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Background
In Math
Forty-four high school
math teachers from ten states
are spending summer vaca
tions developing their "sub
ject matter background" at
the National Science Founda
tion Mathematics Institute on
the NU campus.
The math institute, one of
481 being conducted through
out the country, is headed in
Lincoln by Dr. Walter Mient
ka. The program runs from
June 11 to August 3.
Updating the training of
"the weakly trained but
6cholasticatly able mathemat
ics teachers" is the pro
gram's main purpose, accord
ing to the institute's bulletin.
1,000 Inquired
The teachers, representing
more than a thousand inquir
ies and 315 completed applica
tions, receive $600 for at
tending, $120 for each depen
dent and a travel allowance
not to exceed $80.
This year's math institute
is planned as first in a series
of three. Dr. Mientka said.
During this three-summer
sequence courses in algebra,
elementary analysis and ge
ometry are to be offered.
The teachers are divided
into two groups, one of which
is for teachers studying in
their first math institute or
those who have not had the
more extensive training of
the members of the second
group.
Continuity Is Goal
Continuity is developed by
this three-year program much
better than by a one-year
program, such as held last
year, Dr. Mientka explained.
"I can take one group and
follow it through the three
years to reach a certain
level of accomplishment," he
said.
During this time the math institute-trained
teacher is to
"gain confidence in his teach
ing," and become a "critic
of mathematics," Dr. Mient
ka said. One example of be
ing a good critic of mathe
matics, he added, was the se
lecting of textbooks.
While members of the in
stitute the teachers live in NU
dormitories, dine in the Stu
dent Union and "share in the
full program of cultural, so
cial and recreational events
sponsored by the University,"
according to the institute
b ifletin.
Dr. Broad Lectures Tonight
On English School System
The English education sys
tem should become more
familiar to the members of
the National Science Founda
tion Summer Science Insti
tute. The high school teachers
Who compose the Institute
heard Dr. Herbert F. Broad,
an English physicist-educator,
discuss the organization of
education in England in
Love Library Auditorium.
Dr. Broad, who is headmas
ter of the Cedars School in
Leighton Buzzard, Bedford
shire, England, is appearing
on the NU campus for a week
out of a busy summer sched
ule that includes such science
institutes across America.
The National Science Foun
dation and the American As
sociation for the Advance
ment of Science are sponsor
ing his visit to the U.S.
English School
Dr. Broad, who arrived
with his wife by plane Fri
day, will speak tonight at
7:30 in the Love Library Audi
torium on the curriculum of
the English grammar school.
Before becoming headmas
ter of the Cedars School, Dr.
Broad was Senior Physics
Master in the City of London
School and, before that, was
Physics Master at Crandleigh
School in Surrey.
A London University gradu
ate, he obtained his M.A. in
phvsics and Diploma in Edu
cation at Cambridge Univer
sity. Nebra&lxi Center
Hosts Conference
On Care of Sick
About 80 to 100 police offi
cers, ambulance drivers and
others received training in
the immediate care of the
sick and injured at a confer
ence Thursday through Sat
urday at the Nebraska Cen
ter for Continuing Education.
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Giant Cranes Help
Two 65 foot high cranes, op
erated from simple controls
like the transformer of a toy
electric train, are being used
in the construction of the new
Twin Towers dormitory.
Each of the Swedish-made
cranes has a 100 foot boom
that can be moved by a con
trol box with three levers,
Dan Werkmeister, assistant
University construction engi
neer, said. By turning the le
vers, a single man on the
ground can raise, lower,
swing around, extend, or re,
tract the boom. Werkmeister
estimated the cost of each
crane at $100,000.
Work on the new dormitory
that is just east of the Resi
dence Halls for Women, was
begun last April and plans
are to have it ready for oc
cupancy by September of
1963, Nole Smith, University
construction engineer said.
Construction costs of the new
housing unit are $3,059,038, he
said.
He is a member of the Air
Cadet Council, an Air Min
istry organization; a member
of the Science Panel of Sec
ondary Schools Examinations
Council, of the Ministry of
Education, and a member of
the Science Masters Associa
tion Committee on Science and
Education.
Dr. Broad was General
Secretary of the Science Mas
ters' Association from 1956
1961. oasts
The modern school of to
day will be built of hexagon
al units consisting of class
rooms and an instructional
materials center. Five or six
irregularly shaped class
rooms will encircle a central
audio-visual resource and
equipment core forming a
hexagon.
Such is the new high school
at McPherson, Kans., the
first of its kind in the Mid
west, which will open in the
spring of 1963.
