Missouri Southern State University - Crossroads Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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HIGH ROADS TO LEARNING Through its junior college, Joplin is striving to meet the needs of the youth of the district. An excellent faculty, superior equipment, and supervised curricula have helped to make Joplin Junior College accredited by the University of Missouri, the State Department of Education, and the American Association of Junior Colleges. Graduates from here are entering senior colleges and universities as fully accredited juniors. Through the junior college, expenses for the first two years on the high road to learning have been greatly reduced for many students. One of the salient features of the college is its service in helping to orientate the freshman to college life before he is hurled headlong on the uni¬ versity road; one of the aims of the college is to educate young people to become true students, to teach them the meaning and the attainment of true culture, and to aid them in becoming good citizens. To those students desiring to specialize in a certain profession, Joplin Junior College offers the following paths: business and public administration, engineering, journalism, law, and medicine. To students who wish to attend only two years of college and then to enter their chosen vocation, Joplin says, “Come to our Junior College. We offer terminal work in secretarial courses, general culture, practical electricity, carpentry, and auto mechanics. This year we added a medical-secretarial course to our curriculum.” This year Joplin Junior College also added two other new courses to its curriculum. One is the applied music course with study from outstanding Joplin teachers. The other is an aviation course which came when the Civil Aeronautics Authority designated Joplin Junior College as one of its primary flying schools. Climbing steadily up the high road to learning, Joplin Junior College has made much progress. Her student body can do much toward keeping her on this progressive road. May we always, as students and alumni, help her in this task.

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ROADS The roads that lead to Heaven Take passports, that I know. There must be someone with you On the steep, slim way you go. Someone whose hand will guide you Whose step will match your own, For all high roads are weary roads One cannot walk alone. —Helen Welshimer. Seven

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The Board of Education, the legislative body of our school system, can well be called the voice of the people, for its members are elected every three years by the people of Joplin. These members are the representatives of the people in all affairs concerning this district ' s schools. The board, meeting monthly, has as its functions the maintenance of buildings and equipment, the purchase of supplies, the selection of a well-trained faculty and the raising of public school revenue. We of Joplin Junior College are indebted to the board, for it is through their unceasing efforts that our college came to be a reality in place of a dream. It is through their aid that we shall continue to grow and to become an insti¬ tution of which Joplin may justly be proud. Members of the board are Charles F. Wells, S. A. Harris, Mrs. N. G. Garlock, Ray Carlson, Cliff K. Titus and Clifford H. Casey. BOARD OF EDUCATION Nine