Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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“y knew that at Northwest the technology part of geology was very important. But I thought the field education was vital, especially in geology.” : - Dr. Joseph Reese 28 ¢ Special Section New Faculty member Dr. Joseph Reese spends his office hours doing paperwork. Reese stayed in contact with science outside the University by attending the Geological Society of America where he gave speeches and took part in field trips. Photo by Susan Porterfield

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OL ae SO homesick. Most American students went home every weekend and on special holidays, but I couldn’t. At first I didn’t feel homesick, but around summer I got ag very homesick. 3 - Kri Hikida ikida makes use of h do f the Week” Miso soup and er culinary talents in the basement of Hudson Hall. Hikida received for Hudson Hall by cooking cultural foods one evening, including Korean 4 potato dish called potato korroke. Photo illustration by Amy Roh International Student 27 Boo

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ver since he saw how much his father liked working as a professor, Dr. Joseph Reese, assistant geology professor, Ig ant ited to be an instructor. Reese began his teaching career at Idaho State niV ersity, where he spent two and a half years eachi ing geology before coming to Northwest. Reese always wanted to be a teacher because of the ini Fe ence of his father. “I saw his (my father’s) lifestyle and thought that as a pretty good thing to do,” Reese said. Reese taught two lecture classes and two lab lasses at Northwest during the fall semester. Teach- ng the lab classes was what Reese liked the most bout his job. T liked the labs,” Reese said. “They were very hands on. Interaction with the student and teacher yas very important. Labs allowed that interaction etwe en student and teacher much more than the faditional lecture .” Reese enjoyed teaching at Northwest because of size of the classes. The type of classrooms did not differ much from his previous teaching role, but one Pipe that was different was the age of the students. At Idaho State the average age of the student was probably 27 years old,” Reese said. “There were a lot if folks that came back to school just to take some un class. The clientele was different. There were a t more traditional students at Northwest than nontraditonal. I might have been the average age in one of the classes at Idaho.” Reese attended the field trip the geology depart- ment took in the fall to the southeast part of Mis- souri. This was the part of his teaching experience he enjoyed the most. “The field trips were great,” Reese said. “If you had to classify my type of geology it would have been field-orientated geology.” Technology played a big role in the geology field and Reese thought that was great, but he believed in not forgetting about the field experience that could be gained from geology. “T knew that at Northwest the technology part of geology was very important,” Reese said. “But I thought the field education was vital, especially in geology.” The adjustment to Maryville and Northwest was not hard for Reese, but took getting used too. “Tt was a little different,” Reese said. “For the last 10 years, either as a graduate student or instructor, I had been in a setting which had graduate programs. It was a different situation with just faculty and undergraduates — not that intermediate step that I was used too. That was one of the biggest changes for me.” With the infiuence of his father’s teaching career in his life, Reese looked forward to his future in geology and his teaching career. Reese's - | ducational Field Tri p © — od by Jason Hoke New Faculty 29