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Commonwealth of Penns.ylvt.iiJ.;.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
THE TEACHER BUREAU
Harris burg

PROCEEDINGS
of the

Meetings of

"ohe

Board of Presidents

State Teachers College3

Jtme 1, 1952 to

BLOOMSBURG

l\s.j

51, 1955

/j^O

K D E X

Proceedings of the Meetings
of the

Board of Presidents, State Teachers Colleges
June 1, 1932 to May 31, 1933

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790-801
Additional courses for the summer session 707
Administrative Forms - standardization
705
Adult Education movement
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_
705
Advertisement - composite in Pennsylvania School Journal
710
Allocations to State Teachers Colleges, second year of biennium
729
American Association of Teachers Colleges - membership
708-729
Annual Catalogues - publication
707-728
Annual Conference of faculties 730
Annual Meeting of trustees association
686-719-731-745-756-770-793
Approval of minutes
638
Art curriciilum - four-year
764
Association of Trustees - bulletin
710
Athletic games - payment to students for injuries

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Budgets for 1933-35
Budgets - allocations for second year of biennium
Budgets - appointment of committee
Budgets for 1933-35 - report of comiQittee
Budget and fee committee - joint recommendation
Bulletin published by dissociation of Trustees

Calendar committee report
Calendar committee re sumraer session
Catalogues - annual publication
Centralized purchasing
(Exhibit A)

718-729-803
710
729

737-748-758
75O
754

735-753
684-702-722-735
708
702-722-733-746-757

follo77ing

755

Certification of elementary teachers - nevr standards
754
751-759-790
Certification of graduates - policy
70 7-729
College papers - publications
720
Commercial curriculum - fo\u?-year
707-728
Conference of faculties - annual
Conduct of stores
701-722-732
Cooperative education - elementary curriculum
682
Curricular Revision Committee - appointing Deputy of Curriculum
708
Bureau as permanent m.ember
Curricular Revision Committee Report
_
_
682-686-719-731-746-757-771-793
CurricJ.\im - four year public school art
688
Curriculum - four year commercial education
720
Curriculum - four year health education
690
Curriculum - four year home economics
692
Curriculvim - four year industrial arts
694
Curriculum - four year kindergarten primary
696
Curriculum - four year public school music
693
Curric^jlum - cooperative education
682-701
Currici'lums - special
687-719

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Date for entrance examinations
752-808
Deans of Instruction meeting
791
Degree graduates indicating the elective fields
following
791
(Exhibit
7S2-745
Department of Justice - formal opinion No.
704
Department of Justice - informal opinion No. 107 708
Deputy of curriculum biireau as member of Curricular Revision Comiriittee 709
Distribution of 1932 summer session students
following 715
.(Exhibit E)

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301
Economic situation and present high school graduates
684
Editorial in The Patriot
following 685
(Exhibit
Effective date of four-year preparation standards for the
743
certification of elementary teachers
682-701
Elementary curriculum in cooperative education
Elementary education - four-year preparation standard effective date - - 743-754
710
Elementary education - new four-year requirement
717-729
Enrollments
following 718
(E:diibit
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_
_
_
709
Enrollments - comparative for summer sessions 1930-1931-1932
following 715
(Exhibit D)
743
Enrollment - maximum
709
Enrollment - summary June 1, 1931-- to May 31, 1932
following - - 715
(Exhibit A)
742
Enrollment - October 15, 1932
(Exhibit A)
following - - 744
790
Enrollm.ent - February 15, 1933
791
(Exhibit
following
758-773
Enrollments - report of committee on limitation
762-786
Entrance blanks - uniform
754
Entrance examinations - date
742-751
Entrance requirements

707-728
Faculty conference - annual
751-759
Federal tax on admissions to games
750
Fee and Budget committee - joint recommendation
723-736-747-757-771-793
Fee committee report
751
Fee - health for 1933-34
708
Fee - tuition for sttidents
Film libraries - unit plan - Doctor Finegan of Eastman Kodak Company 744
Formal opinion No. 70 re conduct of stores
732-745
(Opinion)
744
follewing Four-year preparation standard - elementary education
743-754
Four-year requirement in elementary education
710

Graduates

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- degree, indicating the elective fields
791
- 791
(Exhibit
following Graduates - placement of June 1932 class
742
- 744
(Exhibit B - Tables I, II, III, IV)
- following Graduates who received certificates between June 1, 1931 and May 31, 1932 709
- 715
(Exhibit B)
fellowing Graduates who received certificates May 1932
709
- 715
(Exhibit C)
following Graduates v/ho received certificates January 1933
791
(Exhibit B)
following - - 791

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Hand-books - printing
Health Education curriculum - four year
Health fees for 1933-34
High- school graduates and the present economic situation
Home economics curriculum - four year

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801
698

694
V04
716

Industrial arts curriculum - four 3rear
Informal opinion No. 107 re refunds Instructional staff - salaries for 1932-33
Institute substitute programs - free service to county
superintendents from
Iowa Placement examinations - results

Joint committee on teacher preparation
Joint recommendation of fee and budget committee

Kindergarten primary ciirriculum

708
753

764-786-800

750

696

four year

Legislative letter of Superintendent
Limitation of enrollments

Maximum possible enrollment
Meeting of deans of instruction
Membership in ^Imerican Association of Teachers Colleges
Minnesota College Aptitude tests - results
Music curriculum - four year public school

791
758-773

743

752-808

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Names of students not admitted to State Teachers Colleges
New four-year requirement in elementary education
New standards for certification of elementary teachers
Non-instructional staff - salaries for 1932-33
Normal school certificate and State Standard Limited Certificate

Opinion - informal No. 107 re refunds to students
Opportunities in professional service areas

690
751

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729
753

698

753
710
743-754
717
_ 802

704
706

Patriot - editorial
684
Payment for injiiries to students participating in athletic games 710
Pennsylvania School Journal - composite advertisement
705
Placement of graduates of June 1932 class
~
742
(Exhibit B - Tables I, II, III, TV)
following
744
Policy concerning certification of graduates
751-759-790
Printing of hand-books at State expense
707-729
Professional service areas 706
Professional Status of teachers - November 1, 1932 _
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790

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664
ProjGcted teacher preparation program
Provisional college certificates issued for past twelve 3?ears
763
to graduates of Pennsylvania Colleges and Universitie,-^
708-729
Publication of annual catalogues
707-729
Publication of college papers
702-r'22-733--746-757
Purchasing - centralized 755
following
(Exhibit

A)----.--------

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704
Refunds - informal opinion No. 107
709
Rent for real estate
737-743-758
Report - budgets for 1933-1935
735-753
Report - calendar ccnmittee
684-702-722-735
Report - calendar co mittee re suiruner session
682-686-719-731-7<;.o-757-7v'l-7&3
Report - carricular revision committee 742
Report - entrance requirements
723-735-747-757-771-793
Report - fee committee
758-773
Report - limitation of enrollments
:85
Report - special committee re retail stores
803
Report - special committee on salary
762-785
Report - uniform entrance blanks
753
Results of examinations given to entering students
Riemer, Dr. G. C. L. - the State Teac'.iers Colleges as now located
765
equalize educational opport'onities
708-729
Room rental for off -campus st\idents

303
Salary - report of special committee
716
Salary schedule
763
School Code in revised form
706
Service areas - prof sssioiia].
_
- 708
Service to county superintendents in institute-substitute programs 687-719
Special cuxriculums
Standardization of administrative forms
707
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_
740-759-786-800
Standardization of printing forms
State Standard Limited Certificate and Normal School Certificate 802
State Teachers Colleges as now located equalize educational
opportunities - Doctor G-, C. L. Riemer
765
Stores conducted in State Teachers Colleges
701-722-732
Stores - formal opinion Mo.
732-745
Stores - retail, report of special committee
685
Student Forim
707
Student progress card
-753-759-736-800
Students not admitted to State Teachers Colleges
753
S\imi.iary of percentage distribution of teachers having college preparation
742
(Exliibit C)
744
followirg - Siomraer sessions - 1933
718-759
Svimmer se'3sion - additional coui-sas
79C-301
Summ.er session - calendar comiiiittee report
684-702-722-755
Stunmer session students, 1932 - distribution
7C9
(Eydiibit E)
- 715
following Syllabi - report from curricular revision conviiittee
731-75':'

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684
Projected teacher preparation program
Provisional college certificates issued for past twelve years
763
to gradv.ates of Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities
708-729
Publication of annual catalogues
707-729
Publication of college papers
702-"22-V33-746-757
Purchasing - centralized 755
following
(Exhibit

A)---'-------

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704
Refunds - informal opinion No. 107
709
Rent for real estate
"37-748-758
Report - budgets for 1933-1935
735-753
Report - calendar committee
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- 684-702-722-735
_
Report - calendar co.mittea re summer session
682-686--719-731- 743-757-771-793
Report - curricular revision committee 742
Report - entrance requirements
723-736-747-757-771-793
Report - fee committee
758-773
Report - limitation of enrollments
o85
Report - special committee re retail stores
803
Report - special committee on salary
762-786
Report - -uniform entrance blanlcs
753
Results of examinations given to entering students
Riemer, Dr. G-. C. L. - the State Teachers Colleges as now located
765
equalize educational opportunities
708-729
Room rental for off -campus students

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303
Salary - report of special committee
716
Salary schedule
763
School Code in revised form
7O6
Service areas - professional
- 708
Service to county superintendents in institute-substitute programs 687-719
Special curriculums
707
Standardization of administrative forms
_
_
_
740-759-786-800
Standardization of printing forms
State Standard Limited Certificate and Normal School Certificate 802
State Teachers Colleges as now located equalize educational
765
opportunities - Doctor G-. C. L» Riemer
701-722-732
Stores conducted in State Teachers Colleges
Stores - formal opinion No.
732-745
Stores - retail, report of special committee
685
707
Student Forum
Student progress card
-753-759-786-800
Students not admitted to State Teachers Colleges
753
Summary of percentage distribution of teachers having college preparation - 742
(Exhibit C)
744
following - Slimmer sessions - 1933
718-759
Summer session - additional courses
79C-3C1
Sumraer session - calendar committee report
684-702-722-735
Summer session students, 1932 - distribution
709
(E:>d-iibit E)
715
following Syllabi - report from curricular revision comiiiittee
731-757

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Tax - Federal on games conducted in State Teachers Colleries
Teachers having college preparation - summary
(Exliibit

tollor/ing

Teacher preparation - joint committrse recommendation
Teacher preparation program - projected
Trustees Association - annual meeting Tuition fee for students

742
744
- 7e4-78&-8'00
C64
730
708
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Uniform entrance blanks
Uniform student progress card
Unit plan for organizing film libraries
Eastman Kodak Company

751-750

76S-766
753-755

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Doctor Finegan of

744

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JOURNAL OF A MEETING
OF IHE

BOARD OF i-RESIDMTS, STATE TFACHERS COLLEGES
Tuesday, Jixly 5, 1932

A special meeting of the Board of Presidents of the
State Teachei's Colleges of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania was held in the Superintendent's Con*
ference Room in the Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and was called to order by
the chairman at 10 A. M,
The following wei-e present;

Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney HillG, C. L. Riemer
T- T. Allen
C. C. Crawford
Charles R» Foster
A» Co Rothermel
DsLllag Wo Armstrong
William Re Stra'aghn
Land is Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
J, Llnwood Eisenberg
Norman W« Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Chesmey
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutstown
Lock Ha? en
Mansfield
Millersvilie
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N, Rule, Chairman
Henry Klonower* Secretary
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Rep.ort of Curricular Rsvlsion. Committee
tor Ji Idnwood Eisenberg, Chairman cf the CurricuXay
Revision Committee, reported for the ccmmittee.

He presented an "Elementary Curriculum in Cooperative
Education"' leading to the Degree of B. Sp in Education,
and stated that this curriculum placed emphasis on
directed learnings
Doctor RtAle suggested that this be called a variant
of the elementaj^y (xurriculxm with specific emphasis
on the individualized techniques of learning.

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Doctor Rowland was inclined to feel that one of the
chief advantages wa,-3 in the fact that the cur-riculum
He seemed to
did stand out as, something different-.
think that what is needed most in Pennsylvania today
is some place which certain progressive Superintendents coxild get teachers specifically prepared in
this procedure » Unless this differentiation in name
can be made, he questioned the advisability of
inaugurating svich a curriculum.

He further stated that the very crisis throu^ which
we are passings '^he economic situations, the pressure
and the unrest, and the social ignorance that is being
displayed at this time, seems to asstime the need for
educational leadership* It seemed a wise thing and
It would appear
not an unwise thing at this time«
that by raising the standards we will take up the
surplus and prepare better teachers.
Doctor Haas asked if he had thought of the implications the word "Cooperative Education" held for the
other State Teachers Colleges and whether he would
solicit students from any part of the State for this
ciirriculumo

Doctor Rule stated that he would like very much if
the curriculum «ould be considered a variant of the
elementary curriculum and then call special attention to the point #ierein it does differ frcrn the
regular elementary curriculum.

Doctor Rule stated that he felt Doctor Rowland should
have at least tentative approval at an early date if
he is to get anyvrfiere with this curriculum for next
year and if the matter is delayed much longer, it cannot
be begun in September
Doctor Rule, at the conclusion of the discussion, suggested that action be postponed on this item until the
next meeting of the Board, August !„ 1932.

Doctor Rowland stated that he wanted to express his
personal appreciation to the members of the Curricular
Revision Committee and to the members of the Board for
the constructive suggestions which were offered,,

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fie.

°.P^'^^ ^ T ea ch B r ...PrepaTa.^g5. J!£gg£§j5.

B.vd.e presented a coafideatiai statement
outlitting briefly a program for the coatrol of
the supply and dexiiaBd of teachers in the Cowaon"

Doctor

wealth.

Each President was asjced to study care*

fully the plan and roply directly to Doctor Rule
as to the feasibility of the plan. This zaatter
considered

T!«as

in.

executi-^e session»

rootion made by Doctor Haas and seconded by
Doctor Foster it was imanimously voted that
Doctor Rule be thanfeed for presenting^'to the
Board his tentative prograra for teacher prsparatiohj
and it Ms agreed that the Presidents individually
should react to specific items of the program, as
desired.

Upoja

Editorial in The Patriot^

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193S.

Doctor Rule asked Mr. Kloaower to read an editorial
that appeared in The Patriot a Harrisbiirg morning
newspaper J which demonstrated the misinforjuation
yrtiich many public minded people have with reference
to the State Teachers C©llege®» A copy of the
editorial follows with Doctor R«Xe^s reply thereto
as Exhibit «A".
^

The meeting adjourned at 12^S0 for luncheon to
reconvene at Is 30 P,M,d
The meeting reconvened at B30 P, Mc with Doctor
Rothermel, Chairffiin pro temo

for 1932

Doctor Haass ChairnBn of the Calendar Coisaittee,
presented the following report relative to the matter
of staggering suisner sessions in order that students
mi^it if It were desired secure a imximum of twelve
semester hours during the summer. The Committee proposed the following programs

—

Divide the Teachers Colleges into two groups
Groxap I to consist of Edinboro, Clarion, Loc^
Haven, California, Mansfield, Millersviilef and
West Chester* For this group the summer session
would begin June 5 and close July 15, 1933.
Group II woxild consist of Slippery Rock, Indiana,
Bloomsburg, Shippensburgj, Kutstownj and East
Stroudsburg. For this group the summer session

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would begin July 17 and end August 26, 1933.
Cheyney wovild arrange a calendar to suit the
best needs of the institution.

Discussion was also given to the question of developing
the summer session work on a three-week-unit basis
This would make it possible for students to get variations
of credit ranging from three to twelve.
Finally, upon motion by Doctor Steele and seconded by
Doctor Riemer and unanimously passed, it was resolved tha
the schedule as proposed with the dates proposed together
with the development of courses on a three-week-unit basis
be approved.

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Doctor Haas was of the opinion that it migb,t be advisable
to discuss further the matter of the advisability of
uniformity in developing three-week-unit courses, since it
is probable that questions having to do with training
school adjustments and fees would be raised. This, however,
is not vital to the main proposition to stagger the stjfflm.er
session work of the institutions on a two-group basis, and
he suggested, therefore, that this phase of the problem be
discussed briefly at the meeting to be held in Harri sburg,
August Ij 1932.
5,

Report of sp ecial comm ittee re .''Retail Stores"

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the special committee having to do
with Retail Stores, made a brief statement to the effect that
Doctor Rule had addressed the Attorney General under date of
June 16, relative to this matter and that this was the last
move that had been made*
The meeting adjourned at 4s 00 o'clock P«M. to reconvene
August Is 1932 in the Superintendent's Conference Room,
Department of Public Instruction.

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Tl-ffi PATOIOT - An Editorial
Harrisburg, Saturday, July 2, 1932

MARKET GLUTTED

It seems very likely that the special legislative
session will reduce substantially the miinber of State
teachers colleges in the State, which now total fourteen.
Principally this will be done as an economy measure aimed
to ease the effects of the depression.

In the opinion of pedagogues and others there is
a better reason, depression or no depression.
Teachers
trained for public school work in Pennsylvania are a glut
on the market.
Inquiry has shown that between the teachers
colleges and the other colleges of the State, 4476 persons
were qualified for teachers in 1931.

How ridiculous this is in light of the fact that
the average annual demand for new public school teachers in
the State is only 1500.
The supply exceeds the demand which
means waste of time and money both for the educational
institutions which the State supports and the students thus
trained.
Vrtaen a few years ago virtually all the State's
normal schools were transformed into teachers colleges,
prominent and thoughtful educators foresaw precisely what
has happened.
For generations there had been left to the
liberal arts colleges of the State the opportunity for
training men and women for high school teachers. Even they,
with an annual output of 3600, were adding to the congestion..
The creation of teachers colleges merely aggravated the
situation.

It is almost cruel to encourage boys and girls to
train themselves for public school teachers when no matter
how capable they are, only one in three can possibly get a
position, perhaps for years follovjing their graduation.
If
the number of these teacher colleges is reduced, it will be
a service not only to the taxpayers but to the boys and girls
whose life vocations are being wrecked for reasoj:is for v;hich
they are not entirely responsible.

THE PATRIOT - An Editorial
Harrisburg, Thursday, July 7, 1932

DR. RULE'S EXPLANATION

This newspaper was glad yesterday to give generous
space to a letter from Dr. James N. Rule, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, correcting our own and the public's
impression of an over-supply of public school teachers in the
State. That an oversupply does exist is not questioned, but
the extent of it is not so marked as vas the understanding.
Doctor Rule shows quite clearly that the "glut" in
the teachers' market applies more particularly to the high
school situation and that the State Teachers Colleges have
contributed less to it than the liberal arts college. How
true this is becomes apparent in the figures which show the
liberal arts this year graduating 3600 and the Teachers
Colleges 916 to meet a demand of only 1500 high school teachers.
The gap between supply and demand is not nearly so
marked in the elementary teacher field, a field to which the
Teachers Oollege makes a more direct and larger contribution.
Even here. Doctor Rule says, a plan is in operation to adjust
supply and demand so far as control over State Teachers
Colleges is possible.
This, of course, is a considerate thing both for the
taxpayers and embryonic teachers. Nothing could be more
deplorable than to glut the market with public school teachers.
Present economic conditions probably have made the teacher
situation acute because men and women are turning to it now,
whereas under more normal conditions the school teacher's desk
would be less alluring.

For an understanding of the teacher supply market, the
forces that are at work and the financial cost of teacher
college support, Doctor Rule's letter is thoroughly worth reading

Commonv/ealth of Pennsylvania
MPARTfffiWT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Harrisburg

COPY

July

1932

Mr. Dean Hoffman
Editor, The Patriot

Dear Mr. Hoffman:
I

have read 7;ith great interest your editorial of July 2 on
Glutted."

"IVIarket

editorial indicates that as an economy measure there is a
possibility of a reduction in the number of State Teachers Colleges
by the Legislature at the current special session. It also indicates
"a better reason" for the proposed reduction in the niunber of State
Teachers Colleges, namely that "Teachers trained for public school
work in Pennsylvania are a glut on the market." Then follov/ *hat are
intended to be supporting figures, but it is evident that the source
You report
of information was incorrect or erroneously interpreted.
that 4476 persons vfere qualified as teachers in 1931 v,'hereas "the
average annual demand for nev; public school teachers in the State is
only 1500."
Yovu?

clear impression that this statement nakes is that this, figure
of 1500 nev; teachers needed each year covers the annual demand for
both elementary and secondary school teachers in Pennsylvania. This
statement should be qualified to indicate that 1500 is the number of
higl:i school teachers only that are needed annually.
In addition to
1500 high school teachers, approximately 3500 nev; elementary school
teachers are needed annxially to replace teach ei's leaving service and
to provide for normal growth in school population.
These are the
numbers of new teachers actually absorbed by our public school system
during the school years 1930-1931 and 1931-1932, or approximately 5000
public school teachers in each of the past t77o years.
Ttie

It is said that the market for hi.gh school teachers is now glutted.
In 1931 the Department of Public Instruction issued high school certificates to 3606 graduates of Arts Colleges of Pennsylvania and 945

to graduates of State Teachers Colleges.
Of the high school certificates issued to teachers college graduates, 321 were trained in

#2
Mr. Dean Hoffman

July

1932

the so-called special fields such as music, art, physical education,
home economics, and industrial arts, for which the teachers colleges
are the principal source of supply. In these special fields the surThe Arts Colleges confine theraselves,
plus is not as yet serious.
with but fev; exceptions, to the academic fields such as English,
history, science, mathematics, and the languages. In 1932 the
teachers colleges graduated 613 prospective high school teachers of
academic subjects, whereas the Arts Colleges, according to the best
estimates at hand, prepared approximately 3600. Consider these
figui'es.
For the current year the Arts Colleges have prepared 85.5
per cent of the total number of high school academic teachers and the
This is the story of the
State Teachers Colleges 14.5 per cent.
"glut" and its source.

The teachers colleges are practically the only source of supply for
the 3500 nev; elementary teachers needed annually in Pennsylvania.
The Arts Colleges generally do not prepare nor desire to prepare
elementary school teachers. A small number of graduates of Arts
Colleges were certificated in 1931 for the elementary field. The
surplus of elementary teachers at the preoent time is not large but
is growing.

By exacting more selective requirements for entrance and graduation
the Board of Presidents of the State Teachers Colleges has taken
effective concerted action to keep the supply of elementary and high
school teachers well within sight of the normal demand. The recent
action of the State Council of Education increasing elementary school
requirement to four years of post high school professional preparation, effective in 1936, will strongly support the restrictive policy
of the teachers colleges in this field.

This action of the State Council of Education is in the nature of an
emergency measure to insure control of the elementary school situation,
which is entirely possible since preparation of elementary school
teachers is carried on practically entirely in State-o?med, State controlled professional schools. Moreover, the effective date, September
1936, has been set far enough ahead so as to permit any adjustments or
changes in the new standard as may later prove wise and necessary
either by postponing the effective date or eliminating it entirely.
The new standard is not retroactive and so does not affect teachers now
in service. New entrants into the elementary field until the time when
the full requirement is exacted may, if they so elect, begin elementary
school work upon completion of two years of professional preparation
with provision for periodic renev/als every three years upon basis of
additional preparation that can be gained while in service either

#3
Mr. Dean Hoffman

July

1932

through suiimer or extension courses. This plan provides for
continuous professional growth vrtthout placing an undue burden
upon the teacher and brings the teachers by gradual stages
ultimately to the full four-year level, when full, permanent
certification is acquired.

Control of the high school situation is not so easy, involving
as it does the programs and policies of Arts Colleges whose aims
are pre-prof essional and general rather than specific and professional. Moreover, many Arts College students take the necessary
teacher preparation courses in connection -.Tith their regular
academic courses in order to add another vocational string to their
bows. In times of depression like the present or while one is
getting started in some other profession or waiting to be married,
a teaching job may come in handy.
These are the ones that are now
crowding the high school teaching situation and comprise probably
about 30 per cent of the Arts College graduates who secure high
school certification. The answer to the problem of controlling
the surplus of high school teachers lies in severely restricting
the number of both arts and teachers colleges preparing high
school teachers, and exacting more selective requirements for
entrance to and graduation from curriculums for high school teaching, limiting successful candidates to those who possess the requisite mental ability, personality, and physical fitness and are
definitely looking forward to teaching as a profession.
It wij.l also be of interest to you and your readers to know what
the State Teachers Colleges cost the State. The facts are not
generally known or understood. The State budgets show for the
current biennium an appropriation of ^jSlO ,512,000 to the several
State Teachers Colleges. But of this sum approximately ^6, 000, 000
are paid by the students for cost of board, room, and laundry.
Under the Administrative Code all such collections must be deposited
in the g eneral fund of the State Treasury and re-appropriated
specifically by the General Assembly .
The net cost to the State,
therefore, is approximately '^4,400,000, not -^10,512,000.
Moreover,
under the Governor's economy program the presidents of these colleges
by drastic economies will turn back approximately ^^700, 000 of this
amount into siirplus that can be used for unemployment relief or to
help balance the general budget. The actual net cost then to the
State of maintaining thes« fourteen colleges this current biennium
will not exceed .^3,700,000 for the training of over 11,000 of Pennsylvania's fine, earnest, ambitious young people, chosen not only
from rural areas and small towns but from the larger urban centers.

Mr. Dean Hoffman

July

'•
'

1932

The actual net cost amounting to not more than *3, 700,000 does
not appear to be an excessive amount in comparison with the
appropriation for the c\Jrrent biennium of .^9, 070, 000 for the
maintenance and development of seven independent colleges and
universities not under State control, the vrLsdom and necessity
of vfhich appropriation no one questions.
The problem of equating teacher supply and demand is no different
from that found in practically all occupations and professions.
If too restrictive measures are taken in any one, the problan is
only complicated and made more difficult for all the rest.
Undoubtedly reasonable restrictive measures must be taken in the
field of teacher preparation but these must be adopted in the
light of the needs of the public schools, the success of specific
institutions both Arts Colleges and Teachers Colleges, most
effective in meeting the State's standards, and the fiscal
resources of the Commonwealth.

Please accept my appreciation for this opportunity to present
these facts and points of view to your wide circle of readers.

Sincerely yours,.

(S)

R K b

JAMES N. RULE

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPAHTMENT OF PDBLIC INSTRUCTION
TEA.CHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

MEETING OF IHE BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
.

-.Monday, August 1,

1932

DOCKET
I.

II.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meetings of the
Board of Presidents held at Harrisburg, May 13, 1932 and
July 5, 1932.

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee
A.

Special curriculums
1.
2.

3.
4.
5.
6.

Gurricului'ii in

Cooperative Education

Report of committee on "Stores conducted at the State
Teachers Colleges"

Report of Calendar Committee on "Summer Sessions - 1933"

Report of committee on "Centralized Purchasing for the
State Teachers Colleges"

Informal Opinion No. 107 from the Deputy Attorney General
re - Refunds to Students in the State Teachers Colleges.
A.

III.

Art Education
Commercial Education
Health Education
Home Economics
Kindergarten Education
Music Education

Report of Committee

New Business
1.

Composite advertisement in the Pennsylvania School Journal

Adult Education Movement

Opportunities in Professional Service Areas

Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State Teachers Colleges
A.

Student Forum

Printing of Haud-books at State expense

Pub.li

Standardization of administrative forms

Publication of Annual Catalogues in the State Teachers Colleges

Tuition fee for students in the State Teachers Colleges

cation of college papers

10.

The necessity of State Teachers Colleges rendering free
service to County Superintendents in. the organization of
their institute-substitjite jr o grams

11.

Room rental for off -campus students

12.

Appointing the Deputy in charge of the Curriculum Bureau- as a
permanent member of the Gurricular Revision Committee

13.

Rent for Real Estate-State Teachers Colleges

14.

Summary of Enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges for
the year June 1, 1931 to May 31, 1932
^

15.

List of graduates who received certificates of graduation
between June 1, 1931 and May 31, 1932.

16.

List of graduates who received certificates of graduation
in May 1932 in the State Teachers Colleges

17.

Comparative enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges
Summer sessions 1930-1931-1932

18.

Distribution of 1932 summer session students

19.

Publicity re

new four-year requirement

in elementary education

JOUMAL OF A MEETING
OF

THE

BOARD OF PFiESIDENTS, STAT'E TEACHERS COLLEGES
August 1, 1932

A regular meeting of the Board of Presidents of the
State Teachers CollBges of the C oimmonwealth of
Pennsylvania was held in the Superintendent's Conference
Room of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburgj
Pennsylvania, and was called to order by the Chairman
at 9^30 o» clocks
The following were presents

Francis B.
Robert 1/L Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G, Co Lc Riemer
Tc T« Allen
C. Co Crawford
Charles R.. Foster
A. C, Rothennel
Dallas Wo Armstrong
William R. Straugha
Landis Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
Js Linwood Eisenberg
Norman Wo Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsbur§
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

.Tames K^ Rule^ Chairman
Henry Klonower, Secretary
Its

Appro¥al of minutes of the meetings of the Board of
Presidents, held in Harri
May 13 > 1932 and
July 5„ 1932=,
On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by Doctor
Tanger it was voted_ that the minutes of the
meeting of May"l37T932 be approved as submitted.

