Nebraskam
A Summer
Student Paper
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Official Summer Session Newspaper,
VOL. II, NO. 14.
FIJI DAY, JULY 21, 1931.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
ANNUAL
SOCIAL WORK
INSTITUTE MEETINGS
BE HELD HERE
Discussion of New County
Unit Plan Dominant
Note of Confab.
Classes Commence Monday
Morning As Session
Gets Underway.
With the new county unit plan
for public welfare work as the
central and dominate topic of dis
cussion, the sixth Social Work In
stitute will be held on the campus
starting next Monday morning, ac
cording to announcement by Dr.
Hattie Plum Williams, professor of
sociology who is receiving regis
trations. "Especially do we wish to em
phasize,'" Dr. Williams pointed out,
"that unlike other institutes, this
year's meeting is open to anyone
wishing to register. There are no
academic or social service re
quirements for registration since
we want the new plan studied and
discussed from all possible angles.
Particularly do we urge the at
tendance of persons who may as
pire to positions on county welfare
boards as well as those who are
influential in their respective com
munities. From this institute they
will receive valuable pointers on
the aims, purposes, and methods
of procedure which should be fol
lowed in board work of this na
ture." Miss Johnson Directs.
In charge of the institute will be
Miss Lillian Johnson, director of
the children's aid service of Omaha
and former director of the state
buretu of child welfare. She is a
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ALLOTMENT OF STATE
IL
Semi-Annual Apportionment
Involves $515,974
Division.
Four counties of Nebraska will
receive upward of $10,000 each,
and several others almost that
amount, in the semi-annual appor
tionment of state school funds now
being made. The sum of $12,452
will go to Caster county; $29,427
to Lancaster; $55,146 to Douglas,
and $10,943 to Scottsbluff.
Total amount of the allotment is
$515,974, disregarding odd cents.
One-fourth of the amount is
divided equally among all the
6,452 school districts entitled to
share. The other three-fourths is
distributed according to the num
ber of children of school age in the
different districts.
"On the foregoing two-way basis,
each district is allowed $19.98 'z
plus, while for every pupil enum
erated in the school census the dis
tricts get a trifle less than 95
cents.
In making up the apportionment,
the state superintendent's office
set aside $905.50 to pay tuition of
army and navy officer' children,
under provisions of H. R. 445 en
acted by the last legislature. That
law, however, has been held inop
erative by the attorney general,
and the money will therefore not
be paid out. It will be kept on
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Chancellor Burnett
leaves For Rockies
Chancellor E. A. Burnett left
Wednesday morning for an ex
tended vacation in the Rocky
mountains of Colorado. Dean
H. H. Foster of the college of
law will serve as acting chan
cellor during Mr. Burnett's absence.
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SCHOC
FUNDS
MADE
Institute Worker
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f Jf XS.'i
Who is receiving registrators
daily for the 3ixth Social Work
Institute which begins on the cam
pus next Monday morning.
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Majority of Students Accept
Teaching Positions in
Nebraska Schools.
The bureau of educational ser
vice at the university today an
nounces that the following stu
dents have accepted teaching ap
pointments for this year:
F.. D. Fahrney, senior high agri
culture, Stapleton; Ralph Benton,
senior high agriculture, Beatrice;
Mrs. Ada Westover, physical edu
cation, Cotner college; Eva Cales,
English and Spanish, Pagosh
Springs. Colo.; Lloyd Cross, junior
high school mathematics, Norfolk.
Isabelle Westlake, kindergarten
and music, Arnold; Ida Pascale,
mathematics and general science,
Iowa school for Deaf, Council
Bluffs, la.; Bessie Tauber. com
mercial subjects. Mason City;
Lillian Johnson, music und junior
high school. Mead; Uretta Klein,
commericll, Arapahoe: Cornelia
Fehner, intermediate, Valparaiso.
Vivian Jones, junior high school
English, Holdrege; Avis Alden,
junior high school mathematics.
Central City; Feme Johnson, pri
mary, Broken Bow; Mary Louise
Lane, Winnebago; Marvel McCor
mick, music, Bloomfield; Louise
Plageman, normal training, Stap
leton. Thurey Rosen, principal high
school, Hartington; Bernard Stut
heit, superintendent, Holstein; M.
L. Swengel. superintendent, Shu
bert; Lois Van Valkenburgh, math
ematics, North Platte; Olive A.
Wilson, art. Grand Islind.
TEACHERS
NEW
SCHOO
API
M
Trend of High School Graduates Is
Toward University, Survey Reveals
The national trend toward col
lege in the minds of high school
graduates is definite if results of
a survey conducted by the Univer
sity of Wisconsin extension divi
sion can be taken as an evidence
of the sentiment . of American
juth in general.
Asked to state tueir eaucauonai
aims. 7.553 seniors in 407 Wiscon
sin high schools indicated inten
tions of going on with ichool
work, while 1,755 said they did not
plan to continue in school. A total
of 3,550 were undecided.
