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Vol. 69, No. 12
BRING NEWS
TO UNION
ROOM 20
Lincoln, Nebraska
hursday, June 27, 1940.
Professional relations insti
today
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High school
music course
meets climax
All-state orchestra, bond,
chorus to perform this
week and next in Union
All State High School Music
course students present three mu
sical events this week and next,
bringing to a climax their stay at
the university's "music camp."
The All State High School band
will appear in concert Friday eve
ning at 7 in the Union ballroom
under the direction of Ward Moore.
Arthur G. Harrell of Kearney will
be the guest conductor of the band.
On Sunday afternoon at 3 the
All State orchestra will perform
with Bernard Nevin, Lincoln, as
guest conductor and Emanuel
Wishnow, conductor.
Final musical event of the 1940
course is set for Tuesday evening
at 7 in the ballroom, when the
All State chorus, under Dr. Arthur
E. West brook's direction, will com
bine with the band, orchestra and
organ to climax the entire course.
The course has attracted a large
number of young high school mu
sicians from Nebraska and sur
rounding states for a three weeks
Intensive session. Each student
participates in two large organi
zations besides taking private les
Bons, small ensemble, music theory
and appreciation. Private lessons
are offered by the school of music
faculty. Miss Ruth Sibley teaches
music theory and appreciation as
well as string ensembles. Lyle
Welch, Lincoln, directs the wood
wind ensembles. Ward Moore who
conducts the band also directs the
brass ensembles. Howard Van
Sickle leads the small vocal en
sembles. Object of the course, according
to Director Westbrook, provide the
talented young musicians of the
state an intensive musical experi
ence. The proficiency of the stu
dents makes it possible to present
the programs scheduled in a brief
three week period.
The programs:
AII-.HIrtle Hitch Hcttou Hand Comvrt
(See MUSIC, Page 4.)
Ag instructors conference . . .
Features Ten Year club meet,
weighs vocational problems
Progress made by vocational
agriculture education in this coun
try was reviewed Friday by W. P.
Beard of the United States offi.e
of education, Washington, D. C,
before an early morning breakfast
of ;he American Vocation Vssocia
tion Ten Year club in the Union.
The club is composed of Nebraska
men who have taught vocational
agriculture ten years or more, and
met as part of the annual stute
conference for vocational agri
cultural instructors.
Speaking on "The Next Ten
Years," Mr. Beard wurned his
listeners against merely maintain
ing a status quo in their work.
Among things to be accomplished
in the next few years, he said, Is a
closer working relationship with
parents of boys giving them a
better understanding of the nature
of vocational education training.
Parents can do much by lending
their co-operation toward setting
up a real farm program for youth,
he believes.
At the same time there is need
to teach boys not only the skills
but the management of farming
with actflal instruction in how to
develop firm programs. Mr. Beard
endorsed the additional instruction
of boys in part-time classes after
thoir graduation from high school
as an excellent means of getting
them actually established miccess
fully on their own farms.
Elect Tuning
J. E. Tuning of Kearney was
elected president of the Ten Year
club. Henry Engle of Sargent was
elected secretary.
O. C. Hatch of Falls City was
elected president of the Nebraska
Vocational Agriculture association
Featured in Life
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Journal ft Star.
Nebraska's E-Htie Cox, who
went to Galesburg, Illinois, lait
months as one of the 16 candidates
for All Amer'can College Queen,
made the pages of Life last week
as one of the most typical Ameri
can college girls-good looking,
smart and vivacious.
Knapp gets
scholarships
Geography student wins
two Harvard awards
Royce H. Knapp of Lincoln, who
received his master's degree at
Nebraska this June, has received
two scholarships at Harvard uni
versity for next year to study in
the graduate school of education
there, according to an announce
ment by Prof. E. E. Lackey of the
University of Nebraska geography
department. He is the recipient
of a Harvard university scholar
ship for $300 and of an Austin
scholarship for $400.
Knapp graduated from here in
1939 and has served as a graduate
assistant in geography here dur
ing the past year while working
for his master's in geography and
secondary education.
for 190-41 at Friday's meeting of
the entire annual state conference
for vocational agriculture instruc
tors. Myron Rumery of North
Platte was elected vice president,
and G. A. Spidel of Waverly wa3
named secretary.
Deems talks.
