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Louisville Municipal
College
ANNOUNCESA

Summer Session
FOR

Teachers and College Students

June 10th to July 22nd
Full Credit Expenses Reasonable
in

Standard, Fully-Accredited “A” College

Combine a Vacation With Study in Louisville

For Further Information and for Bul-
letin, Address

THE DEAN

The K. N E A Journal

Official Organ of the Kentucky Negro Educational Association
Vol. II. Febrary»March, 1932 No 3

Published fhy the Kentucky Negro Educational Association
Editorial Office at 1925 W. Madison Street
Louisville, Kentucky

Atwood S. Wilson, Executive Secretary, Louisville; Managing Editor,
D. H. Anderson, Paducah, President of K. N. E. A.

Board nf Directors

L. Bean, Versailles W. S. Blanton, Frankfort
L. Barker, Owensboro F. A. Taylor, Louisville

Published Bimonthly during the school year: October, December,
February and April ‘
PRICE 50 CENTS PER YEAR OR 15 CENTS PER COPY
Membership in the K. N. E. A. (One Dollar) includes subscription in
the Journal \
Rates for Advertising space mailed on request
Present Circulation, 2, 000 copies. .1931 K. N. E. A. Membershim, 1,328

CONTENTS

Page

Editorial Comments
Side- -Lights on 1932 K. A. mam
Announcements for 1932 Convention .
Quartet Contest Announcement . . . . . . . . . .
Only Colored Principal in Chicago on Program
Noted Cincinnati University Educator: on Program
President of N.A .‘T. C. S on Program . .
K. N. E A. Honor Roll .
K. N E A Kullings
Teaching Techmques Featured K. N, E. A. Primary Dept .
Departments Announce Program Features . . . .....

Edward Matthews, Baritone, Presented in Concert
How Is The K. N. E. A. Dollar Used . . .
Twelfth K. N. E. A. Exhibition Arranged
Phyllis Wheatley and George Washington
Sonnet to Negro Soldiers (By Jos. s. Cotter, .
School Examinations (By J v. Wendell Williams)
Approved List of Colleges for Negro Youth
State P. T. A. Announcement . . . ..
State Superintendent and Other Key Educators on Program .
N. E. A. Convention Echoes . . . . . . . . .
The Lincoln Grant School at Covingbon .

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Editorial Comments

THE NEW BUILDING AT W. K. l. C.
0n the outside cover of this Journal is found the pieture of the
recitationradminismtion building at our West Kentucky industrial
College at Paducah. As a climax to long struggle, D. H. Anderson,
President of the K. N. E. A. and President of this institution, has
succeeded in having erected one of the outstanding buildings in Kenr
tacky for colored youth.
The building includes two stories and 3 basement and is modern
-in every respect. It conhins special offices for the president, dean,
and registrar. There is also a large auditorium with talking picture
equipment and stige scen-ry, the auditorium seating 800 persons. The
building is used for both recitation and administration purposes.
Special features include science laboratories and a lecture room, a
reading room and stock room for library purposes, ten classrooms, and
six special purpose rooms in addition to those already mentioned. Al-
though the building is at present an all-purpose administration building,
the program far expansion calls for separate library and science build-

ings in the near future.
r u a r e a: a r. e s;

HOMES DURING CONVENTION
Homes may be secured by writing in advance. Write as early
as possible in order to get the best accomodstions. Most teachers have
stopping places but those who desire may secure homes through the
K. N. E. A. office. Rates will be one dollar per night for sleeping, 35
cents for breakfast, and 40 cents for dinner. Make your arragements
at His“. outset f0 avoid any misundersblnding. Cafeteria: near our meet-
ing will furnish meals at reasonable rates.
x e w s c o s s a
ENROLL BY MAIL
principals and organizations are enrolling their teachers in groups
All such 100 per cent advance enrollments are placed on the K. N. E.
A. Honor Roll. This Honor Roll will be published in our various Kenr
tucky Weeklies, and a special record to be shown at the 1932 meeting
Certificates of Honor will be sent to all 100 per cent schools. A dollar
tucky Weeklies, and on a special record to be shown at the 1932 meeting
Louisville or not. Do your part. Help maintain the K. N. E. A
s v: e e a e a o s
RAILROAD CERTIFICATES
Identification Gertificates insuring reduced rates to the 'K. N. E. A.
meeting in April may be obtained from the secretary Secure certifi-
cates earlyl None will be sent you unless you request same. Your
1932 membership card along with your certificate, is a guarantee of
reduced rates. Do not wait. Enroll now.

