Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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Mr.i. Grace Steadinan Dean of Miotic Lu M. Hariman Dean of Home Economics Music Education The Four Year Course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Public S chool Music not only includes many hours of music instruction covering methods of procedure from Kindergarten through grades, Junior and Senior High School; sight reading, dictation, theory and harmony, form and analysis, composition, music appreciation, music history, orches- tra, band, chorus, applied music, and many hours of practice teaching, but in addition requires twenty-four hours in education and eighteen hours in a teaching minor. This certainly makes as rounded and complete a course as is possible to give in four years. The course in Music Education then, broadens the field of musical culture and increases the enjoyment of tonal beauty, not only for our own students but in the lives of hundreds of children for whom music becomes an adventure in joy. GREAT OPPORTUNITIES MEAN GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES Home Economics The Home Economics Course at Mansfield State Teachers College prepares girls for two of the oldest of professions — te aching and home- making. Upon graduating after four years of work, a girl is qualified for teaching either general or vocational Home Economics in the State of Penn- sylvania. Instruction in this course provides the necessary training which makes a girl a better homemaker and leads her to establish a home which is Economically sound, mechanically convenient, physically healthful, mor- ally wholesome, artistically satisfying, mentally stimulating, socially re- sponsible, spiritually inspiring, and founded upon mutual affection and respect . 2S

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Our College ih. A. r. n iLiH,,, Ihttit itf t iixt nifl titii All Pennsylvania colleges are maintained to prepare teachers for the public schools of the coniinonvvealth. In addition to prepara- tion for elementary and secondary teaching, including the special fields of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science and Foreign Languages, Mansfield also provides depart- ment supervisors in Music and in Vocational Home Economics. All its work is on the collegiate level and leads at the end of four years to the Bachelor of Science degree. Naturally, in time, many of its graduates leave the state or enter other professions. Its largest alumni association is located in New York City. Among the twenty-tive per cent of its students who are men, many are attracted in prosperous times into more re- munerative occupations. Some use teaching as a stepping stone to other professions. Many women marry early. The average teaching life is short. Actually therefore, any teachers college performs a very large social service in the training of citizens who teach briefly, if at all. Fortunately, a teach- ers ' course happens to be the best collegiate training for citizenship. Mans- field also has a unique opportunity to ser e the state a ' it is the only insti- tution of collegiate rank in an enormous section of the Northern Tier. Start- ing with the New York border its nearest collegiate neighbors are located on the east in Scranton, on the west in Meadville and Edinboro. on the south in Lewisburg, State College, Bloom.sburg and Lock Haven. Any institution so situated among a capable but scattered population has opportunities, responsibilities and duties larger and even more vital than those ordinarily faced by similar educational institutions dissimilarly located. Mansfield ' s first graduate and oldest alumnus tells how as a boy on his father ' s farm on the mountain side, someone came back from town one day and said to him, Mansfield is going to have a seminary and an iron furnace. It did. For better than two generations the furnace has been only a name and a fading memory amorig other shifting, changing indus- tries. The conference seminary shortly become a Normal School and then a Teachers College. The enthusiasm of early students and the zeal of the founders has been contagious and persistent. This explains my Mansfield, technically an institution for the professional training of teachers, has such a firm hold upon all the citizens of Pennsylvania ' s Northern Tier of coun- ties, and why it has been able to perform so unique a service for the terri- tory in which it is the only college.

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Virldiiii Fviih I ict: IlilDl (1} ' (I: I(H .1 I ' . Mj hs SlorrI, Ihilil 1,1 Mr,, Dean of Women The Deiin of Women has the unique opportunity of being guide, coun- sellor, and friend to all women students. It is her privilege to offer to the students at Mansfield, opportunities for widening their experience during the time not necessary for actual academic accomplishments. Some of these oppoi-tunities for a wider life are found in the lectures and concerts ; in the church activities; in the club life of the college; in the work of committees; in dramatic productions ; in short, in the general living conditions of this community. But other opportunities; such as the development of each in- dividual into a happy useful member of a large group, may be found in the daily contacts within the dormitory. The Dean of Women is primarily con- cerned with just this daily life of the students and has as her motto the greatest good for the greatest number, not forgetting any one of the number. Dean of Men As society evolves it becomes more and more complex. With its ever changing pattern and shifting scenes, rare is the man who needs no counsel or guidance. Everyone should be a master craftsman, building the most noble edifice his limits will permit. To do so, he must waste no time quarrel- ling with his fellow workers; he must use correctly the resources at his command ; and, he must n.it attempt to build that for which he has no ade- quate materials. It is the Dean of Men ' s privilege to help students to understand their neighbors, themselves and their possibilities in order that they may live moi ' e completely. 29