Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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everyone on the campus can enjoy the humanities through concerts, plays, and exhibits, either by creating or appreciating, dr. sullens sums it up this way: take your choice of any combination you please: opera, chorus, orchestra, chamber music, tragedy, farce, comedy, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, stories, poems, prints, or painting, in any of these there is the opportunity to create. in the music department, training in piano, organ, voice, or any other orchestral instrument is available under the instruction of profes- sionals. literature is a living part of humanities, with courses in masterpieces among the most popular, mrs. sullens heads this group. courses such as pottery, jewelry, textiles, and interior and advertis- ing design are popular, explains mr. green, the head of this department, because of the universal urge to create. the object of this division is pleasure in the arts. mrs. zay rusk sullens, head of the humanities division. division of humanities ann takes a voice lesson from mr. patacchi. mr. sterling asks for an opinion in his humanities class. mr. freund ' s pottery class looks Hke fun. 16

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division of home and family twenty-one years ago, dr. bowman, with the help of eight girls carefully selected from his sociology classes, created the course in marriage and the family, today, about half of the Stephens seniors register for this course. in the home and family division there are other courses designed to help girls prepare for their future roles as wife, homemaker, and mother. practically everyone assumes that a woman should know something about cookery and nutrition, the course in food preparation and meal management is designed to give experience in that field. cooking with miss streepy miss momyer in child study class. dr. henry a. bowman, head of the division of home and family. the courses in child study are designed to give girls an understanding of children that will enable them someday to be better mothers and to give girls who desire it training that will prepare them to go into special work with children. in consumer education the girls learn how to pur- chase goods and use money wisely, every girl is a con- sumer, whether or not she marries, as a wife, however, she has a responsibility for becoming skilled in spending 15 mr. troelstrup and consumer education.

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mr. Wilfred nef f , head of the language division. mr. robertson lectures in trench III. division of languages french, german, greek, and Spanish are the languages available to the student in this di- vision, the conect inflection and pronunciation of each language is helped greatly by a labora- tory period each week for each girl, here she listens to lessons on records and music native to the language she studies. language laboratory in session miss alli.s()n explains vowels to her Spanish students