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Show NEW DIRECTOR OF B.A.C. ARRIVES CEDAR CITY, Aug. 13 Seven hundred copies of the 1923-30 catalog cata-log of the Branch Agricultural College Col-lege of Utah have been mailed to prospective students, according to a statement made today by Director Henry Oberhansley. Mr. Oberhansley arrived in Cedar City last week to assume his duties as Acting Director of the Branch College in the absence of Director J. Howard Maughan, who is spending the year in graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the early part of the summer Mr. Oberhansley Ober-hansley was engaged In teaching at the Utah State Agricultural College Summer School. For the past two years has has occupied the position of head of the department of education educa-tion at that institution. According to Director Oberhansley, the new catalog announces changes in the curriculm which, in addition to offering a greater variety of subject sub-ject matter from which prospective students may select their courses, unifies the work of the Branch College Col-lege more closely with that of the mother institution at Logan. Among these changes he calls attention particularly to the offerings in vocational vo-cational work in agriculture. "The Branch Agricultural College" says Mr. Oberhansley, "is now prepared pre-pared to offer the first two years of work in the fields of Forrestry and Range Management and of Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes Vocational work in agriculture. agricul-ture. Students who complete the two years of work prescribed in these fields at the Branch Agricultural College will be accredited without further preparation for admission to upper division work in the Utah State Agricultural College at Logan. This is a great advantage particularly particul-arly to the young men of southern Utah, in that it enables them, without with-out leaving this part of the state, to begin preparation for two fields of work in which there is at present a great demand for competent leaders." lead-ers." ;.; Mr. Oberhansley also calls attention atten-tion to the fact that for the first time in several years the college is offering courses in art. This work is under the direction of Miss Mary L. Bastow, formerly head of the art department at Brigham Young College, Col-lege, Logan. Since the discontinuance of that institution in 1925 Miss Bastow Bas-tow has done advanced work in California Cali-fornia and has been art supervisor in schools of Miami, Arizona, and lecturer on modern decorative art for the Utah State Department of Education. Edu-cation. She is considered by educational educa-tional leaders to be one of the most competent art instructors in the state of Utah. Before September 9, Director Oberhansley Ob-erhansley plans to visit the greater part of the towns in Southern Utah for the purpose of meeting the patrons and prospective students of the school. The college, he says, is making preparation for a heavy enrollment, en-rollment, particularly in the college division. |