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Forkner Gives Last Lecture This Evening ims ummer SessionrSun o Volume 10 Number 2 Montana State University Wednesday, June 24, 1953 With a lecture titled “Can Edu­ cation Protect Our Freedoms?” Dr. Hambden L. Forkner, head of the Registration Open Department of Education and Vo­ Noted Public Relations Head cational Education, Teachers Col­ To All Teachers lege, Columbia University, will highlight his week of instruction Looking' for Jobs To Conduct Lecture Series here tonight in University Hall auditorium at 8 p.m. Teachers with a bachelor of arts A national authority in educa­ lectures on techniques and medi­ Basing his lecture topic on the degree from out-of-state schools tional public relations, Mrs. Mar­ ums before the School Public Re­ criticism received by schools in who wish to register with the garet Parham, will make several lations course of the journalism Scarsdale, N. Y., and Pasadena, teacher placement department of special public talks next week. school, Mrs. Parham will speak to Calif., Dr. Forkner will cover what MSU may do so upon the comple­ She will also appear regularly be­ a group of over 100 school admin­ he considers pertinent to the pres­ tion of one quarter’s work in resi­ istrators from four educational ad­ ervation of the school’s freedom to dence at MSU, according to Mrs. ministration classes on July 1, at think and teach—yet, carry out Leona Peterson, secretary of the 8:40 a.m. in room 304 of the jour­ responsibilities to the government. Placement bureau. nalism building. Mrs. Parkham will The Teacher Placement depart­ speak on “The Teacher and the "I am more fearful of the ment has listings of teaching op­ Public” to a group of 150 elemen­ racketeers influence upon our portunities in Montana, Idaho, tary and high school teachers at educational system than I am of Washington, Oregon, and Wyom­ 1 p.m., July 1, in room 304 of the the threat of Communism taking ing. These vacancies are listed in journalism school. The public is in­ over the schools. Dr. Forkner job-books and interested persons vited to both meetings on this day. said he believed that “we are too are invited to make use of this She will also make regular appear­ smart to let Communism become service. ances at the School Publications a part of our school system.” course, 9:50 a.m. on Monday, A discussion of this educational Wednesday, and Friday of next problem and also that of the week. “special interest” influence on Enrollment Shows Her topic for the administration education will compose a part group on Wednesday will be “The of Forkner’s lecture. Downward Trend Role of the Administrator in School On the positive side, Dr. Fork­ Registration for the summer ses­ Public Relations.” In addition, she ner will attempt to point out some sion at MSU showed a downward will be available, in room 204 in solutions—such as what schools trend from last year’s enrollment the School of Journalism, to answer can do to prevent graft and crime with 714 students attending at the questions on school relations and syndicates from affecting educa­ end of one week of school, accord­ topics. Individuals will be welcome tions and what he feels to be the ing to Emma Lommasson, assistant to bring their special relations school’s responsibility as a leader registrar. problems to her for advice. in community thought and action. During the same period last year fore the School Publications and She is bringing a quantity of Finally, he wishes to emphasize 752 had registered. Total enroll­ Public Relations clinic. audio and visual material with her, that to become useful citizens, stu­ ment for last summer was 846. Known for her work as director and it will be available for inspec­ dents must experience good citizen­ Mrs. Lommasson said there are 45 of public interpretation for the tion in room 204. The material will fewer men and nine more women ship. He feels that “all citizenship Madison, Wis., schools since 1937, consist of movies, film strips, slides, attending MSU than there were cannot be learned from textbooks.” Mrs. Parham’s week-long engage­ tape recorder material, and book­ last year. She said more students Dr. Forkner, a Montana native, ment on the Montana State Uni­ lets and other publications. are expected to enroll during the attended elementary schools in versity campus was arranged by Prior to accepting the public re­ second five-week period. Missoula and was graduated from James L. C. Ford, journalism school lations post at Madison, Mrs. Par­ high school at Stevensville. He dean. ham was school editor of The Cap­ earned his B.A., M.A., and Phjft In addition to regular morning ital Times, Madison newspaper, at California university, Berkeley. Wendt Presents and was a teacher in Wisconsin Dr. Forkner was principal of a schools. Her present position in­ high school in Oakland and later Faculty Recital; Van Buren Oval cludes publicity, editing publica­ went to Columbia to be a profes­ tions, and public relations. sor in the teacher’s college, where First in Series Entrance Closed She has been a member of the he entered his present position as Pianist Rudolph Wendt, associate national committees of the National head of the Department of Educa­ professor of music, will perform a At Law School School Public Relations association. tion and Vocational Education. program of classic and romantic As such, she was a co-author of compositions on Wednesday, July 1 Van Buren avenue, in its exten­ “ Today’s Techniques” and “ It Advised Foreign Schools at 8 p.m. in the recital hall of the sion which entered the oval near Starts in the Classroom,” publica­ Schools in Puerto Rico, Sweden, new music building. It will be the the Law school, is now closed off tions of the association. Mrs. Par­ Denmark are among the many first program of a series of summer and the area will be planted to ham holds B.A. and M.A. degrees places, including those in the faculty recitals presented by the lawn, according to Herb Torgrim- in journalism from the University United States, with whom Dr. music school. son, assistant in the maintenance of Wisconsin and an education de­ Forkner has worked on educational Mr. Wendt has taught at MSU department. The curve entering the gree from Central States Teachers problems. He is the author of since 1939. He received his bach­ small oval in front of the old college. “Developing a Curriculum for elor of music degree in 1936 from women’s gym will be broadened Modem Living” and author of the Eastman School of Music, and and given a wider sweep, so that “Forkner’s Shorthand” and book­ his master’s music degree from the traffic going south on Van Buren LAW SCHOOL ATTENDANCE keeping textbooks. same institution in 1946. will be carried around behind Main LOW; COURSES LIMITED Dr. Forkner is on the board of His program will include the hall. Sixteen students are enrolled for directors of the YMCA in New Variations in F minor by Haydn, The oval is now without ent­ the Summer Session, according to York City. He is listed in “Who’s Sonata, Op. 13 (Pathetique) by rances or exits except at the head the office of Dean Leaphart. There Who in America.” Beethoven, and the “Abegg” Varia­ of University avenue. At one time are a limited number of courses All summer session students and tions by Schumann. The recital will there was also an entering street offered as there are only two in­ any interested townspeople are in­ conclude with two Etudes of Paga- where the sidewalk past the front structors on hand for the summer. vited to attend Dr. Forkner’s nim-Liszt and the C sharp minor of the Journalism school building They are Prof. Edwin W. Briggs, lecture. Scherzo of Chopin. now lies. and Prof. William H. Coldiron. 2 SUMMER SESSION SUN Wednesday, June 24, 1953 Letters to Editor .. Published every Wednesday Dear Editor: forenoon at Montana State Uni- virsity Summer College by School You may be surprised to hear of Journalism; Editor, Virgil Ruck- from me again, but the registrar —TW FVS Summer SessionfSun dashel. could find no rule to invoke which could bar my registiation for fifty summer quarters in a row if I want You Folks from Other Slates: quaint little “Super-Save” drug store—the one with to take them that way. all the neon across the front. You will have seen My reason for writing to you is See Some Real West in Montana some chunks of the real old West. actually that I like so well to see It is a sad deal indeed if those of you Summer my name in the paper.