MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Faculty Victor H. Sheppard A.B., A.M., Ed.D., Social Science Wilbur Sheridan A.B., B.M., M.M., Music Hill Shine A.B., A.M., Ph.D., English Velma Rose Snyder A.B., Physical Education Carrie E. Spencer B.S., A.M., Physical Education Sue Cassell Stevens A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Chemistry and Biology Isabel C. Stewart B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Psychology Beatrice Teague A.B., A.M., French Mary Waller Ph.B., Music Gladys Hippie Watson A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Psychology Dorothy Whitaker B.S., A.M., Psychology Ralph D. Wilson B.S., M.S., Business 19

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Seated: Mary Leonard, Jacqueline Ritchie, Ruth Magrath, Doris Cooley, Nan Williams, Alice Jul. Standing: Dorothy Govas, Kay Mailers, Shirley O ' Mara, Martha David, Shirley Flynn, Margaret Rain. Not Present: Ruth Brown, Leah Ferris, Ruby Miller, Barbara Rogers. The Graduate School The MacMurray College division of gradu- ate studies was formed in 1942. William Thomas was the founder of the school whose work is now under the direction of former Yale professor H. M. Halverson, whose sixteen years in the Yale Clinic of Child Development unre- servedly qualify him. This advanced depart- ment of education emphasizes work with handi- capped children and with the deaf and has maintained close contact with Jacksonville ' s institutions as well as with those in Lincoln and in Chicago, Illinois. Opportunity is also given in the graduate school for study in the field of juvenile delinquency. A Master of Arts degree may be earned both in the above fields and in psychology in preparation for educa- tional or industrial personnel work. A Master of Science degree is available within the de- Akers House partment of the graduate school as is also a Master of Music degree in music education or literature. With this wide field from which to choose, it is understandable why the graduate school this year was the largest that it has ever been with an enrollment of fifteen students from many parts of the country and from China, as well. Akers House was the home of eleven of the graduate students this year. Most of them will remember always the Saturday night birthday parties, the fire in the large fire- place, the bridge games. Four of the grads did not live at Akers. Ruby Miller of North Carolina and Leah Ferris from Montana par- ticipated in a cooperative agreement by which they took graduate psychology at MacMurray and put their theories into practice by living at the State Hospital. Doris Cooley and Nan Williams, two 1948 MacMurray graduates, lived on campus as did Kay Mailers and Shir- ley Flynn. Alice Jui was the graduate farthest from home. She received her degree in chem- istry from St. John ' s University in Shanghai, China. Ruth Magrath, another graduate from North Carolina, continued work in psychology. Physical education graduate students were Dorothy Govas from the Illinois State Normal University, Mary Leonard from Radcliff College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ruth Brown from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Jacqueline Ritchie from the University of Idaho, Shirley O ' Mara from Western Michigan College, Kala- mazoo, Michigan, and Martha David, a gradu- ate of MacMurray.