University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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LISTENING ATTENTIVELY to Mr. James Nickerson in a general music course is a group of University High School students. This course com- bines listening hours, theory analysis, and getting acquainted with music in general. Mr. Nickerson, who has been at the high school for three years, is in charge of instrumental and vocal music while work- ing for his Ph.D. SYMBOLIZING PROSPECTIVE and three-dimensional geometric fig- ures, this mural, done by one of University High School ' s art classes under the direction of Duard Laging, hangs in the new math office. ning of the war. It contained accounts of Univer- sity functions and detailed information on the do- ings of the College of Education. By educating large numbers of men and women for the teaching profession and by conducting sur- veys of educational institutions, the College of Edu- cation made contributions to the University and the community as a whole. The Institute of Child Welfare was estab- lished to serve four separate functions. The most important of these was that of teacher training. Graduates and undergraduates were given a four- year course in child training which included three quarters of practice training in nurseries and out- side schools. Next to teacher training was the parent-educa- tion division, in which counseling and teaching courses were offered to parents. A board of lec- tures served to give advice to parent groups all over Minneapolis. Another important function was that of research in child development. Almost all the graphs and books seen around clinics or offices telling what- to-do-with or what-to-feed babies were ex- amples of what was published. Page 49

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STUDENT TEACHERS look up the records of their own students in the personnel office. They are: John Simonds, Dorothy Odegaard, Jack Mezirow, Nancy Wylie, Clayton Gjerde (director of student personnel), Ruth Solvang, Bettye Johnson, and Doris Noes . . . AR- MAND LA BERGE, industrial arts, shows a student some of the finer points in the art of planing. shortage, the College graduated students on an ac- celerated program. Many students who had three years of training were given permits to teach until the situation is relieved. The College ' s dean, Wesley E. Peik, had many years of educational experience and outstanding achievements to his credit. He worked on several national surveys of institutions , and continually engaged in campus educational activities and state surveys of educational institutions. iMarcia Edwards, assistant dean, was another ac- tive person on campus. She worked with student co-ordinating activities, and was very interested in YWCA work. The College ' s staff also attended nation-wide conferences and conducted national surveys. A new addition to the faculty was John Rood, an internationally known sculptor. He displayed only his statues in wood, but did work in other ma- terials for his own pleasure. One of his theories was that all cultural fields were related, and besides his sculpturing, he has written a novel and composed several musical selections. For the many former students and faculty mem- bers of the College who were in the armed forces, a News Letter has been edited since the begin- DEAN WESLEY E. PEIK confers with his assistant dean, Marcia Ed- wards, on education problems and proje cts and how to solve and promote them in the most efficient manner. Page 48

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SUPERVISING THE PLAV of nursery school children, Nancy McCabe Leib holds the door of a toy shed In the nursery yard while the children put their toys away. The division of childhood education was de- signed to give pre-school education to children from two to five years of age. Undergraduates re- ceived experience in story telling, plastics, and clay modeling through this function. This day nurser ' served as a blessing to working mothers and a good training center for both students and children. Inst, of Technology And many went into IT — despite great rumors floating about campus as to the character of en- gineers! Under Dean Samuel C. Lind, the Institute of Technology included the School of Chemistry, the College of Engineering and Architecture, and the School of Mines and iMetallurgy. During winter quarter a new curriculum was added to the Institute — a two-year terminal course of pre-professional training for technical aids. Stu- dents were trained for such jobs as draftsmen, ana- lysts, and management work, and at the end of six quarters, a certificate was awarded to students com- pleting the course. x lthough designed especially for veterans, it was open to anyone. OPERATING THE MACHINES in a shop course are Bill Reiser, James Wolff, and Howard Lennire. In spite of a decreased number of stu- dents, this year, the machine shop lab has almost returned to normal. Since the equipment is no longer needed for special war production, the machines were once again put to good use by the students in the classes. Page 50