TUESDAY, JULY 32, IWI Mothers Receive Clinic Training In Effort To Aid Deaf Children It’s mother’s turn to go to sohooi at the College, where parental aid is considered vital in the campaign to help hard-of-hearing chil dren. Dr. Eugene T. McDonald, wtho brought mothers erf children with impaired hearing to the campus lor a clinic this summer, is convinced the idea works and is a practical approach to the problem. “There are almost no facilities lor helping hard-of-hearing children ' between the ages of two to lour to learn to talk,” Dr. McDonald says, “and by teaching proper tedh ques to mothers, w e think these youngsters can be trained while living at hicme with their parents.” Parents Taught Lip Reading Parents attending the clinic were taught lip reading procedur e and warned of pitfalls to avoid! They were told, for example, to use the phrase “shut the door” in stead of “close the door,” since th p first phrase is more readily read from the lips. And since the words “mother” and “brother” look a like on the lips, they were advised to teach the word mother but to use the brother’s given name. Child Combines Senses Parents also were told to discus R trips and other events before, dur. ing, and after the occasion. This enables the child to combine his sense of vision with his efforts to hear, and also contributes to the development of his lip-reading vo cabulary. Clinicians also determine the amount of hearing which. each child possesses and instruct the mother how she may utilize that hearing ability to its fullest ex tent. Mother-Child Understanding ' “Iff the child is able to under stand hi s mother, and in turn can make himself understood,” Dr, McDonald explains, “he has a chance to become a normal stu dent when it comes time to. enter school.” Pointing out that ther e are be tween 50,000 and 90,000 hard-of hearing children in. Pennsylvania’s public' schools; the College" clini cian says only about 5,000 off these are receiving help. "Seme way must be found to help, all these children,” Dr. Mc- Donald says, adding that, in his opinion, the “school”, for mothers is an effective approach to a very serious problem. • Grad School Dean Receives Award Dr. Frank D. Kern, dean of the graduate school at the College, has received one of the certifi cates of accomplishment awarded by the State University of lowa to 100 of its alumni at its centen nial commencement. Begun in 1922. this summer marked the 26th year graduate school has been in operation at the College. During this period, 4247 degrees have been confer red, of which 450 were doctor ates. FFA Calls Henning To Judging Post Dr. William L.. Henning, of the livestock faculty at the College, has been appointed ■ one of the official judges for the annual live stock judging competition of the National Future Farmers of America. Dr.' Henning was named a judge in the sheep classes which will be held October 21 at Kansas City, Mo., with classes in market sheep or lambs and breeding sheep. Dr. Henning was appointed as judge by Dr. W. T. Spanton, chief of the agricultural education serv ice. of the U. S. Office of Educa tion. Besides teaching livestock classes at Pehn State and. serving as coach of the College’s livestock judging team, Dr. Henning also is executive secretary of the Ameri can Southdown Breeders Associa tion, and recently represented all mutton breeders of the nation at the meeting of the National Asso ciation of Records. Added Power Equipment Doubles Output, Supplies New Buildings The power output of. the Col lege power plant will be nearly doubled when the installation of a new boiler, 4000-kilowatt capacity turbo-generator, con denser, and cooling tower have been completed, George W. Ebert, superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, said today. The new equipment is needed to supply heat and light to build ings planned or now under con struction iri the College’s postwar expansion pprogram. A bid for the installation >of a new 800 horse-power boiler, awarded to the Dravo Construction Co. of Pittsburgh, will ; supplement the four existing boilers of 600 hp. each. The present kilowatt capacity of the power plant, 3,760 kilo watts will be more than doubled by the new 4,000 kw. capacity turbo-generator. The condenser and accessories are necessary to the operation of the new turbo generator, Ebert explained, and the Cooling tower permits a re duction in operating expenses through re-use of water in the plant. New Frankie Carle Album Carle Comes Calling Also—Art Lund’s PEG 0’ MY HEART MUSIC ROOM GLENNLAND BLDG. 203 EAST BEAVER AVE. THE SUMMER COIiEGIAN—STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Stop being a restaurant rover, Your meal worries are over. Good food for all and seconds to boot; Call Bill Fletcher and get the