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Vol. XXVII
Pasadena, California, April 4, 1936
No. 24A
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus Is
Reelected Group President
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus was re-elected president of the Califor¬
nia Principals’ association for the coming year, last night, at the din¬
ner held in the Convention hall of the Maryland hotel. Her board of
Dr. Andrus
To Address
New Session
Will Hear Counseling
Report After Gold
Room Luncheon
Sponsored by the Western Asso¬
ciation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, a luncheon will be held in
the Gold room of the Maryland
hotel at 12:15 today. Officers of
the organization are President
Frank W. Thomas, president of the
Fresno State college, and Secre¬
tary-Treasurer A. J. Cloud, presi¬
dent of San Francisco junior col¬
lege.
“How the General College Plan
Influences Articulation With Lower
Schools” will be the subject ex¬
pounded by Dr. Malcolm S. Mac-
Lean, director of the General Col¬
lege at the University of Minne¬
sota, and principal speaker of the
afternoon.
At 2 o’clock, the same group will
attend the afternoon session in the
assembly hall of the Civic audi¬
torium, to hear Dr. Elthel Percy
Andrus, principal of Lincoln high
school in Los Angeles, speak on
“Counseling in the Secondary
Schools of California.” A survey
report of the committee under
the chairmanship of Dr. Andrus
will also be given. “Counseling
Practices in the Higher Insti¬
tutions of California” will be ex¬
plained by Dr. Merton E. Hill, di¬
rector of admissions at the Uni¬
versity of California, and a report
of a special committee making this
survey given. Dr. William M.
Proctor, professor of education at
Stanford university, will talk on
“Accrediting Standards and Rela¬
tionships (Outstanding Features
of the Co-operative Study of Sec¬
ondary School Standards).”
After the talks, general discus¬
sion will be held.
Rep resentatives
Of Association ,
Institute Meet
Held prior to the opening of
the current convention of the
Association of Secondary School
Principals, representatives of
the 2.1 district council sections
of the group held an all-day
meeting at the Lincoln high
school in Los Angeles, on
Wednesday.
Representatives of the Cali¬
fornia Teacher Training Insti¬
tutions met at the Maryland ho¬
tel, yesterday, at 2:30. Mrs.
May L. Cheney, president of the
Association of Placement Secre¬
taries, presided at the meeting.
officers was re-elected in its en¬
tirety with George C. Jensen and
Harry G. Hansell remaining in of¬
fice as vice-president and secre¬
tary-treasurer, respectively.
The dinner was presided over by
Dr. Andrus and the program fea¬
tured music, given under the spon¬
sorship of Alpha Gamma Kappa,
alumnae girls’ glee club of Lincoln
high school, Los Angeles. The pro¬
gram included “Dreamy River,”
from “The Bandit Lover,” by Louis
Woodson Curtis, and an obbligato
solo by Betty Henderson Young.
“Before the Daybreak,” by Ethel-
bert Nevin, was sung by the club,
which has as its director, Mrs.
Mary C. Howeth, instructor of
music of the Lincoln high school.
“Capri,” an obbligato solo by
Charles 0. Bassett, was sung by
Miss Young, following which,
“Bird of the Wilderness,” by Ed¬
ward Horsman, was done by the
club.
The musical program was bro¬
ken by a talk, “Radio and Educa¬
tion,” given by Jose Rodriquez,
editor at KFI and KECA, Los An¬
geles radio stations.
The dinner was closed by an as¬
sociation hour. The period included
Paul E. Andrew, principal of Clo¬
vis union high school, and district
superintendent of schools, Clovis;
Victor A. Rohrer, principal of Par-
lier union high school; and Charles
R. Chaney, principal of Sanger
union high school.
Four Tell Of
Adult Work
Four main speakers and four
panels of five discussed “Adult and
Continuation Education” in a bi¬
sectional meeting held yesterday
morning and afternoon in the
auditorium of McKinley junior
high school, with George C. Mann,
chief of the division of adult and
continuation education of the state
department of education, as chair¬
man.
Opening the morning session
with an address on “Selected Ob¬
jectives of Adult Education for
1936 and 1937,” Mr. Mann stressed
the need for training of the 150,000
illiterates in the state of Califor¬
nia. “They control the state vote,
but are subject to all propaganda.
