Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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George W. Boyle A.M., Northwestern University- Assistant to the President THE presidential year 1941-2 proved to be a year unparalleled in activity any time in the College ' s seventy-two year history. Autumn session had hardly started when the Navy, learning of the Bartky organizing ability, appointed him civilian director of the then-projected Navy Pier Aviation School. Accepting this non-salaried position. Dr. Bartky directed construction, selected necessary per- sonnel and had the school turning out 1500 mechanics monthly before turning over his job to navy officials on March 1. Taking unfair advantage of the president ' s preoccupation, pressure groups early in 1942 demanded closing the College as a wartime economy measure. In spite of pressing affairs at the Pier, Bartky led a forceful campaign against such a move, decrying at January commencement those who are willing to sell out their teachers for thirty pieces of silver. Net result was that the Board of Education passed a rather generous 1942 College budget. Spring saw Bartky back on campus doing yeoman service to coordinate the College ' s war efforts, never losing sight, however, of his firm belief that with teachers — the moulders of tomorrow ' s America — lies the task of pre- serving America ' s democratic ideals. His chief step in the program of coopera- tion with the war effort was the dismissal of College classes for one full week during regis- tration for sugar-rationing. At this time the entire College personnel was dispatched throughout the city to serve as registrars. At that time Bartky declared that the war effort superseded the importance of uninter- rupted education. He expressed the belief that nothing, be it educational or personal, could be construed as being a priority over the doing of one ' s duty to save that democracy, which, among other things, makes a free pub- lic school system possible. Emma Fleer Muller S.B., University of Chicago Director of Personnel ik 1

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it XV . . OF SPEECH The job of the teacher during war- time is to keep alive in the homes those ideals for which our boys are dying in the fields. —John J. DeBoer

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CHIEF event of the curricular year was the revision of rules regarding admission to the graduate school so as to allow students receiving their bachelors degrees from the Col- lege to return for their masters degrees — thus offering five-and-one-half years of free college education to interested students. Under a plan set up by the Graduate School June ' 42 graduates will be able to return in the fall for a Master of Education degree which will be conferred in such majors as administra- tion, secondary education, adjustment work, and library science. Undergraduate curricular operations during the school year were tranguil. Minor revisions were made here and there along the way, par- ticularly in the nine-hour, six-teacher Education 310 course. In this latter case, meetings of the students and faculty involved resulted in the clearing up of numerous weak spots. Technically non-curricular but strictly edu- cational is Art Chairman Henry Geilen ' s course in scholastic philosophy. An outgrowth of complaints against progressive education by student foes of pragmatism, the class, small in number, has been a stimulus to student think- ing in general. The administration front for the past year has been a busy one due to the changes in curriculum and the absence of President Bartky. Assistant President Boyle virtually served as acting president for six months while former Director of Instruction Swearingen, stepping into the newly-created position of Dean of Stu- dents, spent many hours perfecting the new plan of individual registration. Mrs. Muller and Miss O ' Reilly, continuing in their regular positions, tackled the job of guiding the curri- cular and extra-curricular life of 1500 war- affected students. Claire M. O ' Reilly S.B., Northwestern University Director of Activities James I. Swearingen S.M., University of Chicago Dean of Students