Jefferson, Rev. D. W. Shaw, Dr. G. W. Holley, P. B. Burbridge, Dr. H.
F. Gamble, Dr. L. B. Washington, Mrs. E. M. Dandridge, Mrs. M. A. W.
Thompson and Mrs. Byrd Prillerman. Officers elected were: President,
Byrd Prillerman; Vice Presidents, J. R. Jefferson, Mrs. E. M.
Dandridge, C. W. Boyd; Secretary, Miss Mary J. Jones; Treasurer, Mrs.
M. A. W. Thompson; Historian, Mr. George L. Cuzzins.

After this meeting of such unusual interest and unexpected success,
the West Virginia Teachers' Association reached its purely pedagogic
setting. It ceased to be the organization concerned with the general
social uplift, of all, and thereafter restricted its program largely
to educational matters. This was due not so much to any desire on the
part of the teachers to discontinue cooperation with the clergy, but
rather to direct attention primarily to the problems of education.
Ministers, thereafter, figured less conspicuously in the conventions,
except so far as their interests were coincident with those of the
teaching body.

There have been twenty-eight sessions of the Association held at
Charleston, Huntington,[34] Parkersburg, Hinton, St. Albans,
Bluefield, Institute, Kimball, and Harper's Ferry. The session which
was scheduled for Clarksburg in 1900 was called off because of the
outbreak of small-pox just before the time for the session to be
convened.

Eleven well-known persons have served as president of the Association.
Byrd Prillerman served nine terms, C. W. Boyd one, J. R. Jefferson
one, J. W. Scott three, H. H. Railey one, Hamilton Hatter one, R. P.
Sims two, E. L. Rann two, J. W. Moss two, A. W. Curtis two, John F.
J. Clark two, and H. L. Dickason, the present incumbent, two. Those
who have served as secretary are Miss Rhoda E. Weaver, Miss M. Blanche
Jeffries, Miss Clara Thomas, Miss Fannie C. Cobb, Miss Mary J. Jones,
and Miss C. Ruth Campbell, and Miss H. Pryor.

Among the prominent persons who have addressed the Association are
Hon. C. H. Payne, Ex-Governor George W. Atkinson, Ex-Governor William
A. McCorkle, and State Superintendents B. S. Morgan, Virgil A. Lewis,
James Russell Trotter, and M. P. Shawkey. Among other distinguished
persons have been Dr. J. E. Jones, Prof. George William Cook, J.
McHenry Jones, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, Prof. William
Pickens, Mr. William A. Joiner, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Miss Nannie H.
Burroughs, John W. Davis, and Dr. J. E. Gregg.[35]