tl19621116-000 "No Tower Light Next Week Thanksgiving Senate Tuesday 3:15 SH 220 Vol. XV, No. 8 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland November 16. 1962 Legislative Body Adopts State College Plan Critic Emmart Outlines Art In Baltimore ""Art in Baltimore: A Retro-spective Survey"" will be the topic discussed on Thursday, Nov, 29, by A.D. Emmart, for-mer newspaper critic. The lec-ture is slated for 3:15 in the forum. Emmart is considered a very good art critic because of his extensive background in art. He was the art critic for the Sun- Papers from 1925 to 1945 and after a period of non-writing, he returned to the Sun in 1961 according to Eric Miller of the art department. ""The talk,"" said Emmart, ""could easily be retitled 'Recol-lections and Reflections' be-cause it will be made up of my OW n personal knowledge and observations."" The talk will be divided into three main points. First, Emmart will follow the development of art in Baltimore since 1925; the growth and in-terest in the various facets of art will be observed. Second, Emmart will com-ment on the present state of art in Baltimore and in the areas he has visited. Once again this will involve personal observation and knowledge. Third, he will discuss var-ious ways in which a viewer Can see different exhibitions around the city. ""Emmart has an excellent background and I believe his talk will be of great value to ourselves and to our students here at Towson,"" commented Miller. Robert MacDonald Piano Recital By MacDonald; Coffee Hour Follows Program Robert MacDonald, pianist, will give a recital Thursday, Nov. 27, at 8:15 p.m. in Stephen Hall Audi-torium. A coffee hour after the concert will give faculty and students a chance to meet and speak to MacDonald. This event is spon-sored by the Fine Arts Program. The concert program will in-clude selections from Bach, Beet-hoven, Schumann, and Prokofieff. MacDonald received his basic musical training at the Uni-versity of North Carolina and at Indiana University. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. After three U.S. State Depart-ment tours in Western Europe, he returned in 1961 for a suc-cessful debut at Carnegie Hall. At present, he tours and lec-tures for the American Colleges Association's Art Program, This season, he will complete his sec-ond tour of the United States. City And County Classrooms Invaded By Student Teachers Juniors and seniors in the sec-ondary level of education began student teaching Monday. There are 104 junior high and high school student teachers in 37 dif-ferent schools. Ninety-three elementary stu-dent teachers have been out for three weeks, while 45 K-P stu-dents set out the first week of September. ""These students have com- Pleted methods courses and have gone out to schools on Wednesdays for participa-tion,"" explained Dr. William Hartley, chairman of the secondary education depart-ment. ""They are expected to do now what the regular teacher does,"" he added. This includes classroom teach-ing, hall duty, cafeteria duty, and attendance of PTA and faculty meetings. On-the-job learning is the purpose of this program at Towson, he further explained. Something fairly new in the county is team teaching. A team of teachers under the leadership of a master teacher works with a large number of students in either small and large group meetings or in regular class situations. The aim is to orga;lize the (Continued on page 4) New Board Would Govern Towson, 5 Other Schools The Maryland Legislative Council created a bill this week that would establish a board of trustees to control and super-vise all state teachers colleges and Morgan State College. Nine persons would be on the Board of Trustees of the State Colleges, assuming that the General Assembly this winter adopts a plan that would make the teachers colleges state col-leges. The Legislative Council's bill also must face General As-sembly action. Eight members of the Board of Trustees would be named by the governor: the ninth would be the state school superintendent. The Board would have complete control of funds and pro-perty for the state colleges: Towson, Frostburg, Salis-bury, Coppin, Bowie, and Morgan. Also included under the Board's control would come ""any other state college offering a four-year course that may hereafter be established."" Presidents of the colleges � elected by the Board�would be responsible to the Board. In addition, the Board would appoint a salaried executive director and Pressure Off Welcome Break Begins Nov. 21 Thanksgiving holidays will provide a welcome break to Towson students after the strain of the mid-semester test period. The holiday will begin offici-ally with the close of classes at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21. Resident students are re-quested to leave the dorms by 3 p.m. the same 'afternoon. Dorms will open Sunday, Nov. 25 at 3 p.m., and classes will resume Monday morning. The customary Thanksgiving dinner will be served to resi-dent upperclassmen Tuesday, Nov. 20, in the cafeteria, 5:30 p.m. Since freshmen will be part-icipating in the practice teach-ing program they will not at-. tend the dinner. This event is only open to dormitory and off-campus stu-dents and staff. necessary staff to administer its powers, which the bill sets as all-encompassing. Fart of the Curlett Commis-sion report on higher education in the state, the bill to create the board moved without difficulty through the Legislative Council. Observations Force Froth Back To School Towson freshmen will set out to their hometown schools to take part in Freshmen Parti-cipation Activities on Nov. 19, 20, and 21. Mrs. Zenith H. Velie, director of student teaching, stated that the purpose of the participation is three-fold. First, it provides experience with teachers in pub-lic schools which will help the college student trecide whether or not they really should be planning to teach. Participation helps freshmen decide which age group they would prefer to teach, and it helps those who have chosen majors to decide whether they have chosen the right field. The school assignments are given to students on the basis of what they ask for. ""Generally, freshmen are as-signed according to indivi-dual choices of level and subject area,"" Mrs. Velie added. ""A freshman professional rec-ord is started in the first semester of the freshman year for Teach-er Education students, and be-comes part of their permanent records in the Records Office,"" Mrs. Velie went on to say. This professional record in-cludes a written report of the observations by the students. Also, reports on the students are written by the participating teachers and are given to the students' advisors. ""Students are given suggestions for activities and may choose to participate in . assignments that center around their major strengths."" Making bulletin boards, taking roll, leading discussions, under the guidance of the participating teacher, are among some of the activities. "
