| Show I This W Woman Head Educators I Mrs Ella Flagg Young Yoting Y oung Su Suo Superintendent of 01 Public Schools N virtue of oC her hr exalted position as IN I superintendent of ot the tho Chicago public schools Mrs Ir Ella JlIa Flagg Young Is III already time till foreman woman among the nations educators As An president Ir of ot the Illinois Teachers association she sh heads the pedagogical profession In her state If It she la is I elect elected elected ed president of or the National Educational association at Its It convention In July luly In Boston Doston as all seems possible she sho will wilt be the professionally recognized leader of or the teachers It Is In It hardly necessary to add that she will trill willbe willbo be he the first t woman to hold tIme the position pod tion since no other woman oman has hns over ever advanced so ao far Car to tho front In the profession of teaching ns lIa has Mr Mrs Young It was tyas last year that Chicago a tho the country by electing Mrs Young to 10 the office omee of superintendent ot of tho the schools II The Th very vel Idea of ot ofa ota ofa a woman superintendent of ot school seems not to have suggested Itself previously to 10 the th boards board a of oC education of or the th a big cities and the tho election caused a sort ort of ot shock The magnitude of ot the tho office with Its lis super of at more moro than teachers and nearly pupils Its It super supervision supervision vision of ot the disbursement annually of ot otmar more mar than and Its com Corn command command mand of a salary of at all sent a thrill of oC Interest through those thole who are Interested In ire tho the nations na school schoolchildren children vs n A A woman oman n n superintendent su n d en t of ot o f children vs n A A woman oman n n superintendent su n d en t of ot o f p schools In a big city was to the th pub public public lic lie an unheard ard of ot thing for tor no one could ouid even een remember the tha suggestion of at such a choice Since then another woman oman school chool superintendent has b been en elected In tho the person of at Mrs Mars Man Mal D p of ot Kenosha WI WIThe is The size alze of ot the salary attached to tIns Mrs Young Youngs position was WAil one ono thing that aroused general comment It was waa suggested In some quarters that If a amale amale amale male superintendent of schools was Willi worth a It year a woman super could not earn so 80 much The I suggestion had even Men been made modo at the I meeting of ot the Chicago school board which elected Mrs Mra Young Toting Youn but the i fiery tier indignation of lira tra OKeefe OKee e the only woman oman member of ot I 1 Ith i time th board find and Mrs Ire Young Youngs chief sup aup supporter supporter I I porter promptly and quickly squelch squelched ed It The salary remained what It I had been and th there re has hu been no sug that Chicago la I with I I Its lIa it bargain Mrs Young was waa recently recent reelected to succeed ad herself for six alx hc j months The only other city school superintendent ul who receives a salary I as tin largo large ns as that of ot Mrs Ir Young Is I Su Ru Superintendent William If II Maxwell ot of New Nfl York city Chicago hen hns had no cause to be oIls ills di satisfied fied with Its lI choice of n mm woman to i direct Its schools In experience exl nl ence once ability Insight In ht and foresight fore Mrs Young ulan ls In tho the very tery front rank of or the th educators Rho had proved her ability In the public school system of ot the city as aa teacher principal and head had of oC tho 1 normal school hool Her worth as an a an educator won recognition from the late Dr Pro William R 8 Harper who despite Ip his well known antipathy to 10 wo teo woman teoman 0 man Ulan educators In general I and Influence In this country Iti III It tt a anual nual conventions serve as Aa a clew il house for Cor tho the Information and that are nrc the tho crop of ot a years tilling ot of O tho tim fields of ot education To It to CO O th th Ib men limen women who are shaping future futuro life Ufa of oC the tho nation to 10 1 j i Y I 1 ir rL y rt k r S d c ce e 1 made her professor of ot edu education education I f cation In the big Institution f 4 of oC which he ho was 8 president the tho University ot of Chicago Her lIer pedagogical and admin administrative 5 i abilities In various L c capacities were therefore there tore P known In the school chool world before the th attention of oC the outside world orld was Wail centered on her by tho the election of last Jut August years MH ELLA FLACQ FLAoG YOUNG of ot service preceded the election I Mrs Mr Young Is I years yeara old Hh Rh She 1 is III a widow and childless She I was born In Buffalo where she ahe re received reo most mOlt of ot her undergraduate edu education education i cation When hen she he was a young girl her t family nm d to io and ant she ahe was waa graduated from one of ot the high schools She took up i teaching aa as a profession Immediately I I afterward i j iThe The National Nation Educational association tion which may ma sak asic Mr Mrs Young Toun to be become b become come Its II president Is I on OD one of ot the tho big biggest biggest J gest associations In point of number numbers Ideas to accept what U is In f SO and reject what Is Ia I false much earnest car cai professions Is 1 so ful tub attention paid to th the M tilt the of or Ideas the testing ot of methods observation of lC results Iti Its n mm nr r schools lU t a I comprises comprise the heads of at the and aad Ui the citY M colleges and universities officials whO ho hY biTt 11 state sUte anti and anI national the of f w the In their care aup II I II t tI country educational forces fore of oC the called clied to 10 i the Ibe i U I a high bSh honor boner to be hi presidency of this thu body f J WALTON |
