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At Last-Awards For Teaching
CLAREMONT, Calif. —(I.P.)- Selected Pomona College faculty members of full professor rank will be rewarded for distinguished service to the college in a program of awards believed to be unique in higher education.
Funds for the awards have been provided by an endowment gift from Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wig of San Marino. Mr. Wig is president of the board of trustees and has been a member of the board since 1929. He is a director of the Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship program at Princeton, N.J., and is a member of the Theological Council of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A.
The first awards, for $2,000 each annually, are to be paid for three years. Faculty members selected for the awards are those who have demonstrated superior teaching, scholarship, research or other distinguished service to the college.
The awards are not limited to any specific number of individuals nor is the amount to be granted limited, Dr. Lyon said. Any award made by the trustees may at any time be increased in amount and may be renewed by the board.
President E. Wilson Lyon said that the purpose of the program, designated as the Trustees' Distinguished Professorship Awards, is to assist in maintaining outstanding teachers and scholars at the college and to assure a high order of leadership in the faculty.
Civil Service Tests Dec.10
College seniors who want a career in the Civil service have until Nov. 18 to file for the first written test to be given Dec. 10. Interested students should call the college placement office for full information on the program.
Most openings will be at grade GS-5 and GS-7 levels with $3,670 and $4,525 a year starting salaries. The opportunities will be in administrative, personnel, technical, and professional fields.
Job offers can be made by federal agencies to persons passing the examination.
Any senior passing the examination can be hired as soon as he graduates if his name is among the top three on the list. The higher the examination mark, the more quickly the name is reached for appointment.
All candidates will be given a three-hour written examination Dec. 10. Those wishing to try for management internships will take an additional three-hour written test later in the day and will be given a group oral test in March.
This is the first time an opportunity to compete for a federal management internship has been given to non-specialist seniors.
Janet Dodge, Salina junior, was elected treasurer yesterday of the Education Club. Program committee members appointed are: Nancy Jones. Caney junior, chairman; Mary Lou Valk, Marryville, Mo., senior; Keith Gish, Lawrence junior, and Helen Mitchell, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Education Club Elects Officers
Members attending the business meeting voted to remain unaffiliated with the Future Teachers of America, a national student education organization.
WAA Team Managers Chosen
Dianne Klepper, Wichita senior,
was appointed basketball manager
at a Women's Athletic Association
meeting yesterday. Judy Heinrichs,
Independence, Mo., junior, was
appointed softball manager.
No Damage Done By Fire
Firemen of Lawrence's No. 1 station were called at 1:50 p.m. yesterday to put out a brush fire at Spencer and Crescent Streets. No damage was reported though the blaze spread out of control for a short time before the firemen extinguished the fire.
Thursday. Oct. 20. 1955
"WHIZZO'S WONDERLAND"—That's the program which absorbs the attention of Kathleen, 2, and Carolyn, 4, daughters of Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism. —(Daily Kansan Photo)
Does TV Help Kids To Learn?
How is television affecting the reading habits and general intelligence of children?
According to a recent survey conducted in the Johnson County Prairie schools, the fourth graders—those who grew up with TV—have larger vocabularies and a greater knowledge of things in general than fourth graders of several years ago.
The significance of this is not that TV-watching builds vocabularies, but that television is influential in the lives of the watching, wondering children, said Dr. Robert Ridgway, education instructor.
"This does not broaden a youngerster's mind, nor create the desire to learn, he said. He recommends that parents help their children choose programs which will provide a more varied bill of fare.
Dr. Ridgway said that allowing children to watch television programs of their own choosing probably will result in a "straight cowboy-and-Indian and space opera diet."
Television program directors have sealed TV programs down to the level of youngsters, bearing in mind that most children watch TV during the day and before 8 p.m. This
means that the persons responsible for the programs must appeal to a less mature mind when deciding what programs to run during the day. Dr.Ridgway explained.
He warned against programs which tend to discourage originality and freedom of thought in children. While some programs, such as the popular "Ding Dong School," are good for educational purposes, others tend to disregard the importance of challenging young minds, he said.
Another television expert, Dr. Bruce Linton, added to the William Allen White School of Journalism faculty this year as an associate professor of radio and television, said that present methods of research are inadequate to determine with finality the effects of television on society in general and children in particular.
"It is too early to really understand the impact of the medium on society." he said.
Mr. Linton said library checkouts have increased and some surveys have shown an increase in the vocabulary and in the general knowledge of youngsters, but he does not believe these effects can be attributed to television alone.
What young people are doing at General Electric
Young engineer pioneers in design and sales of new tiny transistors
The germanium transistor—some smaller than the eraser end of a pencil and able to operate on a few thousandths of a watt is probably one of the most promising developments in the electronics field today. It opens the way to new midget radios, TV sets flat enough to hang on a wall and many other exciting possibilities.
Sweeney's Work Interesting, Vital
25,000 College Graduates at General Electric
One of the men who helped design and perfect these tiny transistors—and the man who is now head of sales for all General Electric germanium products—is James H. Sweeney, Manager—Marketing, Semiconductor Products Department.
As early as 1948, Sweeney was head of a group that studied the design and possible uses of germanium products. He gained national recognition for his work in developing and introducing these products to other industries, and when a new Semiconductor Products Department was formed in 1953, Sweeney was a natural choice for the job of marketing these products.
When Sweeney came to General Electric in 1941, he worked in many different departments until he finally found the work he wanted to do. Like Sweeney, each of the 25,000 college-graduate employees is given the chance to grow, to find the work he does best, and to realize his full potential. For General Electric has long believed this: When fresh young minds are given the freedom to make progress, everybody benefits—the individual, the company, the country.
GENERAL
ELECTRIC