into a single payment for life shall be constituted a life member on the payment of $25. SEC. 6. Applications for membership must be made to the treasurer, who will receive all membership fees and dues. All privileges of membership are forfeited by the nonpayment of dues. ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS. SECTION 1. At each general meeting of the association there shall be elected by ballot a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and three directors, these seven persons forming the standing executive committee of the convention. They shall continue in office until their successors are elected, and shall have power to fill vacancies occurring in their body between general meetings. SEC. 2. There shall also be elected by ballot at each general meeting of the association nine chairmen of committees, as follows: One for a normal section, one for an industrial section, one for an oral section, one for an art section, one for an auricular section, one for a kindergarten section, one for an eastern local committee, one for a western local committee, and one for a southern local committee. Before the adjorunment of each general meeting, or immediately thereafter, the standing executive committee and the nine elected committee chairmen, acting together, shall elect four persons to membership in each of the nine committees herein provided for. SEC. 3. The general management of the affairs of the association shall be in the hands of the standing executive committee, subject to the provisions of such by-laws as the association shall see fit to adopt. SEC. 4. All officers and members of committees must be active members of the association in regular standing. SEC. 5. The standing executive committee shall make a full report at each general meeting of all the operations of the association, including receipts and disbursements of funds since the preceding meeting. ARTICLE V. MEETINGS. SECTION 1. General meetings of the association shall be held triennially; but the standing executive committee may call other general meetings at their discretion. SEC. 2. Local meetings may be convened as the standing executive committee and the committees on local meetings shall determine. SEC. 3. Proxies shall not be used at any meeting of the association, but they may be used in committee meetings. SEC. 4. Notice of general meetings shall be given at least four months in advance, and notice of local meetings at least two months in advance. SEC. 5. The business of the association shall be transacted only at general meetings, and at such meetings 100 voting members of the association must be present to constitute a quorum. ARTICLE VI. In the first election of officers held under the provisions of this constitution, said election occurring immediately after its adoption, all duly accredited active members of the Fourteenth Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf shall be entitled to vote, said members making payment of their membership fees to the treasurer at the earliest practicable opportunity after he shall have been elected. ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENTS. This constitution may be amended by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present at any general meeting of the association, provided that at such meeting at least 150 voting members of the association shall be present. ARTICLE VIII. Devises and bequests may be worded as follows: "I give, devise, and bequeath to the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, for the promotion of the cause of the education of the deaf, in such manner as the standing executive committee thereof may direct," etc.; and if there be any conditions, add "subject only to the following conditions, to wit: PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. FIRST DAY. SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1905. At 8.30 p. m. the convention was called to order by the president, Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, and Mr. E. McK. Goodwin addressed the convention, as follows: YOUR EXCELLENCY, MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I dare say there is not a North Carolinian here to-night that is not proud of the honor that this distinguished gathering has conferred upon us, by selecting Morganton as its place of meeting. As superintendent of this school, I bid you a most cordial welcome. You are as welcome to everything we have as you are to the moun tain air we breathe. I take pleasure in introducing to you Mr. W. G. Lewis, president of the board of directors of this school, who will introduce the speaker of the evening. Mr. W. G. Lewis then addressed the convention, as follows: MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It gives me great pleasure, as chairman of the board of directors of this school, to extend to you a cordial welcome. We want to welcome you to the entire State of North Carolina, and we therefore have brought to you here the governor of North Carolina, and we bid him open every gate to every home in this grand old State. The latchstring hangs on the outside," and if even a dog barks at you, let us know it and we will have him killed. I take pleasure in introducing to you Hon. F. D. Winston, who will now address you. 66 ADDRESS OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FRANCIS D. WINSTON. 66 MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We regret exceedingly the absence of his excellency, Governor Glenn. Important public engagements call him elsewhere and prevent his attendance. At his request I appear before you as the representative of our State government, and in his name and in the name of all the people of North Carolina, I extend to this distinguished body of philanthropists, their pupils, and friends, a hearty welcome to our great State, There is something original about a welcome to North Carolina. It is sui generis." The Frenchman's 'bon jour" is transient. The German's "wiegehts " is stationary. They fade into utter insignificance in the presence of the homely "howdy" of the North Carolinian. Even now, as in the old days, a North Carolina welcome means absolute ownership of the whole State, every home in it, and every fireside in every home. Representing his excellency, I extend to you the welcome that is wrapped up in this good old AngloSaxon "howdy." 