Viking_Yearbook_52

DR. PHIL H. PUTNAM Education - Economics department head EDUCATION Vanport's Education department is aimed pri­ marily at training elementary school teachers. Although Oregon schools are training only one­ half the needed number of elementary teachers, Vanport is permitted to give only the first two or three years of training. The need for a full pro­ gram is demonstrated by the fact that the high school in a town of 7500 where a college of edu­ cation is located, is providing more students for educational training than is the entire city of Portland. The education department, which is headed by Dr. Putnam during the leave of absence of Dr. Gibb, is meeting this problem by offering education courses such as educational psychol­ ogy, Introduction to Education, and others and also related courses for education majors such as the survey courses in the biological, physical and social sciences. The student may get the first two years toward a three-year certificate or by tak­ ing some work at the Portland Extension Center, he may receive the first three years toward a four-year degree. JOHN W. DUNN Education DR. ALVA GRAHAM Education