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

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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

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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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THE TRAINING SCHOOL BEsiDEs the seven rural affiliated schools, the College maintains the Training School on the Campus, under the direction of Miss Georgina Lommen. Housed in its splendid new two-story structure and manned by a faculty which numbers more than twenty, it is a complete city school system in itself. In the short space of one page it is impossible to give due credit to this institu- tion further than to call attention to the fact that here there is every imaginable opportunity for College students to observe and participate in the instruction of pupils from the kindergarten on up through the senior high school. The Training School is the heart ,of the College student's professional preparation, it is the testing ground, the laboratory in which he learns by doing what he has studied throughout his career as a student. Little wonder with such facilities, unexcelled in the Northwest, that graduates of M.T.S.Ci are successful in their chosen professions. The Training School has its own auditorium, study halls, library, laboratories, workrooms, playrooms, and offices. The College High School is a full-fledged unit, accredited by the North Central Association and by the State Department, conducting in its complete program of activities all the usual features of any good city high school. In the Library picture is the College High School staff: Mr. Weltzin, Miss Lommen, Mr. Berquist, Mr. Parsons, Miss FitzMaurice, Mr. Loewen, Miss Weiick, Mr. Gilpin, Miss Haw- kinson, Miss Verna Heston, Miss Lyl Solem, and Miss Willianis. In Miss Lommen's office are members of the Elementary School staff: Miss Marie Sorkness, Miss Nan Halcrow, Miss Olga Korsbrek, Miss jones, Miss VVenck, Miss Lommen, Miss Loudon, Miss Rainey, Miss Agnes Carlson, Miss Delia Peterson, Mrs. Durboraw, and Miss Clara Undseth. 23