We must bring an adult educational
program before them,” said Mr.
Maiyi in his paper. “Besides those
who cannot read or write, there
are the countless number who are
socially illiterate, those who pre¬
sent one of the greatest talks of
our program; namely, educating
the educated.”
In the following panel discussion,
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MacLean Is
JC Speaker
Dr. Malcolm MacLean, director
of the General College of the Uni¬
versity of Minnesota, conducted
the panel discussion of “curricu¬
lum improvement and improve¬
ment of teaching in the junior col¬
lege,” at both the 9 and 2 o’clock
sessions, held in the McKinley jun¬
ior high school yesterday.
In treating the subject of what
the college man can do for the
student who loafs through his
classes and, upon graduation, finds
himself unemployed, Dean Mac-
Lean averred that there are three
alternatives, “to ignore the prob¬
lem, till it explodes in the form of
war, or dictatorship, or leave it to
the processes of dry rot.” The lat¬
ter is the process of unemployed
young people, out of school, drows¬
ing through life, reading pulp
magazines. The dean felt that an
immediate revamping of the cur¬
riculum is necessary to counteract
this condition.
What the student was doing in
college, what he got there, and
what he was up against after he
got out of college were the ques¬
tions which form the basis of
the psychology course offered in
the General College of Minnesota.
The idea that each one has only
one niche in life is discouraged,
and the different lines of one pro-
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THURSDAY DINNERS
GIVEN BY COLLEGES
Sponsored by the University of
Southern California, the Univer¬
sity of California at Berkeley and
Stanford university, three dinners
were held Thursday night at the
Maryland hotel.
At the U. S. C. dinner, which
was held in the convention hall,
Dr. Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, presi¬
dent of U. S. C., addressed the
diners.
Featuring Dr. Merton E. Hill
and Grace V. Bird as speakers,
the University of California din¬
ner was held in the Gold room.
George H. Merideth, deputy su¬
perintendent of schools for Pasa¬
dena, was the featured speaker at
the Stanford dinner.
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FRESNO MEN MEET
The Fresno County Principals’
association held a breakfast and
meeting this morning in the Hotel
Constance dining room, at 7:30.
The association met to discuss con¬
temporary problems current within
the school systems of its own area.
Unification
Stressed At
Friday Meet
Dr. Andrus Presides Over
Afternoon Session In
Civic Hall
With the stress on the unifica¬
tion of scholastic aims and ideals
from the grammar schools, through
the secondary schools and colleges
to industry, the California Princi¬
pals’ association convened yester¬
day for a general session devoted
to a symposium on “Articulation
and Accreditation of the Second¬
ary School.” Dr. Ethel Percy
Andrus, president of the associa¬
tion, presided over the- meeting
held in the assembly hall of the
Civic auditorium.
As the keynote of the entire ses¬
sion, education was discussed in its
relation to the actual problems of
life and living conditions during
the present economic and social
situation. As Miss Helen Heffer-
nan, chief of the division of ele¬
mentary education anu rural
schools in the state department,
said in the opening remarks of her
talk on student training in the ele¬
mentary school, “Education is not
merely a preparation for life, it is
life itself. For that reason the edu¬
cators of this country should have
as their aim the uninterrupted de¬
velopment of a student from the
elementary grades to his business
career.”
Educators who led in the dis¬
cussion were Miss Heffernan and
Miss Marion Brown, vice-principal
in charge of guidance at the Uni¬
versity high school in Oakland,
who presented the problem of the
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Highlights
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus presides
at the Friday afternoon general
session, which features “Articula¬
tion and Accreditation of the Sec¬
ondary School.” Page 1.
* * *
Six resolutions are passed at the
association dinner, Friday evening,
as radio man talks on “Radio and
Education.” Pages 1 and 4.
* * *
California Parent-Teachers’ as¬
sociation sponsors luncheon which
is presided over by Superintendent
of Public Instruction Vierling Ker¬
sey. Page 2.
* * *
Walter R. Hepner, president of
San Diego state college, talks be¬
fore section meeting number nine.
Page 2.
* * *
Announcements of ten section
meetings, to be held this morning,
with programs and speakers.
Page 3.
