·.summer Conference Due Tuesday- • • • • • • • The OCE Lamronette Volume XXIX Oregon College of Education, Monday, June 30, 1952 Number 34 NOTE! Museum To Be The next Lamronette will School Textbooks Is The Theme of come out on Friday, July 11, In New Library rather than on Mond!ly, July 7. OCE Annual Summer Conference The other editions of this paper Construction of an attractive ar­ for the summer term, will be Principals and elementary scl10ol IOregon Textbook Commission, will ray of glassed-in exhibit cases in available on the following Fri­ teacfiers from all over the state of act as coordinator for. the confer­ the ground floor of the new Library days. This switch is being made Oregon have been invited to attend ence. building has been authorized at a so that the printers, Swenson & the annual summer session con­ The progmm will take place in cost of $2563.85, according to an Sons, will have their week-ends ference which is being held Tues­ Campbell hall auditorium from 9:00 announcement by Dr. Roben J. free for the summer. day, July 1, at the Oregon College a.m. to 12 noon. Covering three Maaske, president. of Education. TI1e theme for this main topics, the general program The low bid on this project was year's confere1fce is The Textbook fo1· the morning ls: made by the Dallas Mill and Sup­ in the Elementary Schoolroom. I. Textbook Writing ply Company of Dallas. They will Speech Center To Be Authorities on the subject will be l\1r. W. A. McClenaghan, instruc­ construct these cases in their cab­ speaking. W. E. King, who is coun­ Established al DOE tor of political science at Oregon inet shop at Dallas and install them ty school superintendent, Pendle­ St.ate college, will be guest speak­ later this summer. A Cooperative Speech and Hear­ ton, and who is the chairman of the er. Mr. Mcclenaghan is currently An educational museum is con­ ing Rehabilitation Center was au­ revising the Magruder texts. sidereJ an essential in a modern thorized by the Oregon State Board teacher education institution par­ of Higher Education on April 12, Evening Program To II. Textbook Publishing ticularly. It will afford opportunity 1952, for Oregon College of Educa­ Feature the Frenches This topic will be covered by a. for interestil;ig displays sponsored tion and also at the other two Col­ panel discussion of members of the in different months by various de­ leges of Education. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. French will Pacific Northwest Bookmen's Asso- • partments on the campus, includ­ This center is to be conducted in show colored slides during an even­ ciation of which Kenneth McGuire ing the laboratory schools. One ex­ cooperation with the Special Edu­ ing program on Tuesday, July 1, at is president, and Walter Clark is hibit case will be reserved especially cation Division of the State De­ 8 o'clock in the Campbell hall audi­ retiring president. Topics consider­ for the OCE Alumni Association partment of Education. It will serve torium. TI1e slides will be of those ed in this discussion, and persons for its various exhibit items. handicapped children in the geo­ taken on their 3300 mile trip by car responsible for this part of the ----·---- graphical area of this college through England, Scotland, Wales panel are: What Are Textbooks Graduate Meeting through the treatment of children and Ireland. The French's tour tour For?, Mr. Len Hunting; Textbook with speech difficulties, especially took them to many interesting and Evaluation, Mr. Wade Arstil; Do Called for Tuesday those associated with cleft palate little heard of places which make You Want to Write a. Textbook?, Mr. Glen Wegner, cha.il·man of and cerebral palsy cases. these shots some of the most un­ Mr. Ron Wood; Witch Hunting in the graduate organization planning An instructor in speech path­ usual and interesting to be shown. Textbooks, Mr. Lyle Ashcraft; The committee, has called a meeting of ology will be employed to direct the During the latter pa.rt of this Role of the Textbook Salesman, Mr. all graduate students for 11 :00 a.m. work of the center. He will also summer Mr. and Mrs. French are Stanley Hastings; Textbook Eco­ on Tuesday, July 1, in the faculty teach some classes in speech cor­ planning to go to Switzerland. nomics, Mr. H. H. Sherley; The lounge. rection and special education and This evening program for the American Textbook. Institute, Mr. The policy of the club has been will work with prospective student week will replace the special movie, Jonathan Hildner; ._The Pacific formulated and will be presented teachers in familiarizing them with Nanook of the North, scheduled for Northwest 13ookmen's Association, for approval. Also at this time