Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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School of Business Administration FIVE classes have graduated from the School of Business Administration, adding 188 to the body of Miami alumni, the number in each class steadily advancing from thirteen in the first year to sixty-eight at Commencement, 1932. Meantime, enrollment in the Business School has advanced from 227 in 1928-1929 to 472 at the beginning of the current semester, a figure slightly below the aggregate for last year, but reflecting a percentage shrinkage somewhat less than the University average. Varied are the companies and the occupations into which these Business School graduates have gone. Oddly enough, comparatively few have become bond salesmen, the traditional job of the college man. Such concerns as Proctor and Gamble, the Hobart Manufacturing Company, Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, International Printing Ink, Liggett and Meyers, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and other Ohio concerns or businesses with distinct Ohio affiliations have taken a number of them. Some have gone farther afield, several have entered grad- uate schools, and a fair number have launched out into business for themselves, a few, it is pleasant to add, With gratifying success. The principles on which the School of Business Administration was founded have never been lost sight of. They were stated in the deans first annual report in the following words: ttIt is not the purpose of the school to offer highly specialized instruction in various techni- ques but rather, by emphasizing the fundamentals common to all business, to lay a substantial foundation upon which graduates of the school may build advantageously regardless of the partic- lar field Which they may enter. Consequently, the major portion of the professional instruction offered by the school lies in the primary fields of business economics, finance, production adminis- tration, marketing, and control? QBB $3133 DEAN H. C. DALE A native of Alassachusetts, but long a resident of the far west, Dean H. C. Dale joined the faculty of Miami University in 1928 as the first dean of the School of Business Administration. As budget officer of the state of Wyoming, head of the Inland Marketing Service, representative in Washington, D. C. of various northwestern farm organizations, and as dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Idaho, he came to Miami after rather varied experience with the conduct as well as the teaching of business. Page 26

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School of Education THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION is that division of Miami University Which has been designated by the state and the University Board of Trustees to train teachers for elementary and secondary schools. Students are asked at the beginning of their Freshman year to decide first, Whether or not they Wish to become teachers and second, in What field of teaching service they Wish to engage. On the basis of that decision they are enrolled in curricula Which are designated to give them the best preparation Which the length of time they attend the University and their own ability and effort Will permit. Some change in the major field is possible after the first year of work but the student WhO knows what he wants to do When he enters the University has a decided advantage in selection of courses and in the determination of his school life. Preparation for teaching consists not only of the acquisition of knowledge in specific helds but even more in learning how to use that knowledge in constructive thinking and in the application of effective technique in the guidance of the learning of children. A Winning personality, buoyant health, broad interest and kindly sympathy are likewise stressed throughout the course. Teaching should no longer be thought of as an occupation for incapables or as a stepping stone to some other vocation. Children Who have no voice in government or in the selection of teachers have a right to the best prepared teaching personalities training schools can provide. Consequently, the School of Education feels a major responsibility to the children of the state for the adequate preparation of excellent teachers. DEAN ERNEST J. ASHBAUGH Dean Ernest J. Ashbaugh came to Miami in 1929 with a record of wide experience and achievement in the field of education. As principal and superintendent of several high schools, Director of the Bureau of Educational Research at the State University of Iowa, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State, and the author of several text-books in spelling, he has demonstrated his ability in directing educational activities. He is a member of the American Educational Research Association and editor of the Journal of Educational Research. Page 2 5

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The School of Fine Arts THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, the youngest of the schools on the University campus, was established by the Board of Trustees in 1929, upon the recommendation of President Upham, in response to the feeling that the opportunity exist- ed at Miami for education in the Fine Arts as a definite part of a liberal college education. Not only do the courses offered give opportunity for professional and cultural training in the field of Fine Arts, in an atmosphere of University associations with its wide scope of study in branches of history, philosophy, mathematics, and languages, but also the presence of the opportunity for training in applied art and music provides wider choice of courses to students from other schools on the campus, who wish to elect such courses as part of their general university training. There are three departments in the School of Fine Arts: the Department of Architecture, offering courses in Architectural Design; the Department of Art, for majors in either Painting and Drawing, or Design; and the Depart- ment of Music, with major courses in Organ, Piano, Violin, Voice, and Composition. The curricula cover four years and lead to the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Music, respectively. The general music and art activities of the campus are under the direction of the School of Fine Arts. During the present year from twelve to fourteen recitals by musi: students, beside graduation recitals by seniors, and other recitals by faculty members, were given, and a number of trips, to Cincinnati and Dayton to hear musicians of inter- national fame, were sponsored. Exhibits of paintings, photographs, etchings, crafts, and architectural drawings, both from outside, and the work of the faculty members and students offer a constant source of delight and inspiration to the student body. The School thus provides a rich field for the development of an appreciation of aesthetic values, and in increasing measure is cultivating this appreciation among all the students. $$Q DEAN THEODORE KRATT Theodore Kratt came to Miami in 1929 as the first dean of the newly estab- lished School of Fine Arts. His past experience and training as a student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, and the Chicago Musical College, as founder and director of the Oak Park May Music Carnival, conductor of the Chicago Chopin Male Chorus, president, Idaho State Music Association, furnished an excellent background for his present position. Since coming here he has been Province Governor of Phi Mu Alpha, and is State Choral Director of the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs for 1933. Page 2 7