University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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HEALTH SERVICE During the hustle and hustle of registra- tion in the fall, each student hies himself over to the Student Health Service to be checked for tuberculosis and diphtheria, and to be vaccinated for smallpox. This, how- ever. is only a small part of the major over- all program of the center. The hospital, staffed’by Miss Haines and three nurses, has twelve beds, an X-ray unit, and handles all minor surgery and simple fractures. All those requiring major surgery or having a long illness arc sent home. Dr. John S. Gif- fin. who started the year as director of the health service, resigned in January to accept a position at Oregon State college. Dr. Don- ald H. Boettner was engaged to fill the va- cancy caused by Dr. Giffin's resignation. Nurses in the dormitories assist the director of the health service by taking care of the many minor ailments of students in the dorms. A new health center has been pro- posed to fill the needs of the increased en- rollment. EXTENSION SERVICE The Extension Service, headed by Dr. E. L. Ritter, guides the outreach of the col- lege by giving opportunity to every teacher in Iowa to improve his or her instruction. This service was organized to give assistance to schools of the state, from the smallest one- teacher school to a large city system. Among the types of services offered are: consulta- tive. evaluative, remedial, extension class and advisory. These services are free to those who ask for them. Members of the staff are drawn from the regular campus faculty for a term or two or even a year. They are selected on the basis of need in the field and are scheduled ahead for a quarter by the extension office. All ex- penses while in the field are paid by the college. The industrial mobile arts unit was in the field for the first time this year. It has been quite popular and effective: it has worked mostly in rural schools and with rural teach- ers. 4clmini5trator5 Page 18

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 ddminiitra tori BUILDINGS GROUNDS Superintendent Eldon E. Cole is the man behind the scenes at Teachers College. Over a hundred acres of grounds, twenty-seven major buildings and efficient modern ma- chinery are under his care. The college maintains an area of seven acres which is devoted to horticultural and botanical gar- dens and a forty-acre golf course. Campus policing and building maintenance, repair and remodeling are also Mr. Cole's responsi- bilities. Mr. Cole is in charge of the building pro- gram which saw the completion this year of the new addition to Lawther hall and the Arts and Industries building. This program proposes a new men's dormitory, a college garage, a campus school and a health center. The general attractiveness of the campus is due in no small degree to Mr. Cole's plan- ning and constant effort to keep it looking its best. ALUMNI SERVICE Albert C. Fuller is the director of the Bureau of Alumni Service which has two purposes: it supplies the new' graduates or the various departments with information about the old graduates, and. also sponsors and directs all the alumni activities both on and off campus. One of its special events of the year is its annual springtime reunion on the campus. At this time two groups are recognized, the persons graduating twenty- five years ago and those graduating fifty years ago. The national average for any class reunion is about ten per cent of the total living class. In the past an average of fifteen percent of the past graduates have been present at this reunion. The Alumnus, a thirty-two page maga- zine. edited by the Bureau of Publications, is distributed four times a year to all graduates. It contains college information and alumni new's. Pag» 17

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 s4clm in id tra tor6 PLACEMENT BUREAU The Placement Bureau, under the direc- tion of Dr. E. W. Goctch. consists of a staff of seven members, who keep records of cred- its. personal information, statistics and other data relating to graduates and prospective graduates. All students must register with this office before they complete their last quarter, so that school superintendents and teaching agencies can correspond with this office to find available graduates to fill va- cancies in their schools. The bureau recom- mends a student who then has a personal interview with the superintendent. Each graduate has a folder on file in this office which includes twelve copies of credentials, recommendations, photographs and personal history. Dr. Goetch counsels students in the choice of subject combinations which aids the stu- dent’s chances of eventually gaining a good teaching position. LIBRARY The library, headed by Miss Marybellc McClelland, is one of the busiest places on the Teachers College campus. Open 80J £ hours per week, it has 9 trained librarians, 3 clerical assistants and more than 30 student assistants providing books, newspapers, peri- odicals and other library aid for the knowl- edge-seekers. Approximately 330.510 pieces of reading and reference material can be found in the library, which truly makes it a store-house of knowledge ”. The entire building has i seating capacity of 550. the largest room be- ing the main reading room, although the doc- ument room, educational room, catalog and reference rooms, art and music rooms, juve- nile library and fiction room attract many students and faculty members. Classes in geography and the new library science courses are also taught in the library. Page 19