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Friday, April 12, 1946
THE NEBRASKAN
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Three Senior Home Economic Majors Teach
Boys' Classes for One Month's Experience
When six senior vocational
homemaking education majors
left on February 20 for one month
of teaching experience, three of
the student teachers taught boys
Classes in home economics
The six coeds, Doris Atkison
Lorraine French, Vivian Ferris
Mary Miller, Margaret Griffin,
and Lois Opper, were under the
supervision of the regular home
making teachers and either Miss
Florence M. Corbin or Mrs. Rea
Keeler of the vocational education
staff at the university. During
their time, the girls evaluated
their own work and also received
criticism from the supervisors.
Eight Boys
Doris Atkison taught eight boys
at Ashland; Mary Miller, eight
boys at Teachers' College high
school; and Lorraine French, four
teen boys at Lyons. The main units
of work were the study of boy
girl relationships, etiquette, table
service, and foods and nutrition.
In Ashland, the boys listed
characteristics lor an ideal girl
and gave a party for their best
girl friends.
While studying clothing, the
class at Teachers' College high
school took a field trip to a clean
ing establishment and a store. At
other times, they ate and dis
cussed Army K-Rations; made
shelves and repaired tables and
chairs for the homemaking de
partment in their interior decora
tion study, and prepared and
served a luncheon for some girl
friends. They also sent one of
their cakes to a member of the
class who was hospitalized.
A Few Changes Made
In Lyons, the boys listed what
they didn't like in girls and pub
lished their findings in the school
paper. The girls returned their
criticism on boys and all planned
to improve. They served a fried
chicken dinner to a girls' home
economics class and sent cookies
to one of the class who had
mumps.
Comments of the student teach
ers on their teaching experiences
were varied. Doris Atkison felt
the students needed more training
in finding entertainment for them
selves, as recreation facilities are
rather limited in Ashland. She
said lecturing was not the best
method of teaching boys, as they
actually had to discover their own
needs by actual experience.
No Problems
Lorraine French taught mostly
14-year-old boys and had no dis
cipline problems with any of
them. She said one of her main
worries was keeping them alert in
class during the basketball tour
nament which they were attend
ing every night. Lorraine also
taught a home nursing class of
girls, who set up a sick room for
the care of a patient with a com
municable disease and had the
actual practice of making a bed
while a person was in it.
According to Mary Miller, boys
are very loyal to each other. She
found the class tried to see what
things they could do on the first
day without getting into trouble.
She said it is best to laugh with
the boys but still maintain their
respect. It is also her belief that
boys seem more interested and
proud of their work than the girls
yet seem to lack self-confidence.
First Aid
All three girls who taught boys'
classes in the various high schools
agreed that, as teachers, they
needed more study of first aid and
care and repair of equipment.
Studies show- that students who
received their training in off
campus centers have less difficulty
than others in their first teach
ing job.
Six more girls will be starting
their student-teaching April 15.
They are Ada Minnie Chace, who
will be at Ashland; Gloria Bre
mer, at Pawnee City; Jean PO'
tadle, at Stanton; Mildred Schap
hoff, at Lyons; LaVonne West',
at Everett Junior High in Lincoln;
and Margaret Alms, at Teachers'
College high school. They will
return May 13.
History of the University
The university was founded by
an act of the state legislature, ap
proved Feb. 15, 1869. The con
stitution of 1875 gave the univer
sity a place in the state's funda
mental law. A Board of Regents
composed of six men elected from
districts provide the general di
rection.
The first building on the Uni
versity of Nebraska campus was
University Hall, still located north
of the Administration building.
All but the lower floor was con
demned and razed some years
ago.
There are 32 buildings on the
city campus, with another, the
Armory, now under construction.
The Agricultural college, which
was opened in 1872, now boasts
25 buildings.
Nebraska Student
Foundation
The Student Foundation, organ
ized in 1942, publicizes the uni
versity through a monthly bul
letin, "Nebraska Today," sent to
200 high schools in the state. Dis
trict and county chairmen send
out publicity material to home
town papers on honors and ac
tivities of their students. The
1946-47 president is Lorene No-
votny.
Vets Committee
Plans Meeting
Sunday Night
. World war II veterans are in
vited to attend a meeting of the
American Veteran's Committee,
Sunday, on the second floor
Y.M.C.A. lounge at 7 p. m., an
nounces Erwin Hatfield, univer
sity representative of the AVC
The purpose of this meeting is
to form a Lincoln chapter of
AVC's national organization which
includes such personalities as Bill
Mauldin, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Jr., and Dave Maudlin.
Group Aims.
The statement of the intentions
of the AVC are: (1) "Adequate
financial, medical, vocational and
educational assistance for every
veteran. (2) A job for every vet
eran, under a system of private
enterprise, in which business, la
bor agriculture and government
work together to provide full em
ployment and full production for
the nation."
The AVC also intend to have
(3) Thorough social and economic
security; (4) free speech, press,
worship, assembly and ballot; (5)
disarmament of Germany and Ja
pan and the elimination of the
power of their militarist classes;
(6) active participation of the
United States in the United Na
tions Organization to stop any
threat of aggression and to pro
mote social and economic meas
ures which will remove the causes
of wars and (7) establishment of
an international veterans coun
cil for the furtherance of world
peace and justice among the peo
ples of all nations.
AAUW Sponsors
Coffee Hour for All
Senior Women
AAUW wlil hold a morning cof
fee hour for all senior women at
the governor's mansion from 10
to 12 Saturday, 'according to Mis3
Fern Hubbard, president of the
Lincoln branch.
Gretchen Burnham, Dorothy
Taylor and Beth PolhemUs will
form a string trio of cello, piano
and violin.
Emphasizing that all senior
women are invited to attend, Miss
Margery Johnston, assistant dean
of women and chairman of the
AAUW educatoin committee, said
that this year AAUW hoped to
extend personal invitations to each
of the 304 senior women.
Griswold Reminds
Ivy Poet Entrants
Of April 23 Limit
Barbara Griswold, Mortar Board
president, reminds students that
all entries in the Ivy Day Poet
contest must be turned into the
Union office before April 23. The
poems should be original and
pertaining to Ivy Day proceeding
and traditions. All undergradu
ate students are eligible to com
pete in this contest.
The judges will be three mem
bers of the English department
faculty and the winner will be
announced the day before Ivy
Day, May 3. The poem will then
be read during the presentation
of the May Queen's Court on Ivy
Day.
The Mortar Board also an
nounced that both men and
women could compete in this
year's Ivy Day Orator competi
tion and the orator will be se
lected in the spring elections.
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