Speaking before the conference
on "Characteristics of Adult Stu
dents in Vocational Agriculture,"
H. W. Deems, assistant supervisor
of the state department of voca
tional education, stated that the
adult farmer can learn more nbout
his Job than anyone else because
he is right on the spot and knows
his immediate problems. Adult
classes include men of all ages, of
all education, and of every finan
cial status, he said. They are
Interested pl," - in information
which pertArt to their present
and immediib problems and can
be counted ui i to apply such
information as ;hey may get in
supervised farming to as great an
extent as possible.
Mr. Beard, assisted by Prof.
C. C. Minteer of the university de
partment of vocational education,
interviewed David Engel of Mead
on his prog rani for out-of-school
young men in a demonstration
evaluation of the local program In
vocational education.
Union shuts down too
The Student Union will close
late July 3 and will open for
breakfast service Monday
morning, July 8.
There will be no Union
dance this Saturday as pre
viously announced.
Institute on Professional Relations
Student Union Building
Thursday, June 27, 1940.
GENERAL SESSION 1 .30-3:00 P. M. BALLROOM.
Address: "Earmarks of a Profession" Miss Kathryn Heath
Executive Secretary, National Association of Deans of Women.
Address: "How Professional Are Nebraska
Teachers?" Dr. Ray C. Gates
Superintendent of Schools, Grand Island, Nebraska.
DISCUSSION GROUPS 3:15-4:15 P. M.
Topic: "What Steps Should Nebraska Teachers' Take to Improve
Their Professional Status?"
Parlor X Leader: Mr. Everett M. Hosman,
Director of the Summer Session, University of Omaha.
Parlor Y Leader: Dr. A. J. Foy Cross,
Director of Instruction, Omaha Public Schools.
Parlor Z Leader: Dr. Charles F. Dienst,
Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS BY THE GROUP LEADERS
4:25-4:40 P. M. BALLROOM.
EVENING SESSIONS 6:30 P. M. PARLORS A AND B.
Presiding: Dr. W. H. Morton, Professor of Education, University
of Nebraska.
Address: 'The Professional Relationships of
Teachers" Miss Kathryn G. Heath
Executive Secretary, National Association of Deans of Women.
EXHIBIT OF N. E. A. PUBLICATIONS
1:00-5:00 P. M. BALLROOM.
Sigma Delta
Tau convenes
Sorority members hold
national meet in Union
More than 130 delegates to the
international convention of Sigma
Delta Tau sorority came from
Omaha to Lincoln by bus Monday
morning for meetings and lunch
eon at the Union. The Theta
chapter here and the Omaha
Alumni League were the hostess
group for representatives from 20
chapters including one in Canada.
Selma Hill of Lincoln acted as
toastmistress at a noon luncheon
which followed national committee
meetings. Harriet Byron dis
cussed the work of the Lincoln
alumni, Mrs. Carl Weil spoke
briefly as patroness of Theta
Chapter, which was instituted on
March 25, 1925, and Mrs. Ben
Polsky represented the Lincoln
motheis club group.
Take tour
A sightseeing tour of Lincoln
was made following luncheon, and
a model initiation of three girls
from various parts of the country
was put on by the supreme council
at the Nebraska chapter house.
The group returned to Omaha
Monday evening for a testimonial
banquet, elections and a general
session which c'osed the conven
tion Tuesday.
Joint sponsors in biinging the
convention to Nebraska this year
were Jouenhine Rubnitz, president
of the Omaha Alumni League and
Sarah Bonnie Miller of Fall Lake,
Iowa, president of the Nebraska
active chapter. National president
of the sorority is Mrs. E. E. Reis
man of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Glenn Miller band
lights on Lincoln;
plays in Coliseum
Glenn Miller, THE Glenn Miller,
and band will broadcast his na
tionwide -hooked-up cigarette
broadcast from Nebraska's own
Coliseum, Tuesday, July 2. Land
ing on Lincoln Tuesday afternoon
to rehearse before his evening ap
pearance at the Turnpike, the Na
tion's No. 1 band will play before
4,400 Lincolnites who gather the
tickets to be given away.
Highest-priced musical attrac
tion ever to play here, Miller will
broadcast .at 8 over CBS, the pro
gram originating in KFAB. Broad
cast watchers must be in their
seats in the Coliseum by 7:45, will
first see an 18-mlnute commercial
film sent along by itiller's spon
sor. From broadcast goes the baud
by bus to the Casino for the rest
of the evening.
