Gorham State College - Hillcrest / Green and White Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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MR. JAMES BOWMAN Westbrunk, Maine pwghuiugy and Guidance 'Mudtl'nn iqlmare impn'rmnt them 11W ferment. :35 Garham State Teachers College, 'EH- Ed. Huston University. MISS EVEIJ'H LITTLEFIELD MR5. IRENE DREEEER Kennebunk, Muina Studeni Temhing, Primary Eiucmiun, and Psychulugy. Am we raspand ta anthem we build aur humannass. 5.5. Enstun University, MA. Taucharl Callini. Culumhiu Univariinr. MISS ETHEL'I'N UPTDH Milbridga, Maine Gurham, Maine .l. frudm:tinn 1n Teunhing and Placement . ED :uliu n1. 1L yam mark and mark yum '35. Defiance Cnllega, ME. Culumhiu unhauity, University nf New Hump. Director cf Student Teaching and Guid- ing Educuiianul Experiences. . . . yesterday is but a dream, and Emmott: ia- anly a mu; but ta- day, well lived, makes emery yaa- terday a dream. cf hnpyinass and. Emery tamarmw a uis'iun 0f hare. 3.5. Culumbiu Univarsiiy. Malt. Calum- hiu University. 29 MISS MHDEED PEABUDT Euulh Windham, Muina F'rimlzrrgulr Edututfun and Alsismni fa Director bf Simian! Teaching. HLet children drink fmm a living fnuntain nut .51 stagnant p091. ES. Garhum Erma Tauchws Collage, M. EcL aniun University, Univariihr u'F Hahn; University cf Haw Hampshirn. HE. JAHEE WHITTEH Gurl'lum, Main: History and Edumfiun He whn climbs the mauntain m the beauty af the plain. BA. EDIE? Cullega, MA. University of Maine, Busfun Univarsifr.

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CURRICULUM Offers ADVANCEMENT Th reugh EDUCATION end PSYCHOLOGY Educatieri end Guidance-Hecessities in Teeshinn lett te Right: Seated: Mrs. Dresser, Miss Littletieid. Standing: Miss Feuhedy, Miss Upton, Mn Smith. Te lIiiuete The Students . . . HA fieid of endless studyf' 5e eenfusinglii Weur la! is slhewing. HThe ease 15 closed. Legicei er iilegicei; that is the questien. ' Imperatiye-turnishes write! knowledge fer future teachers. Learning never ceases. Great Minds Maine Greet Hetiens left is Right: tilt enly statistics weren't so eemplieeted! M B m M Wh. n r. 9W EH1; i . l E . publy team up to present courses in Reading, Kinder- The climax of feur years education at Gerhem State gertensFrimery Education, and Educatienei Psychol- Teachers College seems to ceme during the senier year when students are sent eut as student teachers. Under the very capable leadership of Miss Etheiyn Upton, eiur Director at Student Teaching, they get their first ensthe-spet preview ef the satisfying life to eeme. With the able assistance at Miss Mildred Peebedy and Mrs. Irene Dresser, these fertunete seniors have an eppertunity te put to precticei use all the viitui knewledge they have been accumulating fer the three previous years. Toward the end of the ear eur efficient Fleeernent Director, Miss Eyeiyn Littlet'ieldl, is suddenly swamped with requests, appli- cations, etc. that uitimetely add the finishing teuch te feur :shert years at Gerhern. But prier to all this must :erne study-educetien. The first course along the lines at education is Intreduo tien to Teaching . . .better known to all Freshmen us I.T. . . .. in which Miss LittleField tries to develop :1 better understanding of what is ahead. The Junior year seems te be the year for edeeetien eeurses. Miss Peabody and Mrs. Dresser again em 28 egy. 1n the Senior year comes Mr. Whittenis course, Psy- chelegy ef Education, which broadens the educatinn- el viewpoint of nil prospective teachers. His pre- gressiye thinking stimulates ail who are expesed 1:: it. Mr. Smith, our busy Registrar. takes time eff to teach a eeurse in Junior High Drgenientien to all these contemplating the Junior High ie'reL Guiding Educatienel Experiences is unether must taught by our student teaching directery Miss Upton, the semester before we go out fer our student teach- ing. That's nil there is to it . . . . 'I'Ci quote Mr. James Bowman us he finishes explaining a simpie statisti- cal routine te his Junier ciess in Evaluation end Guid- ance. He else has Child and Adolescent Psycheiegy fer Juniers and Dynamics of Adjustment fer Seniers. Much is added to these classes by his dry sense at humer.

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Te QUDfE The Students . The most contusing language to learn. CURRICULUM it's seen sud ebeut Grendel lensing his arm. Even Greek doesn't have se many comma rules! Offers A wonderful eppertunity he became familiar with all types at writings and authors. FULLFILLMENT Guess i iust didn't iisre the right kind at iiFe to write an autobiography! Threugh Terred end feathered and carried in a cart by the ENGLISH wemen sat Murbleheed. If only we didn't have ten write term pepers- Teachers Tee Must Study ILIIH In Right: Miss Eames. Mrs. Peclurd, Hr. Arneid; Mrs. Fickett, Hiss 5anlf. Hr. Carter. Feremest in the curriculum here at Gerhum are the numereus and varied English ceurses, consisting of net only the regular terms at literature and grammar, but eisa of Composition, Theater, Dramatics, Speech and Library Science to name but u few. Among the capable teculty members handling these subiects is Miss Murjerie Eumes when so :1ny explains in Lilsrlnz'ir'yr Science how we can mest easily derive the benefits of our library. In the library itself, when- ever students are hopelessly lest in the maze ef beaks, ene curt uiweys turn to Mrs. Mercy Feckerd as well as Miss. Eumes who is steadfastly there to guide us threugh the stacks, helping us to obtain the informa- tien we: seek. One at the interesting sectiens of this phase of eur educatien is the imprevement ref Cempesitien ceurse taught by Mrs. Pearl Fickett, a new addition to em English department. in this elective creative writing ceurse, ceupied with basic grammar, she carefully meuids the skills of the students to bring eut their own ideas in vivid werd pictures. As a refresher fer re- turning. student teachers, Mrs. Fickett else utters e ceurse in upper grade English. Femilislr ereund the :erriders ef Gerhem is Miss 30 Elizabeth Sawyer, whe effers in addition to required literature classes, three interesting elective ceurses. The first is Childrenis Literature, which stresses wide reading of beaks fer children and presides experience in evaluation and use of materials. Another is Can- temperery Literisturer a study at the literature Elf eur ewn times as represented by the work of significant modern writers. Nest is Navel, a critical study at the novel, with emphasis an English and American neveis. Another of the new faculty on the hill this year is Mr. Carter, who is fast becoming temeus fer his work with the Archens, the hillis dramatic :iub. Alse, in his reie ef professor, he teaches stagecreft and a Freshmen English ceurse. Another of Mr. Certeris courses is Intreductien tn the Theater, 4:: siLJrsr-e'yr Of western drums: frern the ancient Greeks tn the present time. Emphasis is en the drama as literature but us much time as pessibie is devoted to histrienics end stugecrett. Te round cut the list at professors of English, we have Mr. Arnold with his classes in Grammar, Cempesitien and Literature. Besides nil these he also teaches a course in Educational Dramatics. This interesting class is held in Russell Hell, where the students elmest ex.- perience the life of an ester.