The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 23

I I WE CEDAR RAPID GAZETTE! Mar. 10. 1957 3 Elementary Art Teachers Brush Up on Techniques 1 i Onsttie photos by Jerry Money. RAINDROPS A display of artistic raindrops gets the finishing touches from Helen Rossing, Cornell college student who is a practice teacher at Mt. Vernon.

Tha display was a part of an art institute for elementary teachers held at the Mt. Vernon school. THE ART OF TEACHING ART was studied by about 50 elementary school teachers at a three-day institute held in tha Mt. Vernon elementary school building last week. Pictured show ing tha results of a practical exercise in creating paper ladybugs are, left to right, Dora Me Nulty, Luella Mathern and Ora Lee Grabau, all or the Marion Rural school.

Other schools represented at the institute were Lisbon, Solon, Mechanicsville, Stanwood and nearby rural schools. DO-IT-YOURSELF Elementary teachers attending an art institute at Mt. Vernon last week did plenty of dipping and daubing to get the feel of teaching techniques useful in art instruction of grade school pupils. Pictured at work are, left to right, Betty Long, Stanwood; Ann McGinn, Mechanicsville: Dora McNulty, Marion Rural; Shirley Brooker, Solon; Mrs. Glenn Heady, Bertram; Mrs.

Clarence Gardner, Mt. Vernon, and Mrs. Cecil Smay, Lisbon, SPRING HAT Wearing a spring hat made at the elementary teachers' art institute at Mt. Vernon last week is Shirley Brooker, Solon kindergarten teacher. Teachers gained many new ideas at the institute.

ONLY MAN TEACHER attending an art institute for elementary teachers at Mt. Vernon last week was Richard Brooks of Mt. Vernon. He is pictured with Lida Beghtel of Mt. Vernon, looking over a grade school art idea.

EASTER IDEAS Egg-and-chick themes for Eastar art work in elementary grades were amona ideas at an art institute held last weelc. Teachers shown with sample work are Dorothy Rodda (loft) of Mt. Varnon and Batty Teisley of Lisbon. CONCENTRATION Martha Lahman, Mt. Vernon fourth grade teacher, strikes an attituda of concentration as she works with crayons during an elementary teachers' art institute at Mt.

Vernon last week. SUI Fraternity Men Aid Foreign Students Strawberry Point School District Receives a Gift First Time in Iowa Mechanical Brain Goes to Colleg automatic desk calculator, and operations most suited to it," was the estimate of Mary Clem, supervisor of the general computing room in the Statistical Laboratory. Done without the aid of a computing machine, this problem would be practically impossible and probably wouldnt be right, because human error is almost Inevitable in such massive computation, according to Dr. G. L.

Barger, North Central Area Climatologist of the United States Weather Bureau. During spring quarter at Iowa State, the machine will be used in a new graduate course entitled Scientific Computing and in another on Data Processing. It is expected that the services of the IBM 650 will be made available to other colleges and universities in Iowa and in some of the surrounding states where such facilities are not presently aVailable. areas such as long range weather prediction, cloud seeding, economic studies of farm adjustments, programs sponsored by the Iowa Highway Research Board, and X-ray diffraction studies to determine the atomic structure of substances such as starch and many other compounds. First Problem.

The first problem, now nearing completion, Involved an extensive statistical analyis of rainfall data concerning the drouth-susceptible states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. The scientific computing phase of this research, involving approximately 5 million additions and 5 million multiplications will take about 20 hours of computing time. Such computations would require one person about two years, working 40 hours per week. If he were to use a full AMES Solution to the first problems fed to a new highspeed electronic computer have been recorded by the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State college, where the machine recently was installed. The $250,000 medium-sized mechanical brain is called the IMB (International Business Machines) 650.

It will serve scientists engaged in academic research and those doing contract research for industry and government, and will also become a training device for courses taught at the college in data processing and scientific computing. First In College. Similar machines have been installed in several large Iowa business concerns (five Des Moines insurance companies, Maytag Company, Collins Radio) but the machine at Iowa State college is the first to be placed in an educational institution in Iowa (under a program where IBM gives an educational discount of 60 percent of the normal $45,000 yearly rental fee). i Soeclal to The GtEetU, STRAWBERRY POINT The Strawberry Point school district received a fine gift last week. It was the Noble property, which includes a lot, 100 by 800 feet, a house and several small buildings.

