From The Daily News
Huntingdon and Mount Union, Pennsylvania
April 27, 1951

ERNEST J. GILLILAND

FORMER RESIDENT
NAMED PRESIDENT OF
NEW JERSEY CLUB
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   Ernest J. Gilliland, supervising principal of Highland Park Schools, Highland Park, New Jersey, was elected president of the Adult Educators Association of the state of New Jersey during the annual Spring Conference which convened Saturday, April 14, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jeresy.
   Mr. Gilliland, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Gilliland of Pennsylvania Furnace, and a brother of Mrs. Madeline G. Hawn of Petersburg R. D., was born at Petersburg R. D., September 1911 and resided there until 1923, when the family moved to Ferguson Township, Center County.
   He is a graduate of State College High School and Lock Haven State Teachers College. He received his masters degree in administration and supervision from Pennsylvania State College in 1937 and studied at Temple University, and is preparing his doctorate at the New York University.
   Before going to New Jersey in 1939 Mr. Gilliland taught in Fer [text missing] Rockaway, N.J., while he has held supervisory positions at Cape May, Washington and Highland Park, N.J.
   Mr. Gilliland was recently initiated into the School Masters Club of New York. He is married to the former Miss Bessie Fenton of [Haddonfield], N.J., and they reside at 204 Harrison Avenue, Highland Park, N. J.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010