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

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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

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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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HOME ECONOMICS Students entering the Home Economics Department be- come familiar with and take courses in almost every other department in the school besides specializing to a high degree within the department itself. Science, art. psychology, sociology, and economics are combined with the departmental courses to give the student a broad background to meet the problems which will be faced in daily life. The work is evaluated in terms of better living through an understanding of adequate nutrition, attractive and appropriate dress, comfortable and convenient homes, and the satisfying human relationships which make the home and community. In school and out they plan their lives so that they will be all around persons and ideal homemakers as well as successful teachers. Dr. Opal T. Rhodes Head of Department Standing: Hasty. Omwake, Moss. Duncan. Seatea: Pecora, Hayes. O.xley, Dr. Rhodes, Head of Department, Finter, Rose, Denniston. Merriman. Niufitcen