The JOURNAL of TRUE Education

OCTOBER, 1946 NUMBER 4

The JOURNAL of TRUE Education

. EDITOR I ssociates ERWIN E. COSSENTINE JOHN E. WEAVER LOWELL R. RASMUSSEN FLORENCE K. REBOK

CONTENTS Cover Photograph By Galloway A Challenge to the Church By Nathaniel C. Wilson page 4 A Child Speaks to His Teacher By Charles J. Hemmig 5 Among the Schools of Inter-America By John E. Weaver 6 Rural Living and Self-supporting Missionary Work By Edward A. Sutherland, M.D. 9 The Arts in the Curriculum By Richard B. Lewis 10 Posture in the Classroom By Isobel J. Hansen 12 America Is Different By Dyre Dyresen 14 Teachers of Tomorrow By Else Nelson 16 Sunnydale Academy By Harvey C. Hartman 18 Action Taken at Secretaries' Council 19 News From the Schools 20

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2 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION YOUR TASK AND MINE-An Editorial

HIGHER than the highest human Christian teachers will lead them to thought can reach is God's ideal for great and noble heights. They believe His children. Godliness—godlikeness— that you have something better than the is the goal to be reached." True edu- public school can offer. They have con- cation will give "to the successful stu- fidence that you know your God in a dent his passport from the preparatory very personal way, and they are ready to school of earth to the higher grade, the place their futures, their very lives, in school above." This is our goal, our pat- your hands. What a challenge! What tern for youth. an opportunity! You are their guides as Just as the pilot steering his ship they prepare to go out into life's great across the trackless sea must constantly trackless unknown. To a large degree, keep his eye on the compass; and the their success or their failure lies in your pilot of a plane, winging his way through hands. This demands that each and space, must be alert, watching lest he every one of us think soberly of our task, fail to follow his charted course, so time study daily God's plan and pattern for and time and time again in our busy our youth. It requires the personal con- lives we must look to our chart and secration of our own lives, for who dares check ourselves to see that we are not to attempt the molding of a human life deviating from the course that has been unless God be with him? outlined for us. Following that course, "Let us remember that a Christlike we need have no fear, but we must fol- life is the most powerful argument that low it precisely. can be advanced in favor of Christian- The aim of our education should be ity, and that a cheap Christian character the fourfold development of the stu- works more harm in the world than the dent. Emphasis should be upon the stu- character of a worldling." dent rather than the subject. We must Often the youth who come to us are develop and encourage the "learning careless, indifferent, and sometimes drive" from within, a consciousness of downright antagonistic; but, with the the need of sound practical education, blessing of God, as His plan is followed following the pattern given in our chart. we see them leave our schools with an We must live closer to our boys and experience, understanding, and conse- girls, that we may know them better. A cration that belong to the converted friendship must be developed with them child of God. The world has demon- that is based upon mutual confidence strated that education without religion and regard. Our youth today are con- leads to destruction. Science has bent fronted with tremendous problems. every energy to produce instruments of While they need us as teachers, they death. It is our task to make of our need us much more as friends. youth instruments of life. It is given us We must ever be alert to new educa- to direct our youth to become well- tional methods and techniques for bet- balanced, sincere Christians. ter ways of doing things, but in all these Let each one of us pray daily that God our chart must be our guide. will so direct us in this work for our Most of our schools are already under youth that from our classrooms will go way. Young people have come to them out that great army of youth needed to in faith and confidence, believing that finish the work. E. E. C. VOL. 8. NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 3 A Challenge to the Church

Nathaniel C. Wilson VICE-PRESIDENT, NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION

AS THOSE responsible for the ed- to impress the importance of this mat- ucation and training of our children and ter: youth, and as those also responsible for "Nothing is of greater importance the success and triumph of God's work than the education of our children and on earth, we cannot be reminded too young people." "The work that lies often of the sacredness and importance nearest to our church members is to, be- of the trust that is ours. The doctrine come interested in our youth." 2 "The of Christian education has been commit- schoolroom is needed just as much as is ted to us by God and we must not lose the church building." this goodly and precious treasure. The The church of God, directed and in- education of the children and young spired by her leaders, should experi- people of the advent movement in our ence a great revival of interest in the denominational schools is fundamental education of our children and youth. to the growth and success of this move- The time is long overdue for such an ment. The prosperity and triumph of awakening, which will lead to action on God's work in the great home bases, as the part of our workers and churches. well as in the fields out to the very ends This awakening should be so marked of the earth, is vitally related to, and and positive that there could be no ques- largely dependent on, our giving Chris- tion as to our belief in the proper train- tian education a large and growing place ing and salvation of our youth and our in all our planning. readiness to sacrifice toward that end. The messenger of God has had good We should recognize that the estab- reason for writing so extensively to the lishment of a church school is as impor- church today on the subject of the im- tant and vital to the success of the church portance of our schools and Christian as is the conducting of a Sabbath school education in all its aspects. It is evident or the carrying on of any other church that in all this clear and challenging in- activity. It is neither sufficient nor satis- struction there is the recognition of an factory to confine the religious training ever-present danger. Pressed as they are of our children and young people to the with the burden of many duties and re- few hours of Sabbath worship or even to sponsibilities, there is often a tendency the religious training received in the on the part of new leaders to forget that average Christian home. The teaching only as our denominational schools and in school during the week must support nrogram of education are kept strong, that of the Sabbath day and the home. and growing can we-face the future with Here is some very clear instruction: assurance and confidence. "Workers in new territory should not Every church leader, as well as every feel free to leave their field of labor till teacher in our schools, should read often the needed facilities have been provided the positive, challenging statements for the churches under their care. Not given to us which set forth the vital im- only should a humble house of worship portance of our denominational school be erected, but all necessary arrange- program. Such statements as these help Please turn to page 29 4 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION A.MASIMIEWIFILv.W.WWWWWWWWILYWAYMVATh.WM.WA.102L.VMUMUErANMLIIWALvii.WA.,'

A CHILD SPEAKS TO HIS TEACHER

By Charles Hemmig,

High School Principal

0 teacher, I come to you for guidance in this troubled world. So many things seem insecure, unstable, and changeable. In you I hope to find certainty, security, and definiteness. Do not leave any doubts in my mind as to the worth-whileness of education and the nobility of character, so that I may under- stand them and strive for their achievement. You will lead me, guide me, have faith in me. Won't you? I want you to be sincere and straightforward with me. Treat me as a human soul with nerves, feelings, and thoughts. I have secrets and aspirations. You will treat them with the utmost confidence and respect. Will you not? Show me that it is safe for me to reveal my secrets to you and never betray my confidence in you. Do not ask me to betray my confidence with other people. Spread before me daily my educational table of good things for my body, mind, and soul. May I learn from you a way of life which will build my confidence in myself and in humanity. If I am conceited, help me to be humbled, and if I am abased, help me to gain confidence. I put my trust in you. May that trust never be betrayed. Treat me as your friend and fellow workman. I want to become acquainted with all the best things that life has to offer. I know you can help me. I want to go to school willingly without fear of being laughed at or punished for things that I cannot help. Remove sarcasm and ironical and personal remarks from your sayings. If you have to criti- cize, speak to me alone and without passion. Do not hold me up to ridicule. Study my educational needs and adapt your methods and materials to these needs. Make your teaching so simple and direct that the difficult lessons will be made easy, and unpleasant tasks will be made enjoyable. Remember that I am more important than any subject, and do not humiliate me because of my lack of ability in any subject. Try to understand me and help me to explore and understand myself. Help me to analyze my own problems and face the future without fear. Cause me to be critical of my own work, to analyze my own weaknesses, and to evaluate my own conduct. Inspire me with a burning zeal always to do my best, to speak the truth, and to live a noble, useful life. Create in me worthy ambitions. I do not wish to be a child always, so help me to mature gradually. Show me how to become a worthy citizen and how best to serve the community in which I live. Create in me worthy ideals. Help me to worship the good, the true, and the beautiful in sincerity and in truth. Lead me to believe in myself. Inspire me to a full realization of the joy that comes in using myself to my full capacity. Help me to make decisions for myself. Teach me how to do things well and always to complete whatever I undertake. Teach me to appreciate good workmanship. Expose me to all the beautiful things in art, in education, in literature, in nature, and in proper human conduct. Teach me good sportsmanship so that I may always play fair. Show me how to be a good loser and an honored winner. Speak to me with your heart, your hands, your life, for I can understand what you are better than what you say. Inspire me with your kindness, your thoughtfulness, and your sincerity. Be yourself both in and out of school but make that self be always the finest example of a worthy life. Pour out your life in sacred acts so that when I become a man I, too, may be led to be as you are. May I be prompted through your acts, your looks, your words, to drink deeply of all the op- portunities that education has to offer. Be consistent in all you do and say. so that I may not confuse "right- and "wrong." Encourage me to LEARN TO LIVE and to LIVE TO LEARN!

