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

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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.

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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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Ike GRADUATE DIVISION fiW udei, Uoade o i fio Ut Uiel We ' re so very excited and proud of our brand new baby, the Graduate Department. We have been struggling to form this division for what seems like an eternity of time and it is finally here. Walk past Room 17 in the basement and you will see the beaming faces of its founders and head — we ' re almost ready to han d out cigars. In fact, we might do just that in August during the recently re- vived August graduation program, designed especially to accommodate the first group of students to graduate from Middle Tennessee State College with their Masters degree. Isn ' t that exciting? The graduate students receive a major in Education and they may minor in any of the following fields: English, Social Science, Industrial Arts, Science, and Physical Educa- tion. That ' s quite a broad program for the first year of existence even if I must boast about my own alma mater. Dr. Howard G. Kirksey is head of the Graduate De- partment. He IS a well-qualified leader, having received his doctorate just a few years ago. He is conservatively en- thusiastic about all of the modern philosophies and methods of education. All of the departments mentioned above have included new 500 courses in their curriculum designed to meet the needs of the graduate students, and the educa- tion courses, too, have been broadened. Most of the courses are held in the seminar style and the students, many of them m-service teachers, benefit not only from their instructors, but also from each other. The picture below is of the Graduate Council and reads from left to right: first row: Dr. Howard Kirksey, Chairman, Education; Mr. Q. M. Smith, President; Mr. W. B. Judd, Registrar; Dr. J. Eldred Wiser, Chemistry; second row: Dr. Richard C. Peck, English; Mr. Otis L. Freeman, Industrial Arts; Dr. C. C. Sims, Social Science; Dr. Francis Reil, Physical Education; Mr. N. C. Beasley, Dean. In the picture at the lower right hand corner, we see Dr. Kirksey signing the registration cards of the first stu- dents who enrolled in the Graduate Department of ye ole college last summer.