Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Mr. Firestone ' patiently explained a rhet¬ oric paper to student Mary Krieg. An outline for humor was attained as Sherri Cook gave a demonstration speech. Paul Bio me increased his musical abilities under the supervision of Mr. Sparger. Associating music and composer was difficult, but revieunng refreshed the memory.

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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

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Belleville Book and Golf had anything, well, anything within reach . Magazines, newspapers, files, reference materials , and paste were stored in the library office due to the cramped facilities of the main library. 16