Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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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.

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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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Junior High Sckool Supervisors Miss Grigsby, Miss Morris. Miss Gillette. Mrs. Higley. Miss Schipbanker. Mrs. Ashenielter, Miss Hancock. Miss O ' Brien, Mr. Alger. Mr. Jupenlaz. At the head of each department in the Junior High School, there is an efficient supervisor who has formulated definite aims for the program of that department. Miss O ' Brien: Cur aim in social studies is to build in beys and girls an informed citizenry, wisely loyal to the government which tries to se- cure for them the four freedoms. Miss Gillette: We aim to establish correct habits of speaking, writing, and reading; to develop self-expression, and to stimulate an appreciation of literature. ' ' Science aims, in the words of Mr. Alger, to give information con- cerning our environment with interpretation and appreciation of it, and of the contributions made by scientists to it. Mathematics aims to enable pupils to meet such quantitative situa- tions as they are likely to meet in life; to gain accuracy in the fundamental operations and understanding of the social uses of mathematics. said Miss Grigsby.