SPARTAN ALUM N I M A G A Z I N E ADVENTURES IN LIVING MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE iMuUStt^j MEETS THE CHALLENGE School of Education Reorganizes ONE OF THE CHALLENGES the School of Education has grams planned and coordinated by the facing it is the growing shortage of teachers in the public schools Department of Vocational Education. for the next several years. There is no leveling off in sight in For the preparation of men and women the number of young children entering school. The birth rate physical educators, physical therapy per­ in the early months of 1951+ is seven per cent more than that sonnel and recreation leaders, the De­ of the same months in 1953 and it is still going up. partment of Health, Physical Education Every year 6500 new teachers are needed to teach in Michigan and Recreation was organized. schools, the positions ranging from elementary teaching to col­ lege and university teaching. All Available Resources Used Dean Erickson explained that under the terms of the reorganization, all can­ didates for secondary school teaching COMPLETELY new set-up will Since it was felt that teachers might will be enrolled, advised, and granted de­ A greet prospective teachers enroll­ be getting too highly specialized and grees by the School of their major field ing in the School of Education at the that there was a need for them to have and by the School of Education. Also, the start of the school year. Teacher edu­ a broader educational background, a enrollment officer will be assigned from cation has been intelligently redirected Department of Foundations of Education the student's major field. However, all after 11 months of intensive study of the was established which provides a founda­ candidates for secondary school teaching problem by Dean Clifford E. Erickson tion program common to all undergradu­ must be approved by the School of Edu­ and the staff of the School of Education. ate students in Education, and, at the cation before they undertake a teacher "The reorganization represents a real graduate level, provides both general and training program, and must continue to step ahead in developing a teacher educa­ specialized courses in the foundation be approved throughout the entire pro­ tion program that utilizes all the re­ areas. gram. sources of Michigan State College," Responsibility for the professional preparation of personnel who provide Under this five-department set-up, the states Dr. Erickson. committee on secondary education in­ To avoid the extreme departmentaliza­ leadership in the educational system and work in an administrative capacity falls tends to use all of the resources of the tion which is characteristic of most campus to develop the best trained American colleges and universities, a under the Department of Administrative and Educational Services. teachers possible. minimum number of departments was set The committee was also interested in up. Also, a plan was developed which Educational workers in vocational and practical art areas will have their pro- building an organization which would made it possible for the School of Edu­ bring research, field services and campus cation to cooperate with all the schools teaching together. In other words, to on the campus in teacher education. do the same thing in the field of educa­ Five Departments Instead of Eight tion that the Extension Service does for The new organizational plan calls for On the Cover... the School of Agriculture. five departments instead of the original are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thus, a Bureau of Research and Serv­ eight. The five will be the Departments Wunderlich, about to enter their ice was organized to handle off-campus of Teacher Education; Foundations of apartment—one of M.S.C.s 12 instruction, publications, radio and tele­ Education; Administrative and Educa­ new units built to house married vision services, and to develop research tional Services; Health, Physical Educa­ students. Charles is a student in in the field of education. Some technical tion and Recreation; and the Department the School of Veterinary Medi­ personnel are in the Bureau, but most of of Vocational Education. cine, and Yvonne, like so many its staff are members of the teaching Under this plan, the Department of young wives, is working to help departments doing part-time work in the Teacher Education has been established put hubby through. Bureau. to teach courses in methods and special­ The baby was borrowed, but In brief, the School of Education has ized courses in specific fields. It also is he is a bona fide resident of the taken decisive steps towards meeting the responsible for planning and coordinat­ apartment building, though he educational