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Show j hire at the National University of Shantung, at Tsingtao. China in I'S.'u, after which he became in- : struclor in Chiivse Langw; i.iii' i litenilurc at Stanford t'.u t- ; lowing year. lie has been as.-is- ! I"!)'. proiV-r of Chinese and ' English at. Stanford since J 639. I Upon he dpnth .of the late Professor Edwin A. Green: ,w of John Hopkins UmV.rsil.v " D,-. Pooley was clioseii by the ftcutf-Forcsman ftcutf-Forcsman company as one u ihe co-editors of Their wirV- u,...d "Litr-nunr. and Lite' tae ;". In that capacity ho asshtrd in revisions revi-sions or series, ar. ' aa; ci y v.-Uwh called for the careful re , ,,,, of literature adapted to ti.e , .,: ius "" Il'vels tn junior a ei ... idor higii schools. He was a . riiof consultant in (he prepte- o Hooks 1 and 2 of "Thi;' ins; in Fnglish'' by Leonard and S Us-bury, Us-bury, a high school composiiion published by the same firm. Also of special in --res' to the English teachers attending the Summer Session will be several lectures during the 'same week by Dr. S. W. Chan, a member of the school of letters at Stanford Univershv. Among the lectures fo the Chinese-born author; :y in English are "The Chinese Dtama", "Chinese Poetry, and "China's attempt at-tempt at Modernization." After getting his bachelor of ad'ls degree at Linghan University, Univer-sity, Canton, China, in 1)27 he garnered his master of arts degree de-gree at Stanford in 1932 and his doctor of philosophy degree at the same institution in 1937 institution in-stitution in 1937. Before attending Stanford he was ' instructor of English at the National Sun-sen University at Canton, and from 1934 and 1937 he was association editor of the Chinese Times in San Francisco and dean superintendent super-intendent of the Chinese Union Christian Acadamy at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Dr. Chan was then appointed appoin-ted professor of English litera- English Teachers Conference at Slimmer School English teachers of the inter-mountain inter-mountain area will have opportunity oppor-tunity to observe problems of elementary and secondary English teaching at an English Teachers' conference which will be held from June 16, to 20 as a special offering of the 1941 Summer Session at Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural 3ollege, Summer Session officers announced. Serving as director of the conference con-ference which will feature special instruction in the teaching of English and elementary and sec-odary sec-odary schools will be Dr. Robert C. Pooley, president of the National Nat-ional Council of Teachers of English at the University of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, and director of English Education in the University of Wisconsin high school. Morning sessions will be run from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. with the afternoon classes being held from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p. m. after which those attending will be divided into various grups for special discussions between 3 p. m. and 5 p. m. The groups will discuss problems of teaching literature, oral and written composition, and grammer in junior and senior high schools and other problems that may be of particular interest inter-est to those in attendance. Papers will be presented in the discussion discus-sion by teachers of English in Utah high schools and colleges in attendance, according 'to Dr. Wallace Wal-lace J. Vickers and Professor Ira N. Hayward of the college English faculty, who make up the college col-lege committee arranging the conference. One credit hour may be obtained by those wishing tc enroll for the conference as either regular or special summer school students. Dr. Pooley, who will bring tc hf9 work as director of the conference con-ference the fruits of a lifetime experience as teacher, teacher-trainer, teacher-trainer, and editor of texts in Ihc field of English, receiVJy presidec i.vcr the mountain and Plain: States English Teachers' conference confer-ence at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colo-rado, said Dr. Vickers. |
