Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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THE EVERGREEN of Maryland. Such preparation includes academic and pro¬ fessionalized subject matter courses as well as directed teach¬ ing. Only students who complete the four year curriculum will be required to teach. During this year, the enrollment has been the largest in the history of the school. Of the approximately two hun¬ dred students enrolled, eighty, or forty per cent, have been young men students. This has enabled the college to extend the scope of such extra curricular activities as athletics, dra¬ matics, glee club, literary societies, men ' s chorus, and orches¬ tra. With the changed curriculum, the increased enrollment of students, young men especially, and the addition of more faculty members, the future of the State Teachers College at Salisbury is assured. With the increased demand for ele¬ mentary teachers in Maryland during the coming years, a life of genuine service is anticipated for each of our graduates. JEFFERSON D. BLACKWELL

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THE EVERGREEN AIMS OF THE COLLEGE WHILE THE college continues to have as a principal objective the preparation of teachers for the elementary schools of Maryland, it is putting forth every effort feasible to adapt itself to the present needs of all high school grad¬ uates, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland especially, who can benefit from college instruction. Such adaptation has been fostered materially by the passage of Senate Bill No. 448 which, when signed by Governor Nice, changed the names of the three State Normal Schools for white teachers to four year degree granting Teachers Colleges, effective June 1, 1935. That the objective of the first two years of the four year curriculum, to give regular academic training, is being at¬ tained, is evidenced by the fact that three academic colleges, in addition to the University of Maryland, have agreed to give full junior standing to such of our students as have com¬ pleted the first two years ' work with an average grade of C ' or better. Students are now being given the opportunity to elect courses they most desire. This enables them to com¬ plete the first two year requirements differing in the several colleges to which they may transfer, and affords them an opportunity for guidance and the development of their re¬ spective abilities. The addition of many academic courses enables the individual student to secure an all-around de¬ velopment as a basis for additional academic or professional training. Such students as have completed the first two years of the academic curriculum with an average grade of C or better are being allowed to remain in the college for the teacher training work. The one objective of the last two years of the four year college curriculum continues to be the preparation of prospective teachers for the elementary schools

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THE EVERGREEN THE COLLEGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THE ELEMENTARY School, which is a very necessary part of the Teachers College, is a four-room school which offers instruction in grades one to seven. Each of three rooms accommodates two grades under the instruction of one teacher. The first and second grades occupy one room and have, as a teacher, Miss Lillian Parker; grades three and four are in a second room under the instruction of Miss Pauline Riall; a third room contains grades five and six with Miss Beulah Dixon as teacher. The fourth room has only the seventh grade and the instruction is largely departmentalized. Mrs. Tracy Holland has the major responsibility for unifying the work of the room, but she teaches only a part of the time. Other teachers who are sharing the work of this room are Miss A. H. Matthews, Miss Henrietta Purnell, Miss Helen Jamart, Miss Margaret Black, and Mr. Benn Maggs, of the college faculty, and Miss Martha White, a member of the present college senior class. The total enrollment of the school is 126. Each room is limited to a maximum of 35 pupils. This makes an enroll¬ ment in each grade of from 17 to 18 pupils except the seventh ' ' hich has 21.