The property was owned by the B. W. Newberry estate trust since August of 1954. It was purchased following the death of Miss Elmina Noble because of its strategic location adjoining the school property. After a bond issue for the purpose of erecting a new elementary school building was passed in January of this year, the board of education definitely decided on a site which would require the Noble property.

The trustees of the Newberry estate trust, Miss Kate Newberry, J. J. Matthews and Alfred Osterman, met Thursday and voted to deed the property to the school board free of charge. In appreciation of the gift, the visual education room in the new building will be dedicated to the memory of Byron W. Newberry and a suitable plaque will be placed.

It is estimated that the cost of this room will be approximately the same as the value of the Noble property. Mr. Newberry was a lawyer in Strawberry Point from 1877 until his death in 1944 at the age of 90. He was elected to the state senate in 1903 and served in seven regular and two special sessions of the legislature. He served as chairman of the senate committee on public schools for five years and sponsored many measures for the improvement of Iowa schools.

He also served as a member of the Better Iowa School Commission, as a member of the Clayton county board of education and as a trustee of Upper Iowa university. Contractors, Fanners and Truckers New LOW PRICES on Quality Tarpaulins ChMk SlM NfledtS 0t Tm Tr Wkll Stk li Cmlel TARPS Weight for Weight Weight (er Weight la aslalaa la aalalaa The Best Tarpg In Town! Tht Best Prleo in Town! TOWA CITY Fraternity mem- bers at the University of Iowa are digging Into their personal pocketbooks for the second consecutive year to finance their own project to increase international understanding. The Iowa fraternity men are contributing approximately $1,500 to support two European students in study at the university for 1956-57. Hans Gustave Myhre of Oslo, Norway, special student, and Dietrich Hartmann of Frank-furt, Germany, graduate student, are living in SUI fratermty houses this year, with their board and room paid by the Interfraternity Council under a program now in its second year. Change Residences.

Myhre is living at the Delta Chi house and Hartmann atthe Acacia house this semester. They moved to these houses from the Theta Xi and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities early this month to get to know as many Ayrtons as possible and to give additional fraternity men a chance to get acquainted with their outlook and interests. The Interfraternlty Council project is in line with a trend among SUI fraternities since World war II to channel extracurricular energies of members Into service to the campus, the community and the countij, according to Fraternity Advisor Ronald Rosklns. The council directed a program last spring, for instancy torn-crease understanding of the Cru-aade for which sponsors Radio Free Europe to bring information concerning the western world to people behind the Iron Curtain. Their two foreign guests are both eager to take full advantage of the opportunity SUI fraternity men are giving them to learn what life is like on an American university campus.

They particularly want to find out Americans have achieved their high standard of living. Clue to Know-How." Before he had been in the United States a month, Myhre thought he had a clue to what is behind American know-how. If you set ten Americans to competing with ten Europeans on getting a job done, I think the Americans excellent teamwork would let them win in a walk, ho observed. But If you were to pit one American against one European, I believe the European would be likely to come out on top because ail his training has focused on making him an individual rather than a member of a team. Both foreign students believe AN EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP sponsored bv fraternities at tha University of Iowa has brought two European students to live at SUI fraternity houses this year.

Shown contrasting American and European newspapers era Dietrich Hartmann (seated, left) and Hans Gustavo Mvhra, (standing, right) foreign students from Berlin, Germany, and Oslo, Norway, respectively, and Jim Sheely (standing, left), Clinton senior, and Ronald Roskens (seated, right), faculty advisor of the Interfraternity Council. The Statistical Laboratory, which operates the machine, was established In 1933 and has been a pioneer In its field of providing statistical consulting and computing services to research workers, and In conducting research in statistical theory and method. Including data processing and scientific computing. Addition of the computer is the first of two steps taken within the last year toward the development of a high-speed computing center at Iowa State. In addition to the installation of the 650, the college la working on the construction of a large scale highspeed digital computer which will be known as the I According to Dr.

