Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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PERSONALIZED GUIDANCE The efficient personnel, advisory and counselor service has provided each Iowa State student with a ' i od-parent. ' The liOMIi pays tribute to these faculty niemhers who play such an important part in our lives. Those men and women whose photographs appear in the Faculty Section were selected (with the aid of the respective deans of their divisions) as typical counselors and personnel officers. Faculty advisors are available to the councils, publications, wards, dormitories, fraternities, sororities and the various other organized groups. Father-to-son and Mother-to-daughter advice is available through many other faculty members not mentioned in our brief tribute. We regret that it is not possible to give individual recognition to every faculty member who gives us this personalized service. The welfare of the individual student is the most important problem facing any educational institution. The entering student, usually an adolescent, is meeting an entirely new series of problems and emotional situations as well as a new range of knowledge. To relieve this condition. President Hughes established, in 1928, Iowa State ' s present counselor system— without doubt the most effective in American colleges today. The Iowa State College counselor system is divided into two parts: the junior college and the senior college counselors. The junior college counselors are a part of the administrative system of the junior college and have as their functions the counseling and guidance on voca- tional, personal and educational problems, high scholarship encouragement and maintenance, and classifications. All junior college counselors are directly responsible to the dean of the junior college who aids in the vocational orientation of the student. The senior college counselors carry on the work of the junior college, and in addition work in conjunction with the personnel officers of their respective divisions preparing the students for their chosen fields. To facilitate understanding of this relationship between the counselor system, the directors of personnel, the dean of the junior college and the divisional personnel officers, let ' s follow an average student, John Jones, ' 39, through Iowa State and its vast array of extra-curricular activities and the maze of official rules and unofficial traditions surrounding them. At freshman registration Johnny was handed a schedule bearing the name of his counselor and having a definite hour set aside for meeting his counselor. So, the following Thursday, he knocked at the door of 8-Z, Beardshear Hall. Gee, Johnny said to himself as he shook hands with Dr. Smith, his new counselor, he ' s a good joe. First impressions were deepened as Smith talked with John, drawing up for him a schedide apportioning his five-and-a-half-day working week, setting aside periods for study, recreation, classes, lunch periods and sleep. In their subsequent meetings, for the two years Johnny was in junior college, Dr. Smith discussed with him the selection of activities, getting a job, dating, good grade point averages, and all those other questions so important to a full and successful college life. During May of John ' s sophomore year. Dr. Smith called him in and said, John, you ' re entering senior college next quarter, Mr. A. B. Brown is to be your new counselor. So long, and don ' t forget I ' m your friend and all our talks always will be confidential. During John ' s junior year, Mr. Brown of his department worked with him, developing his personality, rubbing out one or two little idiosyncrasies. At the end of the year, although John was probably unaware of it, the decision of his counselors on activities, courses and jobs had changed him from a raw, unsophisticated boy to an active, alert man, having something worth- while to offer his prospective employer. In November of his senior year, he dropped into the personnel office and was given a blank to fill oiu, for personnel leaflets. John ' s activities, experience, and qualifications were printed and sent to men interested in employing Iowa State graduates. Conferences with the personnel officer rewarded John with an interview with Mr. L. L. Lawes of the A. B. C. Co. Mr. Lawes evidently liked the product turned out by the counselor and personnel system, for two weeks later John received a letter saying, We are glad to offer a job in our company at —another happy ending to the credit of Iowa State ' s personalized guidance. [30]