Prairie View A and M University - Pantherland Yearbook (Prairie View, TX)

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When the P. V. band did its bit by playing 300 Negro Navy volunteers off in Houston. Texas.

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C. A. HARRISON Supervisor of Rural War Production Training in Toxas. B.S. Advance Study at Prairio Viow. Formerly Profossor of Agriculture, Southern U. in Scotlandvillo. Louisiana. CHARLES H. THOMAS Area Supervisor—Agrkrulturo B.S. Advance Study Prairie Viow. Formerly toacher of Vocational Agriculture. Goliad, Rosenberg and Waolder, Texas. O. I. THOMAS State Itinerant Teacher-Trainer Agriculture, B.S. Advanco Study U. of Chicago, Columbia U.. Hampton, Prairie Viow. Former principal of O. I. Thomas High School, Cameron Texas. Ptosldcnt of State Teachers Ass'n 1937. RURAL WAR PRODUCTION TRAINING When the emergency came the Federal Government established training programs for the purpose of spreading skills to more of its citizens in order that they could be of greater service directly and indirectly in the war effort. One of these programs was the Rural War Production Training Courses. At the present time 269 courses are operating in 141 schools. One hundred twenty full-time teachers are working in the program with 2,886 students in attendance. This program is under the direction of the State Department of Vocational Education, Vocational Agriculture Division. Mr. C. A. Harrison heads the program and is assisted by the Area Supervisors of Agriculture (part-time) and the Vocational Agriculture teachers. The area supervisors are: Mr. E. E. Collins. Mr. S. E. Palmer, Mr. Paul Rutledge, Mr. Gus Jones, and Mr. Charles Thomas. Mr. O. J. Thomas, State Itinerant Teacher-Trainer, assists also.

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DIVISION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Division of Arts and Sciences offers courses in Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Economics, Education, English, History, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics. Political Science, Sociology, and Modem Foreign Languages. Courses lead to the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science in Education. Courses in the Division have been geared to a wartime basis with the training process designed particularly to contribute to the war effort. This is seen in the operation of special war training courses and in the continuation of established courses modified in content to contribute specifically to the war effort. The mathematics of navigation, pre-flight physics, respiration physiology, sanitary bacteriology, drug chemicals, munitions and explosives, war economics, anthropology, propaganda analysis, first aid and physical fitness are only a few of the subjects being taught in the Division and pointing specifically to the war effort. In some departments of the Division research projects bearing specifically on the war are in progress. The faculty personnel is composed of forty-eight full-time members holding the doctorate and degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Master of Science.