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.
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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.
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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
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year has been widely predicted.
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