The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 18, 1962 Page: 3 of 8
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Nursery School Gives ACC Girls
Opportunity to Observe Children
The eight Httlo children in the
Abilene Christian nursery school
arc being kept under close Sur-
veillance these days.
In fact they have three classes
ot students observing .them this
scmcMer. The students In the ele-
mentary child guidance course
must spcnd 20 hours a semester
In observation; the advanced
course students 30 ihours.
MISS LVLIAN Arlcdge associ-
ate professor of home economics
supervises the three and four
year old children from 8:30 a.m.
till 12 noon.
At the present time there are
four girls and four boys in nurs-
ery school although Miss Arlcdge
said that "it doesn't always work
out that way.'' Ten Is the maxi-
mum number ot children which
can be enrolled at the school at
one time. '
Those students enrolled in the
school ore largely children of
faculty members but any child laK
'eligible to attend.
Miss Arlcdge emphasizes that
the nursery school is not for cus
Doran Commencement Speaker
(Continued from Pag 1)
member of the board of directors
of the KEA.
DORAN HAS received a merit
award for outstanding contribu-
tions in education in Kentucky
given by the Kentucky Associa-
tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools and another merit award
for outstanding contributions to
conservation education given by
the Kentucky Association ot Soil
Conservation Districts.
In addition Doran Is a recipient
of the Lincoln Key Award given
by the Kentucky Education As-
sociation for successful integra-
tion without fanfare or incident.
He also has been honored by gov-
ernors as a Kentucky Colonel
Arkansas Traveler Louisiana
Colonel Nebraska Admiral and
Oklahoma Commodore.
HE IS A graduate of Cuba High
School Graves County Ky.;
graduate of Freed-Hardcman jun-
ior College in Henderson Tenn.
holds the B.S. and M.A. degrees
from Murray State in Kentucky
and holds the doctor of education
Employment Outlook Given
EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the
last In a series prepared by the
U.S. Department of Labor con-
cerning job opportunities.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
The growing demand for all
kinds of health service continues.
Population growth the growing
awareness of the need for proper
medical care increased coverage
under prepaid medical and surgi-
cal insurance plans and the avail-
ability of more funds for medical
research are among the leading
factors which have created a high
demand in the health professions.
Shortages are reported in most
medical professions and are most
t acute in .the area of mental
' health
Physicians will continue to
have excellent opportunities. This
year's graduating class (7000)
will not be sufficient to replace
all of the pradtitioners who will
retire or die to relieve shortages
of general practioners especi-
ally in rural areas and to keep
pace wtlh. rising demands' for
specialized medical services.
The nearly 50 osteopathic phy
todial care but It Is an education-
al program.
THE CHILDREN arc Instructed
in five areas: physical growth
reading art music and nature
study.
Weather permitting the chil-
dren play outside each day in a
spacious back yard. They can
play on cither a slide or gym
sot play in a sand pile play
"house" In a green frame struc
ture or swing on a tire suspend-
ed from a large oak tree accord-
ing to Miss Arlcdge.
Sometimes the children have
organized games such as "London
Bridge" or "Ring around the
Rosy."
The small students may .model
in claj or dough and paste or
paint on an easel with crayolas
as part of their art study.
ADVANCED HOME economics
students read to the children
from a selection of over 50 care-
fully selected books.
According to Miss Arlcdge the
children like to "make music"
with their rhythm band instru-
degree from the University of
Kentucky.
'Baccalaureate services at ACC
will be held Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
in the College Church of Christ
auditorium with Frank J. Dunn
minister of the Jefferson Church
of Christ in San Antonio present-
ing the message.
Grads Will Also Get
Miniature Diplomas
During Commencement exer-
cises May 28). 'Ed Templeton
Alumni Association president
will present miniature diplomas
incased in plastic to each senior
and master's decree candidate.
