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

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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.

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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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7-4e LIBRARY SUmuUie4, Studif, That building in the middle of the campus is one which all of us haunt at one time or another, particularly at the end of the quarter when term papers and reports are due. Along with obtaining information, which I ' ll tell you about m a minute, a lot of us seek refuge in the library from the clatter and chatter of the dormitories. Then too, if we are ever in dire need of assistance with our research work, Miss Catherine Clark, Mr. Ambrose Easterly and fourteen student assistants are there able and willing to aid us. vision of Miss Mary Nelson Bates (below, right) and her assistant, Miss Mary Elizabeth Wallace. New books are constantly being ordered. Since the graduate division has been incorporated in the MTSC program, the place has been swarming with new shelves and books to go on them. A new library has been planned and approved. It will be located between Jones Hall and the Science Building. Now for some vital statistics. The library harbors over thirty-eight thousand books including government documents and bound periodicals. The latest news may also be read from the varied and numerous newspapers to which the library subscribes. Along with this essential material, the library has begun a collection of audio-visual materials and has over two hundred magazines to which the students have access. Shall we take a quick trip through the building? I ' ll point out the location of things. Here on the main floor, is the Tennessee Room in which you will find histories and biographies of Tennessee and its heroes. All these shelves back here are the home of the bulk of the books with which we work, systematized and listed in the card catalogue over there by the door. Down these stairs is the periodical room and another nook where all of the text books used in the grammar and high schools of Tennessee are shelved. Off to the left is the headquarters of the Regional library which serves eight counties under super-