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Show DeVoe Woolf Attends Meet Among ten thousand people present at the convention sponsored spon-sored by the American Association of School Administration and the National Education Association, at San Francisco, was De Voe Woolf, principal of South high school. Representatives from schools throughout the United States attended at-tended the 585 meetings conducted from February 18 to 28. Centered around the theme, "Education "Ed-ucation for Free People," and the question, "What Should Schools Do in Regard to War Needs," the first meeting commenced. Purposes of the convention were to discourage indifference to the present world conflict, but rather to urge school children to be conscious con-scious of it. It was believed that pupils in the Western and Middiewestern states are not as war-minded as those in the East and on the Pacific Pa-cific coast. It was stated that normal nor-mal living must continue so as to avoid hysteria, but nevertheless preparedness should not be neglected. ne-glected. Many of the speakers especially stressed that citizenship courses be given to high school students in order to train them for defense jobs after graduation. Mr. Woolf announced at an assembly, as-sembly, March 4, that assemblies and other entertainment will continue con-tinue for the purpose of keeping the morale up. He stated that the assembly was the first presented to educate the students upon conduct con-duct during air raids. |