Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Engineering rind Indus trial Arts With a steadily increasing enrollment now amounting to 1091, as compared with 856 in 1937-38, rhe school of engineering and industrial arts, under Dean R. 11. Dearborn, is largest of the eight major schools. Here students are trained lor technical work in live fields, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical engineering and industrial arts. The department of mechanical engineering has conducted the CAA pilot training course since the fall of 1939 anti graduated 83 full-fledged pilots. Recent tests for the Willamette alley project and improvements in road materials for the State Highway commission have given this department further notice. I he OSC engineering school is accredited bv the National Kngineers’ Council for Professional Development, so that our graduates rank with the best. 18 |)|.AN K. II. Dr XKBOKN

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Forestry I'aul Runyan i, jvominent at the ForrvtcrC ball. Mural In the forestry buildimj. With enthusiastic leadership and the unlimited forest background of )regon, the school of forestry, now directed In Dean Karl (J. Mason, has become one of the outstanding large forestry schools in the nation. Kighty-fivc percent of the graduates rind employment in their chosen field, to become instructors, rangers, nurserymen and I . S. Indian service workers. Conspicuous on Wednesdays are the reel ties of the Forestry club. A weekly newspaper, lli-Kead, and the school yearbook, Annual Cruise, are published bv the club anti a weekl radio program is put on over KOAC. Foresters go social at the “Fernhoppers' ” baiupiet and ball each vear. One day of spring term club members gather at the Peavy arboretum to clean and polish that svlvan showcase. I), F » i. J. M

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Education Student tcuchcr in action at Corvalli High. Taking a tc t in the education lab. Because of increased enrollment, the school of education shifted from Shepard hall to the second floor of the newly-remodeled “them shack” of past years, now renamed “education hall . Located there is the nucleus of a school, headed hv Assistant Dean Carl W. Salser, that reaches out everywhere on the campus and into the junior and senior high-schools of Corvallis, Philomath and Albany, where practice teaching proves classroom theory. In guidance and counseling, many of the graduate students And a broad scope of interesting courses. Professional degrees of L.M. and Kd.D. are granted in education, as well as M.A., M.S., B.A. and B.S. for completion of the regular requirements. About one-third of all advanced degrees are awarded in this department. 9 Di as Cam W. Sum r