Minnesota State University Moorhead - Praeceptor Yearbook (Moorhead, MN)

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MATHEMATICS UNDER the direction of Miss Katherine Leonard the Mathematics department offers work in College algebra, trigonometry, analytic and college geometry, and a number of courses for the teacher of mathematics in the elementary grades and high schools. The department is unusually Well equipped with the most modern devices for the various subjects taught. Miss Leonard is on the left. FRENCH Miss Virginia FitzMaurice conducts the College department of French and directs student teachers in the Training School. In the College Held the offerings include not only a study of the language but of the drama, poetry, and novels produced by this nation. Miss FitzMaurice LS adviser to Jeanne d'Arc Club, devoted to a study of the life and customs of France. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE ' - THE Biological Science department, under the direction of Caswell A. Ballard, includes not only a study of the Field of general biology but a number of specialized courses such as botany, entomology, ornithology, and local Hora. Through a teachers course in nature study students are made acquainted with the necessary material from the whole area of the physical and biological sciences. Mr. Ballard is seated at the desk. PHYSICAL SCIENCE KARL Parsons, in charge of the Physical Science work, offers courses in chemistry, qualitative analysis, mechanism and sound, magnetism and electricity, heat and light. Through such studies the student is prepared in the field that plays an important part in everyday life and learns laboratory procedure at first hand. 21

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ART ART work in the College is divided into three fields. Miss Margaret McCarten teaches prin- ciples, art structure, supervision, art appreciation, history and historic ornament, and color. In addition she advises the Art Club. Miss Mathilda Williams cares for related arts, which includes manual arts in the elementary school, craftwork, survey of art, art in the home, pottery, and allied fields. Henry B. VVeltzin has charge of industrial arts, which includes mechanical drawing, printing, woodwork, sheet metal work, electricity, and the history and teaching of industrial arts. In the College Print Shop students under his direction print the Westerii MiSTiC, programs, posters, and bulletins of various kinds. In the art department picture Miss McCarten is in the center. MUSIC UNlJliR the direction of Daniel L. Preston the Music department offers a wide range of courses in voice, instrumental music, public school music, violin, piano, and allied work. Students are trained not only to participate in but to direct musical organizations and to teach music in the public schools. Miss Maude Wenck teaches in the College, directs music in the Training School, and cares for the Euterpe Singers and the Girls Glee Club. Arnold M. Christensen directs the College Band. Miss Eleanor Nesheim teaches piano, Mrs. D. L. Preston, violin, Mrs. Joseph Kise, voice, and Harlow Berquist, instrumental music in the College and the Training School. Mr. Preston directs the Chapel Choir, the College Orchestra, and the Double Male Quartet. The Music picture shows Mr. Berquist, Mr. Christensen, Miss VVenck, Miss Nesheim, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. Kise, and Mr. Preston. 20

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EDUCATION TPIE Education Department, under the direction of Dr. C. P. Archer, offers not only the required courses in psychology and technique, but a wide range of Work in such fields as visual education, tests and measurements, vocational guidance, the history and philosophy of education, mental hygiene, personality development, moral education, parental education, social psychology, educational investigations, administration in high schools, supervision, studies of the junior high school, rural school management, and supervision of extra-curricular activities. In addition to the head ofthe department, Arnold M. Christensen, Dr. C. P. Lura, Miss Margaret Bieri, Miss Georgina Lommen, Miss Ella Hawkinson, Miss Blanche Loudon, Miss Mary Rainey, and Mrs. Ethel Durboraw conduct College classes in the department. Moorhead State Teachers College is truly exceptional in the opportunities it offers students not only to acquire the necessary background in technical courses but also in its complete system of laboratory and observation schools. Besides the Training School on the Campus, the College has seven rural affiliated schools supervised by graduate instructors who are especially fitted by experience and special study to oversee the work of student teachers. Those students who are taking the two-year rural curriculum go out to these schools for three months to live in typical rural communities and teach under the supervision of experienced instructors and be aided by members of the College Education department. Dr. Archer, Miss Bieri, and Miss Alice Cor- neliussen of the College oversee this work. In the picture are Dr. Lura, Miss Corneliussen, Miss Loudon, Mrs. Durboraw, Dr. Archer, Education secretary, Miss Bieri, Miss Rainey, Miss Lommen, Miss Hawkinson, and Mr. Christensen. Q. - - -l 22