Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Mr. R a n lc i n discusses fundamentals with one of his speech classes. Speech Station Goes FM Four new courses will be added to next yearis agenda. Two of the four are one-hour credit courses with low- er division credit and include radio broadcasting and announcing. Par- liamentary practice, also to be added, is an upper division argumentation course with three-hour course credit. Special department events included the traditional exchange program with Concordia Teachers, College in Sew- ard. New equipment in the department is a new ten-watt Gates Transmitter and antenna. 81,500 has been set aside for a new tape recorder. Educational close-circuit TV is being added along with a video-tape recorder. KVUC-FM was born this year. Spe- cial features on KVUC-FM included the In the Newsv series which encir- cled the Physics, Music, Chemistry, Biology, Business, Education, Reli- gion, and Home Economics Depart- ments. Weekend favorites have been The Bridge, Your Story Hourf' and Sunday Serenadef' Dan Poleschook served as program manager and Sandy March worked as secretary and librarian. News-feature editor was Ron Hixson and first-class licensed engineers were Ron Bougher and Leroy Lavvinski. Arthur Hauck, M .A., Associate Profes- 'Eff- wg-rsfebew K sor, Chairmang William Rankin, M.A., Sandy March executes a cross fade at Assistant Professor. the new FM control hoard

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1 Mrs. Irma Minium, department chair- man, i1lu.s'tr11te.s her class lectures with an overhead projector. Secretarial Department has about 25 desks that are installed with electric devices which make connections pos- sible to the teaeheris tape recorder. Students use earphones and select their own speeds by controlling a small knob on their desk. She has a choice of two speeds. First-year class- es select speed qtil, 60 to 100 words a minute or 80 to 120. Second-year students have a choice between speeds 1-2 aml::f?3. 120 to 150. Because of the addition of a new class in stenotype. the number of semesters have been cut for the course from six to four. President li. XV, Fowerls personal secretary. Mrs. Alva Downing, spoke to the secretarial students about the role of the executive secretary in busi- ness. The classes also listened to a Lincoln attorney, Russell Strom, ex- plain the work of a legal secretary. This year a spring awards banquet was the setting of the presentation of the a n n u a l shorthand and typing in in Miss Brown reflects a mertitatiee mood as .she pauses at her file eahinet. awards, along with the popular Miss Secretary, and Miss Business Teacher awards. The awards had been pre- sented at an hono1's convocation the last of May. Three personnel directors of Lincoln conduct personal inter- views with candidates for the Miss Secretary award. The candidates are selected by popular vote by class- mates, grades, and supervisory teach- ers. Three department are involved in the selection of the Miss or Mr. Busi- ness Teacher. The Secretarial Science, Business. and Education Departments are represented by Mrs, Irina Miniuin. Dr. Paul Ioice. and Dr. Melvin XVol- ford. Each department has a special interest in turning out only the best teachers of business and secretarial science. A question from the side halts a stu- dent-teaeher ftiseussion Lnrmzentarity and- then Jlr. Burton returns his attention to the question at hand,

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W3 23 Mr. Hauck considers a studcnfs bit of humor.