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

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MATHEMATICS Jfiaitti, tUe Mind Here ' s one department that has been here since the proverbial portals were opened m 1911. P. A. Lyon, who was later president of the college, was the very first professor of mathematics that the college boasted. He stayed with the department for ten years and then was replaced by Horace G. Jones, who is head of the mathe- matics department today. Miss Tommie Reynolds has been teaching in the math department since 1911, with the exception of one year when she obtained a leave of absence to earn her masters degree from Peabody. MTSC is not behind in anything, for the average four year math program which is available at most other colleges is also offered here. In addition to this, we offer a year of surveying and one methods course in the teaching of mathematics. Our professors don ' t rest a minute. These two wonders also teach a year of special business math designed to accommodate the business major here at the Finest . At the right are Mr. Jones and ' Miss Tommie. ART 7 tt «4 tUe J anJt This room is the most decorative in the building and could belong to none other than the art department. Here we find a collection of all kinds of art, ranging from clay modeling and paintings to hand crafts produced by the students. If a person has any creative abihty. Miss Hester Rogers, sole instructor in this department, will find and develop it in the many projects she assigns. Miss Rogers adds lustre to her courses by offering her rich background of information and picture slides of her tours abroad.

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Q,eadlnf, WuU and Sfi cJiUt a e Go iUilf.ut44uU o the LANGUAGE ARTS Now we come to a department through which every one of us must pass sometime during our college Ufe. It IS the Department of Languages. In order to meet re- quirements for a degree, be it B.S. or B.A., we must com- plete eighteen hours of English. If we choose the B.A. we must also complete at least eighteen hours in the field of modern languages. Both of the above requirements are institutional and are not, as some students suppose, de- partmental. The hardy souls who choose to major in English must present a minimum of forty-five hours in the field and pass written and oral comprehensive examinations during the last quarter of their senior year. The purpose of the exami- nations IS to encourage the students to look upon the courses they take during their four years in college not as ends themselves but as means to an end, a satisfactory competency in the fields of English and American literature. It has been said that the person who is familiar with but one language is like a bird with one wing. The Depart- ment of Languages presents to all students the opportunity to soar as high as they please by offering complete courses in the language and literature of both Spain and France. The Department of Languages also offers courses in journalism. In these courses, theory is combined with practice, and the result is the school paper. The Siddina and the yearbook. The Mid ander. The Department of Languages is one of the six depart- ments offering a minor in the Graduate Division. The courses offered on the graduate level are primarily de- signed to promote even better teaching in the secondary schools of Tennessee. In the top picture. Miss Schardt is shown using re- cordings in her Spanish class. In the second picture. Lane Boutwell, speech arts director, and some students record a radio program. The faculty members are pictured below. They are: Elizabeth Schardt, Vordgn Language; Emily Calcott, English; Charles Edwin Howard, English; S. Carroll EviNS, £?ig i5h; Guy Arthur Battle, £7ig i.sh; Clifford Byrne, £ng i5h; Richard C. Peck, English. Jt r Bl IT 1 im- me

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We £ea all AUut BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Let ' s just walk past these rooms and see if you can guess what department this is. The first room emits a tapping sound; in the second, we see wide-eyed and fright- ened students over rectangular pads; the third finds a conglomeration of machines (who knows the use of these mechanical monsters?), and the last is a mass of numbers under which we see a few students. Yep, you ' ve guessed, that ' s the Business Administration Department which joined the ranks of MTSC way back in 1939. It was then a division of the Social Science Department. With the addition of advanced stenography, business law, methods and materials in accounting, methods and materials in stenography, advanced accounting, advertising, auditing, and business education courses, it has finally come into its own. The divisions of Accounting, Secretarial Science, Business Education, and Business Law combined in 1945 and in the following year, the name of the department was changed to its present moniker, the Business Ad- ministration Department. Just in case I have entirely confused you, I will identify the first revealed sights. The first was the typing room, the second stenographic room, ne.xt the office machines room (pictured above), and finally, the accounting room. The department now offers to majors. Business Ad- ministration and Secretarial Science, and Teacher-Training. Its graduates are certified to teach any business subject offered in the secondary schools of the state, are prepared for responsible business positions, and will be capable of managing and operating a business of their own. The faculty includes Mr. E. W. Midgett, Mrs. Henri- etta Myers Wade, and Mr. Ed Knapp (second picture). If you can take your eyes off the pretty girl down here in the corner long enough to look at the boy in the middle, he is Burt Spurlock, receiving congratulations from the National Association of Manufacturers for being chosen by the Tennessee Manufacturers Association as the out- standing career prospect in the field of Business Administra- tion in Tennessee colleges. This is certainly indicative of the type of students our ' Bus Ad ' department turns out.