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GREETINGS FROM INDIANA ASSOCIATIONS. 
FROM THE INDIANA STATE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
By Gero. W. BENTON. 
Mr. President and Members of the Academy: In the absence of Dr. 
Robert J. Aley, State Superintendent, and president-elect of the Indiana 
State Teachers’ Association, it has devolved upon me and is my great 
privilege as retiring president to extend to you the greetings of the teach- 
ers of the State, and to congratulate you upon the completion of the series 
of notable meetings culminating in this anniversary. 
It is peculiarly fitting that we do this in view of the importance of 
each of these societies, and of the part which each has had, and is destined 
to continue to perform in the life history of the State of Indiana. 
The State Teachers’ Association last December passed its fifty-fifth 
milestone, and in its uninterrupted history of fifty-four years has marked 
the successive stages of educational progress in the State, and has had an 
increasing influence in establishing standards and in directing the current 
of educational thought. Many of its officers and members have become 
prominent in the educational work of the State and nation, and many of 
them have enjoyed the privilege and honor of membership and active 
participation in the affairs of the Academy. 
No less prominent in its own sphere, through the years of its activity, 
we recognize the importance of the great work which the Academy has 
done for the State and for the nation, in the spreading of scientific knowl- 
edge, in the encouragement of research, and in the inspiration of the 
younger generation of science teachers to greater effort and increased 
efficiency. We see in the Academy the most powerful agency in the solu- 
tion of the great problem of fitting the highest development of scientific 
thought into the general scheme of education for all the people; and we 
confidently look forward to the achievements of the coming years of the 
Academy, believing that its services to the State and to education will con- 
