Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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OF EDUCATION As the College of Education enters its thirteenth year on the campus, members of the college are honoring the first head of the Teachers ' College of Indianapolis where teachers were trained before the Butler education division began. A special room in Jordan hall has been dedi- cated to the late Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker, who was president of T. C. I. from its establishment in 1882 until her death in 1926. The Eliza Blaker Room will be used as a classroom, study room, and meeting place for various College of Education student and faculty events. It is equipped with reconditioned furnishings from the old college. In 1930 the College of Education was formed on the Butler campus when the Department of Educa- tion, instituted in 1919, and the Teachers College of Indianapolis were merged. It has been under the deanship of Dr. Phillip M. Bail since 1940. The general objective of the college is the educa- tion of teachers, supervisors, and administrators for positions in kindergartens, elementary schools, and high schools. Students preparing to teach are expected to gain a broad general education, training in the subjects to be taught, and special instruction in professional courses which point out and prepare the student to meet the problems of teaching successfully. The Butler College of Education is accredited by the American Association of Teachers Colleges. Student teachers have the advantage of using the public schools of Indianapolis as a teacher education laboratory. During their senior year the most capable students, judged on the basis of personality, scholarship, activities, and likelihood of becoming successful teachers, will be selected for a program of supervised practice teaching. With this program the opportunities of observation of elementary and secondary public school methods ore combined. Especially this year during the war emergency the field for teachers in both elementary and secondary schools is large. Upon graduation during the mid-year many students were placed in schools of Indianapolis and surrounding districts, and at the present time many vacancies still exist in the teaching occupation. To meet the need of teacher shortage the College of Education is offering now special refresher courses for those who intend once again to enter the teaching field. Such courses as improving instruction in social studies, improving instruction in the high school, wartime citizenship training, guidance problems in wartime, and problems in human geography are taught with special wartime emphasis. In February, 1943, the Butler College of Educa- tion was selected by the Director of Pre-Flight Aeronautics program of the Civil Aeronautics Administration to offer a preflight aeronautics course for secondary school teachers. The course was taught by rated C.A.A. instructors. 1: Davis, Hyde, Sparks, Bail, Reisser, Patterson, Richardson. 2: Floyd, Hedden, Carlile, Whisler, Leonard, Gorman, Mock.

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COLLEGE DEAN PHILLIP M. BAIL first came to the uni- versity in 1940. He has been Dean of the College of Education ' ever since he came to Butler. He holds his A.B. from Missouri Valley College and his A.M. and ' Ph.D. degrees from the state University of Iowa. The College of Education offers the student the opportunity to receive a teachers license in the state of Indiana. The student is given the experi- ence of actually teaching under supervisers in Indianapolis schools. , This year the Eliza Blaker memorial library was added to the college to be used for classes, study, and meetings of the college. 24

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COLLEGE OF The most significant contribution of the College of Religion this year has been mode by more than 30 students and professors who hove entered the armed forces of the United Stales as chaplains. Among the men who will give religious guidance to our men are Ormonde Stonley Brown Orville Wright Luke Bolin Carl Ledbetter Arthur J. Lively William V. Barney, Jason M. Cowan Harold J. Elsom Luther C. Goebel Victor R. Griffin Robert W. Hanson Grover Lee Hordison Stewart W. Hortfelter Kenneth Hartmon Julian Linkous Charles R. Mull Henry Toogood William Weaver Hayes H. Webster Richard W. Moore William L. Richmond George Cartwright Leroy Logan and Clyde Wolf. Dr. William J. Moore former professor of semetics and New Testament also left the Butler faculty to enter the army as o chaplain. The Butler College of Religion with its beautiful new building is one of the largest ministerial training schools in the country, it trains graduate studenb from all ports of the country and also from other countries. The school hos been under the direction of Deon Frederick D. Kershner since 1924. In September 1925 the school of Religion officially became o port of Butler University and was located in Jordan Hall until lost year when it was moved to the new Georgian structure over- looking the canal. With primary objectives in view, the College of Religion aims to provide students with a compre- hension of techniques adequate for productive work in the fields of pastoral, evangelistic, educa- tional, and missionary ministry, plus vocations in social service. Its faculty has been so organized OS to provide expert guidance and stimulation for the development of scholars in the theological, historicol interpretative, linguistic, and scientific oreas of religion. Students in the College of Religion have the advantage of one of the most complete religious libraries in the country. Particular attention is directed to the collections in semetics and in the history of the Disciples of Christ. Eoch seminar room is equipped to focilitate research in the special field which may be selected during any given year. Degrees offered by the college ore the degree of Bochelor of Divinity and Moster of Theology. Master of Arts and a Master of Science with a major in religious education. Tentative orrange- ments to be mode effective in the near future, have been mode for the conferring of the degree of Doctor of Theology. With graduates majoring in religion being trained in the new school undergraduate students ore still located in Jordan Moll in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students who have completed four years work in the undergraduate division receive a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Row 1: Waiker, Calvert, Holmes. Row 2: NDiidri, Hanlin, Cory, Griffeth, Berry.