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PeabodyPrexy Teacher Lack
To Address
Caused By
Low Salaries
Graduates
A teacher shortage over a
period was laid to the failure of
Kentucky to pay salaries attractive
to beginning school teachers, the
State Department of Education reported on Wednesday.
In a report released by Wendell
P. Butler, state superintendent of
public instruction, it was stated that
during the last 14 years the state's
colleges
have prepared enough
teachers to staff the public schools
adequately. However, it was pointed
out, only 50 per cent of these graduates have accepted employment in
Kentucky.
During the five years previous
12,035 Kentucky teachto 1953-5ers quit the profession, more than
were trained. Only 900 new qualified teachers requested certificates
in 1953-5The number of college graduates
preparing to teach is declining. Of
the about 20,000 1953-5- 4 high school
graduates, only 4'4 per cent planned
to train for teaching. If the need
for teachers is to be met, 25 per
cent of college entrants will have to
prepare to become teachers. This
year there are 11,000 more six -- year
old children on the census than 14
years ago.
about 9 per cent of the
In 1953-5state's high school and 13.5 per
cent of elementary school teachers
In 1946 he was a member of the lacked the required training to teach
United States Education Mission to and were employed on emergency
Germany, and in 1952 he was chair certificates.
man of the Educational Policies
Commission and chairman of the
board of trustees of the Educational
Testing Service.
Final examinations for the Uni
Dr. Hill also is a former member versity will be held on the last class
of the Executive Committee of the meeting of each class, or the last
American Council on Education. He two meetings it has been announced
holds the A3, and A.M. degrees by the Registrars Office. This will
from the University of Virginia and be left to the discretion of each in
the Ph.D. degree from Teachers structor.
A student who receives an I" or
College, Columbia University.
The TJ..D. degree has been con- "X" in any course must make up
ferred upon the Peabody president these grades within 30 days after
by Davidson College, University of returning to the University.
Pittsburgh, Union University and
the University of Kentucky. Columbia University awarded him the
L.H.D. degree on July 1 of this year.

Dr. Henry H. Hill, president ofj
George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., will deliver the
principal address at the University
of Kentucky summer commencement program at 7:20 pjn. (Daylight Saving time) Friday, August
13, in Memorial Coliseum.
"A Time for Young Men" will be
the topic of the address by the
Nashville educator, a former professor and dean at UK. Approximately 350 students will receive degrees at the ceremony.
Presiding at the event will be UK
President H. L. Donovan, and the
invocation and benediction will be
given by Dr. George M. Trout, pastor
of the Grace Baptist church, Lexington.
Music for the affair will be presented by the University Mixed
Chorus, under the direction of
James King of the Department of
Music. The group will sing "The
Gloria," from the Twelfth Mass by
Mozart.
Dr. Hill, tne speaker for the night,
has been president at George Pea-boCollege for Teachers since
1945. He is a former president of
the American Association of School
Administrators and the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

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According to UK officials, the
processional for degree winners will
form at 6:45 pjn., and the academic
procession march will begin at

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Law Journal Selects Doyle
As New Editor-in-Chief

'Cats ' Slated
To End Up
Ninth In SEC
Ed Ashford, sports editor of The
Lexington Herald, revealed in his
column Wednesday that Walter
Stewart of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, has predicted that
the Kentucky Wildcats will finish
ninth in the SEC this fall.
Writing in Street and Smith's 1954
Football Yearbook, Stewart picks
Georgia Tech to win the conference
championship.
After the Engineers of Bobby
Dodd,
Stewart selects Alabama
third, Auburn
second, Mississippi
fourth, Tennessee fifth, Louisiana
State sixth, Mississippi State
seventh, Florida eighth, Kentucky
ninth, Georgia 10th, Vanderbilt 11th
and Tulane 12th.
Pictures of Duke Curnutte and
Bob Hardy are included along with
those of several other top SEC
players.

The Wildcat schedule is as

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Sept. 18

Maryland at Lexington;
Sept. 25 Mississippi at Memphis
(night); Oct 2 LSU at Lexington
(night) ; Oct. 9 Auburn at Lexington (night); Oct 16 Florida at
Gainesville; Oct 23 Georgia 'Tech
at Atlanta; Oct 30 Villanova at
Lexington; Nov. 6 Vanderbilt at
Lexington (homecoming) ; Nov. 13
Memphis State at Lexington; Nov.
20 Tennessee at Knoxville.

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of graduates will be available
next week in the office of the dean
of women.

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tucky Press Association, is in San
Diego, California, this week-en- d,
attending the national convention
of the Newspaper Association Managers. He flew to the west coast
Wednesday evening.

