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

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BUSINESS ADMINSTRATION Elwin Midgett Accounting Henrietta Myers Wade Stenography On January 1, 1939, the Business Administration Department began at Middle Tennessee State College as a division of the Social Science Department. Accountmg, shorthand and typewriting were its only offerings. Advanced accounting and auditing, together with the busi- ness education courses, methods and materials m accounting, and methods and materials in stenography, were added for the school year 1939-1940. Advanced stenography and business law were included in the curricu- lum for 1942-1943. In 1945 cost accounting and business machines were added, and the division of Accounting, Secretarial Science, Business Education and Business Law were combined to form a new department which was named the Department of Commerce. In 1946 the name of the department was changed to the Business Administration Department, and in 1948 a course in advertising was added to the business curriculum. Three additional quarter hours of accounting are to be added in the fall of W. ' il. The department offers two majors. Business Administration and Secretarial Science and Teacher-Training. Its graduates are certified to teach any business subject taught in the secondary schools of the state, are prepared for responsible business positions, and to manage and operate businesses of their own. The objective of a broad general business educa- tion is met by requiring students to take related business courses such as business mathematics, business organization and management, labor problems, marketing, statistics, and public finance, in other departments of the college. AVIATION Miller Lanier iiii The Aviation Department at Middle Tennessee State was formed in 1941. MTSC is one of four colleges and universities in the United States that operates its own airport. All phases of aviation work are offered in the well-rounded department, including instruction in navigation, meter- ology, radio. Civil Air Regulations, aircraft and engine structure, and flight. In the latter, it is possible for students to get their private and commercial licenses and instructor ' s rating. In the past five years 450 students have received pilot licenses at the airport. Two Piper Cubs are used in pilot training and a four-place Stinson is used for radio and navigation work. The department has its own building for ground school instruction, which is equipped with a Link trainer, engines, and instruments. Mock-ups of all types of instru- ments are also used as training aids. More than 300 students are trained each year in the department.

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Virginia Muncie Home Economics Mary G. Knapp Home Economics Myrtle Agnes Nelson Home Economics Home Economics has been one of the departments of the college since the college opened in 1911. This department offers a full four-year course leading to the Bachelor of Science degree, with certification for the teach- ing of home economics. In addition to teaching, the department qualifies young women for home demonstration work and lunch room supervision, and if offers basic training in costume designing, textile work, interior decorating, and the varied fields of Home Economics. It is the philosophy ot the department to provide a learning situation in the total program of the college whereby any student, man or woman, may acquire training in fundamental areas of personal living, and of home and family life teaching. To that end more and more courses are being provided for all the students, and increasing numbers of college students are electing such courses. For those students with a professional interest in home economics, the work is divided into the three major areas of clothing and textiles, foods and nutrition, and home administration. There are fifty-four hours of required study in these areas, which fulfill all requirements for general home economics teaching. The Cafeteria and Student Union building completed this year will provide excellent facilities for expanding home economics training ii:j the areas of institutional management, quantity cookery, and buyiij. It will also provide additional areas for social activities sponsored by the home economics department and Home Economics Club. Catherine Clark Librarian Mary Nelson Bates Regional Librarian Ambrose Easterly Librarid?! fiAlb The Library, located in the center of the campus, is a friendly place of recreational reading as well as a vital educational factor performing an important role in the teaching service of Middle Tennessee State College. Nearly all courses and many extra-curricular activities involve use of the facilities which have been carefully chosen for the work and interests of the students and faculty. The Library collection contains more than thirty thousand books as well as several thousand pamphlets. There are about four thousand volumes of bound periodicals and over two hundred magazines to which students have access. To keep the collection up to date, approximately 3000 volumes were added during the past year. The Library also has a small collection of audio-visual materials. The Regional Library, with its headquarters in the college library under the supervision of Miss Mary Nelson Bates, serves eight Middle Tennessee counties. The college Library is staffed by Miss Catherine Clark and Mr. Am- brose Easterly, and a number of student assistants. Plans are under way for the construction of a new Library building in the near future.

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MATH Horace G. Jones Mathematics ToMMiE Reynolds Mathematics The Mathematics Department of the College was established when the college was founded in 1911. The first professor of mathematics was P. A. Lyon, later president of the college. Professor Lyon remained with the mathematics department until 1921 when he was replaced by Horace G. Jones, who still holds the position of head of the Mathematics Depart- ment. Miss Tommie Reynolds was assistant professor of mathematics from 1911 to 1922 when she went to Peabody to get her master ' s degree. She returned in 1923 and from 1923-44 taught both physical education and mathematics. From 1944 until the present she has taught only mathe- matics. The Mathematics Department offers the standard four years of mathe- matics found at most four year colleges. In addition, it offers one methods course in the teaching of mathematics and a year of surveying. It also offers a year of special business math designed for business majors. ART Hester Rogers Art The Middle Tennessee State College Art Department was one of the first departments established in the college. The primary aim of this department has always been to meet the particular needs of the elementary school teachers of the state. There- fore the main offerings have been in the field of Art Education. In recent years, however, some courses have been offered to meet the demands of students who are particularly interested in the art field. Other courses of an appreciational nature are offered for students in general. Majors in art are found in almost every graduating class. The majority of these go on to other colleges and secure a master ' s degree in art before attempting to teach art as a special subject.