SECTIONAL MEETINGS
Each teacher should plan to visit a Depaitmental Meeting of the
K. N. E. A. The first meeting will be on Thursday afternoon of the
2:. N. E. A. convention. The sectional meetings have been arranged
in the afternoons for the convenience of all. Eight departments will
have programs. On each program there will the one or more outstand-
ing speakers. The K. N. E. A. is paying the speakers’ expenses to
Lnuisvile in order to make sectional meetings more attractive. Read
the program of these departments and attend the one which you feel
will beneﬁt you in your work. For professional improvement attend a
sectional program.
v. i: >l< is t n: e x v.
THE SPELLING BEE
The Annual State Spelling Bee will be held on Friday morning
of the K. N. E. A. meeting in the Elementary School Department.
Twelve prizes Will be awarded, the first four heing prizes of $10.00,
$5.00, $3.06, and $2.00, and the remainder being dictionaries. The
Louisville Courier-Journal has agreed to donate ten dollars and eight
dictionaries for prizes in the K. N. E, A. Spelling Bee. From all
indications this will be the largest Spelling bee in the history of the
K. N. E. A. Local elimination contests have been held throughout
the State and the winners will be in Louisville for the finals.
i. v. * a t t t n u
MEETING PLACES
The main sessions of the 1932 convention will be held at Quinn
Chapel Church on Chestnut Street, between 9th and 10th. Sectional
meetings will .be held in the rooms of Central High Shool building
at 9th and Chestnut Streets and the Western Branch Library, at 10th
and Chestnut Streets. Exhibits will be on display in the gymnasium
of the Central High School building. There Will be three night sessions
at Quinn Chapel Church and three other general sessions in the day,
making a total of six general sessions. The Friday night program
will :be a musicals at Quinn Chapel for which there will (be charged
a small admission fee. The Saturday night program will be
Twelfth Annual Physical Exhibition and will take place at the Jet-
ferson County Armory at 6th and Walnut Streets.
Louisville citizens are now preparing for the coming of the visit-
ing teachers. Many social affairs are being arranged and a pleasant

convention is anticipated.
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INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS

There will be no state-wide industrial and educational exhibits

113 heretofore. There will, however, be exhibits in the Central High
School gymnasium in which will be displayed the work of the Junior
and Senior Higl; Schools of Louisville. The supervisors of industrial
education in the Louisville public schools are making special plans
to display exhibits that will be quite attractive to our visiting teachers.
No prizes whatever will be given on any item as announced in the
last Journal. All visitors are cordially invited to inspect the exhibits.

Side-lights on 1932 K. N. E. A. Program

10:00 A. M.

10:30 A. M.

12:30 P. M.

11:00
11:15
11:45

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2:30

8:30 A, M.

Wedne-d-y. April 13, 1932
Registration Teachers, Headquarters at Quinn Chanel,
Chestnut Street, Between Ninth and Tenth, Louisville,
Kentucky.

Observation of the Louisville Public School classes at
work.
Visitation of Louisville Municipal College at Seventh and
Kentucky Streets.
Principals' Conference—R. D. Roman, chairman (at
Quinn Chapel and open to Vull local and visiting
teachem).. .. .. ..
Music Hour of State Music Association, R. L. Carpenter,
Directtess.
Quinn Chapel, First General Session of 1932 Convene
tion.
Welcome Address—41. E. Clement, Ph. D., Dean of the
Louisville Municipal College.
Response to Welcomevﬁ. W. Sledd, Lincoln High
School, Paducah, Ky.
Address, D. H. Anderson, President of K. N. E. A.
Address, Mrs. Maudelle B. Bousfield, Principal of Doug-
las School, Chicago.

Thu-saw. April M, 1932
Opening of Second General Session, Quinn Chapel.
Report of Legislative committee, 5. L. Barker, Owens-
horo, Kentucky.
Address: “Do the Public Schools East Too Much?”—
_Dr. W. A. Cook, Professor of Education, Univeisity of
Cincinnati.
Nomination of K. N. E. A. Officers.
Report of Committees, New Business, Etc.
Special Talking Pictures. Free to K. N, E. A. n‘iem-
bers wearing badges.
Sectional Meetings of various departments at Quinn
Chapel, Central High School, Y. M. C. A., and Western
Branch Libmy.
Music Hour: Quartet Contest. for State High Schools,
R. L. Carpenter, Direotress.
Opening of Third 'General Session of K. N. E. A.
Address: Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard
University, Washington, D. C. (Tentative)
Awarding of K. N. E. A. District Enrollment Trophy,
A. S. Wilson, Secretary of 'K. N. E A.

Fridny, April 15, 1932

Sectional meetings continued from Thursday afternoon.

9:00 A. M. Inter-Racial meeting of State Educators, Auspices of
High School and College department

10 :30 A. M. State Spelling Contest—Anspices of the Elementary
School department, Mrs. L. H‘ Smith, Chairman.

2:15 P. M. Opening of Fourth General Session at Quinn Chapel.

2:30 P. M. Address: .7. H. Richmond, State Superintendent of ln~
etruction in Kentucky.

3:30 P. M. Address: Hr Council] Trenholm, President of N. A.
T. C. S.

8:00 P. M. K. N. E. A. Musicale, featuring Edward Matthews,
baritone' of Fisk University, Radio Artist on c. B. s.

Sum-d”, April is. 1932

9:00 A. M Opening of last General Session at Quinn Chapel.

9:15 A. M. Memorial Service for Deceased Educators—«Rev. J.
Frances Wilson, Macao, Kentucky.

10:00 A. M.- Report of Special K N. E. Al Committees and direchors
of departments.

11:00 A. M. Annual Report of Secretay—Treasureri

11:15 A: M. Final Business of the Convention.

7:00 P. M. Twelfth Annual Exhibition at Armory.

7:10 P. M. Music by Louisville Post Office Band.

7:30 P. M. Joe. S. Cotter Walking Contest-‘Pupils of the Louisville

Public Schools.

Musical Pageant featuring the Biﬂentennial of George

Washington—Pupils of Louisville Schools.

10:00 P. M. Social Hour for Friends and Visiting Teachers.

12:00 P. M. Final Adjournment of the 56th Session of the
K. N. E. A.

ttltttiit$t

DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS OF K. N. E. A
Tin-rally, April 14, ‘II 2:30 P. NL, end Friday, April 15, M 8:30 A. M.
Department Place
Athletic . . . . . . . . . . . .Chestnut Street Y. M. C. A.
Commercial . .Room 203, Central High School
Elementary School. ........... .Quinn Chapel
Foreign Language . . Room 201, Cent-r81 High School
High School and College. . . . Sunday School Room of Quinn Chapel
Industrial Arts. . . . . l . . . . . . l . . .Room 104, Central High School
Music. . . .Centl'al High School Chapel
Primal-y. . Western Branch Library
Principals’ conference . ........... Quinn Chapel
Rural ..... . i . ..... . . . . . . i . . .Room 202, Central High School

8:30 P. M

Announcements for 1932 Convention

The general sessions of the
K.N.E.A. will he held at Quinn
Chapel, Chestnut Street, between
Ninth and Tenth streets, in Lou—
isville, Ky. Persons who know of
deceased members of the K. N.
E. A. are requested to send the
name: of them to Rev. J. Francis
Wilson, Mateo, Ky., who is plan-
ning s memorial serviee for them
at the next K. N. E. A. conven»
tion.

