur a luncheon for members of the National Council of Primary Education and the Kindergarten Department. On Wednesday afternoon, the general topic will be Unity in Aims and Principles of Kindergarten and Primary Education and the Unification Needed in Practice. Subtopics will be The Curriculum; speakers are Stella Wood, Principal of Kindergarten Training School Minneapolis, Minn., Methods and Equipment, Standardization of the Achievements of Kindergarten Children; Ella Victoria Dobbs, President of National Council of Primary Education; Bessie Parks, Director of Kindergartens, Des Moines, Iowa; Miriam Hoover, Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Laura Krebs, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The officers of the Kindergarten Department are President, Marion S. Hanckel, Richmond, Virginia; Vice-President, Barbara Greenwood, Los Angeles, California; Secretary, Anna H. Littell, Dayton, Ohio. Department of Music Education will hold sessions on Tuesday morning, July 5, and Wednesday afternoon, July 6. At the first session Osbourne McConathy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., will present the courses of study for music supervisors, which was adopted by the National Conference of Music Supervisors at St. Joseph, Mo., April 8, 1921. The discussion will be led by John R. Kirk, President of Teachers' College, Kirksville, Mo., and Ernest Horn, Department of Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City. The principal issue is whether the four-years' course shall consist of one-half regular college work, one-quarter education, and one-quarter music leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or whether it shall consist of one-quarter regular college work, one-quarter education, and one-half music leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music. At the second session the president will present a statement on tests and measurements in school music. There will be demonstrations showing how to vitalize and standardize music in one-room rural schools by means of the phonograph and showing how to use standardization tests and measurements in music in consolidated schools. Time will be allowed for free discussion. C. A. Fullerton, Director of Music, Iowa City Teachers' College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, is president of the Department. Department of Normal Schools promises a strong program. The details of this program will be announced later. The officers of the department are: President, W. A. Lewis, President State Normal School, Hays, Kans.; Secretary, Anna M. Tibbets, Head Department of Education, Fargo College, Fargo, N. D. Department of Physical Education will hold conferences Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, July 5 and 6. The Tuesday morning session will be addressed by W. S. Small, Specialist in School Hygiene, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., on Social Engineering through Physical Education in the School and the Community; Jay B. Nash, Superintendent of Recreation, Oakland, Calif., on The Relation of Public Playgrounds and Recreation Centers to Our National Ideals of Democracy; followed by discussion led by Margaret McKee, Des Moines; Emil Rath, Indianapolis; Floyd A. Rowe, State Director of Physical Education, Michigan. The Wednesday afternoon session will be addressed by Richard A. Bolt, Director of American Child Hygiene Association, Baltimore, on Logical Contributions of Physical Education to Health Education and Supervision in the Schools and the Community; Thomas D. Wood, Professor of Physical Education, Columbia University, on Physical Education as a Health Movement; E. Dana Caulkins, Secretary National Committee on Health Problems in Physical Education, on A National Platform of Physical Education; and discussion led by A. D. Browne, Stanford Uni versity; Charles B. Lewis, Youngstown, Ohio; and Ethel Perrin, Detroit, Mich. The officers are: President, F. L. Kleeberger, Professor Physical Education, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Department of Rural Education will hold conferences on Tuesday afternoon, July 5, Wednesday afternoon, July 6, and Friday afternoon, July 8. The Tuesday afternoon session will be devoted to a consideration of the general topic, A National Program for Rural Education. Addresses will be delivered at this session by Lee L. Driver, of Pennsylvania, on the Platform of the Department of Rural Education; by President H. W. Foght, Normal School, Aberdeen, South Dakota, on the County Unit and How to Secure it in the Midde West; and by George A. Selke, Department of Education, St. Paul, Minnesota, on the Village in Relation to Rural School Administration and the County Unit. Wednesday afternoon will be devoted to a discussion of Rural School Consolidation, with George S. Dick, of Wisconsin; C. C. Swain, of Iowa; B. G. Bittikefor, of Ohio; Macy Campbell, of Iowa; and V. G. Hoffman, of Illinois, as speakers. The last session of the Department on Friday afternoon, July 8, will be assigned. chiefly to a discussion of Rural TeacherTraining and Supervision. The first speaker at this session will be L. B. Sipple, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, who will discuss Principles and Policies in the Preparation of Rural Teachers, which will be further discussed by H. E. Flynn, Department of Education, St. Paul, Minn. Following this, State Superintendent C. P. Cary, of Wisconsin, Superintendent Minnie J. Neilsen, of North Dakota, will speak on Supervision of Rural Schools, on which the discussion will be led by State Superintendent Minnie J. Neilsen, North Dakota, and Amelia N. Bengston, Olivia, Minn. The officers of the Department are. President, E. M. Rapp, Superintendent of Schools, Berks County, Pennsylvania; Vice-President, I. B. Ball, Supervisor of Agricultural Education, Salt Lake City, Utah; Secretary, Mabel Carney, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, Construction. The meeting will be addressed by John J. Donovan, Architect, Oakland, Calif., on The Evolution of Schoolhouse Planning; Edith McClure