Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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The World of Business Attracts Many Students Senior Bob ' ■ ' • po, a vi.it t thi Placement Office for job inter- view with a C P Telephone Company executive. This office en- joyed a booming first year of existence. Students such as this business administration mojor put their text- book theories to practical use in downtown stores. Steve Jacobson inspects merchandise with his employer. Clatter, clatter, zoomi The noise of many different office ma- chines surrounds the secretarial and business administration majors as they complete work projects. The business odministration major Is the lorgest single group of majors within the College of Arts and Sciences. 15

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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

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1 I Art may be used as a tool for decorating, for self- expression, or to guide others. This room has been occupied throughout the years by serious art students, expressing themselves in oil, pastels, watercolors, pen- cil, clay, charcoal, and the other mediums of art. The ability to paint or draw is an inborn talent which finds its utmost expression through the hands of a trained artist. Fine Arts Provide Room For Individual Expression Serious study in music takes many forms, and among them are voice training, conducting, and the master- ing of instruments. Here a student concentrates on just one phase of this curriculum — composing. What weird flights imaginotions moy take. Students in this art class strive to express themselves through the use of paper, metal, wood, clay, and twine.