Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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H. Leigh Baker Newest of Drake's deans is H. Leigh Baker of the college of education who has just com- pleted his first year here. Meticulous in dress and in manner, the quiet-spoken dean came here from Oklahoma A. and M. college in Stillwater. Briskly business-like, he mixes an interested friendliness with efficiency. Full of praise for Drake's diversified educational program, Dean Baker radiates enthusiam for his Work and for the teaching profession, imlouing in his stu- dents that same attitude. l. H. HUTCHINSON Professor of Edu- cation, 1928 B.Ed., Illinois State Normal university, 19231 M.A., Univer- sity of Chicago, 1926 DOYLE MIKESELL instructor in Social Science, 1938 B.S. in Educ., Drake university, 19365 MS., 1939 FRANCES BARBER Professor of Education, 1932 BS., Columbia university, 19287 M.A., 1932 MARGARET 1. BLACK Assistant Professor of General Science, 1938 B.A., Iowa State Teachers col- lege, 1925 l. HERBERT BLACKHURST Professor of Education, 1926 Ph.B,, University of Chicago, 1916: M.A., 19175 Ph.D., Northwestern university, 1923 EVELYN PETERSON Professor of Elemen- tary Education, 1937 B.A., State University of Iowa, 1924, M.A., 1930 MARIORIE WALKER Professor of Educa- tion, 1934 B.A., University of Chicago, 1924, Ph.D. , University of Min- nesota, 1937 . at si-

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t the me 9 al rxftetaok over '50 tc llbtat Lani the teilboo 015 in CCJLLEGE OF EDUCATI FTER years spent in attending classes, students in the college of education now are learning how it feels to be teacher, not pupil. Besides their classroom instruction ' methods of teaching, they all get experience by practice teaching in the Des Moines ci y schools. There they discover first-hand the problems of personality adjustments and in- dividual differences which they must face later as teachers. Teacher's pet, problem child and bully, Drake students learn to handle them all. There's a lighter side to this business ol being a teacher, though. Twenty-year-olds crawl around on the floor constructing miniature grocery stores, post offices and banks. They make dolls and dress them, build doll houses and furniture. They even revive the games of their childhood- drop the handkerchief and here We go 'round the mulloerry bush. Their reading habits suffer, too, for they pore over The Little Red Hen by the hour. Drake's college of education emphasizes many of the recent educational movements which are typified by preparation for vocational guidance, for elementary and general science teaching, for larger influence in the musical and art life of the community and for prepara- tion for civic responsibility. It no longer limits its work to class instruction nor confines the subject matter taught to methods of teaching and school management and administration. The college of education had its origin in Callanan College for Women which the university purchased in 1888. It has been known successively as the normal college, the school of education and the college of education. in t . cltissez X DI. -Natkjgicentrate e O96 O, O tn . l 'X ets ln Sstildifmg gill alms A Lemme aft Lagoa 20

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CCLLEGE of COMMERCE and FINANCE IKE other colleges of commerce and finance, the Drake college has shown a phenom- enal growth in the last decade. College training has gained recognition from the business World and, consequently, the Drake college of commerce and finance endeavors to instill in its students a thorough knowledge of fundamental business principles. Advertising, marketing, business law, investments, foreign trade, finance-all these divisions of the commerce curriculum offer the student necessary techniques and tools as Well as knowledge of principles. The Work is intended to shorten the apprenticeship period neces- sary, not to displace practical experience. In order to gain that practical experience, ac- counting majors this year were given university credit for doing accounting work with cer- tain companies during the year. The progressive attitude adopted by the college was shown again when members oi the Commerce club made a trip to Chicago to gain first hand knowledge of the Way in which large businesses and industries are run. The college of commerce and finance was begun in l9l5 as the department of commerce and business administration in the college of liberal arts. ln 1919 it became the school of commerce, finance and journalism, being reorganized again in 1923 as the college of com- merce and finance. At that time the journalism courses were transferred to the college of liberal arts. Iohn Iensen is one of many com- merce students Who practice on the dictaphone machines in the Re- ligious Education building. Bill Harvey, Lowell Easter and Ed- ward Knight nab front seats as the busload of commerce students leaves for Chicago trip. Bill Sullivan, Tom Sugden, Howard Longfellow, Charles Vaughn and Stanley Iohnson are very much in evidence. 22