scoop! $ll.OO Per Week ALPHA CHI RHO Phone 2411 WOW! What a swell variety of downright GOOD sandwiches and snacks! • REMEMBER . . . if toe don’t have it .. . THERE JUST ISN’T ANY ! MAKE HOWARD'S Across from ihe Glonnland Building Your SNACK Headquarters Education Seeking Bunny Delays Music Class Everybody’s trying to get a col lege education these days. Miss Frances Andrews, instruc tor in music education, was teach ing her first hour students in 200 Carnegie Thursday when she gazed out of the window. The in structor. unable "to bring her at tention back to hie class, stared and stared outside. The students got up from their seats and followed the teacher’s example. It wasn’t until 10 min utes later that class was resumed and everyone stopped laughing and gaping. The center of attention was the steps of Sparks. A white rabbit hopped up the stairs and paused at the door, evidently deciding if he wanted to “live to learn” or “learn to live.” After making up his mind, the bunny scampered into Sparks. No prof recorded the presence of a rabbit that morning, so the ani mal obviously decided life is cozier among the. grasses and bushes, and politely left. FACULTY NOTES Dr. John C. Gaxey will loin the College staff August 1 as associ ate professor of bacteriology, marking the second time he has been a-member of th faculty. He served as a graduate assistant and later as an instructor in bacteri ology from 1934 to 1937. Dr. Garey holds . a B.S. • and an M.S". degree from Penn State and a Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. E. W. Miller, chief of the division of geography, has been named Book Review . Editor for the Producers’ Monthly Maga zine. The magazine is published by the Bradford District Pennsyl vania Oil Producers’ Association. Dr. Paul W. Bixby, native of Richville. • Minn., has been ap pointed associate professor of ele mentary education and will join the College staff September 1. He is now serving- on the Summer Sessions visiting faculty. . Dr. Bixby is a member of the National Eduoation Association, and Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Kappa, l national education: honor societies. Professor Gains Pacific Namesake; Specimens in Smithsonian Institute A heretofore unknown bird, a small brightly-colored tropical kingfisher collected from Nissan Island by Dr, Logan J. Bennett, professor of wildlife management at the College, has been named for Dr. Bennett. The new name, Halcyon Chloris bennetti, was revealed in an ar ticle published by Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, of Yale University, in the Journal of the Washington Acad emy of Sciences. Based on birds collected in the southwest Pacific by Dr. Bennett while he was serving with the U. S. Navy, the report is titled “A Report on the Birds Collected by Logan J. Bennett on Nissan and Admiralty Islands.” " All specimens collected by Dr. Bennett now are in the Smithson ian Institute, Washington, D. C. Two specimens of the bird named for Dr. Bennett were collected on August 22, 1944. Two expeditions had visited Nissan Island and three expedi tions had visited the Admiralty Islands, prior to World War 11. Dr. Bennett collected on six isl ands of the Admiralty group where no previous collecting had been done. HAFER’S GARAGE Buick Sales and Service m : ' fl Kellerman’s Market “FINER MEATS” • Complete line fresh and smoked meat* • Home dressed chickens '•Full line cold cuts and cheese •Homemade baked beans • Potato, chicken, ham, macaroni salad • Pickled eggs • Bulk pickles VISIT OUR DELICATESSEN DEPARTMENT 115 8. Frasier St. ■ ■ PHONE 731 W . ‘ m SIP . - COOLING BEVERAGES EAT - - DELICIOUS FOOD in a DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE at the COMPLETELY REMODELED Hotel Chief Lounge OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE (Just Off the Diamond) in BELLEFONTE One new form of bird was col lected in the Admiralty group and now is undergoing description and seven other species not previously reported from that group of isl ands were collected there by Dr. Bennett. On Nissan Island, in addition to the new discovery, Dr. Bennett collected two other species that had not been previously found on that island. It is expected that further study of the Nissan col lection may result in differentiat ing other new birds. Business Hits Post-war High Up 16 per cent from a year ago, general business in leading areas of Pennsylvania during May equaled the figures for April, the highest of any month since the end of the war. The monthly business survey of the Pennsylvania State College also reports no evidence of a de cline in business although a re cession for the latter part of the year has been widely predicted. 129 S. Atherton —Phone 774 PAGE SEVEN
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