FRIDAY, JULY 6, 195!
DAILY NEBRASKA
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Art Gallery
Picks Work
Of Students
p University Art Galleries an
nounced recently the names of
students whose work has been se
lected from the annual student
show to become a part of a per
manent collection of student art.
Thirty pieces, including work
in painting, sculpture, drawing,
graphics, ceramics, and mural de
sign, have been retained and have
been installed as a special ex
hibition in Gallery A to be on
view for the remained of the
summer.
The primary purpose of the col
lection is to provide additional
teaching aids for use in the Uni
versity's Art Department, but it
will also be used to represent
the University at educational ex
hibitions throughout the country.
Four pieces of sculpture which
have been collected for this new
collection have already been
loaned to the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis, to be included
in its 5th Six-State Sculpture
show.
These items, together with five
others by Nebraska students and
eight pieces by Art Department
faculty will be on display at
the Walker Art Center through
September 2.
The following students are re
presented: Elizabeth Slaughter,
Janet Horton, William Lyberis,
Beverly Colbert, Dorothy Kuttler,
Ronald Sterkel, Ina Yount, Jack
tJrodie, Paul Bateman, Patricia
Bach Tom Schmitt, Leo Manke,
Bill Collopy, and Shirley Cane,
all of Lincoln.
Others represented are: Luana
Laird, Grand Island; Elizabeth
Whitlock, Alliance; Janet Mund
henke, Milford; Phyllis Moyer,
Fremont; Verba Miller, Broken
Bow; Ruby Caha, Ceresco. Keith
Kennedy, Crete; Mary Hartman,
Omaha.
Students from outside the. state
include: Jack McCabe, Missouri
Valley, Iowa; Donald West, Doug
las, Wyoming; Marjorie Wilson,
Rochester, N. Y.; and Ella My
amoto, Hilo, Hawaii.
Pi
Educator
otests
Programs
"Our rural education program
today does not find its basis in the
rural environment," says the late
Fannie Wyche Dunn in her re
cent book entitled "The Child in
the Rural Environment."
Dr. Dunn, long time professor
of rural education at Teachers
College, Columbia University,
protests the sterotyped program
of the rural school adaptation of
me city school curriculum.
She recognizes that the 12,000,
000 children attending rural
schools throughout the nation do
rot have a school program to fit
ineir needs but have, instead, a
carbon copy of curriculums de
veloped in and Tor city schools.
"City schools have nine-month
terms, beginning early in Septem
ber and closing in late June, with
long vacations in midwinter. So
we shut country school children
up in school buildings in June
and September when the outdoors
is full of all sorts of educative
experiences, and give them a va
cation in late December, which
isn't usually as severe as Febru
ary, and not distinctively abund
ant in educative outdoor opportunities."
State Geologists,
Soil Men Meet
A group of about 50 state geolo
gists and soils men arrived in
Lincoln, Wednesday in connec
tion with an eleven day field con
ference that will study expos
ures of glacial and related de
posits in southeastern South Da
kota, western Iowa, eastern and
southern Nebraska, and northern
and western Kansas.
Many of the foremost glacial
geologists of the country have
been invited to participate in this
conference and will be present.
This group will include many
geology professors and representa-
Last Clinic Is
July 16 and 17
"What Next in Foreign Policy?"
will be the subject of the third
All-University clinic to be held on
this campus July 16, 17. High
lighting the clinic will be speeches
from a member of the U.S. State
Department.
A panel headed by Dr. Maurice
Latta, assistant professor of eco
nomics, will discuss "Should We
Seek a Showdown with Russia
Now?"
Other members of the Danel
will be Walter K. Beggs, professor
or school administration and his
tory and principles of education,
Carl J. Schneider, assistant pro
fessor of political science, and
James E. Lawrence, editor of the
Lincoln Star and professor of
journalism at the University,
Lincoln Editor
Will Address
iroup Monday
Ray McConnell, editor bt the
Lincoln Journal Newspaper, will
appear on the Book Talk pro
gram, Monday, July 9, at 4 p.m.
in the Union Book Nook.
McConnell, who recently pub
lished his "Trampled Terraces,"
will speak on newspaper publish
ing, editorial writing and answer
questions from the audience on
his book and profession. He will
be assisted by Arthur Vennix of
the Love Library staff.
