Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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enrollment increased. EVER SEE the inside of a chair? Students in the upholstering class hove. Teoring down, repacking, repairing, and remodel¬ ing chairs was their major project. THE NON-CREDIT brick laying class was most popular with men in the masonry and construction trade. SOUP LINE, ticket line? No, just eager adults waiting their turn to complete registration for evening division of Belleville Junior College.

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Evening courses were open to everyone; MR. FRANCIS L RICHARDSON, who earned his B.S.E. and M.S. at the University of Arkansas, co-ordinated the Junior College evening division program four nights o week. The Belleville Junior College evening division pro¬ vided an opportunity for adults to receive instruction in seventy-five credit courses and sixteen non-credit courses. Regularly enrolled day students also took ad¬ vantage of the night school offerings to supplement their schedules. With approximately 2,000 persons attending night classes each semester, Junior College employed teach¬ ers from other districts and from industry, in additon to the full-time staff, to teach in the evening program. Adults comprised the majorit) enrolled in the night classes. Housewives were interested in sewing, tailor¬ ing, flower arranging, millinery courses, and typing. Business firms sent their secretaries to the college to improve their knowledge of business through courses in accounting, marketing, shorthand, business law, st(x:ks and bonds, and economics. Many women, in terested in teaching, attended Evening Division to obtain an elementary education teaching certificate. AS TWILIGHT APPROACHED, the lights of the “midnight oil burned in the main building, signalling the start of evening classes.

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STUDENTS and teachers appreciated the fifteen-minute breaks to chat with friends, or to relax with a quick smoke or coke. Credit and personal-interest courses MRS. BARBARA COMPTON and Mrs. Vera Phillips, Evening Division secretaries, sorted semester enrollment cards.