Professor Portmann's class in
Supervision of High School Publications received instruction in the
newspaper on
Thursday, given by representatives
of The Lang Company, of Lexington,
and today they considered problems
of yearbook production under the
direction of Dr. Niel Plummer.
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A student from Michigan has
of
been selected as editor-in-chithe University of Kentucky's Law
academic
Journal for the 1954-5- 5
year, and four Kentuckians will
assist him.
The new editor is Richard Doyle
of Drayton Plains, Mich. Announcement of the new editors was
made Wednesday by Prof. F. W.
Whiteside Jr., member of the UK
law faculty and faculty editor of the
publication.
P. Joan Skaggs of Russell will
serve as assistant editor during
the coming year. Other members of
the administrative staff follow:
J. Arna Gregory of Harlan, note
editor; George B. Baker of Belfry,
comment editor; and Conley Wilker-so- n
of Earlington, business manager.
Appointment to administrative
positions on the Law Journal Is
made by the faculty of the College
of Law upon the basis of scholarly
legal writing, maintenance of academic standing and faithful performance of editorial duties on the
regular staff.
The Journal which Is published
four times a year, includes articles
by UK law professors, practicing attorneys and judges, as well as notes
and comments on legal topics by
student members of the board.
Established in 1913, the chief
function of the Journal is to encourage writing In the legal field
and to train law students In the
development of skills In research
and writing. It is the tenth oldest
scholarly legal journal of its type.
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The Air Force Reserve Officers
Training Corps detachment at the
University is conducting the first of
two 6ix-dworkshops for ROTC
instructors, running through this
and next week.
Six other colleges and university
are participating. They are: the
University of Louisville, Western
Kentucky State College, Memphis
State Teachers College, Tennessee
Agricultural and Industrial State
University, University of the South
and the University of Tennessee.
Serving as directors are Maj.
Bernard M. Smith and Capt. Crawford E. Hicks, both of the UK staff.
They were among 20 officers who
were selected to attend "pilot" workshops conducted recently at Alabama's Maxwell Air Force Base.
Maj. Smith is conducting a workshop on leadership this week, and
Capt. Hicks will direct a workshop
on military world geography the
second week.
Two UK educators Dr. M. M.
White, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, and Dr. Amry
head of the Department
of Political Science are acting as

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THE DITCH running around and through the tennis courts
is not to keep people from playing tennis. It is to be the
steamline for the new boys dorm on Rose Street.

New Format Will
Facilitate Wider
Campus Circulation
A new look will come to campus
journalism at the opening of the
fall term! The Kentucky Kernel
will appear in a new streamlined,
tabloid format.
to a
Plans for the change-ovtabloid Kernel for the regular semesters have been under consideration for many months, Dr. Niel
Plummer, director of the School of
Journalism revealed. Along with
the change in the makeup of The
Kernel will come two others of
Interest to students, faculty and to
Lexington businessmen.
Beginning in September The
Kernel will reach not only every
student, but will be available to
every member of the faculty and
staff, as well as to all members of
the Alumni Association. This widening of the campus coverage will
be made possible through a change
from postoffice distribution to a
Friday morning distribution from
classroom buildings and key spots
on the campus.
now
Ronnie Butler, editor-elec- t,
serving with the Associated Press
in Louisville, will head up the staff
initiating the new Kernel. With
him will be Ken Litchfield, now
serving In the news department of
a radio station in western Kentucky, and Deborah Schwarz, who
Is working in public relations for a
West Virginia resort. Mr. Litchfield
will be news editor of The Kernel.
Miss Schwarz will be managing
editor.
The business staff is now being
reorganized to open the new era In
Kernel service to the campus and
to Lexington businessmen.
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civilian consultants.
Dean White, former head of the
UK Department of Psychology and
specialist in various phases of
leadership study, is the consultant
for the leadership workshop. Dr.
Vandenbosch, who has been as

sociated with the Department of
State on several assignments during
recent years, will assist in the conference on military world geography.

Workshop participants were
greeted at a breakfast Monday
morning by Dr. H. L. Donovan,
University president; Herbert Fritz,
Lexington city manager, and Hogan
Trammell of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce.
Workshop sessions include discussion of textbooks, academic philosophy, training aids, teaching techniques and student projects.
According to Capt. Hicks, the
workshops have been planned to
help instructors adjust to a new
curriculum as quickly as possible
as well as to improve actual teaching skill of the participants.
Representatives of the di3erent
institutions follow:
Maj. Donald Lindquist, University
Lt. Col. Harry G.
Louisville;
Peterson and Capt. Michael S. Nelson, Western Kentucky State College; Capt. Frank A. Loob, Memphis State Teachers College; Lt.
Marcus Crowder and Lt. Frank
Thompson, Tennessee Agricultural
and Industrial State University; Lt.
George Gant, University of the
South; and Maj. A. G. Damron and
Capt. Edmund Manning, University
of Tennessee.
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