Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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FUTURE TEACHERS GET PRACTICE WORK. To prepare college students for teaching in the elementary and secondary schools is the function of the education department. So courses in educational psychology, principles, and methods are offered to Hope students, by which they may fulfill require- ments for certification by the Michigan Board. The required amount of practice teaching is done in the fine school system of Holland under an efficient staff of critic teachers. Director of the department, Professor Egbert Winter, A.B. Hope, A.M. University of Michigan, is interested in psychology, fascinated by the study of twins, having reared two pairs himself. He is assisted by the director of practice teaching, Garrett Vander Borgh, A.B. Hope, A.M. Columbia University, under whose instruction students learn the problems and methods of high school teaching. Mr. Vander Borgh serves the ANCHOR as faculty business adviser, profs in the math Held too. The instructor in elementary education is Caroline Hawes, A.B. Northern State Normal College. She is the superintendent of the city elementary system and the principal of Washington School, making her schedule rather full, but she handles it well and efficiently. Prospective elementary teachers enjoy the observations in the local schools. The department of education fits students with the background material and experience which will serve them well when they become educators, wheth- er it be as kindergarten teachers or university profs. The department is a prominent one here, because of each graduating class, almost fifty per cent of the seniors have prepared themselves at Hope for the teaching profession. 13

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BASIC TO ANY CAREER IS ENGLISH STUDY. XVell-qualined instructors in the English depart- ment teach courses in composition, poetry, drama and novel, Greek and Roman literature, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning and Milton, and English survey and methods, to about sixty English majors and minors. The chairmanship of the department is held by Clarence De Graaf, A.B. Calvin College, A.M. Uni- versity of Michigan. He is a big man on campus, being faculty adviser to the MILESTONE and busi- ness adviser to the ANCHOR. james H. XX'arner, A.B. University of Indiana, A.M. Northwestern University, Ph.D. Duke Univer- sity, is chairman of the language and literature sec- tion of the Michigan Academy. On campus he advises the English Majors. New at Hope, Elizabeth Oggel, B.A. Morningside I2 College, M.A. University of Iowa, participates in the local chapter of the A. A. U. W. and is a member of the VUoman's Literary Club. Margaret L. Gibbs, A.B. Ripon College, A.B.L.S. University of Illinois, is librarian and teaches library science. Elizabeth Faye Connor, A.B. Huntington College, A.M., A.B.L.S. University of Michigan, is assistant librarian. Miss Gibbs is faculty adviser to the Y. W. and a member of the Woman's Literary Club and the A. A. U. W. Miss Conner is an A. A. U. W. member and writes junior Sunday School quarterlies. The head of speech work is William Schrier, A.B. and A.M. University of Michigan, graduate work at Colorado, Southern California and Northwestern. The department made an enviable record in oratory, extemp, and debate this year.

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HISTORY STUDY IS POPULAR IN WAR TIME. I . V . A fs JI j ll X 'kt A diversified number of subjects is offered in the department of history and social science, for there are courses in ancient, European, and American his- tory, in cultural history, in government, constitu- tional history, political parties and politics, in inter- national relations, and in history methods. Majoring in the department this year are seventeen junior and senior students, and there are many more history minors. Bruce M. Raymond, the department head, earned his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska. Actively interested in politics, he holds a position as city alderman and a place on the coun- cil of civilian defense. On campus he acts as Blue Key adviser, chairman of faculty committee on ath- letics, and faculty representative to the M. I. A. A. Board of Directors. He is a member of Pi Kappa Delta and of Phi Delta Kappa, national forensic H fraternities, and of the Rotary Club and the Century Club. Metta Ross, vitally interested in current affairs and the pan-American nations, is instructor in cul- tural history courses. Her B.A. is from Hope, her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and she has spent summers in study at the University of Wiscon- sin and at the University of Chicago. Her campus interests are in oratorical and dramatic lines, and she acts as adviser to Palette and Masque and to the XY'omen's Athletic Association. Students enjoy her lectures on current events. A faculty member whose interest is in young people's work is history instructor and director of athletics, Milton L. Hinga, A.B. Kalamazoo and M.A. Columbia University. He is adviser to Blue Key, and a member of the Holland Exchange Club.