McPherson High will have
five hexagonal units of class
rooms and central areas sep
arated by corridors. The sub
jects taught in each hexagon
al unit will be similar such
as all English classes or all
social studies or science
classes. Thus the central area
can contain instructional equip
ment directed to the teaching
of specific subjects. This cen
ter includes reccrds, record
ing equipment, maps, hooks
and all other audio-visual
aids. 1
McPherson Senior High will
also contain every other mod-
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Until the new dorm is com
pleted, a number of women
students will be housed in the
8000 building of Selleck Quad
rangle, W .C. Harper, direct
or of University services,
said. Some 130 male students,
who had contracts with Sell
eck for next fall, will be
moved into the top four floors
of the Capital Hotel, he said.
These students, who volun
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Carpe
em idea in school building.
It will have carpeting, op
erable walls, air conditioning,
teacher offices, work rooms
for student teachers, rooms
for large groups, space for
individual study, also a cir
cular field house, modern audio-visual
aids tools, mov
able furniture, irregularly
shaped classrooms and op
portunity for functional sep
aration of activities.
Projectors and television
will become standard equip
ment in all classrooms. The
theory behind their use, ac
cording to Ruth Mcline, audio-visual
instructor at the
University of Nebraska, is
that no teacher knows a 1 1
that the student of today
should learn.
"Records, television and
projectors can bring guest
speakers into the classroom,"
she said. "The major miscon
ception concerning the use of
TV is that it will and can
replace the teacher. This
isn't the case. A machine
cannot counsel, assist, direct
and inspire students. Pexson-
ill,
cranes on the Twin Towers
site.
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teered to live in the hotel, A counselor and an assist
will have their own lobby and ant counselor will be stationed
elevator in the building. The on each of the four floors,
student elevator will not stop I The University is making
until it reaches the seventh
floor of the hotel and elevat
ors for hotel guests will not
be taken above the sixth
floor. One section of the main
floor will be made into a stu
dent lounge. Part of this area
is now leased by a jewelry
store, Harper said.
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al, responsive teaching will
still be needed. Teachers
aren't qualified to present all
the information the student
should be subjected to," she
said.
According to Miss Moline,
some teachers feel the respon
sibilities have been shifted
unfairly, and they will resent
this. This is one of the prob
lems that will have to be
worked out.
Each classroom at McPher
son High will contain the lat
est equipment. They will
have folding space dividers,
acoustical operable walls
(folding door type), teacher
center, fiber glass table, arm
chair-desks and chairs, gen
eral storage cabinets and
book shelves, and vinyl as
bestos tile flooring. There will
be entrances to the Instruc
tional materials center and to
the corridor from each class
room. Irregular shaping of class
rooms and other spaces Is
better acoustically than the
regular box sha,je according
to a study made by th Ed-J
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parking arrangements for the
students.
Neither the total cost of the
housing unit nor the length of
time it will be in use is known
exactly. The project is experi
mental, and if all goes well,
it could be used for two to
six years, Harper said.
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Circular
ucational Facilities Labora
tories. Also, breaking away
from the traditional rectangle
rooms provides for variable
group arrangements.
Classrooms for 25-35 stu
dents are included in the
new school in which teachers
will instruct the class with
conventional teaching tech
niques. These rooms can be
arranged by means of mov
able partitioning devices so
as to facilitate groups of stu
dents from 75 to 150 in num
ber. These large group ar
rangements will allow for lec
ture - type instruction, tele
vised instruction with sever
al screens and other team
teaching techniques.
Teaching aids are extreme
ly important for both audio
and visual demonstration or
amplification in large group
delivery. Teaching teams con
sisting of a lead teacher, sup
port teachers and-or clerical
aids will be used in teaching
such groups.
In addition to group study,
Individual study spaces for
one or two students, with or
Americans
To Honor
You will have the opportu
nity to look in on the "Fourth
of July in Denmark" as
Danes and Americans join to
pay tribute to tie friendship
between the two countries on
Wednesday, July 4.
"Fourth of July in Den
mark," a film of last year's
Rebild celebration with Walt
Disney as the featured speak
er, will be seen on Channel
12, KUON-TV, at 5:30 and
again at 10:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, the fourth of Ju
ly. The celebration, which
takes place over heather-clad
hills near the village of Re
bild, in the northern part of
the peninsula of Jutland, Den
mark, is characterized by mu
sic, dancing, entertainment,
food, conversation, fireworks,
and speeches by dignitaries
representing both countries.
In the hills adjoining the
Rold Forest, a Danish-American
celebration has attracted
tens of thousands of Danes,
Americans, and Americans of
Danish birth, each year for
the past 50 years, except dur
ing the war years.
1909
The idea of the yearly
meetings was first proposed
in 1909 as an act of gratitude
and appreciation toward the
U.S. on the part of a group
of Americans of Danish birf
Lead by Dr. Max Henius, a
Chicago scientist, the group
bought a 300-acre tract of
land near Rebild. The land
was deeded to the Danish
government in 1912 with the
stipulation that each year on
the anniversary of the Ameri
can Declaration of Independ
ence, a celebration of tribute
would be observed there.