The Louisville schools will have

exhibits on display at Central
High School gymnasium. No
prizes are to be awarded this

year.

Send the names of the spelling
contestant {or your county as
soon as possible. The list of
words sent out should be headed,
“Suggested Words.” Word will
he given out in the ﬁnal contest
in the order pﬁnted. Omit the
Words “cocoanut” and “sympek
tize" and few other misspelled
Words from the list.

Each Louisville school may have
four entries, boys or girls, for
the walking contest at the Louis-
ville Armory on Saturday night.

One of the best features of the
Thursday night program of the
K Ni E. A. will be music to be
furnished by the glee club of the
Kentucky State Industrial Col—
lege under the direction of Miss
Wheatley. other organizations
that have agreed to furnish mu-
sic numbers on the K. N. E. A.
program consists of Madison and

Jackson Junior High Schools, of
Louisville, a chorus consisting of
pupils of the Jefferson County
schools, the Central High Schoul
glee club, the Louisville Normal
School glee climb, Louisville Muni-
eipal College, the Fisk Alumni
quartet, Lincoln Institute glee
club, the Jeﬁerson County Chile
dren's Home ohms, Ken‘ueky
School for the Blind band, and
the State Music Teachers Asso-
ciation.

An admission fee will be charg<
ed to all for the K. N. E. A. musi-
night, April 15. The mist on the
uprng‘ram is quite expensive. K.
N. E. A. members will be admit-
ted for 25 cents, others for 35
cents. This is the lowest ﬁgure
We can now announcer The price
might have to be more.

Each department head should
send his program to the K. N. E.
A. secretary ibefore March 19,
since the program will go to press
on that date.

Send the K. N. E. A. secretory
your dollar whether you attend
the Louisville convention or not.
By all means be is member of the
K. N. E. A., the greatest protec-
tor of Kentucky Colored teachers.

A talking picture will be pre-
sented to the enrolled members of
the K. N. E. A. on Thursday morn-
ing, April 14, at 11:30 a. m at
the Palace theater. This micture
is given at the expense of the K.
N. E. A. treasury and is free to
teachers who wear badges. It is

hoped that our visiting teachers
as well as our local teachers will
take advantage of this entertain-
ment offered by the K. N. E. A.

it is expected that at least 5,-
000 patrons will attend the Arm-
ory on Saturday night. Every
teacher should plan to be present
to meet his friends to spend a
pleasant evening.

The Primary Department will
hold its sectional meeting at the
Western Branch Library at Tenth
and chestnut streets.

Advance sale of tickets to the
Armory will he 30c, if lpurchased
before Friday, April 15.

The State Parent-Teacher As-
sociation is to meet in Louisville
at the Western Branch Library,
Monday and Tuesday. April 11
and 12, 1932. Mrs. Essie D.
Mack, the president, is planning
is very splendid program and do»
sires every P.» . A. in Kentucky
to send delegstes.

Teachers are urged to write
the Secretary as soon as possible
if they desire him to secure them
stopping lplaces while in Louisa
ville to attend the April meeting.

One of the best addresses of
our program will be that of Dr.
W. A. Cook, of the University
of Cincinnati, on the Thursday
morning program.

Miss Eva Mitchell of Hampton
Institute has been engaged to give
demonstrations in the Elementary
School Department during the K.
N. E. A. convention.

Teachers who desire lunches at
reasonable rates during the K. N
E. A. convention may secure
same at Quinn Chapel, Bright’s
Phannacy, Page’s Confectionery,
and White's Pharmacy.

National Negro Health Week
will lbe April 3 to 10, 1932. Ken—
tucky teachers are urged to plan
health programs throughout the
week and cooperate to improve
our general health situation.

