University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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SUPERVISING THE PLAV of nursery school children, Nancy McCabe Leib holds the door of a toy shed In the nursery yard while the children put their toys away. The division of childhood education was de- signed to give pre-school education to children from two to five years of age. Undergraduates re- ceived experience in story telling, plastics, and clay modeling through this function. This day nurser ' served as a blessing to working mothers and a good training center for both students and children. Inst, of Technology And many went into IT — despite great rumors floating about campus as to the character of en- gineers! Under Dean Samuel C. Lind, the Institute of Technology included the School of Chemistry, the College of Engineering and Architecture, and the School of Mines and iMetallurgy. During winter quarter a new curriculum was added to the Institute — a two-year terminal course of pre-professional training for technical aids. Stu- dents were trained for such jobs as draftsmen, ana- lysts, and management work, and at the end of six quarters, a certificate was awarded to students com- pleting the course. x lthough designed especially for veterans, it was open to anyone. OPERATING THE MACHINES in a shop course are Bill Reiser, James Wolff, and Howard Lennire. In spite of a decreased number of stu- dents, this year, the machine shop lab has almost returned to normal. Since the equipment is no longer needed for special war production, the machines were once again put to good use by the students in the classes. Page 50

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LISTENING ATTENTIVELY to Mr. James Nickerson in a general music course is a group of University High School students. This course com- bines listening hours, theory analysis, and getting acquainted with music in general. Mr. Nickerson, who has been at the high school for three years, is in charge of instrumental and vocal music while work- ing for his Ph.D. SYMBOLIZING PROSPECTIVE and three-dimensional geometric fig- ures, this mural, done by one of University High School ' s art classes under the direction of Duard Laging, hangs in the new math office. ning of the war. It contained accounts of Univer- sity functions and detailed information on the do- ings of the College of Education. By educating large numbers of men and women for the teaching profession and by conducting sur- veys of educational institutions, the College of Edu- cation made contributions to the University and the community as a whole. The Institute of Child Welfare was estab- lished to serve four separate functions. The most important of these was that of teacher training. Graduates and undergraduates were given a four- year course in child training which included three quarters of practice training in nurseries and out- side schools. Next to teacher training was the parent-educa- tion division, in which counseling and teaching courses were offered to parents. A board of lec- tures served to give advice to parent groups all over Minneapolis. Another important function was that of research in child development. Almost all the graphs and books seen around clinics or offices telling what- to-do-with or what-to-feed babies were ex- amples of what was published. Page 49

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Single war training courses were offered to the general public under the Engineering Science Man- agement War Training. These dealt with subjects useful for practical work in war plants, and some forty different ones were offered. Several thousand people took these courses with tuition paid by the government. Enrollment decreased greatly in the ESiM VT courses this year due to the fact that most potential workers were employed in industry. Students in the Institute published their own magazine, the Technolog. It was written by tech- nology students and overseen by a faculty board. The College of Engineering and Architec- ture was subdivided into eight classifications. A student could major in electrical, chemical, aero- nautical, architectural, civil, mechanical, agricul- tural, or pre-business engineering. However, IT students spoke of the three largest classifications — chemical, electrical, and aeronautical. Enrollments in these fields gradually decreased up the class scale. Of course, emphasis was placed on wartime proj- ects this year, as it has been for the last four years. The college worked on problems facing the armed forces, trained Army and Navy students, and ac- celerated their courses so some were able to gradu- SAMUEL C. LIND, dean of the Institute, at the right, and Elmei John- son, professor of electrical engineering, tinker with an unused piece of lab equipment in the dean ' s private laboratory. PROFESSOR AND CHIEF of the division of inorganic chemistry, Lil- lian Cohen and M. Cannon Snced discuss Army and Navy chemistry programs . . . AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSOR Jean F. Piccard is doing special aeronautical work for the armed forces. He plans to make a 100,000 foot post-war stratosphere flight — best of luck to him! Page 51