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John E. Weaver ASSOCIATE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, GENERAL CONFERENCE I T WAS my privilege to spend al- been in operation. Gordon Prenier had most three months during the winter of arrived only a few weeks earlier but was 1945-46 visiting schools, teachers, and getting hold of the manager's duties churches in the British West Indies quickly and efficiently. The wood prod- Union, the Colombia-Venezuela Union, ucts department is under the direction and the Caribbean Union of the Inter- of L. A. Horning and Aston Mullings, American Division. We left Miami on and is growing under an impact of in- December 10, 1945, on a Pan Ameri- creasing orders. The sheet-metal depart- can Douglas DC3, two-motor, twenty- ment is doing its share of work under one-passenger plane for Jamaica. This the guidance of Ivan Walters, and the trip was taken in company with Arthur farm and dairy are carrying on under H. Roth, educational and Missionary the diligent and faithful direction of Volunteer secretary of the division, Headley Anderson, in spite of a heavy whose social and travel traits as well as drouth in the early part of the year. A his color-photography bent, make him new 80,000-gallon water tank has been an interesting traveling companion; and built recently at the college, and it will M. E. Olsen, then president of the Home fill a real need in making more adequate Study Institute, who was making his first provision for the school's water supply. airplane trip as well as his first visit to Toward the end of December, 1945, the beautiful, verdure-covered, tropical B. G. Butherus, from Shelton Academy, island of Jamaica. in Nebraska, arrived to become the new The West Indian Training College— president of the West Indian Training a school of junior-college rank—received College. C. L. von Pohle had done val- our first attention. It is located at iant service as head of the school, follow- Mandeville, Jamaica, about sixty miles ing the resignation of M. J. Sorenson, from Kingston, and is the training cen- who had responded to the urgent call to ter for workers in the British West In- be superintendent of the Ethiopian dies area. As the school year closed, ten Union Mission. Stanley Bull; of Eng- young women and one young man were land, had come during the past year to graduated from four of the college take the headmastership of a new sec- courses, and arrangements were prac- ondary day school, known as the New tically complete for all to enter the work. Hope College, in Kingston. This school It was encouraging to see the recent was opened in 1943. changes and improvements at the col- Traveling by way of Panama and the lege. A new building for the bakery Canal Zone, we left Jamaica and headed was nearing completion and a number for the Colombia-Venezuela Union of items of new bakery equipment were Training School, located at Medellin, on hand, ready to be put into operation. Colombia. M. V. Campbell, president B. R. Hamilton heads this department of the Northern Union Conference, took and is giving a good account of his stew- passage with us from the Kingston air- ardship. The college press has always port in a Boeing B307—a thirty-three- been a busy place, but is more so than passenger, four-motor Stratoliner. ever since the new linotype machine has On reaching Panama, we visited the 6 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION new Panama Industrial Academy, situ- could see that between the two dormi- ated on a very good highway about tories a new service building had re- twelve miles from Panama City. As is cently been erected. The dining room often the case, however, the half mile and kitchen are on the second floor, and from the main road back to the school provision has been made for the acad- was not so good. Here were L. A. emy bakery in the rear. The primary Wheeler, the principal, and several school will occupy part of the first floor other members of the faculty. As this in the front section of the building. The was the Christmas vacation period, the new principal, C. L. Powers, was just students had gone to their homes for the beginning his work following the resig- holidays. A new girls' dormitory had nation of W. H. Wineland, who had been built, but only a few individual served as principal for the previous four rooms had been provided. The kitchen years. and dining room were housed in a small The vacation period was on at the temporary building just behind the time of our visit, and only a few of the dormitory. The administration offices, students were present. Newly improved classrooms, chapel, and library were all quarters had been provided for the in this dormitory building. The boys printing and woodworking industries. were housed in a temporary building in The bakery was still doing a good busi- a rather crowded condition. Two well- ness in the city; however, a reorganiza- appointed and attractive teacher cot- tion of this industry is needed in order tages had been built and were in use. to put it on a more businesslike basis. The farm was receiving some needed The readers of the JOURNAL will be glad attention by the size of the banana grove to learn that George A. Thompson and being increased and by other plantings his wife and children, recently from La and cultivation. The school desperately Sierra College, are located here, and he needs a new boys' dormitory, which by is carrying a heavy load in the school. careful planning and adaptation might They are picking up the Spanish readily, serve also as an administration building and Professor Thompson has been teach- for a time. The high-voltage power line ing his class in Spanish almost from the should also be brought up to the campus beginning of his work in the school. to provide adequate power and light. Recent reports from the school indi- This new industrial school has been es- cate that the new administration is solv- tablished to meet a crying need of the ing the problems of the school in a young people in Panama, and it is most strong and efficient way. This school earnestly hoped that funds will soon be has wonderful possibilities in the train- in hand to complete it. ing of workers for the Colombia-Vene- After spending the week end in Pan- zuela field, but suitable individuals are ama City and Colon, visiting the Eng- needed to fill certain key posts in the in- lish and Spanish churches, we flew on to stitution such as Bible teacher and dean Medellin, Colombia. The academy here of girls. is located across the valley from the city Following the union and academy of Medellin, up the hill far erloug-h to business sessions, we joined a group of give one a full, beautiful view of most eleven primary teachers from the field of the valley and the city itself. The and a few others in a very interesting view of the city at night from the school and profitable institute. These teachers campus, with the hundreds of twinkling were alert to the problems in their lights in the distance, gives one a thrill schools and participated enthusiastically and an inspiration that lingers. in the program of the institute. The Even before reaching the campus we principles and practice of Christian ed-

VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 7 ucation are safe in the hands of such a dozen brooms were made. These well- loyal, consecrated group of faithful made and attractive brooms have found teachers. May their worth be fully ap- a ready market in Trinidad, but a wider preciated by the fields and churches market in some of the surrounding is- where they serve. From there we flew to lands is being sought. Brethren Hills Trinidad, stopping briefly at Barran- and Wilson have greatly improved the quilla, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; quality of the brooms and the efficiency and Willemstad, Curacao. of the shop, with the result that the in- Upon arrival at the Port-of-Spain air- come from this department, and that port, we were met by A. R. Tucker, from the press, is giving substantial cash principal of the Caribbean Training assistance in operating the school. College, which is located in the beauti- The farm and garden are being de- ful Maracas Valley about twenty miles veloped slowly, and the nucleus of a distant. This school has grown remark- dairy has been started. Bananas and cit- ably in the past few years from an en- rus fruits have been planted, and nearly rollment of 80 students to 150. Appli- ten thousand cocoa trees have been cut- cations for admission to the school year lassed. The agricultural possibilities of just opening were taxing the facilities the school are large and should be of the college to the utmost. In fact, developed under well-trained leadership. some of the students may have to be Plans and funds were in hand for the turned away until another year. erection of a new service building to Plans are under way now to increase house the kitchen, dining room, and the scope of the offerings to the junior- laundry. Increased facilities and rooms college level, which will enable it to give will need to be provided in both the a training to the young people that will girls' and boys' dormitories to take care be more nearly in line with their inter- of the increased enrollment for the ests and needs as well as the needs of the school year just opening. Several homes work in the Caribbean Union, of which for teachers also are needed, and it is this institution is the training school. hoped their construction may begin soon. It was very heartening to see the strong After the union mission and college industrial program that is being carried board meetings there opened a very in- on at that college. The press only re- teresting and valuable teachers' institute cently moved into a new, well-lighted, for the dozen primary teachers of the airy building planned especially for its South Caribbean Conference. J. T. Car- needs. I. W. Baerg is the superintend- rington, educational secretary of the ent of the press and is doing a commend- union, led out in the program. These able work in this department. Two of faithful teachers participated heartily in the students in the print shop demon- the round-table discussions and returned strated the operation of a ruling ma- to their schools with renewed determina- chine—the only one in the entire island tion to be more faithful in their work. of Trinidad. The high-class and special From Trinidad we went to British type of work done by this press gives it Guiana for a Youth's Congress and a all the orders that can be taken care of teachers' institute, and then on to Bar- satisfactorily. bados for another congress and teachers' The broom shop is the second such institute. Time and space will not per- shop to be found anywhere in the Carib- mit interesting details concerning these bean Union field. For a number of meetings as well as the Youth's Congress months past the broom shop had aver- held at Mayaguez or the teachers' insti- aged one hundred and seventy dozen tute at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The last brooms a week and on a recent day fifty Please turn to page 28 3 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION •

Rural Living and Self-supporting Missionary Work Edward A. Sutherland, M.D.

SECRETARY, THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST COMMISSION ON RURAL LIVING THE Seventh-day Adventist CcAn- our schools and our large body of well- mission on Rural Living was organized trained, loyal teachers. at the last General Conference session. The value of a school is measured by Some main objectives of this commis- its objectives, and its ability to train stu- sion are to foster and encourage rural dents to carry its ideals into every com- living and self-supporting missionary 'n- munity in which they live. Thus the stitutions, and to aid church members .n school has a great influence in the lives the cities to study country living and of the people. Let us teach God's plan develop plans whereby they can estab- that our homes should be in the country, lish their homes in rural places. and that our church members should be The divine plan of life for man has self-supporting missionaries co-operating never changed, and the best place to with the ordained and chosen "regular establish a home for the family is on a workers" of the church. small farm surrounded by the beauties If our teachers will co-operate in keep- of nature, The terrible damage suffered ing this objective before their students, by many cities during the last war, with they will become rural-minded and love the serious difficulties arising from trou- God's plan rather than the city pattern bles between labor and capital, have of life. It will not take long until great brought many people to realize that not and good results will be seen. Then only the comforts and conveniences of these students will exert a telling influ- city life but the very necessities of food ence over their parents, their relatives, and fuel can quickly be swept away. their friends, and neighbors. The atomic bomb and other modern As an illustration of what can be done methods of wholesale destruction are by education which has definite objec- causing serious-minded people to feel tives, we need but refer to recent history. that the message to get out of the cities When the leaders of the Axis nations de- into country places should be heeded cided that they were a super-race, des- now. tined and able to rule the world, and Our leaders, however, realize that that they should prepare an army able frightening people into leaving the cities to subdue all who opposed their philos- will bring no lasting good results. With- ophy, they set their teachers to the task out a love for country life and a knowl- of preparing the minds of their students edge of how to meet the problems of to carry out the program. This plan, country living successfully, little would zealously promoted, resulted in the most be accomplished. To carry out God's gigantic, powerful, and effective war ma- plan of life will require a definite, strong, chine ever known. active educational program on the part When the Allies understood the pur- of all our leaders and teachers. To ac- pose of the Axis nations and realized the complish the work of the Commission necessity of organizing, not only to re- on Rural Living, the aid and co-opera- sist, but to destroy the war machine of tion of every agency of the church will the enemy, they, too, resorted to educa- be needed. Naturally, we think first of Please turn to page 30 •VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 9 •