an problems in the speech correction 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2, Mr. Dan B. Kind. election of officers will be held. program for children. which has been cancelled. (Continued on Page Four) OCE Library Is Recipient of Bound Magazines and Other Gifts Oregon College of Education's Ii- magazine was first published in January, 1897, the first edition position uatil his death in 1919, at brary has been the recipient of sev- 1879 by the authority of the Ore­ came off the press. G. W. Jones which time his wife took over the eral valuble gifts 1·ecently, as re- gon Teachers' club at Salem, with was the editor-In-chief • until he editorship and continued this du­ ported by Mrs. Dessa Hofstetter, the subscription rate bei11g 75 cents was called to serve in the Spanish ty through 1921 when the last pub­ librarian. • per year. American war. Charles H. Jones, his lication of this magazine was re­ Twenty-five bound volumes· of Professor G. W. Jones, then Mar­ brother, who graduated from the leased. "The Oregon Teachers' Monthly" ion county school superintendent, Oregon Normal school in Mon­ The volumes acquired by the magazine, the complete holdings and his brother, Charles H. Jones, mouth in 1888, and who was prin­ college as a gift a.re Charles H. from 1879 to 1921, were presented discussed the publication of such a cipal of schools in St. Helens, Eu­ Jones' original bound set. Mrs. to the library as a. gift from Mrs. ma.gazine as the means of inform­ gene, McMinnville, and in Salem, Jones, who still lives in Salem, has Charles H. Jones, wife of the former ing educators in Oregon of what replaced him as editor of this mag­ asked that the books be placed on editor of this publication. This was going on in the state, and In azine. Charles H. Jones held this (Continued on Page Pour) I Page Two The OCE Lamrnnette, Monmouth, Oregon Monday, June 30, 1952 --------- ------------_,...:...___ __.:. _ _:__________ _ GUEST EDITORIAL workshop, Methods of Teaching in TH IS 'N THAT the Elementary School, offered from August 11 to August 29, also Why Not a Unit on Public Schools? Saturday, June 28, was the last day for dropping a course without have vacancies. It is necessary for (Ed's. note - Visiting faculty deserve such treatment? Are the being responsible for a grade. those who wish to take one of these members have been asked to teacncrs being honest wilen t11ey sections to let this be known by write the editorials for the pass over lightly an institution such Swimming will start, on July 1. registering now. Lamrnnette this summer, Fol­ as public schools? lf teache1· and Buses will leave Todd hall for the The post-session courses, School lowing is the first of these, sub­ schools, their 1oundiug, their growth Oregon State college pool at 6 :45 Organization and V:i.w, and History mitted by Dr. M. J. Homfeld.) and per11aps even their romance p.m. Those wishing to go should of Oregon, will not be offered from were given space and time along sign 011 the bulletin board soon as August 11 to August 29 unless war­ School teachers are salesmen. with railroads and airlines, and the number of swimmers is limited ra11ted by student demand. to 30. Children cannot be accom­ Registration for the one-week Their entire job is that of selling. Ousters Last Stands, and Le.wises and Clarks, would Americans be as modated on this activity. post-session, Red Cros:s workshop, By and large, they are good sales­ is being taken now also. From quick to condemn them? Is it pos­ Dr. Maa.!.ke was unable to attend men. They successfully sell the August 11 to August 16 this work­ sible to find in Amel'ica's system of the annual conference of the Na­ skills of language usage and manip­ shop in Red Cross Home Nursing public instruction and Its history tional Commission on Teacher Ed­ will be conducted by a Red Cross ulation of numbers to most people. enough romance to make It inter­ ucation and Professional Standards instructor, and one and one-half They convince most of these people esting and worthwhile to YO!}Ilg­ at K'llamazoo, Mich, June 25-28, as credit hours will be given for this sters? stated i.J.1 last week's paper. He was that America•s history is a wonder­ course if a fee of $7 is paid. The In Germany, in Japan, in Great to have served as a consultant for ful story of one altruistic episode course may be taken wit.hout. credit, Britain, in France, in fact in almost the section studying the problem of after another. They stress the gen­ and without ch:uge. Those who every great culture other than oui­ teacher selective recruitment pro­ take this workshop for credit will tleness of the Pilgrims, the romance own, public education has resulted grams.