Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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17 HAMMER AND SAW The Industrial Arts department of the Arts Division provides a comprehensive training for potential Industrial Arts teachers and craftsmen. Under the supervision of Professor B. W. Leib, the department offers courses along four lines: drafting, wood working, metalworking, and educational theory. In the first three a foundation may be laid for one or more vocations such as architect, engineer, machinist, carpenter, or designer. If a student wishes to become a draftsman, he may receive instruction in mechanical drawing, machine drawing, architec tural drawing and design. The woodworking shop provides opportunity for the student to develop skill in the working of wood. Me produces articles such as tables, chairs, stands, and desks for practical use in the home. In the metalworking shop there are engine lathes, forges, drills, grinders, electric welding equipment, and tools for pipe fitting and for sheet metalworking. Many of the shop products have high practical value. Mr. Leib

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Miss Dabney Miss Cornel: 26 BRUSH AND CANVAS The Art department, besides turning out a new group of art teachers each year, also gives its students the foundation they need should they desire to study art in a special school with the idea of becoming professional artists. During the course of each school year the department sponsors three small and one large art exhibit loaned by the American Federation of Arts. The Teachers Colleye is a mem ber of that body. When you walk through the rooms of the art department in its new home on the third floor of Baldwin Hall, you are literally surrounded with color. In one room students are designing costumes and sets for famous plays such as Hamlet or Macbeth; on one wall is a mural depicting a negro lodge meeting; an easel supports a portrait of a classmate done by an art student working in oils. In another room a class is studying design and working out original figures and plates for wallpaper and tapestries, while another group is busy with miniature looms weaving what resemble abbreviated versions of Indian blankets, and making rugs.

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Mr. Biggerstafl 28 Mr. B. Stout Mr. Vaisr.tine Mr Webb SHARPS AND FLATS Music is an important element in education. Society every- where recognizes that music is not merely a pastime, but that a knowledge of music is considered one of the essentials of a well-educated individual. The music department has a threefold purpose: first, to pro- vide a thorough, comprehensive course for those wishing to become teachers or to those entering a professional career; sec- ond, to offer to students cultural courses that may be combined with the complete literary course in the college; and third, to give to the college community cultural advantages. The Teachers College, long recognized as a college with an exceptionally strong music department and faculty, is making progress and keeping abreast of the times.