University of South Dakota - Coyote Yearbook (Vermillion, SD)

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School of Education Make out lesson plans, outside reading, look up library references, write lesson plans, correct those test papers, make out another test over the next few chapters, finish some more lesson plans -and so runs the muddled minds of education majors who strive to get all their work done in a limited day. Most education students agree that practice teaching a, thrill. They like the responsibility of dealing with school childreng they like to be admired and respected by these boys and girls who think college must be WVOH- derful if this enthusiastic creature before them is any criteriong they like to think they are get- A true educator, although not pedagogical, VVI11. II. Batson is the spark plug of the School of Education. Small, gray-haired, and etticient, he not only boasts of having placed 1700 teach- ers in South Dakota schools, but he serves as director of the Summer Session and promoter of scholarships for deserving high school senlors. ting first hand experience that will enable them to get a job when they've finished school. This, however, is not all. Students in the school of education have an opportunity to meet any number of school administrators and em- ployees. Through the 'IT's bureau of teachers appointments, over 90 per cent of the education students each year are placed in towns and cities in this state and others. Gradually over the last two decades an increasing number of U people have been elected to administrative posi- tions, such as school superintendents and prin- cipals in the state. U gl

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College of F ine Arts f Ya ,sa w it KW A plentiful supply of South Dakota young people who have special capabilities in the lines of art, music, and acting find the U their haven. Fine Arts inajors spend long' afternoon hours working in labs or practicing. The U in gen- eral is most conscious of their presence when Spring' comes. Open Windows in Slagle and Old Main send forth the musical notes of soloists, in- struments, choirs, and groupsg artists languidly distribute themselves over the campus to sketch buildings and campus scenes. Through the dura- tion of four long' plays and scores of one-act NV. R. Colton serves expertly as dean and spe- cial instructor of his students in the College of Fine Arts. From his studio atop Old Main, Dean Colton watches and helps students they pass to concerts, spec'al lessons and recitals in the aesthetic field of endeavor. plays for various purposes, embryo Barrymores show the World- what drama, really is. More than half of the students in the U are registered in courses in. the College of Fine Arts. Teaching is the ambition of many of these peo- ple. In spite of this ambition, however, each year there are more teachers requested for pub- lic schools than the University can supply. A new art schedule will offer the degree, bachelor of fine arts in advertising art, and with the in- crease in space for art work, the U's fine arts school. expects to gain greater recognition. .1 T? r it '-',f'f z

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School of Medicine Dressed in white, going to classes and working all day, studying all night, hardest working clan of male students on the campus are the itls-a- long - tough - iight - th rough - med-school-but-we 've- got - something -when -we 're -through medics. N0 one spends a year at the U without frequently meeting one of these white-coated fellows out on a job, 110 one fails to recognize the tenseness and earnestncss of the fraternal bonds that tie these fellows together when they take a fifteen-minute intermission each afternoon at 3:00 for a coke at the Co-op. The U's med school offers two years pre-clinic work, which means that any student seeking a From his seat amid stacks of thick, diflieult books, Dr. J. C. Ohlmacher gets the credit for keeping up the standards. His students, who have been admitted to some of the largest and best advanced medical schools in the nation, re- inember him and thank him for his insistence on accuracy and precision. medical career may get live years training here under the direction of twenty distinguished in- structors. XVell-equipped laboratories, libraries, and an extensive supply of modern apparatus furnish these seientihcally-ininded medics the wherewithal for probing further into any phase of medicine which particularly fascinates them. However, the true test of our ine med school is the quality of grads that leave here. These grads are placed insuch schools as Northwestern Uni- versity, Washington University, St. Louis Uni- versity, Creighton, Johns Hopkins University, Long Island University, and Vanderbilt Univer- sity to finish their work and receive their degrees. 5