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Tuesday, August 1, 1967 Summer Nebraskan Page 2 Dean Trotter Appointee The Associate Dean of the University of Nebraska Col lege of Agriculture and Home Economics has been appointed to the . Advisory Council for the New York State College of Home Eco nomics. Dr. Virginia Trotter who is also director of the Uni versity of Nebraska's School of Home Economics, re ceived a one-year appoint ment beginning July 1. The College of Home Economics is located at Cornell Uni versity in Ithaca, New York. Before coming to Ne braska, Dean Trotter was assistant to the dean and chairman of the Home Eco nomics Department at the University of Vermont. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Kan sas State University and holds a Doctor's degree from Ohio State University. Some of Dr. Trotter's present activities include president-elect of the Ne braska Home Lconomics Association Committee on Rehabilitation of the Handi capped. She is a member of the Nebraska Governor's Com mittee on the Status of Wo men, a board member of the Nebraska Heart Association, and has recently been ap pointed as chairman of the Handicapped Homemaker Subgroup of the Women's Committee of the Presi dent's Committee on Em ployment of the Handi capped. Nebraskans Attending Conference About 50 Nebraskans are attending the National Ex tension Homemakers Con ference in Brookings. S. Dak. Mrs. Elmer Barnhill of Lincoln, president of the Ne braska Council of Home Ex tension Clubs is the official Nebraska delegate to the 31st annual conference. The Nebraskans will join more than 2.000 extension homemakers from 43 states and Puerto Rico at the meet ing July 31-Aug. 4. The theme is "The American Home An Educational In stitution". Dr. N. P. Ralston, deputy administrator of the Feder al Extension Service; Dr. Robert Rouse, president of the American Medical As sociation and Dr. Margaret Browne, director of the Fed eral Extension Service home economics program are among the program speak ers. The conference agenda in cludes workshop sessions on family stability, consumer competance, family health, family housing, community and resource development, citizenship, family life, in ternational relations and public information. South Dakota Gcv. Nils A. Boe has proclaimed the week of July 30-Aug. 5 as South Dakota Extension Homeiuakers Week. Ml riAim PRICES FROM S139 TO 180O 11W -V STREET esohteud jemn.EU amkucax gem society Serving Lincoln Since 1905 . .mi' 1 1 w.r -4t "Njf v. . . 1 ,V if v in i Hams M-m! -winMTiTiTrir r Dr. Virginia Trotter Future Hired Hand May Be Computer Although farmers were a little shy about trying out the computers at the Third National Grassland Field Day, enough did go through the line to please the of fic'als in charge. About 150 put problems through the International Business Machine compu ters at the University of Nebraska Field Laboratory at Mead and many others w ere interested spectators. The demonstration, called "Computers Your New Hired Hand," was intended primarily to familiarize far mers with the potential val ue of computers to their farming operations. Planning of the demon stration had been the co operative work of Roger Jones, IBM systems engi neer, and Dr. Donald Ed wards, University agricul tural engineer. Helping at the Field Day w ere Dr. James A. DeShaa er, University agricultural engineer, and Jack Nielsen of IBM. The demonstration at tracted international atten tion. A representative of the David Brown manufac turing company of England observed the approach used with great interest, as did the head of an Australian university's agricultural en gineering department They were interested pri marily in the ideas being used to create interest among the fanners, they said. They have been fac ing the problem of how to make farmers aware of the usefulness of computers in planning their operations and solving their problems. Here is how the demon stration worked: Each person attending the Field Day received an information packet which included a form to be filled out. Information of the form included name and address, cost of gasoline tractor wanted, name and model of 4 itmmmmwmim : ft P gasoline tractor, cost of comparable size diesel trac tor, name and model of di esel tractor, cost of gaso line, cost of diesel fuel, fuel consumption of the two tractors, estimated number of hours per year the tractor would be used. A battery of four coun ty agents was on hand to help fill out the blanks, es pecially the part in fuel consumption, which came from the Nebraska Tractor Test Report. The forms were then given to Jones or Nielsen, who had a card punched if the problem was to be worked locally or had it typed into a special tele phone hookup if it was to be worked in the IBM Com puter Center in Chicago. The computers analyzed the data and printed out answers which indicated -the - number -of years the farmer must' Use" the more expensive diesel tractor to to break even on cost with the gasoline model. The farmer could inter pret the data bfmself or take it to a group of Uni versity agricultural eco nomists for them to inter pret. One fact that emerged from the demonstration is that most farmers tend to over-estimate the number of hours per year that they operate a tractor. wiitiiiiiiimKiniiiiiuiiunimiiiinii!iiiii;iiiiittni Summer Nebraskan Editor Carta CronklM BwuoM MaT Roger Boys Itttoronaliutfi tor pwbttctf m tm turned im to R"om 319 Nebruka HM or dill! IB at 472-UH. 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Professor Lockhart. rec ognized nationally as a lead er in physical education, has specialized in the study of motor learning and her research has contributed to advances in that field and to developments in physical therapy. Her professional papers have been published wide ly. She is the author of two books and co-author of three others and has been active in several professional physical education socie ties. A native of Atlanta, Ga., she received her under graduate degree from Tex as Woman's University and her masters and doctoral degrees from the Universi Moseman Becomes Council Associate Dr. Albert H. Moseman has been appointed an As sociate of the Agricultural Development Council, effec tive today. The Agricultural Develop ment Council operates a program to develop compe tence in dealing with eco nomic and human problems of agricultural develop ment. Much of Dr. Mose man's work will be in Asia although he will be sta tioned in New York. Dr. Moseman is currently Assistant Administrator for Teacher Shortage Competition with indus Jtxy.is one of the main rea - sons for a current shortage of vocational agricultural teachers according to Dr. James Horner, chairman of the University of Nebras ka's Agricultural Education Department. Dr. Horner noted that ear lier this year there were 36 "vo ag teaching positions available in Nebraska. De spite hiring teachers from other states and shifting as signment, three positions still remain vacant. The remaining vacancies are at Gordon, Kimball and Omaha South, which would like to add a second vo ag teacher. Spaces AvoilabU RAINBOW TRAILER COURT Halfway btUttn Ag or.S City computet. 