66 North Carolina has cause to be proud of this distinguished meeting. It is the second time this association has met on Southern soil. Many years ago you met in "Old Virginia," but that was "befo' de wah." Partaking of that spirit of fraternity permeating every portion of our great country, and desiring, honestly desiring, that the grand work in which you good people are engaged may gain new power from new inspiration, those in charge have brought this triennial meeting to our State. In all this great country of ours, filled with consecrated men and women, eager to do some good deed, you could not have selected a more gracious spot. And in the name of our State I respond most heartily to the sentiment and 15 hope that bring you here, and make them the basis of the cordial welcome I am directed by the governor to extend to your convention. This gathering tends to strengthen and perpetuate the fraternal feelings prevailing in all parts of our common country. Naturally one looks for words of fraternity to come from those who faced each other in battle. I was introduced to one of your distinguished superintendents, who in honor wore the blue, and who, mistaking my gray hairs for greater age than I am willing to admit, asked me if I was a soldier during the late war. I was at that time in a particular branch of the service known as the " Infantry," but I carried no arms; I was carried in the arms of my nurse. I had, however, one essential of the warriors of the old days, a magnificent "battle cry," which often broke in wailing hour of night," and was silenced, not by the bullets of the enemy, but by the bottle of catnip tea. 66 on the I knew the Confederacy in its weakness, not in its might. I knew its wailing women, its nameless graves, its sightless eyes, its armless sleeves. I sacredly cherish the memory of all that was said and done during those holy four years. I delight to do so. I have seen the thin gray line of Confederacy fade away into night at Appomattox to appear again in blue, in glorious sunlight, fighting under the Stars and Stripes of our reunited country for Cuban independence. And for this reunion we do reverently thank God! For this great spirit of fraternity, for this restored peace, for this newly begotten and real confidence in one another, for this rekindled hope for our great country, we are more largely indebted to the educators of America than to any other factors or forces in our life. The country has been reunited in the schoolroom. The country has been welded together by deeds of love and acts of kindness. Long before the politician proffered the wand of peace, long before the "Blue" and the Gray" began to fraternize, superintendents of deaf and dumb asylums, of blind asylums, had met, forgiven the past, and joined work for God and humanity. And we are to-day enjoying heartily the full fruition of that reunion, brought from the heart and not from the calculating head. North Carolina is just like any other part of the world so far as the United States is concerned. Take a man from Ohio, bring him to North Carolina, surround him with our conditions and our limitations, and if he loves his wife and children and country he will become a "Tar heel " all over, still remaining an American. 66 Take a North Carolinian, carry him to Ohio, surround him with their limitations and conditions, and upon the fundamental principles of government, of home, and of family he will set up those standards which preserve and do not disturb the peace of the community. "Tar heel and Buckeye" both will establish those standards of character and morality which will bless and not curse their fellow citizens. 66 Of course it is not expected that a politician-and I admit that soft impeachment-should enter into a discussion of those technical and disputed questions likely to come before this body. Whether it is better to discuss those questions on one hand or both, by lip language or sign language, I leave to those learned in that department. You meet in the midst of an old and splendid aristocracy. You meet, too, in the home of a hardy race in this mountain land; mountains that have given North Carolina some of her strongest men and best women. You come to North Carolina in the splendid day of her educational awakening. North Carolina laid the foundation of her public school system in 1838, and that system she has never permitted to fall. When the conquering army of our nation passed up the beautiful streets of our capital at Raleigh they found there, sitting at his desk, Hon. Calvin H. Wiley, State superintendent, tabulating statistics of the free schools of our State. Inter arma silent leges— but not the school law. And more than that, this same army passed by the gate of our institute for the deaf and dumb and blind, then in active operation. Among all the horrors and trials of war, with all its privations and poverty, North Carolina never closed that institute. I doubt if this can be said of another Southern State. You meet here in a congenial atmosphere, for never before was our State so alive to the education of every citizen, man, woman, and child in her borders. We are living in an active atmosphere of making better citizens. This is no charity which North Carolina maintains on this beautiful and sacred spot. This is no almshouse. This is a place to make good men and women-as much so as the university and the normal at Greensboro, or the best graded schools in the State. |