Jefferson College - Vikon Yearbook (Hillsboro, MO)

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To find the answers to these and other related questions, the Boa rd of Trustees turned to the 1 t'JiLfh 'Mbi J' resources of numerous Persons and organizations. r tt'T'lL T 't Superintendent Hamrick provided statistical and l descriptive data on the educational picture in the county and its implications. Mr. Byron Schubel, vice-president of the Jefferson County Abstract Co., Hillsboro, prepared figures and formulations concerning projected county population expansion. Dr. McClain, after his appointment, supplied statistical information from his doctoral disertation, Criteria for the Establishment of Junior Colleges in the State of Missouri, research which he had conducted with Jefferson County high school seniors in 1961. The Board also asked the St. Louis architectural firm of Pearce and Pearce, lnc. to begin designing a development program. They, in turn, engaged the services of the Bureau of Consultant Services at Washington University with Dr. Adolph Unruh, Professor of Education, acting as senior consultant, and James A. Hopson of the Graduate Institute of Education gathering and compiling the statistics. Later, Dr. George Englehart, Director of the School Building Services, Missouri State Department of Education, helped determine criteria that could be used in the best evaluation of land sites for junior colleges. Statistics showed that the junior college would in actuality meet some very basic and crucial needs in the county. Of the two-thirds of the 1961 high school graduates in the county whom Dr. McClain questioned, over fifty percent expressed a positive interest in attending a local junior college if there were one. Nor would the college be at loss for applicants in the future, for projection figures showed that the high school graduates in Jefferson County would increase in number from over nine hundred in 1964 to around twenty five hundred in 1974. It was calculated that the junior college would open with around three hundred first-year students and that the size of its student body would soar to around twelve hundred in the next ten years. With respect to curriculum, Dr. McClain had found in his sampling of 474 county high school seniors that they were interested in following four different types of programs if they attended a two-year junior college. ' :: Sei. 1: :Uv ' ' ii tsflxfrt .. Wliiifl. inquiring, inspecting, and investigating. The Boar of Trustees discusses construction of the first thr campus buildings with Dr. McClain. Present aj

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IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTORS TWO EARLY LEADERS Francis V. Breeze Clyde S. Hamrick OFFICERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF PETITION Earl R. Blackwell Ralph B. Tynes Lewis W. Roop Lilian Manglesclorf FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES 'W Q Earl R. Blackwell LeRoy Stovesand J. Charles Sfudyvin ff' .if . .,.. ' If . i1a'f'f i-QI. :viii . f- ' ,. .f L' . r f ::: -fr ny: awe-ft I ,b?51S1f.,- '. .I 34' .. 4 V :H :f1'1bw. iw : .rw-I Walter W. Walton James L. Chism Mathew J. Wynn PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE ARCHITECTS E ' A A . at i s 1' I II 1. Q 'I rx . vril L gin!! , R i u I V Charles J. McClain David W. Pearce Richard L. Pearce

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-A:,2-,fs c -ff---f .s,..,,.3t me f ,Wy - , , ,..-' LL --'5'f f-', Qiwiitsfiii-ff.fs , .t 1' sf37 11 J1w2g5,gv ' fr i A ,rl aff , r. McClain, Mr. Walton, Mr. Blackwell, Mr. Study- n, Mr. Chism, and Mr. Wynn. Not pictured: Mr. ovesand. Proiected Enrollment of Jefferson College Growth is the key word. l Enrollment Tota The tour types of programs were: lat a two-year academic curriculum transferable to a university or four-year college as the first two years of work towards a bachelor's degree, Cbl engineering and technological training both terminal and transferable, lc! business programs concentrating in such areas as administration, business education, and distributive education, either terminal or transferable, and fdt vocational programs with work in the liberal arts as well as in the development of technical skills, designed as a terminal program. However, before presenting his recommendations for curriculum tothe Board of Trustees, President McClain inspected the course ofterings at Crowder Junior College lNewton Countyb, at Flat River Junior College lSt. Francois Countyl, and at Normandy Junior College lSt. Louis Countyt, and reviewed the curriculum structures of the University of Missouri and the schools in the state. He then recommended that the junior college in Jefferson County otter work in thirteen course areas the first year: art, botany, business administration, business education, chemistry, distributive education, English, foreign language, history, mathematics, music, physics, and zoology. :1 1'. l 964-65 l 969-70 i 974-75 l 979-80 Years