Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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are ar The Administration Building EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY You like children, you have patience, and you have a sense of humor. What are you? Why, you are an education major, of course. After deciding that you wanted to be a teacher, you concentrate on the subjects that you must take as a major in the Education and Psychology Department. In psychol- ogy, you studied multiple charts, memorized statistics, and took regular tests on the work you had covered. You developed the habit of analyzing your friends and even began to wonder about yourself. In Dr. Keuhner’s classes you studied the function of the school and methods for elementary education. After many hours of Ed. courses and observing in the Hartsville Schools, you outlined your lessons and pre- pared to do your practice teaching. You arrived for your first day trembling and fearful but wearing a look of austerity and bravado and were delighted that some of your students thought you were mean. Well, at least you had a few fooled. Maybe you taught in the elementary school where you were asked for numerous dates and had several proposals from seven year olds. With a stout heart you entered Teacher's Exams and sat through four hours of everything you had ever studied in college, and much you hadn’t. After that you were convinced—what- ever came, as long as you had that teacher's certificate and the wise words of your teachers—you were ready to go out and face the world. FOREIGN LANGUAGES Language is the means of expressing an idea. How often you thought that you’d never be able to express a complete idea in the lake of verb forms and idioms in which you have been thrown. Finding that it was sink or swim you set out for the shore only to find that you didn’t learn to swim till you’d learned to paddle. So you paddled around in the shallow waters of basic verb forms, and practice sentences. Gaining courage and skill you were prepared to try your ability in the deeper waters of conversation and composition. Hours were spent search- ing for the right words and hours more contorting faces so words could be pronounced correctly. Not only did you study the language of the people, you learned some of their customs and part of their history. There was always one student who became convinced that she was majoring in baby French, or a Spanish student who after studying a long while would make the mistake of saying, “Vamos a la show tonight.” When you finished your work in the language of your choice, you were convinced that to know and understand another country’s language will further friendship and peaceful relationships. LOWER LEFT: “You wouldn’t be going to school, would you, Summers?” LOWER RIGHT: Claudette learns how it feels to be the teacher.

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You dug up the campus several times and thereby became a permanent member of the “College Garden Club.” But surprisingly, the campus stayed beautiful. And you were sur- prised when you discovered that through it all you had actually absorbed a part of what you had studied and had benefited by it. Having already stepped into the unknown, you decided you couldn’t lose anything by investigating the possibilities of the Math Department. So you entered the realm of figures and diagrams through Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. It was interesting and frustrating at times! For instance, there were the hours spent trying to solve a problem, almost getting the answer but not quite. Even more frustrating was to be work- ing a difficult problem, get half through it and clearly see the answer but not the last few steps needed to arrive at it. Then there were those nights after long hours of studying when you would go to bed and see meaningless figures and contorted geometrical shapes scampering across the ceiling. By and by fate may have exposed another department to you called Physical Sciences. General Chemistry seemed to be first on the list so you checked it off and registered for the course. One of the first problems you came across was: how to light a burner. When you did get the proper size fire going, you set about to do an experiment in glass bending. At least it started out to be glass bending, but it ended up as finger burning with Dr. Vail and his first aid kit nearby. The first time you broke something you became familiar with Dr. Vail’s classic statement, “It doesn’t bounce, does it?” No, sir, it surely didn’t! You discovered there was a shower in the lab in case someone caught on fire. “Does it really work?” It did, and you had to clean up the mess. Then you decided to take a look into the Organic Chemistry lab and came out smelling like rubber aprons or fertilizer or both. You found out that when the book said, “Simply add the acid to the water” you'd better not ‘simply add the water to the acid’. You did once, and when the smoke cleared—. And there was always some jokester who would ask to be invited to cocktail hour in organic lab. By the looks of the equipment, they vowed you were distilling something besides ketones. You had to point out their error to them and by way of conso- lation invite them to have a cup of coffee specially brewed for lab students, in a vial. Hours upon hours were spent try- ing to analyze a half ounce of fluid. Odors continued to change and increase in intensity. Breakage bills continued to mount up, and you always seemed to break something with three or four hours work in it. Sometimes you didn’t exactly get what you started out to produce; once you had to use soap to wash off the soap you had made. All this made you thankful! for the various things you had experienced along the way, and you felt like you’d accomplished something. And you truly had. Mr. Reynolds and Biology students investigate plant and animal life around the College Club. Left to Right: Fisher, Booker, Maxwell, Land, Mr. Reynolds, Holmes, Myers, Duke. PRIVATE PROPERTY

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‘|| BUSINESS EDUCATION Whether you entered the business department as a major of a transient, you were no doubt fascinated by the click-clicks, the buzzes, the hums of the machines, and the quick movement of well-trained hands. You soon found that the order there did not develop at once. When you opened your first semester shorthand book, you thought perhaps the bookstore clerk had given you a textbook in hieroglyphics; but being assured that Ov you had the right book, you set about to conquer this strange ei scrawl. You nearly drove your roommate crazy constantly m | | writing the outlines in the air. Your introduction to typing }| was similiar. “You mean I have to reach this hyphen with my little finger?” You probably distorted words like street into such forms as “xtrww” because you got your fingers caught in the keys. But soon enough you began to have some mastery | of both subjects. Perhaps you now moved into the field of es Office Machines, and the clicks and hums and buzzes began in earnest, and so did you. Do you remember the feeling «| you had the first time you sat down to type on that speed td demon, the electric typewriter? You felt that it was running ® | away from you because each time you moved something ap- mi) | peared on the paper that you had no intention of putting ‘ there. How about the day you told the dictaphone to slow ‘| | down? How siliy you felt! In Introduction to Business you % | | studied the different types of businesses, how they were managed, and the regulations that had been placed upon them a by certain authorities. In Accounting you worked your way if through the work sheets of a practice set. You were told that you were now a bookkeeper for a hypothetical concern which, however, had real problems. Perhaps sometimes you even wished the hpyothetical concern would go hypothetically bankrupt so you'd have no job. Column after column con- fronted you in your Business Math workbook; and you con- tinued to add, subtract, multiply, and divide until the figures became easier and easier to handle. In Economics you studied the good and bad points of Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism. Business English helped you review your weak points in grammar and gave you some exercise in the compo- sition of business letters. After you had terminated your stay in the abode of buzzes, clicks, and hums, whether a transient ot a potential professional, you knew that the work you'd | done and the experiences that you’d had would mean a better, | more secure position in whatever field you make your permanent residence. TE ow Top Picture: Holly and Catherine try to get that : French pronunciation just right. Middle Picture: Students work with office machines. Foreground: Revels, Cantey. Back Row: Castanes, DuBose, McGuirt, Chastain. Lower Picture: Anne learns to operate the mimeo- graph machines. 63