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Show HEADS EDUCATORS' SOCIETY. New President of National Associa. tion, James Y. Joyner, Hails From North Carolina. , Denver". James Yadkin Joyner, who was elected president of the National Na-tional Education Association at the recent convention in this city, has been superintendent of public instruction in-struction in North Carolina since 1902. He was born in Davidson coun. James Y. Joyner. ty, N. C, in 18b. educated at La Grange academy and the University of North Carolina, and began his teaching career as principal of La Grange academy in 1S81. From 1889 to 1893 he was professor of the English Eng-lish language and literature in the Stae Normal and Industrial college of North Carolina and from 1903 to 1905 was secretary of the Association of State Superintendents of the Southern States. His home is in Raleigh. |