SOCIAL TRAFFIC
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949
Personality Development Teaching Aim Of Schwegler
A belief that education is not the mere mastery of books, but rather the mastery of the art of wholesome living, is why Raymond Alfred Schwegler, dean emeritus of the School of Education, is still a busy man.
Today the 75-year-old dean who served the University for 38 years, busies himself by conducting what he terms, "personality clinics" throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Dean Schwegler conducts these clinics because he feels that education must consider more and more the development of the personality of the individual.
His services to the University began in 1907 and did not end until 1945. During those years he served as associate professor of education, professor, acting dean of the school. He lost no time in beginning his service when he retired from active service in 1945.
In the office of the dean of the School of Education, he pointed to the desk behind which he had sat for so many years and said: "I am a psychologist and an educator and during my years behind that desk, I came more and more to realize that the problems of students were very often not scholastic problems, but rather problems of adjustment."
He believes that a person at 40 or 45 years of age can be successful in helping young persons because they can remove themselves emotionally yet render sympathetic and understanding help while being objective.
Dean Schwegler visits about 40 communities a year in the middle west. At some schools he stays two or three days and at others a week or more.
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The sessions get underway with a talk to the entire student body of a junior high school, high school, junior college, or senior college group. Then individual classes are addressed. After the contacts have been made, and trust has been established, personal interviews begin.
Problems vary with the age group, Dean Schvegier points out. Those on the junior high school and high school level are concerned with adjustment to their home life and environment. Those on the junior college level have the problems of vocational guidance, philosophical and environmental adjustments. The senior college level presents vocational and ethical guidance problems.
Problems of the students also vary with the community. Students from rural areas have the problem of adjusting themselves to the city.
His problem is also that of a salesman, Dean Schwegler is attempting to sell school officials on the importance of improving the educational system by taking into consideration the personality of the students. He reports that interest on the part of school officials is increasing.
Public Has Last Laugh In Movie Film Tieup
Carmel, Calif.—(U.P.)—A Hollywood movie company tied up traffic for hours along part of a main street in Carmel taking a sequence involving the star, Robert Young. Irate residents who had been blocked off the sidewalks and street had the last laugh, however, when they found the entire strip of film taken had to be thrown out because of poor lighting.
But They Took The $17
St. Paul, Minn.—(U.P.)Even bandits can get the Christmas spirit, cab driver Robert Johnson of St. Paul reported today.
As Johnson pulled up to a stop at the destination given him by two passengers, one of the men shoved a gun into the back of his neck and demanded his receipts. They got about $17.
But when they asked for his bill-fold, Johnson said the $11 in it was Christmas money for his two children. They let him keep it.
The Ghost's Not Walking
Boston—(U,P) — Police thought somebody was too optimistic when they received a call to rush an inhaler to Cedar Grove cemetery. It developed that a visitor had fainted in the graveyard.
How long will he go on with this program?
"I feel that as long as a man has his health and a contribution to make to society, he has a moral obligation to go on," Dean Schwegler said.
To our many friends a Christmas abundant with all good things, and a heart brimming with the satisfying glow of Holiday Season.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
'Boystowns' Now Number 88
Boys Town, Neb. —(U.P.) The idea Father Flannagan had in 1917 to start a home for homeless boys has spread far. Not only has the original Boys Town prospered and grown but officials at the institution report there are 88 "boys-towns" or similar homes in existence.
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