A total of 13.305 hurh school
graduates filled out the question
naire. Most of these school groups
wpr addressed bv university ex
tension field representatives, who
furnished information ana counsel
concerning higher education or vo
cational careers but refrained from
urging attendance at a particular
school. The graciuaT.es were given
information on study opportunities
in all universities and Colleges in
PHI DELTA KAPPAS
PLAN CELEBRATION
Men's Educational Lodge
Will Picnic in Park
At Seward.
Plans for a fraternity picnic to
be held at Seward, July 30, have
been completed by members of
Phi Delta Kappa, educational or
ganization according to Prof. A.
C. Easton, vice president. The
picnic has been planned and or
ganized by last years initiates with
the following committees in
charge:
Transportation and Location:
Supt. C. H. Gundy, Monroe W.
Busch, Harry E. Hay, Lincoln;
Bertram E. McProud, dean of the
department of education at
Welseyan. Refreshments: W.
Ernest Clark, Columbus; R. Ver
non Hays, Ansley; E. Lyle Miller.
Entertainment: Suart T. BSller,
Joseph P. Young. Emery A.
Austin.
FIVE STUDENTS
WILL STUDY ON
MOUNTAIN TOUR
Five students have enroll-i.l in
the western travel-study tour in
geography which leaves Aug.tf for
the Rocky mountains under the di
rpption of Prof. E. E. Lackey, of
the department of geography.
Three hours of credit are to be
given for the tour which will end
Aug. 2G.
Registrants for the trip include:
Gertrude Sackett, Valparaiso;
Myrtle McKay, Elgin; Ferdinand
Black. North' Pine Giove. Pcnn.;
and H. L. Worthington, F. E. Sor
enson of Lincoln.
Leaving Lincoln the tour will in
clude the North Platte valley,
Goshen Hole, Casper. Big Horn
Basin, Yellowstone National park.
Snake River valley, and Salt
Lake. After remaining in Salt
Lake a Jay or so the group will re
turn through southern Wyoming,
EsLes Park and southern Nebraska.
"YatcVs Sicell" Is
Motto Of Nebraska
Student On Waves
"Eight o'clock and yawl's swell."
That is the cry which a Uni
versity of Nebraska student, Wil
liam Bacon, jr., nineteen, of West
Newton, Mass., and, York Cliffs, a
friend are probably echoing as
their tiny 30-foot yawl bounds
over the billows toward England.
They are in company with Harold
Matthews, a former sailor. '
Young Bacon attended the Uni
versity of Nebraska the second se
mester of last year after having
spent the year before as a student
in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He was enrolled nere
as a freshman in the college of
engineering, and waa a pledge to
Alpha Tan Omega iraiernny. m
father is in the steel business in
Boston.
Wisconsin and in various voca
tional institutions.
As in other years, the teacher's
profession led all vocational c-Djec-tives
with 2,554 choosing this ca
reer. Stenography followed with
1,265 anJ nursing was third in or
der with 1,104. Other vocations
preferred included: Engineer, 696;
aviator, 431; physical director, 426;
beautician, 361; business man, 354;
electrician, 315; agriculturist, 231.
Twenty-two looked to the clergy
as a career, while eighteen others
chose the mission field.
Other careers which attracted
lesser numbers included, in order
of preference, bookkeeper, journal
ist, auto mechanic, lawyer, ac
countant, farmer, forester, doctor,
chemist, commercial artist, archi
tect, librarian, artist, dietitian, dra
matic artist, salesman, draftsman,
homemaker, pharmacist, dentist,
dressmaker, machinist, social
worker, scientist, miner, photogra
pher, surveyor, merchant, plumber,
and builds . . ., . .
DR. HENZLIiMJOES EAST
Teachers College Dean Will
Interview Candidates
.For Positions.
Dr. F. E. Henzlik, chairman of
the department of school adminis
tration in tcachoi3' college, who
will next fall take up duties as
dean of that division of the uni
versity, leaves tomorrow morning
on a four day trip in the cast
where he will interview candidates
for teaching positions at Nebraska.
IS
Beatrice Principal Will Head
Junior College; Brown,
Worden Chosen.
Raymond B. Carry, principal of
the Beatrice senior high school,
has been appointed dean of the
new junior college at Grand
Island, according to reports re
ceived yesterday by R. D. Moritz,
director of the summer session.
The new junior college will take
the place of the Grand Island
Baptist college which was con
solidated with the Baptist college
at Sioux Falls.
"Mr. Carry is one of the most
outstanding educators in the state
of Nebraska," stated Professor
Moritz. "He is a former principal
of high schools at Humboldt, Falls
City and Fairbury. For five years
he was superintendent at Ashland
and for two years he was instruc
tor in social sciences at Omaha
Technical high school. He re
signed at Omaha to accept the
senior high school principalship at
Beatrice and has served in that
capacity since 1925.
