University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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Carl Klaxdrud State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin A thletic Director Charlotte CiUbax B. S. University of Wisconsin Physical Education Edith E. Weberg State Normal School. Stevens Point, Wisconsin Home Economics Wisconsin demands a large number of well-trained elementary and grammar grade teachers each year. The school has two year curricula and departments for the training of grammar grade teachers, intermediate grade teachers, and primary teachers. The Department for the Training of Rural Teachers was established in 1911 and now supplies practically all the teachers for the surrounding counties. Four one room school rooms arc operated by the college and afford excellent conditions for practice. Nor is tile opportunity for social and physical development slighted at River Falls. A large gymnasium in each building, one for women and one for men, a large athletic field, a fine new swimming pool in the New Building, and the tennis courts on the South Campus afford recreation for all. Athletics of all branches is coached and sponsored for both men and women, and contests arc not only between colleges but also between classes and organizations within the school to afford everyone a chance to participate. Music, forensics, and dramatics arc equally well developed. Mary B. Kimball Diploma, Library School, University of Wisconsin Librarian Mary Bradley Library School, University of Wisconsin Assistant Librarian Amy Fuller State Normal School, River Palls, Wisconsin Assistant Librarian Ticcntf Seven

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Marvin D. Gbbre Warren Conservator)' of Music Music Vera B. Arnold Hastings College Conservator)' of Music Music Cara Amelia Wharton Diploma, MacPhail School of Music History of Music, Theory, Piano Since the establishment of Normal Schools in Wisconsin, an important part of the work of these schools has been the training of high school teachers of mathematics, history, science and English. A recent investigation of high school teaching conditions in the state shows that more than eighty per cent of the teachers in these schools are actually teaching more than one line of subject-matter. This is particularly true of the schools in that part of the state served by the River Falls Teachers College. The teaching force in these high schools is limited in number and it is necessary for each teacher to handle several lines of work. In view of these conditions extreme specialization is avoided in the curricula for high school teachers. Each student pursues one major and one minor line of subject-matter and receives a good general training in each. The growing need for well-trained principals and supervisors in our schools today is met in our college by a department which offers curricula for the training of principals and supervisors for state graded schools and high schools. A three year curriculum for the training of junior high school teachers is offered. Alberta M. Greene Teachers College, Columbia University Art Helen Dim;lev Chicago Academy of Fine Arts Art I.illian B. Clawson Western State Normal Michigan Assistant In Art TtecntffSix

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ItU88RLL J0I1N8T0N A. B. Washington and Jefferson College Director Training School Mabel I.. Bridges M. A. Teachers College, Columbia University Supervisor Elementary Grades Nathalie Delander B. S. University of Minnesota Geography and History Junior High School THE TRAINING SCHOOL THE training school occupies the largest part of the New Building, which was erected in 1927. The school is constructed according to the most modern plans and equipped with the best school fixtures. It contains the offices of the head of the training school department and the heads of the deportments for grammar grade and elementary teachers, along with splendid class rooms and assemblies for the grades. There arc three floors to the building, the third floor containing the junior high school, the second floor the intermediate grades and the first floor the primary grades. The pupils attend from the surrounding city. The primary purpose of the training school is to afford opportunity for the prospective teachers to gain actual teaching experience as a part of their teacher Dorothea E. Birdsell A. M. University of Wisconsin English. Junior High School Olga Gaustad State Normal School, River Falls, Wisconsin Rural Critic Augusta Thomas River Falls State Normal School Fifth and Sixth Grade Critic Twenty-Eight