November22,1991 SMALLTALK Page9
Meet The New Faculty
by Katherine Grasso
As we promised in the last edition of
mall Talk, we will continue to introduce
new members of the Methodist College
faculty. You've probably seen the faces
of new instructors in the hallways and
couldn't attach names to them (I know I
have!). Well, in this edition, we will
clear up the mystery of the nameless pro
fessors by introducing two more faculty
members-Dr. Tryon D. Lancaster and
Dr. Kunto Mitsuma.
Dr. Tryon D. Lancaster, a native of
Fayetteville, joined the Department of
Education this semester. Dr. Lancaster
received his associate's degree from
Louisburg Jr. College and then went to
East Carolina University where he re
ceived his bachelor's of science degree in
Eiemenuir\ Educaiion and then his mas
ter's degree in Elementary Education and
in School .Administration and Supervi
sion.
After receiving his master's degree.
Dr. Lancaster taught the sixth and sev
enth grades in the Cumberland County
School system. He became a teaching
principal at Cedar Creek Elementary
School and after three years moved on to
become principal at Mary McArthur. Dr.
Lancaster then decided to get his doctoral
degree and was accepted at Duke Univer
sity for his graduate work. Because he
was advised to gain secondary school ex
perience in addition to his elementary ex
perience, he became principal at,Massey
Hill. He resigned from Massey Hill after
about two years to complete his residen
cy and doctoral dissertation at Duke,
from which he received an Ed.D. in
School Administration.
Eventually Dr. Lancaster moved into
the Central Office of the Cumberland
County School System as Director of In
structions. Over the next 20 years, he
served as Assistant Superintendent and
then Associate Superintendent. During
this time, he was an evening instructor at
FTCC and a part-time professor at FSU
and also at ECU. Because Dr. Lancaster
has always wanted to work with begin
ning teachers, he decided last summer to
accept a recently opened position at
Methodist College.
Dr. Lancaster says he loves the at
mosphere here at Methodist and enjoys
the close instructor-student interactions.
He says that most students work very
hard, and he wants to assist those who
may have some difficulties. He has al
ready biigun to implement si mastery-
leaming model which is designed to hfelp
all students succeed. Ultimately ne
hopes to see his influence on his students
in their work as future teachers.
Dr. Kunio Mitsuma is a Mathematics
instructor who also joined the Methodist
College faculty this fall. Dr. Mitsuma is
originally from Tokyo, Japan. He ob
tained his bachelor's of science degree in
Pure Mathematics from Nihon University
in Tokyo and then came to the States for
his graduate work. Because he had pre
viously been an exchange student in
Pennsylvania, he applied to and was ac
cepted at Penn State University. Howev
er, he decided to complete his master's
degree in Pure Mathematics at the Uni
versity of West Virginia in Morgantown
because tiie smaller seuing appealed lo
him. He eventually moved on to Penn
State for his doctoral work, and iie re
cently received his Ph.D. in Mathemai-
ics.
Methodist College is Dr. Mitsuma s
first teaching position, and he sees it as a
challenge. He says that he gets up every
moming and is anxious about coming to
work and giving his best when leaching
the students. He is not looking to be
come a millionaire, he says, but he wants
to become better tomorrow than he is to
day. He says he is very satisfied with
things now but there is always a little
more he can do. When he is not teach
ing, Dr. Mitsuma spends much of his free
time with operating his HAM radio. He
is a member of the Cape Fear Amateur
Radio Club, and he often talks to many
persons all over the world. Radio opera
tions, he says, are not just for fun; they
can be a very important tool in times of
emergency.
Dr. Mitsuma thinks very positively
about his students at Methodist. He says
that they are always honest about not
having understood some material. In
larger universities there is much more
apathy, he says, and students are discou
raged from asking questions. He com
pares teaching at large universities to
work on an assembly line—you only
work on one small part but you never see
the final product. On the other hand, he
says, in small schools like Methodist you
will see a student from day one until he
or she graduates.
Dr. Mitsuma is in the process of
writing a grant proposal to obtain sever
al Macintosh computers for the Depart
ment. "The 'IBM-only' environment at
Methodist College will change," he says,
and he hopes to make the new comput
ers, once they are reccivc^, available to
students from other depiarfroents as well.
Dr. Lancaster
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