Westfield State University - Tekoa Yearbook (Westfield, MA)

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TRAINING SCHOOL FACULTY George W. Win slow, Principal, Augusta M. Tappan Ella G. Wallace May T. Grant Edith M. Robbins Eliza Converse Florence V. Nichols Bertha A. Kuralt Louise P. Wade Florence P. Axtell Marjorie M. Williams Clara W. Leyonborg Jeanette H. Rosengren Mrs. Katherine H. Cole Viola E. Bettinger Elsie E. Carlson School Management and School Law Sixth Grade Sixth Grade Fifth Grade Fifth Grade Fourth Grade Fourth Grade Third Grade Third Grade Second Grade Second Grade First Grade First Grade Kindergarten Mundale Rural School Wyben Rural School

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DR. MARY C. CLUNE Mary C. Clune: Born in Springfield and has always lived there; prepared for college with Latin, Greek, and lots of mathematics, and then went to Westfield Normal School and loved it — the school and the faculty, too, without exception; enjoyed all the classes, especially those in history, geography, and psychology; graduated from Westfield Normal School in 1908; served as student waitress at the Triennial Alumni Meeting in 1907, liked the looks of the alumni, and has attended every triennial alumni gathering since; served as vice-president of the Westfield Normal School Alumni Association from 1925 to 1928, and as president from 1928 to 1931; went to New York University summer session in 1908, acquired the habit, and has since spent many happy summers studying at Columbia or teaching at New York University; spent two full years at Smith College, one year at Columbia University, and one and one-half years at Clark University; received B. S. degree at Columbia in 1912, M. A. degree at Smith College in 1917, and Ph. D. degree at Clark University in 1922; was a fellow in history at Smith College in 1916-17 and a fellow in anthropogeography at Clark University in 1921-22; incidentally brought up a young brother and a niece; traveled in Europe in 1914 and in 1923; spent several summers in Canada; chief recreations are hiking, swimming, reading, and studying foreign languages — French, German, and Italian; is keenly interested in religion, world peace, current events, and foreign relations; single and hopes to remain so; present position, head of history department at Technical High School, Springfield; blessed with a father who until last year shared in all studies and aspirations; at present is State chairman of American Legion Auxiliary; member of Springfield College Club, National Council of Geography Teachers, New England History Teachers ' Association, Foreign Policy Association, Hi-Y, and several alumni associations; fellow of Clark Geographers and of Association of American Geographers. A DEGREE COURSE AT WESTFIELD FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS A new four-year course for the preparation of junior high school teachers is to be offered at the Westfield Normal School in September, 1931. The degree offered on completion of this course is that of Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S. in Ed.), and will be conferred by the Department of Education. It is planned to offer advanced study in four fields. One of these will be in English and Literature, in which opportunities will be given for advanced study of English prose, poetry, and drama, in addition to special study of the junior high school curriculum. A second field will be that of mathematics, in which courses will be offered in college algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, in addition to special courses dealing with junior high school levels of work. A third offering will be that of the social studies, in which attention will be stressed on the modern tendencies of fusion and correlation of studies, and a broad background of history, geography, and civics will be required. A fourth opportunity will be that of science, in which special preparation will be given in junior high school general science as well as in its related fields of physics, chemistry, botany, and zoology. Applications for entrance to this new course have been received ever since it was first announced, and it appears to be a popular course. Since this is the first time that such a course has been offered in western Massachusetts, it will make oppor- tunities for students who would otherwise be denied the privilege of preparing for junior high school teaching. 11