In 1949, the Lincoln Journal,
through the efforts of Ray Mc
Connell, won the Pulitzer prize
for the "spotlighting" of presiden
tial issues. Last year, Mr. McCon
nell was named as one of the ten
most outstanding young men in
America by the National Junior
Chamber of Commerce as he re
ceived their Distinguished Serv
ice Award.
A father of four, Mr. McConnell
knows his writing on personal and
family matters as well as prob
lems of the Missouri basin and af
fairs of the United Nations. He
comes well qualified to speak on
many subjects.
Handicapped Children deceive
Aid Dn Speech, Hearing Clinic
Union Offers
Demonstrations
In Handicraft
Demonstrations in general
handicrafts are being offered this
summer by the Student Union
on -Mondays, July 9 through 23,
in Parlours XYZ of the Union,
at 7 p. m.
The demonstrations, which will
be especially practical for teach
ers, camp leaders, youth group
leaders, will cover wood crafts,
plastics, and metal crafts, in the
three sessions.
Among the experts appearing in
the series will be Mrs. Charles
Colman, Union craft shop in
structor, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kim
ball, and Miss Verna Snell.
Wayne O. Reed
Lectures Here
Wayne O. Reed, assistant com
missioner of education, U.S. of
fice of education, Washington,
D. C, and former State Superin
tendent of Public Schools, will
serve as a special lecturer on the
campus July 12.
Dr. Reed will address educa
tion students Thursday morning
and a special meeting of county
school superintendents Thursday
afternoon.
You may think your young
sters make noise, but you should
hear the noise the University's,
speech and hearing clinic makes
for the youngsters.
The old childhood jingle,
"Farmer in the Dell,' conies
blaring from the University's old
Temple building at Twelfth and
R sreets in Lincoln, and you've
half a mind to go in and tell
somebody to turn that thing
down.
If you did go in, you would
find the source of the clamor
an amplifier hooked to a record
player. You wouldn't turn it
down if you could. You wouldn't
want to cut those youngsters off
from the only sound some of
them have ever actually heard.
The stepped-up sound from the
record-player is only one method
the clinic uses in its effort to
enable hard-of-hearing children
and those with speech handicaps
to find a way to a normal life.
This summer the clinic marks
its tenth anniversary of class
work. It is celebrating by of
fering for the first time a spe
cial four-weeks course for handi
capped youngsters, age three
through five. About a dozen
such youngsters will take the
course.
Three people, at least, are ex
tremely proud of the clinic's
progress: . Dr. LeRoy T. Laase,
the man who set it up; Miss Lu
cille Cypreansen, the woman who
has worked with almost nothing
to make it go, and Dr. John
Wiley, its director who recog
nizes the importance of any early
start on problems of defective
speech and hearing.
The clinic's record has two
sides. First, there are the
clients who have benefited di
rectly. These include 485 school
children, dozens of adults, and
upward of 1,300 college students
who vwere found to have speech
or hearing difficulties when they
enter the University. The other
side of the clinic's record has
to do with the training of school
teachers in short courses and
students preparing to enter
speech-hearing therapy work.
Scores of Nebraska school
teachers have taken the clinic's
short courses, and about 100 stu
dents have received, or are re
ceiving training to become
speech therapists, using the
clinic's facilities.
The clinic began with a room
and a desk back in 1940 when
Dr. Laase told Miss Cypreansen
to see what could be done for
adult cases referred to the Uni
versity by medical doctors. The
following year the clinic ex
tended its services to a few
school-age children who suffered
speech or hearing handicaps.
In 1944, the clinic began testing
incoming University students for
speech or hearing deficiencies,
Four years later students were al
lowed University credit for speech
correction work and in 1949 a
special class for foreign students
was started. This -summer, the
clinic enters the pre-school age
field on a class basis.
Of all the clients and students
like
who come to the clinic, Miss Cy
preanses likes best the work with
young children. Her choice is
understandable when you review
some of the cases.
Fo rexample, five years ago a
worried mother brought a spindly
boy of five to the clinic. The
mother knew the boy had great
difficulty with his speech but
when he entered school she re
ceived a report from the school
psychologist saying tests indicated
her son was of sub-normal in
telligence, incapable of school
work.
