Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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best answer tests and for his goatee ; or maybe it is for his daughters. M. Irene knows more about the school children of Manchester than they do themselves. She can tell you just what to do to make Johnny behave and how to interest Mary in arithmetic. Her manual contains many helpful hints on discipline, neatness and care of the room. Vaughn and John Hamer have been used for trying out the Farm Babies books which O. Stuart Ham- er, their father, is writing. Besides these books he works on the diagnostic tests which the department is making. He was the superintendent of a township system of schools in Iowa and taught at Elizabethtown College. The lab work in this de- partment is student teach- ing, but the would-be teach- J. G. Meyer, Ph.D. A. R. Eikenberry, B.S., A.M. O. Stuart Hamer, Ph.D. M. Irene Johnson, A.M. Student Teaching ers more frequently are experimented on than vice versa. Miss Doner teaches several classes in the Normal division in addition to 25

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! ™ I don ' t want to be dogmatic, but I do believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that Professor Schutz is one of the best liked men on our fa culty. Get the idea? He is a preacher, but had to give up his pastorate because he was too busy. With Dr. Cordier as his campaign man- ager, he ran for Congress in 1932 but was a victim of the Democratic land- slide. He adds farming to this long list, but he says that he would rather teach than do anything else — that is why he never hears the bell. C uacati iicauon Social Pathology Accounting the committee for campus Social Affairs and he takes his students to commerce conferences. A great majority of the students that attend Manchester work out teachers ' licenses, and every year one hundred prospective grade school teachers grad- uate from the two-year normal course. Head of the Education Department is Dr. Meyer who is remembered for his

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being Dean. Mrs. Leasure is a returned missionary from Africa and is living here with her three boys. Miss Kessler used to teach the third and fourth grades when the grade school was in the Library Building. Some of us can remember her making us learn the multiplication tables. Now- a-days she has us make scrapbooks like that one being made in the picture. Any one who comes late to A. R. Eikenberry ' s class has to pay a fine. That is, he must buy a Hershey bar for the class. A. R. goes to such places as Logansport, but he always escapes. He takes students along because there is safety in numbers. He is a loyal pal, a sympathetic adviser, and an up-to- date teacher. Alice A. Doner, A.M. Tax on Late Comers A. R. is more than a col- lege prof, for he takes an interest in the town, an in- terest that makes him an excellent mayor. Nettie Norris Leasure, B.S., A.M. Agnes C. Kessler, A.M. Scrap Book