Central Michigan University - Chippewa Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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ADMINISTRATION 1895 CHI PPEW A 1935 THE COPELAND EXPERIMENT Honorable Royal S. Copeland, United States Senator from the state of New York, has been a prominent figure in our national affairs for many years. Senator Cope- land is a native of the state of Michigan and was for some ti1ne a. practicing physi- cian in Bay City and a member of the medical faculty of the University at Ann Arbor. Upon leaving Michigan, Senator Copeland went to New York City where for a number of years he was City Commissioner of Public Health. In 1923 he was elected Senator from New York and has held this position ever since. Senator Copeland was a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce in the seventy-third congress and was Chairman of a Subcommittee to Investigate Crime and Crime Control with Special Reference to so-called 'iRackets. This Subcom- mittee, the other members of which were Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Murphy of Iowa, held extended hearings in New York, Chicago and De- troit. As a result of these hearings Senator Copeland came to the conclusion that our schools and our educational systems should give more particular attention to character education than has been the case in the past. . NVhile it is true that the development of good citizenship has always been consider- ed the basis of free and compulsory education, it is questionable whether the schools have done all that lies in their power in this Held. As a result of Senator Copelands convictions on this matter and at his suggestion the American Council on Education. appointed a committee in the summer of 1934 to work out experi- ments in character education. One of the first steps of this committee was to set up a comprehensive experiment in the public schools of Wfashington, D .C. Qwing to the activity of our State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Honor- able Paul F. Voelker, other experiments are going forward in the state of Michi- gan. The Burton School in Grand Rapids has undertaken hto develop a schedule of records to meet the requirements when education is focused upon the child rather than the subject matter, The following Michigan educators are heading up these character experiments in our state: Dr. Kenneth L. Heaton, Director of the Bureau of Curriculum and Guidance. Department of Public Instructiong Dr. E. L. Austin, Head of the De- partment of Education, Michigan State College: Dr. Wfillard Olson, Director of' Research in Child Development, University of Michigang Dr. C. L. Spain, Execu- tive Vice-President of Wfayne University and Dr. Roy F. Street, Director of Men- tal Hygiene of the Ann I. Kellogg School, Battle Creek. At the suggestion of this Committee and at the request and with the approval of the' State Board of Educa- tion, Central State Teachers College was asked to work out a curriculum in the training of teachers which should give special attention to character building. Doc- tors Austin and Heaton have taken the direction of the preparation of this experi- ment and a general committee of the Central faculty was appointed in November, 28

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Dr. E. L. Austin Nursery School 1934, to work with them. Wfeekly and semi-weekly meetings have been held since then to which other stat? members in the various departments of Central have been invited. ' The plan before us is to select with care about sixty entering freshmen in the fall of 1935 who are to pursue this new curriculum now in process of construction by the Copeland Experiment Committee. Attention thus far has been devoted large- ly to the first year of the experiment. It is not possible at the present time to de- termine in detail what the curriculum will-include but in general it will probably be as follows: Qrientation Q3 hoursl. Social Relationships Q6 hoursj. Physical and Biological WO1'ld Q4 hoursj. Physical and Leisure Time Activities f 3 hoursj. Language, Art, Music, Commerce or Creative WVriting- Cne Elective Q-1 hoursj. Remedial Reading and Mathematics. Much interest has been aroused throughout the state in this experiment and Cen- tral hopes to render a distinct service to Michigan and the whole country in work- ADMINISTRATION ing out an important teacher training program. E 1895 12. c.WARR1NER,P1-esifient C H I P P E Wlgfg April 24, 1935. 29

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CHANGES IN COLLEGE FACULTY 1934-35 Mr. Alex Yunevich became head coach of varsity football and coach of. fresh- man basketball after the resignation of Mr. George Van Bibber who left 111 the spring of 19341 to become football coach at the University of Buffalo. Dr. Ross Moshier filled the place of Mr. George R. VVheeler in the Chemistry department for tl1e year while Mr. Wlieelei' served in government employ in the Federal Farm Loan Administration. Miss Edith Peyton has been an instructor in the Elementary department since the death of Miss Helen R. Emmons i11 September, 1934. Miss Ella Van Dyke has been an instructor i11 the Art department of the training school during the year 1934-35. 'Miss Helen Johnson has taken the place of Miss Estelle Adams, as second grade critic in the training school. Miss Marie Brown has taken the place of Mrs. Mary Scarborough as super- visor of the Jordan rural school. FACULTY FOOTPRINTS ,A E Q N otes picked up by staff 'IILGWZb67'S-7'6fJl'6S6Hfl1f'iiJ6 mthel' than complete roster of actiwitiesj Miss Florence McClinchey has written a book. entitled, Big john. Dr. E. C. Beck is making a collection of folk songs. Dr. M. L. Smith was appointed to the National Advisory Council of the American Country Life Association, at a meeting of the directors in Chicago December 29, 1934. Mr. J. P. Carey was chosen chairman of the Geography Section of the Michigan Academy of Science. Dr. E. C. Beck was chosen o11e of the directors of the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce january 22, 1935. Professor I. Harold Powers organized the Madrigal Singers, a group of eight student Vocalists. Their first appearance was February 10, 1935. Mr. P. Carey was 0116 of the four delegates chosen by the Democrats of Isabella county to attend the state convention january 31, 1935. ' Professor Harold Powers became editor of School Music in Aprilf' The magazine is tl1e oldest of its kind i11 the world. Miss Ella Van Dyke was invited to enter an exhibit at an international exhibition of watercolors from March 21 to june 2, 1935. Her picture, Landscape,'1 is now on exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine'Arts at Philadelphia. 27 l 1895 C H I CULTY PPEWA 1935