ation Short 100,000 Grade Teachers
Serious problems of public school administration in the United States came in for scrutiny by a trio of noted educators Friday
at the tenth annual school ad-niinistration-supervision conference sponsored by the SC School of Education.
A milliorf elementary school r?achers will be needed in the :t five years, but training inions will graduate only 250,-Dr. Henry M. Gunn, president of the Oregon College of Education and visiting faculty member, told his Hancock auditorium audience.
Rapid turnover in the teaching profession and the growing school population have already created a
shortage of 100,000 grade school instructors throughout the nation, Dr. Gunn said.
“Teachers must do something about the problem themselves/’ he said, advocating larger salaries as an inducement to young men to enter elementary teaching.
Decrying the shortage in the administrative field, Dr. Gunn declared that school superintendents who are supposed to do “a lifetime job on a four-year contract” need more protection in their jobs if good administrators are going to continue to be attracted to the profession.
The growing practice of requiring loyalty oaths from teachers drew a blast from Dr. Samuel M. Brownell, profess6r of educational
administration at Yale and president of the New Haven state teachers college.
“I am one of those who believes that there is far more danger to democracy from having many teachers be timid, fearful, unwilling to study and to criticize than there is from having a few persons abuse their freedom of speech,” Dr. Brownell said.
Studies of textbooks by various committees investigating un-Am-erican actiivties were censured on the same basis.
A democracy is committed to freeing its people from fear for the chief reason that “only through freedom from fear can energy, initiative, and talents of individuals be released” for the
benefit and best development of all.
“But I do not see that we have to allow abuses in order to free the talent of teachers,” Dr. Brownell said.
The Yale educator explained that it must be made clear to everyone that the object of unhampered of false doctrines is to reveal their defects and discredit their advocates.
What is needed, he said, is the informing of teachers and the public “what is our policy and what are our procedures for safeguarding the freedom from fears -so as to safeguard the freedom of study, inquiry, criticism, and speech.
High-handed actions by boards
of education who forget that "th* public is both their employer and customer” were rapped in ft speech by J. Henrich Hull, super* intendent of schools of Torrance, Calif.
“Public education belongs to the people,” he said. “Too many boards meet behind closed door$ and don’t take the public intfl their confidence.”
•	In advocating invitations boards of education for the ap* pointment of citizens’ advisory committees by civic organizations, Hull said that such a committed would not be a pressure group be* cause “nearly all citizens are aftef the same thing that members of the board of education want—^ good schools for their children."
Moonlight Cast Works Day, Night
Would you like an easy time at summer school? Then take four units and role in drama department play.
You will only have to rehearse night and day for three weeks. That’s what the cast of “Mrs. Moonlight/' to be presented July 21, 22, and 23 in Bovard auditorium is doing as production date draws near.
Future of TV To Be Aired
The third program of the Tuesday afternoon topical lecture series will get underway at 3:15 tomorrow in Hancock auditorium with a panel discussion on “What is the Future of Education in Television, Radio, and Films.”
To be discussed are educational prospects in production, curriculum, audio aids, sponsored materials, and teacher and administrator training. Frank F. Gorow, lecturer in education and acting chairman of the audio-visual department, will serve as moderator.
Panel members are Allison Mc-Nay, educational representative of Standard Oil company of California; Wilbur T. Blume, instructor in cinema; Robert Tracy, lecturer n radio and audio-visual education; and Raymond Perry, associate professor of education.
“Mrs. Moonlight” by Benn Levy, is a phantasy which centers around 28-year-old Sarah Moonlight, who discovers, as a result of wishing on an old Scotch amulet, that she will never look any older.
Gadge Cook, who played the lead in “Pygmalion” last spring plays Sarah Moonlight’s older sister and Tom Moonlight’s seconc wife.
Gadge has played definite character or straight parts before This, however, is a challenge because Edith lives twenty years in one act. Gimmicks for age change are out because physical change between ages of 36 and 55 is not great. Gadge is forced to use subtle techniques.
Barbara Murphy plays Minnie an old Scotch woman. She enters at 42, goes to 60, and then to 80 in three acts.
Dan Scot plays Tom Moonlight. Dan lends valuable assistance to the other members of the cast as a result of his professional theater experiences.
Tickets for the performances will be fifty cents. Curtain time will be 8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN
C A LIFORNIA
Summer News
VOL. IV
72 LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY, JULY II, 1949 NO. 9
Fisher Opens New Quinn Gallery Bids
Six sealed bids were opened Friday by Financial Vice-President Robert D. Fisher as a preliminary to the awarding of a contract for the construction of
an art gallery addition to the fine arts building.
The two-story gallery, to oe lo-ated on Exposition boulevard., will use the Florence M. Quinn jade llection on the street floor and rovide offices for the fine arts epartment and a small exhibition jm on the top floor.
