Atlanta Daily World

Formal Dedication Of G.T.E.A. Building Held
By STANLEY S. SCOTT
Leading educators throughout the state and members of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association thronged to the new $200,000 three-level headquarters of the 10,000 member state teachers organization for its formal dedication here Sunday.

The afternoon dedicatory program was highlighted by praise and a challenge of purpose from Robert Cousins, assistant director of the Southern Education Foundation.

In his address Cousins praised the GTEA saying let it never be forgotten that this achievement we celebrate today was the result of bold thinking and unity of purpose on the part of elected leaders of this association.

One of the satisfactions derived from working in the field of education is to observe the growth and maturity of students. By following the tested rate of growth one comes to physical maturity and its skill. These and coordination.

On a higher level the same maturity, we see students rise from the world of bits to the world of values and progress in their own civilization from petty talk about people to a consideration of events and their consequences.

So we see organizations and associations addressed so reach the level of spiritual maturity through self-development and come at long last to where they shift the center of their lives and grow through self-guidance to self-given.

Cousins who is former director of the division of Negro education of the State Department of Education, said in his speech, "If our state is to catch up in the cultural lag and improve its economic status the time has come for all citizens who will avail themselves of the education opportunities, to be enrolled in school for at least two years beyond the high school."

This means our expansion of programs in general educational opportunities at the Junior College level and in technical-vocational schools the teacher said.

In his challenge to the educators, Cousins said I challenge the GTEA with the responsibility for the necessary study research, and recommendation for such a program for the Negro citizens of this

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