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Show constant touch with th CCC laying ?w" many ita Principals direct. SLtlm"elf- Th!t Utah boys stand highest w,th least ill.tracy, that r,f.tVCrnc:e scnooling for the boys oiVMif Cntirc dist,ict ' hW th0 SMh grade the average being down because 0f having so many underprivileged boys come to us IIJ? .thc,cast" Most of the boys pome to the camps undernourished In. V.nd mind nnd tha it is a very difficult thing to give the mind food, that great patience is "s7 Jo help the boy make the TT Jt menu in a new world. " inted out that in most cases jne boy has never had a "job before it ? lhe CCC- Tho President, nc said, has made the educational program voluntary on the part of Adapt the educational program to it the needs of the boy; talk in his STf lCach through leadership leader-ship to do the things the right way citizen bC U?Cful t0 bim aS The following problems occupied tho major part of the conference SUSr.1,n:1.Enrollco ca,P organiza Kelationehip of adviser to military staff and technical work agencies staff; social relations of enroljee to community; hobbies in the camp; advisers, athletics and welfare; curriculum and attendance ,counciling and guidance, placement; place-ment; educational program for spike camps; advisers welfare. ! Advisor Arbon of ) Farmington Bay CCC Camp Back Education's newest child, "school in The CCC", was the center of interest in-terest on the Utah State agricultural agricul-tural college campus, June 15 to 20, when 4G Civilian Conservation Corps educational advisers meet in an advisers training conference. This conference, the first of its kind ever to he held in Utah and the Intcrmountain west, brought together the camp instructors of the Jargest CCC district and associate asso-ciate district in the United States. This group represented the educational educa-tional interests of 10,000 CCC boys of the Fort Douglas and Pocatello districts and was under the direction direc-tion of Dr. R. C. Merrill, Fort Doug la3 district and Dr. Fred Hoskin, Pocatello district. This gTOup of educators met in a six day conclave to discuss problems prob-lems peculiar to the CCC education al program and to outline problems for immediate research in the schorls in th camps. You have the bo ycoming to you who comes in his last chance for education; you are his last hope," said Mis Roma Gans, educational specialist of Teachers college, Col-' umbia pointed out in a special lecture lec-ture to the advisers. "Your boy now has the right to choose what he desires best. We are able at last to see what the real kind of interest inter-est the boy has, she further pointed point-ed out. He comes not by compulsion, compul-sion, he is not interested in marks or grades h" comes to learn that which he desires. The new hope of education is in the CCC wan MUn Gans conclusion. Dr. W. T. Spanton, vocation agrl cultural specialist of the department depart-ment of agriculture, Washington, D. C. in addressing the conference pointed out the boy problem that has arisen in the great urban areas with the depiction of the rural rur-al population. That in the last two ysars there has arisen economic opportunity for the city boy back on the farm and encouraged advisers advis-ers to familiarize the CCC enrollee wjth vocational courses in agriculture. agricul-ture. Dr. Spanton pointed to a re. cerlt movement in California where worthy j'ouths were being schooled in the non technical vocational agri cultural courses such as greenhouse green-house work, nursery judging, seed testing and the like, he stated that the demand for this type of trained bQy far exceeds the supply. Dr. Spanton gave figures to show that the number of small farms are Trowing rapidly each year to the C, diminishing In number of the j large cooperative farms ,and that . real opportunity for the small farm to operate is ahead. Francis W. Kirkham national director di-rector for Youth for Utah, lead daily discussions in camp committee commit-tee organizations of enrollees emphasizing em-phasizing the- effectiveness of such a mthod In ralizing the objectives of good citizenship, culture and con servatlon (CCC) Dr. KJrkham gave two lectures on the tools and tech-nione tech-nione of counciling and guidance. Captain Keith W. Tatam, district executive for CCC, Fort Douglas district, appeared and was presented present-ed as representative of district Commander Brigadier General Sweeney in a talk t othe conference make the faj lowing contributions: That President Roosevelt no mat ter how pressed for time kept in- |