The Arts in the Curriculum Richard B. Lewis DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE THE unity and the interrelation analysis may be seen to have such value. of the arts are well estahlished in college The English department teaches the thought of Ma7c. The usual method of literature of England and America in a conveying the idea to the undergraduate rather thoroughgoing fashion. An un- is to offer a course in the humanities, con- derstanding of the music and painting stituting from six to twelve semester "and architecture of a period is indis- hours of lower division work. The pres- pensable to a thorough understandin of ent interest in the graphic arts and music, e wri s la perio . The student engendered by the radio, the ever-enlarg- must appreciate the influence of the mu- ing press, and, most of all, by the new sic of Handel and the painting of the encouragement given by Federal projects classical school in order to feel the sig- in creative work, make such courses pop- nificance of the literature of the eight- ular and in a degree necessary. To what eenth century. The Gothic_ revival and extent this trend and interest affect the the Pre-Raphaelite movement in litera- schools of the church is a question worthy ture-are incomplete ideas without some of some investiglaca._ knowledge of the graphic arts involved. It may fairly be taken for granted that What can better illuminate impression- some readers have not thought out a ism in literature than the parallels in philosophic justification of a pursual of music and painting? So we might multi- any of the arts beyond the stage of imme- ply examples of the need of an integrated diate practical necessity. Students should study of the arts as an aid to the study of learn enough applied music to render literature. service in the church and the evangelistic Most of the temptations to the youth effort. They should know their lan- of today are offered through the medium guage well enough to be able to tell the of some phase of the arts. The youngster gospel story, and some pieces of literature (who has had good literature read to him may be included as a means to that end. in the family circle and who continues They need to be able to write clear re- during his school days to he led- through' ports for the church papers, and a few great piecera literature, is iiilitile, or should learn to pen convincing doctrinal any rate less, danger of being intrigued articles for the general public, just as a .1athTiTe7irytrash. By the same token very few need to have commercial art for a proper understanding of, and acquaint- the purpose of illustrating denomina- ance with, fine music will be a safeguard tional books and periodicals. To this against the devil's music and all that it extent all subscribe to the arts. leads to. Though less definite in ap- Since some difference of opinion might plication, the principle relates to the arise over the value of the arts aside from , graphic arts as well. The refinement of the purposes of pure propaganda just itfie sensibilities and morals gained from cited, a brief discussion of the justifica- the study of fine paintingsand lculptures tion for such may here be appropriate. I serves as a guide in what the eye is al- Let us consider the aspect of the united lowed to contemplate. arts, which at first appears not to relate In the establishment of homes young to any practical application but by later people need the guidance in taste that 10 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION a study of the arts willgive. They will quiring the student to sample courses in be selecting houses and furniture and in- each department. Let each A.B. candi- terior decorations, and creating the mu- date include in his course of study a class sical and visual environment in which in, art appreciation and another in mu- their children are to grow up. sic appreciation, together with atleast In at least these three ways, then, the one course in literature. This plan is _study of the arts may be considered prac- defective in that it divorces one form of tical aside om erect app ica ion: as an art from the others. At this point in the aid to the study of literature, as a safe- discussion the suggestion should be ' tiart to it , and as a guide in creat- made, why not offer an interdepartmen- ilig,a wholesome ome atmosphere. tal course, the literature to be offered by In addition to these considerations a member of the English department, the there is an intangible and immeasurable art by the art department, and the mu- benefit to the soul in contemplating sic by die_ music department? The an- likeluty. In the schools- of the prophets swer is emphatically negative. two of the subjects were music and po- Granting that students would be in- etry. Because the graphic arts were in terested in such a course and that the those times invariably connected with growth of the other departments would idol worship, their development among warrant it, this plan has a fatal defect. the Hebrews was restricted. There is no The purpose of the study here suggested mention of them except in connection is to gain a comprehensive idea of the with the temple, in which, incidentally, inter-relation of thearts—not music for they were very highly developed; but the the musical interest and art for the art other arts of the Hebrews were widely interest, but music and literature for developed and have been preserved to those interested in art, art and literature us. These studies were pursued for their foi.INe7misic major, all three for the( intrinsic value, as soul meat. God is the `history major. These will not be seen author of beauty. For saints that will piecemeal in sample courses in the vari- one day design, build, and decorate their ous departments, not taken tandemwise , homes, who will write poetry which they in a checkerboard course, but integrated. will set to music and sing, is it not appro- The teacher should be what the student i . priate that they go at least as far as to is to become. The music student must develop an appreciation of those forms see literature through the eyes of a in their highest phases here on earth? teacher who is not merely an interpreter In short, there are two aspects of prep- of poetry but also a connoisseur of mu- aration for the coming kingdom. One sic. The English major gains a more concerns itself with developing skills and wholesome appreciation of art when his engaging in work directly connected with teacher of literature is the one to inter-i evang2l_AwWWild; elizil the other in- pret painting and architecture for him. volves more specifically. the— refinement of More important still, the teacher of the heart and mind leading to fellowship integrated course is the one to know and With the creatures of heaven and the en- explain the influence of one art upon the joyment of its beauties. 9ther. The purpose is to produce an The problem now arises as to the A.B. graduate who is indeed a bachelor proper method of introducing a study pt arts_ who knows and appreciates the of the arts for A.B. candidates in Seventh- best in all forms of beauty. day Adventist schools. If the art and mu- The ideal curricular adjustment to sic departments were developed suffi- the needs discussed would be, in denomi- ciently and along the right lines, an national schools, a requirement in the argument might be introduced for re- Please turn to page 30 VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 11 Posture in the Classroom Isobel J. Hansen INSTILL CTOR, SCHOOL OP PHYSICAL THERAPY, (.0-,..EGE OF MEDICAL EVANGELISTS

IN 1932 the White House sub- part of the feet. In walking and stand- committee, appointed by the White ing the feet should be parallel. House Conference on Child Health•and Some of the common attitudes in poor Protection, having studied the reports posture are forward head, stooped shoul- of several thousand American children, ders, flat chest, round upper back, prom- reached the conclusion that "75 per cent inent abdomen, and an increased lum- of the male and female youth of the bar curve. These faulty positions will United States exhibit grades of body impair the child's health, and if uncor- mechanics which, according to the stand- rected, may result in serious disease and ards of this subcommittee, are imper- permanent deformity in later life. fect." ' Incorrect posture habits can be over- This alarming proportion could be come more easily if the reason for the greatly reduced if teachers in the schools child's assuming faulty positions can be would unite in an effort to make the determined. Poor health, faulty nutri- children and youth under their super- tion, mental and physical fatigue, un- vision "posture conscious." happiness, improper clothing, unsuit- Although well-supervised gymnasium able school equipment, and inadequate classes and thorough physical examina- lighting may all be contributing factors. tions are important, they are not The child should be intelligently ob- enough. At these times the child is con- served, in order to ascertain whether scious that his posture is being checked, personal habits may be the underlying and will make an effort to assume cor- cause for faulty positions. rect positions. Thus some of his faulty The teacher may notice, for example, habits may be overlooked. The teacher that Johnny's right shoulder is lower in the regular classroom should keep a than his left one. An examination of record of the posture habits of each child, Johnny's back may reveal that he has a to aid the physical education instructor scoliosis, or lateral curvature of the spine. in giving individual corrective help. Observation of his habits may disclose Frequent reminders of correct pos- that he habitually carries his books to tural attitudes should be given in the and from school in his right arm. The schoolroom. These appeals, however, spinal curve he now has is probably should not take the form of nagging,' functional and can be corrected easily or the child is likely to show resentment by alternating his load of books from by taking a negative attitude. arm to arm. If the habit persists, how- Posture may be said to be excellent ever, actual bony changes may take when the head is held erect, the chin in, place. He will then have a structural the chest high, the abdomen flat, the scoliosis, a condition which is extremely hips rolled under, and the normal back difficult to treat. curves reduced to a minimum.' The Uneven leg length, asymmetrical read- weight of the body should be evenly dis- ing and writing positions, a slouched, tributed on both legs, and should be one-legged standing habit, prolonged borne on the outer borders and fore violin practice (the child forming the 12 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION habit of standing in a violin-playing po- wonder why his elders insist that he as- sition),' have all been known to cause sume the "abnormal position of correct functional scoliosis. Forward head posi- posture." He must have a clear picture tions may result from poor eyesight or of what correct posture is, and must be impaired hearing. Round shoulders, shown how to assume the right attitudes flat chest, and kyphosis may be caused by in sitting, standing, and walking. clothing that is too heavy or poorly fit- The teacher must, therefore, thor- ted, habitually slumped sitting positions, oughly understand the fundamentals of and fatigue. Sleeping with pillows may body mechanics, and know how to ex- aggravate these conditions. Slouched plain good posture simply and correctly. positions may result from fatigue and A failure to understand correct prin- are often caused by school desks and ciples will lead One to give commands seats not adapted to the child's size. which tend to exaggerate faulty posture Adequate school furniture cannot be rather than correct it. Examples of in- overemphasized. Too often the child is correct posture commands are listed by required to sit in just any seat. School . Dr. Frank H. Krusen, of the Mayo desks should be adjustable so that the Clinic.' They are: 1. "Turn your toys child's individual needs are met. Seats out like a lady." This position shifts should conform to the natural curves of the normal weight-bearing line of the the body in the sitting position. The body, and results in painful foot strain seat should slope slightly upward toward by flattening the longitudinal arch and the front. Its depth should be such that causing pronation. Other faulty com- it permits the hips to come in firm con- mands which likewise cause the child to tact with the back without striking the assume strained, unnatural positions are: bend of the knee. The desk should be 2. "Pull your stomach in." high enough to permit free leg move- 3. "Throw your shoulders back." ment, and its top should slant toward the 4. "Throw out your chest." pupil at approximately an angle of fif- 5. "Pull your chin in." teen degrees, so that the child, when sit- The same author lists the five proper ting correctly, may read and write with- commands which help the child under- out strain.' Needless to say, prompt stand what is expected of him and bring attention to all physical defects is impor- his body into correct alignment.' tant in corrective postural training. 1. "Walk with your feet pointed The teaching of correct posture habits straight ahead and throw your weight can be made a very interesting part of forward on the balls of your feet." classroom work. A few minutes could 2. "Roll your hips under." be profitably set aside once or twice daily 3. "Raise your chest up." for posture drills and instruction. In 4. "Try to stretch the back part of the order for any posture program to be top of the head toward the ceiling." successful, however, the child must be 5. "Walk, stand, and sit as tall as pos- led to see the value of good posture hab- sible." its, and how he, as an individual, will A full-length mirror so placed in the benefit from them. It might be well to classroom that the child may visualize mention here that children are very ob- correct and incorrect attitudes would be serving and have retentive memories. of value. Photographs or simple shad- The instructor may be the victim of ow-grams made at intervals would assist Johnny's or Mary's critical eye at times in making the child conscious of his ap- when she is least aware of it. Unless the ,,earance and would help to give him an teachers and parents at all times set a interest in his progress. good example, the bewildered child may Please turn to page 28 VOL. 8. NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 13 America Is Different

