Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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Tt-IAT TI-IEY MAY KNQW PART ONE 't'I'eachers we student teachers call ourselves. We sing children's songs, play children's games, draw pictures, and make posters. Apart from the extra-cur- ricular field, we study a carefully plan- ned group of foundation courses. The new remedial reading program is one of these. In a course in geography, Mr. Van Scoyoc tries to teach us how to explain latitude, longitude, and cyclonic storms to our future ttcliargesf' Miss Neale tells us tilust Soi' stories and listens patiently to the fairy tales and nature stories that we relate to her in our childrenls literature class. A study of teaching methods is one of our most helpful courses. We study actual problems that we shall face, and learn what can be done about them. Dean, Rankin directs us in this study and adds bits of his interesting and invaluable ex- periences to the discussion. Daily we walk-no, run-the five blocks between the college and Highland Grade School to 'tobservel' in the various rooms, and to do actual teaching in a room set aside for that purpose. In these teach- ing classes, supervised by Dean Rankin, we student-teachers put into use the methods we have learned. At times during the term, each cadet teacher journeys forth alone to the near- by one-room schools. As a group we visit city schools of different types. Our journey to the Holton, Kansas, schools to observe t.he progressive system followed there was the highlight of the course. To see how a teacher conducts a room with an entirely integrated subject program is a lesson within itself. As we leave our training days behind, we pedagogues will turn from the acquir- ing of knowledge and skills to the present- ing of educational materials to the Pupils of a very near tomorrow, in order to help them to live more successfully and more abundantly. PART TWO S stands for several things-for Saturday, for Scholarsl1ip, for Seriousness, and for Success. The H. J. C. Saturday courses for teachers were an innovation of 1938-39. After holding classes of their own all week, thirty teachers from Brown, Nemaha, and Doniphan counties drove to Highland to spend double-length class periods studying whatever subjects they needed to validate their professional cer- tificates. Experienced, wise in all the tricks of the trade, this group had a zest and sense of humor which made the long mornings miraculously brief. Towards noon, of course, the pangs of hunger led them to look yearningly at the candy and apples they had brought to class and heaped generously-and for safe keeping-upon the teachers' desks. On quiz days the apples, tprobably Doniphan county applesj were always brightly polished. And Superintendent. Hada Nel- son's wore the brightest blush of all. The enthusiasm of these teachers is infectious, and a rapid increase in enroll- ment and curriculum is the general pre- diction for the idea of Saturday classes. Eleven

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Teachers Lois Mace fWillisJ. I-Iighland's Little red schoolhouse, a sort of annex to the College. Marjorie Aller fHl3.YV2lf1lRD. The psychology class visited the State Hospital in St. Joseph. Don Rumold fHiawathaJ. Helen Powell fHighlandJ. Rosaileen Drummond CDoniphanJ. Na- dine Atkin QS-everancej and Bernice Ukena, iLeonaD. Cathryn Albers CSeveranceJ. Donald Ross iWil1isJ. Willard Molinaire fRobinsonJ Harold Tilden QI-Iighland. Mary Hrenchir fHighla.nd5. Anabel Led- ington fWathenaJ, wears the brightest smile at Y. W. C. A. Cabinet supper. Dorothy Denton QDentonJ. Mr. Lusk, grade school principal, counsels two student teachers. Jeanne Jacques lHiawathaJ and Lor- etta. Parker CHighlandJ. Hope Helpingstine CI-Iighlandj.

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Teachers Recess. Emma Jeschke iTroyJ. Maxine Banta CWathena,J. Alyce Bryan fW11ite Cloudb. Mary Cain fWathenaD, and Elva Barnard fDon- iphanj. Don Rankin fHighlandJ and Margaret Gladhart fRobinsonJ. Patience is a virtue. Loretta Parker KI-Iighlandl. Betty Stetler 1Fa1ls Cityj. Dorothy Albers fBendenaJ and John Johannes fWil1isJ. Lois Brant iRobinsonJ. Carolyn Albers fSeveranceJ. Raymond Pederson CWi11isJ. DePhayne Young lSu1nme1'fie1dJ. Young swing- ers.