San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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MUSIC-DR. LYLE DOWNEY. A staff of 20, with more than 600 students in music courses, constitutes one of the busiest departments on the cam- pus. Major organizations supported by the department include the A Cappella Choir, Symphony Orchestra, Concert Band, Marching Band, and Choral Ensemble. Housed in a small, inadequate building, the depart- ment looks forward to a happier day when the new building will become a reality, and there will be ample facilities to carry on the many activities of the department. NATURAL SClENCEfDR. CARL D. DUNCAN. From modest beginnings, the Natural Science Department has grown to its present size of 46 full and 13 part-time teachers and well over 200 courses planned to meet gen- eral education needs for all students and provide vocational training for nearly 500 majors. Future offerings will emphasize the SHIIIC functionally sound lecture, laboratory, and field programs that already have won nation-wide recognition through the demonstrated competence of gradu- ates in industrial, educational, civil service and professional Helds. NURSING EljllczxTllllv-PAULINE E. DAVIS. The Nursing Education Department organized in l946 b1'ougl1t opportunity for the local nursing students to register for their entire classroom curriculum at San .lose State. Other majors include the pre-nursing students prepa1'ing for en- trance to nursing schools and the degree people whose program has re- cently devevloped new horizons. Plans are in progress for the furtherance of specialization fields as well as the continued local nursing school affilia- tion and the Clll'lClllIlCIll ol' that program with additional instruction and experience. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY-lllARY D. BOOTH, OTR. The Occupa- tional Therapy coursc opened in the winter of 1943, and was accredited by the American Medical Association in June, 194-4. The demand for oc- cupational therapists has increased since that time. Uur graduates are finding excellent positions throughout California as well as in the East. During the current year we are increasing the medical content of the course and are looking forward to the time when we can offer graduate work in specialized fields of medicine.

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LIBRARY-MISS JOYCE BACKUS. The library was established in 1872 by an appropriation of 351,000 lts collections survived the destruction of the Normal School buildings in 1880, and 1906. Between 1.906 and 1912 the library occupied a temporary building in the quadrangle. The present reserved book room served library needs until 1925. ln ten years the library expanded into five additional rooms. The present building is one wing of the planned college library. The collection grew from 2,000 volumes in 1879 to 110,000 in 1949. MATHEMATICS-DR. W. HOWARD MYERS. The Mathematics Depart- ment is an academic department with strength unequalled in any other of the state colleges and in few of the universities of the state. In function the department has outgrown its original purpose of train- ing prospective elementary teachers although this service still is provided. The programs leading to the M.A. degree and the general secondary teach- ing credential are now in operation, and in addition there are curricula in pure and applied mathematics leading to the A.B. degree in mathe- matics. MODERN LANGUAGES-MR. L. C. NEWBY. The Modern Language Department was organized in 1923. The first year there were 49 students in four classes of Spanish and French-one instructor. The next year Ger- man was added-still one instructor. Since that period the department has grown until at present there arc 13 instructors and a thousand students taking courses in French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Russian. The de- partment has always emphasized thc development of the students' ability to speak the foreign language.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION KIIIQEIIJZGLENN I-IARTRANFT. The major changes in the Physical Education Department in 25 years have been in personnel and in the number participating. In future years we expect to have more men in graduate work. The department has three functions-physical education classes, an athletic program of I3 major sports, and the training of 400 P.E. majors. The majority of our I950 graduates will take coaching positions in Cali- fornia high schools. The others will continue working toward general cre- dentials and master's degrees. PHYSICAL EDUCATION fWomenj- DR. IRENE PALMER. In this department in I890 one physical culture instructor used Indian clubs, dumbbells and wands to teach upromptness, accuracy and quietness of movement. In 1950 more than 2,000 women students will enjoy and profit by the courses in team and individual sports, aquatic and rhythmic activities and remedial work offered in a beautiful new physical education building. Many majors graduate from this department to become teachers of physical education and recreation directors. POLICE SCHOOL-XVILLARD E. SCHMIDT. A police school, by police- men, for potential policemen, the combined vision of a pioneering edu- cator and a practical policeman started the department in 19303 at first students numbered a couple, at the tenth year, several or a fewg and now nearing the 20th anniversary, in the hundreds. A practical course swelled with 130 units of related academic subjects looks ahead to a career and is mindful of our obligations to the students of tomorrow, the public, as well as to the police profession. PSYCHOLOGY-DR. RAYMOND M. MOSHER. From an inconspicuous status as a small department seeming to be an affiliate of the Personnel Office, the Psychology-Philosophy department has mushroomed to be- come a busy instructional division with a faculty of 18 instead of its pre- war eight. The department offers majors and minors in psychology or philosophy, and a major in psychology-philosophy. Dr. Raymond M. Mosher took over the leadership of the department from Dr. James C. DeVoss., now Dean of Professional Education.