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...Portland's Municipal Auditorium NEA's retiring President Agnes Samuelson of Iowa picked up her gavel, banged it unceremoniously, keynoted: "Democracy must preserve education if education is to preserve democracy!" From that moment broad-beamed President Samuelson had to pound her gavel incessantly, finally smashed it, as the NEA party turned into a loud, nervous assault on the Association's two prime whipping boys...
Meanwhile the American Legion, which in 1934 called on State legislatures to enact the hateful Oaths as part of its "Americanism Program," humbly recanted. Dispatched to Portland to eat crow was Agnes Samuelson's good friend, Editor Frank Miles of the Iowa Legionnaire, who announced: "The national commander [James Raymond Murphy] authorizes me to say that he believes the Legion would make a mistake if it advocated the Teachers' Oath Bill." Explained Legionary Miles: "The Legion wants the youth of America to think...
MacMuray College (Jacksonville, Ill.) Alumna Lillian Hurlburt Gist, 81, who last year earned an M.A. at Claremont College (Calif.) (Time, June 10, 1935) ... Litt.D. President Agnes Samuelson of the National Education Association ... Ed.D...
...Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...Elected as president for one year neither Vermont's syrupy Woodruff nor Massachusetts' demagogic Woodward but a Westerner and a Superintendent, Iowa's Agnes Samuelson. A broad-beamed daughter of Swedish immigrants, Agnes Samuelson began her career 29 years ago by teaching in a rural school, while looking after six younger brothers and sisters. Spunky, capable, she wheedled a third term as Iowa's Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction without a whimper from a Democratic State Administration...