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Show U. E. A. OPENS PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP MEETING TODAY ALLEN M. WEST The U. E. A. Professional Leadership Lead-ership School opens tonight with a dinner meeting at the El Escalante Hotel. Dr. Belmont Farley, guest speaker and consultant, will address the two hundred delegates representing repres-enting the local teachers association throughout the state. . Maud Harman, president of the U. E. A., Allen M. West, executive secretary of the U. E. A., lanthus Wright, superintendent of the Iron county schools, Lorln C. Miles, president pres-ident of the Southern Utah Teachers Teach-ers Association, Zoe Palmer, president presi-dent of the Iron County Teachers' Association, Mary McMillan, U. E. A. trustee, and Harry Plummer, president BAC Faculty Association, extended friendly greetings to the visitors as they arrived In Cedar City. The Professional Leadership School In session until Saturday noon, Is an expression of renewed interest on the part of education in seeking constructive democratic approaches for the solution of vital educational and professional problems prob-lems In the state. This Innovation recognizes the leadership Inherent In the teaching personnel and Implies Im-plies confidence in group discussions as a method of working. Friday's program is devoted to professional problems. Jame.? Has-lam Has-lam and Mary Wooley provide leadership lead-ership for the group discussion on effective local associations through organization, carefully planned functions, and relationship to state and national associations. Discussion leaders In the field of public relations are Harold M. Peterson Pet-erson and Dr. J. C. Moffltt. The theme for school public relations this year stresses the importance and responsibility of the teaching profession. Over the nation at large, curtailment cur-tailment of production. 111 will, gains in some directions result from the sharp conflicts which arise between be-tween employers and employees. In most Instances, the procedure Is costly. L. Rulon Jenkins and Paul Beecher will think through with a group of delegates the possibilities possibili-ties of collective bargaining on a professional basis. The most important single factor in determining the quality of instruction in-struction In a school Is the teachers serving there. M. J. Miles and Claire L. Jackson in the discussion of teacher personnel may high-light recruitment, selection and pre-and ln-servlce training for up-grading the profession. The school will conclude with a general session Saturday morning. |