On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by lire Allen
^* ^^^ 2^2^ that the minutes of the meeting of
Ju].y 5
1932 be approved as submitteda.
5

lie Unfinished Business
^^

Report of the Curricular Rev ision C ommittee

Sp ecial Curriculums
1.

3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Art Education
CoKirrercial Education
Health Education
Home Economics
Industrial Arts Education
Music Education
Kindergarten Education

In order to save time and proceed with the
discussion of other items on the docket, Doctor
Rule. State Superintendent, asked Doctor Eisenberg
to distribute copies of all the special curriculums
among the members of the Boardo He asked the Presidents of the institutions interested in the special
curriculums to take the matter up with Doctor Eisenberg in writing if there appeared to be any differences
of opinion concerning the several special curriculums.

Doctor Rule further suggested that the Curricular
Revision Goirmittee, through its Chairman, Doctor
Eisenberg, be given the authority of power to act
together with the approval of the State Superintendents
Doctor Eisenberg distributed the curriculums to the
several members of the Board.
On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Straughn
it was voted that the Board authorize the Curricular
Revision Committee to approve such of these special
curriculums before the next meeting of the Board
as are mutually agreed upon between the institutions
involved with the understanding that any point on
which they can not agree be referred to the Board for
its consideration at the next meeting.

Copies of the approved curriculums follow:

- 687 -

mmiJGSl'm^T 0¥ courses by SSffiSTERS
SUBJECT TO MODI]?ICi»,TION FOB in^/EINISTRATITE HJRPOSES

First Seinester

Class
Hours

Semester
Hrsi Credit

10
4

5
2
1

3
3

(,»«!«.

^Introduction to Teaching
(Include Social Guidance on the Campus)
^English I
—Biology
c
»
*Science I
(Include physiology of the nervous system as a
basis for psychology)
Drawing I
^
^
»
i
Modeling
.
»
*Physical Education I
«
a
.

..«.(»***«
,,,.<.

&<,«,«
t»s(wcv7>B<j?
<i

«,

Second Semester
*English II
«
»
«
,
*English Activities
*
»
^
,
(Include library voice dramatics)
Elementary Industrial Arts
*
»
Media (Painting)
Design I
»
»
^
*
9
^Physical Education II
,,

,5.

„«,.,«.,

ok,.
<,

6
3

3
1

Third Semester
*Liter?<ture I
«
»
*History of Civilization
Drawing II (Advanced)

Color
Pottery

49,,
e

-p

Fourtli Semester

*Psychology I
^
*Literature II
«
Design II
4
Instrument Drawing
Costutoe Design
n
Home Planning
»

3
3

JechEmical Drawing)

3
3

-5^

Class
Hours

Fifth Semester

=.»....
o«»c...3

3
*Psychology II „
o
'*American Government
Elements of Pictorial Expression and Illustration 6
6
Advanced Design and Color (Applied to Pageantry,
Stage Setting and Lighting, Commerciai Arts, Etc.)
Education Through the Fine and Industrial Arts .

^^
24

Semester
Hrs, Credit
3

3
3
3
3

Sixth Semester
*History and Philosophy of Education
.
»
(Include History of Education in Pennsylvania
and School Law)
*Educational Sociology .
»
•
•
e
a
Advanced Drawing and Painting .
.
«
.
Graxts

•

o9ft99f««»4

3
3
12
22

3
3
6

Seventh Semester
Student Teaching and Conferences
Techniques of Teaching „
«
,
Art History and Appreciation
,

Eighth Semester
Student Teachi:ng and Conferences
*
.
The Art Curriculum for the Public School
Elective
«
.
e
.

* Core subjects:

Core
Aoaiemic
S« Teaching
Theory
Practical
Elective

Total

- 689 -

33
9

16
13
54
3

128

10
5
3

7
5
3

18~

15"

FOUn-YEAE CURRICULUM IN HEALffi EDUCATICN
ARRANGEivENT OF CmRSEs"W"sm^^mS
SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION FOR AHJIINISTRATIVE PURPOSES

Class
Hours

First Semester

* Intro duct ion to Teaching

Semester
Hrs. Credit

(Include Social Guidance on the Campus)
3
.
«
»
^English Activities
.
,
4
o
(Include litrary, voice and dramatization)
*Science I - Biology ^
^
«
a
4
o
(Include physiology of the nervois system as a basis for
psychology)
*History of Civilization s
3
.
d
«
First Aid
2
o
Gymnastic Activities I
3
>
.
«
i
<»

<•

<.«.*.«»
*.

««

Athletic Activities
Aquatic Activities

3
5

3
3
3
3

lose.®*...
i

•

1
1
1
1

Second Semester

*Psychology I ,
»
*English I
*Hygiene 1
^
^
Chemistry I o
»
o
*Handwriting c
»
„
Gymnastic Activities II
Athletic Activities II
Aquatic Activities II
«,

.JO.

4
2
3
3
3

24"

1
1
1
1

Third Semester
*English II
e
«
c
Descriptive Anatomy o
Play and Playgrounds «
Chemistry of Nutrition
Gymnastic Activities III
Athletic Activities III
Elective o.
.,

2
3

4
3
3
5

1
1
3
17

Fourth Semester
*Literature I or Literature II
*ianerican Government
.
„
Physiology
«
«
,
,
Gymnastic Activities IV «
Athletic Activities IV
.
Elective

.,..,,
<

690

3
3
4
3
3

_5_
19

3
3

4
1
1
3
15

Fifth SemaatQl"

.*.»»...
,,«....<>.

Educational Measurements

*Visual Education
School and Conmunity Hygiene
(Include teaching of health)

Art

2
2
3

rV..o».i.<..<i».«
,oo, »<..«•••
Vo.o».o.o3
.,.,<,«
Y
..c>.9«..o.«

2
1
3

3
3
3
25

1
1
1
3
16

Educational Sociology

Anatomy II

2
3

2
2
1
1
1
1
5

(Histoiy and Appreciation of Art .)
*Music III
(History and Appreciation of Mvisic)

Gymnastic Activities
Athletic Activities
Folk Dancing
Elective

..<>».«...*oti
Sixth Semester

i,ti..«,..e
c-.D«e.«-.a..

Physiologjr of Exercise

e9s,j«9<.«.
«,<».,»<.
¥I«aop9.6c.
a^sasoo*
r.«j.eoe.».
e..e<i>„.a..^
^

«i

Individual Gymnastics
Principles and Methods of Coaching
Gymnastic Activities
Athletic Activities VI
Athletic Dancing
Elective

3
3
3
3
24

Seventh Semester
Student Teaching and Conferences «
21
«
.
o
«
»
Techniques of Teaching
2
^
,
,
(The technique to include special technique in Health and
Physical Education)

<>,«».

14
2

^_^
16

Eighth Semester
*Histoiy and Philosophy of Edueation
4
»
.
»
s
s
(Include History of Education in Pennsylvania and School

Law}

Administration & Supervision of Physical Education
Festivals and Pageants
«
,
«
,
^
o
Gymnastic Activities (7»8)
Elective

,,.,,«
.»„B.„o,,se,
<,

*Core Subjects

Teaching
Core
Elective
Theory
Practical
Total

45
18
30
19
128
.-

691 -

2
2
6
6

2
6

home economics
FoyH°yg4g. cuHRicnLiM
mRANGmmfl! of courses EfsiMESTERS
SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION FOR /JDMNISTRATIYE PURPOSES

Class
Hours

First Semester

Engliah

I—

-Biology
*Science
e
(Include physiology of
for psychology)
Clothing I .
o
Inorganic Chemistry I
9
Principles of Design I o
physical Education I
o

0090
ner"?rous

3
3

6
4
4
3
24

3
3
3
1
16

3
3
3

system as a basis

„

•

Semester
Hrs, Credit

a
e

•

Second Semester

introduction to Teaching

•

(Include social guidance on the campus)

English

Biology II
©
»
Inorganic Ghaaistry II
Principles of Design II
Food I
„
,
»

•

e
^

4
4
3

3
17

Third Semester

English ActiTities

(Include library 5 voice. drasiatization)
Organic Chemistry
a
a
c
a
Home Management I
»
c
«
Clothing II
«
»
Applied Design I (Costume)
,
.
s
Home Care of the Sick
•
,
.

•

3
2

c
e

3
6
3
3
22

3
2
2

Fourth Semester

psychology

ooaooctooo

Biological Chemistry
,
„
.
e
o
o
c
Foods II
Applied Design II (Home Planning and Furnishing)
Clothing III
o
»
o
.
o
.
.
o
physical Education II
»
,
.
,
.
»
,

4
5
4
6
3

- 692

3
3
3
3
3
1
16

Fifth Semestei-

student Teaching and Conferences

(Include experience in conducting
^History of Civilization
„
o
,

Household Physics
Nutrition
.

Hrso Credit

school lunch)

,00.

Semester

Class
Hours

3
.
.

4
4
20

3
3
3
15

Sixth Sen^ster

student Teaching and Conferences
;

Children's Literature
Economics
o
,
Clothing IV (Costuming)
Home Management II
»
Home Management III
«

090

3
3

3
5
3
2
3
_3_
17

Seventh Semester

student Teaching and Conferences
Techniques of Teaching
,
^
Literature I or Literature II
American Government
,
^
Educational Sociology
»

3
3
3
3

o
,

Child Development

Eighth Semester

student Teaching and Conferences
History and Philosophy of Education
c

(Include History of Education In Pennsylvania
and School Law)
Dramatic English
=
,

Clothing V
»
9
Family Relationships
Elective ,
.
o

..,„»

„

3
2

2
2

11°

core Subjects
16
Teaching
Core subjects
36
Academic subjects 26
17
Theory
30
Practice
Elective
3
Total
128

- 693 -

3
16

FOUR—YEAR

CURRIClILmt IN INDUSTRIAL ARTS

AOTiANSSi.ENT OF COURSES BY SEIvIESTE'RS

SUBJECT TO IIODIFICATION FOR AmiNISTRATIVE PURPOSES

Fi:sst

Class
Hours

Semester

*English I c
9
e
o
o
Applied Mathematics
»
»
Drawing and Design I
s
Shop I
Industrial Safety and Hygiene
*Physical Education I
o
.

3
3

4
8

»,.»,..

«,

Semester
Hrs* Credit
3

3
2

4
2
1

3
23

3
3

Second Semester

English

.»<,„,

*English Activities ,
.
»
»
=
«
o
(Include Library, voice, and dramatics)
*Science I
Biology
(Include physiology of the nervous system as
a basis for psychology)
Drawing and Design
Shop II
.
o
*Physical Education II a

—

»««.»e«
Ilsa^o.^o
..=«,,
«,.,.»

8
5
25

1
16

3
2

Third Semester

introduction to Teaching

(Include social guidance on the campus)
Literature I or Literature II o .
Drawing and Design III
Shop III
#Elective
.
,
„
«
o
.
.
,

*.,.»«
..,„,co,,*
->

«.

4
8
5
21

4
3
15

Fourth Semester

»,,»,,
,,.,,,

psychology
a,,
History of Civilization
Drawing and Design IV
Shop IV
e
,
,
#Elective
.
»
.

„

- 694 -

3
3
4
8
3
21

3
3
2
4
3
15

Fifth Semester

Class
Hours

.
*History and Philosophy of EducsatioQ «
g
(Include History of Education in Pennsylvania
and School Law)
Social and Industrial History
o
«
«
,
Drawing and Design V
«
.
»
»
^
e
Shop
^Elective »
«
«
o
»
»
c
o
»
,

Vooo«»»(.»oi.

Semester
Hrs. Credit

3
2
4

4
8
3
22

Sixth Semester

Educational Sociology
*American Government
Economics
»
„
Drawing and Design TL
Shop VI
^
^
#Elective »
o
,*

3
3
5

4
5
18

.
.

Seventh Semester
Guidance and Extra-Curricular Activities
Drawing and Design VII
«
Shop vri .
«
a
.
4
Shop VIII
»
*
o
o
s
s
^Elective .
«
o
»
.
«
a
o
<j

«-

3
4

3
2

8
8

4
4

3
26

i6'

Eighth Semester
Student Teaching and Conferences
Teohnivies of Teaching
„
a

*Core Subjects

# The Elective shall be a second
field and shall be either
Mathematics or Science

Core
Student Teaching
Academic
Theory
Practical
Elective
Total

- 695 -

36
17
6

8
46
15
128

FOUR-YEAR ClfflRICULDM IN K TODERGARTEN-PRMAJfY
ARRANGH'.&T OF COURSES BY SEtilESTERS
SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES

Class
Hours

First Semester
«
.
Introduction to Teaching
o
»
(Include social guidance on the campus)
English I
<
«
c
6
e
o
»
English Activities
»
»
o
(Include library, voice and drainatization)
Science I - Biology
(Include physiology of nervous system as a
basis for psychology)
«
History of Civilization
«
»
s
Physical Education I
«
«
a
»
»

Semester
Hrs» Credit

«.

«,

»»,«,€.<

Second Semester
Psychology I (Educational Psychology)
«
English II
,
a
«
»
Science II
(Physical Science)
*
Kindergarten-Primary Theory c
Personal Hygiene and Nutrition
«
Physical Education II
a
Handwriting a
«
»
e
i,

•

3
3

3
2
3
1

2
3
3
2

3
3

1
16

Third Semester
Psychology II
«
®
«
»
»
?
English III
9
s
*
,
p
Unified Kindergarten-Primary Methods s
Childran's Literature and Story Telling
Music I B
,
.
s
c
c
«
Art I
Physical Education III
o
»
o
e
cr

3
3
3
3

4
4

fl0459.6.4«
ft

3
3
3
2
2

5
23

1
17

I»,g4,,^s,oeo3

3
3

Fourth Semester
Teaching of Primary Subjects
Literature
Teaching of Reading
Principles of Geography a
s.

»,

Art II (Elementary Drawing

Resign, Color Study^

etco)

Physical Education I¥

<«

Fifth Semester

fl*«.»o«o.2
t-^c»»o««oZ

Educational Measurements
Literature II
American Government »

696

I,,

Arithmetic
u;t eech Problems
Li'Txa Education

,•...». ..2
...•.««••
3

5
16

3
2
5

Sixth Semester
Beginnings of Art and Music for Young Children
Geography of the Western Hemisphere »
«
.
The Pre-Sfhool Child
«
,
.
^
a
Science III - (Nature Study) ,
„
»
c
.•
Rursery School and Parent Education
.
•
Kindergarten Curriculum o
.
.
.
»
"Visual Education
.
»
•
»
•
»

4
3
2

4
2

,-,

3
2

2
3
2
3
2
2
1

Seventh Semester

««*»•»

Student Teaching and Conferences
Techniques of Teaching

S
16

3
2
3
3
3

Eighth Semester
Histoiy and Philosophy of Education «
•
.
(Include History of Education in .Pennsylvania
and School Law)
.
Educational Sociology
»
.
.
•
.
Child Hygiene
^
»
Art IV - (History and Appreciation of Art)
»
Music III - (Histoiy and Appreciation of Music)
Elective
"

.........

2
2

_3_
16

Special Kindergarten - Curriculum corresponds to Group I
with foxlowing exceptions:

Semester
U. S. History I
^
.
.
,
Art III
Hygiene II (School and Community)

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5
5

8
8

Free Elective

4
3

•

3
2
3
5

5
13

3
2

2
2
2
2

Above subjects are replaced by the following:
Semester
3
6
6
6

Unified Kindergarten-Primary Methods
Beginnings of Art and Music for Young
Children
.
*
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,
s
Nursery School and Parent Education
Kindergarten Curriculum »
.
Child Hygiene

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FOUR-m£_ CURRICUimi IN PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC
'

/or the PREP;jlATION OF
VISORS OF

TEACI-CffiS iiND

SUPER-

IVIUSIC

ARRANGEIjENT of COURSES BY smiESTERS
SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES

Class Semester
Hours Hrs. Credit

First Semester
*IntrocluGtion to Teaching .
o
^
.
(Include social guidance on the campus)

English

I,.,<,.,o»».
I,D«o,.i.«c.
l6o<.»«.».*

Harmony
Sight Reading I «
.
o
,
c
e
o
Dictation
Private Study - Voice Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, Viola, •cello, Bass), Woodwinds
(Flutey Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet, French Homj Trombone, Tuba) ^ and
Percussion Instruments, Chorus, Orchestra, and
Band, Arrange work for greatest benefit of
students*
physical Education I
,
„
»
.
e
^
<.

3
3
3
3

3
27

1
16

3
3

3
1-|-

Second Semester

English II
e
English Activities
.

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»,.„,»

(Include library, voice and dramatization)
Harmony II
»
a
a
Sight Reading II
o
Dictation II
.
,
»
=
«
Private Study - Voice, Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, Viola, 'cello, Bass), Woodwinds
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion Instruments, Chorus, Orchestra, and
Band. Arrange work for greatest benefit of
<,

3
3
3

1-|-

3
27

3
3
3

students,

physical Education II

Third Semester

science

I -

Biology

».,..»

(Include the physiology of the nervous system
as a basis for psychology)
History of Civilization e
.
.
.
.
.
Harmony III
Sight Reading III
«
.
»
,
.
.
»
Dictation III
Private Study - Voice, Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, Viola, 'cello, Bass), Woodwinds

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i
La

(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba), and

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28

1
16

Percussion Instruments « Chorus, Orchestra, and
Arr?-nge work for greatest benefit of
Bandstui'^nts,
Eujrythiuios

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Fourth Semester

leo.......
£!..<.«<,

*Psychclogy
*Literature I or Literature
Harmony IV
«
.
^
»
•
»
^
o
c
c
Elements of Conducting
o
»
Private Study ~ Voice; Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, V iola, 'r:ello^ Bass)3 Woodwinds
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet j Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion Instruznents
Chorus, Orchestra, and
Band. Arrange work for greatest benefit of
students.
Materials I
.
»
,
c
.
e
,
,
<

<«

3
3
2
2

3
3

-3

3
22

2
2

«.

Fifth Semester

*Educational Sociology
Harmony
History of Music I

Vc.;i<,8.9«<.oo<,

Ivfeterials II

3
2

«,

2
3

3
3

Private Study - Voice, Piano Organ; Strings
Woodwinds
(Violin, Violas *cell0p Bass)
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet^ Bassoon), Brasses
(Trijmpet, French Horn j Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion Instruments^ Chorus, Orchestra, and
Band, Arrange work far greatest benefit of
students,
(Include instrumental class methods)
Eurythmics
»
«
»
»
«
e
»
c
»
j,

3
3
3
3

Sixth Semester

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American Government

Harmony VI
History of Music II
.
«
o
»
«
»
o
Materials III .
,
.
.
«
o
,
.
o
Private Study - Voice, Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, Viola, 'cello, Bass), Woodwinds
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet, French Hoin, Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion Instrumentso Chorus, Orchestra, ajid
Band, Arrange work for greatest benefit of
students*
(Include instrumental class methods)
„

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24

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Seventh Semester

,...*.

.
.
.
»
*Student Teai'.hing and Conferences „
*Techniques of Teaching
Private Study - Voice Piano, Organ; Strings
(Violin, Viola, 'cello, Bass), Woodwinds
{Flute, OboGj Clarinet, Bassoon), Brasses
(Trvonpet, French Hornj Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion InstrumentSa Chorus, Orchestra and
Band, Arrange work for greatest benefit of
students.
Elective (#I'/[usic Appreciation or Elective)
.
•
Elective (^Advanced Problems in Conducting
or Elective)

10^

_3_

23f

;

Eighth Semester
,
»
*History and Philosophy of Education
(Include Histoiy of Education in Pennsylvania
and School Law)
*Student Teaching and Conferences c
.
o
^Techniques of Teaching
=.,
Private Study - Voice, Piano Organ; Strings
(Violins Viola, 'cello, Bass), Woodwinds
(Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon), Brasses
(Trumpet. French Horn, Trombone, Tuba), and
Percussion Instrument So Chorus, Orchestra, and
Bands Arrange work for greatest benefit of
student So
Elective (^Organizing and Rehearsing of School
Orchestras and Bands or Elective)
<>

o<i««.
*.

10^

_^
21^

*Core Subjects
Core
Student Teaching
Theory
Practical
Elective

36
16
33

34
9

128

# Elective for Teachers and Supervisors
of Music.

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Curriculum in Cooperative Education

Doctor Eisenberg stated that he had nothing further to
report on this item, since the status of the curriculum
is exactly what it was at the last meeting.
Doctor Rowland stated that he was entirely in conformity
with the suggestion of the State Superintendent made at
the last meeting of the Board and if the opinion still
prevailed and it was felt wise to proceed in the manner
suggested, he was willing to simply make this curriculum
a variant of the four^year elementary curriculum as an
experimental proposition.
Doctor Rule stated that if the Board were agreeable, he
would like to see this curriculum approved for next year
as an experimental proposition with as little publicity
as possible given to it and with the understanding that
Doctor Rowland and the State Superintendent would work
out the administrative details of the curriculum^
On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Rowland it was
yot^ that the curriculum in Cooperative Education be
approved as a variant of the four<-year elementary curriculum
as an experimental proposition for the next college year
at the State Teaclsers College, Shippensburgj, Pennsylvania,
with the understanding that the administrative details be
worked out between the President of the institution and the
State Superintendent,
2,

Report of ^eomnit^^
on ^Stores conducte d at the
State Teachers Colleges"

Doctor HaaSp Chairman of the special conmittee having to
do with the Retail Stores, stated that the status of this
matter was exactly the same as at the last meeting of the
Board,, namely^ that Doctor Rule had addressed the Attorney
General under date of June 16=, 1932 relative to this matter.
The Attorney General had raised several questions concerning
the propositionj most important of which seems to be where
the original money will come from to begin such a store, and
what would be done with the profits from such a store.
Doctor Rule stated that he had a conference with the Attorney
General and he felt he was open-mindod as to placing the
retail stores on a local cooperative basis detaching thean
entirely from the State if the ono questioh of money could
be settle d«
Doctor Rule further suggested that Doctor Haas,
representing the Board of President Sj see Deputy Attorney
General Arnold personally before he leaves Harrisburg and try to
forrnulate a trorkable proposition which could become
effective immediately.

Repo rt of Calendar C oraai ttoe on
^

" Summer

Session - 1933"

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Calendar Committee reported
for the cornmittooc He stated that tho coimiittee haa no
further report to offer except possibly to suggest a readjustment of the fall semester;
the opening date to
remain the same as originally planned tut that at least two
days be set aside to give the entrance examinations and other
matters having to do with the new entran':;e examinations
Doctor Haas further suggested that the report of the
calendar committee with reference to the staggering of
the summer session in 1933 be not acted upon hastily since
this appeared to be a matter of very great importance.
Doctor Rule suggested that we hold this entire matter in
abeyance until the budgets for 1933-35 were definitely fixed.
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Steele it
was voted that the report of Doctor Haas be accepted and
that the opening date for the fall semester remain the same
but that the first two days be given over to the examinations
and details of the new admission requirement s»
4.

Report of canmittee on "Centralized Purchasi ng for the
Stats Teachers Colleges"

Doctor Straughn stated that the oomraittee had only informally
discussed this matter^
It was not their thought that they
could get anything done before the next regular session
of the Legislature and they had therefore not attempted to
do anything before this meeting.
He asked each President
to note any special instances and show the committee the
disadvantages of centralized purchasing.
Doctor Rule stated that a Committee had been appointed to
study the whole structure of State government which was
headed by Representative Sterlings This committee is to
study the government with a view to simplifying it and effecting
economies wherever possible. He stated that he had appeared
before the committee and one of the members of the comaittee
had raised the question concerning "centralized purchasing for
institutions" and he vrent on record just as strongly as could
be stated that "centralized purchasing for institutions" had
been a distinct disappointment and that it had cost the institutions 10^ more than the former plan besides causing undue
delays and irritations all along the lines With the exception of
one member the comnaittee expressed itself as agreeing with the
point of view as expressed by Doctor RulCt.
J

- V02 -

Doctor Rule further stated that Mr^ Hanna, Secretary
of Property and Supplies, would be called to appear
before the committee in a few days and he had sent word to
him that he had gone on record as being opposed to centralized
purchasing for institutions
He further stated that he needed some very definite figures
and data relative to this centralized purchasing and its
effects. These figures should be gathered at the very earliest
moment and should represent as far as possible very concrete
facts with reference to certain requisitions by number and by
date, just as definitely as can possibly be made showing how
expensive this centralized purchasing is and how unsatisfactory
and inconvenient it is.

Doctor Rule asked Doctor Straughn and his committee to
set up a statement, before the adjournment of the meeting,
indicating some definite facts concerning this question
and suggested that the statement be submitted to the members
of the Board in the form of a questionnaire to be filled out
and re-submitted to Mr, Grosloy in the Department so that a
composite statement may be drawn up for future reference and
as a basis for discussion when this whole question comes up
again
Doctor Straughn and his committee together with LITo McClure
and i/tr« Crosley of the Department of Public Instruction met
to consider this matter and drew up the following statement
for the guidance of tho members of the Board in submitting
evidence to Ivir. Crosley concerning "Centralized Purchasing",
"Disadvantages of Centralized Purchasing for
the State Teachers Colleges
1,

Element of Time

How many days elapse between the date of the requisition
and the delivery of shipment?

How many days elapse between the date of delivery of
shipment and payment of the account?
What is the estimated per cent of purchases thus delayed?
What is the estimated amount and per cent of inventory
increase necessary because of delay in replenishing stock?
2,

Element of (Quality
If unmarked brands have been substituted for standard
brands k give illustrations.

If materials of inferior quality have been substituted
for those ordered, give illustrations.
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If quality of printing has

laeeifit

unsatisfattoryj give

illusti'atiorjsi,

3» ElQmea t of Cost
Wliat is ths eatlioated axnouat in

dollars lost in discount?

What per cent is this loss of total purchases?

What is the estimated amount in dollars lost in special
prices to the College because the offers expire before
acted upon?
What is the estimated cost of increased personnel at the
College?
What is the estimated cost of increased correspondence,
telephone and telegraph?
What is the estiimted cost of the time-demand on President
and staff by reason of follow-up, delays and wrong shipments?
To what extent have the changes in purchase forms added to
costs?
What is the estiimted amount of time and cost incurred by
travel in making selections of furniture, draperies, etc.?"

Doctor Straughn explained in detail the statement and urged the
Presidents to fill it out very carefully and with specific facts
and instances^
In other words, he suggested that they give very
definite information as far as possible* He also stated that it
was necessary to have this information at the earliest possible
date and that all correspondence be directed to lir. Crosley who
will set up the entire situation for Doctor Rulee
On motion of Doctor Tanger seconded by Doctor Straughn it was
voted that the report of the committee on "Centralized Purchasing"
be accepted and that the Presidents follov/ in detail the outline
suggested by the committee.
5,

Infonnal Opinion K o» 107 from the Dep uty Atto rney General
re-Refunds to students iii the gtate Teachers Colleges
Report of committee

Doctor Foster reported for the couBnitteei. He stated that a form
of resolution re refunds had been received from Deputy Attorney
General Harris G. Arnold, which reads as follows;

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"Tho board, (or the President of the
College) will approve applications to
the Board of Finance and Revenue for
refund of monies (or a designated
proportion thereof) paid by students
for tuition and boarding costs, in
proper cases where the student has been
absent from the college because of
illness or other proper cause, for a
period of at least
consecutive days."

Doctor Foster stated that the present practice is to give
refunds only in case of withdrawals from school. He stated
that it was the feeling of the conmittee that the resolution
should stop with the phrase "or other proper cause" and that
the phrase" or the President of the College" be omitted.
On motion of Doctor Rowland seconded by Mr. Allen it was
voted that the matter be referred back to the committee
for restateiEsnt or interpretation^,

After due consideration Doctor Foster reported for the
committee* The comnittee suggested that the resolution be
adopted as submitted by the Deputy Attorney General and that
the words "fourteen consecutive days" be inserted for the
blank number of days and that the phrase "or the President
of the College" be omitted so that the entire resolution
will read as follows:
"The Board will approve applications to
the Board of Finance and Revenue for refund
of monies or a designated proportion thereof
paid by students for tuition and boarding
costs, in proper cases where the student has
been absent from the college because of
illness or other proper cause for a period
of at least fourteen consecutive days"i.

On motion of Doctor Crawford seconded by Doctor Armstrong it
was voted that the resolution of the statement concerning
refunds be adopted as an interpretationj
III.

New Business
la

Composite advertisement in the Pennsylvania School
Journal

Klonower read a letter that had been received from Doctor
Kelley, Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association, which is as follows;

Mr.^

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"We havo been greatly pleased vjith the splendid
cooperation intoich we have reoeived from the
State Teachers Colleges by their using the
back cover of each of our thirteen issues the
past year of the Pennsyl-yania School Journal,
and we hope that thoy will continue to use
that space right along.

Although our circulation is increasing steadily
our advertising rates remain the sam&j, Do you
wish to secure authority from the Board of
Presidents of the State Teachers Colleges for
this advertisement for the next thirteen issues
begijming in September 1932, or shall we consider
their order as a standing oi-der?"
(,

Doctor Armstrong raised a question as to the price of the
advertising and #iy it could not be secured far less money
this year when there seems to be a reduction in the cost
of many items.

