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Show A LEADING EDUCATOR I jffi I Lil'il! t-LLI 1 1 1 1 1 lTv I 1Ion' Jninos Yndkln Joyner, state suporin- M JJW V tomlont of I'l'Mlc instruction in North Cnrollnn, Lv 7l T who Is tho new president of tho National Educa- w lioiml association, Is doing as grand a work In ft, aiding to bring the blessings of education to tho ra-tf4 Vv v , poor whites of tho south ns Booker T. Washing- Kpa? 1' Vto ton is nmong tho blacks. fii) After graiTuatlng from tho University of North wit S''4 A Cnrollnn In 1881, Mr. Joyner Immediately entered IK !L& iff llP" tno Profession of teaching nnd for sovornl Xtfi''' , I years' was superintendent of La Grange ncademy pjwL nml superintendent of schools In Lenoir county, W0JP in wIch capacity ho first Bhowcd the nbillty to .iraW ylIP' l,P"ft tne standnrd of tho white schools of tho 'MSjm south-, that has since brought him fame. Goldsboro, N. C, but gave It up to return to teaching, becoming superintendent of the grnded schools of Goldsboro. In 1809 he was called to tho chair of English lnngunge and llternturo at tho State Normnl and Industrial college of North Carolina. Slnco 1902 ho hns been stnto superintendent of public Instruction for North Cnrollnn. As secretary sec-retary of tho Association of Stnto Superintendents of tho South, his Influence and activity have boon felt throughout that seclon. He Is n member of tho board of aldermen of Goldsboro, a missionary Baptist and n Democrat In politics. |