Dyre Dyresen MINISTER, MINNESOTA CONFERENCE

BEFORE the European traveler Each one of them adds his contribution can leave his ship in the harbor on the to making this country the envy of the east coast of the United States he has to world in nearly every field of human en- have his papers checked by representa- deavor. He knows it and is proud of it. tives from the Immigration and Natural- As businessmen are constantly looking ization Service. Remembering the ex- for new markets and manufacturers are ceedingly long questionnaires he had to looking for new ways and means whereby fill out to secure his visa from the Amer- they can improve their services, so the ican consul in the land of his origin, the American educators roll up their sleeves European is sometimes afraid to meet to devise new educational processes or these officials. He discovers soon, how- improve the old ones, utilizing recent ever, that they are just ordinary men, discoveries. The curriculum is con- some of them in uniforms and others stantly being adapted to the changing not. If it is a warm day, they throw off demands of society. Higher institutions their coats, roll up their shirt sleeves, of learning are centers for research in loosen their neckties, and go ahead with modern scientific and technical lines as their business. This is the European's well as in the humanities. The kind of first introduction to the down-to-earth, teamwork which 'has brought such re- practical, hard-working American who markable success in factories, in business never will let customs, traditions, or any- enterprises, and on the battlefields is also thing else hinder him fro'm doing a good employed in the libraries and labora- job. tories of the universities. Before this friend from Europe has The American student learns for life been in the New World a week, he prob- and not for school. Therefore, when he ably has visited a corner drugstore more plans his education he can select subjects than once. What would America be and skills which best fit his individual without the corner drugstore? There he abilities and his purpose in life. He is sits, not at a table served by a slow wait- not, as his European cousin, confined to ress, but on a high chair at the counter a prescribed curriculum and a fixed set itself. The pharmacist rolls up his of textbooks from which he cannot devi- sleeves and prepares different dishes of ate. Here are high schools where girls ice cream. Could anyone visualize his get "credit" for playing basketball! Here dignified European colleague doing are colleges that teach home economics, that? At the counter with the European dressmaking, printing, painting, ma- are high school boys and girls, a police- chine-shop work, and other vocational man, a college professor, a doctor, a skills besides the more traditional school bricklayer—people in white shirts and subjects. Here are universities that are people in overalls, people speaking im- interested in something as unacademic maculate English and people who "mur- as bookbinding, ceramics, and wood- der" the world language with every work. sentence they speak. They are all Amer- To learn how to learn is stressed much icans, and the one is as good as the other. in this country. Instead of sitting pas- 14 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION sively watching his teacher perform ex- over there. Scandinavian newspapers periments in chemistry, for instance, which have found their way over to this each student puts on a rubber apron and country report discussions about such does the experimenting himself in a American "inventions" as summer large laboratory provided for the pur- schools at the universities, dormitories, pose. The student in history must learn and educational rights of "GI Joe's" how to make use of a library rather than comrades-in-arms. They even discuss the limit his studies to the textbooks pro- advisability of getting American school vided him by the teacher. Recently an administrators over to Europe. The flow instructor at the University of Oslo, Nor- of Scandinavian students, who in earlier way, in a newspaper article strongly ar- years went to Germany because of the gued for the abolition of the old Prus- similar educational systems in Germany sian textbook study as it is practiced in and Scandinavia, have now turned to- Norway. He said that "many students ward the English-speaking countries. are so busily engaged in cramming in American public education helps to their assignments that they very rarely develop the student physically, intellec- have time or strength really to study or tually, and socially. Seventh-day Advent- have a single independent thought." ist schools have one more objective, In connection with many colleges and namely, an education of the heart. This universities in the United States are in- is possible only by having consecrated dustries whereby students can earn their teachers and school administrators, and way. The semester-hour or quarter-hour by giving the teaching of Bible and re- systems make it possible for those who lated subjects a broad place in the school cannot leave their regular employment, program. The one thing must be done to secure a higher education, although and the other not left undone. it takes longer that way. Summer schools In this country it is possible for de- make it possible for professional men to nominational educational institutions to take refresher courses and to keep be accredited without losing their pecu- abreast with new ideas within their pro- liar character. Even classes in Bible doc- fessions. University radio stations, cafe- trines and denominational history are terias, clubrooms, and other institutions accredited, provided they are presided connected with the schools are manned over by men holding public degrees and by students who have part-time employ- teachers' certificates. In Europe the ment. Nobody is ashamed of being seen problem of accreditation seems unsolv- in work clothes between classes. This able. There the curriculums are fixed, tends to make the schools more demo- and any special Adventist teachings must cratic than would otherwise have been be in addition to the other subjects. the case, and valuable experience is Under those circumstances European gained by the students. Campus life, schools have the choice of seeking accred- with its dormitories and varied activi- itation and losing their Christian pur- ties, promotes the students' ability to pose, or teaching according to the de- take part in democratic community life, nominational principles and being with- and the social side of human nature is out accreditation. thereby recognized as something valu- Europe greatly needs material help able. from America. But the greatest and most During the recent war several Euro- important items they can get from here pean educators spent years in this coun- are American progressive ideas. It can- try as refugees and otherwise. Some of not be denied that America is different, them have returned to Europe and now and the difference is, more often than are endeavoring to bring about reforms not, to her advantage. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 15 Teachers of Tomorrow Else Nelson ELEMENTARY SUPERVISOR, PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

YEARS before, lie had attended words of the commandments once more. church school—this tall, serious-faced The face of his church school teacher sergeant who was an ambulance driver. came vividly before him as she taught He had stood up with the other children those solemn words. The quiet voice on Sabbath to repeat the verses learned retelling again the story of the love of day by day at school. With them lie had God, the earnestness with which she had recited many familiar lines. "Thou explained to little minds the solemnit, shalt have no other gods before Me." of His commandments, her consecration "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it and devotion to the principles of right holy." "Thou shalt not kill." Clear, and truth—all these came to his mind in childish' voices had rung out strongly crystal-clear focus. until the last stately phrases, "Thou shalt Years had elapsed since he had last not covet . . . anything that is thy neigh- thought of his teacher and that church bour's." But those days were far away, school experience, but now, as the Holy and the words and meanings had long Spirit spoke to his heart, he exclaimed been forgotten. He had grown up and, involuntarily, "If only the world had away from the teachings of the little followed the teachings of the Bible and church school, had forgotten the admo- had lived up to those Ten Command- nitions of the church school teacher. He ments, all this would never have hap- had grown adept in the ways of the busy pened." Other memories of church world around him. His absorbing life school days crowded in upon his mind in business, the attractive girl who knew until, there on that battlefield, he gave nothing of his early beliefs and who was his life to his Lord. Lessons learned now his wife, his cigarettes, his whisky, long ago came back to him. The ciga- his love of the theater and the dance, his rettes were discarded; the whisky went friends of like interests—these were the untasted; a life was made right with world lie had exchanged for the drab God. He found no one with whom to uniform, the days of tension, and the share his new-found religion, no other heartbreaking work of the ambulance Seventh-day Adventist with whom to corps. talk and to pray. On through the war First he had faced the London blitz, he fought, but the light of a new pur- then the war-weary fields of France. pose burned steady and strong. With Now, in the heat of a raging battle, amid the end of the war came his return to the sights and sounds and .smells of war, his home. Today in a far Western com- he worked frantically in his efforts to munity his life of devotion and service rescue the injured and to relieve their is a living' monument to the work of sufferings. He was seeing much of the that teacher, who long ago had fulfilled carnage and horror of war when sud- the commission of the Master Teacher. denly, in the midst of his gruesome task, "Go ye therefore, and teach." there flashed before him a long-forgotten To the teacher, primarily, comes the picture of his childhood. He was back opportunity of planting seeds of truth in that Sabbath school, repeating the at the time when receptive minds and 16 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION youthful vigor can most readily grasp To encourage those who have been and retain them. Not always can the entrusted with the gift of teaching to teacher bring the results of his work im- prepare for the use of that gift in the mediately to the baptismal service, but cause of God. God works in a mysterious way to carry To arouse an interest in, and an un- out His purposes. Though the work ap- derstanding of, the teaching profession, parently may be lost and lessons seem in order that a large number of talented forgotten, God sometimes brings men to young people may choose to enter it. situations like that of the prodigal son To provide opportunity for exchange in order that the long-dormant seeds of of ideas. truth-may grow and bear fruit. To provide for enrichment of the pre- To implant in the hearts and minds professional experiences and opportuni- of young people the principles which ties of future teachers. will return in times of stress and tur- To indicate denominational recogni- moil, to inspire and point the way to a tion of its future teachers. life of consecrated service for the Mas- Since the beginnings of the Teachers ter, these are the privileges of the teacher. of Tomorrow, a little over a year ago, sent from God. Far more than a profes- the organization has developed steadily. sion, the life of the Christian teacher is At the present time chapters in acade- a ministry of service. Beyond the re- mies and colleges are working actively, sponsibility of teaching a knowledge of and interest is growing. Commission the fundamental skills and understand- services have been held iii many places, ings necessary to the growth of the child, at which time members have received is the privilege of leading him to know their pins and have accepted the charge, and love the Lord. This is the teacher's "GO YE therefore, and teach." greatest joy, highest privilege, and source The tiny pin which members wear of deepest satisfaction. bears the words, "Teachers of Tomor- Because of an ever-increasing need for row," and features a lighted lamp of talented and well-trained teachers as en- learning. True symbol of the work of rollments continue to grow rapidly in the Christian teacher is this little em- denominational schools, it has become blem with its steadily burning flame. imperative that more young people be led to see the opportunities for service "His lamps are we in the ministry of teaching. To shine where He shall say; To accomplish this, the organization And lamps are not for sunny rooms, known as the Teachers of Tomorrow Nor for the light of day, was formed. It is the denominational But for the dark places of the earth, organization of prospective teaching tal- Where wrong and shame and crime ent, the purposes of which are: have birth, To establish an organization of future Or for the murky twilight gray, teachers within the Seventh-day Advent- Where wandering sheep have gone ist denomination, in order that such in- astray." dividuals may be bound together in common fellowship. Teachers, His lamps are you.

VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 17 Sunnydale Academy

Harvey C. Hartman SUPERINTENDENT, SUNNYDALE ACADEMY

FOR over half a century our be- trucks, five plows, three disks, a hay lievers in the growing State of Missouri loader, pick-up baler, combine, corn have realized 'the urgent need for an ed- picker, field ensilage cutter, feed mill, ucational institution to care for their mower, and other equipment help to young people of academic age. That make this part of the institution one of long-cherished desire is now being real- the successful units of the school. ized in a miraculous way in answer to Two beautiful dormitories are near- their united prayers, and they are ing completion and should be ready for thrilled to .see an academy being estab- occupation at the beginning of school. lished that promises to be an asset to Rosewood Hall, the girls' dormitory, our denomination as well as a wonderful and Hawthorn Hall, the boys' dormi- training center for Christian youth. tory, are 120 feet by 38 feet and will God directed the committee that was house eighty students each. The build- seeking a site. After many weeks of ings are of brick and are completely fire- fruitless search they were led to a large, proof. Each dormitory is equipped modern farm located on a fertile stretch with a well-planned dean's apartment, of land in the northern part of the State. which has its own kitchenette and pri- Stories as interesting as the Bible tales vate bath. Student rooms are fourteen of old grow out of the experiences of by eleven and one-half feet and each con- this subcommittee as God marvelously tains a large closet, a new chest of directed them to the beautiful location drawers, individual study desks, and on which the school is now developing. single beds. Special features of the dor- The name chosen for this new school mitories are a dinette for the girls, a —Sunnydale Academy—gives the ini- large recreation room for the boys, tials S.D.A., and to us in Missouri it rep- lounges, worship rooms, an infirmary, resents faith and sacrifice akin to that and guest rooms with bath. spirit which prompted the early work of To provide for classrooms this year, this Seventh-day Adventist movement. a few partitions are being left out of the Sunnydale Academy stretches over 863 student rooms on the first floor of each acres of exceptionally fertile land, yield- dormitory. These will make nice large ing bountiful crops. Clean, spacious rooms for classes, library, music studios, barns and buildings electrically equipped and laboratories. A central heating throughout, and which have been con- plant, together with a filtration sewage structed within the last six years, add to disposal system which meets the State its value. A modern milking parlor, im- health department requirements, is being maculately kept, is equipped with five installed. Future plans include an ad- De Laval electrical milking units and in- ministration building to accommodate terests each of the many visitors. A re- two hundred students, a recreation cent inspection gives the report that our building, and a church. milking setup stands first in the State. In addition to their prayers and the The farm is equipped with all mod- exercise of their faith, the Missouri ern machinery. Four tractors, four church members are giving liberally of 18 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION ACTION TAKEN AT SECRETARIES' COUNCIL Boulder, Colorado, August 6-8, 1946

REPORT ON STANDARDS August, 1946, after earnest prayer VOTED, To adopt the report of and much careful restudy, do the committee on standards. The hereby report is as follows: (I) Reaffirm our belief and con- fidence in these fundamental prin- Resolution—Worldliness ciples and standards of conduct set WHEREAS, Worldliness and evil forth so clearly in the Spirit of are at the epidemic stage and still prophecy; and rising rapidly, constituting the (2) Earnestly appeal to our chil- "overflowing scourge" foretold in dren and youth and their parents, the Spirit of prophecy; and church and conference leaders, to WHEREAS, The resulting tempta- renew their loyalty and allegiance tions for Seventh-day Adventist to these long-accepted denomina- children and youth are more pow- tional standards; and erful and subtle than ever before (3) Urge the controlling boards in sin's long reign; and of our educational institutions of WHEREAS, There appears to be a all grades to hold firmly to these liberalizing of standards of conduct fundamental standards when ad- on the part of Seventh-day Advent- mitting and retaining students, and ist children and youth and their that students who persist in attend- parents and spiritual counselors, ing motion-picture theaters and/or especially with reference to social other conduct out of harmony with 1 ife, recreation and amusement, these standards be denied entrance dress, and reading; Therefore, or retention in our schools; and We, the educational secretaries (4) Ask that the acceptance and of the General Conference and the retention of non-Adventist students union conferences of the United be placed on the same basis as de- States, assembled in council in scribed in (3) above for Adventist Boulder, Colorado, this 8th day of students.

funds to establish this „school. Reserva- We give credit and thanks to our heav- tions at the time of this writing indicate enly Father for His blessings that have that they plan to send one hundred and attended our efforts in securing funds, twenty of their children this first year. materials, and labor which have enabled The aim of the faculty is to give a well- us to accomplish what we have done. rounded, well-balanced Christian educa- With His guidance we know the work tion to the young people of Missouri, of this institution will succeed. We so- with emphasis on practical education. licit your prayers. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 19 NEWS from the SCHOOLS

