Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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MILITARY SCIENCE When the Department of the Army designated Middle Tennessee State College as the location for a unit of the Reserve Officer ' s Training Corps, new opportunities and objectives arose for students here. Channels for entirely different areas of skill and leadership began to develop in areas of specialization realistically pertinent m their timeliness. An ROTC cadet may be deferred to complete four years of college, and graduates are offered commissions as Second Lieutenants m the Organized Reserve. Commissions in the Regular Army are offered to a selected number of graduates. That participation in the ROTC program is a desirable manner to gain a college education and serve one ' s country can be expressed by the fact that approximately 100,000 ROTC graduates served in grades from Second Lieutenant to Brigadier General during World War IL The facilities of the MTSC armor unit have been described as some of the best m the Southeastern area. Indoor rifle range, complete office, class- rooms, and storage space covering 10,800 square feet are all housed in the basement floor of the Alumni Memorial Health and Physical Education building. Acres of drill and field maneuver area and seven well-equipped shops are immediately adjacent; heavy mobile equipment is stored in a con- venient armory nearby. Members of the ROTC have the opportunity to become members of the Cadet Corps Band. They may also qualify as members of the Corps Rifle Team, competing with other college units and firing in the Hearst matches. Lt. Col. Robert J. MacLean, PMS fi ' T; First Lt. Charles A. Rigler, Asst. PMS T; M.Sgt. Andrew A. Burke, Jr., Sgt. .Major; Sgt. l.c Francis M. Brooksher, Tdnf( Leader; Sgt. I . c Noah M. Lowery, Supply Sergeant. Left: Student officers and a terrain hoard. Below: The ROTC Band. Left: Potential Army officers in the classroom.

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS Otis L. Freeman, Industrial Arts; Philip H. Dalton, Industrial Arts; Df.l- BERT A. Dyke, Industrial Arts; Cowan Lyles, Industrial Arts; E. S. Voorhies, Machine Shop; Steven N. Wood, Elec- trkity, not pictured. In September, 1911, the Manual Arts Department of Middle Tennessee State Normal opened under the direction of Mr. Clark Woodward. The department occupied nearly the entire north wing under the auditorium, comprising a woodworking room 24 x 56 feet, art-metal shop, drafting room, exhibit room and storage room each 22 x 26 feet. The following courses were offered: Cardboard Construction, Basketry, Elementary Sloyd, Exercises in Jomtery, Cabinet Construction, Sheet-Copper and Brass Work and Mechani- cal Drawing. In the fall of 1934, Mr. O. L. Freeman, a graduate of this institution and also a graduate of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, returned as head of the department. At that time the department offered only woodworking and mechanical drawing and had a total of 54 students registered. The department today has a modern industrial plant comprising six unit shops and a general shop with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of modern equipment. There are five full time faculty members and close to 400 students registered. Graduate work in this department will be offered, beginning with the summer quarter, 1951. Graduates of this department have established a name for themselves throughout the nation m this field of education. They are holding positions ranging from elementary Industrial Arts teachers to heads of college depart- ments. This department only recently was given national recognition by the American Council of Industrial Arts Teacher Education and the name of Middle Tennessee State College Industrial Arts Department was listed in Who ' s Who in American Colleges in Industrial Arts Teacher Education. Right: Proudly we display what we ' ve done . . . Below: , . in plain sight of what can be done |i|..«Ii- i2 .S;i «» -m Right: If you can ' t make it with your hands

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AGRICULTURE The Agriculture Department of Middle Tennessee State College has as its primary objective the training of those students interested in teaching agriculture in the high schools of our state and the preparation of other stu- dents for successful careers in practical farming. This objective forms the foundation of the building of better rural communities by better farming and improved farm living in the future. In addition to this major objective, the department prepares some stu- dents for employment in agricultural services, such as extension work, farm and home administration, and soil conservation; trains some to serve as tech ' nicians or salesmen for feed, seed, fertilizer, or farm equipment companies; and trains others who plan to continue their education in graduate fields m the science of agriculture. B. B. Gracy, Agriculture; Frank J. Elderkin, Agriculture; James Jaggers, Agncuhural Engineering; Joe Little, Agri- culture; Horace N. Parks, Agricultural Education; and Dr. C. N. Stark, not pictured. The department also aims at giving sound fundamental training to those who will spend their lives serving rural people m various fields of endeavor to the end that they may better understand those with whom they work and that they may render a fuller service in their chosen field. In addition to those professors pictured above. Dr. C. N. Stark, author of more than sixty books on dairy chemistry and technology, is a member of the agricultural staff who is on leave at the present time. Right: Learning to prune. Beloiv: Working m the dairy. Right: Mechanizing the farm