At the meeting of the K. N, E.
A. in April, there will be an or-
ganization of Romance Language
and French teachers. The organ-
ization meeting is to be held on
Thursday, April 14, at 2:30 .p. m.-
in room 201 at the Central High
School building. The Carole
Francais of Louisville is sponsor»
ing this organization meeting.
They extend to all teachers of
Latin, French or Spanish, as well
as students of these languages, a
cordial invitation to be present at
the conferences to be arranged
during the K. N. E. A. An an~
nouncement of the discussions
will appear in the oiﬁciel program
of the K. N. E. A. Prof. A. W.
Ramsey and Miss Augusta Eman-
uel will appear on this program.

”Should you desire to receivea
large United States map, and a
full set of state mums, together
with illustrated descriptive literar
ture in connection with your trip
to our Convention, you can get
this service without cost by mere—
1y asking at any Conoco Sci-vice
Station, or by writing direct to
the Cannes Travel Bureau, Con-
tinental Oil Building, Denver,
Colorado."

Quartet Contest Announcement

Thunday, April 14, 1932, 7:00
oclack P. M., Louisville.
Kentucky

We are extending an invitat—
tion to the High Schools of Ken-
tacky to send a male quartet to
participate in a contest at the
Music Hour, Thursday, April 14.

We believe that the preparation
for this occasion. the social con-
tact, and the friendly rivalry will
do much to strengthen the music
appreciation of boys in the high
school, as well as encourage a
democratic spirit which necessar-
ily comes from group work.

We have that the principals will
cooperate with us in this new
movement of the K. N. E A., that
it may be a real success.

The following information will
aid participants:

Rule. of ‘Muxie Contest

1. Each quartet shall sing the
test number (“Sylvia’) and a
number of its own choice.

2. The test number, “Sylvia,”
thy Speaks, may be purchased from
the Educational Music Bureau,
434 So. Wabash Ave, Chicaga,
Ill. Catalog number—$66890,
price 15 cents.

3‘ Each school participating in
the contest shall pay expenses as
quartet attending K. N. E. A.

4.41 trophy will be given to
the winning quartet by the K. N.
E. A.; a second prize will be giv—
en if the number of entries jus»
tiﬁes same. >

5‘ The judges will {be enema:

ing musicians of the state not
connected with any manicipating
schauL

For further information write
R. Lillian Carpenter, Director of
Music Department of K. N. E. A.,
422 So, 28th Street, Louisville,
Ky
Point: of Judicntion for Quartet

Contest
1. Accuracy

.3. Notes
b. Time value
no Intonation

1]. Tune
8. Quality
1:. Quantity
0. Control
d. Blending
e. Balance
Diction
a. Naturalness
b. Cleamess of Diction
c. Purity of vowels
d. Consonants
IV. Rhythm
& steadiness
b. Freedom
0. Tempo
V. Phrasing
a. Content
'b. Melodic Line
0. Attack
d. Release
VI. Interpretation
a. Expression Marks
in. Contrast
ce Individuality
(1. Stage Department
a. Understanding of Compo-
sition
f. General Eifect.

III

Only Colored Principal In Chicago On

Program
Wadi-tech, Nli'll! Speaker

Maudella B. Boa-ﬁeld, Principal
Stephen A. Dough. ssheol,
Chicago, Illinoi-

rhe K. N. E. A. is fortunate in

securing as one of the main
syeakers on the 1932 program, an
outstanding educator of our race
in the person of Mrs. Maudelle B.
Bousﬁeld, who is one of the lead-
ers in Chicago education. Mrs.
Bousﬁeld was born and reared in
St. Louis and received her Bache-
lor of Arts degree from the Uni~
versity of Illinois. She was at
ﬁrst a teacher of Mathematics in
East St. Louis, later a teacher
in St. Louis, Mo. She was then
called to teach in Baltimore, Md,
and from that system, came to
the Chicago system, where she
was made dean of girls in the

Wendell Phililips High School in
1326‘ In 1928, Mrs. Bousfield was
assigned to the principalship of
the Keith Elementary School in
Chicago; She is the ﬁrst and only
colored principal in Chicago

Recently, Mrs. Bousfield was
awarded Master of Arts degree in
Education at the University of
Chicago and transferred, as plin-
cipnl, to Stephen A. Douglas
School, one of the largest ele-
mentary schools in Chicago. The
school has a mixed faculty and a
mixed student body.

