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

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state board of education Left to Right: Roy E. Stovons, Dwight G. Rid-r. Richard H. Plock, W S. Rupo. Harry H Hagomann Mrs. Willard Archie. Mrj. Gscrg ? Kysorh. Robert P. Munger. V B. Hamilton. The Board of Education consists of nine members who are selected by the governor of the S ate of Iowa to serve for a period of six years. Among the matters handled at meetings of the group are appoint- ments of faculty members and management of the finances and property for the state schools Iowa State Teachers College, the State University of Iowa, Iowa State College, the School for the Blind at Vinton and the School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs. President of the Board was Judge Dwight G. Rider from Fort Dodge and David Dancer from Des Moines continued as secretary. Chairmen of the standing committees Faculty, Building and Business, and Ways and Means were V. B. Hamilton, W. S. Rupe and Richard Plock, respectively. 20

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the president's message I welcome the opportunity so courteously offered me by the editor of this yearbook to comment briefly on the nature of a college education. Too often we deduce from our personal experiences in the elementary and high school programs that securing an education is simply a matter of carrying out a number of assigned tasks, set and checked on by the teaching staff, recorded in the principal's or registrar's office and testified to by a diploma. This concept places almost all the initiative with the teaching staff and equates an education with increased facility in carry- ing out assigned tasks in a series of courses. Of course, no college can give us an education a college can only provide us op- portunities for our own growth and development. A college which stimulates students to work hard at the process of self development, which provides them competent instructors as guides and which centers its attention and that of its students on matters that are sig- nificant rather than trivial, has done about all that can be done- the rest is up to the individual student. At our college the common elements of the four-year curriculum (our general educa- tion and our common professional sequences, constituting nearly one-half of the under- graduate curriculum) seek to provide opportunities for development of breadth and per- spective for careful thought regarding basic values. Special work in major areas and the related professional courses are designed to assist the student in developing to a high degree those special talents through which he might most effectively reach children and youth in his subsequent work in the public schools. A wide variety of extra-curricular activities and an extensive residence hall and social program provide opportunities for one's development as an effective person in communicating ideas, in engaging in co- operative action, in becoming increasingly senstive to the reactions and feelings of others and in developing personal and group standards of thought and behavior. Again, however, it will be the degree to which, and the manner in which, the student has utilized these opportunities which will determine the extent to which he becomes an educated person. Recorded in this yearbook are many cf the facts of student life and the formal offerings of the college through the utilization of which students may build into themselves those qualities and characteristics which make for effective citizenship and highly competent professional service. We who are to be teachers ought by all means view the teaching and learning process with more than ordinary clarity and insight. If the yearbook can help us in this respect, it will have rendered a vital service in addition to keeping alive many pleasant memories. ; . y 19

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Dr. M. J. Nelson dean of faculty Dr. M. J. Nelson, Dean of Faculty, coordinates stu- dent-faculty relations. Among his duties are the gen eral supervision of instructional records, of the marking system, registration procedure, advisory system and the academic guidance of students. Dr. Daryl Pendergraft, former member of the social science department, is the Curriculum Coordinator. He has been instrumental in developing the new curriculum and in instigating the new graduate school. An extensive administration revision was undertaken this year. Re-alignment of administrative functions was divided into three major departments instruction, personnel and business. Dr. Daryl Pendergraft curriculum coordinator 21 Xi