Doctor Haas stated that he happened to know as the President
of the Pennsylvania State Education Association^ that this
is the national advertising rate established for advertising
in ma^gasines of this typoo
On motion of Doctor Rothormel seconded by Doctor Tanger it
was ypted that a contract be entered into with the Pennsylvania
State Ediaeation Association for the insertion of a composite
advertisement on the back cover of the Pennsylvania School
Journal for the school yoar 193S=»35 on exactly the same basis
as the contract was entered into by the Board last yoar^

Doctor Bule stated that he did not feel that this was an
appropriate item to come before the Board.
On motion of Doctor Foster seconded by Mr^ Allen it was
voted that the item be removed from the dockets.

Doctor i^iemer stated that he had merely sent a copy of
his thought en -'chis matter to the State Superintendent
and also to Iv'r Klonower for consideration^
Mr« Klonov^'er seated that this represented a restatement of
exactly the situation as it should work out under the
professional service areas as now set up for the State
Teachers Colleges.

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Doctor Rule asked Doctor Riemer to fui-nish sufficient
copies of the material to be distributed to the
several members of the Board through the Teacher Bureau.
4<,

Teachers
Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State
ruoiieges
A. Student Forum

Doctor Eisenberg stated that he wanted to suggest that the
Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State Teachers
Colleges for this year be deferred but that tho faculties
in connection with the special curriculums in Art, Coramorce,
Health, Home Economics Kindergarten, Music and Industrial
Arts, be asked to prepare syllabi for these special fields.
This would necessitate the meeting of various groups
throughout tho State to work out the syllabi.
,

Doctor Haas stated he would like to see this item deferred
until the budgets for the institutions are made up for the
next biennium.
Doctor Rule stated that he felt we should defer action on
this item pending information concerning budgets*
5e

Printing of hand-books at State expense

Doctor Rule suggested that this item be deferred until a
later meeting of the Board.
6,

Publication of college papers

Doctor Rule suggested this item be deferred.
V.

Stjan dardization

of administrative forms

Doctor Rule stated that Mr. Crosley had sugspsted this
item because he is Chairman of a committee in the Department
relating to the simplification of forms and the unification
of the SBBB .
It seemed that the form which raised this question was
an "absent from class" form which was sent in from three
institutionsc

Doctor Haas stated that as Chairman of the committee on the
standardization of printing forms in tho State Teachers
Colleges, he would accept any specific questions for the
comiiiittee to handle
Doctor Haas stated, after examination of the forms submitted,
that it was the judgment of the committee th-at it was not
advisable bo standardize the minor administrative forms
designed for a specific purpose in each institution.
707 -

On motion of Doctor Eisonbarg sooonded by
Doctor Straugb.n it was votod to accept tho report
of the committoo concerning tho form "Absent from
Class",

Doctor Rule suggested that the institutions send
to the State Teachers Colleges at Millersville
and CcLLifornia soms of these simpler forms and
have them print the forms in the print shop as
experimental projects for the students; the
institution to furnish the paper and pay the
carrying charges for the foirms which they desire
printedi,

Publica. ti^_^f_ Annual Catalogues in the State

Teachers Colleges
Doctor Rule suggested that this item be deferred until
the budgets are discussed,
®'

Tuit ion fee for students in the State Teachers
Colleges"'

Doctor Rule suggested that this item be deferred
until the budgets are discussed,
10,

The necessity of State Teachers Colle ges rendering
free serTice to County Superintendents in the
organization of t heir institute-'subs titute programs

Doctor Rule suggested that the members of the instructional
staffs of the State Teachers Colleges, if thoj can do so,
render service to the Counties in the organization of their
institute-substitute programs. This is an emergency
situation and help should be given as far as possible
without hindrance to the Teachers Colleges.
'-'-*

Room rental for off-c ampus students

Doctor Rule suggested t&at discussion on this item be
deferred until the budgets are taken up.
12

ApiJOinting the Deputy in charge of the Curriculum
Bureau as a. permanent me mber of the Curil_cular

Revision C omirdtte e

Doctor Rule suggested that llr. Bristow, Deputy Superintendent,
in charge of the Curriculum Bureau in the Department, be
asked to serve with the Curricular Revision Committoe so
that there might be complete coordination between the
Curriculum Bureau, the specialists in the Department and
the State Teachers Colleges in the matter of developing
,

curriculumsj
Tho Board agreed to this suggestion.
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13.

Rent for Heal_Estate - State Teachers Collegss

This item was discussed under Item 11,
14,

C olleger
S ummary of E nrollme nts in the State Teachers
"""""
for the ye.ar June 1, 1931 fo May 31, i932

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the
susnmary of enrollaients for the year 1931-32 and stated
that copies had also been sent to the Pi^esident of
each institutions.
follows as Exhibit A*

This

suioraary

15 o

List of graduates who receiired certificates of

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the list of
graduates of the State Teachers Colleges for the year 1931~
32 and stated that copies had also been sent to the President
of each institution^

This chart follows as Exhibit B.
16»

List of ^raduates^^ -gfeo recoiTed certificates of
graduation in Ma,y 1952 in the State Teachers Colleges

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the list of
graduates as of May 1932 in the State Teachers Colleges. He
stated that copies of this chart had been sent to the President of each institution for their criticism and comments
This chart follows as Exhibit C.

Colleges -

StJBiiPBr

sessions 193Q-1931"1952.

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the
comparative enrollments covering a three year period in the
State Teachers Colleges ^ He stated that copies of the chart
had been mailed to the President of each institutiono

This chart follows as Exhibit D»
18 ,

Distribution of 1952 s usuBr session students

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the chart
indicating the summer session - 1932 enrollments in the State
Teachers Colleges, He stated that copies of this summary
had been forwarded to the President of each institution for
their criticism and comment.

This chart follows as Exhibit E.

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New fo ur-y ear requirernent in eleinentary sducation

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctctr Riemer
it was voted that the first two years of the new four-year
elementary curriculum, become the official two-year curriculum of the State Teachers Colleges leading to the Normal
School Certificate with the substitution of Practice Teaching
to the extent of six semester hours of work in the second
year of the curriculum; these six semester hours of practice
teaching to take the place of American Government and
Literature le This ruling is to become effective September
1932.
IV»

Misce llaneous
lo

Payment for injui'ies to students while
participa ting in athletic games in the State
Teachers Gclleges

Doctor Rowland asked permission to present an item not on
the docket 3
He had a case of a boy who had been injured in a baseball
gome and it developed that the boy had to be operated upon
as a result of the injuryo He stated that he had presented
the bill for pajTnent and it had been refused. He wanted to
get some information for future guidance and whatever action
is takBn should be uniform in all institutionso

Doctor Rule asked Doctor Rowland to have the ts&tter referred
to him personally.
Doctor Haas asked if it were unreasonable to ask that when
the opinion of the Attorney General was sought having to do
With the administration of the institutions, that the
Department of Public Instruction and the Board of Presidents
agree on the form of the request that is to be presented?

Doctor Rule stated that this could be done.

The Board adjourned for luncheon at 1:00 o'clock P. M to
reconvene at 2:00 P. M.
2,

Allocations to the State Teachers Colleges for
""
the_s_e5iond year (3 f the biennium

Doctor Rule stated that he had called this special meeting
for the purpose of discussing tha allocations to the State
Teachers Colleges and also to lay some tentative plans for the
budgets for the next biennium.

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Doctor Rule stated that budgets had been sent to each institution
concerning allocation for the second year of the present biennium.
He suggested the need for economy and pointed out several possible
means by wdiich the oconomies could be made,
1.
2.

3.
4.
5.
6<.

Curtailment of instructional staff
either by reducing
)
Curtailment of non-instructional staff) salaries and wages or
number of personnel
Elimination of storeroom.
Rearrangement of summer sessions, every other year»
Miscellaneous local adjustments
Curtailment of publications.
Annual conference, elimination of«
Elimination of collection of room rent from students
living off-campus.
=,

Doctor Rule asked each member of the Board to outline briefly what
his plans were in these connections.
Doctor Foster stated that he had gone over very carefully with his
Bursar the situation and they found that they could economize in
practically everything that Doctor Rule suggested* He felt that
they could make up the difference in their allocation by adjustmentso
This adjustment would probably include rent for outside rooms and
if a modification of the present bookroom goes through this will
mean quite a large saving* They will cut dovm considerably on the
number of lectures, entertainments, et cetera. He also felt that
the new admission requirements would by a small measure cut down
the enrollments as he proposed to cut tiB entrance gro\:p by at least
250 students. Without a doubt by raaking economies all along the
line they would be able to get by on the present budget without a
reduction of teachers' salaries*
Doctor Straughn stated that the new admission requirements will of
a necessity reduce the enrollments. He stated that he would cut
his total enrollment down to 650 students which would mean a possible
10?^ reduction in the entrance class.
He further stated that it might
be necessary to reduce to a small extent the personnel, that is,
perhaps operate with one less laborer in different kinds of work at
the college and they can reduce the instructional staff if any
present member drops out, by not filling that particular position.
They have already eliminated the bookroom and since this has been
out of existence two years at Mansfield, it means no saving to than.
By miscellaneous local adjustments they will be able to cut down on
lectures, motion pictures, et cetera^. A handbook is not published
and only one paper for students. The catalog has always been
published and at a very small cost. They have never collected money
for outside rooms, and therefore, cannot save in this respects,
He did not see how he would be able to operate on the present budget
without possibly a five percent reduction of teachers' salaries,
although that will be done only as a last resort.

Doctor Cameron stated that by practicing certain economies
all along the line which Doctor Rule had suggested he felt
They
that they would be able to get along fairly well.
anticipate a cut in the enrollments which would bring his
This
total enrollment to between 1100 aad 1150 students
would cut the dining room costs. They do not expect to
make a reduction in teachers' salaries since he did not see
how this could legally be done because all teachers already
have contracts for next year. They will have a nimiber of
instructors on leave next year and by distributing the work
and taking on fewer instructors it will mean some saving.
They still have a bookroom but will be glad to run such a
bookrocffl independent of the State and finance it outside.
They will make miscellaneous local adjustments wherever
possible.
»

Doctor Eisenborg stated that they ha-re reduced the present
freshman enrollment to 250 which would give them a total
enrollment of from 750 to 800 students and which will mean
considerable saving in the dining room. He did not feel
that it would be necessary to cut teachers' salaries and
that they will not do it unless it is absolutely necessary*
If the bookroom can be eliminated or run on a different
basis than at present this will mean considerable savings
Sometime ago the collection of outside room rent was
eliminatedc.
It was his judgment that it would take possibly
about five percent of the teachers* salaries as of September I9
if no change is made in the operation of the bookroom^
Doctor Rothermel stated that they expect not more than 500
students next year and this will mean some saving in the dining
roomo With reference to cutting salaries he stated that he did
not like to do this unless it was done generally in all colleges,
If the new storeroom project goes through it will make a saving
and if not they will probably have to reduce teachers' salaries
about five percent. This will only be done as a last resort.

Doctor Steele stated that he felt that they would be able
to get through on the allocation made by not filling one
or two vacancies which exist at the present time. Certain
reductions in personnel, by leave of absence and distributing
the work am6ng other instructors will be made.
The enrollment would be cut to a certain extent so that his institution
would have approximately 700 to 750 total attendance. If the

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elimination of the store room goes through or is managed
on some other basis than at the present time, this
possibly would be their salvation^
Doctor Rowland stated that if they could eliminate the
bookroom to ai:iy substantial extent and reduce the enrollment probably ten percent or approxiiaately a total
enrollment of six hundred, he felt that they could meet
H0V'?ever, the bookroom
the requirements of the budget,
proposition is a very important factor and if they would
be permitted to operate it independently considerable
saving would be effected:. Certain other local economies
can be made without affecting salaries*. He did not feel
it was a good thing to reduce salaries at this time^
Doctor Hill stated that thoy were not planning to reduce
enrollments..
When it comes to reducing salaries or
personnel, he wanted to remark that almost everyone is
at the very lowest salary and he did not see how anyone
could be eliminated at this timob He might give up the
book store but the general service of the store,, it seemed
to him, had to be maintained„ They have already given up
any thought of amusements in any way; they spent practically
nothing last year in the way of lectures. He did not see
how the difference in the budget could be made up without
reducing salaries.

Doctor Haas stated that when he was asked how much his cut
was he would have to state about §30^000 and he felt it
could be administered without any reductions in salary
providing other economies and reductions can be made. He
did not see how T;e could cut down on printing of many
publications, since the students were paying for a certain
amount of the printing of such publications and they
certainly expect to get something for v4iich they are paying.
The next item of saving is food and this item is tied up
directly with the dormitory students. The budget can be
probably adjusted on that item but that does not affect the
total enrollment s There might be some psychology in reducing
the enrollments to some extent at this times, Materials and
supplies can be reduced to any point but it should not .be
reduced to the point where it hinders the function of the
institutiono Considerable saving can be effected in the
telephone, telegraph and postage items s They have been
concentrating on this as much as possible. The reduction
of electric lights and bills represents a considerable
savings They tiad compared the bill for the present month
and the same month last year and found they have reduced
the electric light bill by six or seven percent o
Rent of
real estate they have cut out^, The budget can possibly
be administered without salary reductions for those now on
the payroll, possibly with the reduction of temporary help
which they take on each springy.

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Doctor Riemer stated that the limitation of enrollments and the new admission requireuBnts will ha^e
their effect, but as far as instructional staff is
concerned they will have the same as last year. He
indicated that in the allocation made to Clarion,
this can possibly be taken care of by some adjustment
in the bookroom situation. They can make some
adjustments in the elimination of some sporting events.
They can cut off a telephone or two. In the matter of
publications, they published only the catalogues and
school paper about six times a year. They will administer the budget without cutting salaries,.
Doctor Armstrong stated they can administer the budget
by reducing the enrollment somewhat and by reducing
the cost of instruction a little bit 5 by cutting down
on the book store costs and eliminating the purchase
of some equipment that they thought they needed and
also on repairs^ and if they must by refusing to
admit a non-resident to the training schools These
adjustments can be made without cutting into the
salaries of the instructors?
3

Doctor Crawford stated he could not give any very
definite figures because unfortunately last Wednesday
the Bursar was taken suddenly ill and she had all the
facts that he should have had to speak intelligently.They anticipated this matter in th.e beginning of the
year and they left four faculty members go and one
employe on the grounds;, which will help them out very
materially 6 They have under contract repairs running
about $2200 and now he wanted to know if this had to
be paid out of this year's allocation^, He felt that
their only chance was local miscellaneous adjustments*
He did not want to cut salai'ies except as a last
resorts.

Allen stated they had 298 new students last year
and they are figuring on about 210 this year^
This
represents a decrease of about 2555 or a little more
in the entering class but the total enrollment will
be a]jiiost the same as last year<j Thejr have no members
of the faculty on leave of absence and no vacancies.
They have paid no outside room rent for a few years and
they have no handbook,, Through rigid economies they had
this year about $7000 left over and^ as Mr. Crosley
knows, they had proceeded to make some repairs » They
had started to re-lathe and re-plaster the students'
rooms so that they have about $17^000 debts staring them

Ltr«.

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714 -

in the face. They can eliminate the bookrocan and thus save
about ^8000, but he saw no way that East Stroudsburg
could get through without a deduction in salaries.

Doctor Tanger stated the only way they can get through is
by cutting salaries, the elimination of the bookrooms and
some sundry expenses and the elimination of some students
in the dormitories, Thoy have reduced the number of
entering students from 256 to 175 this yoar& They can
eliminate the bookroom voluntarily if they must do soe

Doctor Haas asked whether the stage could now be set by
preparing an associated press article en behalf of the
State Teachers CoUeges,:, This article should state that
the appropriation had been reduced one million dollars,
mentioning some of the items that this reduction had
affected, and specifically mentioning ti^it no increments
had been made this past year, none will fee made this year,
that no additicmal personnel had been employed that there
will bo a decrease in boarding students „ that tl^re will
be a decrease in service to the students and a decrease
in athletis schedules*
^

Doctor Rule stated that ho would call the Presidents together
again just as soon as h® had something definite to report
frcm the Governor's Office, He further stated that he felt we
should all keep in mind that we have to do some careful
educating of our public, and do some intensive de1?olopment
of sentimsat in the particular service area*
On motion of Doctor Straugha,, seconded by Doctor Tanger it
was voted that the Board of Presidents adjourn at 5;45 P. M*
to meet in the State Council Room in the Edueation Building
at the call of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction*

7^^S>-^t^-'€A^

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•

Supje^intendent of Publielnstruction
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SUMiABY OF EHROEIMIKTS IN FENNSYLVAinA STATS TEACHERS COLLEGES

Cohering Number of Different students tro

Gommonwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPARlMEMr OF PUBLIC INSIRDCTION
TEACHER BIEEAU
Harrisburg

Health and phys
includes 650""student3 for field of
Health and phys
of
field
for
inc ludes 700 stuients
centers
Economics
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Include
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DISTBIBUriON OF STUDENTS BY COIJNTIES IN STATE TEACHERS COLDDGES
September 1931

June 1932

COUNTY

5
Eh

TOTAL
Adajns

j^llegheny

Armstrong
Beaver
Bedford
Berks
Blair
Bradford

10406

681

61
701

tib

134

2
-

1
3

E97
167

741

189

102

3
-

Clarion

Srie
Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Fulton
Greene
Hunt iligQon
Indiana
Jefferaon
Juniata
Lencaster

Washington
Wayne
V/estmor eland
Wyoming
York

36
10

^
-

201

11
14

3
-

39
-

i
1

166
11

—

2ib

164
15
32

340

188

_
-

b3
3
4

105

73
143

1
6

3
15

57
-

l3(5

159
EO
170
159

lis
>

46
164

20
55

>
-

37
9
.

17
113
16

3
3

81
236
26
81
60

359
48
375

o
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Xzl

6
2

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6
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2
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62

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2
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6
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3-

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123

2fe

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171

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4fl

3
3
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11
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1
5

48
22
18

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1
2

69
3
4
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30
5
19

2
2

1
2

2
2

24
2

235

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314

.
1

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2

5
7

2
2

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—

2
1

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13
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1
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.

1'65

20
12
•

375

1
\

5
2

173

741

676

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53
164

1
2

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93
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13-

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136
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324

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3
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lo
6

968

70
l74
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31
41

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1

3
1

166

317

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263

3
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11
128
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677

599

767

601

3
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193

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26S
80

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Lehigh

Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia
Pike
Potter
Schujlkill
Snyder
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Venango

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23
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Mlfflm

380
138

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McKean
Mercer

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1517

570

221

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Delaware

778

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Carbon

375

3
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720

568

1514

538

600

741

592

675

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DEPARIMQIT OF PTOLIC lUSTRUGTION
TEACHER BUREAU
Harris burg

CCMPiRAUVE STOBEKT ENROLUENTS IN SUJiER SESSIONS

- 1930

- 1931

1932

STA3E TEACHERS COLIEOES

-1

TOTAL
Number

Bloomsburg

Per Cent

California

Clari on

Eust Stroudsburg

Ediuboro

Indiana

DISTRIBOTION OF STODENTS

19(30

TOTAL NUMBER ENROLLED
No.

Ho.
IJo.

No.

working to renew Partial Certificate
working to qualify for standard Certificate*
workiDg to complete Normal Certificate
enrolled in Degree Courses

College

S926

1932
5785

1129
215
1410
2608

1930

100.0

others

No.

of boarding students
of day students

Students fron

1113

814
949

3.8
25.1
46.5

3365

3448
74

2.2

2669
2942

2320
3606

1952
3853

47.6
52.4

1.5

121

other states

1931

100.0

1932

18.

18.8
56.8
4 n
8
"39"

1931

133

looc

317

14.1
16.4
59.6

61
11
91
149

20.1

Graduates Enrolled

All

NO.

5611

1931

401

1932

•:

62
255

1.3

481
50-

80
325

33.8
66.2

157

184

160

217

193
338

1930

833

1931

814

1932

662

94
40
375
288

481

129
347

209
624

159
655

171
137

128

571

1930

370
143
18
74
130

1931

1932

396

350

1930

314

1931

308

1932

292

43
137
106
140

199
115

184
124

166
126

9
67

154

175

80
270

264
1

1932

1930

1931

1932

392

399

341

910

867

836

202
186
457

165

221

201

170

108
196

59
52
201

221
421

256
136

145
254

94
247

543
367

498
369

424
412

154
216

1931

115

42
44
188

1930

DISTR BUTTON OF STUDENTS

TOTAL KUIBEH
NO.

110.

.So.

working to complete Normal certificate
enrolled in Degree Courses

i.oiie()e

_iil

ErROLLED

itorkmg to renew Partial Certificate

Graduates Enrolled

others

|_iUiilents

from other states

'Includes those
'"ly lb,

1932

1930
26

1931
27

1932
28

1930

231

255

315

8
37

40
228
16
10

113
B
33

Jo. of boardinff students
JS!:_5r day students

Hoiking to renew Partial Certific ates 1931-1932

Lock Haven

126
95
-

165
10
14

120
125
-

125
190
1

Mansfield

1931
30

1932
31

1930
32

1931
33

1932

1930

335

319

299

285

265

266

327

108
13
70
144
_

95
61
1S7

6.T

51
174

3
67
>61

42
31
165
23

32
19
173
42

206

161

129

158

182

83
202
15

Shippensburg

Milliirsville

24
60

192
22
20

Slippery Rock

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West Chester

1931
36

193 2
37

1930
36

1931

1932
40

1930
41

1931
42

1932
43

1930
44

340

381

330

364

389

464

565

485

503

26
12

28
224
59

120
231
46
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95
342
18

446
46

17
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110
144
276
35
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53
205
20
11

136
24
104
lai

64
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180
150

170
194

161
228

273

169
396

106
379

234
269

226
407

443

23
40
234
43
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56
235
76
2

106

198

40
226

206

235

271

449

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Kutztown

149

95
8
67

140
5
15

191

1931
45

1932
46

633

688

105

91
506

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Conmionwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIOW
TEACHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

MEETING OF THE BOARD

PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES

Friday, August 19, 1932

Item of Business
1.

Salary Schedule

Enrollments

Summer Session

1933-35 Budgets

K E

JOURNAL OF A MEETING
THE

OF
BOilRD OF PRESIDENTS,

STATE TEACHERS COIIEGES

Friday, August 19, 1932

A special meeting

of the Board of Presidents of the State
Teachers Colleges of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was
held in the State Council Chamber of the Department of
Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was
called to order by the Chairman at 9;30 o'clock.

The following were present:
Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G. C
L. Riemer
T. T. Allen
C. C, Crawford
C. R. Foster
A. C
Rothermel
Dallas W. Armstrong
William R, Straughn
Landis Tanger
ixlbert Lindsay Rowland
J. Linwood Eisenberg
Norman W. Cameron
.

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N, Rule, Chairman
Henry Klonower, Secretary
1.

Salary Schedule

Doctor Rule suggested that the question with reference to
an adjustment in salaries of employes in the State Teachers
Colleges be discussed.

After a general discussion the Board adopted the following
resolution:
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Tanger
it was voted that all instructors in the State Teachers
Colleges will receive from September I5. 1932 the same'
salary rate that they received at the close of the
fiscal year May 1931 and it means that from September 1,
1932 no increments will be granted to any member of the
instructional staff.

Doctor Rule asked Mr. Crosley to get in touch with Doctor
Logan and Mr. Schnader, Attorney General, and see if '.7e could
secure before the adjournment of the meeting an oral approval
of this action.
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The Board adjoiirned at 12; 50 for luncheon and agreed to
reconvene at 2:00 o'clock.
Mr. Crosley reported that he had had an opportunity to
talk to Mr. Schnader, Attorney General, during the noon
period and he stated that insofar as increments 77ere
optional in any institution, the Board could take such
actions as the situation warranted depending entirely
upon the budgets, but that there must be no change in
classificatione

Doctor Rule stated that he would write a letter to each
institution stating the facts so that the Presidents
might be fully informed.
The matter of non-'instructional employes in the State
Teachers Colleges was then considered.
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Rowland
it was voted that all non-instructional employes in the
State Teachers Colleges will receive from September 1,
1932 the same salary rate that they received at the close
of the fiscal year May 1931 and it means that from September
Ij 1932 no increments will be granted to any member of the
non-instructional staff.
2.

Earollment s

Doctor Rule stated that he would like the Board to discuss
the question of a definite restriction of entering students.

Following a general discussion Mr. Allen suggested the
adoption of a policy to limit the enrollments to ninety per
cent of the total of Class I students enrolled last year as
indicated on the official summary of enrollments.
On motion of Mr. Allen seconded by Doctor Eisenberg it was
voted that each of the State Teachers Colleges limit its
total enrollment for the first semester of the 1932-33 year
to not more than ninety percent of the total enroilment as
of October 15, 1931, and limit the enrollment for the second
semester of the college year 1932-33 to not more than ninety
percent of the total enrollment as of February 15, 1932.
This is for Class I students.

Doctor Hill stated that he would have to vote nay on this
resolution.
Doctor Haas stated that he was agreed with the exception
that the enrollment at the Gheyney Training School for
Teachers should be adjusted with the State Superintendent.

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Mr. Allen and Doctor Eisenberg stated they were agreed to
have this included or understood in the original motion.

Doctor Rule stated that this would be the first step toward
the limitation of enrollments in order to bring the sjpply
somewhat within the demand.
3.

Summer Sessions

Doctor Rowland stated that v;e might invite the Committee on
"Uniform Fees in the State Teachers Colleges" to give some
consideration to the matter of fees for the summer session
and consider charging a fee for courses completed by teachers
in service during the summer session in the State Teachers
Colleges.
On motion of Doctor Steele seconded by Doctor Rowland it was
voted that the "Fee Committee" consider this matter of summer
session fees alon;^ with other matters coming before their
committee and report at the next meeting of the Board.
4.

Budgets for 1953-55

Doctor Rule asked l!ir Crosley to send the budgets and a copy of
the comraunication that came from the Budget Office which outlined the situation rather clearly.
,

Mr. Croslejr stated that he would send them out for 1955-35
biennium within the next week. He stated that the form is
almost the same as we have had heretofore and that these budgets
should be back in the Department of Public Instruction by September 20, 1952 so that they can be checked and ready for the
Governor's Office by October 1, 1932,

The question was raised as to whether a modification of the
statement of "Uniform Fees, Deposits, and Repayments in the
State Teachers Colleges" should be considered in light of the
present financial situation and Doctor Rule suggested that the
"Fee ComiTiittee" malce a study of this problem^
On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Eisenberg it was
vote d that the "Fee Coiiimittee" take up this 7;hole problem in
light of the discussions and the 1933-35 budgets and malce
rec^.mir^adation back to the Board at the next meeting.

Doctor Rule stated that the budgets would have to be
on the basis of the present feeso

neide up

The meeting adjourned at 5:50 o'clock,

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Approved:

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^uperinrlendent of Public Instruct ira.

Exhibit A

PENI^TSYLVAIJIA
HARRISBURa
SEPTEMBER 10, 1932

DOCTOR FRANCIS B. HAA.S
PRESIDENT OF STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
BLOOTilSBURG PMN3YLVANL&.

AM APPROVING RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO LIMITATION OF ENROLIMENT

Wm MODIFICATION

THAT ENTERING CLASS

STUDENTS NEED NOT BE REDUCED

MORE THAM TVENTY PERCENT OVER NUMBER ENTERING LAST YEAR STOP SUGGEST
CAREFUL EXECUTIVE USE OF MODIFICATION

jmSS

N„ RULE

To Presidents of State Teachers Colleges:
On my return this week from a brief vacation I find on my desk copy
of Doctor Haas' circular letter to all of us bringing out certain
facts relative to the application of the resolution adopted by the
Board at its last meeting, looking toward the limitation of enrolments.
This motion specifically is as follows:
On motion of Mr. Allenj, seconded by Doctor Eisenberg, it was
voted that each of the State Teachers Colleges limit its
total enrolment for the first semester of the year 1932-33
to not more than 90^ of the total enrolment as of October 15,
1931, and limit the enrolment for the second semester of the
college year 1932-33 to not more than 90?^ of the total enrolment as of February 15, 1932, this percentage to be applicable
only to class I students.

At this late date I hesitate to alter the essential principle of the
resolution. I have received in addition to Doctor Haas' letter,
communications from Doctor Rowland, Doctor Rothermel, Doctor Crawford,
Mr. Alien, Doctor Cameron, and Doctor Foster relative to this matter.
These letters indicate great variation in the distribution of service
throughout the State as represented by opportunities for enrolment in
the beginning of the semester.
Therefore I am approving the resolution
with the modification that for the coming j^ear the entering class need
not be reduced more than 20?$ over last year. This refers to Class I
students as indicated on the October 15, 1931 report.

I am aXao appointing a special ooramittee consisting of Doctor
Cameron, Doctor Bow|.an4|, and Doctor Rieraer, Chairroan, to make
a critical study of all the aspects of this situation and
asking them to report to the November meeting of the Board in
order that specific plans may be made effective for the second
semester which will carry out on a State-wide basis the intent
of the resolution with which I am in agreement.
Will you
please send direct to the Chairman any statement you desire to
majce relative to this important matter, and supply promptly
any information requested by the committee?

