University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Pre-Medic There are several groups of students at Kearney State Teachers College who are pre- paring for other professions than teaching. The pre-medics, who include not only future doctors and surgeons hut also future nurses, are one of these groups. To encourage interest in the medical profession, the pre-medic club has been organized. The club meets the first Monday of every month. Apparently Matt Pilling, librarian, newly elected vice president of the student council, and Caledonian, misses twenty-five per cent of the regular Monday evening fraternity meetings since he is the pre-medic president. Perhaps those with an eye on the future forgive his absences on the theory that it might be well to have an old fraternity brother who is a doctor. There is a chance that it would discourage too insistent demands for payment of long due doctor bills. Lest the Phi Tans be slighted in such an arrangement. Roland Brown is the vice president. Then, lest the nurses be slighted, the organization elected Mable Miller as secretary-treasurer. Miss Ludden, an instructor in the Biology department, is the sponsor of the organiza- tion. Then, as sort of unofficial but very active sponsors of the club, are the members of the medical profession in Kearney, who have done a great deal to make the organization a success. Many times they have served as speakers for the club programs. Occasionally, at their invitation, the club visits the hospitals to observe operations and other surgical and medical procedure. Of course, pre-medics are interested, primarily, in science, most of them majoring in either biology or physical science. Of the physical sciences, chemistry, is of the greatest interest to them. The biology courses they take include zoology, bacteriology, physiology, and anatomy. In the latter class they engage in a sort of medical jig saw puzzle: they dismantle some bird or animal, remove the flesh from the bones by different means, including the obvious, very slow and odorous one of allowing it to decay, and then assemble the bleached bones to form a skeleton. No doubt they flunk” if they place the feet where the hands ought to be; or do animals have hands and feet? But that is for the pre-medics to worry about. Top Row—-P. Abrahnmson, D. Elm, W. Cruse. J. l.aiighlin, J. Brownell. J. Dow, C. Gass, D. Nyer M. Pilling. Second Row—W. Bruce, M. Edwards, M. Burgiu. P. Niemafk, A. Ellison. Mrs. Mildred Hansen. F. Laniz, D. Burwcll, P. Shennum, O. Wills. First Row—-W. Barney, E. Cooley, M. Miller, I. Mankin. Miss Carrie Ludden, M. Richard, M. Huffs?utter, R. Brown. H. Jokerst. Page Twenty-two

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William E. Bruner Mildred E. Hansen Carrie F. Ludden Biological Science Department Biology—the livest department in the college. Lest other departments object too strongly, we hasten to suggest that perhaps alive is the word. Here there can he no argu- ment; no other department has so much to do with things that are actually living. The living creatures range from minute, squirming bacteria to a rather vociferous rooster whose crowing has kept more than one eight o’clock class from going to sleep. Lazy goldfish, including two that, it is hinted, belonged to President Martin, swim about in the aquariums; snails gaze at the world from their impressive-sounding snaileries. There are rats, too, and from time to time dogs and cats, snakes and salamanders. Occasionally the unsuspect- ing rats are fed alcohol, in experiments which prove to the satisfaction of everyone, except perhaps to the inebriated rats, that alcohol docs them no good. Dr. W. E. Bruner, whose B. S., A, M., and Ph. D. degrees are all from the University of Nebraska, ts the head of the biological science department. Miss Carrie E. Ludden, who received her B. of Ed. from the Nebraska State Teachers College in Kearney, is the other classroom instructor. Several times in the past. Miss Ludden has made special marine studies on the west coast. Mrs. Chris Hansen, full time laboratory assistant, completes the teaching staff of the department. Since the department has so much to do with living things, it is necessary that it be equipped with much material and apparatus for visual education. A projection microscope is available for displaying the jelly-like amoeba or the gentlemanly paramecium, gently bumping his environment. There is a slide projector, too. and many slides. Plaster of Paris models, posters, and mounted specimens are also used to aid in teaching the various subjects. The ever growing museum is filled with every sort of exhibit imaginable, from, snake skins to star fish—-from beetles to blunderbusses. In the botany laboratory there are many forms of plant life and charts showing the various stages of plant development. The only subject that ever made Mark Twain cynical, the weather, is also studied in the department. Busy students, with one eye on the barometer, learn why Californians come home to Nebraska. Pre-medics, future doctors and nurses, do much of their junior college work in the biological science department. Most of these students belong to the Pre-medic club, which the department sponsors. These students are particularly interested in the anatomy, physiology, and bacteriology classes.

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Charles A pe I Mildred Payne Ethel M. Sutton Commercial Education The commercial department has served commercial students for twenty-nine years. It has grown extensively in that time and has continuously increased in popularity. President Martin made the statement in presenting the faculty to the freshman students during freshman registration that the commercial department is the most popular department in the institution.” Such popularity of a department is due to one or more of these three reasons: the personnel of the faculty, a desire for snap courses, and the increased demand for commercial teachers and business-trained workers. I shall not try to choose the reason but shall add this comment: To those who say commercial courses are a snap, I, the writer—’being a commercial major—suggest that they enroll for a course in shorthand, type- writing, and accounting; and I wager that after the first quarter they will have changed their opinion. The commercial department always has a large enrollment. Students who wish to take commercial courses are always eager to be the first ones to register, for they know that early on registration day President Martin will announce, The following classes are closed Commercial Education 120, etc.” Mrs. Sutton says, The typewriting room is always full and more machines have been added until now there is scarcely room enough left to get in and out; and yet there are always students on the waiting list ' The work done in this department is of superior quality. This college was the champion in the Nebraska commercial contests for colleges in 1922, 1923 and 1925. Since that time the contests have been discontinued. Many commercial teaching positions in this section of the state and many office positions are filled by commercial majors from this institution. The department has been served by three heads. Professor Clarence A. Murch served from 1905 to 1910, and was succeeded by Professor Benjamin H. Patterson, who served until L928. Professor Charles Ape I succeeded him. Professors Murch and Patterson died while employed here. At the present time the department is served by three competent instructors: Professor Charles Apel, who obtained his A, B, degree from Wesley College in 1925, and his M. S, degree in 1926 from the same institution; Mrs. Ethel Sutton, who obtained her B. Ed. degree from Nebraska State Teachers College, Kearney, in 1917, her A. B. degree from the same institution in 1918, and her A. M. degree from Columbia University in 1932; and Miss Mildred Payne, who obtained her B. S. degree from the State Teachers College at Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1925, her A. M. degree from the University of Missouri in 1931, and did graduate study on her doctorate at the University of Iowa, in 1931-32. Puro TwenW'tlirce