Page Ten
THE SUMMER ECHO
Monday, July 11, 1966
Center Director Says:
^Reading Is Key To Many Proficiencies’
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READING SESSIONS—The Leadership in Reading Institute, taught by
George O. Phillips, and the Reading Workshop, taught by Mrs. Marian
Vick, a visiting teacher from Winston-Salem State College, are two
programs with similar aims being conducted at the college. Both seek
to improve techniques of teaching reading.
In the top left photo, Phillips, right, is seen with students viewing
some of the latest teaching materials from Scott, Foresman Co., for
teaching reading, and on the right, Mrs. Vick uses the tachistoscope, a
quick-flash device to improve eye span which can be operated as fast
as one one-hundredth of a second.
The left center shows Mrs. Vick and students with the Science Research
Associates Lab—a collection of multilevel materials on various levels of
difficulty and interest. On the right. Philips uses the overhead projector,
“a versatile machine for teaching reading.”
The bottom photos show Phillips and students with programed ma
terials and other supplementary teaching devices. On the right, Mrs. Vick
uses the opaque projector in her class.
Summer Enrollees Have Broad Experiences
Teaches After 30
Years In Industry
A scientist who spent 30i/^
years as director of industrial
research in chemistry, biochem
istry, and microbiology at the
John Morrell Company (meat
packers) of Ottumwa, Iowa, is
enrolled in the NCC Institute
for College Teachers of Micro
biology.
Dr. Charles E. Gross, now a
professor of organic chemistry
and a teacher of biochemistry
and microbiology at Northeast
Missouri State Teachers Col
lege, entered teaching after a
rewarding career in industry.
Following his retirement from
the Morrell Company, he worked
full-time for one summer quar
ter before taking his present
position.
He is the author of a number
of papers on thermal resistance
of spores of bacteria, published
mainly in the journal Food Re
search.
A resident of Kirksville, Mis
souri, he holds the B.A. degree
from Ohio State University and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from Northwestern University.
Priest Has Unique
Group of Hobbies
The Rev. James P. Doll, a
Catholic priest who is enrolled
in the Institute in Microbiology
for College Teachers, listed an
unusual series of hobbies during
a recent Summer Echo survey
of workshop and institute per
sonnel.
The order in which he lists
them: big game hunting (deer
and bear, principally) ; knitting
and knit-ware design; book
binding and restoration of old
books; leathercraft; serving as
a weekend chaplain; and spend
ing his time at Timberline
Lodge and Government Camp on
Mt. Hood, Oregon, during the
skiing season.
A graduate of the University
of Notre Dame and holder of
the Ph.D. degree from the Uni
versity of California at Berke
ley, the Rev. Doll is an associate
professor at the University of
Portland, Portland, Oregon.
‘Retarded Respond
To Music’-Scott
W. Stuart Scott Jr., has
found music to be an effective
magnet to attract the mentally
retarded student.
An accomplished musician
who is enrolled in the NDEA In
stitute for Culturally Disadvan
taged Youth, Scott states: “I’ve
found that most students with
retarded mental abilities love to
sing, and when I discover they
can sing in tune, both of us are
surprised—they because they
have probably been told they
could not sing and never tried
to sing again, and I because it
gives me a foundation on which
to build some of the learning
processes. Music is relaxing to
everyone who desires it.”
Scott, who holds the B.S. de
gree from Winston-Salem State
College and the M.Ed. from
NCC, is a special education
teacher at Washington School,
Raleigh.
Competence in reading is a
key to proficiency in writing,
arithmetic, and other subjects;
thus, the need for such courses
as the Leadership in Reading
Institute and the Reading
Workshop become evident.
This is the opinion of George
0. Phillips, director of the NCC
Reading Center, who conducts
the Reading Institute. The
workshop is supervised by Mrs.
A. R. Vick of Winston-Salem
State College. Both are six-
week courses.
Stating that the institute is
primarily designed to meet the
needs of reading teachers and
administrators, Phillips said
efforts are made to “touch on
the reading problems of the dis
advantaged child from kinder
garten through the 12th grade,
to spend some time on the re
medial aspects of reading, and
to plan school-wide programs
in reading improvement.”
Phillips, who earned bache
lor’s and master’s degrees at
the University of Nebraska,
said his course also touches
upon the role of the reading
teacher in terms of the Ele
mentary and Secondary Educa
tion Act and other federal pro
grams. “In this connection,”
he revealed, “we place a great
deal of our instructional tech
nique upon new media such as
the overhead projector, the
tape recorder, and other in
structional equipment.”
The institute, which in pre
vious years—most recently last
year—was subsidized by funds
from an outside agency, is cur
rently being conducted as a
regular college course and of
fers six hours’ graduate credit.
W-Salem Teacher
Heads Workshop
North Carolina College’s
Reading Workshop is being con
ducted this year by Mrs. Mari
an Vick of Winston-Salem State
College, one of 20 visiting
teachers now on the campus.
The course, primarily for
teachers, seeks “to emphasize
the basic concepts of reading
instruction, reading problems
in the elementary and second
ary school, and ways and
means of solving these prob
lems.”
Among equipment and teach
ing aids used in the workshop
is the tachistoscope, a quick-
flash device to improve eye span
which can be operated as fast
as one-hundredth of a second,
the Science Research Associ
ates Lab, a collection of mate
rials at various levels of diffi
culty and interest to help stu
dents read according to their
own needs, and the opaque pro
jector, which enables one piece
of material to be seen by the
entire class at one time.
Two Win McClure
Grants To NCC
Two Asheville students, Jan
ice Lorraine Brooks and Sharon
Marita Hadden, have been des
ignated recipients of James G.
K. McClure Educational and De
velopment Fund scholarships to
enroll at North Carolina College
next year.
The $400 scholarships, which
are awarded on the basis of
scholastic performance and need,
may be renewed upon request
and reapplication by the recipi
ents.