Sincerely yours

JmSS

N, RUI,E

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Commoawealth of Pennsyivania
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
TEACHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
Thursday, September 15, 1932

DOCKET
J.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meetings
of the Board of Presidents held at Harrisburg, August 1,
1932 and August 19, 1932.

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee
A.

Special curriculums
lo

2..

Report of committee on ''Stores conducted at the State
Teachers Colleges"

Report of committee on "Centralized Purchasing for the
State Teachers Colleges"

4»

Report of Calendar Committee on "Sumner Sessions - 1933"

Report of Fee Committee

Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State Teachers
Colleges

Printing of
a. Hand-books at State expense
b.
College papers
c.
Annual catalogues in the State Teachers Colleges-

Room rental for off-campus students

Enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges

10.

IIId

Commercial Education

Budgets for 1933-35

New Business
1.

Membership in the American Association of State Teachers
Colleges

JOURi^iU-

^i.

MEETING

OF THE
BO.4JRB

OF PRESIDENTS, STiiTE miCHlSS COLLEGES

Thursday - September 15, 1932

A regular meeting of the Board of Presidents ox" the State Teachers Colleges
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was held in the State Council Chamber
of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was
called to order by the Chairman at 95 30 0° clock
The following were presents

Francis B, Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G» C. L. Riemer
T. T. 411en
C. Crawford
Charles R, Foster
A, C. Rothermel
Dallas W., Armstrong
Land is Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
J, Linwood Eisenberg
Norman \7. Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Millersville
Shippensbin-g

Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N, Rule, Chairman

Henry Klonower, Secretary
Doctor Straughn, President of the State Teachers College at tfensfield, was
not present due to illness
2

Appro val of^ SiS^5,S. ££ 5lif meetings of tihe ^oard o£ Presidents
1932
ilSi^ is. Harrisburg, August 1, .1.935 and August 19
,

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Mr. Allen it was voted that the
minutes of the meeting of the Board held August 1,. 1932 be approved with
the following corrections

Four-year cmriculxim in Health Education, page 690, third semester,
Descriptive Anatomy to be changed from 4-"4 to 3-=-3; page 691. sixth
semester Principles^ and Methoda^^ of Coaching^ to be changed from
r
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8~-l to 4-»'2fl
p

•

On motion of Doctor Riemer seconded by Doctor Steele it vras voted that the
minutes of the meeting of August 19, 1932 be approved as submitted.

Special Currleulyma
1»

Commercial Education

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Curricular"
for the committee. He stated that a meeting
Presidents of the institutions concerned and
of 6-eRaHeF-G-i-al. Education, and they had agreed
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Revision Committee, reported
had been held with the
the heads of the Departments
upon the following curriculum:

" FOUR -TEAR

CURRICULA IN COMMERCIAL EDUCATION
BY S^^4ESTERS

ARRANGEL/iENT OF COURSES

Subject to Modification for Administrative Purposes

Class
Hours

First Se meste r

*Introduction to Business Teaching .
(Include social guidance on the campus)
*English I
,,..,... ,.o
*English Activities
(Include library, -^-oice, and dramatizati on)
,
»
Commercial Geography I
„
.
Business Writing .
.
o
»
,
»
.
Business Mathematics I
»

=,.»..

„

.,..».

.00......

..,..,. o»<. ...
Education I
.0 .«<.„.„,

TvT)ewriting

^Physical

Semester
Hrs. Credits

3
3

3
3
3
3
5

3
1
1
1

5
3
3

3
3
3
3
3
1
1

3
5
3
3
5
5

3
3
3
3
3
2

Second Semester

,...,,,.„,

*English II
Bookkeeping and Accounting I
Commercial Geography II » »
Business Mathematics II , ,
Shorthand I
o

,..,,..

Tsrpewriting II

*Physical Education II

3
3

Third Semester
'^Literat'ore I

.cc.o«.o..6».,

Bookkeeping and Accounting II
...<,,
Business Organization and Finance =,«<.,
Business Mathematics III with Statistics
Shorthand II
»
c
Typewriting III
,
,
.
.
.
.
»
.

.,,,..

„.,«

Fourth Semester

..«.,....

.....

^Science I - Biology
(Include physiology of the nervous system as a basis
for psychology)
Bookkeeping and Accounting III
Business Correspondence
.
Business Law I
Shorthand Applications
Typewriting Applications

.....

,.,..........,
....
„...,..,.,.
..........>.....

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3
3
5
5

3
2
3
3
2

Class
Hours

Fifth Semester
.""Psychology

I«.

a. »».•.«,».

......

3
3
3
3
3

^History of Civilization »..>,*..,..<.
Bookkeeping and Accounting IV
«
.
Salesmanship .«,..,» »»»<>..» ^ ..
.
.
Business Law II
.
a
«
»
»
,
^
«
.....
Stenographic Office Practice ...
.

Semester
Hrs. Credits
3
3
3
3

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3
3
3
3

4
3

3
3
5

3
3
2

Sixth Semester
„
Methods of Teaching Commercial Courses
Junior High School Commercial Courses
.
Tests and Measurements in Commercial Subjects
«.<,,»
Economics I
Secretarial Practice (or elective)
„
c
<r

.,..,e»9.(,.

Seventh Semester
*Hi story and Philosophy of Education

.,.,.».,.

^Educational Sociology
o
*American G-overnment
Economics II
Clerical Practice and Machines (or elective}
.

«..<.,,,.,...
.».oi,....o,»-^i,a

Eic^ti Semester

Student Teaching and Conferences
Techniques of Teaching »«<,..

Total

* Core Subjects

.,.,,.<.

,,.<,.....

36
16

Teaching
Theory and Practice Work
in Special Field
.
.
,
Total

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.138"

.74

128

On motion
was voted
Committee
Education
2»

of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Foster it
that the report of the Curricular Revision
be accepted and the curriculum in G-OTroerci-art—
be adopted by the Board.
/!(X«<«-<-»t^i-tfV

SSESZi

" Stor es co nducted
££. coimnittee _on

at the State Teachers Colleees"

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the special committee having to
do T7ith the Retail Stores, stated that he had had a meeting
with Mr, Arnold and Itr^ Crosley and they were agreed to
resubmit again a new plan for the operation of these stores
This was done and the whole issue of the problem, centers
around the character of the cooperative organization which
would operate the stores.

The final recommendations are in the hands of Mr. Crosley
and have been turned over again to the Attorney General. No
further word has been received from him relative to the
situation.
^'

Report of committee on " Centralized Purchasing
for t_he_ 3tate_ Teachers Colleges"

Doctor Straughn, Chairman of the committee on Centralized
Purchasing, v;as not able to be present on account of illness,
and therefore no report was submitted.
^'

Report of Calendar Committee on "Summer
Sessions - 1955"

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Calendar Committee reported for
the committee. He stated that the committee had previously
suggested a plan of staggering the summer sessions in 1955,
but after some thought on this matter, it was felt wise not
to approve such a plan at this time because of the effect of
such a plan on the budget situation. The whole plan should
have more consideration from the point of view of the budgets.
The Calendar Committee discussed the possibility of charging
a fee for summer session work since the majority of the
simmer session students are teachers in service, who are selfsupporting or who had secured the basic professional preparation,
or were students who for some reason or other should pay
directly for this additional service.

- 732 -

DootoJ' Haas stated, that a^s a matter of form the Calendar
Committee would present their regular report at the next
meeting of the Board of Presidents in November and
perhaps provide something in the way of^suggestion for
the summer sessions.

On motion of Doctor Rowland seconded by Doctor Eisenberg
it was voted to accept the report of progress made by
the Calendar Committee.
^''

Report of Fee Comm ittee

In the absence of Doctor Straughnj Chairman of the Fee
Committee, Doctor Steele reported for the committee*
He stated that a meeting had been held on "lednesday,
September 14, 1932 at which the following were present;
Doctor Foster and Doctor Steele, representing the
committee on Uniform Fees, and Doctor Haas and Doctor
Foster, representing the committee on Refund of Monies
in the State Teachers Colleges
«.

Doctor Steele stated that the joint committee had a
tentative report to submit for the consideration of
the Board. He further stated that the committee did
not favor charging a tuition fee at this time, but had
suggested other fees that might in part take the place
of such a fee; first, an activity fee to be paid by all
students; and second, a contingent fee to be paid by
each student.

Doctor Rule suggested that the report be mimeographed
during the noon period so that it would be in better
shape for discussion by the members of the Board when
they returned from luncheon.

The Board adjourned for luncheon at 12:50 P, M. to
reconvene at 2:00 o'clock.

Doctor Steele, reporting for the committee, submitted
the following tentative report for the consideration
of the Board:

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TENTATIVE PROPOSALS
FOR
UNIFORM FEES, DEPOSITS, and REPAYT/IENTS
IN THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
To become effective June 1, 1933

FEES

Activity Fee

A fee of
per semester and/or '^2 for the summer session will
be collected from all s tudents and administered under the direction
of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers Colleges. This fee will
cover the cost of student activities such as athletics, student
publications, lectures and entertainment.
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II.

Contingent Fee
The contingent fee for all students in the regular curricula
shall be .$18 per half semester and :?12 for the Summer Session. In
the special four-year curricula the following shall be the contingent fees:

Half Semester
$27<.00

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-&dnnerc-ial Education

21.00
27.00
36.00
27.00
54.00

Health Education
Home Economics
Industrial Arts
Music

Summer Session
018.00
14.00
18.00
24,00
18,00
36,00

This fee covers registration and keeping of records of students,
library, student welfare, health service (other than extra nurse
and quarantine) and laboratory facilities
III.

Housing Fee
1.

Housing rate for students;
The housing rate for students shall be s?63,00 per one-half
semester and ,>42o00 for the Summer Session.
This includes room,
meals and limited laundry^
(a)

For rooms with running water an additional charge of
student per semester, or ^3»00 for the Summer
Session may be made.
•^9o00 per

(b)

No reduction in the rate is to be made for laundry done
at home nor for absence of students -wtio go home for a
few days at a time.

(c)

A student may, at the discretion of the President

the college, occupy a double room alone by paying an
additional -#36. 00 a semester or •A2e00 for the Simmer

Session.
-7^4.».

Housing rate for eraployes other than those included in the
State Classification Schedule (faculty, clerks, etc.) shall
be 99.OO per week.

IV.

The rate for transient meals shall be:
Breakfast, $.40;
Lunch, $.40;

Dinner, '^.SO.

Damage Fee

Students shall be responsible for damages, or breakage or loss,
or delayed return of college property*
V.

Infirmary Fee

After three days in the college infirmary ^ the college shall
charge an additional ^1,00 for each day.
Day students who may be admitted to the infirmary shall pay board
at the rate of ^2*00 a day. This charge includes the regular
nurse and regular medical sel'vice, but does not include special
nurse or special medical serviceo
VI.

Isolation Hospital Fee
If the college maintains an Isolation Quarantine Hospital for contagious diseases, the college shall charge flO per week additional,
but this service charge does not include trained nurse or special
medical service.

Day students,
pay the board
shall pay iJlO
trained nurse
VII.

who may be admitted to the Quarantine Hospital shall
rate of ;ip2a00 a day (see V above)
and in addition
a week, but this additional charge does not include
or special medical service.
,

Tuition Fee
Students whose residence is out of the state shall be charged a
fee of §105.00 per semester; .'rtJSScOO per Summer Session.
(It is
understood that this fee has been operative since June 1, 1929,
for entering students onlyO

Out-of-state students shall pay the contingent fee in addition to
the tuition fee»
VIII.

Private Instruction Fees
The charge for private lessons in music, in the State Teachers
Colleges maintaining the special curriculum in music, shall bet
1»

Voice, piano, band or orchestral instruments,
for one lesson per week.

Pipe organ,

„)42

per sem.ester - for one

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-^^24

per semester

lesson per week.

•

Rental of piano for practice, 1 period per day,
semester.

;;6.00

Rental of pipe organ for practice, 1 period per day,

per
'^Z&

per

seiiester.

Rental of band or orchestral instruments, -jie.OO per semester.
(For Summer Session the charge is one-third of above rates.)
3.

The charge for private lessons in music in the State Teachers
Colleges not maintaining the special music curriculum shall
be fixed as follows:
The Board of Trustees of a State Teachers College not
offering the special curriculum in music, may, subject to the
approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, enter
into contract with individuals to give private lessons in
music in order to afford an opportunity for students to continue their musical education. Such agreement shall provide
reasonable reimbursement to the institution for any service
or overhead supplied by the institution.

IX.

Degree Fee

A fee of v5.00 shall be paid by each candidate for a degree to
cover the cost of degree diploma.

Record Transcript Fee
One dollar ($1.00) shall be charged for the second and each subsequent transcript of records.

XI.

Delinquent Accounts

No student shall be enrolled, graduated or receive a transcript
of his record until all previous charges have been paid.
j

DEPOSITS

Advance Registration

D;i;.:-osit

A deposit of s?10.00 shall be made by all students when they request
registration. This is a guarantee of the intention of the student to
enter college for the term or semester designated. It is deposited with
the Revenue Department to the credit of the students contingent fee.
If,
however, the student notifies the college at least three v;eeks before
the openine of college that he is unable to enter, or if the student is
rejected by the college, repayment of this deposit will be made through
the Department of Revenue, on application from the student through the
college authorities.
Check or money order for this amount must be drawn to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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NO OTHER FEES OR DEPOSITS PERMITTED

No fees or deposits, other than as specified above may be charged
by a State Teachers College.

II.

REFA-MENTS

Repayment will not be made"
lo

To students who are temporarily suspended, indefinitely suspended, dismissed, or who voluntarily v/ithdraw from College.

For any pairt of the advance registration deposit for any cause
whatsoever except where students give notice of intention to
withdraw at least three weeks before the college opens or when
the student is rejected by the college

A repayment will be made for personal illness, the same being certified to by an attending physician, or for such other reasons as may
be approved by the Board of Trustees for the amount of the housing
and contingent fees paid by the student for the part of the semester
which the student does not spend in college

III.

The advance registration deposit will be returned to students provided they notify the college not less than three weeks before the
opening of the semester or term of their intention not to attend, or
provided the student is rejected by the college

The Committee recommends that the tentative proposals made iu the
report be carefully studied by each member of the Board, applying the proposals to his institution.
The Committee recommends further that budget estimates and revenue
estimates for 1933-35 be made upon basis of present legislation and that a
statement be prepared to submit to the Governor proposing a plan which we
believe v/ill advance the educational interests of the institutions and
increase the revenue available for the support of the institutions.

COMMITTEE ON IJNIEORM FEES, DEPOSITS and REPABiaTTS

727

Doctor Steele stated that he wanted especially to call attention, to
the recommendation of the Coramittee, which appeared at the end of
the report on Fees and Repayments
Doctor Haas suggested that the Fee Committee might be asked to prepare
a statement indicating all the implications of the new fees and the
details of the same.
Doctor Rule stated that the Fe© Committee should draft a comprehensive statement which will make clear just what the principles
are back of these charges and what the implications of the charges
are in terms of the project and in terms of the additional administration.

On motion of Mr. Allen seconded by Doctor Sisenberg it was voted
that the recommendations of the Committee to the effect that:
"the tentative proposals made in the report be
carefully studied by each member of the Board,
applying the proposals to his institution.

Further, that budget estimates and revenue
estimates for 1933-35 be made upon basis of
present legislation smd that a statement be
prepared to submit to the Governor proposing
a plan v^Lich we believe will advance the
educational interests of the institutions
and increase the revenue available for the
support of the institutions"
be adopted with the suggestion that the Committee set up a rather
comprehensive statement with the implications involved in terms of
the budget.
On mouion of Doctor Foster seconded by Doctor Haas it was voted
that the Coramittee on Repayments be discharged with thanks and
that the Coramittee on Uniform Fees be designated as the "Committee
on Uniform Fees, Deposits and Repayments in the State Teachers

Colleges."
^"

Annual Conferenc e of the Facultie s of the State
Teachers Colleges

On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Rowland it was voted
that the Annual Conference of the Faculties of the State Teachers
Colleges be dispensed with for this year and the matter of the
special groups to consider the syllabi for the special fields be
called in order to adveuace the projects in question and work out
the syllabi in the special curriculiams with the necessary expenses
to be paid by the institutions from which the people are called

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•

Printi ng of

^*
^

•

Handj;-books at_ S tate expense

College £S£2EIL
i^nus^l catalogues in tjie State Teachers Colleges

Mr. Crosley stated that the Budget Bureau was holding up all of these
publications^
^'

Roo"i

Rental fbr 2ff:icamgU£ students

By unanimous consent this item was stricken from the docket.
9»

Enrollments

in^

the ^tate Tea£heys Colleges^

Doctor Rule stated that he had sent a telegram to each President under
date of September 10, 1932, a copy of which appears as exhibit A in
the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Presidents, State Teachers
CollegeSj. August 19, 1932j modifying to a certain extent the resolution
of the Board of Presidents as adopted Friday., August 19, 1932 cohcerning
the limitation of enrollments in -the State Teachers Colleges, which
minutes were approved by the Board September 15, 193S on motion of
Doctor Riemer seconded by Doctor Steele.
10

Budgets for 1953_^35

Doctor Rule stated that he would like to have a committee of three
representing the Board of Presidents to collaborate with him in the
preparation of the budget for the State Teachers Colleges for the
next biennium.
The Board by ballot then elected Doctor Foster, Doctor Rowland, and
Doctor Steele to work with Doctor Rule in the preparation of the
budget for the biennium 1933-35

Doctor Rule stated that if agreeable to the Board and the committee of
three he would ask Doctor Haas to work with this committee as a consulting member.
IIIo

New Business
1.

Membership in the American Asso ciation of
State Teachers^ Colleges

Doctor Rothermel stated that since the allocation to the State Teachers
Colleges had been reduced, they fo'ond it practically impossible to
invest enou^ money in books and magazines to imke it possible to retain
the membership in the American Association of State Teachers Colleges.
He wondered if it were wise to remain in the Association if one could
not meet all the standards.
Mr. Allen stated that the matter of classification had been entirely
discontinued. Institutions are not classified any more as to Class A
or Class B; the only thing the Association does is to indicate the
deficiency of an institutiono

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IV.

Mis
cellaneous
puman«!gM«a»p»ii H
«l«

•

ual meeting of the Association of Trustees
of the 2.eims^ljVania_ S tat e .Teachers Colleges
and the_ Cheyney Tra ining School for Teachers

4:^11

Mr. Klonower distributed programs of the meeting of the Association of Trustees. He stated that this meeting ^/rould be held the
day follomng the meeting of the Board of Presidents.
The meeting adjourned at 4:30 o'clock,-

"MA-e^A-^
/CJc^r-^^t-'^'^-'i^

Secretary

Approved;

\^M^

Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
TE«.CHER BURKA.U

Harrisburg

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STaTE TEACHERS COLLEGES
November 15, 1932

Tuesday,

DOCKET
I.

II.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of
Presidents held at Harrisburg, September 15, 1933.

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of Curricular Revision Committee

Report of committee on "Stores conducted at the State Teachers
Colleges"
a.

Report of committee on "Centralized purchasing for the State
Teachers Colleges"

Report of Calendar Committee
a.

III.

Formal Opinion No. 70 - Department of Justice

Summer Sessions - 1933

Report of Fee Committee

Report of committee re "Budgets for 1933-1935"

Standardization of printing forms in the State Teachers Colleges

Report of committee on "Entrance Requirements"

New Business
1.

Enrollment report as of October 15, 1932

Placement of graduates of June 1932 class

Summary of the percentage distribution of teachers having college
preparation

Maximum possible enrollment

Effective date of four-year preparation standard for the certification
of elementary teachers

Unit plan for organizing film libraries in the State Teachers Colleges
Doctor Finegan of Eastman Kodak Company

JOURfTAL OF

A MEETING

OF THE

BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
Tuesday, November 15, 1932

A regular meeting of the Board of Presidents of the State Teachers
Colleges of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 7jas held in the
Superintendent's Conference Room of the Department of Public
Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was called to order by
the Chairman at 9; 30 o'clock.
The following were present:

Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G. C, L. Riemer
T. T. Allen
Charles R. Foster
A. C . Rothermel
Dallas '/<, Armstrong
William R, Straughn
Landis Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
J. Linwood Sisenberg
Norman W. Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
E. Stroudsbur^
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersvilie
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N. Rule, Chairman

Henry Klonower, Secretary
Doctor C.
Edinboro,
^

C.
v/as

Cra¥7ford, President of the State Teachers College at
not present due to illness.

minutes of the meeting of the
Board of Presidents , held in, Harrisburg
September 15, 1932

"^^Q
i^£P-££Z2ii. 21.

On motion of Doctor Sisenberg seconded by Doctor Tanger it was voted
that the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Presidents held
September 15, 1932 be approved as submitted.
II.

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee

Doctor Eisenberg, Chariraan of the Curricular Revision Committee, reported
for the committee. He stated that the syllabi for the State Teachers
Colleges are now in the hands of the printer, the paper has been selected,
the proof has been read, 'and he hoped to have the printed syllabi within a
very short time.
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Report of committee on " Stores conducted at the
State Teachers Colleges
.

Formal O pinion No. 70

Department of Ju s tice

Doctor Rule stated that he was very well pleased v/ith the opinion rendered
by the Department of Justice relative to the matter of conducting stores
at the State Teachers Colleges and he felt it was just v;hat vie had been
hoping it would be. He fiorther stated that a copy of the opinion had been
forwarded to the President of each State Teachers College together with the
following letter:
"To Presidents of State Teachers Colleges:

Enclosed find copy of formal opinion No, 70
of the Department of Justice relative to the
operation of cooperative stores on the
premises of the respective colleges.
The opinion, you will note T/ith pleasure, is
in conformity with our hopes. Needless to
say, I am delighted to know that this question
has been settled happily and to our satisfaction.

At the next meeting of the Board of Presidents
we can consider certain questions involved in
making this nev; arrangement effective.

Sincerely yours
JAMES N, RULE

Superintendent of Public Instruction"

Mto Allen raised a question as to whether the opinion included extracurricular activities.

Doctor Rule said that he would raise the question with Mr. Jirnold, Deputy
Attorney General, sometime during the day and -secure an interpretation for
the Presidents.

Doctor Rule later stated that I/ir, ^i.rnold's reaction to his inquiry was to
the effect that it was highly desirable to get student activities out of
State channels and in keeping with the opinion rendered.
Mr. Arnold further stated to Doctor Rule that the general thou^t Was to
get out of State channels all of these extra-curricular activities and to
have them handled by the cooperative association.
Mr. Jillen stated that he felt all receipts from athletic games, entertainments, et cetera, should go into the fund of this cooperative association.

Doctor Haas stated that the report of the Fee Committee v/ould have to be
modified somewhat under this new ruling relative to fees for extracurricular activities.
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Doctor Rowland stated that this would also modify the report of the
Budget Committee.

Doctor Rule stated that he and Mr. Crosley had talked the matter over and
they were of the opinion that the effective date for the operation of these
cooperative stores in the several institutions was simply a matter of local
adjustments,
Mr. Crosley stated that the inventory should be carried along as it is now
and as articles are sold from the present inventory, the money should be
turned into the State.
Mr. Crosley further stated that the inventory under the new scheme should
not be mixed with the inventory now on hand and the Presidents should be
sure that every penny from the present supply goes into the State over a
period of time*.
3.

Report of committee on "Centralized Purchasing
for the State Teachers Colleges'^

Doctor Straughn, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the Committee.
His report follows:
"To comply with centralized purchasing, the institution submits a requisition to the Department of
Property and Supplies. Upon receipt of such requisition, bids are solicited on materials requested
so that prices may be determined.
After prices
have been indicated on the requisition, it is sent
to the Dejartment of Public Instruction for approval.
When approved, the requisition is returned to the
Department of Property and Supplies and the order is

placed.

The attached information relative to centralized
purchasing has been obtained from answers to the
following questions sent to Presidents of State
Teachers Colleges:

How many days elapse betsreen the date of the
requisition and the delivery of shipment?
many days elapse between the date of
delivery of shipment and payment of the accovmt?

Ho?7

I'iJhat

is the estimated percent of purchases thus

delayed?
What is the estimated amount and percent of
inventory increase necessary because of delay
in replenishing stock?
If unmarked brands have been substituted for
standard brands, give illustrations.

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If materials of inferior quality have been
substituted for those ordered, give

illustrations.
If quality of printing has been unsatisfactory,
give illustrations.

nstitution

Delivery of
Goods

4-6

\Tks.

Payment of ^ of PurGoods
chases
delayed
3-4

?ifks,

32 days

14 days

3-4 wks.

Increase in
Inventory

10 ~ 20

10 - 20^

TJith

100

None

No unmarked brands substituted.
Inferior goods
substituted, e.g., liquid
filler Req. B-3183, 6 cans
purchased at .90 - local
price .50-.. Catalog
printing unsatisfactory.

25<fo

$5,000

10-40 days

10-30 days

$2,000

1-10 mos.

3-4

-Pks.

Substitution of unmarked
brands for standard
brands, etc»

4-5 wks

100

2-3 wks.

60
33 1/5%
(over 2 wks)

e>o<fo

few exceptions we
have secured brands
desired. Inferior goods
reported and adjusted.
Printing satisfactory.

No substitution except
paints. Same difficulty
over electrical supplies
and athletic equipment.
Printing not as good as
local and costs more.
Prison labor printing not
good in special work.
No unmarked brands.
Inferior goods: canned
goods, paints, varnishes,
electrical supplies,
sweeping compounds, scrubbrushes. Printing quality
all right but takes long.
Substitute for Heinz
tomato juice. Required to
add seasoning and flavoring before using. Req. No.
120039,

Rarely get brands asked.
Paints and varnishes unsatisfactory. Toilet
paper, electric light
bulbs. Printing from bad
to worse,
"aUgust Quarterly"

14-48 wks,

10-15 days 100
After Req.
for payment

E5^
^500

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Paints, varnishes, laundry
supplies, janitor supplies,
carbon paper. College
catalog attached."

Doctor Rule stated that the Presidents should estimate in
terms of ^7hat would be saved if centralized purchacing 77ere
at least very much limited or done away with altogether, and
he also asked whether it was not possible to indicate
several instances in which the worst situations with reference
to purchases had oceured.
This must definitely be set up in a
very clear cut form, and at the same time there should be
indicated the increased cost in personnels
Doctor Rule asked to have this information at an early date.
Report of Calendar Committee

Suinmer Sessions - 1953

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Calendar Committee submitted a
tentative calendar for the year 1933-34 for the consideration
of the Presidents.
The tentative calendar follows:
SUimiER SESSION 1933

Registration Day

Monday,

^
„,
Begin
Classes

-n

Tuesday,

(June 19
26

(J•.^ne

(J\ine 20
,^
[

Saturday,

Classes End

une <5„„/

jjjjgjs^^s

JTIRST SH.IESTER

Registration and Classification of all Freshmen,
10:00 to 5:00 P»M.
Monday, September 11
Registration Day - All others, 9;00 A.M. to
5:00 P.M. Wednesday, September 13
Classes Begin

Thursday, September 14

8:00 A.M.

Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Thanksgiving Recess Ends

IM.

- 12M.

Wednesday, Noventier 29
Monday, December 4

ChristmB.s Recess Begins - after last class Friday, December 2E

Christmas Recess Ends - 12M.

Tuesday, January 2

Saturday, January 20

First Semester Ends

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SECOND SaiESTER

Second Semester Begins
Easter Recess Begins
Easter Recess Ends

Monday, January 22

after last class

Tuesday, April 3

- 12M.

Classvrork Ends ~ after last class

Alumni

Friday, May 25

Saturday, May 26

Day-

Baccalaureate Sermon, 2:30 P„M.
Senior Day-

Thursday, March 29

Sunday, May 27

Ivy Day, Class Night

Monday, May 26

Commencement, 10:00 A.M.

Tuesday, May 29

The Calendar of the Training School does not coincide '7ith that of the
College.
The Committee:
^. R. Straughn
T. Allen
Francis B. Haas, Chairman
T.

On motion of Doctor Tanger seconded by Doctor Straughn it was voted
that the calendar as submitted b;/- the Calendar Committee for the
school year 1933-34 be accepted and adopted.
5.

Report of Fee Committee

Doctor Straughn stated there vras nothing further to report on the
matter of fees, since the tentative report was made at the last meeting
of the Board and it remains in the same status. He felt it should be
held over in this tentative fashion until certain other things are
settled»

Doctor Straughn further suggested that the only change would be to revamp
the first paragraph of the tentative fees with reference to "Activity
Fee". The Committee suggested that this be changed to read as follows:
"1.

Student Activity Fee

A fee to be determined by each institution will
be collected from all students and administered
under re<Tulations approved by the Board of
Trustees through a student cooperative organization.
This fee will cover the cost of student activities
in athletics, lectures, entertainments, and student
publications. "

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He further stated that action could be deferred on this sucrgested
change until the next meeting when they expected to know more
about the budgets for each institution.
The members of the Board were agreed that this be carried over for
further discussion.
6.

