PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1906-1907

The annual meeting of the Board of Directors was called to order in Children's Hall of the Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, California, at 11:00 A. M., July 8, 1907, by President Nathan C. Schaeffer. The following Directors responded to roll-call:

Jasper N. Wilkinson, Kansas; Irwin Shepard, Minnesota; J. M. Greenwood, Missouri; W. T. Harris, District of Columbia; Eliphalet Oram Lyte, Pennsylvania; Charles H. Keyes, Connecticut; L. D. Harvey, Wisconsin; Miss Clem Hampton, Florida; W. H. Bartholo mew, Kentucky; L. E. Wolfe, Texas; George B. Cook, Arkansas; John D. Benedict, Indian Territory; Wells L. Griswold, Ohio; T. A. Mott, Indiana; George L. Towne, Nebraska; Oscar J. Craig, Montana; J. E. Stubbs, Nevada; Edward T. Mathes, Washington; A. H. Chamberlain, California; Nathan C. Schaeffer, Pennsylvania.

Present, twenty directors.

The reading of the minutes of the last meeting, held July 6, 1905, was, on motion, dispensed with, and the minutes were approved as printed in the volume of Proceedings of the Asbury Park meeting.

The Secretary announced the formal resignation of certain directors. On motion, the following directors were elected to fill the vacancies:

E. E. Balcomb, of Oklahoma, to succeed Richard V. Temming, resigned.
W. M. Kern, of North Dakota, to succeed P. G. Knowlton, resigned.
John MacDonald, of Kansas, to succeed L. D. Whittemore, resigned.
S. Belle Chamberlain, of Idaho, to succeed A. G. Sears, resigned.
Henry D. Sheldon, of Oregon, to succeed E. D. Ressler, resigned.
Charles H. Ames, of Massachusetts, to succeed Henry T. Bailey, resigned.
Joseph Swain, of Pennsylvania, to succeed John W. Lansinger, resigned.
W. R. Hatfield, of Illinois, to succeed C. M. Bardwell, resigned.

I. C. McNeill, of Tennessee, to succeed Eugene F. Turner, resigned.
Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, of Colorado, to succeed L. C. Greenlee, resigned.
S. L. Heeter, of Minnesota, to succeed A. W. Rankin, resigned.
John R. Kirk, of Missouri, to succeed W. J. Hawkins, resigned.

Total number of directors present at this meeting, thirty-two.

The Twenty-first Annual Report of the Board of Trustees for the year July 1, 1906, to June 30, 1907, was presented and printed copies of the same were distributed to the directors. On motion of Director J. M. Greenwood, the reading of the report was dispensed with and the report was approved and ordered printed in the annual volume of Proceedings.

The reports of the Treasurer, J. N. Wilkinson, of Emporia, Kan., for the years 1905-06 and 1906-07 were presented. The report for the first of the two years was adopted as printed in the anniversary volume. The report for 1906-07 was read in full and on motion was referred to the Board of Trustees for audit and approval.

The report of Secretary, Irwin Shepard, embodying a review of the reports of the Secretary from 1893 to 1907 was next presented and printed copies of the same were passed to the directors. On motion, the reading of the report was dispensed with and the report was approved as printed in the anniversary volume.

Secretary Shepard then made a brief statement with regard to railroad rates to the effect that certain questions remained unsettled between the Association and the railroads of the Trans-Continental Association regarding the expense of validation of the tickets or return of National Educational Association members at Los Angeles. Since the question was a complicated one the Secretary advised that it be referred to a committee for

One Trustee to succeed Nicholas Murray Butler, for the term to expire 1910. One Trustee to succeed N. C. Dougherty, resigned, for the term to expire 1908. One Trustee to succeed Albert G. Lane, deceased, for the term of three days to expire July 11, 1907.

On motion, Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York, was unanimously elected to succeed himself for the term to expire July, 1910.

The names of C. G. Pearse, of Wisconsin, and E. G. Cooley, of Illinois, were put in nomination to succeed N. C. Dougherty, resigned. An election by ballot was ordered. Charles H. Keyes, of Connecticut, and A. H. Chamberlain, of California, acted as tellers. The ballot resulted in C. G. Pearse receiving fifteen votes and E. G. Cooley fourteen.

The Chairman announced the election of C. G. Pearse as trustee to succeed N. C. Dougherty, resigned, for the term to expire 1908.

H. B. Brown, of Indiana, was on motion elected to succeed Albert G. Lane, deceased, for a term of three days to expire Thursday, July 11, 1907.

The following communication was read by the secretary:

Los Angeles, Cal., July 8, 1907

To Irwin Shepard, Secretary, National Educational Association,

Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit, herewith, a petition signed by twenty-eight prominent educators, who are active members of the National Educational Association, asking the privilege of organizing a department of the National Educational Association to be known as the Department of Rural and Agricultural Education, and to request that you will present this petition to the Board of Trustees of the National Educational Association for action during the present convention of the Association.

Very respectfully,

DICK J. CROSBY,
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.

APPLICATION

To the Board of Trustees of the National Educational Association:

In view of the widespread and active interest in the improvement of rural schools and in the development and extension of instruction in agriculture and the allied subjects of nature-study and school-gardening in the colleges and public schools of this country, and in view of the fact that there is now no national organization of teachers for the discussion of rational methods of instruction in these subjects, the undersigned active members of the National Educational Association respectfully request permission to form a Department of Rural and Agricultural Education co-ordinate with the other regularly constituted departments of this Association.

Very respectfully,

JOHN L. ALGER, principal, Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt.

E. BENJ. ANDREWS, chancellor, State University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
BROWN AYRES, president, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

L. H. BAILEY, director, College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
W. A. BALDWIN, principal, Hyannis State Normal School, Hyannis, Mass.
CHARLES E. BESSEY, professor of botany, university of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
E. C. BISHOP, deputy state superintendent of public instruction, Lincoln, Neb.
ERNEST BURNHAM, director, rural school department, Western State Normal School,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, president, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst,

Mass.

W. T. CARRINGTON, state superintendent of public schools, Jefferson City, Mo.
P. P. CLAXTON, professor of education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
FASSETT O. COTTON, State superintendent of public instruction, Indianapolis, Ind.
DICK J. CROSBY, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
DELOS FALL, professor of chemistry, Albion College, Albion, Mich.

H. B. FRISSELL, principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton,

Va.

FRANK H. HALL, secretary, Illinois Farmers Institute, Aurora, Ill.

L. D. HARVEY, superintendent of schools, Menomonie, Wis.
W. M. HAYS, assistant secretary of agriculture, Washington, D. C.
R. H. JESSE, president, State University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
J. Y. JOYNER, state superintendent of public instruction, Raleigh, N. C.