Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The College of Engineering is an integral and a very important unit of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ever since the establishment of L.S.U.. engineering has been taught. Its graduates occupy important positions in Louisiana, in the United States, and in the world, requiring men and women trained in the fundamentals of the various engineering curricula, as well as in the ability to think, to act and to get along with others. During 1954-55. the faculty of the College of Engineering, among other duties, has been cooperating with the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education of the American Society for Engineering Education, in studying the various engineering curricula, with the purpose in mind of educating our students so that they will be pre- pared to cope with the problems of the technological world in which we are living. DEAN LEO J. LASSALLE Dean of the College of Engineering o E CUSHMAN M. CAMBRE EDWARD J. BOlDREAt X PATRICIA ANN YOUNG President Vice-President Secretar -Treasurer

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DEAN EDWARD B. ROBERT Dean of the College of Education COLLEGE OF EDUCATION J The purpose of the College of Education is to prepare students for teaching positions. It administers curricula specially designed for preparation of teachers in the various teaching fields. The Department cf Education, the Department of Health and Physical Education, the University Laboratory School, the Teacher Placement Service, the Bureau of Educational Materials and Research, and the Division of High-School Relations are the divisions of the College of Education. Through these various departments Education Majors receive all nec- essary assistance to acquire beneficial teaching techniques imperative to the proper training of American youth. o MARILYN MITCHELL President DOROTHY RAXSDALE yice-Presiden t GAIL V. GIBBENS Secretary-Treasurer

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DR. BARRETT STOUT Director of the School of Music SCHOOL OF MUSIC The School of Music was established as a School in 1931, with Dr. H. W. Stopher as the first Director. Before that date it had func- tioned as a department. The school became a member of the National Association of Schools of Music in the same year. The educational purpose of Louisiana State University School of Music is directed toward assisting the individual student to the fullest possible development of his innate musical gifts and helping him to make the musical arts a constructive cultural asset in his own life and that of his fellow men, to the extent that this will be compatible with his own interest and happiness and that of the community in which he will live. The school furthermore aims to provide opportunities to the great- est possible number of students to share in the heritage of the musical culture of the human race and in turn to contribute to this culture. Some of the annual activities the school sponsors are: Festival of contemporary music; opera productions; instrumental and vocal clin- ics; band, orchestra and choral concerts. OFFICERS MARY JANE RAMSEY BILLIE RAE WORTHINGTON JOAN CLEAVER HOUCK President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer