Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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First Row Cleo Evans, Marion Johnson, Mary Eleanor Anderson, Helen Garth, Mary Wiehe Second Rou Miss Bracy Cornett, J. E. Courtney, Virginia Everett, Katherine W xxl, Miss Edith Dabney, Margaret Laughlin Other Members Margaret Case, Elizabeth Eisenherg, Kathleen Ham, Winona Howard, Thelma Lock. Elizabeth Newcomer, Mary Harrington Schwarz. Howard Skinner, Bernice Sneed, Della Scrivens, Mary Frances Wood e 4rt Club Mary Wiehe, President Bernice Sneed, Vice'President Virginia Everett, Secretary Treasurer Edith Dabney, Sponsor ' T’HE HONORARY ART CLUB, reorganized December 1, 1 24, is -1- composed of students whose major interest lies in the field of fine and applied arts. Its puii ose is to develop a wider knowledge and ap' predation of art. Page 27

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 John La ton Biogbrstaee, B. of Mus. Graduate Student. New York Institute of Fine Arts Professor of Music and Head of the Division of Arts cDivision of Arts “We can live without art—but. not. so well.'' IT is a recognition of this fact that accounts for a group of departments in most institu- tions of higher learning today, whose function it is to develop individual skill in the various arts; the sound knowledge of fundamental principles that is essential to teaching them; and the understanding and enjoyment of them that does so much to enrich life. The Division of Arts in this College comprises three departments: Fine and Applied Arts, In- dustrial Arts, and Music. FINE AND APPLIED ARTS The paramount aim which underlies the entire college program in art today is that of developing rich appreciation, understanding, and knowledge of art and beauty, and the utilizing of this knowledge in meeting the problems of reality. INDUSTRIAL ARTS The Industrial Aits work is presented with a three-fold purpose. First, it proposes to give promising young men sufficient technical experience so that they can teach Industrial Arts work in the elementary and high schools of the land; second, it offers pre-engineering students an opportunity to do their basic work in mechanical drawing and some shop work before going to a professional school of engineering; third, it encourages the rank and file of students to learn the joy and personal satisfaction which comes to one when he success- fully fashions materials to meet his needs. The three main purposes, then, are professional, pre-professional, and a vocational. The department is not operated under military discipline, rather, the students are expected to display considerable initiative and to proceed as much as possible “under their own steam. ' MUSIC The Music Department feels that it has an obligation to the individual in order that his abilities and appreciations may be developed; to the institution, in order that some contact with the beautiful, as expressed in music, may lie afforded every student irrespective of his major field of study; and to the community, in order that its cultural life may lie broadened and deepened by opportunities for hearing the world’s great music. Page 26

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Paul O. Selby, B. $.. A. M. Professor of Commerce and Head of the Division of Commerce Division of Commerce THE COMMERCE DIVISION offers its courses for the purpose of preparing teachers of commercial subjects for the high schools of Missouri. These cotrses were established in 1908, and our school was a pioneer in offering preparation for this type of teaching. The Teachers Colleges of Missouri are the only institutions in the state which offer work in this field, and this is probably the only phase of the work of this college of which this statement may be made. As a consequence, students in Commerce have in the past found that they are among a limited number of people who are qualified in this specialty. The courses in Commerce are those that are required of commerce teachers. They cover the subject-matter fields of shorthand, typewriting, accounting, and business law. A course in “Commerce and Industry which attempts to present a bird's-eye view of the world of business is given to senior college students. Demon- stration and practice teaching is carried on in the Kirksville Junior and Senior High Schools. The cooperation of the school administrators and of Miss Frances Hender- son, teacher at the Senior High School, is greatly appreciated. Page 28