Tabor College - Bluejay Yearbook (Hillsboro, KS)

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Dr. Just begins Social Welfare program. In the early forties, while a Tabor student, I read HULL HOUSE by Jane Addams. I admired this Chicago woman whose Christ-fol- lowing led her to identify with and do something about human need. Her response was compassion. While working with one hand to serve the stranger and the poor, with the other she fought city hall and vested interests for reform legislation. Hull House became a creative center of rehabilitative, educational and recreational activity, an American landmark of concern for human welfare. In the early fifties, while on the Tabor faculty, I visited Hull House. I saw compassion at work and learned that, in addition to willing hands and a warm heart, compassion needs skills to perceive and act. Tabor could offer encouragement to interested students and some pre-professional training in social work, I dreamed. A new course, Introduction to Social Work, produced a beginning of Tabor graduates who, after further training, entered the profession. The mid-sixties saw Tabor establish and strengthen contact with professional social work leaders at the local, state and national levels. Mounting student interest, a feasibility study, careful curric- ulum planning, faculty and board approval spurred the search for personnel and finances to inaugurate Tabor's first new departmen- tal major in five years. By the good providence of God, all neces- sary components were joined in the spring of 1968 to make possi- ble the long-awaited announcement that Tabor would begin its pre-professional social work program in September, 1968, with the encouragement and assistance of the National Council on Social Work Education. And so this year, on our campus, a new child of progress was born of a faith that through Tabor graduates Christian compassion will find redemptive expression in many areas of human need. Tabor offers leadership in bringing the strength of the Church to this helping profession. Roy Just, President Social welfare class 22

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Reaching out to understand . Students at Tabor and other ACCK schools reached out dur- ing interterm to better understand their major fields, them- selves, each other, and the world. Interterm was an opportunity for students to receive four units of credit during one month. To study their subjects, students stayed at Tabor, studied on another campus, or were involved with field trips or the opera. During this time, guest lecturers were invited on campus. Some students Went to Puerto Rico to study Marine Biology. Others went to Mexico to study religion. Still others Went on field trips in the United States to study Church Renewal Movements, while other stu- dents went to other campuses to participate in the studies there. The Associated Colleges of Central Kansas Opera Voyage to the Moonn 21

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