"All he did at fitst," Miss Cy
preansen recalls, "was yell
Tarzan."
Hearing tests revealed the boy
was extremely hard of hearing
He could not talk because he had
never heard any one else talk.
Ihere began a long period of pa
tience-trying therapy and instruc
tion. This year, at 10, the lad was
tested by the same psychologist
Whose findings had indicated a
sub-normal intelligence. This
time the test results showed the
boy in the genius range. He
scored 140 on his test compared to
the average of 90 to 110 for most
pupils.
Children present real problems
10 me clinic. Adults understand
something of their handicaps, but
irequentiy children don't. A
mother and teacher came to the
clinic with a little girl named
Linda. The kindergarten teacher
said the girl could not talk
hadn't said one word all through
ner urst year. The mother in
sisted the girl could talk had
talked at home.
At first, Miss Cypeansen could
get the girl to say notohing. Then
one day, Miss Cypreansen said,
"Your name is Linda," and, at
the same time, wrote the name
"Lydia" oh the blackboard. Linda
broke her silence. "That's wrong!"
she cried.
Eventually Linda's situation be
came clear. Her mother spoke
loudly. The teacher's voice was
soft. The mother, in sendine the
girl to school, had admonished her
to "be quiet, mind the teacher,
ana not gei into trouDie." Linda
could not hear the teacher. She
had been told to be quiet, so she
was. Today, Linda is doing satis
factory school work. She wears
a hearing aid and speech training
as given her a pleasant voice.
The clinic, says Miss Cyprean
sen, does not seek clients and
pupils. The people who come to
it usually are sent by their physi
cians, welfare workers, or school
authorities.
The children who have come to
the clinic on an individual basis
in the past have presented a
variety of difficulties cerebral
palsied children who cannot talk
intelligently; children with cleft
palates or stuttering children.
Dr. John Wiley, a Ph.D. who
studied under two of the nation's
foremost speech therapists at
Southern California, directs the
clinic's services. He says that
stuttering, Jn a sense, is not a
speech defect but a condition re
sulting from environment. Group
work with the children and
guidance for their parents have
proved effective aids in many
cases.
Both Dr. Wiley and Miss
Cypreansen agree that the easiest
cases are those of children who
are organically normal but who.
for some reason, have failed to
learn to "talk right." Games,
tape recordings, choral reading,
creative play, and some special
training usually helps such
ybungsters a great deal.
For some time the clinic has
wanted to take pre-school age
children on a class basis. In addi
tion to relieving anxieties in the
child's home earlier, the pre
school age work would prove a
time-saver. Some of the children,
at least, will now be able to do
school work When they reach
school-admission age.
The pre-school age class work
at long last is beginning through
the' efforts of several groups. The
Nebraska Society for Crippled
Children has paid the $15 tuition
for those selected children whose
parents were unable to pay.
The Cerebral Palsy Mothers
club of Lincoln has offered trans
portation for children who have
no way to get to the clinic. The
Hardy Furniture company of Lin
coln is providing floor mats and
special toys for the children.
Miss Cypreansen is hopeful
some way may be found to cool
the room in which the children
work, but cool or hot, she is cer
tain ,the four-weeks' course for
pre-school children will save
time, money, and heartache. And
she knows first-hand the prob
lems some of her small pupils
face. The youngsters never guess
it, but Miss Cypreansen uses a
hearing aid too.
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tives of a number of separate
state and federal agencies.
There wil be representatives
from Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, South
Dakota Colorado, Arkansas, Okla
homa, Maryland and Nebraska as
well as some from Washington,
D. C.
This is the fourth trip of this
kind which has been held in dif
ferent parts of the U. S. at about
two year intervals during the past
eight years.
E. C. Reed of the Nebraska
Geological Survey has been in
charge of advance arrangements
for this field excursion. The party
will study exposures southwest
of and near Lincoln on Thursday
morning, and continue to Falls
City for an overnight stop on
Thursday night.
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The thrilling- story or an
American who learnd the
most dangerous rune on
earth! (Actually filmed in
Mexico) .
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GILBERT ROLAND
ON THE STAGE
EVERT NIGHT 9 P.M.
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