VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FUNDS:

Payments to the States of George-
Deen funds for the 6-month period just

closed December 31, totaled $6,000,338.02.

George-Deen funds make it possible further
to extend the services of vocational
education in the several States.

STAMP QUT ENEMY OF YOUTH:

I wish to remind you of the second
National Social Hygiene Day — February
2 —- when attention will be particularly
focused upon Nation-wide efforts to
eliminate the menace of venereal dis-
ease. The American Social Hygiene As-
sociation, with cooperating agencies,
has put forward the slogan "Stamp out
syphilis — enemy of youth." Information
and help concerning efforts to be made
can be obtained from the above-named as—

 

KNOW YOUR SUPERINTENDENT

This is the title of the second
discussion outline recently prepared by
W. S. Deffenbaugh, Chief, American Schools
Division, Office of Education, for rree
distribution by the Office as long as

the supply lasts.

The first document offered sugges—
tions for discussion by study groups that
want to be better informed upon matters
regarding city boards of education.

The second outline pertains to
superintendents. Questions and informa-—
tion, suggestions for study and discus-—
sion, and a short bibliography furnish
aids to groups using these outlines. |
Write Office of Education, United States
Department of the Interior, Washington,

D.C., if you wish a copy.

 

sociation, whose address is 50 West 50th
Street, New York City.

 

 

IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP:

To three well-known educators, I particularly extend my hearty wishes for most
effective and successful terms of office in the voluntary capacities to which they
have recently been elected for 1938:

President, Chief State School Officers — Sidney B. Hall, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction of Virginia, was named president of the Association of Chief State
School Officers at its annual convention recently held in Washington.

President, American Vocational Association — Thomas H. Quigley, head of the Indus-—
trial Education Department of the Georgia School of Technology, became president of the
American Vocational Association at its 3lst annual convention recently held in Baltimore.

President, Land-Grant College Association - C. W. Creel, Director of Agricultural
Extension, University of Nevada, is the newly-elected president of the Association of

Land-Grant Colleges and Universities.
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I extend to my fellow workers everywhere my sincerest good wishes for happiness,
health, and wide opportunity for service throughout the new year and the years that
are to come. May education march on under your guidance and inspiration to ever
higher goals.

Very truly yours,

TA Sa beta her

Commissioner of Education.