Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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[unior High School The Junior High School serves the children in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades of Mansfield and the surrounding township. To them it offers educational opportunities in one of the best equipped schools in the part of the state. To the college students it offers an opportunity to be- come proficient in their chosen profession through practice teaching. In addition to the academic subjects, such as English, social studies, sci- ence, and mathmatics, there are modern departments offering construc- tive programs in health and physical education, music, art, homemaking, and industrial arts. 22

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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.

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In the words of Miss Grigsby, principal of the Junior High School, The school has two major purposes: first, tc provide modern, progressive, educational facilities to the boys and girls of the community; second, to provide laboratory school experience for the college students. Here, un- der well-trained supervisors, college students in the secondary, music, and homemaking departments have opportunity tc teach, to correlate, to evaluate, and to put into practice the educational theories and principles which they have acquired in college classes.