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Show Myrtle Austin: Award For Excellence (Editor's Notes Mortar Board, senior women's honorary, is interested inter-ested in promoting excellence in college col-lege teaching. Accordingly, it has established "Mortar Board Merits." Honor those professors who, in the students' opinions, exhibit exceptional ex-ceptional ability to teach.) Miss Austin has succeeded as a public servant, as a friend, as an artist in her profession. In World War II, Miss Austin, amember of the Advisory Committee to the WACs, helped choose the first officer candidates. After the war, she served from 1950 to 1953 on the Defense Advisory Commit- ' , 4 f V Tt- . j ...-s.. ! y v - , A j. I V imi-i rutfitnnima ir itmiminnr tee to Women in Services. Moreover, k ing this period of activity in the com; r.ity, she held the demanding post of De: of Women from 1934 to 1956. However, her major service to fe community is performed within the cte room. Her commitment to integrity -learning leaves a lasting mark on he ' students. Through her persuasive mete; she focuses the student's attention on own foibles and on the pretensions of li society. She allows students to face issues;-panels, issues;-panels, in discussion groups, and bete the podium. She helps them see the as: for facts behind their generalizations. cause of her guidance, the student It comes aware of how facts are treated , his newspapers and magazines. Her sr.-dents sr.-dents are given tools which every cated citizen must use. Through her friendship, Miss Au encourages her students to use the -she gives them. Her deep, genuine , cern for people gives her students a t, of dignity and confidence to succeea , j teacher can ignore or destroy a st efforts. In Miss Austin's classroom, each dent has a contribution to makea" ;; student is compelled to make it. ' ; does the student learn to value w -efforts, but also to respect the en his classmates. The student senses in Miss AusM-classes AusM-classes not an atmospher of rutn petition or of passive apathy, w tive, creative activity. In our warfare on regimented"" I in education, Miss Austin seen, winning on her "front." As an an orders her material imaginative She teachers future teachers glish teaching is an art. must appeal to the whole sr senses, his emotions, and n ' to help him experience liter" The teacher-artist must relateco:: ject to the' student's needs in a . , organic way. Not only does practice her methods, but s e the creativity and effectiveness teachers. , (i 3) Indeed, to know Miss AusJ , js. public servant, as a friend, f; artist is a rich experience leave a lasting mark. v DIANA SUMMER MYRTLE AUSTIN . Mortar Board merits. ble edifice in Rome dedicated to Victor Emmanuel II. It has similar moments: finely proportioned propor-tioned columns pleasant detail, admirable admir-able statuary; but the impression is that it just goes on and on, all of Its Darts competing for importance P "Pacem in Terris" seems to just eo on and on, resplendent in details of charm and power but tedious in its overall numT-mg numT-mg undulations. Perhaps an excernTed M-0n UM Provide a more Milhaud Milhaud though a somewhat abridged humanitarian John. gea |