Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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BUSINESS EDUC ATION Mr. G. G. Hill Head of Department The Business Education Department occupies the ground floor of the Art Building. It aims to produce highly skilled business teachers who will strive to improve the profession in their field. Three new members were added to the faculty in a step towards greater efficiency; and the new room arrangements and new equipment were for but a single purpose . . . doing a better job. Students are placed in actual life situations in classrooms modernly equipped with typewriters, mimeoscopes. dictaphones, mimeographs, comptometers, adding machines, and files and cabinets. Stoner. Webb, Drumheller. Thomas, Mr. Hill. Head of Department, File, Farrell. Garlow,

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f 1.W Reynolds. Mr. Kipp, Head of Department. Harris. Gaslander. Murdock. ART EDUCATION Mr. Orval Kipp Head of Department Besides being a separate unit training its stu- dents in the teaching of art, the Art Department has become closely associated with the entire stu- dent body through numerous e.xtra-curricular activi- ties. Exhibits of work done by students, faculty members, and outside contributors have done much in bringing art to the non-art students. These shows have given members of other departments the opportunity to apply the principles which were discussed in their art appreciation courses. A cooperative ART PRESS was established and it has done many of the printing jobs for stu- dent organizations on campus. Sixteen

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Miss La Verne Strong Director of Division ELEMENTARY EDUCATION The Elementary Division is composed of those students who will know, as teachers, the joys and satisfaction to be derived from stimulating and direct- ing the growth of children. The first two years are designed to give elemen- tary students a broad cultural background, while the last two are devoted to professional courses and to student teaching. Extra-curricular programs provide opportunities to work with children. The college chapter of the Association for Child- hood Education contributes to the cultural, social, and professional advancement of its members through many worthwhile activities. SECONDARY EDUCATION Miss Joy Mahachek Director of Division -? ; The Secondary Education Division offers courses of a general nature during the Freshman and Sopho- more years. Thereafter there is a greater emphasis placed on specialized fields and on educational theory. giving professional status to the training. Upon gradua- tion the students are prepared to teach in the secondary schools of Pennsylvania in at least one of the following fields of certifi cation: English, Speech. Foreign Lan- guages. Geography. Mathematics. Science, and Social Studies. This year the enrollment of the Secondary Educa- tion Division has been greatly increased by an in- flux of returned veterans. These new students should do much in alleviating the demand for well-trained secondary teachers. Eig ttt ' L ' ft