The Organization of the Convention by Frederick Griggs

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1910

The Organization of the Convention

By Frederick Griggs

It may be of interest to our people and to educators generally to learn a little more definitely of the plans outlined for the coming educational convention at Berrien Springs.

One prominent feature will be the department work. The teachers in our advanced schools have never before had the opportunity of meeting together to confer about the interests of their departments. Many problems confront them, upon which counsel and suggestions from others will be of great value. Accordingly, sections have been formed which will cover all the various branches followed in this grade of school. For instance, there will be Bible, mathematics, and history sections, in which the teachers of these special lines will meet together, and organize for a careful, detailed study of the special features of their work.

We hope to have some permanent form of organization established at this meeting for these sections; for without doubt such an organization, resulting in correspondence between the teachers of each department, with occasional meetings, can be made a source of inspiration and advancement, and a means of permanent good.

We have suggested various persons as temporary secretaries, and have asked these to outline a plan of procedure for their departments at the convention. This is necessary in order to insure a successful meeting of these sections. After there has been time to consider this question at the convention, the sections may be organized for permanent service.

It has been impossible for us to secure the names of all the teachers who will be connected with these schools the coming year, and some names may have been unintentionally overlooked. We trust, however, that all our teachers in the different departments, even though they have not received a notification from the secretary of the section to which they will naturally belong, will feel perfectly free to enter heartily into its organization and plans, and will contribute in every way possible to the success of the convention as a whole.

FREDERICK GRIGGS.