Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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Jane Wolker, using a comera from the photo labora- tory, takes a picture for Parthenon use as an assign- ment in the news photography class, directed by Daniel E. Thornburgh, instructor in journalism. National wire service is teletyped to the journalism department through the general wire of the Associated Press. Students, like Judy O ' Dell, stop by at all times during the day to get the world news hot off the wire. In addition, AP copy is used by the journalism majors for copy editing practice. Photography and Press Service are Journalism Musts Comeros and more cameras, being examined by Ron Roach, ore ovoiioble for Parthenon and Chief Justice use in the new photo- grophy studio and laboratory which was used for the first time this year. In addition to providing photographic coverage for cam- pus publications, the lab gives photography students the opportun- ity to become acquainted with the different types of cameras and the film processing operations, from snapping the shot to using enlorgers end dryers for a finished print.

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Mechanical drawing requires patience and on aptitude for exacting work. This student may choose to become a draftsman after gradu- ation, but this course is included in the engineering curriculum. Engineering is one of the most popular majors among freshmen men. Diligent classwork and the heavy schedules of engineering majors generally trims the group to those who truly have aptitudes for it. In order to earn a degree in engineering there are many courses in the science field and even more in mathematics which one must take. Advanced chemistry, physics and the higher math courses are only some of the classes to be taken besides those in engineering. Long hard hours of study prepare the individual for a career in this field. Engineering Curriculum Covers Many Difficult Courses. Chemistry is only one of the courses which is required for engineer- ing majors. Numerous other science courses must be taken in order to secure a degree. Countless groups of surveying students have practiced on Marshall ' s campus. Numerous others will undoubt- edly follow in these men ' s footsteps as the engineering curriculum expands.

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Reading stories to tne second-graders is only one of the events in the hectic life of on elementary teacher, as Sobro Messinger dis- covers when she proctices teaching at the Marshall Laboratory School. Sobra, like all other student instructors, teaches for nine weeks of one semester of her senior year, while the other nine weeks is tilled with education courses that stress the theory and methods of teaching in the public schools. Seniors Learn To Teach By Teaching Teachers College students get on-the-job train- ing in their senior year as they go out to the local elementary and high schools to teach for nine weeks under the supervising eyes of the regular class in- structors. Here they put their factual knowledge to use, but they just launch into the continual process of learning by coping with the actual difficulties that they must overcome in their job. Conferences with the director of student teaching, Dr. Paul Musgrave, smooth out the final problems encountered by the novice teachers. Dr. Paul Musgrave who directs the student teaching program advises his beginning teachers in weekly conferences. Teaching speech at Huntington High School gives Pat Blackburn the general ideo of a day standing before the class instead of sit- ting in the doss. 14