University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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i i Dairy chemisTry SCHOOL OF ADULT EDUCATION The adulT who had To leave school To go To worlc need no longer envy The universiTy sTudenT, Tor The School oT AdulT EducaTion, under The direcTion oT Mr. E. M. i-losman, aTFords him an opporTuniTy To conTinue his educaTion in his leisure Time. This year some TiTTeen hundred sTudenTs have Talfen advanTage oT The exTensive curriculum oTTered loy The School. Two general Types of courses are oTTered loy The School OT Adul+ EducaTion: Degree CrediT Courses-applicable Toward universiTy degrees: and CerTiTicaTe CrediT Courses Tor Those inTeresTed in general selT-improvement Swedish, of- Tered Tor CerTiTicaTe CrediT lasT year, became a Degree ' TE? Drawing insTrucTion i CrediT Course This year. Among The courses oTiered Tor The TirsT Time during The academic year i939-1940 were some oT loofh pracTical and culTural naTure. They included l-lealTh EducaTion Tor Teachers, l-lisTory oT Modern Germany, DramaTic Read- ing, Vocabulary Building, Farm Finance, CalculaTing Ma- chines. lndusTrial Training courses finding Their way inTo The schedule Tor The TirsT Time were Diesel Engines, Elec- TriciTy, TexTile ChemisTry, and Dairy ChemisTry. A class in Individual Income Tax ReTurns was arranged Tor The har- assed lousiness man. STudenTs wiTh arTisTic inTeresTs were oTiered a choice oT Design Tor Beginners, Fashion SlceTch- ing, Modern Pen LeTTering, PoTTery and Ceramic Sculp- Turing, Applied Design in CraTTs, and Flower Arrange- menT-courses oTTered Tor The TirsT Time This year. AcTiviTies of The School oT AdulT EducaTion were noT conTined To The campus, buT exTended ThroughouT The ciTy and inTo Council BluTis. AT The UniversiTy oT Omaha KAP? T, IIB! Langmade, Moore Library preparaTions I-luTTaker, KinTner

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Thompson, Nelson, SeIg, ZImmerman, Hemisch y UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Campen, Cummings, Pardee, Byrne PresidenT - - - Vice-Presideni' - - Secrefary - - Treasurer ---- Alumni HARRY BYRNE WILLIAM CAMPEN MARY COLLINS MRS. HERBERT DANIEL DOROTHY EDWARDS HERBERT FISCHER LEON FOuTs OTTicers --------G.H.Seig - - - - - Leola McKie - Mary Quinby Cummings - - - - - - - -JamesDoTy Board Members FRANK HEINIscH JOI-IN HERzOe FRED NELSON GEORGE PARDEE WILLIAM THOMPSON GRACE WATERS REED ZIMMERMAN Cummings, Seig, McKie, Dofy Reaching ouT Trom a nucleus OT 250 acTive members, The Alumni AssOciaTiOn is unceasingly Trying To sweII iTs ranks Trom The seven Thousand assOciaTe members in Omaha. The AssOcaTiOn is OuTsTanding in ThaT iT is incorpOraTed as a TraTernaI Organiza- Tion under The Iaws OT The STaTe OT Nebraska. The eIecTiOn OT oTTicers and presenTaTiOn OT summary business repOrTs consTi- TuTe The agenda OT The annual Alumni banqueT held in June. The TurnOuT Tor This OTTiciaI meeTing is paralleled in magniTude OnIy by The mass suppOrT musTered Tor The Home- coming ceIebraTions. MonThIy meeTings OT The execuTive board, consisTing OT TiTTeen members, The PresidenT and SecreTary, serve TO dispaTch immediaTe business. During The pasT year, PresidenT Seig and The oTTicers have been campaigning To sTrengThen permanenTIy and viTaIize The AssOciaTiOn by esTabIishing a paid secreTariaI posiTion and an annual pubIicaTiOn. Membership in The Alumni AssociaTiOn is exTended TO graduaTes Or sTudenTs who have comOIeTed a TuII vear aT The UniversiTy OT Omaha. T25 5 I fi,

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TIES CLASSES AND PAR The Summer Session offers courses accepled as in-residence credit To meer +he needs of individual srudenrs, lhe Session is di- vided info a 'rhree-week lnlersession, lvvo Regular Sessions, of six and five weeks respecrively, and a series of Shorl' Sessions or Unir Courses. Sli-fdenfs of sfarisficg Hooded phofographer ll . expert welding fob Demonsfrafion in elecfricify Speed Wpisfs L - g Mr' HUHman.S ar+Ic+ l versify reaching Marshall' . , Y i . s darkroom exhlbifion If'IS'l'FUC'l'OFS. Machinisfs in 1-he shop ln addifion lo rhe regular courses, rhere are a number of miscellaneous leclures. A Children's Summer School in which mod ern melhods are demonslrared for praclice feachers and orhers is a fealure of +he Universiry of Omaha Summer Session The Sum T l'hir'r -five members of The regular Uni mer faculiy includes abou y slaff, and a number of narionally lcnown guesi Ve