-Report of CommJ.ttee re "Budgets for 1933-1935"

Doctor Foster, Chairman of the Committee on budgets, reported for
the Committee.
The report of the Committee follows:
To the Presidents of the State Teachers C./lleges:

The committee of Presidents consisting of Dr. Albert
Lindsay Rowland, Dr. Robert M. Steele and Dr. Charles R.
Foster elected at the last meeting of the Board of Presidents to cooperate with Dr. Rule in matters relating to the
budget and appropriations for the State Teachers Colleges
for the 1933-35 biennium met with Dr. Rule, Mr. Crosley
and llbc Klonower yesterday.
The follovang matters came up
for discussion and consideration:
.

1.
2.

The law and State support
The Fee System and its relation to State support
Policies to be considered in the preparation of
the budget
Tentative agreement upon certain procedures

Your committee took the position that the State ought
imder the provisions of the School Code to carry the instructional cost of preparing teachers in the State Teachers
Colleges. It developed in the discussion that the State
actually is diverting funds paid by students for room, board
and extra curricular activities to pay as high as fifty
per cent of the instructional costs in these institutions.
It was also developed that in some institutions the students
are carrying as high as two-thirds of the entire cost of the
upkeep, maintenance, and instructional cost of these particular
institutions. 'Thile Dr. Rule agreed to the principle that the
instructional cost should be borne by the State as is provided
in the School Code, he felt that it woxild be quite impossible
to secure a sufficient appropriation to cover the same.
It was the thought of your committee that no change in
the Fee System should be adopted unless some guarantee is
piven that the receipts of the institutions will be returned
in their entirety to the institutions and that the raising of
additional money through changes in the Fee Sjrstem shall not
in any way lovrer the State's appropriation for the next
biennium under the amount appropriated for the present biennium.

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Dr. Rule suggested:

First
That in the budget for 1933-35 increments should
not be included for either year of the biennium 1933-35.

Second
Ttiat three percent of the capital investment of the
institutions be included in the budget for ordinary
replacements} upkeep and general repairs, and that care
be taken to use this to keep the plants in good repair.
This is not to include major or extraordinary repairs
which are to be taken care of out of an appropriation
made to the Department of Property and Supplies for this
purpo se o

Third
"That estimates for carrying the bookrooms be included
in the budget only in those colleges where it is intended
to conduct the bookstore on the campus as at present
should the proposed plan for a cooperative store not be

approved

Dr. Rule agreed tentatively to the following suggestions in determining the total amount to be appropriated by the State (not including
local receipts) to the State Teachers Colleges for the coming

bienniim;

First
That a minimum of ijpS, 500,000 plus estimated summer school
receipts be appropriated for the biennium.

Second
That the receipts of the enrollment and service fee and
in case the new Fee System is adopted, the activity and
contingent fees be controlled locally. If this were to
become effective it would mean that the total appropriation of State money amounting to $3,740,000 plus receipts
for activity or enrollment and service fee as the case
misht be would be available to the State Teachers Colleges
in addition to housing and other local receipts.
In other
words, the State Teachers Colleges would get about the
equivalent of v440,000 more than they get this biennium.
In addition to this the conference agreed that it would be a good
thing for each President to confer personally with J.ir. Crosley in
considering the budget for the coming biennium. Dr. Rule suggested
to Ifro Crosley that he hold such individual conferences in accordance

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with the determined schedule, notices of which
the next day or two

'/rill

reach you in

Respectfully submitted,

Committee:

Albert Lindsay Rovfland
President, State Teachers College, Shippensburg
Robert M. Steele
President, State Teachers College, California

Charles R. Foster, Chairman
President, State Teachers College, Indiana

Mr. Sponsler of the fT-overnor's Office appeared before the Board in
connection with the budgets. He explained that the G-ovemor some
six weeks ago decided that he wanted to have a small committee of
people who were available, study the various sections which go to
make up the budget and the general f\ind and familiarize themselves
with the problem to see what possibilities they might be able to
discover whereby the total budget might be cut down to meet the
reduced income. The committee in charge of this work decided to call
in the budget committee of the Board of Presidents, State Teachers
Colleges to discuss the problem v;ith them. That was done and
immediately it was discovered that there was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the way in which the allocations vere made in the lump
sum appropriation, and secondly, there was some dissatisfaction with
the fact that the fees charged to students for board, room, et cetera,
were devoted to other purposes, particularly instructional costs, and
third, it was mentioned that the Board is considering a situation by
which fees can be rearranged to be made in the minds of the Presidents
more fair so that they can meet the situation more adequately.
It was decided to ask the Budget Committee of the Board of Presidents
to do three things:
first, discuss the standards as to a break-down
between the fees to be charged to the students and what \7ould
ordinarily be required of the State in the way of an appropriation;
second, to adopt a standard line-up of the instructional side and
third, a line-up of the non --instructional side, that is, clerks,
painters, engineers, laborers, et cetera. This committee was given
a free hand and they drew up a set of standards v;hich were submitted

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A meeting had been held and the standards considered informally. A standard outline was prepared as
near as could be and this was sent out for the consideration of the members of the Board of Presidents
to all.

Mr. Sponsler further stated that the general fund revenue
for the next biennium is nothing short of alarming and
will Tfithout a doubt require every agency of the Government to take a considerable cut. He stated that it all
boils dovm to requiring a study by the Board of Presidents
as to just what fees the Presidents consider should be
applied, how they should be applied, what proportion that
will give toward malcing up the total budget and how much
will be required from the State.
Mr. Crosley.then distributed a chart indicating "Summary of
Schedules submitted to the Governor's Budget Committee by
the State Teachers Colleges, showing the estimated allocation
of operating costs to the Special Sessions of the School Year

1933-34".

Doctor Haas stated that he did not see how these charts \7ould
tell the story since they represented mixed statistics.
The
top of the page indicates that the figures are for 1933-34
while the first column indicates that the figures are for
1932-33.

Doctor Haas suggested that the Presidents immediately correct
these figures and return the same to the Budget Committee.
The committee should then re-study the whole situation and
propose a distribution of housing and other fees which would
meet what Mr. Sponsler considers the State budget allocation
and on the other hand what the Presidents would consider the
instructional needs.
7.

Standardization of printing forms
in the State Teachers Colleges

Doctor Rule stated that upon request the Department had made
up a list of the different forms that are in use in the State
Teachers Colleges and there seemed to be a great lack of
uniformity.
Doctor Rowland stated that these forms fall into two groups,
that is, the forms that have to do with the student record
keeping and another group of forms that are simply made up for
a particular institution.

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Doctor Haas stated that v;e must not forget these are educational institutions and in order for these institutions to
make a professional contribution they must have some
individuality.
Doctor Rule then read a letter from Doctor Lo^n, Budget
Secretary. The letter followsi
"In order to establish a control of the printing
of forms for the State Teachers Colleges it will
be necessary to arrange to have all forms that
are sent to the Bureau of Publications for printing by the various colleges to be forwarded by
the Bureau of Publications to the Department of
Public Instruction for their consideration.
Should the form be considered necessary and
properly set up a standard form approval request
should be prepared by the Department and submitted
to the Budget Bureau in the regular way.
This
procedure will be effective as of November 15, 1932.

There appears to be a great need for standardization
and general revision of the forms in use at the
State Teachers Colleges due to the fact that each
college at the present time has its individual
forms for purposes which are common to all the
colleges with some minor changes which appear to be unnecessory but nevertheless prohibit the printing of
large orders of standard forms to be used as general
supplies for all the colleges

Please let me have an expression of your opinion in
connection with the proposed change in procedure".
Doctor Rule asked Doctor Haas as Chairman of the original committee on the standardization of printed forms in the State Teachers
Colleges to make a suggestion as to an appropriate answer to this
letter^
Doctor Haas stated that he felt the answer should be made somewhat
along the following lines:

"It must be recognized that there are some procedures which can be standardized and some
that cannot .
The following forms have been
standardized, such as entrance blanks,
certificate application forms, certificates

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of approved training,, et cetera, and that
there is a group of forms v/hich represent
professional work in the institutions and
these should not be standardized"^

Doctor Haas further stated that if requests come to the Superintendent,
he should decide whether or not they should be standardized or refer
them to the committee of the Board having; this matter in charge and
they will make a further study and advise the State Superintendent.
8.

Report of committee on "Entrance Requirements"

Doctor Riemer, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the committee.
He had prepared a written report but its presentation had been
postponed until the next meeting of the Board.
III.

New Business
^"^

Enrollment report as of October 15, 1953 (Exhibit A)

The Secretary of the Board distributed copies of the Summary of
Enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges as of October 15, 1932
and asked the Presidents to talce the copies home and have the figures
checked. He further asked them to return the corrected copies to the
Teacher Bureau at an early date so that the final copies might be
prepared for distributiono
graduates of June 1952 class (Exhibit B)
The Secretary distributed charts indicating the following:

Table

Placement of Graduates as of October
State Teachers Colleges

Table II

Table III

Table IV

Placement of Graduates as of October
Arts and Science Colleges

1932,

1932

Placement of Graduates as of October 1, 1932,
State Teachers Colleges and Arts and Science
Colleges

Comparative summary of reasons for non-placement of graduates of Arts and Science Colleges
and State Teachers Colleges - 1952

Summary of the percentage distribution of
teachers having college preparation (Exhibit

The Secretary distributed charts indicating "A Summary of the Percentage
Distribution of Teachers Having College Preparation 1920-21 - 1931-32".
This chart together with a letter of explanation follows as Exhibit C.

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Maximum possible enrollment

Mr. Allen stated that all students who entered this fall and
who had been in residence before should be coimted in developing
the maximum enrollment, that is, any one v/ho was in the institution last year and v*io returned this year should be counted in
the maximum possible enrollment and under the regulaljion ms.de by
the State Superintendent we would add 80?^ of the total first
semester students as of October 1, 1931. This would give a figure
which would be regarded as the maximum possible enxollment for
this semester.

Doctor Riemer suggested that the enrollments in the several State
Teachers Colleges be maintained at the c^uotas assigned for the
first semester of 1932-33 and that a continuing study be inaugurated
to determine accurately the supply and demand of new teachers in
order to anticipate and prevent a repetition in the future of the
serious shortage of teachers of 1921 and that furthermore any
limitation of enrollments in institutions approved for teacher
preparation be made on the findings of such a study.
5.

Effective date of fotxr -year pr eparation
standard for the certification of
elementary teachers

Doctor Straughn stated that he had been appointed a committee of
one to bring before the State Council of Education whatever report
or recommendation the Board of Presidents of the State Teachers
Colleges desired to submit in connection with this matter^
Doctor Straughn stated that personalljr he felt it made no difference
if the date were taken out altogether since we are working progressively and if we took it out, it might relieve the source of
some irritation and as soon as the Legislature abolishes the Normal
School Certificate, that would make the certificate of graduation,
a State Standard Limited Certificate.
Doctor Rowland stated that he did not feel we should take a backward step at this time by removing the date set. He felt that it
would be regrettable if the date were postponed and he would rather
let the matter stand as it is until an emergency arises.
Doctor Eisenberg stated that he is in sympathy with the four-year
preparation level and he wondered whether any action should be
taken by the Board of Presidents of the State Teachers Colleges.
He further stated that the Board did take the initiative in

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requesting this action by the State Council of Education and he
wondered whether we ?.'ould not be making a mistake if we now asked
them to postpone the date for the effectiveness of the fo\ir-year
requirement for all teachers. He felt that this group of men
represented the professional group of teacher training.
Doctor Straughn stated that he felt we were not losing any ground
by the omission of the date but rather something to be gained by
this since the State Standard Limited Certificate requires that
increments of preparation be secured from time to time and this
will eventually lead to the four years of professional preparation,
On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by Doctor Foster it was voted
that it is the sense of the Board of Presidents, State Teachers
Colleges, that the effective date of the four-year preparation
standard be indefinitely postponed until some later date, but that
the requirements for the State Standard Limited Certificate be
maintained as previously outlined. Carriedo

Members of the Board voting against this motion were:
East Stroudsburg
Clarion
Robert M. Steele, California
J. Linwood Eisenberg, Slippery Rock
Dr. Albert Lindsay Rowland, Shippensburg

Mr.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr.

T. Allen,

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Unjj. SlSlL

L. Riemer,

organizing film libraries in
the State Teachers Colleges - Doctor
Finegan £f Eastman Kodak Company

Doctor Rule stated that he had invited Doctor Finegan to appear
before the Board of Presidents at the January 20, 1933 meeting
and explain his proposition to the members of the Board.

The meeting adjourned at 4:15 o'clock to reconvene for a special
meeting, December 8, 1932 at 9:30 o'clock^

Approved:

indent of Public Instruction

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Harrisburg, Pa.

October 31, 1932

FORMAL OPINION NO. 70

Honorable James N. Rule,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania *

SIR:
You have asked us to advise you whether trustees of State
Teachers Colleges may lawfully permit the operation of co-operative
stores on the premises of the respective colleges. The purpose of
these stores would be to provide the students with books and supplies
needed in their college courses and other school and athletic activities, and also, with small articles of personal use of various kinds,
including class jevfelry and emblems. The proposed store would be
operated by representatives of the student body, and the profits
would be devoted to the benefit of the students generally in such
manner as the students or their representatives miglit determine.
For this purpose your plan would make use of existing
student-body organizations, or would provide for the formation of
such organizations where none already exist. They would be voluntary associations, financed by small membership dues. Funds of these
associations would be used to furnish the original capital necessary
to set up the stores, although you say that very little initial
capital wovO-d be needed, because book publishers and other merchants
would give liberal credit to such stores.
In an opinion dated September 3, 1929, addressed to the
Department of Property and Supplies, and a supplemental opinion dated
October 11, 1929, addressed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Honorable Wm. i%, Schnader, then Special Deputy Attorney General,
stated the general nature of the articles which might be purchased by
the Commonwealth for the sale of students in State Teachers Colleges.

We understand that your present inquiry is not concerned
with any of the questions involved in those opinions, and that the
proposed co-operative stores are intended to eliminate the conduct of
stores or supply rooms by the Commonwealth itself, acting through the
college officers.

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The Secretary of Health and the Secretary of Welfare
inform us that in certain institutions under the care of their
departments, similar co-operative stores serving the needs of the
inmates and employes of the institutions have been in operation
for some years. These institutions are largely the State Hospitals
and sanitoriums. These stores, in all cases, we are informed, v?ere
started with private funds, and have been conducted on a purely
co-operative basis. They supply to the inmates, patients and
employes small necessities and inexpensive luxuries #iich it would
be practically impossible for them to obtain in any other way. The
stores are not designed as money-making enterprises, but what small
profits are realized are used for the common benefit of the patients
and inmates.
Some question has been raised, informally, as to the propriety of the operation of these stores in institutions of the
Departments of Health and of Welfare. Since they are so similar in
principle to the proposed stores in State Teachers Colleges, we may
consider them together.

These stores are not commercial enterprises, and their
operation is not to be compared with grants of concessions to private
individuals or corporations for the conduct of business on public
property. They are, first and last, for the benefit of the people
for whom the State maintains the institutions in question. Pupils
in the Teachers Colleges must have books and other articles for their
school work, and promptness and convenience in obtaining them are
important factors. Cooperative stores of this kind will afford the
most convenient and prompt method of supplying these needs. Outside
the category of bare necessities are many items which are commonly
regarded as essentials or near-essentials for even the most modest
comfort.
Others, perhaps less essential, are nevertheless in constant demand as incidental to the every-day life of great numbers of
persons.
In the hospitals the comfort and pleasure to be obtained
by persons confined in these institutions from the articles which
they can purchase in these stores cannot be measured.
In many cases, a store in the institution is the only
practical source of supply for these small articles of every-day
need. A number of the institutions are far removed from adequate
stores.
But even if outside stores were close at hand, few patients
in mental, tuberculosis or other hospitals could go to them.
Of course there will have to be limitations on the scope
of the activities of the stores to keep them within the purposes for
7;hich they were formed.
These limitations can best be determined as
the need arises, by iiie exercise of sound discretion by supervising
officials. However, we believe that in order to insure the propriety
of the maintenance of the proposed stores, the following conditions
should be observed:

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The organization operating the store of each institution
should be^distinct unit, without connection or relation with similar
stores at other institutions. No scheme of joint buying or other
combined operations or contacts made through the agency of public
authorities should be employed.

No moneys of the Commonwealth may be used in the establishment or operation of the stores. In this respect, they must be
purely private enterprises. The proposals that persons handling
money of the stores be bonded and that there be annual audits are
excellent ones for cases where the amounts involved warrant such
regulations.

All business of the stores should be conducted by and in
the names of the store organizations. No purchases or other transactions for the stores may be made or carried on by the institutions,
in their nanies.
The activities of the stores should be confined to such as
comfort and convenience of the persons in the
institutions, and the margin of profit on sales should be kept low.
The financing of extensive enterprises, even for the common benefit
of all, from profits of the stores, is not to be encouraged. Obviously,
no attempt may be made to compel any person or groups to purchase any
article from or through the stores instead of from other tradesmen. On
the other hand, no person in an institution may be denied the privilege
of purchasing at its store.
are9"Ghe real benefit,

Your letter suggests in respect to stores at Teachers
Colleges, that the boards of trustees and the administrative officers
of the colleges should be represented in the management of the stores.
Of course the trustees of any institution should first determine
whether any such store is to be operated in their particular institution.
If the permission is granted, the trustees, whether of Teachers
Colleges or of other institutions, either directly or through the
president, should prescribe rules and regulations concerning the
designation of student, or patient representatives, compensation of
attendants, and general store policies and finances, and should
exercise supervision and jurisdiction over the conduct of the business.
But we do not believe that the trustees or other authorities, in their
official capacities, should be expected to take any active part in the
conduct of the store or the handling of its funds.
Therefore, we advise you that co-operative stores of the
general nature described in this opinion may be operated in State
Teachers Colleges and other institutions, for the benefit and convenience of pupils, patients and other persons therein. No public moneys
may be employed in the founding or maintenance of such stores, nor may
they be operated as enterprises of the State or any of its agencies.

Very truly yours,

DEPARTMMT OF JUSTICE,
By

Harris C. Arnold,
Deputy Attorney General.

SCMBiABY OF ENROLEMENTS IH lEil'ISYLVANIA STATE TEACK^J^S COLLEGES

Covering Number of different Students as of October lb, 1932

alth of Pennsylvania

EEi^lMENT OF rUBLIC INSTRUCTION
TEACHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

DISTBIBUTION OF STUDENTS BY COUNTIES IN

STj^TE

TEACHERS COLLEGES

A3 of OGTOBiJl 15, 1932

COUNTY

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TOTAL

8200

kiams
AileKheny
Armstrong
Beaver
Bedford
Berks
BXalr

Bucko
Butler
Cambria
Caneron
Carbon
Center
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
Elk
Erie
Fayette
Forest
Eranklin
Fulton
Oreene
Hunt inRdon
Indiana
Jefferson

117
80
64
280

2
2

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2
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1
-

4
11
-

85
4

_
_

_
1

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6
18
_

217

162

158
14
21
40
895
138
14
218
384
188
58
181
429
133

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McKean

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14
148
158
45
157
21
46

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1
8

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_

_
B7
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302

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198

11
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4
8

Wayne

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9111

624

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97
11

19
4

70
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145

350

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116
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646

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18
51
59
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39
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65.

1
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1
67

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1

59
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497

1286

517

558

680

555

606

632

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31

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817

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
HARRISBURG
November li, 1932

To County and District Superintendents of Schools:
jittached is a chart showing "A Summary of the Percentage Distribution of Teachers
Having College Preparation in Pennsylvania 1920-21 - 1931-32." This chart shows
the progress which has been made by the several school districts during the past
eleven years in placing teachers with four years of preparation in the public
schools of the Commonwealth.

From the school years 1920-21 to the school year 1931-32, a period of eleven years,
there has been a gain of 19 percent in the number of college graduates employed in
the public schools.

For the year 1931-32, out of 63,476 teachers teaching in the public schools of the
Commonwealth, a total of 26,7 percent were college graduates. In first class
school districts, 27.8 percent had this type of preparation; in the second class
school districts, 31.1 percent of the teachers were college graduates; in third
class school districts, 32.3 percent had four years of post high school preparation;
in fourth class school districts, that is, in townships and boroughs of less than
5,000 under the supervision of county superintendents, 22.5 percent are recorded in
this column.
As to the greatest gain in the employment of teachers who have completed this preparation over the eleven year period, New Castle reports 27,8 percent in the districts
of the second class.
In districts of the third class, Ambridge Borough reports the
greatest gain, namely, 39.3 percent, while in the fourth class district in districts
under the county superintendent. Pike County reports the greatest gain, 32 .,7 percent.
This chart should provide interesting information concerning the present status of
college graduates now teaching in the public schools of the Commonwealth. It shows
successive steps which have been taken for the past eleven years to achieve this
degree of preparation.

Very sincerely yours,

t
lenr^Klonower
<t!tor, Teacher Bureau
JAICES N. RULE
Superintendent of Public Instruction

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPiVRTME^fT OF PUBLIC INSTHUGTION
TEACHER BUi^EkU

HaxTisburg

A SIMvIAEY OZ

'EiE PERCE-NT^iGE

DISTRIBOTION OF TE^xCHERS HAVING COLLEGE PREPAIiATIOlT
1931-32

1920-21

Classes of
School Districts

1930-ai

GRaMD TOT^L
First

1926-27

1928-29

1930-31

l''i31-32

7.7

16.2

19.9

24.1

26.7

20.6

22.3

25.4

27.8

Gain in P'srcent
1920-;a 19:50-31
1931-32 1931-32
19.0
-

2.6

2.4

Second

12„7

20.2

23.0

28.6

31.1

18.4

2.5

Third

14.4

20.6

24.7

29.3

32.3

17.9

3.0

7.5

11,7

15.5

19.9

22,5

15.0

8.6

Fourth

*No record of certification distribution in first class dilstricts ip 1920-2i
H.-.VIMC COLLEGE
AMD SECOND CLiS3 DISTRIGTB UNDER
1920-21 - 1931-32
DISTRICT SUPERINTHTDENT -

PERCENT;.GE distribution of teachers
PREP-i.RATION IN PENlISYLVxUTU IN FIRST

School Districts
TOT.^
First Class
Philadelphia cityPittsburgh city

TOTAL

1920-21

1226-27

1928-29

1930-31

1931-32

Gain in PerciSi.t
1920-21 1920-5J.
1931-32 1931-32

20t6

22.3

25.4

27.8

2.4

17.2
28.8

17,0
35,2

20.6
36.9

23,2
39.2

2.6
2.3

20.2

23.0

28.6

31.1

12.7

18.4

2,5
\

Second Class
Allentown city
Altoona city
Bethlehem city
Chester city
Easton city
Erie city
Harrisbiu'-g city
Hazleton city
Johnsto'/m city
Lancaster city
Lower Merion T'vp
McKeesport city
Nev< Castle city
Norristo'.'vn Boro
Reading city
Soranton city
Upper jarby T^J7p
V/ilkes-3arre City
Williamsport City
York City

15.3
13.3
11,1
10.0
19.8
14.6
11.9
8-5
12.3
13.7
16,2
17.3
16,3
15,8
8,g-

7.9
11.9
10.8

19.5
15.3

28.7
20.4
19.9
14.2
23.6
17.4
24.9
16.3
19,8
22,1
32.0
21.4
26.9
18.5
19,S
15.6
22.5
15.6
25.5
20.9

31.5
23.8
29.4
17.6
23.8
19.3
27.2
18.9
23.5
24.4
32 >4

23.2
33.5
27.0
22.1
16.5
27.9
19.2
29.4
17.1

31.9
26.4
30.1
22,7
33.3
23.6
33,2
25.5
26.9
30.9
37,1
27o6
40.1
30.2

io.8
19.4
30,2
23,6
32.2
25.9

37.5
28.3
31.2
23.9
36.5
32.1
34.4
30,4
28.6
36.9
37.7
28.6
44.1
36,6
30,8
22.3
35,1
24,2
54.9
30.1

22.2
15.0
20.1
13.9
16.7
17,5
22.5
21.9
ie.3
23.2
21.5
11.3
27.8
22.8
21.9
14,4
23.2
13.4
15,4
14.8

*No record of certification distribution in first class districts in 1920-21.

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4..0

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4.9
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Conmioiiv/ealth of

Pennsylvania

DEPiEnmiT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
TEACHER BURE^^U
Harri sburg

PERCENTx^GE DISTRIBUTIO.T OF TEiVCHERS
PHEP.U^.TION IN PENNSYLViiNXA.

m.Yim COLLEOE

IN THIRD CLiSS DISTRICTS UNDER DISTRICT SUPERINTETDEIT

1920-21

Third Class
School Districts under 1920-21
District Superintendent

TOTAL
Abington Twp
Aliquippa Boro
xVmbrid^e Boro
Archbald Boro
.i.rnold Boro
Ashland Boro
Ashley Boro
Bangor Boro
Baairer Falls Boro
Bellevue Boro
Berwick Boro
Blakely Boro
Bloomsburg Town
Braddock Boro
Bradford City
Bristol Boro
Butler City
Canonsburg Boro
Carbondale City
Carlisle Boro
Carnegie Boro
Cecil Tv7p
Chambersbin-g Boro
Charleroi Boro
Cheltenham Twp
Olairtou City
Clearfield Boro
Coal Tvjp
Coatesville City
Columbia Boro
6onnellsville City
Qonshohocken Boro
Coraopolis Boro
Corry City
Danville Boro
Darby Boro
Dickson City Boro
Donora Boro
Dormont Boro
DuBois City
Dunbar Tivp

1926-27

1931-32

1928-29

1930-31

Gain or Loss
in Percent
1931-32 1920-21 1930- 'A
1931-32 1931- va
r,

20.6

24.7

29,3

32.3

17.9

'7-

14.4
15.4

19.5'
f^

25.0
30.2
32.8
15.9
26.8
16.1
21,3
28.3
48.5
46.3
18.0
8.8
32.8
21.4
24,7
20.0
33.9
17,6
14.7
29.9
21,6
21.6
33,3
29.9
33.8
25.7
24.0
5.5
29,2
20,7
35.7
26,7

27.1
35.4
49.4
15.6
37,5
31.4
33,3
26,1

31,3
36,0
48.5
16,1

15.9

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9,2
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8.0
-

12.5
30.9
+*

9.7
-

10.3
14.9
17.3
10.5
21.8
11.5
9.8
29.3
21,2
**
24,0
18.8
22.9
**
22.2
_

6.1
8.3
23.7
13.9
20.0
11.1
11.4
6,9
.

21.9
15.4
12.3
12.6

18.5
11.9
**

20.7
10.6
21.1

40,9
40.6
17.5
5.8
27.7
18o3
22.8
20.0
28.0
10.8
13,1
29.4
20,8
11,8
32.3
23,6
24.2
26.9
20.8
2.1
18.9
22.0
33,6
20.5
+*

41,3
47.8
23.2
8.6
38,3
29.5
28,8
20,8
35„9
22,1
11,8
35.4
24,7
19.6
33.3
35,4

41.3
29.6
35,0
10.8
33.1
22,0
43,0
29.8
**

34.3
37,5
30.4
57.7
51.5
22,2
13,3
45,9
33.3
30,6
26,0
33.7
22.4
20.6
35.6
24.1
26,3
35,7
48,5
45,9
35,8
29.1
17,7
35,2
23.3
47,5
29,2
-

31.6

*=!=

27,3
**

8,5

25,0

4.4
25.2
47.8
21,9
16,3

30.6
12.8
34.4
50.0
25,3
21,8

36,0
16.5
37.2
50,0
29.2
20.7

15.2
46.5
12.1
12o5

39.3

•':

.5
-

41.8

24.1
**

23.0

2&,3
-

17.9
26,8
-

12,5
-

35,2
18,4
13.3
15,5
11.9
10.9
10.8
6.3
2.9
-

11,7
29.7
23.0
-

6,9
-

29.1
15.0
23.8
1§,3
20,5

4.3
2.9
4.2
4.3
16.4
3.7
-1.0
4.7
7.6

3.8
1.8
5.2
-2.2
,3

8.8
,2

6,7
2,4
12.1
4,6
6.2

4,1
6.9
2.1
1.3

4,5
- ,6
-

4,3
-

29.1
-

15,3
34.6
16.9
8.1

5.4
3,7
2,8
-

3,9
-1.1

Cain or Lo^t

Third Class
chool Districts under 1920-21
istrict Superintendent
Dunmore Boro
Duquesne City
Bast Coneraauph Boro
Fast Pittsburgh
KllTfood City Boro
Farrell Boro
Fell Twp
Ford City Boro
Forest City
Franklin City
German Tvrp
Greensburg Boro
Greenville Boro
Hanover Boro
Haverford Twp
Hazle Twp
Hollidaysburg Boro
H ome st ea d Boro
Huntingdon Boro
Indiana Boro
"Jeannette Boro
Jersey Shore Boro
Jchnsonburg Boro
Juniata Boro
Kane Boro
Kingston Boro
Kittanning Boro
Lansford Boro
Latrobe Boro
Lebanon City
Lehighton Boro
Lewistown Boro
Lock Haven City
Logan Twp
Mahanoy City Bor"o"
Mahanoy Twp
Marcus Hook Boro
Mauch Chunk Twp
McKees Rocks Boro
Mea dville City
Middletown Boro
Midland Boro
Milton Boro
Minersville Boro
Monessen City
Mon n gahela City
Mount Carmel Boro
Mount Pleasant Boro
Mount Pleasant Twp
Muhlenberg Twp

9.6

10.8
11.5
14.0
18.4
TJ-

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inr
24.2
5.0

26.8
41.5

1926-27
28.2
15.1
20.0

30.8
20.8
21ol

27o6
25.2
6.1
20.9
4.9
23.6
8.5
33.3
44.4

32.1
26.5
7.4
31.3
20.5
27.0
11.8
33.8
38.2
23.4
33.6
6.4
30.2
30.3
23.9
50.0
24.8
23.1
15.4
21.8
29.1
15.2
28.3
16,3
27.8
33.8
26.7
25,3
22.9

25.0

36.7

4.6

25.8
4.3
26.

