KANSAS STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
University of Kansas Unit

October 17, 1936

A meeting of the University of Kansas section of the Kansas State Teachers

Association was held at 4:30 in Fraser Chapel with Dean Raymond A. Schweg-

ler presiding. Dean Schwegler announced that due to the pressure of other

business the meeting would dispense with the reading of the minutes of the

preceding session and proceed to the hearing of the guest speakers. Forty-
nine members were present.

Mr. F. L. Pinet, secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Association, was
the first speaker and talked on the work of the Kansas State Teachers Asso-
ciation, which was to hold its seventy-fifth annual meeting this year. He
divided the work of the Association into the following periods. From 1863
to 1909 the Association strove valiantly and earnestly but was not a large
or imposing organization. From 1909 to 1919 the membership grew from 1,000
to 5,000 members but was even then a northeast Kansas association rather
than a true Kansas association of teachers. In 1917 an amenament was pro-
posed to hold more than one meeting at a given place, and in 1919 several
meetings were held. From 1919 to 1929 the membership grew from 5,000 to
18,000. From 1929 up to the present there has been a gradual drop in the
membership due to the depression, but the recent years have found a gradual
return to the membership maximum of 18,000 which has at the present again
been about reestablished. iir, Pinet stated that the five-fold work of the
Kansas State Teachers Association nas been to hold meetings; publish the
magazine; establish, organize, and conduct the reading circle; to make a
program for improvement of instruction; and to aid with the legislative
program of the state. He cited examples to show how this work was carried
out. Mr. Pinet stated that the Kansas State Teachers Association had
distributed information to stabilize public opinion in favor of the schools,
and through its work definite information on finance, buildings, school
books, and similar work had been given out. He ended his speech by giving
the purpose of the Kansas State Teachers Association, namely, to build a
better public interest for the schools, to protect the teachers, and to
create a stronger support for the schools of the state. Following his
speech, the organization asked Mr. Pinet questions

Mr. C. O. Wright, assistant secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Asso—
ciation, then spoke on the teachers! retirement plan for the state of
Kansas. He presented two plans which are up for consideration, namely,

the reserve plan or the pay as you go plan. The reserve plan would take
five to eight percent of payment while the pay as you go would take only
one to two percent. He explained that this whole matter was up for study,
discussion, and public interest at the present and that the University
membership might be interested in bending its effort toward a general move-
ment in teachers! retirement. Following his discussion, the group partici-
pated in a lively period of questions and answers.

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