Freeman wins
architecture prize
Richard O. Freeman, Stroms
burg, Neb., has- been named win
ner of the Associated General Con
tractors $100 tuition scholarship
award in architecture for the year
1940-41 at the university, accord
ing to an announcement Saturday
by Prof. Ben F. Hemphill of the
department of architecture.
Freeman is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and has an average
in architecture and fine arts above
90. He will be a fifth year senior
next year and has earned prac
tically all of his own expenses
during the four years he has
studied at the university.
The committee in charge of the
award was composed of Professors
Hemphill, Everett Kingery of Lin
coln, A. H. Brodkey of Omaha
and Walter F. Wilson of Lincoln.
Laymen ask for . . .
'Fundamental, fitted'eourses
in Nebraska public schools
"Many high school graduates
don't know how to speU," affirmed
George W. Holmes, president of
the Lincoln First National Bank,
as he asked for less emphasis on
superficial studies and more on
fundamental courses at the Lay
men's Conference on Education
sponsored by the summer session
last week.
Representing the Nebraska
Bankers Association, Holmes said
he hoped that as much attention
was being given In this state to
the education program and effi
cient school management as to the
erection of fine-looking school
buildings. He asked that good
training in the crafts should be
given, and that young people fit
ted for such work should be en
couraged to take It up.
Attended by more than 175 per
sons, the conference had as its
theme: "What Is Right and Wtong
With the Nebraska Public School
Program?" According to Dr.
F. E. Hcnzlik, dean of Teachers
College, the conference had the
two-fold purpose of bringing rep
resentative laymen and school
Attention, students
and instructors!
All summer school classes
will meet Saturday, June 29.
School will close at 5 p. m.
Wednesday, July 3), for a two
day vacation and will reopen
at 7 a. m. Monday, July 8.
Heath speaks
on 'Earmarks
of Profession1
Ray C. Gates to link
Nebraska teachers into
conference discussion
Miss Kathryn Heath. Washing
ton, D. C., executive secretary of
the National Association of Deans
of Women, is principal sneaker at
an Institute on Professional Rela
tions holding forth today in the
Union.
Miss Heath will speak at a een-
eral session from 1:30 to 3 thia
afternoon on "Earmarks of a Pro
fession," and again at an evenine4
session at 6:30 on "The Profes
sional Relationships of Teachers."
ur. u. Kay Gates, superintendent
of schools at Grand Island, will
also address the afternoon general
session on "How Professional Are
Nebraska Teachers?" Discussion
groups on "What Steps Should
Nebraska Teachers Take to Im
prove Their Professional Status?"
will be held from 3:15 to 4:15 with
a summary of discussions from
1:25 to 4:40.
Young institute
The institute, as developed in
34 summer schools of the country
during the past two years, is an
informal conference planned for
discussion of the teacher's rela
tionship to his profession and to
the public. Proof of its effective
ness in reaching and representing
a cross section of the teaching
profession the sponsors find in the
fact that nearly one-third of all
the teachers in the United States
annually attend summer schools.
For professional unity
The conference attempts an ap
proach to the problem of unify
ing and democratizing the profes
sion, and of making it vocal in its
problems. Other objectives center
around clarifying the relationship
of the teacher to students, the pro
fession and the public.
Co-operation is keynote, to uni
fication of the profession. The
institute presents itself as shining
example of co-operation, in its
program and between the agencies
sponsoring the institute.
people in closer contact with each
other and of providing opportunity
for lay citizens to discuss freely
what they believe to be the weak
nesses and shortcomings as well
as strong features of the Nebraska
public school program.
Rodney Dunlap of Fremont,
vice-president of the Nebraska
State Bar Association, expressed
a belief that students would be
better off if schools encouraged
the majority of them to acquire
only that amount and type of edu
cation for which their abilities and
Industry fitted them. Only a rel
atively few can attain highly paid
executive positions, he stated, and
the rest will be better equipped
for their life work if they do not
follow the same course of study.
He warned that schools must teach
students to conserve and manage
well this country's resources if
the United States Is to compete
with totalitarian governments
without imitating their methods.
The power to educate youth Is
as Important as the power to raise
armies, stated W, A. Robbins of
Lincoln, past president of the Ne
braska Association of School
Boards. Schools have not insisted
enough on real work, he believes,
with too much emphasis on grades
and diplomas. He advocated teach
ing Americanism along with the
other "isms" in schools, with les
stress on defeatist philosophies
which preach that there is little
opportunity for graduates tn th
world today.