Mrs. Bousﬁeld is a former Su~
preme Basileus of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, an organi-
zation with chapters all over the
United States. She spent one
summer in Southern and Western
Europe and Northern Africa; an—
other summer in Scandinavia, vis-
iting the schools in Norway and
Denmark.

No member of the K. N. E. A.
should fail to hear this outstand-
ing speaker She is to be intro-
duced on the occasion of her ad-
dress by Miss Maude Brown of
Louisville. Miss Brown is the
present Supreme Basileus of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

The southern headquarters oi
the Roseuwald Fund at Nashville,
Tenn.y was quite enthusiastic in
its praise of the recent K. N. E.
A. Journal, which contained a
Rosenwald School Day program
and a tribute to the late Julius
Rosenwaltl They requested that
copies be sent to every member of
their board of directors.

Noted Cincinnati University Educator

On Program
Thur-thy. April 14, Speaker

Profetxor of

or. w. A. cook.
Education, University of

cinsinnui

The K. N. E. A. is fortunate
in having secured as the major
speaker on the Thursday morning
program during the 1932 session,
Dr. William A, Cook, Professor
of Education at the University oi
Cincinnati. He will address the
main assembly at Quinn Chapel at
the Second General Session and
one of the derpartments of the K.
N. E. A. during the sectional
meetings on Thursday afternoon.
The subject of the morning lec-
ture will he, “Do the Public
Schools Cost Too Much." In the
zftemnon he will make an address
on the subject, “The First, Last,
and Greatest of Schoolroom Prob-
lems.” All of our teachers should

plan to he at these lectures bv Dn-
Cook. '

Dr. Cook was born in 1881 and
nducated in the common and high
schools of Illinois and graduated
from the University of Illinois in
1902. After several’ years in
public school administrative work
he returned to school, taking ad-
vanced degrees from Illinois and
Wisconsin. He later served "as
High School Visitor for tho
University of Colorado, Professor
of Education at the University of
South Dakota, and since 1926 as
Professor of Education at the
University of Cincinnaﬂil Hi3
chief ﬁeld work is school ndminis~
Nation and in this ﬁeld he has
written three books: “High School
Admirﬁstration,” “Federal ant!
State School Administration” and
“High School Teaching."

Dr, Cook has been a maim-
speaker on a number of educa-
tional association programs, hav-
ing aypeared before state teach-
ers associations in California. Col—
nrado, Wyoming, Nebraska. North
Dakota. Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Florida. He
has also made numerous addresses
at city institutes, county insti-
tutes, and high school comment?»
meats.

Because of this background of
experience, no member of our
toaching staﬁ‘ in Kentucky should
fail to he on hand to hear Dr.
Cook and be heneﬁtted by the in-
formation and suggestions that
he wiil bring us to better carry
on our schoolroom work and to
help us solve some of the prob-
lems that confront us daily.

President of N. A. 'I. C S. on Program

ThurId-y Night see-ket-

H. Council! Trenholm,
President of N. A. r. c. 5.

Born July 16, 1900, at Tus-

eumbie, Ala.

Formal education at Trenholm
High School (Tuscnmbia), Mare-
house College (A. 3., 1920) and
the University of Chicago (Ph.
B. in Ed., with special honors,
1921, A. M., 1925). Attended
six—Week S. A. T. C. course at
Howard University, 1918, and
served as First Sergeant in More—
hause College unit during Fall
of 1918.

Teacher and Special Assistant
to President at State Normal
School at Montgomery (oldest
statesupported institution in the
United States devoted wholly t.)

the training of Negro teachers)
and president since 1926.

