Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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1L ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF The administrative staff has general supervision of all activities of the various schools and departments of the in- stitution. This group is composed of the President, the Busi- ness Manager, the Deans of the Schools of Agriculture, Chem- istry, Engineering, General Science, Textiles, and Vocational Education, the Director of the Experiment Station, the Direc- tor of the Extension Division, the Commandant, the Registrar, the Treasurer, the College Surgeon, the Librarian, and the Secretary of the Alumni Association. This group meets at the call of the President as the occasion may demand to discuss general plans and problems that concern the whole field of activities of this institution. A smaller administrative group made up of the Deans of the several schools, the Commandant, and the Registrar, meets with the President three Wednesdays every month to consider educational matters pertaining to the college proper, such as future development, curriculum, scholarship, rules and reg- ulations, and student activities. These conferences are frank and informal round-table discussions of suggestions and recom- mendations concerning the various phases of the college work. LEFT TO RIGHT-FRONT ROW: D. W. Daniel, S. B. Eaile, E. W. Sikes, C. W. Weeks, HP Cooper. SECOND ROW- J H Woodward, F. H. H. Calhoun, W. H. Washington, Miss Cornelia Graham. THIRD ROW: H. H. Willis, J. C Littlejohn, G. E. Metz. 35

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LEFT TO RIGHT— FIRST ROW: J. L. Brock, W. G. Crandall, W. H. Washin 3 ton, H. S. Tate, J. B. Monroe. SECOND ROW: L. R. Booker, W. C. Bowen, W. E. Johnson, B. H. Stribling, J. L. Fulmer. 1L SCHOOL 4 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION That there is a growing national interest in education is attested by the fact that education was an issue in the national political campaign of 1936. Furthermore, a provision for the expansion of vocational education was passed by Congress in 1936 through an annual expendi- ture of twelve million dollars, effective July 1, 1937. If this proposed program goes into effect, the field of voca- tional education will be greatly enlarged — an opportu- nity for young men of character, ability, and per- sonality. There is a growing interest in the improvement of public education in South Carolina and an increasing demand for Clemson-trained teachers. This year the service of the School of Vocational Education was en- larged to include a Department of Educational Re- search, under which investigations in public education in this state are already under way. This year saw an increase in the enrollment in General, Vocational, Agri- cultural, Industrial and Textile Industrial Education. The students, through their direct contact with pub- lic schools, mills, and farms, and through their pro- fessional organizations, receive an added acquaintance with the problems of public education. Clemson can justly feel proud of the fact that in the field of educa- tion her sons are now holding positions of responsi- bility in local, district, county, and state programs rang- ing from teachers to State Supervisors of Vocational Education and State Superintendent of Education. DEAN W. H. WASHINGTON :u

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The specialists convene at head- quarters for their monthly meeting. D. W. WATKINS, Director IL STATE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT The extension service uses the trained men developed by this and other similar colleges to foster and stimulate improvement in the farm life throughout the state. The State headquarters at Clemson is supplemented with district offices at Aiken, Florence and Spartanburg, a marketing division in Columbia, the state office for Home Demonstration Work at Winthrop College and the state office through which Negro work is conducted at the State College in Orangeburg. There is in each of the forty-six counties a county farm demonstration agent and a home demonstration agent. About eighty trained white men and sixty white women are employed in counties as specialists and administrative workers. Graduate training is desirable, particularly for specialists. Extension work is an agency through which people cooperate for crop and livestock improvement, marketing, soil improvement, boys ' and girls ' 4-H club work, living from the farm more adequately, improvement in food and other living stand- ards, recreation, etc. Trained leadership and practical farm life are thus united. In recent years the importance of the economic and social aspects of farm life have been emphasized by the depression, and the Extension Service has administered the field activities of crop control and agricultural conservation. It is the agency through which various governmental activities interested in agricultural problems are coordi- nated in the general welfare. The natural resources of land, stream, forest and wild life are no longer regarded as objects of exploitation for private profit but as a heritage requiring conservation and replenishing through the application of scientific knowledge. Neither can farm people be thought of as a submerged class subject to continued exploitation but rather as Americans entitled to all the privileges and opportunities open to others. The Extension job is to secure proper application of scientific and social knowledge to farm problems. The Extension Service is of the College and the United States Department of Agriculture, by the College and the people, and for the people. 36