Los Angeles Junior College - Junior Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Director committee to investigate the types of student or- ganizations most successful in the other junior col- leges in California. With the thorough faith that the junior college holds a unique function in citizenship training, he has devoted his wealth of skill and energy in giv- ing the college what he, together with many noted educators, believes to be a field of its own. It should not merely reproduce the work of the uni- vcrstiy but must train the non-commissioned of- ficers of industry both culturally and specifically to fill positions in the semi-professions. He has felt that the main function of the junior college is the assisting of the non-academic high school gradu- ates Who, in his opinion, have thus far been un- provicled for. We are pioneers in Work in the semi-profession- al field and these courses will determine the ca- reer of this institution. We want our students ot go OLlt among people and say that the things they have had here are worthwilef' This was the hope of Doctor Snyder from the beginning and it has been towards this goal that he has directed all his plans. If we do this, he said, we will have done a great thing for the city of Los Angeles and have contributed to the Wholesomeness of civic life. To make the college unique not only in func- tion, but in the attitude of faculty towards the stu- dents, Doctor Snyder has striven. Los Angeles Iun- ior College, he determined, must have neither the standards of high schools nor those of the univer- sity, but must claim its own individual identity as f' NJQ3' With Hi: Honor, Mayor Porter a separate. unique unit of public edu- cation. In his own words, the Los Angeles Junior Col- lege represents a re- turn to the human- istic IIOIC. The fac- ulty of our college stands willing to help students to re- move as far is is Hiprczffziling high ideals in the student body possible the obstacles which stand in their way, but the faculty will not prod students. Although basing the college curricula and activ- ities on the needs of semi-professional students, he has endeavored to make advantages equal to all students, to make good in life. Doctor Snyder has received the verdict of many prominent educators that the development of col- lege morale was impossible within two years time, nevertheless, with the firm conviction that a col- lege that has not an intangible spirit that shapes the lives of those who come into it is not educa- tionally worthwile, he has dared the almost im- possible, putting his soul into the building of an inherent coherence in the college. In the brief two years of its existence the Los Angeles Iunior College has Won a place as being among the two or three outstanding junior col- leges in the entire country. The renown achieved in the many fields of collegiate activity is evidence of the cooperative functioning of its members-of the achievement of the dreamed-of morale. The importance of the semi-professional courses to the students has been evidenced by the enrollment of seventy-two per cent of the student body in them. Already the inHuence of the junior college aims is being felt in the community. twenty one I

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I., : - - -:-:-:-:-,-,-,-.-.- .g.g -. -1.:.1.tI,.g.1V,r, I , V, . .-.-.'.3...,.,.'.-.'.-. HE opening of the junior college presented the clifhculty of securing a faculty adequate to insure the success of this new experiment. One of the most important appointments was that of Registrar. Recommended by Dr. William H. Snyder, Mr. Ken- neth M. Kerans was chosen for the position by the Board of Education. Previous to this time Mr. Kerans held the position of Principal of the Alta Vista Public School in Kan- sas. After coming to California, he was recorder at the Pasadena Iunior College for seven years. During the world war he served for two years in the army. Mr. Kerans is a graduate of Washburn College, in Topeka, Kansas, where he received his A.B. degree. Later, at the University of California at Los Ang- eles, he obtained his M.A. degree. The ability of Mr. Kerans proved itself on the hrst registration day. Due to the lack of acquaint- ance between faculty members, the lack of supplies with which to accomodate the faculty, the day was cause of much worry to the administration. With unusual power of organization and surprising re- sourcefulness, Mr. Kerans found methods of sur- mounting the difficulties and of turning into a suc- cessful registration what threatened to be merely a confusion of efforts. Since that time he has made increasing endeavors to perfect new systems to im- prove the registration process. The registration of 1725 old students in seven hours during the last registration period speak clearly for his success. One of the in- a u g u r a - tions which contributed largely to the facilit- ies with which the process was c o mpleted was the placing of advisors for The Registrar MR. IQENNETI-I M. KERANS parts of the campus to whom students could go for advice on their particular courses. Mr. Kerans' duties as college registrar are to keep all records of the students' courses, grades, programs, attendance, references from other in- stitutions, ancl to enforce all scholarship and at- tendance regulationsg to devise all forms pertain- ing to the records of students, such as program blanks and changes of program, to make reports for the state, city, and county, to correspond with other schools in regard to requirements and trans- fer of student records, to compile statistics per- taining to such things as intelligence quotients of students, number of students dropped during the semester and the reasons, the average age of the students attending, the number of students who came from high school, the percentage of students who leave high school during the semes- ter as compared with other semesters, and such data. Mr. Kerans also has charge of preparing for publication all information regarding registration, courses, examination, schedules, and information as to the attendance and scholarship regulations. He is a member of the committee on graduation requirements, and also serves on another com- mittee concerning the granting of petitions from d if ferent semi-professional courses to certificate, and special courses in appeals for carrying courses, or having changes in The Registrar and his cram v a rio u s grades made. twenty-threee H :1:I:-: vial:-F51-211:21-1-F!-xg:-1:-:-:-Ffzlzlzlzi 1--:-:-F3-1:2:1'-1 '1--:-:-:-levi:-: ' , :2:?2:1:1g3E:S:E:i iliiiiifgiilitiiiii ziiiliizigizizfrii 1