Treasurer of Alabama State
Teachers Association, 1926—29,
and now preshient (elected in
Apﬁl, 1931).

Life member of N. A. T. C. S.
Chﬁirmsn of Division of High
School Education N. A. T. C. S.
1926-81. Elected president at
Washington, in July, 1931.

Editor of 1981 Yearbook on
Negro Education in Alabama.
published by the State Teaches
Association. Editor of numerous
research studies in Alabama. dur—
ing past seven years.

Life member of N. E. A. and
active member of Department 01:
Swperintendence.

State Director of (Material
Contests for Elks.

Member of Alabama Iniel‘d‘ul-
cial Commission and recently
chosen member of Southern Intel'-
Racial Commission

Trustee of Selma Univesitm.
Baptist Denomination.

President of Delvers Literary
Club of Montgomery.

Chairman of Executive Com~
mittee, Negro Division of State
Fair of Alabama. Chairman of
Negro Executive Committee, Mont-
gomery Chapter of Red Cross.

33rd Degree Mason. Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity.

During the administration of
President Trenholm at the State
Teachers College, the institution
has become a four-year teachers
college granting degrees, has in.
creased in gross annual student

enrollment from 2,958 to 5.008,
has maintained for ﬁve years the
largest summer school (2,126 in
1931) for Negro teachers in the
United States, has experienced a
physical developmental program
including the ccquisihion of 32
adjoining acres of land and the

erection of two very modern
buildings at a cost of $217,000,
has made commendable internal
progress ’ as a standard teacher-
training institution and has limb
ticipated very actively in all the
professional eﬁorts of both state
and national organizations

A Message From President Trenholm

The National Association of
Teachers in Colored Schools fe-
licitates its potential constituency
of 50,000 teachers of Negro chil-
dren at this beginning of the
1931-32 school session.

The current period is one of
trial for our educational interests
almost everywhere. A vast nic-
jority of the schools for Negro
children throughout the nation
are experiencing some curtail-
ment as a result of the general
economic conditions of this coun-
try and of the entire world. Sev~
era} states with their large num-
ber of Negro pupils and teachers.
are in a rather critical and abnoe:
desperate condition. Quite a
number of worthy applicants for
active membership in the teaching
profession have been denied the
opportunity for work this year
because of the lack of opening“
Teachers and children alike face
and experience this period of
stress.

However, it is for the teacher
to remain the buoyant enthusias-
tic leader of our schools which
hre the hope of our civilization.
It is for the teacher to realize
that those children in school this
yur have no responsibility for
the conditions of the y‘eaz' and are
eagerly appealing to us for help

since their “chance at formal
schooling" comes at this time. I:
is ior‘the teacher to resolve to do
an outstanding job for our chil<
dren of 1930-81 and to determine
through excellent service to justi~
fy his or her employment as a

teacher in preference to those
many other applicants who are
without teaching positions this

year. It is for the teacher to
continue to serve nobly and
neither to desert the ranks no:
to lessen her enthusixsm and elli-
ciency because of the trials of our
times. A better day must be in
store for our interests and our
schools.

The National Association of
Teachers in Colored Schools is
striving to serve in a bigger and
better manner in 1931-32, At-
tention to some professional as-
pects of our status as teachers is
to he a particular emphasis of the
year. Several research projects
centering about some vital cur-
rent aspects of our teacher status
and the elfech of the present eco-
nomic conditions on Negro Educa-
tion are in process of formulation.
A closer professional articulation
with our state associations and
some further consideration of the
technique of associational eﬁorts
are being onticiputed.