The reverse side of the diploma
certifies the student's lifetime
membership in the Alumni As-
sociation. Each graduate and ex-student
is invited to participate in the
annual Alumni Roll Call. In five
years the roll call has grown to
a list of over 4000 ex-students.
sicians graduating this year will
find excellent opportunities to
establish a practice in those parts
of the country where osteopathy
is a commonly accepted form of
medical care.
Opportunities for dentists are
excellent in many parts of the
country. Greatest demand for
additional dentists is in the West
and South. For many years the
demand for dental services has
been growing faster than the sup-
ply of new dentists.
Veterinarians remain in short
supply and opportunities are good
in private practice as well as in
salaried employment. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture re-
ports a need for veterinarians to
fill positions In mealt inspection
testing and other programs; col-
leges aro seeking teachers and
research workers; and many
State and local health depart-
ments have vacancies.
Fqwer optometrists are gradu-
ating this year than are needed
to replace those leaving the pro-
fncelnn Thim thiro will be less
I competition for desirable loca
ments. They also like to listen to
recordings of "Plnocchio" "Peter
and the Wolf and "Alice in
Wonderland" among others on
their record player.
The children's nature study is
"science in its simplest form." For
this part of their training the
students take excursions. Recent-
ly .they visited the Bible Lecture-
ship tentr on the ACC campus.
Miss Arlcdge said that the chil-
dren were equally fascinated by
the African and Indian exhibits
the atom display and the auto-
matic slide projector.
PREVIOUS TRIPS have been
to an Abilene hatchery the fire
station and to a farm. The group
will hear the"Story Hour" at the
public library in the near future.
As another part of their science
study the children have planted
a gordvn. They are growing mus-
tard spinach radishes green
beans onions and two stalks' of
cotton. Inside they arc growing
potatoes and cacti.
The children have a wide
variety of toys for entertainment
during their nursery school day.
Puzzles vary In difficulty and
"keep the children happy" Miss
Arlcdge said.
THERE IS ALSO a child-sized
bed dolls stuffed animals trucks
building blocks and even a mln-
ature "store" so that the children
can play "clerk." There are also
numerous costumes for "dress-up
days." They can be transformed
into either cowboys Indians or
bunnies.
Each child has his own locker
and towel. So that each' child
will use his own towel a differ-
ent picture of some small animal
hangs over each towel hook.
"Pretty coon" Miss Arlcdge said
"They don't need to look at the
picture any more."
Likewise at "rest time" each
child lies on his own mat. Miss
Arlcdge added that sometimes
the children use doll blankots
for themselves.
Miss Arledge conceded that
sometimes the children are home-
sick at first. "But' she concluded
"when we keep them busy and
interested they soon get over it
and don't cause us any trouble at
all."
tions than in the recent past.
Most of the nearly 4000 new
pharmacists will find employ-
ment readily; a high proportion
will be needed to fill vacancies
which arise as pharmacists retire
or leave the profession for other
reasons. New graduates will find
salaried positions with little
trouble in most parts of the
country.
Professionally trained nurses
continue to be In great demand.
The outlook is especially favor-
able for those with college train-
ing for administrative and super-
visory positions ns well as In
teaching.
PERFORMING ARTS
The employment outlook for
musicians singers and dancers
who have the educational qualifi-
coitions for school and college
teothlng is much beter than for
those trained only as 'performers.
The picture is especially bright
for musicians and singers who
can meet state certification re-
quirements for positions as ele-
mentary or secondary school mu-
sic teachers.
Project
Enrollment of 1200.
Sought This Summer
By MARILYN ROSS
Project 1200 is .the name given
to an effort to introduce former
present and future students of
Abilene Christian College to the
benefits of summer school at
ACC.
The numerical goal of the pro-
ject as the name shows is an en-
rollment of 1200 students in the
1962 session
tlvc students has been the job
Contacting these prospective
students has been the job of
Dr. Orval Filbeck director of
summer school and Bob Hunter
director of alumni relations. Thelr
efforts have been a prize-winning
collection of brochures sent to ex-
students to help In gaining in-
formation for compiling a list of
prospective summer school stu-
dents. The benefits of summer school
are many-fold according to the
College. As illustrated by Filbeck
in "Horizons" the savings could
be as great as $4700 for a non-
working student on a three-year
degree plan.
