Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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LOIS WINEY, M.A. llettl, Assistant Pro- fessor ot Commerce. IRENE HERSHBERGER, BA., lnstructor in Commerce. INSTRUCTOR HERSHBERGER supervises typing practice of beginning students Mar- garet Yoder, Twila Zimmerly, Lida Dynka, Mary Ellen Yoder. The eventual goal of these typists is 40 words per rninute, no erasures. Commercial Stuff Increases Courses Two new courses oifered by the Commerce Department this year included retailing and ofhce management. Taught by Miss Lois Winey and Miss Irene Hershberger. the one- and two-year secretarial courses took students through typing, shorthand, secretarial accounting and oiiice practice where they learned the touch system of typing, how to take dicta- tion, how to keep double-entry accounts and the operation of otice machines such as dictaphones and adding machines. Practical work experience at the college PBX switchboard was a requirement of all secretarial students. The secretarial cou1'ses were also open to students who were not enrolled in the Com- merce Department. Students who had completed the require- ments of their secretarial course were placed by the department. Several new adding machines and type- writers were added to the commercial office equipment on third floor of the Adminis- tration Building. .-1S.SOCI.4T1jD Tl'Plfll'lH'I'l'flZ CU, . . Dixfrilmtm' ul jumlluls ln' llnrril , . lil.lx'l1.lli'l' li

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KuulfmunAccepts Two Department Already the head of the Sociology Depart- ment, J. Howard Kauffman became head of the Economics Department with Dean Carl Kreider's departure for Japan in Feb- ruary. Kauffman assumed responsibility for the principles of economics class, but arrange- ments concerning who would replace Kreider in his other courses were not finally completed. The rural economics class spent a day in Chicago visiting various marketing in- stitutions for their field trip during the spring semester. Films, class reports, book studies and panel discussions on pertinent social prob- lems supplemented lectures in sociology courses. Dr. Lindsey, Elkhart County pro- bation officer, spoke to the social problems class on juvenile delinquency. In the seminar class, seniors prepared reports on topics such as the problem of divorce and remarriage in city mission work, juvenile delinquency among girls and economic factors aifecting the strength of rural churches. I. HOWARD KAUFFMAN, MA, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Economics. DHSCUSSION by tive panel members is pre- sented in social problems class. Addiction to drugs is the problem under consideration. Each class member serves on one such group as part of the semester's regular work. Ili I. Y. fili.l1il1.I'S Iillflilflf SIIOP . . Thi' ,il1uIi'11l'.s Iiiirlwi . . CIOSIJICX

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W, if In addition to his regular teaching duties. Dr. Glen R. Miller. head of the Natural Sciences Division, was very active in plan- ning the Alcohol Education Day observed in March. Guest speaker for the day was Dr. Lawrence E. Vredevoe, who spoke on the topics, Impaired Vision and Control Through Formal Education. Miller's biochemistry class students studied body functions in relation to chem- istry. One phase of study was the break- down of starch into sugar, and sugar into carbon dioxide and heat. Lab experiments ranged from making cystine by distilling human hair to the special class project of making tests With aluminum cooking Ware. Students taking organic preparation under lVIiller studied the making of carbon compounds. In the lab students experi- Muth, Chem, mented with such things as the extraction of caffein from tea and coffee. BENDER IS REGISTRAR Besides his teaching responsibilities in the Science Division, Dr. Paul Bender served as registrar of the college. His elec- tricity and magnetism course was offered again this year. For the first time in several years astronomy and optics were again included in the curriculum. In charge of Dr. H. Har- E RUBBER lab aprons protect general chemistry students b struggling to balance an equation while writing up the report of an experiment. AIINJFI. Rlllilllflt CORPOR.'lTlO.Y . . lllllllllf!If'llIl't'l'A' of nirlrlzrlnirwl rzlbbm' goods . . GOSHEN