The "Forgotten Man" and the "Forgotten Woman" were rapidly coming into their own.

Two years after the delivery of Page's Greensboro address, a small group of educational enthusiasts met at Capon Springs, West Virginia, to discuss the general situation in the South.

The leader of this little gathering was Robert C.Ogden, a great New York merchant who for many years had been President of the Board of Hampton Institute.
Out of this meeting grew the Southern Educational Conference, which was little more than an annual meeting for advertising broadcast the educational needs of the South.

Each year Mr.Ogden chartered a railroad train; a hundred or so of the leading editors, lawyers, bankers, and the like became his guests; the train moved through the Southern States, pausing now and then to investigate some particular institution or locality; and at some Southern city, such as Birmingham or Atlanta or Winston-Salem, a stop of several days would be made, a public building engaged, and long meetings held.

In all these proceedings Page was an active figure, as he became in the Southern Education Board, which directly resulted from Mr.Ogden's public spirited excursions.