PLANNING POST FILLED As a junior or senior, he does some teaching in one of the public schools. After the teaching practicum, the student has a time of reappraisal during which he can correct areas of weakness noted in his training so far; he can pursue special interests, or he can assist others in earlier phases of training. The education faculty is involved in program evaluation, modification and continual development of the IPT program. The Carnegie grant money enabled release time for 15 or more WSC faculty members to work on the program. Other financial support for the program came from the U.S. Office of Education through the Utah Department of Public Instruction. A phase of the IPT program, an “interaction laboratory”, was devised by Thiokol Chemical Corp., which held a contract with the Weber State project. This phase is a human relations training. Dean Burke said it is expected that many Universities in the nation may adopt at least some elements of the Weber State IPT program. J. Robert Folsom has been named director of campus planning and construction at Weber State. He succeeds Fred M. Johnson who resigned the position he has held since 1965 to accept a similar post with the University of Maryland. Mr. Folsom was assistant director of planning and construction at the University of Utah where he earned his bachelor degree in architecture and fine arts. He is a licensed architect. Mr. Johnson was the first to hold the planner’s position at Weber State and developed a master plan for the growth of the Ogden campus. CAP AND GOWN TO LIBRARY Dr. T. H. Bell 1971 RECORD COMMENCEMENT A record Weber State College graduating class was challenged to keep their minds open and responsive to the changes ahead of them in a “most remarkable but somewhat frustrating world.” Dr. T.H. Bell told the 1,229 graduates the biggest test ahead of them is to “become and remain a constantly learning, open minded human who can renew himself by adapting to new circumstances. This is a test that large numbers of college students and some professors are flunking these days,” said Dr. Bell, a deputy U.S. commissioner of education and former superintendent of the Weber School District. Dr. Bell told the graduates their diplomas are ‘‘admission tickets to the most promising, puzzling, rapidly changing and stimulating society ever known to man.” To succeed in this society, he said, the graduates must have an “open mind capable of listening to opposing ideas and be willing to think about the views of other people as worthy of consideration. “There are alarming symptoms of rigid thinking by closed and intolerant minds,” Dr. Bell told a record turnout for Weber’s 83rd commencement exercise. Parents, friends and administrators listened as Dr. Bell spoke to the graduates of “personal and institutional self renewal as the key to unity in America’’. The graduating class assembled in the parking lot immediately west of the stadium. They then filed into the stadium around the perimeter to take seats in the east ce under a comfortably warm but not overly hot June sky. Weber State President, William P. Miller welcomed the graduates and visitors and then conferred an honorary doctor of humanities degree on Ogden native Mark (Evans) Austad, vice president of Metro Media, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bell opened his commencement address on a somewhat light note by pointing out “the first college youth who said ‘don’t ever trust anyone over 30’ turned 30 years of age himself last year. I get a certain Satisfaction in the poetic justice of that paradox,” Dr. Bell said. He went On to express serious concern about “some more significant paradoxes in our society.” Dr. Bell said the greatest challenge facing the 1971 graduates is the eee of being open . . . of being capable of making changes. FEES GO The idea of allowing members to the June 5 Weber State College graduating class to donate cap and gown rental fees to the library netted $3,040, officials said. The proposal by student officers was to donate the $5 fee students would pay for cap and gown outfits and wear civilian dress to commencement. However, as it worked out, many students who did wear the traditional robes and mortarboards also contributed their $5, noted Fran Wikstrom outing student body president. While many students who participated in the June 5 commencement wore best dress clothes, the majority of the graduates were attired in the cap and gown. An additional $930.35 was donated to the library by the Blue Key fraternity, whose members conducted a “bucks i books” drive during the closing weeks of the school erm. The total donations of $3,970.35 will be turned over to the library, Mr. Wikstrom said. ORAL HISTORY MATERIAL MUSEUM REQUESTS Dr. Harold C. Bateman, Director of the Weber State College Oral History Museum, has issued a request to all former students to submit old copies of the Acorn, Signpost or other college publication to the museum. The development of Oral History Museums in the United States has grown considerably in the last few years and involves primarily recorded accounts of the institutions history. In addition to these volumes