He is at present president of
district one of the Nebraska State
Teachers association and has been
chairman of various important
committees in the organization. He
received his undergraduate work
at eWsleyan and took his masters
degree in school administration at
the University of Nebraska last
year.
Gleah Brown, principal of the
high school at Valley, has been se
lected as chairman of the depart
ment of English. She received her
A. B. degree from the university
in 1927 and her master's degree in
English in 1930.
Wilma G. Worden will be the
head of the department of mathe
matics. She received her M. A.
degree in mathematics this spring.
Sen has had teaching experience
at Cedar Rapids and held a fel
lowship in the department of
mathematics during the. past year.
JOHNSON HASJELLOWSHIP
Supervisor of Sciences Will
Study at Cornell; On
Leave of Absence.
P. G. Johnson, supervisor of sci
ences. Teachers college, has been
awarded the Charles Lathrop Pack
fellowship in nature education and
forestry and will leave in the fall
on a year's leave of absence to
study at Cornell toward a doctor's
decree.
Mr. Johnson's work will be
taken over by John H. Straka who
assisted Professor Browneu ana
received his masters degree in the
department of secondary education
last winter.
I OUK GKADUATES
KETUKN TO CAMPUS
Four former students of the
college of engineering returned to
visit the campus this week, accord
ing to Dean O. J Fereruson. They
are Edwin F. Schoenbeck, '25,
county engineer, Lake county,
Gary, Ind.; Harold B. Muff, '30,
who has accented a position with
the White Eagle Oil company at
Augusta. Kas.; Noel L. Smith. '27,
Jackson county highway engineer
ing department. Oak Grove, Mo.-,
and Lawrence M. Soltow, '18, en
gineering dqnrtment chief, West
ern Electric company. Kearny,
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CARRY
APPOINTED
GRAND
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PICNIC TO FEATURE
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Affair Scheduled -Tonight
With Special Rates
For Students.
Lunch at 7 O'clock with
Games, Dancing; ou
Program.
A swimming meet will be the
feature of the all university picnic
to be held at Capitol Beach Fri
day evening. This affair will take
place between 6 and 7 o'clock and
will be followed by lunch at 7. A
special rate of fifteen cents plus
stub number eight on the tickets
being distributed for the affair
will entitle any person to admis
sion to the pool. Cost of suits or
towels is extra. Six events under
the direction of Verne Jones will
be run-off including speed across
pool, diving, making biggest
splash from diving board, and
plunge for distance. Two other
events have not been decided upon.
Prizes have been donated and will
be presented to the winners.
No lunches will be handled by
the student executive committer
but groups of individuals are being
encouraged to picnic together. The
teachers of the sixth district of
western Nebraska are going to
picnic together and any other
group or organization caring to do
so should make arrangements. As
indicated above, the picnic proper
will be held at 7 o'clock.
Tickets Distributed.
Tickets for free admission to the
Beach and cut-rates on the differ
ent riding and amusement devices
were distributed all day yesterday
in Teachers College and will be
handed out at the same place from
9 . 12 today. If anyone cannot
possibly arrange to be in that
building on the above hours and
can contact some member of the
committee it may be possible to
get tickets from them.
A special rate of twenty-five
cents plus stub number ten. when
presented at the ticket office of
the open air ballroom, will entitle
each person to free dancing all
evening.
Following the picnic supper the
Capitol Beach management is
sponsoring a free entertainment in
their open air theater. This will
also be presented during the inter
mission of the dance at 10:30
o'clock.
Those who sold tickets Thurs
day include Helene Cooper in the
morning, and Margaret Huston
and Wendell Dodd in the after
noon. Today, M. R. Colson will
have charge from 8 to 9; Margaret
Huston from 9 to 10; Heleve
Cooper from 10 to 11 and Verne
Jones from 11 o'clock until noon.
(vcrmaii Class Plans
Parly For KoiiHing
Members of Miss Wittman's
German II class are giving a fare
well party for Rev. Arthur Kor
teling on Friday evening at the
home of Olinda Richards, 4013
Holdrege street.
Rev. Korteling is leaving for
Berlin on Aug. 1 where he will
study for a year at Berlin univer
sity. W. W. Cur j man Dies
From Auto Injuries
Word has been received from
Minnesota of the death of
Wayne W. Curfman, assistant
superintendent of Lincoln
schools until 1927 when he re
signed to accept the position of
superintnedent of schools at
Lawrence, Kansas. Death was
caused by a head-on collision
which brought almost instant
death to his wife and daughter,
Mr. Curfman dying Tuesday
night. The accident occurred on
Monday afternoon. Mr. Curf
man was a member of the Ne
braska chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa.
SWIMMING
CONTESI
CAPITOL
BEACH