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Jobs Await 15 Teaching Graduates
At least 15 mid-term graduates of the KU education school will assume their first teaching positions next month, according to the school's Teacher Placement Bureau, and more are expected to register new jobs before then.
Heroid Regier, director of the bureau, said the number of mid-term placements is about average, but does not compare with the placement number of June graduates.
"During the 1963-64 period," Prof. Regier said, "our bureau sent out credentials for nearly 1500 people, either new graduates or alumni of the education school. By last September, 645 of these people had their jobs."
Operating with the education school in Bailey Hall, the bureau's services are open to anyone who is or has been enrolled in the education school, and it explores teaching opportunities on the elementary, secondary, and college levels in and out of Kansas.
"ABOUT ONE-HALF of our placement work is with alumni of the education school," Prof. Regier said. "People who have taught for a number of years, even, will register with us when they desire a change of location. Very often, knowing their backgrounds and abilities, we know just the right spots for them."
Prof. Regier said the bureau, besides placing teachers, also offers general counseling services in future career planning, and keeps a listing of job opportunities available in the office.
"And all through the year," he said, "we arrange schedules for education students so they can interview with various school representatives who come here to recruit teachers."
School representatives from states outside Kansas, Prof. Regier said, are arriving on campus for interviews with prospective teachers now, and will probably begin to stop their recruitment by March. He said 19 school districts will be represented here during the week of Feb. 15.
PROF. REGIER said the usual salary for a beginning degree teacher in the midwest is about $5,000, but can exceed $5,000 in states such as California and Illinois. He said beginning salaries in the Tulsa, Okla., area can be as low as $4.200.
"One thing that might change the Kansas salary pattern," he said, "might be the adoption of the school foundation finance plan, but it would be hard to say."
When a student or alumni registers for the Bureau's services, he first gives the names of people to whom he would like reference forms sent. The bureau then mails the reference forms.
When the student's references have returned, the bureau makes up a set of credentials for him. "This is four pages," Prof. Regier said, "of personal information and a record of his courses and grades. We collect all the letters of recommendation in this file, also."
THE FINAL set of credentials on students is available to interviewers or prospective employers, whom the student may seek on his own or see by interview on the campus.
Mary Irvin, Shenandoah, Iowa, senior, will begin her fifth grade teaching in February in Olathe. "An interview, she said, "really isn't bad at all. But I would suggest that everyone be prepared to discuss their education philosophies and teaching methods in full, because these are what interviewers ask about most frequently."
Most of the mid-semester placements are in Kansas, although several extend to California, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Four teachers have already been given September teaching assignments.
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SAIGON — (UPI) — South Viet Nam's Buddhist hierarchy today declared war on this embutted country's anti-Communist army.
They denounced Army generals as "power hungry," withdrew from a Buddhist-Army unity council, and mustered 50 Buddhist chaplains around five fasting monks at the National Buddhist Center.
Probation Officer Sees Job's Value
A third year law student talked seriously to a junior high school boy over a nickel slot-machine game at the local bowling alley.
By the time the lights of the machine quit flashing the boy had won. He also decided to obey his probation officer's curfew and go home. Probation officer Marshall L. Crowther of Salina gave the boy a ride home and went in to talk over some problems with the boy's parents.
Crowther is one of 11 senior law students getting experience as a juvenile court probation officer and at the same time earning credit in a juvenile problems seminar in the School of Law.
"IF YOU REALLY care about your kids, it can run into a full-time job." Crowther said. And he cares enough to use every possible measure to rehabilitate the juvenile, rather than to punish him.
On several occasions Crowther has recommended a short stay in the city jail, but this has been only when the youth has refused to go home, or his home life was the major problem. The juveniles are isolated from other jail occupants, and Crowther has gone to the jail to talk to his juveniles on their request. Progress is evidenced by Crowther's list of regulations, which the juveniles sign after full knowledge and agreement with the reason for these rules of conduct.
"Most of these are things any parent or society expects of a child, and I think these boys appreciate the interest and the sense they make." Crowther explained.
HE TRIES TO see that the juveniles entrusted to him maintain an acceptable level of citizenship. If they are going to school, as most are, Crowther meets regularly with school principals and teachers to get a better perspective of the problems and the possibilities of easing them. In one case this meant suggesting a boy drop one course in which he was having and causing difficulties. The main reason was the boy wanted and needed this hour for a study period. His grades have since improved.
It may mean talking to an em-
plover, friends and social workers. It always means talking to the parents or guardians, for their cooperation is paramount to success. For Crowther this may bring phone calls from anxious parents who report their son has not complied with the rules. But Crowther welcomes this concern, and usually the boy eventually sees that both mean business for his own good.
"Basically it's a lot of leg work, patient explanation and constructive planning to give a sense of responsibility and direction to these juveniles who have never had any." Crowther said.
"THE BENEFIT WILL not be only to me as a future lawyer, but also as a citizen who can understand some of the problems of youth who become problems to society."
The frustrating and rewarding parts of the course come from the field work, but probation officers are aided in this by lectures and consultation with psychiatrists from the Menninger Clinic in Topeka and the psychological clinic at KU. In class periods probation officers discuss their cases and compare notes. The seminar will continue through the spring semester under the direction of Dan Hopson Jr., professor of law.
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Mrs. Liz Dyson, a June graduate of the KU Law School and wife of Richard Dyson, assistant professor of law, is now chief probation officer of Douglas County and acts as liaison between the court and the school.
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