DR. K. J. REYNOLDS has accepted the call THE NEW PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY has to the General Conference as associate secre- been in operation just one year. The spa- tary of the Department of Education. With cious rooms, and the use of the academy's his background of successful school experi- own gymnasium building, which includes ence in our academies and colleges, he will a swimming pool, have contributed toward bring real help to the department. Along making the past school year a very pleasant with other responsibilities, Dr. Reynolds one. will be editor of THE JOURNAL OF TRUE THE NEW GIRLS' DORMITORY at Campion EDUCATION, and direct the research activi- Academy will house 140 girls, and has these ties of the department. special features: a two-room hospital, wash- At present Dr. Reynolds is dean of La ing and pressing room, hair-drying room, Sierra College, where he has served in that lobby, trunk room, sewing room, recreation capacity and as a teacher for over twenty room, parlor, worship room, guest room, years. Because of his present responsibili- and dean's quarters. ties in the college, he will not take up his duties in Washington until the first of the EXTENSION COURSES IN BIBLE AND EDUCA- year. uoN were offered by the Pacific Union Col- lege summer session held at the Hawaiian AUBURN ACADEMY has had an extensive Mission Academy in Honolulu. T. H. building program during the past four or Jemison and Alice Neilsen offered the five years. With the completion of the courses which were open to graduates of girls' dormitory the amount expended in the academy and church school teachers of buildings, improvements, equipment, pur- the islands. The session lasted for eight chasing farms, and homes for teachers, will weeks, and 351 were enrolled. go over the $500,000 mark. THE HOUSING SHORTAGE at Broadview THE NEW SCIENCE HALL at Union Col- Academy is greatly relieved with the com- lege welcomed its first classes during the pletion of ten new faculty homes. At the summer session. The building and its recent Illinois camp meeting, Elder Car- equipment cost $125,000. The music de- cich, the new conference president, pre- partment of the college enters its new home sented the school's need for a new power with the fall term. This building was plant and nearly $6,000 was raised. erected at a cost of $65,000. PINE FOREST ACADEMY, one of our Two WORKSHOPS, one for crafts on the younger schools, is fortunate that the Mis- elementary level and the other for guidance sissippi Dorcas Federation has chosen the on the secondary level, were held this academy as its main project. The federa- summer at Emmanuel Missionary College. tion has furnished the girls' parlor, pur- Each conference and academy sent one or chased a chest of drawers for each student more representatives. Demonstrations were room, and it also plans to furnish com- given on how to teach crafts, and a hand- pletely the boys' home. book was presented to each elementary teacher. The guidance workshop prepared BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTIES that the a manual on guidance for use in the acade- graduates of Canadian Union College, as mies, and copies .were presented to each well as those of other schools in Alberta, academy teacher. It is planned to have have encountered when taking advanced these workshops each summer. work in the United States, the curriculum of the secondary school has been completely COUNCILS HELD IN WASHINGTON this past reorganized. Officers from the educational summer included the deans of colleges and department of Alberta Province have been nursing schools and teachers of business, most sympathetic and co-operative in ef- music, and home economics. Reports will fecting this change. appear later. 20 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION \ \THEN THE CALL CAME far President E. E. NEW FACULTY MEMBERS at Southwestern Cossentine to become secretary of the Gen- Junior College this year are Gladys Mor- eral Conference Department of Education, ton, head of the biology department; Opal Dr. R. W. Woods, head of the physics de- Van de Warker, commerce department; partment and college dean, was asked to Allan Craw, head of the piano department; take the presidency of Union College. Vera Baker and Geneva Lowry Law, ele- mentary school. AN IDEAL RETREAT for staff members of Canadian Union College was made possible RECENTLY OFF THE PRESS iS the new Cen- when the forestry department of the Prov- tral Union educational manual for schools. ince of Alberta recently granted the insti- It is well documented, indexed, and is a tution a lease of five acres. Cottages will compilation of actions of the union com- be erected on this land at the foot of Mount mittee, educational board, Fall Councils, Rundle in the famous Banff district. and recommendations from the General Conference Department of Education. W. L. SCHOEPFLIN, former educational superintendent of the Washington Confer- SEVERAL NEW FACULTY MEMBERS began ence, has accepted a call to be principal of their teaching at Pacific Union College the Upper Columbia Academy at Spangle, with the summer session: Dr. William L. Washington. V. R. Jewett, formerly of Au- Whitson, head of the department of phys- burn Academy, is taking his place in the ics; Mrs. Frieda Huber Paul, instructor in Washington Conference. nursing education; Myra Kite, department DR. STERLING K. GERNET, formerly of of elementary teacher training; William H. Walla Walla College, is the new head of Meier, mathematics; and Fred Riley, in- the music department at Pacific Union structor in secondary mathematics and College. Also joining the music faculty science. Dr. D. A. Courville returned after this year is Mrs. Dorothy Johnson Muir, a year's leave of absence at the University who completed her work in music at the of Washington with his doctor's degree in University of California this spring. the field of organic chemistry. Visiting teachers for the summer were Dr. Paul T. ROADS AND PARKING LOTS On the campus Gibbs, English; Mildred Ostich, elementary of the Asheville Agricultural School have education; and Mrs. Chloe Sofsky, art. recently been paved. To HEAD THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT at THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION BY FIRE of the Union College, Milton Hare comes from elementary school on the La Sierra College Atlantic Union College. For several years campus occurred early Friday morning, he has been doing research in electronics July 26. The origin of the fire has not at the Bell and Howell laboratories. been definitely determined. The college is sorry to report this loss, not so much from A. D. HOLMES, former dirtctor of secon- a financial standpoint, since the building dary teacher training and principal of was well insured, but because of the handi- Union College Academy, has accepted a cap it presents. A committee appointed to call to teach biology and mathematics at plan for the new building voted to change the Hawaiian Mission Academy. the location to more suitable surroundings. The old playground facilities were inade- J. H. RHOADS, educational and Mission- ary Volunteer secretary of the Minnesota quate, so it was voted to build the new Conference for the past year, has accepted school just across the street from the new the call to become principal of Union Col- church and diagonally across from the col- lege store, on the present pasture land. lege Academy. This will provide ample space for play- THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE grounds. It is hoped that the new build- is building eight new school buildings this ing will be ready for occupancy the begin- year. One of these is an eight-room build- ning of the second semester. Meanwhile ing, six are two-room buildings, and one is the elementary school started work in rooms a one-room building. Three new church of the new administration building. schools are being opened this year. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 21 DR. E. B. OGDEN, head of the mathematics LA SIERRA COLLEGE extends a hearty wel- department, has been chosen as the new come to her new president, Dr. G. T. An- academic dean of Union College. He was derson, formerly dean of Atlantic Union graduated from Union in the class of 1922, College. the class that put the famous clock in the A FOUR-WEEK WORKSHOP in the use of tower. He received his master's degree audio-visual materials was offered in the from the University of Nebraska, and his summer session at Pacific Union College. doctor's degree from Boston University. This work was conducted by R. F. Cottrell, FOR HER SUMMER CLASS IN COMMUNITY head of the Bible department of the Pacific NURSING, Ethel Walder, director of nursing Union College Preparatory School, H. D. education at Pacific Union College, ar- Wheeler, head of the audio-visual depart- ranged with the public health authorities ment, Pacific Union College; and Else Nel- in San Francisco to spend two weeks in the son, elementary supervisor of the Pacific city observing and participating in the Union Conference. The purpose of the work of the health department. During the course was to give practice in the use of day the students—all graduate nurses— equipment, to demonstrate techniques in visited clinics, hospitals, and social centers, the various types of material, to provide and made home calls, while evenings were opportunities for evaluating available ma- spent in required reading, writing reports, terial, and to set up standards for material and other classwork. to be produced. Several groups worked on units of instruction for this school year, FACULTY MEMBERS AND STUDENTS Who utilizing visual techniques and materials. spent the summer months at Union Springs Field trips, previews, and guest lecturers Academy were busy painting and papering added to the interest of the work. study rooms, classrooms, and the chapel, with gratifying results. About $2,000 was WHEN J. W. ROWLAND accepted a call to spent for much-needed furniture in the the Philippine Union College, A. J. Wear- girls' dormitory, and over 300 interesting ner was invited to succeed him as head of new books were secured for the library. the Bible department at Union College. Elder Wearner served for several years as a A NEW GIRLS' DORMITORY to accommodate missionary to China. After his return to seventy-two young women was erected at America he taught Bible at Pacific Union Columbia Academy during the summer. College, and more recently at Southwestern It is a beautiful two-story structure with a Junior College. white stucco finish. A large dining room A NEW HAMMOND ELECTRIC ORGAN is a and well-equipped kitchen with asphalt recent addition to the chapel at Canadian tile flooring in each, are on the ground Union College. The Student Association floor. A new, utility building houses the raised a large share of the money. recently installed automatic oil boiler, as well as a modern laundry with all new ma- AT OAKWOOD COLLEGE a new laundry chinery, and a steam cannery. building has been constructed, and plans are under way for a new women's dormi- THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE NORTHERN tory. UNION have had a large turnover in person- AT FOREST LAKE ACADEMY excavation has nel. Cree Sandefur, educational secretary of the Iowa Conference, was called to be already been made for the new adminis- Missionary Volunteer secretary of the tration building. A new elementary school Washington Conference. J. 0. Iversen, of building is completed, and needed repairs have been made on the dormitories. North Dakota, was called to take Elder Sandefur's place, and North Dakota chose HIGHLAND ACADEMY, at Fountain Head, J. F. Knipschild for their new educational Tennessee, the newest academy in the and Missionary Volunteer secretary. E. A. Southern Union, has a girls' dormitory Robertson, of Greater New York, becomes under construction. When this is com- educational and Missionary Volunteer sec- pleted, it is planned to build a new admin- retary of Minnesota. istration building. 22 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE ALASKA MIS- THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOARD OF SION is going in the right direction. The TRUSTEES has set itself to build and year 1944 opened with one school and one strengthen its faculty. The long-range plan teacher. At the beginning of 1945 there includes that of bringing in younger men were four schools and five teachers, and as associate professors, one for each of the this school year there are five schools and five departments of the theological curricu- seven teachers. lum. The first to come under this plan is Dr. Holger Lindsjo, formerly of Walla THE NORTH PACIFIC UNION closed the Walla College, and a graduate of Chicago last school year with 285 active members University. in the Teachers of Tomorrow clubs. DR. DANIEL WALTHER, formerly of South- PRACTICALLY A NEW CAMPUS greeted stu- ern Missionary College, comes to the Theo- dents at Laurelwood Academy this fall. logical Seminary as professor of church his- New buildings include a girls' dormitory tory, taking the place of Dr. Frank H. Yost, which accommodates one hundred and who recently was appointed associate sec- fifty girls and a dining hall; an administra- retary of the General Conference Religious tion building containing eight classrooms, Liberty Department. However, Dr. Yost private offices for each teacher, a chapel to will continue teaching two quarters each seat six hundred people, a library, and ad- year in the Seminary. ministrative offices; and a powerhouse with two 125-horsepower boilers for heating, and GUNTHER PAULIEN, a graduate of Union, also facilities for a laundry and woodwork is assisting in the mathematics and educa- shop. The old administration building tion departments at Union College. provides classrooms for art and music. H. W. CLARK, head of the biology depart- SOUTHWESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE has Se- ment at Pacific Union College, introduced cured ten prefabricated houses for married a new course—marine biology—at this veterans. year's summer session. The students di- vided their time between field work along To COPE WITH THE HOUSING PROBLEM AT the ocean shore, and laboratory work at WALLA WALLA COLLEGE, a Government the college. Many of the specimens were project designed to house thirty-two fami- added to the permanent museum collection lies has been provided for married vet- of the department. erans. These units were shipped by truck from Port Orchard, Washington, and re- L. L. NELSON, manager of Union College built on a plot northeast of the campus. Press for several years, has joined the col- Six buildings, 34' by 150', also have been lege faculty as an assistant in the English assigned Walla Walla College from the sur- department. Mr. Nelson has been taking plus • at the inactivated McCaw General work toward his degree at the University Hospital. These units will be cut into of Nebraska. James Anderson, foreman of three parts, moved to the campus, and re- the press, becomes manager of the College assembled. Three of the units will house Press. one hundred and fifty single veterans, while the others will accommodate thirty-six vet- A BUILDING PROGRAM 1S going forward in erans and their families. the Southwestern Union. Tulsa, Okla- homa, has begun a $40,000 ten-grade plant; STUDENT VETERANS AT UNION COLLEGE Oc- the Fort Worth school building is being cupy a court of nineteen apartments, which finished; and the Houston school building has been erected on a corner lot adjacent is under way. to the campus. Twenty-five trailer houses are installed as a temporary measure across THREE NEW EDUCATIONAL SUPERINTEND- the street at the northeast corner of the ENTS in the Canadian Union are Teddric campus. Faculty members who are veter- Mohr, Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference; ans of both world wars will occupy a four- G. M. MacLean, Maritime Conference; apartment building to be constructed near F. W. Bieber, British Columbia Confer- the college campus. ence. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 23 BUILDING AND ENGINEERING PLANS have Two NEW EDUCATIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS been completed and permission is awaited in the Columbia Union are T. H. Stockton, to proceed with the building of the H. M. S. educational and Missionary Volunteer sec- Richards Memorial Radio Studio at Wash- retary in the Chesapeake Conference; and ington Missionary College. In the mean- L. L. Philpott, educational and Sabbath time equipment for recording, playback, school secretary in the West Pennsylvania and broadcasting is on order. Conference. CANADIAN UNION COLLEGE reports the A WORKSHOP TO PREVIEW EDUCATIONAL following changes in faculty: Florence Mo- FILMS was conducted by elementary teach- line, registrar and assistant mathematics in- ers at Glendale Union Academy the past structor; W. A. Sowers, from the Greater summer. Study guides for materials now New York Academy, head of the chemistry owned by the Pacific Union Conference department; Lloyd M. Cowin, in charge of Bureau of Visual Education were also pre- industrial arts and vocational training; pared. These films and study guides will Clark M. Willison, from Indiana Academy, be circulated among the schools of the Pa- assistant to the president and treasurer of cific Union Conference as requested by the the school; Mrs. Eva G. Casey, household teachers. The committee recommended the arts instructor; and Mrs. Grace Suelzle, of addition of significant new films during the Lacombe, director of the cafeteria. coming year. H. E. METCALFE, formerly educational OSHAWA MISSIONARY COLLEGE iS being and M.V. secretary of the Chesapeake enlarged by the addition of a new men's Conference, is the principal of Pacific dormitory. This relieves former conges- Union College PrepaYatory School. Mrs. tion by providing separate dormitories for Metcalfe will teach music. Other new staff men and women. members are Winifred Holmden, formerly of Walla Walla, who will teach French; R. J. ROY responded to the call to teach Richard Lewis, also of Walla Walla. who Bible and Spanish at Union College Acad- will teach English and speech; and Lau- emy this year. He is filling the position retta Fickess, of Gem State Academy, who left vacant by Esther Sonnenberg, who will teach Spanish. joined the faculty of Walla Walla College Academy. DR. P. E. Quimsr, clean of the School of Theology, Pacific Union College, during THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY Of Union Springs the past summer completed teaching syllabi Academy is being planned with a reunion in "Messages of the Prophets" and "Studies of the charter members of the school. in Pauline Epistles." The syllabi, designed A. N. Shafer, accountant and commercial for use in college classes or private study, teacher, himself a charter member of the are now available in mimeographed form. institution, is sponsoring the celebration. CAMPUS STREETS at Walla Walla College THE SPANISH-AMERICAN SEMINARY has have been paved with asphalt. completed its laundry building and most of the repair projects. THE SUMMER AT SOUTHWESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE saw the completion of several THE NEW ADMINISTRATION-CLASSROOM campus improvements, among which is the BUILDING and the new four-room elementary new auditorium-gymnasium. Not only will building at Arizona Academy are provid- this auditorium be an asset to the institu- ing space for the increased enrollment. tion, but it will do much toward eliminat- RUTH WHITFIELD now has charge of the ing social problems and irregularities by providing an adequate place for acceptable cafeteria and dining room at Union Col- recreation. lege. She came to Union from Adelphian Academy, where she was matron since 1936. HERBERT WALLS, formerly of the Atlantic Besides having a B.S. in home economics, Union, is now principal of the ten-grade Miss Whitfield has studied at Michigan school at Newark, New Jersey. State College and Pacific Union College. 24 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION 'IHI•: MI MBIRS of the General Conference PRINCiPALS 01. ACADEMIES in the Pacific Department of Education and the nine edu- Union Conference spent six days, July 15 cational secretaries in the United States to 21, at Pacific Union College, studying met for special counsel August 6-8 at Boul- special problems in guidance and business der, Colorado. This was the first oppor- management under the leadership of Dr. tunity that the recently elected secretary, G. F. Wolfkill, head of the department of E. E. Cossentine, and his associate, L. R. secondary education, and R. K. Boyd, head Rasmussen, have had to meet with the of the department of business administra- union educational leaders since the Gen- tion. eral Conference session. Superintendent FURNITURE FOR SITTNER HALL, the new and Mrs. Hagstotz of the Colorado Confer- men's dormitory it Walla Walla College, is ence made arrangements for the gathering being made of mahogany and birch in the and also attended the meetings. Important manual training shop of the school. educational policies and problems were dis- cussed, and significant actions taken. There THREE APARTMENT HOUSES AND SEVENTY was a stimulating, encouraging spirit of en- TRAILER UNITS for student ex-servicemen thusiasm, faith, and courage manifested have been provided on the Potomac Con- throughout The meetings. ference campsite near the campus of Wash- ington Missionary College. These accom- MR. AND MRS. E. EDSTROM, of Oshawa modations will serve students of the college Missionary College, have accepted a call to and the Theological Seminary. serve in the Belgian Congo. Mr. Edstrom taught history at the college the past two THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE ADMINISTRATION years. BUILDING—the "Castle" of early Union Col- lege days, where dwelt the "Knights," and The New Diluvialism by H. W. Clark, more recently the music department—has head of the department of biology at Pa- been completely renovated and rebuilt to cific Union College, is the title of a hook " accommodate sixty-five students. The an- published last spring. The subject of Flood nex has been appropriated by the dean of geology as presented in this book gives the women, and is used exclusively to house creationist's answer to the major questions thirty-five young ladies. With the excep- of geology. tion of the business office, the first floor of MR. AND MRS. LEONARD I. WOODS, for- the administration building has undergone merly of Cedar Lake Academy, are now complete renovation and reorganization. connected with Southwestern Junior Col- The physics and chemistry departments lege, where Mr. Woods is treasurer. have been moved to the new Science Hall, and the vacated rooms, newly floored, plas- A WORKSHOP COMMIT-TEE composed of five tered, and decorated, are being occupied by experienced elementary teachers from five the secretarial department and business ad- different union conferences and the direc- ministration. tor of teacher training at Washington Mis- THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Of Mr. and Mrs. sionary College, Mabel E. Cassell, met for George W. Miller was celebrated on Au- ten weeks the past summer at Takoma gust 11 by nearly two hundred of their Park, Washington, D.C., to prepare new friends. Mr. Miller organized the first band Bible materials for the third and fo arth at Walla Walla College in the summer of grades of the elementary schools. The 1893, and his wife, Lula Hill Miller, is art project consisted of preparing and organ- teacher. izing new Bible materials for the textbooks, workbooks, and teachers' manuals for these SOUTHERN MISSIONARY COLLEGE has the grades. Although the entire assignment following new members on its staff this was not completed, yet encouraging prog- year: Mrs. Irva Baessler, E. C. Banks, ress was made. It is hoped that in the sum- Charles Fleming, R. L. Hammill, H. H. mer of 1947 this project may be completed Kuhlman, Eliza Parfitt, Leif Tobiassen, and work begun on revised Bible materials Charles Wittschiebe, and Mrs. R. W. for grades five and six. Geach. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 25 A BROOM SHOP is the newest industry on WILLIAM H. SHEPHARD, former president Campion Academy campus this year. The of Southwestern Junior College, has been print shop has been rebuilt and will offer elected president of Washington Mission- employment to a number of academy stu- ary College to succeed Dr. B. G. Wilkin- dents. The new music hall will greatly son, who has been appointed field repre- strengthen the music department. Two sentative of the college. teachers will devote most of their time to teaching voice, piano, and other musical in- THE SCHOOL AT FLETCHER reports its struments. share in the nation's bumper crops this past season. Its table has been generously LOMA LINDA ACADEMY iS rapidly taking supplied with dairy products, fruits, and on the appearance of a new school. Last vegetables, while several thousand gallons year a four-room grade school building have been preserved for use during the win- was added, bringing the total to eight ter months. Buildings that house students rooms available for grade-school work, have been thoroughly overhauled, and with a teacher for each grade. New addi- every room has been redecorated. The lack tions this year include a chapel seating 330, of building space has prevented a large in- and a library large enough to accommo- crease in enrollment, but the optimistic air date the entire academy at any one time. about the place indicates that even if the The old academy building has been com- school is not bigger, it is better. pletely remodeled with a new modernistic front to the building. Larger classrooms LYNWOOD ACADEMY rejoices in the pur- and commercial instruction facilities are chase of a large Moller pipe organ with provided, more efficient office arrangement, twenty-one sets of pipes. new music studios, teachers' offices, a health RECENT ADDITIONS to the men's home at service room, Associated Student Body of- Southern Missionary College include some fice, and faculty room. • space for married veterans and their wives. NEW MEMBERS added to the staff of Renovations of the shower roams and bath- Washington Missionary College include rooms in both the men's and women's Dr. Oliver Beltz, the Drs. T. R. and Edda homes cost nearly $10,000. Larimore, M. G. Conger, W. Fletcher Tarr, CONSTRUCTION ON THE NEW MEN'S DORMI- and Nis Hansen. TORY at Oshawa Missionary College is well ROGER NEIDIGH IS physics laboratory as- under way, and it is hoped that it will be sistant at Union College. His work at En- ready for occupancy about November 15. terprise Academy was interrupted two years A $9,000 HERD OF JERSEY COWS, recently ago by the Government authorities, who added to the dairy at Southern Missionary discovered his abilities as a physicist, at College, will aid in the milk production which time he was assigned to assist in the needed to care for the unusual increase in development of atomic power. student enrollment at that college. H. C. Lovrrr is head of the vocational RUEBEN BUHLER iS principal of Winnipeg agricultural department and general super- Junior Academy and teacher for the inter- intendent of the farm and dairy at South- mediate grades. western Junior College. Mr. Lovett holds a master's degree in agriculture from the H. D. WHEELER, formerly head of the de- University of Louisiana, where he also partment of business administration at Pa- taught for several years before becoming cific Union College, is now head of the an Adventist. recently established department of audio- visual education. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER, H. M. Johnson took up his duties as business man- J. V. PETERS comes to the presidency of ager at Union College. He has served our Southwestern Junior College from Maple- institutions for more than forty years, so wood Academy. He has swung into a heavy comes with a rich background of experi- program of continued improvement for the ence. school, and the future is bright. 26 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION P. C. JARNES is the new principal at Ma- THE EPHESUS JUNIOR ACADEMY FACt I. FY plewood Academy. has been increased from six to eight teach- ers. Two new church schools in the North- SHEYENNE RIVER ACADEMY iS building eastern Conference open this year: one in three teachers' cottages. It has plans and Boston, Massachusetts; the other in New money for a new administration building, Haven, Connecticut. but is waiting for a permit to begin work. KANSAS CITY JUNIOR ACADEMY has been OAK PARK ACADEMY has bought two remodeled to add two rooms to the present houses for its teachers, and at present it building, the basement has been enlarged is building a large brick gymnasium. and made into a playroom, and a new gas NEW FACULTY MEMBERS AT ATLANTIC furnace has been installed. The building UNION COLLEGE are Dr. George E. Shankel, is being redecorated inside and out, and dean of the college and professor of his- fluorescent lighting is being installed. tory; Mrs. Winn Osborn Shankel, music NEW TEACHERS at Lynwood Academy this department; Harold U. Wendell (registrar year are Roy Hampton, of Canada, head and head of the department of commerce of the piano department; Edith Stone, of from 1926 to 1943), business manager; Mrs. Fresno, California, history and English; Grace Maas Nelson, normal director and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kollwitz, of New York instructor in elementary education; Daniel —Mr. Kollwitz, biology and physical edu- Koval, instructor in physics and machine cation, and Mrs. Kollwitz, assistant in the shop practice; Beverley H. Van Home, head offices; H. B. Wilcox, of Lodi, California, of the department of physics and mathe- head of science department; Cloyd Avery, matics; Edward Ney, assistant professor of of Berkeley, California, head of woodwork- foreign languages; Professor and Mrs. Wil- ing department; Albert Avilla, of the Voice lis L. King, assistant professor of secondary of Prophecy, pipe organ; Sylvia Simon, of education and instructor in piano respec- Union College, school matron. tively; James R. Chambers, instructor in chemistry; Albert E. Brendel, dean of men. EvERETT DICK has accepted an appoint- ment as research associate at the Univer- MRS. W. E. HOWELL is now serving as sity of Wisconsin for the twelve-month educational supervisor in the Columbia period beginning September 1, 1946. He Union. One important feature of her work will work on a fourth volume of his series is promotion of the organization known as on social histories of the American fron- Teachers of Tomorrow. tier, which will deal with the area between THE BUILDINGS AND ROOMS of Winnipeg the Appalachian Mountains and the plains Junior Academy were redecorated during in the area north of the Ohio River. the summer. Venetian blinds and fluores- A BEAUTIFUL NEW DAIRY BARN at Maple- cent lights were installed, and now asphalt wood Academy is attracting the attention of tile floors are being laid. dairymen in the vicinity. Other new build- H. D. SCHWARTZ is the principal and bus- ings at the academy include three teachers' iness manager at Gem State Academy this cottages, a multiplex with five apartments, year. and an industrial building.

