Asheville—An address by O. Max Gardner of Shelby featured a meeting of the attendance and illiteracy conference of North Carolina County Superintendents.
Mrs. E.L. McKee, president of the state federation of women’s clubs, presided, and among the other speakers were Carl C. Taylor, dean of the graduate school of the North Carolina State College; and a group of pupils from Buncombe county community schools. Among these were Earl Hollingsworth, M.H. Ledford, Mrs. F.G. Wilson, C.F. Jenkins, W.C. Hutchins, and T.J. Ingle.
Mr. Gardner said that he was glad the state had shown a marked tendency during the past few years to stamp out illiteracy in North Carolina. No state can go far with a large per cent of its population illiterate, he said.
Discussion of plans for increasing attendance and reducing illiteracy occupied the attention of the members of the conference.
With Buncombe county as a model, about seven plans for increasing rural school attendance and reducing illiteracy were mapped out by the chairman. Each of these plans is most applicable to conditions in certain counties of the state. The application of a plan to a particular county will depend on the number of children in the county, taxable property and income available. The committee chairman recommended that a state director of adult illiteracy by named and three district supervisors be appointed to comprise a general committee for the operating of the plans of the counties affected.
The theme of the meeting was a co-operative endeavor to work out practical plans for keeping the children in school and for removing the handicap of illiteracy from their parents. Among those on the morning program were: S.G. Bernard, chairman of the Buncombe county Board of Education; C.H. Bartlett, city commissioner; and Miss Elizabeth Kelly, former state director of adult education. They discussed the practical results of community school work, as seen from their respective viewpoints.
From the front page of the Norlina Headlight, July 10, 1925
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