Maxwell to be guest speaker
at NAACP meeting on Saturday
William Maxwell, president of the Genius Discovery Academy, will be the guest speaker at the monthly NAACP meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Webb Community Center, 127 Pleasant St.
Maxwell, who was born in DeQueen, began teaching Sunday school at his Methodist church when he was 9 years old. He later moved to Phoenix, where he was valedictorian and student body president of his high school. He now lives in Hot Springs.
In 1957, Maxwell was elected to chair the Tokyo-based International Educational Council for Northeast Asia. At the time he was the education adviser for the Seventh Infantry Division of the Eighth U.S. Army in Korea, where he studied American soldiers with genius-level IQs and published the surprising results in the Phi Delta Kappa. In 1955, he became the first U.S. soldier to be honorably discharged to teach at a Korean college, Chonnam University, a news release said.
In 1967, he served as the chief of party of the U.S. Aid- and Ford Foundation-funded Northern Nigeria Teacher Education Project of the University of Wisconsin. He spent the next three years as editor of the project's 12 textbooks for more than 60 teacher colleges in northern Nigerian.
In 1982, Maxwell founded The International Conference on Thinking, a biennial gathering of scholars from the fields of astronomy to zoology discussing how to improve the intelligence of human beings, the release said. He also received a patent for Inventive Quotient (I.Q.): The Child's First Course in Logical Reasoning, which increases mental aptitude in all basic thinking skills and raises a child's IQ by an average of 19 points.
He earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University. He also studied at Oxford, Howard, and other prestigious universities, the release said. Maxwell has conducted research or lectured in more than 60 nations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific, and has been published in major journals in Albania, England, Fiji, France, Korea, Nigeria and the United States.
"Maxwell has nurtured genius talent, mentored several award-winning scholars, and served on university boards that awarded honorary doctorates to many distinguished recipients, including the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India," the release said.
Hot Springs Toastmaster to hold
regular weekly meeting at NPMC
Hot Springs Toastmasters will hold its regular weekly club meeting at 8 a.m. Saturday at National Park Medical Center, 1910 Malvern Ave.
This is the last meeting before the Christmas holiday, as various members will have conflicts.
Semiannual officer training will be Jan. 11 in Little Rock, at Southwest Power Pool.
Toastmasters is a supportive, inexpensive way to learn speaking and leadership skills. Training resources for speechmaking are part of Toastmaster support available to members. Toastmasters International's materials and programs also offer leadership development. New members are offered mentoring, either assigned or a chosen match. Meeting roles rotate from one week to the next.
All former Toastmasters, as well as interested guests, are welcome. There is no charge to come see what the club is about. Meetings normally are one hour long. Visit https://7643.toastmastersclubs.org/ for contact information.
Society on 12/13/2019