Concordia University Nebraska - Tower Yearbook (Seward, NE)

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28 GILBERT P. BLOMENBERG, B.S., M.S. Assistant Professor of Education ELDEN F. DUENSING, B.S., M.Ed. Assistant Professor of Education LAWRENCE G, BICKEL, Bess MEAS seep: Professor of Education Highlights P-.fconem Top quality professional prepa- ration is an essential building block for prospective teachers, and it is toward strengthening and re- enforcing this building block that the professional training division pro- gram is geared. The key word is expansion in education--expansion in staff, program, preparation, fa- cilities and instructional aids. Professor James Hake was added to the faculty this year while two more additions are anticipated in the near future. A graduate pro- gram is moving toward reality and attention is being given toprograms of preparation for directors of par- ish education and music. The student teaching program, a vital aspect of training through ex- perience and application on the ele- mentary and secondary levelsisbe- . ing enlarged by the addition of six new classrooms at St. John's School. The off-campus phase of this en- deavor now includes theco- operation of 41 congregations from Denver to St. Louis. Closed circuit television, video tape, programmed learning and oth- er recent developments in instruc- tional aids are being used and ex- perimented with in classroom set- tings. In order to more adequately vis- ualize the needs and problems of congregations and synodical dis- tricts, faculty members have ini- tiated field trips to outlying areas, developing two-way contact with the people and situations this profes- sional training is designed to best Serve, - al ae — ae — ee El

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MARVIN H. PLAMANN, B.S., M.A. Instructor in Social Science ALVIN J. SCHMIDT, B.A., B.D. Instructor in Social Science Developing an understanding of man's past, his social and geographic environment and the implications of these factors for the present ducmiuturemis sthe wail. Of) the social ‘science division. Students are led to evaluate issues, formulate opinions and act on the basis of these convictions. To provide opportunities for a broadening experience, lyceum programs featured such speakers as Danish Ambassador Tyge Dahlgaard and British commentator Colin Jackson. Rev. Harold Kupke and Rev. Alvin Schmidt | were added tothe faculty in the field of sociology. i Professor Fred Luebke, whose article on ' The F | Origins, of Thomas Jefferson's Anti- Clericalism' ' was published in the September issue of Church History, was awarded a Dan- forth Foundation grant for study towards the COMPLCHOmOMm Nise Eh. sine history at the University of Nebraska. An understanding of the social sciences is truly essential for successful understanding and functioning in today's world. EUGENE F. TRUAX, B.A., M.A. Instructor in Social Science

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Draining Sia sean GIEENN G BINSPAHR, Bis.) M.A., Ed.D: Associate Professor of Education ARNOLD C. ERXLEBEN, M.A. Associate Professor of Education HERMAN L. GLAESS, M.E. JAMES M. HAKE, B.S., Ed.M. Assistant Professor of Education Assistant Professor of Education 29