K. N. E. A. Honor Roll

(One Hundred Per Cent Enrollment Units to March 10, 1932)

City Schools

Glasgow Training School
New Liberty
Elizabethtown
Stanford
Greenville
Oliver High
Beaver Dam
Elkton
Mayfielrl
Middlesbnro
Franklin
Shelbyville

Principal

W. 1. Robinson
Mrs. Daisy Hutchinson

R. L. Dower-y
Wm. D. Tardif
U. L. Timberlake
E. E. Reed

W. C. Jackson
J. W. Waddell
J. Bryant Cooper
W. 1... Shobe

T. C. B. Williams
R. D. Roman

Lwisvilb Sehooh

Dunbar
City Normal
Madison Junior High

Mrs. Ellen L. Taylor
Mrs. Ellen L. Taylor
A. S. Wilson

. Sm; Inuit-Inca.

West Kentucky Industrial College
Kentucky Ema-t9 Indusuinl College

County

Christian
Spencer
Bracken
Hardin
Simpson
Union
Adair
Wayne
Pulaski
Mason
Washington
Lyon
McLean

J Fssﬂmine
Nicholas
Ohio
Barren
Scott

D. H. Anderson
R. B. Atwood

Organizer

Supt. H. W. Peters
Supt. G. Louis Hume
Supt. H. F. Monahon
Supt. T. M. Lewis
Supt. Erle N. Duff
Supt. W. 0. Wright
Supt. Nhnh Loy
Prof. Wm. C. Didlick
Supt. James H. Holt
Mrs. L. F. Bowen
Supt. J. F. McWhorter
Supt. N. G. Martin
Prof. F. A. Smith
Supt. J. C. Bumette
Miss ‘C. D. Munay
Prof. W. C. Jackson
Supt. w. M. Teddy
Supt. A. M. Shelton

K. N. E. A.

Prof. Wl 8. Matthews, princi-
pal of Central Colored High
School, Louisville, Ky., was uh
ccntly awarded the “Silver Beav-
er" for outstanding service in
the Boy Scout program among the
colored boys of Louisville. This
was the ﬁrst award made to ll! col-
cred citizen anywhere in the
United States.

The secretary of Mr. Lessing .l’.
Rosenwald, expressed amprccler
tion to ﬁne K. N. E. A. for its
recent publicntinn regarding the
late Julius Rosenwald, and his
service to Negro education.

The Dunbar School of Lexing-
ton, Kyr, has been given a class
“A" rating by the Southern Asso-
ciation of College and Secondary
Schools. This Was the only school
in Kentucky given such a high
rating. It is thought, however,
the Central High School at Lou-
isville will receive this rating
when the situation is investigated.

The same organization gave the
Kentucky State Industrial Col-
lege at Frankfort a class “B”
rating for a standard faurrear
college

Very soon the new Lincoln-
Grant School at Govingbon. Ky..
will be open for colored youth in
that city. Prof. H. R. Marry, one
of the loyal members of the K. N.
E. A., is to he principal of the
new school. The school is to con-
tain many new and up—tadlate
features of modern buildings

The following article appeared

KULLlNC-S

in the Music Supervisors Journal
October, 1931—0531111? being con-
tributed by Mr. Will Earhart. Di-
rector of Music. Pittsburgh Puli-
lic schools:

(1) I WILL PRAY. (2) l
COUDN’T HEAR NOBODY
PRAY. Notated by R. Lillian

Canyenter (M. Wilmer]: and Sons)

These two octave choruses for
treble voices, a cappelln, are quite
out of the ordinary. Particularly
do I regard the second one name
ed as a rare find in the thick—
growing forest of Negro spivi<
ﬁnals.

Reason for the unusual charac-
ter of these pieces is that their
harmonies are the improvisation,
the extemperaueous and undirect-
ed singing, of the girls‘ chorus of
the Colored Normal School, Lou-
isville, Ky. Miss Carpenter, di-
rector of the chorus, merely no-
tated them as sungi One glance
by the musician will be sufﬁcient
evidence of this fact; for the bar-
monizations are of an utterly ir-
regular character that no music
teacher would dare to put forth:
but the result is n wonder oi ep-
pealing and searching eﬁects.

Both should be widely used, for
in merit they stand at the head of
the list of Negro spirituals now
available, but beyond this. “I
Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray”
should become a classic above any
spir