THE HOUSING SHORTAGE at Atlantic Union THE SAN DIEGO ACADEMY BUILDING was College has been alleviated by the erection recently sold, but with the privilege of us- of three modern brick apartment buildings, ing it one more year. After that a com- each containing four or more apartments; plete new plant will be built. and by the setting up just east of College Hall of a commodious trailer court con- A. V. WALLENKAMPF, formerly of Shey- taining over sixty 15' by 10' expandable enne River Academy, has joined the Bible trailers, as well as bathroom and laundry Department of Union College. Elder Wal- units. Several homes have been purchased lenkampf not only has taught in our for faculty members, and a two-story brick schools but is a graduate of the Theological duplex house has just been built. Seminary and has had pastoral experience. VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 27 TRAILER CITY AT PACIFIC UNION COL- building site overlooking the bay, and LEGE is a well-laid-out community composed a wonderful view of the distant hills and of forty-one trailers and thirty-two quon- mountains, all give promise of develop- set-hut apartments. Located near the col- ing into one of the finest school plants. lege campus it is reached by hard-surfaced There is space for several teachers' cot- road and walks, and is provided with elec- tages. A light and power line is on the tricity, sewer, water, and telephone service. The residents have organized their own property, and the property has a short government, which includes a mayor and front on a paved highway leading into other officials. A large number of veterans Port-au-Prince. have also found other accommodations near In conclusion, one is constrained to the college, and some are building homes. exclaim, "What marked evidences are to be seen of the guidance and blessing DESPITE CONTINUED SHORTAGE OF MATERI- of God on the educational and young ALS, the new girls' dormitory at Washing- ton Missionary College is making rapid people's work, particularly in these fields progress. Already most of the brickwork of the Inter-American Division!" May of the first floor has been laid. Heaven's blessing rest upon all phases of the truth as it reaches out to touch honest CONSTRUCTION OF A MUCH-NEEDED DINING hearts in every land and island in this ROOM AND CHAPEL is now in full progress at Enterprise Academy, while certain other great field. changes contribute to greater efficiency. A library reading room, seating fifty students, Classroom. Posture now occupies the southern half of the for- mer chapel, while the space on the north Continued from page 13 was divided into two classrooms. There is Arrangements can be made now and also a small mimeograph and paper-supply then for special talks by a physician, a room on this same floor. The former his- physical therapy technician, or a nurse.. tory room in the basement has been di- For variety, some of the children may vided into piano practice rooms, and the be assisted in preparing a posture pro- old storeroom has become a piano studio. gram and drill period for the rest of the THE BOYS' DORMITORY at Columbia Acad- class. emy has been completely renovated with Personality, poise, intelligence, and new floors, knotty-pine wainscoting and good health are all reflected in good pos- fir tile ceilings. The outside of the build- ture. If adequate stress is placed on ha- ing as well as the roof also received a new bitual good posture, the teacher will be coat of paint. The space formerly occu- pied by the kitchen and dining room was rewarded by seeing faulty posture habits made into additional student rooms and a replaced by correct ones. parlor for the boys. It was Solomon who said, "God hath made man upright." Uprightness of body, as well as uprightness of charac- Schools of Inter-America ter, is a worthy goal for which to strive, and will honor Him in whose image we Continued from page 8 are created. stop on this three-month itinerary was 7 White House Conference on Child Health and Protec- tion, subcommittee on orthopedics and body mechanics. at Haiti, where we saw the excellent site Body Mechanics: education and practice (New York: The Century Company, 1932), p. 166. recently secured for the new Haitian In- 2F. H. Krusen, "Willie, Pull Your Stomach In!" Hygeia, November, 1936, vol. 14, pp. 970-972. dustrial School about four miles from 2 Moor, Dail, McFarland, Physical Therapy (Stanford Uni- versity Press, 1944), pp. 235, 236. Port-au-Prince. This eighty-five-acre *Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis; Rotary Lateral Curvature of tract of land with two year-round flow- the Spine (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1926), p. 159. 5 Ibid., pp. 160, 161. ° F. H. Krusen, Physical Medicine; The Employment of ing springs, wonderfully fine bottom Physical Agents for Diagnosis and Therapy (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1942), pp. 560, 561. land for school gardens, a suitable school 7 Ibid., pp. 561, 562. 28 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION A Challenge the pattern given us for Christian edu- Continued from page 4 cation. Devotion and sacrifice on the part of Christian teachers will need to ments should be made for the perma- continue, that they may be mediums nent establishment of the church through which the blessings and advan- school." ,4 tages of God's plan of education can be Regardless of what our particular field demonstrated to the church and to the of endeavor may be, as responsible lead- world. ers in this advent cause, we must lay This is the day for larger and better large, wise plans to extend our work in things in the support of our schools and every phase in all parts of the world for every aspect of Christian education. field. Our people must be encouraged Morally, spiritually, and financially our to greater faithfulness in the support of schools deserve and must have our sup- our evangelistic and general church ac- port and confidence even more fully tivities in the home bases. At the same than at any time .in the past. This is a time there must be greatly increased mis- matter of first importance, and it de- sion giving to advance the work in dis- serves our constant attention, for Chris- tant lands. However, in all this good tian education has to do with the most planning for a larger work at home and sacred matters of the church as well as abroad, we must never forget the neces- with the vital issues of time and eternity. sity of larger and more progressive plans for Christian education. So to plan will ' Counsels to Teachers, p. 165. 2 Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 196. call for a larger share of our time, for Ibid., p. 109. 4 Ibid., p. 108. more money than has hitherto been made 'Counsels to Teachers, p. 165. available, and for a careful, sober re- study of the instruction given the church 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 on this important subject. In this con- 0 nection it is well for us frequently to recall this statement: "While we should a put forth earnest efforts for the masses a California College of the people around us, and push the of work into foreign fields, no amount of Medical Technicians labor in this line can excuse us for neg- 0 lecting the education of our children San Gabriel, California and youth."' (Suburb of Los Angeles) Teachers in our schools have a unique a and sacred place to fill in helping to an- Offers the following 0 one-year courses: swer the call of God to His people today. 0 0 It is their task to carry into effect the 0 X Ray inspired instruction so clearly and abun- 0 Physical Therapy dantly given regarding Christian educa- 0 f. tion. If their vision becomes dim, or if 0 Medical Office Assistant their faith and courage falter, the great 0 blessing which God designs to bring to a a this movement through our schools is a NEW CLASSES BEGIN EACH 0 FEBRUARY and SEPTEMBER largely lost. This is a day of great chal- a lenge and opportunity for every teacher in each one of our denominational 0 schools. It is a time for every educa- Write for bulletin

