The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

America's Only Handwriting Magazine
Volume 45 COLUMBUS, OHIO, APRIL, 1940 No. 8
THE NATIONAL HANDWRITING
COUNCIL
The National Handwriting- Council
met jointly with the Department of
Supervisors and Directors of Instruction
of the National Education Association
in St. Louis, Missouri, at the
convention of the American Association
of School Administrators.
The Council met as a separate section
on February 28 at 2:30 P. M.,
in Parlor C, Mayfair Hotel.
A very fine talk was given by Dr.
.\nita S. Dowell, Assistant to the
President, Teachers College, Towson,
Maryland, on "Supervision in Relationship
to the Health of Pupils".
A very interesting discussion on
"Supervision as a Guide in Developing
Learning Experiences in Handwriting"
was lead by Miss Ellen Nystrom.
Handwriting Supervisor, Minneapolis
Public Schools. The discussion
was entered into quite freely
by the members. All in all, the
meeting was very interesting and
very successful.
The new officers elected are as
follows:
President, Miss Alma Dorst, Supervisor
of Handwriting, Public
Schools, Oak Park, Illinois.
Vice President, Miss Lucretia Cavanah,
Supervisor of Handwriting,
Public Schools, Cleveland, Ohio.
Secretary, Miss Olive Mellon, Supervisor
of Handwriting, Public
Schools, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Treasurer, Miss Ethel Kesterson,
Supervisor of Handwriting, Public
Schools, Champaign, Illinois.
Have a regular period for hand-
writing. Teach the funda-
mentals of handwriting and
equip the class with excellent
handwriting material.
Merle J. Abbett,
Supt. of Schools, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
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Saturday, May 4. 1940
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10:00 A. M.
CHAIRMAN—Olive A. Mellon, Atlantic
City, President, Department
of Handwriting.
THEME—"Adapting Handwriting
Instruction to the Youth of Today".
DISCUSSIONS—
Adapting Newer Instructional Materials
to the Child.
Mrs. Maude Meyers, Supervisor
Handwriting, Newark.
Newer Instructional Practices.
Discussed by Group of Department
Members.
Changing Supervisory Techniques
to meet Youth's Need.
Miss Deborah I. Shaner, Principal,
Robert Stacy Jr. High
School, Burlington, N. J.
Gleanings from the National Handwi-iting
Meeting in Atlantic
City.
Marion Little, State Teachers
College, Glassboro.
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ILLITERACY
With our modern compulsory
school system in America we can
hardly realize that in 1930 there were
over four and a quarter million adult
illiterates, or four and three-tenths
percent. Nor can we realize the inconvenience
to which an illiterate is
put. There are many pleasures and
advantages which they must sacrifice.
Imagine having to walk home because
of inability to read the signs
on cars, jiot to be able to read the
newspaper and books, or to vote for
our favorite candidate.
Much progress has been made by
the Educational Division of the
Works Progress Administration towards
improving this unfortunate
condition. Not long ago A. W. von
Struve reported that the millionth
adult had passed from illiteracy into
the brighter world of knowledge by
completing the literacy course provided
by the Educational Division of
the Works Progress Administration.
These adults are from all parts of
the United States from sixteen to
eighty-two years of age. They include
the half-Indian, the Mexican,
the Negro, the Immigrant and all
classes.
About five thousand W. P. A.
teachers were employed. The Administration
hopes to reduce the four
and three-tenths percent of illiteracy
in the United States to a percentage
comparable with Denmark's
0.1 percent of Switzerland's 0.39 per-
cent.
We wonder sometimes at some of
our people who have been fortunate
enough to have the advantage of attending
our excellent public schools,
but who in spite of this opportunity
cannot write legibly, and the pity of
it is that some of them try to hide
their weakness by pretending pride
in their lack of ability to write—
simple act required of every boy and
girl even in the primary grades.
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