17.8
15.4
18.2

29.5
21.4
36.5
29.9
**

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11.4
21.3
**

13.0
12.5
25.2
16.2
~~*5

23,2
18^2

4.5
3.9

1928-29

14,3
28.6
24.1
10.9
30.6
16.3
28.6
26.6

3975
22,9
2,2
15»5
18.2

10.5

17.8
14.3
19.5
15.4
15.0
**

7.6

30
25.

30.8

23.1
31.8
40.8
34.5
7.7
37.7
23.1
22.7
13.0
37.1
55.0
37.3
40.6
6.4
45.1
32.6
30.0
63.6
35.3
24.4
23.7

29.0
30.0
43.6
37.7
9.1
48.2
29,3
27,2
11.7
40.0
56.4
38.7

51.4

41.4
8.2
46.0
37.3
31,4

in Porcf^iit

1920-21
1931-32
21.2
;o

17.1

29.6
19.;

5.2
6.7
13.2
14,9
13.7

32.7
22,7
33.5
26.8
58.1

20.8
20.9
19.3
22.2
22.0
57.5
40.5
42.4
35.0
28.0
30.2
32.0

26.0
25.5
19.5
22.6
25.0
54.2
40.6

41,5
52.0
51»8
30.5

4.5
-1.;

2,9
1.4
1.4
,8

5,6

19.5
16.0

25.1

1.8
2.9
4.7
1.4
6,4
6.0

1,1
2,3

30.0

28.6
17.5
36.7
21.6
36.5
39,6
29,8
31.2
28.1

;.8

5.9
-1.8
2.8
1,4
10.5

70,0

41.3
25.5

1930-31
1931-32

11.4

4,1

25.5
14.3
11.9
25.5

5,2
1.5
5,2
1.6
1,9
2,2

8.6
12.1

2,2

21.5
14.6

5,2
2,6

17.3
16.3
30.3

5,0
-5,1

18.8
15.3
10.7
17.6
9.4

1.6
2.5

5.0

17.9
16.4
16.7

!>;*

7.7
17.9

1930-31

1931-32

14.8
36.4
23.5

17.1
35.9
36.1

5?*

34*-4

26.8
17.3
23.1
22.5
22.7
23.3
llol
22.0

50.6
19.3
23.6
30.1
21,4
25.0
14.6
29.3

33.7

^6
18.8
39.0

41.8
56.6
30.6
50.2
55,0
24,4
54.7
19.5
44.6

1.0
.7

2.1

11.9

5.5

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;

Third Class
School Districts under
District Superintendent

Munhall Boro
Nanticoke Boro
Nanty-Glo Boro
New Brii^liton Boro"
Boro
Newport Twp
Northampton Boro
North Braddock Boro
Oil City City
Old Fore:e Boro
Olyphant Boro
Palmer ton Boro
Phoenixville Boro
Pittston City
Plymouth Boro
Pottstovm Boro
Potts-gille City
Punxsutawney Boro

Nev7 Kensina-ton

RadnorTwp
Rankin Boro
Redstone Tt.7p
Renovo Boro
Boro
Rochester Boro
Rostraver Twp
Sandy Twp
Sayre Boro
Scottdale Boro
Shamokin Boro
Sharon City
Shenandoah Boro
Steelton Boro
Summit Hill Boro
Sunbury City
Swiss vale Boro
Tamaqua Boro
Tarentum Boro
Taylor Boro
Throop Boro
Titusville City
Tyrone Boro
Uniontovm City
Vandersrift Boro
Warren Boro
Wa^ington City
ffaynesboro Boro
TTest Chester Boro
West Mahanoy Twp
West Pittston Boro
Whitehall T-.7p
Wilkinsburg Boro
Wilson Boro
Windber Boro
Winton Boro
Ridfflvay

1920-21

192G-S7

1928-29
37.0
17.6
20.9
39.7
31.1
4.3
34.3

1930-31
27.6
21.3
23.0
44.7
29.8
19.0
33.3

28.1
6.6

23.4
12.8

18.9
18.2

37.5
27.9

11.4

7,9
20.4
7^

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22.9
20.8
15.4
21.3
23.3
12.2
17.3
20.3
18.2
26.5
36.7
16.3
11.8
26.7
13.6
47.4
4,7
21.7
20.0
36.0
18.9
26.1
7.1
21.9

22.4
24.8
19.8
26.0
29.2
23.2
17,5
28.3
23.9
35.3
43.0
18.5
14.4

14.3
15.6
2.1
19.0

23.7
12.9
9.9
15.5
80.8
11.6
13.8
16.7
12.6
23.1
36.0
10.0
11.3
28.6
11.6
37.0
3.3
16.6
18.3
34.7
16.5
22.3
2.9
19.7

26.8
22.0
11.5
30.4

ii.e

33.3
16.1
35,6

26.8
40.9
13.8
36.5
10.6

12.:

21.1
5.2
1.5
13.0
2.3

17.1
14.8
17.5
24.6
2.7
3.6
8.6
21.4
l.f
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16.7
**

2.0

2.1
14.5
18.9
19

26.7
14.0
16.7
14.5
25.4

TW
20.7

9.7
3.1

30,2
29.3
22.5
22.5
16.4
20.6
34.4

9.6
22.2
30.8
35.6
28.9
21.8
16.3
24,2
41.6

24,5
8.9
30,9

32.3
11.7
38.5

19,4
8.5

22.1
11.3

L5.1

15.9

**Under supervision of County Superintendent.

9.1
36.8

22.4
38.0
18.9
28.4
13.9
25.0
29.3
32.7
36.5
18.7
41.9
17.2
19.3
26.9
41.7
39.2
40.7
27.9
18.9
27.5

41.1
37.1
16.1
41.4
26.9
23.0
20,7

1931-32
31.0
21.7
23.1
55.1
35.9
27.2
34.7

43.8
27.1
25.4
23.9
29.3
36.0
31.1
20.0
28.3
27.6
42.7

46.7
30.5
14.5
19.2
59.0
10.8
25.0
25.4
36.0
21.8
30.3
18.5
27.6
30.4
30.0
38.0
23.1
43.6
25.0
20.7
31.6
37.5
43.4
42.2
26.8
21.7
27.1
45.0
37.7
16.1
46.1
29.6
41.9

21.3

Gain or Loss
in Percent
1920-21
1931-32
2.9
15.1

36.2
17:7
23.2
i.O

20.8
28.4
23.0
28.8
11.2
12.8
25.2
22.1
27.8
10.9
10.6
37.6
9.0
8.7
7,5
14,7
16,4
8.6

3.2
16.0
11.6
13.2
23.0
18.6
17.0
18.6
23.6
15.5
12.8
5.0
12.6
19,6

25.4
26.0

18.9

Coramonvjealth of Pennsylvania

DEP^Ma\TT C? FJBLIG IN3TRUGTI0LI
TKi-CHER BUREilU

Harrl sburg

PERCMT.1.GE DISTOIBUTION OF TEliCHERS lUVING COLLEGE FHEP.^R..tTION Til PEt-TNSYLV.JJLt
1920-Sl - 1931-32
IN DISTRICTS UNDER COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS

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Districts under
County Superintendents

1920-21

1928-29

1926-27

1930-31

Gain or Loss
in Percent
1931-32 1920-21 1930-31
1931-32 1931-32
1

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Adams
Allegtieny

Armstrong
Beaver
Bedford
Berks
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Butler
Cambria
Cameron
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
I&uphin
Delaware
Elk
Erie

Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Fulton
Greene
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata
Lackawanna
Lancaster
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigli

Luzerne
Lycoming

7.5

11.7

15.5

19.9

22.5

15.0

2.6

5.5
16.3
7.7
9.5

15 »4
17,3
10,3
12.1
8.7
14.9
9.9
12.5
11.5
13.1
10,8
5.7
11.4
12.1
15,4
10.5
6.1
6.4
8,7
12,2
17,2
18.6
16„9
12.3
14.8
7.8
4,8
6.5

15.6
20.6
12.0
16.5
11.9
18.3
16.5
17.3
16.3
20,3
15.1
12,5
11.0
18.9
16.1
16.2
10.0
10.4
11,5
16.1
19.3
19.1
18.5
13.4
17.3
11.9
11.1
10.1
10.7
16.8
11.9
10.5
14.3
15,4
17.3
17.9
16.3
23.4
11.1
12,4
11.9

21.5
24,7
15.8
19,8
17.9
21.4

23.7
28.3
17.8
20.6
20.0
25.6
17.4
25.1
23.6
23,3
22.4
21.2
14,3
27.5
21.9
23.1
14.1
20.1
19,2
21,8
26.2
27,1
38,0
22,7
21.2
15.6
28.1
13.9
19,2

18.2
12.0
10.1
11.1
17.3
17.0
12.0
18.7
16.8
14.7
16,2
19.1
5.1
17,0
13,0
19,8
12.2
20.1
18.4
17.5
i&Je
17.8
17.9
16.7
13.3
11.7
25.5
11.5
19.2
10.3
14.0
17.0
14.0
15.0
26.6
21.6
16.7
15.9
11.3
19.9
14.0

2.2
3.6
2.0

2.7
8.6
5.4
6.4

6.8
8.6
6.2
2.1
9.2
10.5
8,9
3.3
1.9
-

0.8
4.2
9.4
9.3
10.1
6,0
7.9
5.9
2.6
2.4
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11.5
3.3
3.3
5.8
6,4
1.8
3.2
8.1
12.5
5.9
3.1
4,0

2«6

14.4
5.5
5.4
11,7
16,5
10.3
12,1
10,3
18,5
9.9
7.1
8.8

19,0
23.5
20.0
21.5
19.9
19,6
11.

27.2
20,0
21.1
12.2
16.4
16.0
20.0
23.8
23.9
23.9
18.6
19.3
13,6
25.0
11.4
21,2
19.3
14.1
16.1
18.2
19,5
25,1
22,2
23,1
25.9
15,6
18,9
18,2

21.8
17.3
20.2
19,8
21,4
28,4
24.8
24,8
28.4
17.2
23,0
18.0

2.1
4.2
-1.6
1.6
3.6
1.8
2.5
1,6
2.5
.3

1.9
2.0
1.^

3.f
3.2

1.8
2.4
3,2
4,1

4.1
1.9
2.0
3.1
2.5
-2.R
2.5
3.2
4.1
1.6
1.9
3.3
2.6
1.7
2.5
1.6
4.1
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Gain

Districts under
County Superintendents 1920-21

McKean
Mercer
Mifflin
Monroe
Montsoraery

Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Snyder
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Venango
Warren
Washington
Wajnae

Westmoreland
Wyoming
York

6.1
12.8
10.9
8.7
8.8
-

5.9
2.6
6.5
-

3.3
3.4
9,5
6.1
3.4

4.8
2.9
12.2
5.6
5.9
8.2
8.3
10.9
8.1
6.3

Loss

in Pe rd'int

1926-27
10.0
20.6
9.6
15.5
14.9
12.3
9.9
8.1
8.9
10.0
9.7
7.4
14.1
9.2
12.7
0.2
5.7
17.1
7.6
11.5
13.2
10.2
9.9
16.6
8.8

1928-29
12.1
25.2
12.9
20.1
20.3
14.7
11.0
10.7
13.8
22.2
12.9
10.3
19.4
12.8
16.5
15.1
14.7
25.1
11.7
17.6
15.6
14.0
13.8
19.8
11.4

1930-31 1931-32
19.6
21.5
17.2
30.2
24.5
16.3
11.4
17.2
22.0
26.8
20.1
15.2
24.9
15.5
21.8
22,4
19.3
26.5
16.3
19.2
19.1
22.4
21.3
26,7
15.9

20.3
25.5
16.7
34.2
28.6
13.6
12.4
19.2
23.0
32.7
2G.3
17.8
25,6
17.5
23.7
24.4
24.0
30,0
18.2
24.0
21.7
20.7
22.9
32.2
17.3

1930-31
1931-32

1920-21
1931-32
14.2
12.7
5.8
25.5
19.8
13.6
6.5
16.6
16.5
32.7
17.0

14.4
16.1
11.4
20.3
19.6
21.1
17.8
12.6
18.1
13.5
12.4
12.0
24,1
11.0

NOTE: Data for this study -vere tak?n from official records on file in the
Department of Public Instruction for the years indicated.

4.0
-

4.0
4.1
-2.7
1.0

2.0
1.0
5.9
.2

2.6
.7

2.0
1.9
2.0

4.7
3,5
1.9
4.8
2.6
-i-7
1.6
5.5
1.4

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Gommom'iTealth of Pennsylvania
DSPARTlffiNT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
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HarriEburg

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PRESIDBNTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
Thursday,

December

1932

DOCKET
I.

II.

III.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meeting of the
Board of Presidents held at Harrisburg, November 15, 1932

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of Curriciilar Revision Committee

Report of committee on "Centralized Purchasing for the
State Teachers Colleges"

Report of Fee Committee

Report of committee re "Budgets for 1933-1935"

Report of committee on "'Entrance Requirements"

New Business
1.

Question of policy concerning certification of graduates
of the State Teachers Colleges

Health Fees for 1933-34

Federal tax on admissions to games conducted by the State
Teachers Colleges

Meeting of the Deans of Instruction

Development of a uniform "Student Progress Card"

Number and names of students not admitted to State Teachers
Colleges

Results of
1.

Minnesota College Aptitude Tests

Iowa Placement Examinations

JOURNiO, OF

MEETING

THE

STATE TK^CHERS COLLEGES

BO.vRD OF PRESIDENTS,

Thursday, December 8, 1932

A regular meeting

of the Board of Presidents of the
State Teachers Colleges of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania was held in the Superintendent's Conference Room of the Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was called to order b3»the Chaiiman at 9:30 o'clock.

The following were present:

Francis 3. Haas
Robert M, Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G. C. L. Riemer
T. T. Allen
C. C. Crawford
Charles R. Foster
Ao C. Rothermel
Dallas 'M. Ariastrong
William R. Straughn
Albert Lindsajr Rowland
J. Linwood Eisenberg
Norman W. Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsbur^
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N. Rule, Chairman

Henry Klonower, Secretary
Doctor Landis Tanger, President of the State Teachers
College at Mllersville, was absents.
^*

A pproval of the minutes of the meeting
of the Board of Presidents h_e_ld in,
Harrisburg November 1 5, 1952
,

Doctor Straughn raised a question concerning the interpretation of "Formal Opinion No. 70 - Dejartment of
Justice" as it appears on page 732 of the minutes of the
meeting of the Board held November 15, 1932. The question

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was "Could or could not the student activity fee as
proposed be handled directly by the cooperative
association?"
He felt that this should be cleared
and definitely stated in the minutes so that each of
the Presidents would be sure of his procedure v/ith
reference to the use of the student activity fee set
up as a separate fund and administered by the
cooperative association.
Doctor Rule stated that l\'Ir Arnold's reaction to his
question was to the effect that this could be done.
He further stated that Mr. Arnold had told him this
student activity fee could be collected through the
local organization or association. It is a voluntary fee to cover all the extra-curricular activities and to be administered under the direct supervision of the Presidents.
,

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor
Steele it was voted that action on the minutes be
deferred until the next meeting of the Board, since
it was not possible to get the minutes into the hands
of the Presidents for their consideration prior to
the meeting of the Board today.

II.

Unfinished Business
1

Repor t ^o f Curricular Revis ion
Committee
^

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Curricular Revision
Committee, reported progress.
2.

Report of committee on "Centralized
Purchasing for the State Teachers
Colleg es"

Doctor Straughn', Chairman of the comraittee, reported
for the committee.

The Report follows as

Ei^iiibit

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On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Cameron
it was voted that the report as submitted by Doctor
Straughn be accepted.
3

Report of Fee Conmittee

Doctor Strauf^hn, Chairman of the Committee, reported
for the committee. He stated that there was not much
change in the basic principle of the fee committee
report. However, the committee did feel that item:
I.

II.

III.

Student Activity Fee
Contingent Fee
Housing Fee

should be slightly changed to meet the present conditions.
Therefore, a modified report on these three items follows:

TENTATIVE PROPOSALS
FOR
IMIF0RI\([ FEES, DEPOSITS, and REPAlJ/iENTS
IN THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
To beccme effective June 1. 1933

A.
1.

FEES

Student Activity Fee

A fee to be determined by each institution
will be collected from all students and administered under regulations approved by the Board of
Trustees through a cooperative organization. This
fee will cover the cost of student activities in
athletics, lectures, entertainments ^ student publications, et ceterao
II.

Contingent Fee

A contingent fee for all students

is charged

as follows:

Half Semester Summer Session
Elementary Curriculmns
Secondary Curriculums
Art
Commercial Education
Health Education
Home Economics
Industrial Arts
Music
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vie. 00
18.00
27,00
21.00
27 .00

36.00
27.00
54.00

This fee covers registration and keeping of
records of students, library, student welfare,
health service (other than extra nurse and quarantine) and laboratory facilities.
III.

Housing Fee
1.

Housing rate for students:
The housing rate for students shall be ^63.00
per one-half semester and .^42.00 for the Sumner
Session. This includes room, meals and limited
laundry,
(a)

For rooms with running water an additional charge of ,?9.00 per student
per semester, or -ijiS.OO for the Summer
Session may be made,

(b)

No reduction in the rate is to be
made for laundry done at home nor
for absence of students 'Mio go home
for a few days at a time.

(c)

A student may, at the discretion of
the President of the college, occupy
a double room alone by paying an
additional .^36.00 a semester or
^12.00 for the Summer Session.

(d)

For the purpose of meeting the requirements in those colleges where offcampus rooming students board in the
college dining room, and to meet the
requirements of the Home Management
Clubs in the two institutions maintaining home economics curriculum©, the
housing rate shall be divided ,>2.00 for
room rent and ^5.00 for table board.

On motion of Doctor Straughn seconded by Doctor Foster it
'^^^ vo'fced that the tentative report of the Fee Committee be
accepted as submitted with the thought in mind that nothing
more definite could be done until the matter of budgets v/as
settled.
4 . R eport of committee re " Budgets
for 1955-1955"

Doctor Foster, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the
committee. He stated that the committee had had a very
informal meeting and had discussed the matter of budgets^

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The figures sent in by the Presidents indicate that the
instructional costs would amount to over six million
dollars if the State were to assume the obligation which
it is legally responsible for.

Mr. Sponsler from the Governor's Office appeared before
the Board. He stated that he did not believe there
would be included within the budget for the operation of
the State Teachers Colleges more than approximately three
million dollars. He further stated that if the institutions asked that the amount of money collected by each
college be returned to each college, changes in the law
would be necessary.

Doctor Eisenberg asked -'hether the committee had considered the matter of the fees for the summer session.
Doctor Foster replied that they had discussed the matter
and had a tentative plan in mind.
On motion of Mr. Allen seconded by Doctor Cameron it was
voted^ to adjourn for luicheon at 12:40 and reconvene at

1;45 PoM.

Doctor Rule stated that a very comprehensive statement
should be drawn up in support of the budgets for the
State Teachers Colleges nith two ideas in mind:
1.

What amount of fees shall the students pay?

What are the maximum economies that can be
made on the instructional and non-instructional sides of these institutions?

On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Camei'on it was
voted that the Fee Committee and the Budget Committee hold
a joint meeting to review the situation as presented and
draft a statement which the Board could recommend to the
State Superintendent for submittal as an explanatory statement. The statement should point out the present general
situation of the Teachers Colleges, their desire to cooperate
from the point of view of economy and efficiency, the advisability at this period of reconsidering a system which is
apparently not functioning well from the point of view of
giving to the students the services for which they pay fees,
and the proposal that certain activities be segregated^

The Fee Committee and Budget Committee therefore, absented
themselves from the Board Meeting for the purpose of drafting
the statement recominended by the Board
^

The joint recommendation of the Fee and Budget Committee follows:

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"Joint recommendation of:

Fee Committee
Dr. Steele
Dr. Foster
Dr. Straughn

B udge t Committee
Dr. Haas
Dt". Rov/land

Dr. Steele
Dr. Foster, Chairman

Inasmuch as it would appear that the sum of 56,000,000 will be required
for the next biennium 1933-1935 for the instructional costs in the State
Teachers Colleges exclusive of the cost of instructing summer and special
session students and accepting the standards of instructional personnel that
have been set up by the Budget Committee and tentatively approved by that
Committee and representatives of the Budget Office and further accepting the
existing Salary Qualification Schedule approved by the Executive Board, the
following fees are recommended in which recommendation the "housing fee" is
understood to be returnable to the several institutions in the amount collected
by them and available for the purposes for which it is paid and in which the
"student activity fee" is to be collected and administered through a cooperative organization and in which the so-called "contine;ent ree" is intended to
discharge in part the obligation of the Commonwealth to meet the full cost of
instruction in the State Teachers Colleges in accordance with Section 2009 of
the School Code.
It is the opinion of the committee that this "contingent fee" representing for the regular curricula -i^VS.OO per year as the maximum charge for
instructional services ?/hich may be made without a serious hardship to the
students attending these colleges and a possible reduction in enrollment to
a point to endanger the supply of legally qualified teachers for the public
schools of the Commonwealth.
Tlais fee on the present enrollment basis will provide ^IjSOO.OOO of
the ^6,000,000 already set up as the instructional requirement for the next
biennium as the cost of instruction, leaving a balance of ^4, 500, 000 to be
met by appropriation of the G-eneral Assembly, or by increased "contingent
fees", or decreased services.

It is understood that the Governor will include in his budget representation to the General Assembly but >S,000,000 for instructional costs
in the State Teachers Colleges.
In this event there is a discrepancy of
^1,500,000 which must be made up either by larger appropriations on the
part of the General Assembly or by further curtailment in the maintenance
and operation of the State Teachers Colleges, which curtailment we regard
as dangerous to the program of teacher preparation for the public schools
of the Commonwealth.
It is further understood as has already been stated that summer session
costs and special session costs are not included in the above figure, it
being the recommendation of the committee that a fee for such instruction be
charged in such amount as entirely to meet the cost of such instruction
exclusive of plants grounds, and administrative charges.

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The committee believes that a fee of vS^OO per semester
hour will discharge in. full such instructional costs.

December

1932"

On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by Doctor Eisenberg it
was voted to accept the joint recommendation of the committee
on fees and budgets to be submitted to the State Superintendent.
^

•

Report o_f committee on
Requirements"

" Entrance

Discussion postponed.
III.

New Business
1

Q,uestio n of policy concerning certification
of graduates of the State Teachers Colleges

Discussion postponed.
2.

Health Fees for 1953-54

On motion of ¥ir. Allen seconded by Doctor Cameron it was voted
to remove this item from the docket.
3.

Federa l tax on admissions to games conducted by the State Teachers Colleges

Doctor Haas stated that certain questions had come up within
his institution relative to Federal tax on admissions to games
conducted by the State Teachers Colleges and that he had
written to Mr. W. M. Denison, Deputy Superintendent for the
Department of Public Instruction, as follows:
"I would like to suggest that at the
next meeting of the Board of Presidents
which will be held Thursday, December 8,
in Harrisburg, that this be put on the
docket and that a representative of the
Revenue Department be invited to make
clear our responsibilities and limitations in this matter."

Mr. Denison had been in touch with the Department of Justice
relative to the matter and had vford from Mr. Arnold, Deputy

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Attorney General of the Department of Justice, to the effect
that a statement from the Department of Justice v/ould suffice.
Mr, Arnold, therefore, submitted the following v/ritten statement:

"Honorable '7, M. Denison
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Dear Mr. Denison:
I acknoviledge receipt of your letter of
December 5 in which you inquire whether State
Teachers Colleges must collect or pay the
Federal admissions tax on moneys received frora
paid admissions at athletic events^

Moneys received at State Teachers Colleges
for activities officially sponsored by the college
are paid into the State Treasury just as any other
money accruing to the Commonwealth, They belong
to the G-eneral Fuiid of the Commonwealth
Moreover, State Teachers Colleges are not
independent entities but are directly ovmed and
operated by the State.
In my opinion, the Federal Government would not have authority to
require the State, through a teachers college to
pay any admission tax out of moneys belonging to
the Comnonwealth or collect such a tax from
persons who attend the events in question.
I am returning the material which you sent me
with your letter.

Very truly

Dec. 5, 1932

yo\irs,

Harris C. Arnold,
Deputy Attorney General."

On motion of Doctor Foster seconded by Doctor Cameron it was
voted that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of the
opinion to ^each President and they individually take such
action as seemed advisable.
^'

Meeting of the Defens of Instruction

The Secretary of the Board stated that a meeting of this nature
had been held heretofore together with the members of the Curricular Revision Coinmlttee and it had appeared that such a meeting had been very helpful.

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On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by Doctor Crav/ford it was
voted that it is the sense of the Board of Presidents, that
they deem it unvfise to hold a meeting of the Deans of Instruction at this time.

Developmen t of a_ uniform "Student
Progress Card. "

The Secretary stated that a "Student I-Togress Card"' had been
received from one of the State Teachers Colleges and it
appeared that this mi^ht be a good form to be standardized
for all the colleges.
On motion of Mr. Allen seconded by Doctor Eisenberg it was
voted that this form be submitted to the Gomraittee on the
Standardization of Printing Forms for the State Teachers
Gollegeso

Numb er and names of students not
admitted to State Teachers Colleges

On motion of Doctor Foster seconded by Doctor Cameron it was
voted that this item be removed from the docket.

Result s of
1,
Minnesota College .aptitude Test s
2
Iowa Placemen t Examinat ions

The Secretary raised a question whether a committee should be
authorized to bring together the results of the examinations
given to entering students in the State Teachers Colleges last
year.

Doctor Rowland stated that he was not sure the results of these
tests would be helpful at this time since they were only given
to students in the lower half of the high school graduating class.
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Foster it was
voted that this item be removed fron the docket,
IV.

Miscellaneous
1

Calenda r of State Teachers Colleges

1932-55

Doctor Haas stated that the calendar for the second semester of
this school year provides that the classes begin after the
Christmas Holidays on January 2, 1955, which is the legal holiday for New Year's Day and he felt it might be wise to begin on
January 3, 1933 instead of January 2, 1933.
On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Ivlr. Allen it was voted that
the opening day f or the second semester be shifted from Noon,
January 2, 19 53 to Noon, January 3, 1933,
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Mew Standar ds for the
Elementary Teachers

C ertification o f

The Secretary received the following memorandum from the Secretary
of the State Council of Education:
"The State Council of Education, at its
meeting held on December 2 passed the
following resolution;

RESOLVED, That the resolution adopted
at the meeting on June 16, 1932 setting
new standards for the certification of
elementary teachers be amended so as to
eliminate September 1, 1936, as the date
for all new entrants into the elementary
teaching field to have four years of post
high school preparation, and
'

That this Council postpone setting the
effective date for this requirement until
such time as the effect of the standards
set in the aforementioned resolution may
be seen. '

The Council also authorized the Chairman
to appoint a committee to study the
question of the nev; standards for the
certification of elementary teachers
adopted at the June 16, 1932 meetingo
The Chairman appointed the following committee:
Doctor Dickey, Chairman; Doctor
Straughn and I\/Ir. Klonower."
^

D^"fce for entrane e examin ations for the State
Teachers Colleges

Doctor Steele, Chairman of the Committee, stated that it was the
recommendation of the committee that January 13, 1933 be set as
the date for the examinations to be given to applicants for
admission to the second semester of the school year 1932-33 and
that each college select the test that is to be given to each
student.
The committee further recommends that July 14, 1933 be
designated as the regular examination date for applicants for
the school year 1933-34 and that September 1, 1935 be the final
day on which such examinations may be taken. The committee Tdll
report at a later date on the test to be given for the next
school year.

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On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Foster it
was voted to accept the recommendation of the committee re
entrance examinations of students for admission to the
State Teachers Colleges.
On motion of Mr. -alien seconded by Doctor Eisenberg it v/as
voted to adjourn at 4:15 P.M. to reconvene on January 27,
1933 at 9:30 o'clock in Harrisburg.

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oecretary

Appro

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state Supamntendent of Public Instruction

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Centralized Purchasin g at State Teac hero College s

(li-hiblt A)

To comply v/ith centralized purchasing, the institution
subrnitb a requisition to the Department of Property and Supplies.
Upon receipt of such requisition, bids are solicited on materials
requested so that prices inay he determined. After prices hs.ve
been indicated on the requisition, it is sent to the Department

When approved, the requisition
of Public Instruction for approval.
is returned to the Deioartment of Property and Supplies and the
order is placed.
The attached information relative to centralizod purchasinghas been obtained from answers to the following questions sent
to Prebi&lents ol Stcite Teachers Colleges:

many aays elapse between the date of the requisition
and the delivery of snipment?