Patterson, Chicago, Ill., on School Buildings and Their Occupants; George B. Thomas, Chairman Portland School Board, Portland, Oreg., on Equipment for Vocational Education; Frank Irving Cooper, Chairman, Boston, Mass., on Report of Progress of the Committee on Standardization of Schoolhouse Planning. The officers are: President, G. W. Gerwig, Secretary Board of Education, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Secretary, William C. Bruce, Editor American School Board Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. Department of School Patrons, under the able leadership of its president, will present an interesting program, details of which will be given later. Department of Science Instruction will hold conferences, Wednesday afternoon, July 6, and Friday afternoon, July 8. The Wednesday session will be addressed by T. W. Galloway, Associate Director, The American Social Hygiene Association, New York, N. Y., and Benj. C. Gruenberg, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., on Social Hygiene in the Public Schools, followed by a discussion. The Friday session will be addressed by Eliot R. Downing, School of Education, University of Chicago; Gilbert H. Trafton, State Normal School, Mankato, Minn.; and F. D. Barber, Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Ill., on Science for the Elementary Grades. This session will be followed by a short business meeting. The officers are: President, J. C. Johnson, Dean, Colorado State Normal School, Gunnison, Colo.; Secretary, Louise H. Seeley, Dickinson High School, Jersey City, N. J. Department of Secondary Education will meet Tuesday forenoon, July 5, and Wednesday afternoon, July 6. The Committee on High School Library Problems will present its report through C. C. Certain, of Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Michigan. Burton P. Fowler, First Assistant Principal of Central High School, Cleveland, Ohio, will present a paper on Socialization of the Sixyear High School through the Organization of Student Activities. Ray H. Bracewell, Principal of the Burlington, Iowa, High School, will present a paper on Segregation in Ability Groups as a Means of Taking into Account Individual Differ ences. The Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., will furnish a speaker on Sex Education in High School. Charles E. Barker will furnish a paper on The Physical Efficiency of the Teacher. Benjamin C. Gruenberg, of the United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., will speak on A Program of Sex Education for Secondary Schools. The officers of the Department are: President, Clarence T. Rice, Principal of Kansas City (Kansas) High School; VicePresident, Guy C. Wilson, Principal of Latter Day Saints High School, Salt Lake City, Utah; Secretary, Minnie Oliverson, Assistant Principal for Girls, Kansas City (Kansas) High School. Department of Vocational Education will present a varied program in keeping with the reawakened interest in this field of education. W. G. Hummel, State Director for Vocational Education, Seattle, Wash., is president, and Marian S. Van Liew, State Superintendent Home Economics, Albany, N. Y., is secretary. Department for the Wider Use of Schoolhouses will hold a conference, the place and date to be announced later. The meeting will be addressed by Raymond F. Crist, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.; I. B. Morgan, Director Vocational Schools, Kansas City, Kans.; Frank L. Dykema, Grand Rapids, Mich. The officers are: President, Raymond F. Crist, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.; Secretary, Margarita Spaulding Gerry, Washington, D. C. Health Committee of the National Council will hold an open meeting in conjunction with the Iowa State Medical Society. Place and date will be announced later. This meeting will be organized by Dr. Thomas D. Wood, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Library Department will hold its general session Tuesday morning, July 5, at 10 o'clock, at the Public Library. The meeting will be addressed by Adeline B. Zachert, Director of School Libraries for the State of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa., on Joy Reading in Elementary Schools; W. H. Kerr, Librarian, State Normal School, Emporia, Kans., on The Normal School Library as a Teaching Institution; Dr. Sherman Williams, Chief, School Libraries Division, Education Dept., Albany, N. Y., on The Purpose of the School Library; Joseph L. Wheeler. Public Library, Youngstown, Ohio, on Home Reading with School Credit; Ellen F. Chamberlayne, High School Librarian, Binghamton, N. Y., on Relation of the High School Library to the Other Departments of the School. A joint session with the National Coun cil of Teachers of English will be held Wednesday afternoon, July 6, at 3 o'clock. at the Public Library. This meeting will be addressed by Professor A. B. Noble. Iowa State College, on Stepping Stones to Literary Taste; Milton J. Ferguson, State Librarian, Sacramento, Calif., School: The Vestibule to the Palace Called Li brary; Margaret Skinner, Janesville, Wis.. on Recent Literature for High Schools; Carl H. Milam, Secretary, American Library Association, Chicago, Ill., on The Part of the Public Library in Public Education. The business meeting will be held Friday afternoon, July 8, at 2 o'clock, at the Public Library. This meeting will include discussion of the proposed by-laws, discussion of statement on Libraries in Education, report of the survey of Normal School Libraries, and other matters of business. There will be a library exhibit at the Public Library. All exhibits should be addressed to Grace Rose, Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa, and plainly marked Library Exhibit, N. E. A. There will be a library luncheon at the Harris-Emery Tea Room on Wednesday, July 6, at 12 o'clock, $1.25 a plate. All who are interested in any phase of library work are invited to be present. There will be a number of very brief talks by those whose experience and ability will guarantee a stimulating and enjoyable occasion. For reservations notify Julia