tional worker to be true to God and to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1946 29 Rural Living Let us organize our students into Continued from page 9 Caleb and Joshua bands, developing the tion. Short, intensive, practical courses courage and spirit by which we will be were organized by officers and teachers. able to respond to this call. This will pro- Before long a more powerful army was mote a Country Living movement. The created to protect our liberties and to hope of the church is its young people. overcome the enemy. If worldly nations The Commission on Rural Living is achieved such great results by educa- ready to help teachers in their efforts to tion, we, too, can have success, because stress the objectives of the commission, our objectives are of greater value and that a quick work may be done. call for greater effort on our part. We can and must meet God's mind concern- Arts in the Curriculum ing His call to get out of the cities. Continued from page 11 We believe the theory that the cities sophomore year of six semester hours at are not favorable places for our homes least, in ated arts course. T1 and children, but we are weak in prac- objectives of the course would be the tice. However, country living is now development of the ability to appreci- becoming of deep interest to Seventh- ate and critically judge examples of prose day Adventists. The General Confer- and poetry, solo and ensemble music ence recently published the pamphlet both vocal and instrumental, painting Country Living, composed of quotations and other graphic forms, sculpture, and taken from the writings of Mrs. E. G. architecture; the sampling of literature, White. It deals with the importance of art, and music from the various historical every Christian family having a home in periods, resulting in an understanding the country, of learning how to grow of the eat movements , the their food and take care of themselves c ie sc ooli-of pining and sculpture, so that they can continue missionary the important influences in architecture, work when times are difficult. This and the periods in musical development. pamphlet already has had several print- The scope of the course and the depth ings, and more than forty thousand of the study would have to be regulated copies have been sent out. This is most by the time allowed. The shorter study encouraging and proves that our people would not go back of medieval times. are interested and wish to carry out God's Tfie longer course might include the his- plan of living in the country. tory of the world, butLhe method would____ To have homes in rural districts does e of actual examples OTEHeirEs—piecei not mean that we must slacken our ef- eflu )ri dteirnagtsuroef, printsusic. of paints, and, forts for the cities. Rather, a great work t must be done to warn them of their im- The JOURNAL of TRUE pending doom. The cities should be worked from rural outposts. Forward- seeing men of the world today are urg- Education Printed by ing that families be moved into country Review and Herald Publishing Association places. These men understand from the Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. experiences of the last war and from the , EDITOR Associates difficulties of establishing a postwar Erwin E. Cossentine John E. Weaver peace, that cities are not safe places for Lowell R. Rasmussen Florence K. Rebok THE OURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION is published in February, our homes and our children since cities April, June, October, and December, by the Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, are natural targets in times of trouble. Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. The subscription price is $1 a year. In this, as in other matters, our actions Correspondence concerning subscriptions and advertising should be sent to the Review and Herald Publishing_ Asso- speak louder than our words. ciation. Address all editorial communications to the Editor. 30 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Evolution, Creation, and ;

By DR. FRANK LEWIS MARSH, Professor of Science Biology, Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska

A New Book on the Origin of Modern Plants * and Animals—Contains a Lucid, Easily Read Exposition of the Theory of Special Creation.

About the Author: Dr. Frank Lewis Marsh is a recognized biologist who is listed in the latest edition of American Men of Science. Among the learned soci- eties of which he is a member are the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Ecological Society of America, and the Society for the Study of Speci- ation. His research in the fields of animal and plant ecology has resulted in valuable additions to science. Doctor Marsh has devoted the major portion of the last sixteen years of his life to the teaching of biology.

This book will acquaint you with the vital difference between theories of evolution and special creation.

Reviewers Say: "Professor Marsh has done an excellent book. I am particularly happy that you job. He is a lucid writer, a clear thinker have written in such a way that none of

1 and reasoner, and when these qualifica- our workers need to feel ashamed to place tions are reinforced by a thorough com- it in the hands of an honest inquirer, re- mand of his subject, we have a right to gardless of his educational status. So expect a real book, one which we need not many of our books are written from a be ashamed to place in the hands of purely denominational viewpoint, and college and university men for their in- while this is perfectly all right, it is not struction and enlightenment regarding the very helpful in trying to place the proper profoundly important subject of a literal type of reading in the hands of interested creation. The truth about creation is a evolutionists."—Cyril B. Courville, M.D. vital part of our Adventist message and "Just finished your book. Congratula- has been timed by Providence for this age tions! You've done a very fine piece of of evolutionists. Here is a book which is work. You will understand my apprecia- reliable in its scientific facts, well writ- tion when I tell you that I will use your ten, and completely loyal to our Adventist book in Philosophy of Science the spring standards."—George McCready Price. quarter."—Harold W. Clark. "I have intended to write you ere this "You have done a very thorough and to express my appreciation of the view- most commendable piece of work."— point which you have expressed in this H. F. Halenz.

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