Hov/

How many days elapse between the date of delivery of shipment and payment of the account?
7/hat

is the

Wiiat

creases

estimated percent of purchases tnus delayed?

the estimated amount and percent of inventory innecesbar.v because of delay in replenishing stock?

If unmarked branas have been
give il j.ust rat i ons

su'btit

ituted for standard orands

If quality of printing
lustrat ions

mst itut ion

lias

been unsat isf a.ct ory, give il-

Delivery of 'Payment '^ of Pur'chases DeGoods
of
'

Goods

'layed

Increase

Sub -^t itut ion

of unmarked
Inventory 'brands for
'standarc etc,
in

4-6 wks

3-4 wks

10-20

32 days

14 days

100

None

3-4 wks

2b fa

20^

$5,000
10-40 days 10-30days 10

12tfo

42,000
1-10 mos.

4-5 wks

100

3-4 wks

2-3 wks

60
(ovev.

14_48 wks

10-15 days 100
after Req.
for payment

6Qf,

33 l/3^
2 T^ks)

25^
$500

Delivery
of goods

Institution

Payment of
goods

% of Purchases Delayed

Increase in Substitution
Inventory
of uninarlced
"brands for
standard, e.

Questions ans¥;erod in general terns.
Centralized
purchc-Sing shows gradual irnprovemei-it

No criticism to offer.
Chief complaint on book
stox^e purchases.
Store eliminated because of
delay.

criticism to offer,
"Learned to forecast our needs
and to work with Property and Supplies",

]>To

2-3

36 da.

31 da.

3-6 wks

2-6

v^ks

Unable tc
estimate

100^

v/ks

Nov.

30,

1932

James LI. Rule
Harrisburg, Pa,
Dr.

Dear Dr

Rules

You ViTill recall that at the last meeting of the Board
of Presidents you 3.sked each President to submit to m.e in detail
typical examples of unsatisfactory purchases arising through
Centralized Purchasing. Much of this me^terial is now in my hands,
and I e.m submitting this to you so that you v/ill he^ve these examples in your command when you need them. Because of the clerical work involved and ray inability to supply same, I am not
making a detailed analysis of the material originallj'- sent to
5

Mr. Crosley for our committee, but you can readily obtain this
from Mr. Crosley at any time. I a.m submitting to you v/i th this
letter the follov/ing:

A brief resume of the replies given to Mr, Crosley
in response to the Oj^uestions asked some tine ago.
1.

The statement of the purchases relative to the time
which they hs.ve to devote to these transactions a.nd the
correction of errors,
The typical examples which I myself have just re2.
These are
cently collected from most of the Presidents.
of grec:.t value to a cormiiittee of investigation.

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3.
A corapa.c t stateraent of the proceG-es "by v/hich a
state institution gId tains and pa,y3 for nna t-jrials secured
through Centralized Purchasing, and the ramifications
thereof.
I have all of this raiterial in detail, and if
at any time my presence is needed to substantiate your
argument hefore a.ny coirimittee, please feel free to call
on Ee
„

Very sincerely yours,
•ffiSsHRJ

^711110.111

Straughn

EXHIBIT I.

A resume of the reply cf the Presidents of the institutions,
made in detail to Mr. Crosley some time ago, shows that it takes
from three v/eeks to ten months for the delivery of goody
it
takes from three to five weeks for the payment of goods, c^fter
same has been delivered" there is aminos t 100^ delay in the ;ourchc.se of materials, necessi ta.ted by this systeii? there is an inventory ?.ncre:i;,:e in the institutions from 20^ to 100^ in order
that m.aterialv may be on hand. All of this can be fully understood v;hen you refer to the typical ex.?omples listed under
Exhibit II.
^

The Presidents all exrires'-. themselves as unable because of
the complexities of administration to tell definitely v/hat these
delays and increases within the system have cost additii-'nal for
the state, but all of them agree that at les.st one extra clerk
ha.s had to be hired, an;l some state that more help than that
had to be taken on.
Great increases in the number of files and
in records, nscessi testing more space at the institution,
i th
all of these du-licsitions in the various departments at Plarrisburg.
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In addition practically every transaction is subject not
only to delay but to errors and substitutes to such extent that
from 40^ to 60^ of the time of the college President is taken up
to make satisfactory adjustments..

All of t:ic Presidents who have expressed themselves are careful to state tha.t they do not regard the unsatisfactory conditions
as being due to the personnel of the Centralised Purchasing ^^gency,
but 3.bsolutely to the system. All of us have had excellent cooperation from the men in the Departm.ent of Property and Supplies,
but we firmly believe tliat the system is a failure.

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Exhibit III.
November 29, 1932

The follov/ing pciper trr.nsact i jns r,ro neccssr'.ry
in orery purch".se mr.de by a state institution through a
central purchasing agency, tho Dep irtniont jf Property &

Supplies
1.

4.
5.

6.
7.

8.
£t

10.
14

15.

16.

17
18.
i

Purchase request rn^ade out by the head of the institution.
Request purchases to the Departraent of Property
& Supplies, made out by the business office of
the institution.
The order from the Department of Prjp'.rty & Supplies, a copy of which is returned to the institution.
Slip for the Recuiving Clerk, madu out by the business office.
Receiving slip from the Receiving Clurk shov/ing
delivery of goods.
Bills to be checked with receiving slip.
Invoice with two sto^mps on back, :>n^ of which hi.s
to be signed by the head of the dep.artment.
Vouchers have to be made out for these trans act i-ns.
Requisition for payment of "bills, which has to go
through the central Department a.t Harrisburg.
to lifter this request for payment has been approved,
vouchers must be copied in the books under the headsVoucher register. Operating account book, Classificatijn accounts, Functions.
Wh^n checks ar^ received from thv- Treasury Department, same have to be listed.
The vjuchers listed under item 8 have to be filled
out again v/ith ch^ck number, department and vira.rrant.
Check is then ma.iled to vendor.
^'1.11 vouchers
at time the check is to be mailed have
t) be signed by the heo.d jf the institution.

This is a total of 18 distinct transact i ..ns each
several sub-transactions, and ma/ny of theSe transactions
ar^ madv, out on fr:'m four to seven copies, to be distributed
a,nd filed at the institution and araeng the severp.l departments o,t Harrisburg, thus greatly increasing the clerical
force and space for files.
,

"With

In all pr-^bability there are twenty times as many
transacti -.ns a-s were formerly required before central cellecting and purchasing agencies becrjne a part of the state
la.w.

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EXHIBIT II.
At this time the follov/ing institutiony have submitted
typical examples to me, as Chairman of th..- Committee:
l/Iansf ield, Indiana, Edinboro, Kutztown, East Stroudsourg,
Bloomsburg, Slippery Rock, Shippo-nsburg, Lock Haven, Clarion.
Edinboro and Kutzto.vn have stated that they have made only small
number of purchaocs and at this particular timu have no unusual
I wish you would personally read the examples
criticisms to offer.
of the other ins t itutionfS v/hich examples shovi/- a wide rang..- in all
types of orders
You will recall that we ask^^-d for only five or
six recent typical examples.
,

It is probable that th'- institutions which hav-- not yet sent
their material will do so witiiin a fev-/ ays anu same v;ill
be at your command.
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Mansfield State Teachers College
Examples of Unsatisfactory Centralized Purchasing

Requisition A - 115,266 (datud August 1, 1952) - order placed
by Harrisburg, August 16, on schedule for 100 steel book ends
75^163, requested from Gaylord Brothers of Syracuse who are a.
library supply house. We were careful to state that we must
have just what we requisitioned in order to match these nov/
in use in our library both as to size and color.
Order was
placed with Roberts ana Meek on schedule for 100 steel book
ends 2-23 B.
These were received September 28, nearly tv;o
months aftor the requisition was submitted from Mansfield.
Please note the extrem^^ delay even in placing an order for
something on schedule. Vflien theSe book ends arrived they Were
found to be of very inferior quality, of smaller siZw, and of
the T/rong color.
After correspondence on our part, we were
instructed to return these, which Yie did on October 21. Return
charges v/ere 66^, charged to the college.
Order v/as then placed
for the e:cact goods requested, it can come through in quick
time.
The entire transaction took ex2.ctly three m.onths to
secure a small library supply totalling $14,95.

Requisition A - 115,253 (dated August l) v/as a list of books,
juvenile type, to be furnished the college v/ith reinforced
bindings cind buckram covers, to stand the hard Wear from children.
On the s.-Jiic date, requisition A-115,254, we likev/ise
requested purchase of another list of books. Y/e virere careful
to state in the first requisition just v/hat v/e wanted as regards bindings, and covers, and likewise the second requisition
which was a straight order for books entirely apa.rt from the
preceding requisition, did not call for aiiy reinforced bindings
or covers.
These orders were filled by William Gable Company
of Altoona, a,nd v/hen the books arrived, same v;ere checked, but
we did not knov/ just what had ha.ppened to the orders until
ITovember 1 vmen the bill, a,pproved "b^^ the Department of Property
and Supplies, rea,ched us.
Then v\ic noted that there was a considerable cost above our estimate. Ilore ca.reful checking,
taking a great dec.l of time, together vfith correspondence, re-

vcr.lcd that William F. Gabl^i; Company had ruinforcod both book
ordvjrs, instead of just th^ first requisition, which v/as not in

accordance with our instructions and an unnecessary
making a total ..dditional cost of ^105.00
III.

IV.

'.^xpons^,

Requisition A-115,177 (datjd April 23) - order A-145039,
filled by Cotterol Company of Harrisburg, called for thrO'.
Thes^ items tot^.lled 04.00, apsuppliv-'S used in filing.
parently on the Stcite sch..C:Ul'jd list, approved by the Depr.rtm'-nt of
Property ana Si'.pplies. Prior to making out this requisition,
which ¥;as sent tiirough Harrisburg, v/u ho.d rc;quested quotation
from Cott^rcl Company .m those supplies, c-.s we hau in mina th',t
v/e might purchase thom una^r an emergency order, but not finding
this necessary, v/e placed the requisition through Property anc.
Th^ 4iroct quotation give-n to us v;.;s ^•S.4c, but when
Supplies.
the bill came through the Department of Property and Supplies it i
v/ad for $.4.00, evidently shoviring the tendency of firms to increase
the cost to take care of the long aelay in payments that h^-ve to
I pert.on:come through the State routine, in centralized purcna„ses.
ally haye knov/ledge of many oth^r such inst:jice3, especially in
paints

Requisition A-115,172, order A-2901 as of last Hay. we found
necessary to purchase a new chlorinator for our v/ater supply.
The old cnlorinator was liquid feed, ana it proved unsatisfactory.
I had ray superinteneent of grounds ana buildings visit near by
water supplies ana investigate adequate types of ohlor ino-tor s with
the resjlt that v/e requestea trie purchc-se of dry feec. cnlorinator
Bids were rec^ivec. by the
as manufactured by Pardee Company.
Dep^^^^-rtm^nt of Property anc. Supplies ana the quotations wer^ Sent
showing Wo.llace ana Ti-rnan low biduer on a dry
to me for C0i.r.":i-nt
feed at C-eOO 00 Po.rdee at 1.362. 50; Paradon Manufactur in.e Company
at $610.00.
I recommended the purchase of the Pardee because of
our personal knov/ledge of its satisfaction, but knov/ing nothing
against the Wallace and Tiernan dry feed, I was willing to accept
same as 1 ov; bid, providing satisfaction coula be guaranteed.
The
result was that Wallace and Tiernan, low biddv^r. Sent us a chlorincotor, which from the very first o-ppeared to be not what we wanted.
However, we did not h .ve occasion to install this cnlorinator until
early in September and right from the very beginning it gave us
trouble.
The fi>..la represent^.tive of Wallace 'j-nc. Tiern?.n saia it
T/ould not be satisfactory ana he h::d repeatedly told us so; now
we v/ere finding this to be true v/ithin two weeks ;.ft^-r installing
of this ^SJilorinatoia
We were instructed to send the compensator
to the factory, which v/e aid, ana received a bill for (voO.OO,
along v/ith an express charge which v/e had paid.
I v;as surprisea
that tiler e woula be any charge to the compensr-tor and took up tiie
m atter with the coi^pany ana with property & Supplies, with the
result th.t the chargeo wero cancelled, st-.tement being made that
this was in error and we a^ain relied on this chlorinator.
Conditions did not im.prove.
Practically ever^r aay this chlorinator
has haa to be adjusted, taking hours of the tiiV.e of our engineer.
Finally, Wallace and Tiernan have officially informea us that this
chlorinator v/ill never prove sat isf :.c-c ory for our purpose, offering
to take tnis back ;.t full allowance :.nu offering to supply one of
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cost which
riilorin-.torb -t liquid food at a much higher
tnx3
urgcncjvof
thu
of
Bocauu.
"k.
v/c
th.
do
v/ill
they .nature us
tn.ir
on
put
to
,n
Ticrn
:.nu
^.^:ll..c.
mStt.r. wu hav. in.truct.d
Thi3 iu being aon- now to xnaure txic ho...lth
bobt chlorin.tor*
.ajuat-.nd th. mj,tt..r is still r^vaxtmg
body,
college
our
ox
I do
ouppli^3.
and
Property
of
.rtm.nt
D.p
tn.
ments through
v/ill h.
outcome
the
what
or
is
status
present
not know what th.
supplied ut; w.ay
All I know is th'it th-. chlorinr.tor which was
t^ieir

purpos.. ..nd ^'-"gr^o^"
v.ry unsatisf-^ctory, v.ry inadequate for our
arn compelled to aaopt dr.,.tic
I
and
students
our
of
health
to tho
This is an
m.ans to maintain th. health of this institution.
with a
example, of tho in:L;oility to deal directly and quickly
firm when a mtter is of the most urgent importance.

Requisitiun ..-115,195-95 (dated ..pril 21) for approximately
construction
1700.00 worth of lumher much needed for repairs and
We heard
that had to he made in the spring ana e.^rly sumiiier.
order, no
confirming
no
had
and
requisition,
this
from
nothing
ot
Purchases
of
Director
the
to
wrote
I
under date of June 20,
this along.
the Department of Property and Supplies to nurry
July we
Some time
Please note that two months had elaps-d.
Lumber
Lunuy
the
by
furnished
lumhe^r
the
received
apparently
the
Company of Williamsport accompanied hy communication from
Thio
local railroad station that same v/as being held for us.
college,
cost us $25.00 for delivery from the station to the
lumber,
lor
coot
tne
of
part
as
mind
in
home
be'
should
v/hich
aside from the long delay before this v/as made c.vailable for our
\7e could h .ve purchased this lumo-r
use, namely three montas.
Mansfielc.
in Very quick oru^r from a lumber company located ne-.r
Tne result
immediately.
it
had
have
would
ana
cost,
greater
no
-^.t
was that we had to buy some lumber in the meanwhile on .,n emergency oraer to make very urgent repairs.

VI. Printing

The printing work has not been satisfactory, at any time. The
August quarterly printed by the State v/as indeed a very poor
The proof v/c.s not sent to me as requested, erpiece of work.
rors occurred in composition, and vmole paragrapns were repeated
This had to
at the beginning and at the «.nd of the quarterly.
go out to hundreds of students in their homes as representative
At another time vre
of the college', a shameful piece of work.
These
placed an order for v^nvelopes to be supplied v/ith clasps.
Were dv^livered to us without clasps as unusable.
VIII.

Whenever we place an order for hardware or miscellaneous items
of construction, these items come to us from approximately
The result is that
all over the country, never from one firm.
We have had no
our receiving clerk cannot check them properly.
confirming order shovnng where these come from, and frequently
we receive goods undesignated, and much later find that this was
intended for some other college or institution, yet it appears
This sojne kind of confusion occurs
to be a part of our ord^r.
in book orders although if all of these same things came into
us at one time from the same firm, there would be only a slight

*3^.d-ditionr-.l chc.rgo
if any, and W'J v/ould bo yaved call th^- confusion and urrors v/hi ch. subsequently arise, and the long dolaya
Frequently, we receive goods and weeks and months
in payment.
elapse before v/e can secure the bill, v/ith the result that commitments pil'j up and ^ndang^^r our budget at the end of the year.
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East Stroudsburg
Item

Paint for Homo Com.ing decorations which was observed Saturday,
Nov. 12, 1932.
Req. B-22371 forwarded to Harrisburg October
22 marked "Please Rush."
Telexjhoned Harrisburg November 8
advising them that the matvjrial was needed at once.
Confirmation r^ceivod da.ted November 9, 1932.
Roberts & Heck A-163422.
Material not receiv>-d to date.
Item II
Chemicals for cl.?„ss room purposes in the Laboratory of Sciv^ncc
Department
Req. B-22787-88 forwarded to Harrisburg August 1, 1932.
Confirming Orders A-9884 and A-157790 dat>-d S'-pt^^mber 8 and
Septc.-mbvjr 7 respectfully.
Placed v/ith Y/illiams, Brovm &
Earlo.
Part of order recciv-d October 26, 1932. Balance Nov. 21, 1932
The Science Department ?ra,s grer.tly handicapped by the delay
and it is ?. question in my mind v/heth-r they oan really
make up t-ie loss of the time and instruction v^hich the
delay of th^ materials in tne order caused theso classes.

Item III
Req. B-22317 forwarded to Harrisburg ^Yugust 1, 1932.
Unfilled Dummies.
Harrisburg would not furnish article asked for and after

considerable correspondence Confirming Order A-159154
dated September 23, 1932 was placed v/ith ^jThipples
Sporting Goods Company.
Material received October 1, 1932.
Inferior quality thus
making it necessary for the class instructors and the
Pootball coaches to use individual itien in their instruction by virtue of r.-: t having the dummies with
v/hich to work.
Three injuries costing more than
tv/ice the purcnase price of the dummies are directly
traceable to the failur^ of prompt deliv^-ry on the
order.

Item IV
Req. B-22838 forwo.rded to Harrisburg September 12, 1932.
Two Rugs
^ift'-r considerable correspondence not only with Depc;,rtment of
Prop^.rty and Supplies, but v;ith Vto. E. Gable Company,
Confirming Orders A-12389 and A-163150 dated November
10 and November 15 respectfully, v;ere placed with
Vto. E. Gable.
io' u'-."ce rugs have not been received.

-9Item V
300 ft. Concrete
Req. B-3199 forwo.rdcd to H-rrisburg Mo-y 14.
Pipe.
Confirming Order A-5827 d.?-ted June 14, 1932 pIr'.GOd yrith
Concrete Products Company of /unerica.
We reMa.terial of very poor quality received June 18.
ceived from Concrete Products Company of iijneric.a, 300ft.
of loose-grained concrete pipe without reinforcement, the
walls of which raii from l-l/S" to 1-5/8" thick, averaging about 1-3/8" thick; the inside diameter averaging
14-3/4"
We are advised that the Stroudsburg Septic Tank
Co. bid on the full dimentioned pipe as specified ,nd reinforced, 200 ft. of which they had previously furnished
for the same job
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Item VI
Req. B-22759 forwarded to Harrisburg July 1, 1932 for
Dining Room China.
Harrisburg did not supply make of china desired ?.nd ?viter
considerable correspondence : Confirming Order ji-7993
dated ^lUgust 8 was placed with H. L. Hoechetetter Co.
One shipment of this order v/as received Sept. 19 and
another Sept. 21.
There are two items still due on this order, Bakers and
V/e need both of these things badly.
Sauce boats.
At present vire are having to use soup plates for some
of our Veget-ables dishes due to the failure of these
bp.kers to arrive and our Sauce boat situation is deplorable
.

Purchase request dated September 19, 1932. V/axed paper.
v/as forv/arded to Harrisburg September 19, 1932.
Confirming Order A-160860 dated October 13, 1932. Placed
v/ith IvI. J. Earle
After taking up the matter with M.J. Earle, the waxed paper
Yiras received November 15.
Req. B-22841

ST..TE TEiiCHSRo

SHIPPENSBURG,

COLIEGE
P.i.

Exo.mples of Unsatisfactory Centralized Purchasing

Requisition No. xi.-116909 forwarded to Departmunt of Property
and Supplies March 8, 1932. Property and Supplies' Purchase
Order received March 16, 1932, covering one - 50 gallon Drum
Linseed Oil, Pure, Ravir, v/ith Thompson and Company, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
This Linseed Oil was purchased to be used during summer
in connection v/ith painting v/ork.
Painters tried this oil and
reported it as unsatisfactory. July 15, 1932, sample of oil
was forwarded to the Department of Property and Supplies for
testing. Receipt of this soxiple w -s acknowledged July 19, 1932
by Property and Supplies, with advice that test would oe mr.de
and we would be notified as to result, .^ugust 3rd and October

-1026th, WG wrote Property and Supplierj inquiring '.u to rooultNovembur 5, 19o2, we were '.dvi3..d thcit linaeod oil
of toGt.
furnished r.gr.inst above mentijncd requisition and purchaae
ordur complied v/ith Pennsylvania Spe c if icat ijna
.

So far as we are concerned thia 1 inscd oil is a total losu.
It itj our experience in practically p.11 c .bet3 v/h^n Property and
Supplied purchase mat^riala anc supplied a£,ainut Comivionwealth
of Pennsj'-lvrnia or P^d^^ral Sp -cif icat iony or ;xwardo contracts
to lo¥i/ost bidaer for such iteino, thu Coll'...ge invariably received mate ri.^la or duppli-ti inf eri )r in quality to that purThisj io especch^.sed vin^n the Coll^-ge m..de purcha„ieo directly.

ially true in regard to paint, varniwhes, flojr
supplies, j.'^nitor wuppliej, carbon proper, etc.

wc^Jzoy,

l.'/undry

1932, we forvj-arded Emergency Purchase Order to Mamolith
Carbon Paint Company, Scr^.nton, P::.. for 10 - 1001b. /Cegs ¥/hite
asr per Contract No. 47-B, Commonlead in Oil at $7.25 per cwt.
wealth of Pennsylvania. We found this White Ler.d to be inf--rijr
in quality to that purchas^^d directly by the college.

Mo.y 31,

Requisition No. B-27442 wi-s forwarded to Department of Property
anfi Supplies November 1, 1932 covering 6 doz. Institutional
3ize, 2S oz. p.^ckages, Jello, in assorted flavor^, ..s mr.nuf actur ed
by Jollo Company, LeRoy, N.Y. November 10, 1932, Department of
Property and Supplies issued their Purchase Ord^r No, ji.-12o93,
applying against this requisition to Wallace Burton and Davis
Company, 422 West 17th Street, New York, N.Y.
for 6 dozc Institutional Size Pa,ckages, 26 oz. net. Gelatin Type, Dessert
Type B, Schedule Item 23-165-B, at ^^-3.10 per doz.
The J..II0
cost $4.00 per doz.
However, we find th-t it tries 78 oz.
of Ge Latin furnished by Wallace Burton and Davis Company to make
same qua,ntity of dessert :.s 44 oz
of Jello v/ould make; an increase of 77^ in quantity, and 30^ in cost, over s :^j;je item v/hen
purchased directly by the College.
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Requisitijns for library books .ana Purchase Orders for same
placed V7ith Willi.^jn P. Gable Compo.ny, ^xltoona. Pa.
against
contract with Department of Property and Supplies.
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Requisition No
117076

117C77

Date

Purchase Orde r

Date

July 12, 1932

155297
161936

August 2, 1932
October 25, 19:

July 12, 1932

155301
162.610

.lUgus t 2, 1932
October 31, 19::>-

117078

July 12, 1932

155300
161946

.xUgust 2, 1932
October 25, 190

117087

July 12, 1932

155299
161939

August 2, 1932
October 25, 19:

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n.n Wo

Purchr^ae Order

T)-te

'D_}to_

August 2, 1932
Octyoer 25. 1932

117088

T
lo
1932
12, iQ-^9
July

7851
^^^^o^

117039

^
T ,T7.o
12, 1932
July no

T pi5?93
15b2y6

117094

10-2.0
12, 19o2
July -in

155122
1551^^

27252

July 15. 1932

7852

July 22, 1932

151814

October 24, 1932

27283
27362

August+

161813
t.onon
^^^^^^

October 22, 1932
29. 1932
np.t.ber 29,
October

September 21, 1932

162076

October 29, 1932

27399

-1

Mt.oug.

-r

August

1932

OctolDcr 26,

1932

August 2, 1932

^i-o .11 but^t.o^re.ui.iti.n3

13 now over four .ont.s

ii:Jf cJf So^iftf Sc
a-nd

iQ^P
1932
i^o^

Q
y.
9.

August 2, 19o2
October 2!:, 1932

ll^^^^'ooL

o\ t.e.e .c.uisitions

order!

make correct receiving mcmorandci.
•

sition

IIJ.

-J--

-NT,

-R

9993"^

f orYZ-'^.rded to Depr-rtrnent

w^s

Orders.
B-27363 and issuance of Purchabc

J.O. notation, on Purcl;.... Ordors tli-^^^f^'^^^^^t'^lf
rtl^f/wo^dsr
contr-^cLox.
^'
p/^^
m-d^ UP from invoices forwarded by
15-2/./.,
v.h.tn.r
to
as
decides
that contractor
U is our impressi.n
apply.
prices are to
or 33-2/3^ discount, .r net
^^^^ ^^^
^O^^Cash
No. 7467 |220.25
Requisition NO. .-117002 - Purchase Order

No.
Requisition ^T.

T)no

to del-v

Purchoso
iivnon
/OOU-l^urcn^s^
^1.-11

Order uNo.
uiu^j.

150665

394.80

9f.

Cash

^^ ^^^^^

federal Tax fr.m Dep^rtin receipt of opinion reference
Off ice ^eP.r men
Accounting
in
held
.J.

Snt'of'jiSice.'invices

period. We w^r.. .h.rolo...
of Property and Supplies, over discount
thirty days.
cash
for
discount
^57"in
55
unable 1 3 save

-12-

COLLEGE, LOCK

ST.iTE TS;.CHER3
Dis.i.DVi.NT.;G:^3

J-L.VSIT,

ce]mtr;.lizi]d purcil.siitg

01?

3Tx.TE TE..CHER8

August

PA.

for

C0LLTGE3

1952.

I
I.

BiEiasar of tile

Question

many days elapsed betv/een the date
the- delivery of
shipment?

Hov/

Cases cited in
"Answer 1.

the Requisitijn and

nsv/er

iMR

IROjER
ij^QN RIBE0N3 FOR PL.
Requisition |44912 ~ July 23, 1931

- Deo. 8,
Order No. 94627
1931
- June 3,
Received
1932
Days elapsed "between date of Requisition
and delivery of shipment - 316 days.

Question

i.nsv/er

How many days elapsed 'betv/Scn tha date
of delivery of shipmi-nt and payiTient of
the account?
Time elapsed betv/een date of delivery
of sh i pra e n t a nd p a^niie nt of th u account
25 days.

Considerahle correspondence was
entered into with Property and Supplies
"because sulostitutions were made Y/hich
had to 'oe returned and finally reordered
which caused us cons idero."ble inconvenience
in the operation of our laundry.
II
1.

BIEIE MT OP TIIiB
Question 1. How many days elapsed between the date
of the Requisition and the deliv-ry of
shipment?

Cases cited in .inswu r
Answer 1. DISH LLITS
Requisition #44934 - Aug. 31,, 1931
- Oct. 29, 1931
Order No. 90053
- June
4, 1932
Received
Da,ys elapsv;d between dato of Requisition and deliv^-ry of shipment
278 days.

—

-13-

Question

Eow many days olr.psod 'betv/een the dcte
of delivery of shipment a,na p'^-yiient of
the account?

Ansv/er

Time

elapsed

bet^j/een

date of delivery

of shipment and payment
44 days

th..-

account

This requisition cov'^rcid some
Deklco dish mats virhich are used in our Art
Lepartmunt and were requisitioned so tlx.t
they v/ould be hure for our Pall 1931 term
D,nu even though a sample vras furnish'..d a,
substitution was made v/hich could not be
used at all and had to be returned and
considerable correspondence i^nter^d into.
By the time delivery was nx-de our scnOw.1
year v/as ^ndi-d ana because of tn^,- -J^lay

our Art Depaitmcint has to r^^arr-'iige some
of thuir work.
III.
El ement of_ Time
Q,uosti-.n 1.
Kov/ many days elapsed betv/eun the d:;-te
of the Requisition :^.nd tht. aelivury of

shipment?
Cases

c_ite_d iji

Answer

Ansv/er

THREE COLIP..?T..r.lIT' .3TS_.J: COPER
RequisitTTn #120141
- Api'il 25, 1932
- July
Order No. 7 526
18, 1932
- Aug.
Received
3, 1932
I)a,ys elapsed between date of Requisition
and delivery of shipment
ICO days.

—

(Question 2.

How many dtwys elapsed between the do.te
of delivery and payment of tho account?

Answer

Invoice not received to date.

¥e are satisfied that if this sterm
cooker could have been ordered direct
by the College, delivery v/ould h-.ve been
made within three vireeks from, the time
the order was placed.
IV.