Today, the Rebild site is a
national park, preserved in
its natural state with heather,
Ross Joins
Med Staff
Edwin F. Ross has been ap--pointed
Administrator of Uni
versity Hospital and Clinics
in Omaha.
Since 1953, Ross has been
Assistant Director of Univer
sity Hospitals of Cleveland.
He is a graduate of Mount
Union College of Alliance,
Ohio and holds the Masters
Degree in Hospital Adminis
tration from Washington Uni
versity in St. Louiss.
Ross is the author of a num
ber of articles in the field of
hospital administration, is a
member of the American
Hospital Association, and a
fellow of the American Col
lege of Hospital Administra
tors. Dr. J. Perry Tollman, Dean
of the College of Medicine and
Superintendent of University
Hospital, stated that "We are
most fortunate to be able to
bring an administrator of Mr.
Ross' experience and back
ground to our campus. His
special experience in dealing
with problems of university
teaching hospitals will be in
valuable to us in our present
program and in planning for
the future."
Ross, 45, is a World War
II veteran and the father of
two boys. He is expected to
take over his duties at the
University Hospital within the
next 90 days.
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without the presence of a
teacher, will be almost any
where the library, a spec
ial area set apart in a larg
er classroom, a sound-protected
booth, a laboratory or
shop or teacher's office. Tools
for self-instruction would be
accessible, such as books, lab
equipment, sound recorders,
television, drawing materials,
projectors, etc.
The teachers' center will be
more than a dek and a chair.
It will be a work center for
the teacher, with reference
material, files and supplies
close at hand. It will serve as
a suitable area for counseling
and possibly for small group
activity which the teacher
can lead. It will be a control
center for electronic equip
ment in the learning area
lighting, partitioning devices,
intercom and public address
syslem. The center will be so
designed and placed that the
teacher can observe all class
room activity.
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will be useless unless each
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Friendship
cowberries, aspen, jupiter,
and oak.
Dr. Henius is also credited
with the foundation of t h e
Log Cabin Museum in the Re
bild Park. He procured the
money and many of the mu
seum pieces for this unique
museum which is built with
materials from every state,
to house objects that had be
longed to American settlers
from Denmark. The cabin
was dedicated in 1934, and
was named the Lincoln Log
Cabin Museum after Abra
ham Lincoln.
Speakers
Speakers for the 1962 cele
bration will include V i g g o
Kampmann, prime minister
of Denmark; William Mccor
mick Blair, Jr., U.S. ambas
sador to Denmark; Richard
Nixon, former vice president
of the United States; ana
His Majesty King Fredenk
IX of Denmark. Master of
Ceremonies for the evening
celebration will be Victor
Borge, Danish-born humorist.
val Peterson, former Ne
braska governor, represented
the United States at the 1958,
1959 and 1960 celebrations as
U.S. ambassador to Denmark.
Professors Harald Hoick,
and Otto Hoiberg of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and Dr.
C. C. Madsen, president oi
Dana College in Blair, Neb.,
are members of the American
Rebild Committee, which
maintains American interest
in the annual event.
Union Plans
All-Campus
Square Dance
People attending the All
campus square dance will see
a demonstration and receive
instruction from members of
the Lincoln Square Dance
Council.
The dance will be held from
8 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 6th
at the S St. entrance of the
Nebraska Union. It is free
and open to the public.
Gayle Sherman, program
manager of the Nebraska
Union, said, "We hope this
square dance will give the
summer students an oppor
tunity to meet and become
better acquainted."
Willard Noxon, a member
of the Boots and Slipper
Square Dance Club and the
Lincoln Square Dance Coun
cil, will do the calling. Bill
Speidell and Ken McCartney,
both of Lincoln will do a pan
tomime of the Grand Old
Opery characters, Homer and
Jethro.
Mrs. Sherman said there
will be bales of straw to sit
on and two chuck wagons will
sell refreshments. The east
patio of the union has been
renamed the Eastern Patio
Stage and will have chairt
and tables for the spectators.
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teacher knows how to use its
new facilities.
At McPherson High work
shops are being held through
out this year to help teach
ers learn new techniaues..
Small group teaching is be
ing tried; an audio-visual
director is working with teach
ers showing them how to use
the equipment properly; ev
ery teacher who wants to is
getting a chance to tryout
new tools.
Teachers are familiarizing
themselves with equipment
that will be available next
year. Much of the training
has been done by demonstra
tion. Yet despite all the plann
ing and experimentation Mc
Pherson teachers will not be
able to make fuD use of their
new school when they enter
it. Some teachers will utilize
the building to its fullest.
Others may never realize its
full potential. This factor will
determine the effectiveness of
the new school, for' the
school is only as good as the
teacher who uses it.
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