Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Schools demand a variety of crafts, and Art for Elementary I eachers was an asset to future teacher Cathie Fischer , who learned new ideas for the classroom. Elementary art education students busily fixed decorations for future classrooms. Leaving his administrative duties, Dr. Mi- lander turned instructor at night. 13

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Education section trained students for future classrooms and pupils. Students who planned a career in teaching realized their time and hard study were well spent when most four- year institutions accepted the courses in JC’s education section as profes¬ sional credit. Although they were mainly available only as night-school courses the students found the educa¬ tion courses an asset to their future in classroom instruction. Principles of child growth and de¬ velopment, as well as the practical ap¬ proach to music, the recent trends in arithmetic, and the concept of teach¬ ing small children to read were topics considered by tomorrows educators. f uture Rembrandts of the kindergarten class gladly demonstrated their artistic skills to Kathy Moore, student assistant at Signal Hill. Kathy Moore provided the tune while the five-year-olds heat out the rhythm. 12

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Humanities opened to students the widening world of culture. Culture, a characteristic of the Hu¬ manities, was offered in abundance through each branch of the Division. New surroundings and teaching aids provided the enlarged enrollment with prospects for a new beginning. Learning the proper pronunciation of words, a vital phase of any foreign language program, was facilitated through the expansion of the language laboratory and the purchase of tape recorders and tapes. With the addition of a carrel built for this purpose, each student was afforded complete privacy for language practice. While rhetoric students were ana¬ lyzing and improving their creative writing with the aid of overhead pro¬ jectors, speech students were demon¬ strating to fellow classmates their skill of persuasion. Literature students in¬ terpreted each story’s character through classroom reading and through field trips to theaters. Enthusiasm for art and music abounded. Choral groups celebrated the discarding of their gowns by re¬ placing them with tuxedos and crim¬ son velvet dresses. The jazz band added momentum to the basketball games with its swinging beat. Acquiring Class I Junior College status made it necessary to employ two librarians with masters degrees. Forced into smaller facilities, this library staff was determined to pro¬ vide students with a place of solitude. Iron gates were thus installed to keep the library from becoming a thorough¬ fare for student traffic. New apparatus, techniques, sur¬ roundings, and solitude all added up to a ‘new beginning’ for a new student body in the Humanities Division. Miss Ream courageously attacked the tedi¬ ous task of grading papers. Miss Ream gladly returned Craig Schollet ' s rhetoric paper and wondered just how many times he had written it. 14