of tapes, etc., more printed data is needed. Dr. Bateman has been busy since his retirement in the spring of 1970 collecting all possible material for the museum which will be housed in the library. All functions now held at the college are recorded on tape or film when ever possible and added to this new collection to give a new and more graphic dimension to the collecting of historical material. Any materials you have can be sent directly to Dr. Harold C. Bateman, Director Oral History Museum, Weber State College or through the alumni office. Mark Evans Austad, President William P. Miller Education Dean EDUCATION Dr. Caseel Burke PROGRAM RECEIVES HONOR A high national honor for developing new methods for teaching elementary and secondary education students has been won by Weber State College School of Education. Weber State’s new program, devised by the WSC education faculty, won the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). The award was presented to a Weber State faculty delegation, headed by Dr. Caseel D. Burke, at the annual banquet-meeting of the AACTE in Chicago in February, 1971. Weber was one of 11 finalists for the award. WSC’s entry in the national contest was _ the “Individualized Performance Based Teacher Education Program” developed by the WSC education faculty through a $195,400 grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Dr. Burke, dean of School of Education, advised President Miller directly from Chicago of Weber State’s attainment in the competition. Accompanying Dean Burke to the Chicago event were Dr. Blaine P. Parkinson, IPT project director; Dr. Harley K. Adamson, chairman of secondary education, and Dr. Luan H. Ferrin, chairman of elementary education. Essentially, the new IPT program combines into one plan many of the newer and more promising ideas and practices being developed in the field of teacher preparation, Dean Burke explained. Bases of the IPT program are the self instructional units which provide students with the professional experience for developing concepts, attitudes, and skills vital to good teaching. The units are called “WILKITS” (Weber Individualized Learning Kits). The kits outline the behavioral objectives of the course and provide a variety of learning experiences for attaining the objectives. Many optional learning activities are provided. The program allows the student to decide his own rate of progress and time of finishing the program. Progress of the student is checked intermittently by faculty interviews. Approximately 700 students out of the total student body are involved in the education program. Evaluation and completion are based on clearly defined performance standards. A pass grade is given for successful completion of a credit block. The student begins the program in his sophomore year with a set of exploratory activities designed to develop an interest in, and a committment to teaching. FIVE WSC TEACHERS RETIRE Five retiring members of the Weber State College faculty were given Emeritus status by the Institutional Council; they are Dr. Alva J. Johanson, professor of chemistry; James B. Harvey, professor of psychology, Walter C. Neville, professor of sociology and his wife LaPrele Neville, assistant professor of nursing and Dr. Reed K. Swenson, professor of health, physical education and recreation. Mr. Harvey joined the Weber State staff in 1945 in the psychology department, where he has taught for 25 years. Prior to then he had taught adult education in Salt Lake City, been principal of an LDS Seminary, Salt Lake City and engaged in social work. A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Harvey later obtained a master’s degree there in psychology, with a minor in education. Dr. Johanson, a member of the Weber State faculty since 1947, began his career as an educator in 1923 in the public schools of Idaho. He later joined the Brigham Young University faculty where he taught chemistry for many years. Prior to joining the Weber State staff he had worked as a research chemist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s laboratory at New Orleans, La. A graduate of BYU, Dr. Johanson earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois. Mr. Neville joined the Weber State faculty in 1933, after having served as an instructor at South Summit High School, Kamas and at the University of Utah. Mr. Neville is a graduate of the University of Utah, where he obtained his master’s degree in sociology. He did graduate work in sociology and higher education counseling at Stanford University. Mrs. Neville served as an instructor in nursing at the old Dee Hospital in Ogden, and was head nurse in the medical division, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, before joining the Weber State nursing faculty in 1953. She graduated from BYU with a bachelor degree in nursing prior to coming to Weber State. Dr. Swenson officiated for 35 years as director of physical education and director of athletes. His teaching career at Weber State spans 38 years. Dr. Swenson also served as coach of football and basketball for many years. He is now a professor of physical education, health and recreation.