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

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A teacher affects eternity —Adams From kindergarten through ninth grade, the pupils at Ames Laboratory School learn from specialists. River Falls students who take the path to the lab school are usually elementary education majors. Inside the fully equipped, self-contained school building they observe instructors7 teaching techniques and pupils7 reactions. Or they may watch classroom procedure on closed circuit television. They take their turns at helping pupils or conducting classes. Watching children at work and at play is one of the rewards of students dedicated to the teaching profession.

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On many campuses it is known as the gym but at River Falk the students say they are going over to Karges ' Karges Physical Education and Recreation Center can be reached by many paths—by cutting through the Student Center, by taking a shortcut across campus from the dorms to the rear entrance. But the best way to enter Karges is through the front door, pausing to look up at the north outside wall, adorned with the giant bronze Falcon that is a symbol of the University. Once inside, the student may attend a physical education lecture or a laboratory class in golf, swimming, bowling, archery, tumbling, fencing, or any number of team or individual sports. He may attend or participate in a swimming meet, a basketball game, a wrestling match. He may watch the football squad loping off to the practice field or limping back again. In the gymnasium he may mingle with crowds too big for the regular auditorium, to hear such famous speakers as Vance Packard or Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., or such musical programs as a concert by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. And the goal he has been working toward will be reached when, in mortarboard and gown, he joins a processional to Karges and marches across the stage to receive his diploma.

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Although perhaps not yet aware of it as they take the paths to the agriculture and agricultural engineering buildings, some River Falls students will soon be involved in problems of feeding the world's millions. In the laboratories they investigate improvements for growing conditions of plant and animal life. On the laboratory farm they see the results of their studies. In the engineering building they delve into the Innards of farm machinery, construct plans for improved farm buildings. In the classroom they plan ways to pass on their knowledge to younger students. Ag students at River Falls can choose from more than 500 types of |obs. Happy they whose walls already rise -Virgil will help River Falls students keep up with the world's advances in agricultural, biological, earth and mathematical sciences. When the new five-story science building, yet to be nomed, is completed, science students will beat paths to its doors. More than 20 laboratories, o planetarium and a greenhouse