requirements and leading in ing student's programs and directing stu­ didn't give his name. the development of educational patterns dent teaching and other laboratory ex­ within the cultural framework of the periences for prospective teachers. United States. THE RECORD Vol. 59—No. 6 MARJORIE KING, Editor September 15, 1954 RUSSELL POWERS, JR., '49, Associate Editor A. WESTLEY ROWLAND, Editorial Advisor STAEE H. KEESLEE, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADTS FBANKS, '27, Recorder; FEED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; TED EMEEY, Assistant Sports Editor; JOHN MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KUHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; EAEL C. RICHAEDSON, Agricultural Editor; BARBARA BEOWN, Artist; W. LOWEIX TBEASTEE, Director of Informa­ tion Services. Campus pictures by PHOTO LAB photographers. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECOED is published seven times a year by THE DEPABTMENT OF INFOEMATION SEEVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 94, 1912. rf ^amiify rf^i*** Some families could stage a Michigan State College alumni meeting with just the members of their own family. It seems that way when Mrs. Fred Morse and her kinfolks get together, or the Herb Gettels, or the family of Santiago Iledan from the Philippines. T THE TURN of the century a young Always a strong booster of Michigan A girl, Paulina Raven (now Mrs. Fred State, Mrs. Morse has been responsible Morse), chanced to hear a talk on home for encouraging a number of her family economics at Michigan State which filled and relatives to attend. All of her her with such enthusiasm that she went brothers and sisters—with the exception home and told her father she was going of one—and her children and grand­ to enroll at "M.A.C." and study home children have gone to State. SECOND GENERATION: Priscilla Iledan. economics. At that time, Mrs. Morse One of the largest "family groups" on recalls, it was considered unusual for a the M.S.C. alumni rolls, Mrs. Morse and Clarence, 33, graduated from State in girl to go to college to "learn the duties more than 25 of her relatives attended 1941, specializing in farm crops, and of the home." M.S.C. between 1895 and 1950. both Loren, 26, and Herb Jr., 31, attended "I shall never forget my father's re­ It is quite a coincidence that it was winter short courses for several years. ply," she said, "when I told him." He her brother, county agent Emmett Raven, The daughter, Dorothy, graduated in asked, "What do you expect to do when who said about the Gettel family in a home economics (need it be mentioned?) . you finish, be a recent article in the Country Gentleman, at Michigan State and taught in schools cook for a Rocke­ "You never saw folks who work so well near Detroit before her marriage. feller or a Vander- together and have such a good time." Herb Sr. is director of the state Crop bilt?" HERE'S no doubt but that M.S.C. Improvement Association, and a member But that was not T has exerted a telling influence upon of the executive committee of the Michi­ to be Paulina's fu­ the lives of the Gettel family. gan Agricultural Conference. ture. After gradu­ Record readers may have read about Even though the farm is large and ating in 1905, she the Gettels. There are Herb Sr. and his highly diversified, all the regular work taught the first wife, Dora, their four sons and a daugh­ is handled by the family. Herb Jr., be­ home economics ex­ ter. All except the daughter are in a cause of reasons of health, has had to tension school in farming venture together on a 640-acre quit actual farming, but with the help Michigan, and in farm, called Fertile Acres, in the Mrs. Fred Morse of the rest of the Gettels, has established 1914 taught two "thumb" district. a farm implement firm nearby. Clarence courses in the first home economics short Of the four sons, Douglas, 19, and the and Loren are Herb's two full-time course at M.S.C. youngest, is now a junior at M.S.C. farmer sons. Douglas, of course, is busy with his studies at M.S.C, but he pitches in during the summer months. GETTEL PLANNING SESSION: Herb, Sr. (left) and his four sons, Douglas, '56, Loren, Clarence, '41, and Herb Jr.; Loren and Herb Jr. attended winter short courses. All is not work for the Gettel clan, Photo courtesy of Country Gentleman however. This happy family spends many a bright, fall Saturday at the M.S.C. stadium, cheering for their favor­ ite football team—the Spartans. VER SINCE we were little kids E in the Philippines, father said we were going to Michigan State College like he did," recalls Priscilla Iledan. This pretty little Philippine miss is the second generation and the third member of her family to attend Michigan State.