A. Robinson, Historical, Memorial and Art Building, Des Moines, Iowa. The officers of the Library Department are: President, Dr. Sherman Williams, Chief of School Libraries Division, Education Department, Albany, N. Y.; VicePresident, M. W. Poulson, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Secretary, Margaret Ely, Principal, Book Selection Department, The Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Ill. National Association of Elementary School Principals will hold one general session and two sectional meetings. The general session will be addressed by Leonard Power, President, Port Arthur, Tex., on The Principal as an Educational Expert; Katherine Blake, Principal, Public School No. 6, New York, N. Y., on The Principal as an Economic Expert; Ide Sargeant, Paterson, N. J., on The Principal as a Community Factor; Worth McClure, Seattle, Wash., on The Status of the Elementary School Principal, a Study. The theme of the morning sectional meeting will be Sympathetic Constructive Supervision. This meeting will be addressed by J. H. Kneisley, Seattle, Wash.; Florence Holbrook, Chicago, Ill.; Olive Jones, New York, N. Y.; and others. At the afternoon session Georgia Alexander will give an illustrated address on Breaking the Lock Step in the Elementary Schools. A business meeting will follow for the discussion and adoption of constitution and by-laws. The officers of the Association are: President, Leonard Power, Port Arthur, Tex.; First Vice-President, Katherine D. Blake, New York, N. Y.; Second VicePresident, Ide Sargeant, Paterson, N. J.; Third Vice-President, J. M. Kneisley, Se attle, Wash.; Corresponding Secretary, J. Bracken, Duluth, Minn.; Receiving Secretary, Mary W. Riesse, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasurer, Courtland Davis, Norfolk, Va. NOTES AND ANNOUNCE- All (Continued from page 112) sociation and the States will be located at the Fort Des Moines Hotel. officers of the National Education Association will have their offices at the Fort Des Moines Hotel except the Secretary, whose main office will be located on the mezzanine floor of the Savery Hotel. Registration Headquarters for the Des Moines meeting will be conveniently located in the Auditorium on the main floor directly in front of the main entrance. A ladies' rest room is at the left of the main entrance. During the convention, an orchestra at the rear of the Auditorium will play for the entertainment of the visitors. N. E. A. Postoffice and information service at Des Moines will be located near the entrance on the main floor of the Auditorium. Owing to the central location of this office, better mail service can be had here than at hotels or the general delivery. Letters to members. should be addressed care of N. E. A. Postoffice. Information booths will be found at all depots and the leading hotels. Delegates should reach Des Moines early-Since the delegates of the Representative Assembly will meet by States Sunday afternoon, July 3, at 5:00 o'clock, it is advisable for them to plan to reach Des Moines not later than Saturday evening or Sunday morning. Every delegate should be provided with. proper credentials from his State or local affiliated association and should see the Secretary before the meeting of delegates Sunday afternoon. Commercial and other exhibits will be unusually fine this year. They are being managed by the Association itself under the direction of Assistant Secretary R. S. Erlandson. They will be They will be located in the Auditorium on the same floor with the postoffice, information booth, and registration headquarters. Notice of Proposed Amendments At the meeting of the Board of Directors at Salt Lake City, Utah, July 9, 1920, notice was given of the following proposed amendments to be considered The by the next annual meeting. amendment proposed by the Department of Deans of Women to add to Article 5, Section 3, reads as follows: "And except that the Department of Deans of Women may hold their annual meeting at the time of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence." Notice was given by D. W. Springer that at the 1921 meeting amendments would be offered to Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the By-laws as are indicated in the N. E. A. Bulletin for April, 1918, pp. 27-32. On application sent by 150 active members, notice was given for an amendment to the By-laws, creating a new department to be known as the Department of Immigrant Education of the National Education Association, the purpose of said department to be the discussion of questions pertaining to the training of persons above compulsory school age in speaking, reading, and writing the English language, in the duties and responsibilities of American citizenship and in other closely related matters. Delegates of State and local affiliated associations to the Des Moines. meeting are required to file their credentials with the Secretary of the Association on blanks furnished by him not later than ten days before the beginning of the meeting. June 24 is the tenth day before the meeting. Blanks may be had from the Secretary, 1201 Sixteenth St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Hotel Reservations-A list of hotels with rates was published in the April JOURNAL. Reservations should be made as early as possible. Persons wishing rooms either in hotels or private homes, who have not already done so, should write at once indicating as definitely as possible the kind of accommodations wanted and the amount they desire to pay. Requests should be addressed to Charles F. Pye, 407 Youngerman Block, Des Moines, Iowa. Members should have their membership cards for 1921-22 with them at the Des Moines meeting. Persons who have mislaid or lost their cards should see the Secretary as soon as possible after arrival. By showing the membership card members will receive the program, all announcements, and the badge which will permit them to attend all meetings. Those who do not have membership cards for 1921-22 will enrol at registration headquarters and receive membership cards, announcements, and badges. |