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OCR Page 1 of 8Remarks by Commissioner of Education Earl J. McGrath at meeting of Chief
State School Officers, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., Tuesday,
December 9, 1952, 9:30 a.m.
It is a real privilege to welcome to this building what I believe to be
the largest meeting in a long time of the Chief State School Officers under the
auspices of the Offico of Education. Dr. Fuller tells me that all but four of
you have accepted our invitation, and, though you are not all here yet, you will
be before the day is out.
I became a little bit interested in the history of these meetings and
I was able to discover that the Chicf State School Officers came together for
the first time under the auspices of the Office of Education almost forty-five
years be exact on February 24, 1908. It is very interesting to read the
report which the then Commissioner of Education made on that meeting because it
has a strange similarity to some of the things that we're doing and saying today.
I want to, read a few sentences from the Commissioner's report for 1908:
"Tho Conference of the Chief School Officers of the sevoral States and
Territories was held at Washington on the 24th of February, 1908, on invitation
issued by this Bureau." The educational conference vas called by the Commissioner
of Education on the suggestion of State Suporintendent J. Y. Joyner of North
Carolina which had followed a similar suggestion from State Superintendent
Katherine L. Craig of Color lo. It is interesting to observe that the ladies
occupied en important place in this organization way back there forty=five years
ago as they continue to do coday.
Now we have a better attendence record than they had at that meeting. Of
the fifty chiof educational officors of as many States and Territories who were
invited to that conference, thirty-seven wore present in person This I think
is the significant part of the Commissioner's statement in 1908: "This conference
seemed destined to mank an opoch of no small importance in the history of educational
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