Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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Music Education Department The Music Education Department cf Mansfield State Teachers Col- lege has an excellent reputation for providing successful music supervis- ors for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and adjoining states. The graduates of the music department hold many prominent public school music positions throughout Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. The success of these graduates is due in a large part to the thorough train- ing they receive in a well-rounded ccurse from a faculty of highly trained, artist teachers. The music curriculum provides foundational training in music- theory, singing, playing of the piano and performing on representative instruments of the orchestra and band. Most of our entering students bring with them a preference for certain of these forms of musical expres- Mr. Mandelkern Miss Randall

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Junior High School Lunch During six weeks of their Junior year, groups of homemaking stu- dents manage the Junior High School Lunch under the supervision of Miss Farrer. Each member of the group has the experience of all the activities involved in carrying out a successful school lunch. This in- cludes planning of meals, marketing, preparation and serving, and finan- cial accounting with banking experience. Each student, when manager, plans the activities and time schedule for the other members of the group. All together, the manager has full responsibilities of carrying cut the school feeding program. High standards of food preparation and sanitation are the two main essentials kept in mind during this work. It is not set up on a money making basis, but is run to provide practice in solving school lunch prob- lems for the college students and at the same time provide a nutritionally adequate and attractive, yet inexpensive lunch for the school children. The school feeding program is an important part of the national nu- trition program to provide adequate food for all. The school lunch is a real challenge under present conditions of increase in costs and rationing of food commodities. •¥■ Homemaking Apartment Up to the junior year, courses taken by homemaking students consist of scheduled class and laboratory periods. One of the courses junior homemaking students take offers them an opportunity to show how they can blend the theories and practices learned during their first two college years and put them into actual high standard everyday family iiving. Be- ing hostess, waitress, laundress, housekeeper, and in sole charge of meals, respectively, for an interval of several days challenges each student to make her best contribution as a student-family member. Groups range from seven to nine members, including a resident instructor, and the course continues through six consecutive weeks. All duties are rotated in order, so each student meets the same kind of responsibilities. Since April, 1942, the home management groups have lived in the apartment built especially for them in the new Arts Building en the cam- pus, and enjoy its modern and aesthetic features. Students who have pro- fessional interest, who esteem friendship and what it stands for, who like to share the work and pleasures of others, find this course an enriching experience.

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Mr. Bertram W. Francis, Head of Department sion, especially those in which they already have seme proficiency. This preference is readily turned to good account, for through the medium of proficiency in a given instrument the student is able to gain a degree of artistry which is necessary to the development of a music teacher. In addition to classes in the cultural and theoretical aspects of music the student receives specialized training in the practical side of musical performance by membership in orchestra, band, chorus, and other en- sembles. The effects of the war have been felt keenly within the music de- partment. Gerald Greeley, instructor in piano and organ, was called to active service in September. Nine music students were inducted prior to the opening of school, and twenty-five more students of the department were called to active service during the first and second semester.