Nearly 1,000 Teachers Are Here For Conference...
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Preceding the welcome and in
troduction of guests by Dorothy
Pattinson, President of the Fair
banks Education Association, Rev.
Raymond E. Ernest of the Zion
Lutheran Church will give the in
vocation.
Harold F. Bergmann, President of
the Alaska Education Association
from Petersburg, will also give his
greetings.
Thursday Speaker
Dr. Charles Lafferty, Superin
tendent of Fairbanks Public Schools
will introduce Dr. Oscar Hanlin,
Director of the Center for the Study
of the History of Liberty in Amer
ica, Harvard University, main
speaker for the Thursday general
session. Dr. Hanlin, who has been
a teacher at Harvard University for
20 years, will speak on “Challenge
of a Democratic Education.” He
has devoted his attention largely to
the social history of the United
States. His book, “The Uprooted,”
was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1951; !
his first book, “Boston’s Immi
grants,” examined a neglected part
of America’s past.
Fifth grade children from Uni
versity Park School in College, un- j
der the direction of Mrs. Gwen
Broderick, will present the dra
matic play, “The Valiant” at the
general session.
After the general meetings both
Thursday and ^-iday, educators
will adjourn to the nearly 70 sec
tional meetings which are planned.
Leading these individual meetings
are several “stateside” guests. Uni
versity of Alaska professors, State
education department officials, mili
tary personnel and local and State
teachers.
Everything from Audio-Visual
Materials to problems in School
Mental Health to Alaskan Anthro
pology will be covered in the small
groups.
Lunch Time
Teachers will adjourn Thursday
noon for individual luncheons lo
cated throughout the City. School
administrators, school nurses and
guidance personnel will meet at the
Traveler’s Inn: kindergarten teach- I
ers at Hunter School cafeteria: in- i
dustrial arts teachers at the Drop- j
In Cafe: special education teachers !
and music educators, Jimmy Lee’s
Cafe; and physical education teach- :
ers. at the Calvary Baptist Church, j
At the afternoon portion of the j
meeting, attendees will hear Miss
Anita Ruffing, president of the De
partment of Classroom Teachers of
the National Education Association
who will be introduced by Mrs. Ar
lene Jinks, president of the Fair
banks Classroom Teachers Associa
tion.
Miss Ruffing is an English teach
er at Bellevue Junior High School
in Ohio. She received her B.A. at
Mount St. Joseph-on-the-Ohio and
her M.A. from Ohio State Univer
sity.
In 1045 she became a member
of the executive committee of the
Ohio Department of Classroom
Teachers and served as vice presi
dent and later president of the de
partment. She has been active in
numerous professional organizations
and is a member of Delta Kappa
Gamma.
Winding up Thursday's activities
is a dinner dance at the Ft. Wain
wright Officers’ Club. A social
hour is scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m.
preceding dinner at 7 p.m.
Early risers of two teachers'
sororities. Delta Kappa Gamma and
Alpha Delta Kappa will have break
fast at 7 a.m. at the Traveler's Inn
Friday.
The Lathrop Malemute Concert
Band, under the leadership of Rob
ert Boko, will open the 9 a.m. gen
eral session Friday.
Dr. Lafferty will introduce the
morning speaker, Dr. E. Edmund
Ruetter, Jr., who has been a visit
ing professor at the University of
Alaska as well as the University of
Puerto Rico, and the University of
Southern California.
Dr. Reutter has been a member
of the faculty at Columbia Uni
versity since 1960 in the fields of
personnel administration and school
law. He is the author of “The School
Administrator and Subversive Ac
tivities." and “Schools and the Law.”
The University of Alaska educa
tion department uses Dr. Ruettcr's
text for the School Law course
there. The well known educator
will speak on “Whither the Teach
ing Profession."
Style Show
After another session of individ
ual sections Friday morning, all i
women are invited to attend a
luncheon and style show in the
Lathrop cafeteria. Miss Shirley Cai
man is chairman. Clothes from the
Northern Commercial Company
will be shown under the direction
of Miss Ellen Kidder who is co
ordinator for N.C. Co.
At the same time the women
meet, the schoolmasters will meet
for lunch at the First Methodist
Church.
In the afternoon session of the
conference the first grade children
at Nordale School will present
“Peter Rabbit," an original operetta
written and produced by Mrs.
Eloise Dewitt and the class.
A general meeting of the Alaska
Education Association is also
planned Friday.
Coffee breaks are planned
throughout the sessions with coffee
and cookies furnished by the vari
ous local PTA associations.
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