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Show on. E. u. COINS IS PRESIDENT OF urates State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chosen Head of Utah Educational Educa-tional Association RESULT OCCASIONS GREAT SURPRISE Successful Candidal Vain ly Endeavored to With draw in Favor of His Opponent NEW OFFICERS OF EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION President Dr E Q Gowans of Salt Lake Vice president D O Jensen of Engham City Trustees Howard E Driggs of Salt Lake and F D Jensen of Ephralm Regardless of his protests that he was not in spirit a cand date and de spite his requests that h s friends give their support to his opponent Dr E G Gowans state superintendent of publ c UHtruiiojiras yesterday- elected pres ident of the Utah Edacat onal associa t on over OrsOn Ryan Buper ntendent of the Jordan school distr ct D O Jen sen of Br gham City was chosen v ee president and Howard R Dr ggs ret r ng pres dent of the assoc at on and P D Jensen of Ephrai n were elected three year term trustees While t had been rumored after the votes were counted that Dr Gowans had been elected the off c al announce ment of the result was not madeunt 1 the close of the general sess on in the Assembly hall last evening To a great major ty of those in attendance t came as a d stmct surpr se n view of the fact that Monday Dr Gowans after a two hour consultat on w th Superin tendent Bjan requested Secretary J Fred Anderson to w thdraw his name and asked Is fi ends to support the Jordan cand date When it developed that the secretary could not legally str ke Dr Gowans s name from the ballot Dr Gowans re t erated his request that h s support be gi en Ryan and again yesterday after noon at the general sess on of the con vent on he asked his supporte s to cast the r ballots for his opponent Desp te th s fact however he was placed m off ce by what s sa d to have been a comfortable majo ity Vote Is Light Altho gh there was cons derable m terest m the elect on yesterday the vote was except onally 1 ght espec ally for the office of pres dent While members of the elect on committee declined to an nounce the vote it is said that less than 500 ballots were cast for both can d dates for the pres dency Th s is at tr buted to the fact that occ rrences of the n ght before gave the elect on so far as the, pres dency was concerned what the teachers bel eved to be an appear ance of a personal controversy For th s reason t s sa d many of them voted for the cand dates for other of f ces and not the cand dates for pres dent Howard R Dii gs ho ret res as presi dent of the organ zat on is said to have been pa d a great t bute by the members of the asso a on. I a unde s ood t at he rece ed approxln at v 800 vo es a most wlce as man as we e cast for both cand da es or p es dent and a n os twice as manv as we e cast for any other candi da e fo office Another Surprise M ss Marga et MacV ch e s defeat by D O Jensen for ce pres dent furnished ano her surp 1se of the e ec o Wh e s e ha nade no campa gn for the office it was gene al conceded tha her e ec on was assu ed She wa t e o y worn an cand date on he t cket and the only me be of the Sa t Lake teach ng co ps en e ed Howe er t e ou s de teachers wo o ed for Dr Gowans p obab y re ga ded m as a Sa t Laker and here fo e o ed for one of the r numbe fo p es dent B the esu of e ba o s d d not furn sh he o y surp ses Althou the (Continued on Page Twelve G0iS IS ELECTED HEAD DF TEACHERS (Continued from Page One) greater part of the day was devoted to departmental sessions In at least two of these meetings II ely contests developed At the meeting of the college and high school section jesterday morning at the Bast high school the question of military training in the public schools precipitated a warm debate Again esterday afternoon tho tran q llllty of anothe departmen al meeting was upset whe at a session of the art section hel 1 In t e assemhl room of the Monroe school former students of Vlr Klnla Bnow Stephen Introduced a resolu tion of protest against her lismlssal as art Instructor at the I n versity of Utah Oppose Dismissal After some debate the resol tion was adopted It Is as follows Wl cress A large n mher of the teac ers of the state regard V rglnla Snow Stephen as a woman and In structor of the Ig eat hnra ter and Whereas T e. hoard of regents of lie I n vers t of I tah has ren o ed her from he position an a t nst uc tor ll n hoo of ed ation and Whereas We as a liodv of ed cators sta d for a a len freedom Thcrcf e be It eso ve I Tl at we the a t en e s of n a Kdura tlona assocla on en es p otcst agal st he act on of he oard of regen s n emovlng he f o n cr po s on Be fu he eso ed r a a opv of these esol oh e se t e I reslden of he I a a onn1 n so at on nd o I e a nun f e boar! of regen a of eln csyof T tah Althoug e n endan e at e general sess ons v s erda aftor oon as n an a ge an u of e oi ng sess o n eas 00 n o e an es we e re or led o he us a wan na t a more an 0 n en e s of e asso a on we e nd e |