A LIST of a few of the other
benefits Includes: varied recre-
ational and fipe arts programs for
all students smaller classes and
closer student-teacher relation
2 Award-Winning 4-H Girls
To Enroll in ACC Next Fall
Two 4-H award-winning girls
will enroll in Abilene Christian
as home economics majors next
fall according to Dr. Marie Wl-
meth head of the ACC home eco-
nlomcs department.
The girls are Judy Milam of
Lakewood Colo. and Carolyn
Ford of Ovalo.
MISS FORD is the recipient of
one of three $500 college scholar-
ships which are being presented
to outstanding 4-H girls in Texas
by the Texas Home Demonstra-
tion Association.
This Jim Ned High School sen-
ior has refinlshed her parents'
eight-room home and cared for
the yard garden and 150 chickens
for her 4-H projects.
Future Is Bright
In Health Work
Competition is especially keen
among performers and inexperi-
enced people will face great dif-
ficulty in breaking into the per-
forming arts field.
PEACE CORPS
Some of you may also wish to
consider the Peace Corps. This
challenging new program now in
its second year is designed to
help the less developed countries
of the world meet their needs for
trained manpower. Another pur-
pose is to promote peace friend-
ship and understanding between
the American people and the
peoples served in these countries.
There are many fields of Peace
Corps service including most of
those mentioned in this letter.
The major areas are education
'agriculture health and commun-
ity development. Engineers law-
yers social scientists and many
other specialists are also needed.
(Liberal arts graduates can be
trained to teach English as a sec-
ond language or perhaps work in
a community development pro-
ject if they have supplementary
skills.
1200:
ship congenial campus ' atmos-
phere a wide offering of more
than 200 courses at the under-
graduate level and American
Studies Program felowshlps for
100 public school teachers.
ACC has enhanced attendance of
summer session by installation of
air conditioning in women's and
men's dormitories the Citizen-
ship and Bible buildings the
cafeteria and the library. Not
only is this more attractive to the
student it also enables a greater
use of costly facilities for the
school and enables more year-
round comfort according to Fil-
beck. ALL THESE are reasons for the
active program correspondence
that has kept Filbeck and Ms
staff busy. According to Filbeck
"This tremendous effort ut on
through the project is expected to
bring approximately 200 fresh-
men this summer."
This number along with an
estimate of present students at-
tending based on a survey of
nearly half the student body
should total 1200 Filbeck said.
"Consequently we are very
hopeful that we wll roach the
goal of 1200 students this sum-
mer" he said.
She was interviewed at her
home by a panel of judges who
then awarded her the Maggie W.
Berry scholarship.
DURING 10 YEARS of 4-H
work Miss Ford received many
honors. She won second and fifth
places in dairy food contests at
the 4-H round-up was selected
for the Taylor County Gold Star
award In 1959 and was district
representative to the 4-H dress
review In 1960.
Miss Milam accomplished the
unusual feat of winning grand
championships in two divisions in
the 4-H competition at the Colo-
rado State Fair in August 1061.
The winning of double grand
championships has been dphe
only once before in the last 15
years of the fair.
MISS MILAM was first In the
home furnishings and clothing
divisions. She won a blue ribbon
in the first division wth an ela-
borate quilted bedspread.
In the latter category she won
with a fancy coat copied from a
Paris pattern.
Her 4-H project included buy-
ing now carpeting draperies and
furniture for her bedroom. The
bedspread was part of this pro-
ject. "These two girls are the only
award-winners that we know of
who are enrolling next year" Dr.
Wilmeth said.
Sidney Clemmer Elected
Circle K President
Sidney Clemmer was recently
elected to head Circle K next
year.
Other new officers are Frank
Miller vice president; Carl Day
secretary; and Tom Bost trea-
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 18, 1962, newspaper, May 18, 1962; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth99294/m1/3/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.