Bids submitted included Davies, Keusder and Brown, $51,150, 135 days; J. A. McNeil company incorporated, $62,605,•!48 days; Myers Brothers, $55,349, 85 days; Poz-zo Construction company, $64,240, 155 days; Stanton-Reed company, $59,442, 210 days; and Steed Brothers incorporated, $63,410, 180 days.
Plans for the Quinn gallery were drawn by C. Raimond Johnson, university architect, with Rowland H. Crawford, Beverly Hills, as consultant.
ewsman Says Contractors ast Becoming Anti-Social
Construction companies must be getting anti-social.
Friday, when work on the new cafeteria started in deadly earnest, secretive workman hurriedly threw up an anti-sidewalk-superintendent fence to hide the goings-on behind the Student Union.
And no wonder—look what they were doing there. Not only were they making nature lovers wince sthetically by ripping out some lovely, blossoming, ’old shade trees and bushes by the roots, but they were also carrying off lovers’ benches by the dozen.
Recently an observer of the social scene stated hat the automobile was the last frontier when it came to wooing territory. This expert forgot to mention that In these days of high prices the park bench was still anging on.
Panel to Examine Guidance Question
Pops Concert Program Set
The program for Thursday evening’s Twilight Pops Concert has been announced.
The concert, open to the public without charge, will be given under the auspices of Trovets, stu-‘ dent veterans’ organization. The Trovets are sponsoring a Living War Memorial scholarship fund, and Chaplain Clinton Neyman will give a three-minute summation of the Trovet aims at one of the concert intermissions.
Included on the program are Marcho Poco, Moore; “A Mighty Fortress is Our God,” Luther -Lillya; “Irish Tune from County Derry,” and “Shepherd’s Hey,” Grainger; New Moon Selections, Romberg; “Comedians Gallop,” Kabalevsky; “Faniculi Fanicula,” Denza; and Early California Melodies, Choate-Isaac.
Baritone Jerold Shephard will sing Romberg’s New Moon Selections.
The concert will be held in front of the Administration building from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m.
How far should California public schools go in employment of specialists as counselors? How much counseling work should be done by classroom teachers?
These will be the central themes of a panel discussion, “Teacher and Specialist: Their Ro’es in Guidance,” at 3:15 p.m. today in Hancock auditorium. Moderator will be D. Welty Lefever, professor of education.
Dr. S. A. Hamrin, head of counselor and guidance work training at Northwestern university and coauthor of “Guidance in Schools” and other nationally recognized textbooks on counseling, will discuss the total aspect of the problem.
Dr. Jane Waters, director oi personnel at Pennsylvania state teachers college and author of out* standing texts on guidance In high schools, will approach the problem from the high school viewpoint.
Dr. William H. Stone, professor ementus of education from Ohi<fr state university and recognized leader in personnel work in th* Middle West, will also participate in the discussion.
John R. Yale, assistant in edUf cation at SC and former editojS for Science Research associat major publishers of guidance mt terials in the United States, round out the panel.
Christian
. . Science organization holds weekly meetings Tuesday afternoons at 3 in the Little Chapel of Silence.
Ivory Tower Research Lauded
I
Ivory tower researching can help make for more steel and happier steelworkers.
This was the opinion given by Prof. Richard W. Husband at the Friday afternoon lecture series held in the art and lecture room of the University Library. Dr. Husband is a visiting professor from
Graduate
Notice
Summer schedule of dates for Ph.D. language tests.
FRENCH, Wednesday, July 27, 1:30 p.m., 209 Doheny Memorial, Library building.
GERMAN, Thursday, July 28, 4:15 p.m., German office, Bridge hall.
SPANISH, Friday, July 29, 4:15 p.m., 209 Doheny Memorial Library building.
Permits are issued by the Graduate office, one week in advance of the examinations.
E. S. Bogardus,
Dean of the Graduate School.
Iowa state college.
He spoke on “Research Methods and Possibilities in Industrial Psychology.” Professor Husband compared his academic research with his experiences while serving in the industrial relations department of United States Steel.
“Industrial research has its special problems,” he said. “In the scientific laboratory we can control variables, but usually this cannot be done in industry.” While conducting fatigue studies, industrial researchers could not check safety guards one week and safety-first posters the next.
“If the safety guards worked, a plant manager would not want to stop using them and start testing posters. Often, we had to test all the safety devices at once. This made it difficult to determine which single device was not effective.”
Another important research method is simply lookng through company files for past decisions and ways of doing things.
“Ordinarily in industry you can’t depart too wide from past policies." Otherwise, Dr. Husband warned, morale trouble will begin
both among executives and workers.
Opinions of the individual worker about his job, his boss, and his working conditions are also used by researchers.
Registrar's
Notice
All students desiring to take special examinations to complete courses in which they received a mark of Ie since August, 1918, should apply at the office of the registrar for the necessary authorization and make payment at the bursar’s office on or before July 16.
Applications cannot be considered unless the fee of $3 for each examination has been paid.
The schodule of special examinations to be held this term will be mailed to applicants as soon as possible after the applications are received. The^ examinations will begin Aug. 6.
Howard Patmore Registrar