Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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1 C. E. RARICK A.B. DEPARTMENT OF RURAL EDUCATION The Fort Hays Normal School has from its organization realized the im- portance of ministering in some definite way to the needs of the rural teacher and the rural school. The amount of service has varied greatly and the ways of rendering it have been many. During the year 1920-1921 there have been two distinct phases of the work which have been especially emphasized. The first of these — general school betterment by means of the formation of consolidated schools has been the chief concern of Professor C. E. Ranck, the director of the rural depart- ment. This work was. begun in 1919. Some fine results have attended his efiforts and many more are bound to be realized in the immediate future. Greater capacity to his endurance, more strength to his elbow and increased power to his tongue that he may continue to carry the gospel of good schools to a needy state is our wish. The second line of work, that of teacher training while in service, or demonstration teaching in rural schools, is the service being rendered by Miss Julia M. Stone, who has this year returned to the Fort Hays Normal School after an absence of four years spent in the state department of Education as State Rural School Supervisor and a year given to study in the Teacher’s Col- lege at Columbia University. A score of counties applied for the “Professional Center Service” given by Miss Stone during the past year and many teachres have attested to the value of the work. During the summer school several courses will be offered in each line of activity carried on by the rural School Department. Page Fifteen 5 rrrt m

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CHARLES A. SHIVELY A.B.. A.M. EDUCATION The chief function of a Teacher ' s College is to train young people for the teaching service. It must supply those elements of customs that will give a broad, well-rounded mental equipment. It must, through its organization of student life and activities, develop qualities of leadership. The very at- mosphere of the classroom and campus must be such as to charge the stu- dents with a professional spirit and attitude of mind. It must also endeavor to equip the student with the skill and technic that will give him mastery of the art of teaching. The. Department of Education offers those profes- sional courses that equip the student with a knowledge of the fundamental laws of mental growth, the principles and theory of method, the history of Educational development, and the problems of administration. In the Train- ing School, he masters the technic of schoolroom management and the art of the presentation of subject matter. The public schools of Hays, which are used for a teacher training laboratory, offer a rare opportunity for the prospective teacher to receive his training under real conditions. Page Fourteen

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F. H. N. m 1 ROBERT L. PARKER A.B., A.M. HISTORY Last year International Law, and Economics were added to the courses offered by the History Department. During the present year a course in Parties, Institutions and Government has been added. The popularity of this course has abundantly justified adding such a course. Since the beginning of the Summer term, 1920, there have been enrolled to date — March 1, 1921 — two hundred fourteen different students in this de- partment. Since July 1, 1920, seventy-four students have been taking history courses by correspondence ; of these nineteen had finished on March 1, the remainder are sending in their manuscripts regularly. The above seventy- four does not include those nominally enrolled, but who for various reasons have not been keeping up their work. On Washington’s birthday the class in American History put on an original program in commemoration of that day. Page Sixteen