1801 Adams 4151417 .B.giI'i.'? 1, ty of Wisconsin, where she served on the staff before coming to Nebraska in 1942. Dr. Lockhart served with the University of Nebras ka's department of physical education for women until 1949 when she went to t h e University of Southern Cal ifornia. She has held visit ing professorships at the Universities of Oregon and Washington and a continu ing lectureship at Smith College. The honorary degree ci tation notes "her contribu tions to advances in t h e field of motor learning, her devotion to scholastic stand ards and to students, and her accomplishments as a former member of the Uni versity of Nebraska facul ty." Approximately 600 de grees will be conferred at the Univerity's summer commencement, over half of them at the masters or doc toral level. The program is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on the mall east of Memorial Stadium. Technical Cooperation and Research of the Agency for International Development (AID). He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Nebraska where he was a member of Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta and Innocents Society. He re ceived his Ph.D. in plant genetics from the Universi ty of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation in 1956, he was Director of Crops Research for the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1965 he left the Foundation for his present post with AID. In 1965 Dr. Moseman re ceived an honorary doctor ate from the University of Nebraska. m if 13 pji::::;:;;::;;::::;s g -J ImI Wad , g,,,., ImummI I in a 1 Vocational Agriculture To Play Strategic Role The world's rapidly in creasing need for food will give agriculture an even more strategic role in the next decade, according to Dr. Franklin EMridge, di rector of resident instruc tion at the University of Nebraska College of Agri culture and Home Econom ics. Dr. Eldridge told the an nual State Conference for Vocational Agriculture In structors that population is expanding faster than the food supply and this in creases the need for educat ed people in agriculture. He noted that there Is a growing Interest In agricul ture among young people." One indication of this growth is the 85 per cent increase in agricultural un dergraduates at the Univer sity in the past five years. This is slightly larger than the overall growth of the University, he pointed out. Eldridge said that in 1967 there were 136 University graduates in agriculture. There were job openings for at least twice that many. Teacher Important He stressed the impor tance of the high school vo cational agriculture teacher and also the importance of technical agriculture schools like the one the University operates at Curtis. The technical agriculture school and the University farm and ranch short cours es provide non-college but post-high school training in agriculture. Eldridge also said that a vocational agriculture teach er who has had eight years of experience is worth at least $12,000 a year to his community. The increased income he has brought the community through the new and profit able farming practices he has taught his students and the community's farmers make him worth that kind of salary, Eldridge contin ued. Vocational agriculture needs to broaden its pro gram to meet the needs of FLASH aiv Nebraska Union Lower Level more people, according to Alan KaHer, professor of agricultural education at the University. Kahler told a group of 120 vocational agriculture teach ers attending the confer ence that only 37.7 percent of 1954-58 farm-reared Ne braska high school gradu ates currently are farming. Migrators His study of 1,120 gradu ates from 69 high schools throughout the state showed that those in non-agricultural occupations are more apt to migrate than those in farming. Slightly more than 65 per cent of the graduates had gross incomes of $6-9,000. In addition 65 per cent of those with gross incomes of more than $12,000 were farming. Kahler's study also re vealed that 23.5 per cent of those in farming had gross incomes of less then $3,000. The highest percentage of boys going back into farm ing graduated from Class D schools and the second highest percentage came from Class B schools. Kahler said vocational ag riculture training has a def inite effect in keeping boys on the farm. He noted that 72 per cent of those farm ing had taken seven or more semesters of voca tional agriculture. . In addition, the study SUMMER; When a Yowfr Mmis (Oft IMS) FANCV UCrHTUY TVOMS TO THOUGHTS OF One block north of Vine on 27th Easily accessible from W and Pear Sts. HOME OF THE CHUBBY STEAKBUBGER I SaaaaaMMMiaaaaaaaaMMaaaajajaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaMMaaaMMMaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. your showed that the more se mesters of vocational agri culture a boy had taken, the higher his income tend ed to be. Kahler said that a study of graduates by their class rank showed that those in the top group tended to leave the farm. The greater the number of brothers a boy had, the less likely he was to go into farming. Kahler also said that lack of capital or land did not appear to be major reasons why graduates did not go back to the farm. Only eight per cent blamed shortage of land, nine per cent a lack of capi tal and 21 per cent a combi nation of the two for their decision to leave the farm. The two most common reasons given were college and military service. The most popular off farm agricultural occupa tions were feed and grain (27-9 per cent), livestock marketing and processing (18.7 per cent), and farm machinery (13.9 per cent). Kahler said the percent age of Nebraska farm grad uates (14 per cent) who were professional or techni cal personnel was slightly higher than that of sur rounding states. Y 1S21 K Street 4323315 Lincoln, Nebr.