Elementary Education Lectureship Is Started

A new lectureship stressing the importance of education from kindergarten through to first six grades, has been established at the School of Education, Dean Keppel announced yesterday.

Named the Barton Lectureship in Elementary Education, it honors the donors, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Burton. Burton is now approaching retirement after spending 42 years in elementary teaching and teacher training--the last 16 years of which he spent as Director of Apprenticeship and lecturer on the Principles of Teaching at the School of Education. Mrs. Burton taught in Oregon schools for many years.

The first lecture foundation in the country devoted to elementary education problems, the new program will complement the Alexander J. Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education, which has gone to a leader in that field since 1924. The latter honors a former professor at the School of Education.