Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 October 1947 — TEACHERS OF STATE MASS AT FIVE CENTERS [ARTICLE]

TEACHERS OF STATE MASS AT FIVE CENTERS

P e d a g o g uto Go To School As Pupils Scatter For TwoDay Vacation Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 23 Approximately 15,000 Indiana hool teachers flocked five cities today for the 04th annual Indiana State Teachers' association convention. While their instructors were gathering in Indianapolis, South Hand. Fort Wayne, Gary and Evansville, the state’s public grade and high school pupils scattered for a two-day holiday. Interest centered in Indianapolis where 44 departmental subdivisions of the association are meeting for specialized sessions in various parts of the city. AIo election for the association president. and vice president for 194849 is to be held Friday at a business meeting in Cadle tabernacle in Indianapolis. The first general session of the Indianapolis convention is to begin at 7:30 p.tn. with Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, head of th New York area* of the Methodist church, and former DePauw University president, as speaker. Dr. Glenn E. Snow, ■president of the National Education Association, is to share speaking honors with Bishop Oxnam. Anita Oldham, of Fort Wayne, retiring president, will turn jurisdiction of the session over to the 1947-48 president, W. K. Wilson, so Jeffersonville, who will give the president’s address. A welcome also will be giv the teachers by Governor Ralph F. Gates. The- Friday program includes, in addition to the business session, talks by Dr. Sara Wamhaugh, former advisor on plebiscite problems for the League of Nations, and Arthur Bliss Lake, ex-Unit-ed States ambassador to Boland. A 1000-voice chorus of Hoosier school chilren will present a program under auspices of the Indiana State Choral Festival Association. —.'—-I In addition to the teachers and their professional groups, meetings of associated organizations are scheduled during the two-day period. Tin teachers heard a charge that there is too much “apple polishing” in tin* American public school system. The complaint was made in a talk by Mrs. May Hill Arbuthnot, associate professor of education at the Western Reserve University. However Mrs. Arbuthnot opined that the era of ‘‘toadying and subservience” was on its way out and declared: “Teachers everywhere are winning more voice in their own affairs teachers have been called in to advise and draw up plan- of school building . . . . teachers are also being called in as invaluable consultants on civic policies involving youth . . . such examples of teacher participation in the largest policies of the school- may be few ami far l>ejjtwccn no\C. but they are beginnine to come, here and there over the country.”