O. Hartley. 1 professor of statistics and head of scientific computing at Iowa State, the 650 will work on research problems arising in many TARPS 10 1 2'xl 4 17.44 1 J'll 4' 20.14 14'xlO 10.24 14 x20' 22.40 14 x24' 40.32 20'x20' 42.00 4's 1.04 4's 5.47 I'sl 0 1.04 sir 10.09 10'sir 12.40 lO'sl 4 14.70 12 4'x O' 4.00 4'x 4.75 0'xl 0 10.00 0x12' 12.00 10x12' 11.00 10x14' 17.50 10 x14' 20.00 22x24' 1 2'xl 4' 21.00 1 2'xl 4' 24.00 14 x10 34.00 1 4'x20 40.00 14 x24' 48.00 20'x20' 50.00 20'x24' 40.00 44.00 nalism, with minors" in economics and political science. What might be considered the counterpart of American fraternities are called ver-blndungen" In Germany. Begun In the 1800s, they were political groups and were outlawed when the Nazis came Into power.

Only about 10 percent of German male students belong to verblndungen today, though 95 percent were members 50 years ago, Hartmann explains. There are no groups comparable to sororities on the American campus, though 15 to 80 percent of the students are women. Transportation to this country for the two foreign students was paid under a Fulbright grant, and the university granted them tu-itioq scholarships. that their countries can learn much from America about the values of teairiwork and the importance of understanding how to get along with others. They have observed that American universities put more emphasis on helping students understand the principles Involved in human relations than do European universities, where stress is on developing individual capacities.

The European students believe that language barriers are a major factor in slowing down cooperation between peoples on the continent. Write Impressions. Both Myhre and Hartmann are writing impressions of America for newspapers and other publications at home. Hartmann is writing for the German News Service, supplying features and news for German newspapers, magazines and radio stations. He is writing on American student life for the student monthly at the University of Frankfurt Myhre is studying business administration, while Hartmann seeks a masters degree in jour Orchesis To Present Concert at Cornell MT.

VERNON Orchesis, the interpretive dance group on the Cornell college campus, will present a concert March 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. in the little theater. The Orchesis concert includes a wide variety of specifically developed ideas and is designed with the aim of creating a greater understanding and appreciation of modern dance. Orchesis, composed of 16 members, is under the direction of Miss Patricia Pavlis of the Cornell faculty. Other projects of Orchesis have an a chapel program for the nell student body in November and a dance study, Alienation and Reconciliation, in coordination with the Cornell Student Fellowship, the interdenominational religious group on campus.

Tickets for the concert are available from the Cornell college financial office or they can be purchased at the box office the nights of production. 10'xl 4' 14.00 20x24' 50.40 22'x24 55.44 OIL TREATED pllobls in all kinds of weather Specially constructed high grad cotton duck Plenty of grommots all tho way around a Guaranteed or your money back City Engineers Will Meet at Iowa State AMES City engineers of Iowa and members of the Iowa chapter of the American Public Works Association will convene at Iowa State college on March 13 and 14 for their annual conference in Memorial Union. The two-day conference is being sponsored by the Iowa chapter of the American Public Works Association in cooperation with the Iowa State College department of civil engineering and the Engineering Extension Service. Speakers will discuss merit incentive pay plans, personnel training, use of radio in munici-paliUes, private weather informants benefits for cities, coordination of utilities and their mutual problems, economical city paving, sewer cleaning and maintenance, and limited access of highways to cities and towns. LuciU Cummings Will Appear at Upper Iowa, FAYETTE An outstanding! contralto voice which haa quite literally won audiences from coast to coast, not only in concert and opera, but in radio and on the stage aa well, will be heard at Upper Iowa university Monday, March 18, when Lucile Cummings presents the final concert of the Upper Iowa university artist series.

The concert will begin at 8:15 m. at the Colgrove-Walker Memorial building. MONONA High school music students will present An Afternoon of Music" next Sunday, March 17, in the school auditorium. Three bands and two mixed choruses will appear on the 900 STREET PHONE EM 4-1588 m. non a so i wo-w Watch Broken Spur on the adventure of KIT CARSON, Monday at 6 on Channel 9.

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