Q,uestijn 1.

How many days olapsed betv/ecn th^
dato of thi.- Requisition and th^ delivery of shipment?

CasuS citud in Answer:
question 1. HORSER^'iDIoH

^14- Oct. 31, 1931
Requisition #119935
- Jr.n. 20, 1932
Order No: 98900
- Jan. 27, 1932
Rocoivod
Days Glaps-.d bctv/oon date jf Requisition
and delivery of siiiprn>;nt - 38 days.

Q,uostion 2.

How many days elapsed between the do.te
of delivery of shr.pr'ent and payment of
tiie account?

Answer

Time elapsed "betviretn late of delivery of
shipment and payment of the account 55 days.

This requisition covers an item of
food used in our "jiident dining room viiich
our dietitian dja-.r^d imraediate delivery
on and v/hich if ordered by the college
direct would have been delivered in ten
days.
V.
1.

EI3IIELTT

or-

TILIE

Q,uestijn 1.

many days elapsed between the date
of the Rcquioition and the delivery of

llow

shipment?
Cases cited in
Answer l/

..inswer
IIEIITZ

TOI^.TO JUICB

- ;.pril 6, 1932
Requisition #120039
- ..pril 28,1932
Order Eo 146621
- May
Received
4,1932
Days elapsed between the date of Requisition and delivery of shipment - 28 days,
.

Question

How many days elapsed between the date
of delivery of shipment and payment of
the account?

Answer

Time elapsed betv/een date of delivery
of shipment and p-ayment of the account
34 days.

The Heinz Toma.to Juice, prepared
with seasoning and the necess.ary ingredients ready to serve :.nd specified on
this requisition v/as desired hj our dietitian,
lifter some corresponaence with the
Department of Property and Supplies and
telephone Eonversation, wo were induced
to accept a substitute v/hi ch required our
dietitian to pi"epa,re by adding seasoning
and flavoring before she could use it
v/hich added to the cost of the item not
saying anything about the delay in the

delivery.

-15VI.
1.

ELSJISHT OF TILIE

Quest ijn

How many dc.ys ulcps^jd. betv/SL-n the dr'.to
of tho Roquisitijn end tli'- d^.-liv'-ry of
sliipmijnt?

Cn.se s

citod in ^mswer:
Answer
1.
LUI/IB SR FOR LIBR/iRY BOOK CAoSS
- July 12, 1932
Requisiti jn~Ji7796
- July 29, 19S2
Order No. 154710
Received

Question

How many da^ys olc.ps-.d betv/cen the d.^to
of delivery of shipment r.nd payment of
the ;:ic count?

Ansvi/er

Time elapsed betwe.n date of deliv-^ry
of shipment and payment of the account Goods never received.

Our Librarian request^jd that some
book cases be made imiiiudiatuly for the
purpose of taking care of some e:ccess
books which she had no shelve rojm.
This
requisiti jn was placed imiiiediately for
delivery at once, lumber suitable for this
purpose. Delivery was made several cays
ago of the lumber which it ¥/as necessary
to refuse jn account of n.'t being up to
the quality specified.
Up to th^ present
time we do not have the lumber and we are
satisfied v/ith the fact that this transaction could have been handled at the College
The lumber could have been received satisfo.ctorily, book cases completed v/ithout all
this delay at no greater cost.
VII.
1.

OF
Question

EIEMSlvTT

Cases

THE
1.

How many do.ys elapsed between the date
of the Requisition and the delivery of
shipment?

ited in Answer
1.
Pi . INT

Ansvv-er

- April 30, 1932
Requisitijn #120132
- May
Order No. 2969
16, 1932
- May
Received
25, 1932
Days elapsed between date of Rcquisiti^-n
and deliv>-ry of shipment - 25 days.

Question

How many days elo.psed between the date
of delivery of shipment and payment of
the account?

-16Ansv/er

Time, olc/pscd

of shipment
45 d.-iys.
TliC

between
cine'.

cliti.j

p".ymont of

m-r^.terial

of
."x

this

delivery
count --

roquiaitim

was needed to pr.int the oztcrior of our
buildings c^.nd on account jf tho dolt-y in
seci,iring th^ in^turial it w.".s n^cesyory
for us to plac'- s.^v^rr.l ]Ilm^.rg.. ncy Orders
foi" a sufficient cjnount to keop thu n^n
It was also
working on tni s projects
necessary to telephone 3 i^v^r al times to
tho D'-partmunt jf Pr^pjrty & Supplies
regarding this requisiti-jn buf^r^ tne
material v/as finally r^c>.,ivod. V/e -.v^
satisfied th;-.t this ord^r coula havi; hoen
placed direct hy the college and we could,
hayc had the maturi:il deliv^-red promptly
so this work could have continued >.fiL.ctively without the inconvenience and additional ^xipense.
SLIPPERY ROCK ST..TE
EXiil/IPULS

TE-.CHT^R.i

OE UII3ATISE-.CT0RY

Binding of Ma gazines

COLL'^GE

CE.TTR..LIZ"']D x^URC'-L. 3I1TG

On July 7, 1931, we requested Bureau of Puhlicat i..ns to ad^aigut^t 10, they revise us how to proceed with binding.
This
plied, instructing us to mak'- shipr/i^^^nt to Er-.rr isburg.
was done promptly
The completed shipment v/as returned to
us May 10, 1952.
We Werc without use jf these for ref^r-nce
work during the -^ntire 19M - 32 college year.
.

On .iiUgust 22, 1932, we requested information :\s to proc--dare
for this year's binding.
On November 19, 1932, v/e are v/ithout shipping instructions.
B.

Text Bjoks:

August 15, 1932, WG pl:.ced requisition B 24844 for tliroe
lots of te:ct books. Requisition v/as narked "H-rper cc Bro.,
Publishers" and "T...xt books fjr resale in book room".
Order A 157348 v/as placed with William F. Gable Company,
August 26r
''n September 10, We wrote Department of Property and Supplies, protesting n^n-delivery and questioning
v/isdom of placing order fjr teizt books with oth^r than
publisher.
September 14, 1932, cancellation of this order
v/as issued.
T^-leph-ne call on September 26, 1932 secured
promise of acti^.n.
Text books v/ere received on direct siii pment from publisher Sept^raoer 39, 1932.
Thro
s^cti-ns of
Ereshmen classes v/ere without text books for three v/eeks.
,

-17-

Textiles

Requisitijn A 85513, July 29, 1931 included pilljv/ ccs<iS,
Orders indicated
sheets, cheese cloth and O.K.T. thread.
Dids v/ere receiv^'d August 25 and 26 but orders v/^re not
placed until Septcmher 18 and S3, O.N.T. cotton thread
heing the last order placed. Letters of protest were mailed on September 1 and 15.
D.

Pi 1 INT:

Requisitijn B 27465 for iron paint and roof cement was
The requisition carried notation
placed July 19, 1952.
"Products of Tropical Paint & Oil Company are designated
and preferred v\rithout substitution if it does njt cause
too 1 jng delay to secur^-".
Letters ?/erc v/ritten August 15 and 30 and telephone calls
Order was issued for material as
placed September 1 and 2.
requested September 2 and material received September 7,
allowing but one v/eelc for painting before the opening of
college

Blooms burg
The following statement indicates recent purchasing
It is obvious
situations which have not been satisfactory.
of course that this type of adjustment increases personnel
as well as requiring a rel8.tively larger amount of time
from employes for this service than seems advisable.
On October 14, 1932 we placed Requisition No.
(1)
B-39008 for 24 1-gal. cans Plat Wall Paint.
On this requisition we stated that the last lot v/e received was
from the Sherv/in-Williams Co., that it was very satisfactory
and that we preferred to have this kind.
The item is one
which should appear on any Paint Schedule. Our records indicate that no order has yet been received from Harrisburg,
even though more than five weeks have passed since our requisition WS.S filed.
Of course no goods have been received.
On October 11, 1932 we filed Requisition No.
(2)
B-39005 for 16 Pint Jars of Hellman's mayonnaise.
This
material was not ordered by the Departm.ent until October
29, 1932 and even though we have v/ritcen at lee^-st once to
the vendor, a New York City Company, we have not yet received the material.

-18On November 3, 1932 we filed Requisition No.
1 bbl. Armour &, Co. Light House Woshin^ Pov/der
-;'-794 to be used in our kitchen.
No order has as yet been
Ordiiiarily
placed by the Departinent covering thiy rae>t«rial.
within 3 days we could easily have the material delivered
to the institution by truck from Nanticoke by placing an
On the other hand
order in the mail in the regular form.
by ordering on telephone and reversing the charges, which
we have alwaj^s been privileged to do, the goods could be
ordered one day and. their truck would deliver not later than
the next.
(3)

B-3G021 for

On ^xugust 16, 1932 we placed Requisition No. B-9705
Roller Mop Buckets with the request that no substitution
be made.
On September 7, 1932 order v/as placed for 3 Roller
Mop Buckets which v/ere received September 24, 1932. The
Buckets, however, were not at all the buckets Wxiich we o.esired and the matter was taken up va th the Department, the
buckets returned to the vendor, and another order vie.s placed
on November 4, 19 32 and the buckets received on November 9
are still not what are desired, and our last letter concerning the matter, v/ritten to the Purchasing ^tgunt under date
of November 10, 1932, has not been replied to.
(4)

for

On May 13, 1932 Yie placed Requisition No. B-9645
(5)
for approximately 400 ft. of T/ator Pipe, Valver, Ells, etc.
After considerable correspondence and at least one visit
to the Department, etc., an order v/as finally placed by
them on July 25, 1932 and the goods wcv^ delivered on
August 1, 5, and 6.
On July 25, 1932 we placed Requisition No. B-9696
(6)
for 36 gallons of li'lat Wall Paint.
This was not ordered by
the Department until August 17, 1932 and delivery was not
effected until oepitemb^jr 6, 1932.
On ..pril 26, 1932 we filed Requisition No. B-9615
(7)
for 1 dozvjn floor brushes
specifying the exact type which
we desired.
Tnes^:; w^re not ordered until May 31, 1932 and
were delivered to the College on June 8, 1932.
,

On October 7, 1932 we filed Requisition No.(8)
B-3900o for Gregg Stenographer Notebooks.
On October 18,
1932 order was placed for Stenographer Notebooks and when
these were received on October 29, 1932 they were found to
be unsatisfactory since tncy were not Gregg Notebooks.
The
matter was taken up with the Department and in a reply dated
November 14, 1932 we were advised that they were sorry for
the delay and also the s^ubst itut ion on the Notebooks as
they were only able to locate the requisition on that day
and they would do all in their power to rush shipment on the
Stenographer Notebooks No. 27189 requested on our requisition.
Notwithstanding this statement no delivery has yet been received nor has a copy of the order been received in our office.
",7e
are also asked to return at our expense the bo okd
which were delivered on the first order and y/m ich were not
sat

is'f act

ory

State Teachers College, Blojmsburg
November 22, 1932

-19-

State Teacliers College, Clarion, Pennsylvania
Exaraples of Unaat isf actory Centralized Purchasing.

Purchase request was made May 27, 1932 for 150 ydb Tov/ling
The ox dor v/as placed ..ugust
5 doz. Cotton Ta'ol- O.'ekins.
Goods have
2, 1952 to il, W, Baker Linen Company, iJev/ Yuri:,,
not been rec.^ived at this time. Requetst B358C over 7'155276.
.

3T;.TE TE;.CHnPu3 GOLIZUGE

Vest Chester,

?a.
CoLomodity :-20 na-ttr.-.-ses

Case N04 1

Date of
req 'n

of
rcq 'n.

1/22/30

.i-38141

No.

Date of

Order

ord..r

Huinber

A-37823

3/21/30

Dolivoiy
Vendor

D_-.- '_.

Honor uilt Products Co, On or
about
127 Catherine Street
Philadelphia, Pa.
Apr. g,
1930

REIJ^.RKS

Und^r dato of Janua.ry 22, 1930, v/e sent requisition ^^.033141
01 Standr.rds and Purchases ordering 20 mattresses
3 feet ?/ide.
On the 21st of iiarch, oraer ^1-37823 waj giv'^n to
the Honorbilt Procucts Co. a;o follows :to the Burvjciu

20 mattresses 5 f t

inches by

ft.

In other v/ords, the mattresses as oruered
our sp..cif ico.t ions

inch^-s

\7.,re

not according to

i'inallA^ afto-r considerable correspondence betv/een our office
and the Bureau uf Stc.ndarue and Purchases, v: ^ succe.-.ued in getting
the Honor Jilt Products Co. to mak^ the mattressus tiir^c (3) inchus
narrower at an aaditionr.l cost of v2.00 per LiaLtress, or L.6.00
for tn'^ 20 mo/rcresses
The order covering this work waa issued
by us J?/nu.:,ry b, 19.,'2; froivi this you will s.e that v/e v/ere v/it^iout
the Ube of theSe mattresses from ^Vpril of 1930 until January of
1932.
Tne original cost of th^ rnattresoes v/as
6.98 each, or
$139.50 for the lot;
this added to the additional charge of C36eOC
makes the total cost of the20 mattresses ^175. 60.
;

•',

We could have bouglit these mattresses direct and had them, delivered within three cays, and if there had been any error in the
order, it could have been corrected without additional cost.

¥e had these mattresses a year and a h:'.lf before we could
obtain any directions from the Bureau of Standcjrds end Purchases
as to their disposition.
Finally v/o v/ere told that wo could have
them mr-de rr.rrower, as per the above statement.
The reason these mattresses were rejected in the first place
our beds are 3 feet in width, whereas the nr-ttresseo
inches too wide.

v/as because
v/ere three

-20COLLEGE
West Ch-Gstor, Pr..

ST..TB TE;.CHER3

Cas e

ITo.

CoM.Tiodity:-IiOTIOLr PICTUR"",
Cr.Go iJo

D-tc of
Rcq 'n.

No.

'Iji^.o

oYSTEM

D-jliv.ry

R eq'n. Order

4/27/31 B-52951 6/5/51

COST

Y}?R^9I

Ir'Jl'L^

Schwartz and Son
1527 Vine Street
Philadelphia, pa.

-/oout

41915.00 (paid December

1931,

stat

chock

9/ll/31

154373)

RELLxRKS

Instead.
Wu specified the 'lYcstern Electric 5TKL Sound Systeiii.
the order v/as given to the low'-st bidder, namely, 11. Schv/artz and
Son, Philadelphia, now out of businv,ss
.

This apparatus vio.s bought contrary to our best judgment, v/e
feeling that both the firm and the apparatus v/ould not givu us
"/-,
satisfaction.
have found this to oe truu, and v/o have to tinker
v/ith th'- rnr-chine pract icallj?' all the time in order to get any
kind of service from it. finally w^ h:.ici to secure the services
of a couple of relatives of one of our students (from the coal
regions); thes-. men came here and put the irr.chine in v/orking
order, making no charge whatever for their work.
The sound equipment is no t sa i sf ac t o ry rjid since the firm
aoove mentioned has gone out of business, it will be irajjoasible
for us to obtain repair parts.
l

Cas e

l£o.

Date of
Req'n

Commodity

Ren'n

5/12/31 ;.-92339

^irt

Lisplay Cases

leliv^ry
late

Order

Vendor

laiiuber

.1-109720

Hughes-Ogilvie Company
938 Penn ^..venue
Pittsjurgh, Pa.

..pril

1932

15,

Uncier date of May 12, 1951, we sent requisition .1.-92359 to
the 2ur^ u of Standards and Purch..oes, callint. for thr e (5) ;:rt
dieplay c^ses, specifications in detail on r o uis it ion, and
th
the r-queat that purchase be iiiade from the Kewvun^e .ifg. Co.,
-

.idrian, v/iaconti in
out contrary t
our request t^ie oraer was
to the Hugn-.s-Cuilvie Co. of Pittsburgh, :;;ay 29, 1951.
,

^ i"^^-

-21Thru' c.n error nr.clc in tlio 3urc:..u of 3t.:,nd. -rco ..nc. Purchr.s^s tn^ or..jr ...s given to tii;j firm- n:;ijod iiic nt ioncu th^ trr.ys
to be £4" do^p instead of 23" in dopt.h, c.s per our specifications.
consiL.jr:^blu trouble entiUcd, L.no. in order to give
iiS a result,

us th>j 25" deep traya ^.s requested, th. Hughes-Ogilvie Company
requested an additijnal charge of L:,45. per c-sc Fin^.lly, v/e
obtained the cy^aa, -iccorciin^ to our api^.c ii ic.^tioris by paying
total addition-^
an addition.^1 charge of $35. per ca,uo, or
charge of vlOo.OO, for thw three cases which added to tho original price on tho- or^.er, i.e. ,;'367.95, made the cases cost us
delivered here v472.95.
,

If T/o h-'-d been purchasing direct, the vendor vrauld have
knov/n exactly v/hat v\re want.:d, and would hr.ve been sur^ oi the

me -.suruiTunts before proceeding with the orcer - and v/e would
not xiave been compelled to pay an addition.^1 charge of ^105. 00,
neither would v/e have had to v/ait eleven (ll) months for deliv-ry
of the cases.

Commodity

Case No,

Date of
Rcq *n.

Req 'n

ord er

Order
Numbe r

5/12/31

.1-92854

5/29/31

;.077262

l\fo.

Date of

Elect ire 3cor>,-board

Delivery
D

V e nao r
\i71iipple

'^te

Elcetric scor.- 10/3/21

Co.

-.rd

Originally Brookings,
South Dakota, now
Los .ingeles, Calif,
RELL'.RKS

Not hearing from the above order, v;-e sent a telegram to th^ ViThip-pie Electric ocorebo :^j"d Co. at the .-.ddress given on th - order,
i.e. Brookings, South Dakot ., .nd received inform:-tion from t a^
Western Union Telegraph Co. that tn>- firm n Tfled h:-d gone out ox
business and "owner gone to Calif orni.i. " We th^n wrote to the
Dep.;,rtment of Property and Supplies, H.'.rrisburg
giving tii^m
this infori.: --tion and cancelling the order.
L:.:ter, v/e ask^d tn^m
v/hat they could do tc'.7ards securing an electric scoreboard for
us.
In reply to this inquiry, Y\re Y/er^ advised that the "Vxiipple
Company v/er^. still doing business in California, :-nd tnat th^
order v/ould be filled as originally given.
,

Scorebo^.rd v/as finally received here October
tically five months after order was placd by us.

The

Case No

Date of No, of
Req'n
Orc^.r
.

^,4^r\/Z2

Commodity

Date of
P.L^>ir

Order
Number

.1-106792 3/13/32 .^-8662

prac-

1951,

36 folding -beds
Deliv>^ry

Ve ndo r
V/m.

Gable Co.

p^.tc

10/18/32

-22REJI/L'JIKS

.St^r more
Our requisition was sent to Hrirrisburg lliiy 10, 1932.
or l^^ss delay at Harrisburg, the order vvas finally give-n to the
These
Gable Co. - throe months ..',ft-r date of our requisition.
b^ds were needed for the opening of college, September 12, in
order to replace beds th::;.t v/ere worn out,

Delivery of the beds v/as not made until October 18, or fiv^
months after date of our requisition, and then the beds v/ere
in accordance -.yith our specifications.
Case

ITo

Commodity:

no-*-

"Neva-olip" ceiling

fi;:turv-s

Date of
Order

Delivery

Oru-r

Date of
Reg 'n

No. of
R eq 'n

9/30/52

B-15949 1-/25/32 ..-161453

ITumber

^-^py-

.YhJ^A^I"

C... Markley Sluc. Co, ll/l8/32
Harrisburg, Penna.

On rocommend?-t ion of the Department of Property .nd Supplies, at
Harrisburg, wo Sent r^q'n ;i.-106784, dated la.y 2, to the Bureau
of Standards -iic. Purca;.,oeo callin^- for 410 "iT^va-Slip" lighting
f ixtur es

f o 1 lo'// s

130 "Neva Slip" f ixt.ir es
"
"
"
280

witnout ch

.i'n

with chain

great deal of correspondence „.nd comu.uni cat ion '^oj telephone, ant. personal visits, th^ Dep.rt.jent of Property ana Supplies issued order ..-7701, July 26, 1932, in f::vor of C. ^..
Markley Electrrc Co., Harrisburg. The fir.tj.r^s w-.r^ not received until Jiugust 13, entirely too 1 -.te for inst -.ll.r.t ion prior
to the opening of college, 3eptemjv.r 12.
Contrary to our_elic3'-,
v/hile v/om^n students ar- in tiiv, ir rooms, We v/ere compelled to
have theSe li{^aiting fixtures installed.
.ift-r

.1,'

Pinding that we needed additional fixtures, w- Sent req'n. 3-15940
to Harrisburg, Septemb..r 30.
The oreer w .s giv^n to C. ^^. j.iaricl-y
Slectric Co., uno.er date of ')ctober 2b.
Coy of order was received by us Octoaer 26.
In the meantime, w- found that the fixtures purcmsed on r^q'n ;.-106734, v/er^ causing a great c.e :.l of
complaint, and th vb they v/er^ not at ;.ll satisfactory, ev^n
though We -I'A the word of the Dep_,rtiiient of Property .nd Supplies
that tney Were the type of fixtures v/e shoule. 'ouy eVen though
"Holoph-.ne" was the t^^De of fixture v/e wantea.
This type of
"Holophane" fixture issoicewhr.t more e:>:pensive, but v/e v/ere told
by lighting engineers that in the end they v/ould prove more economio-.l.
It wao intimated to us 'that the "Holophane" fixtures
could not be ^jurchased tnru' the Department -.t Harrisbur^,.
Consequently, on tae 23th of October, v/e v/ired tne Department .-.t
Harrisburg to h.^Ve the shipment stopped (Req'n B-15949). November 6th v/e received
letter which v/as dated November 5th,
reading .s follows:,

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"In r>-spon3u to your t>-lcgrr',m of Octobur 26, v/u immudi.-.t>jly got
in touch v/ith tho C. ... lyr^rkloy Electric Co., instructing th^m to
cr.ncul shipm-nt of th^ -.bov-^ ordor covL-rin^ 50 "N^vc, Slip" lightolior coiling fixtures, but v/or>. unsuccessful ,s th^ vi;ndor had
You h ?.y^ no doubt, r^coiv^d the s-amo by
r.lr.. .dy rn.d- s;iipiii..nt
W^ will gro::tly r.pprcci./c^ your giving us dot-.-ilod
this timeo
report of your complaint agp.inst the fixturuo, vz-hich you ot.:-tud
V^ry truly
in your letter of October 28 were uns .t isf xt ory
(initf.ls n..'-i.B.)"
(Signed) Fred H. M"'-Bon.
yours,
.

However, th- B/L covering the shipment w :.s dr.ted November 1st,
If the Ifcrkley Co. had
or 4 dr.ys c^.fter our tel^gr,.:m,. vao ^^ont
been notified immediately following receipt of our telegram, they
could not possibly h;.vc shipped the fixtures November 1st, without first hearing from Harrisburg.
I wrote to the Department oT
Property cjid Supplies, attention of Mr. Mason, under date of Eor-ember 9, but at this writing, November 28th, I have not had a reply.
This is another illustration of how indirect purchasing
works to the disadvantr^e of institutions remote from Harrisburg.
.

Case No.

D-te of
r eq

Commodity-3S 30ucnes (single beds)

No. of
Reg n
'

7/22/20
REMA RKS

'..-966'3

Date of
order
3/16/29

Order
Numb e
..r-8023

Delivery
D-.te
Vendor
Plimton-Gcof ie Id Co' On or about
Sept.

15, '29

Under date of July 22, 1929, we sent requisition .,.-9662 to the
Bureau of Stand'^.rds and Purchases, cp21ing for "3 dozen special
college couches 3' 0" (36 inches in v^ridth)
The order, A-8023,
was given to th^ above named firm ^^ugust 16, 1929, .and specified
coucaes 30" instead of 36" as listed on our requisition.
.

The size specified on our requisitijii, 3_^ 0_^, is thv. stand.^.rd size
for :21 single beds used in this college.
The beds were Celivered,
and .ft--,r much correspond--nc^ many telephone calls, :iid even visit;
to the Bureau of Standards and Purchases .at Harrisburg, v/ith a
viev/ of obtaining permission to return the coucheS, or b^db, ..nd
getting in th..ir place b'..ds of the size specified, the PlimptonScofield Co., to whom the order v/as giv-n, would ra -k^ no ;',djustment b^caus-.., txie beds furnish-^d dj them w^-r^. exactly accorain^
to the oraer Sent to them from H.arrisburg.
,

Lat^r, v/e werv. told that perhaps they could be disposed of at som'j
otner institution. However, we still have th>-ae beds, and they are
not sat i sf -.ct ory
The cost of thes.. beds,

according to

ort.er ..nd

invoice on file, is

!i,315.00.

We could hav^ purchased theSe beds direct at -s low a priCe, if not
lov/er and coulc. have them deliv-r-d v/ithin t^n days, because in
making sucn a purchase the college \70uld have requ^oted quotation^
from tvro or three reputable, firms.
There is no reason wny a bed
could not be bought that would ^ive us entire s -.tisf -.ction.

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Commodity

Cp.sc No.

D-tc of

::o.

Reg 'n

Rcq'n.

11/1/32

B-16010

Dr.tv^

Or der
?

Books for Librr.ry

Ordor

D'-liv^.ry

NOj
?

L' Jj£

..JiiM-OJ
Yto.

G:.blu Co.

St-rt^d comin§
in abotit ITov.
29, 1932

REii.RKi

Under dcte of Nov^rabor 1, 19e2, v;c sent requisition B-16010 to tl'<-ordering books air/n^nt
Buroo„u of otrindards r.nd Purcnr.ses, Hc.rr isTourg
ing to r.pproxinr. tely C^-'^j.OO for use in our librr.ry.
,

(December 7) Wv. hr.v- not r^ceiv-d r.n or..er froinHari'^sd-'.te
..t this
burg showin;\' to v/liom th^ order hr-s 'oc .^n giv-n, r.lthoUi_,li we h:-ve
learned tlar-l: thv- books ;^.re being supplied oj th^ v.bovo mentioned
f

Since v/e a,r^ mtliout this order, it is impossible to ch^ck thw
receipt of the books, find out their cost, etc.

Consequently, there will be c. delp.y in pc-ssing for
of the firm furnishing those books.

Ex.'^.mples

p.^yraent

the bi].l5

Cc.lifornic- Str.to Te^.chers College
of Unsatisfactory Centralized purchasing

Re.^uisition ;.-97232 for 160 Tablet :.rm Cnairs, dated Llay 17.
1.
1932, stated thede chairs y^rere for use in new clc-ss rooms in Kerrcn
l\Fo action
"was
Hall at the opening of Fall Term September 12.
taken on oruer until after June 1 when mon..y in our budget for
this item v/as lapsed, although bids h:.d been secured.
On ...ugust
18 we requested immediate purchase pointing out thp.t we had no
SGa,ting for new class rooms in Hcrron Hall.
Lee Goldsmith of
ivi.
Harrisburg was av/arded the contract on oreer Ho. .^1-10076, for 160
chairs, f.6.b. destination, although our requisition clearly stated
160 chairs delivered, assembled, and Set in place.
The chairs v;ere
received Hov-mber 5 in knocked do¥\[n condition in cr:^tes. \7e notified Ilr. Goldsmith of the delivery of the chair parts, but he refused to assemble them anc. str.ted he had fulfilled his contract.
However, aft^r another delay of 20 days, theo- chairs w^re assembled Hovembv-r 25 - more than six months after requisition wo.s
submitted from Cr.lifornia ,ind two ana one-h,^li months afier the
opening of school during wnich time, no seating Y/as provided
for these n^'w classrooms.
2.
Requisition ^.-97360, dat^d July 13, 19o2. ,,n order Ho,
A-154253 v/as placed by the Department of Property j.nd Supplies,
July 22, 19o2 with the V/illiam F. Gc.ble Comp:^ny of ..Itoona for 36
PraEtice Units in English - Third Year.
The units v/er- received
and payment was requesteC. August 25, 19^2^
Then a notice viras received from the Department of Property & Supplies, September 21,
cancelling order Ho. ii-154268 for the reason that the contractor
failed to eicecute contract. ^'..nother oro.er was placed, October 4,

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with Charles Scribn^r's Sons. This material wcs for thu Loirionstrr-tion School and thv- second shipment v;as kept for next yu'.r's
us

Roquis itiom A-97451, for boiler compound, dated October 5,
A card was mailed Novumbur 9, 1932 to r^jinind thu Department
of Property & Supplies of our urg>^nt need of this m:;torial. a.n
order was placed November 10, 1932 with the Garrct-Callchan Company
as requested on our reqi!i*3it ion.
3.

193 2.

Requisition ..-96772 dated June 28, 1932. .ji order No. ..-152345
4.
was placed by the Department of Property & Supplies July 2, 1932,
with the William P. Gnble Company of ..Itoona for Retail Stcro
Supplies.
The m^.terial was reCv-ived, payment was requcoted July
29, 1932, and the check was mailed to the company August 10, 1932.
Then a notice wa,s received from the Department of Property and
Supplies cancelling order No. j^-152345 for the reason that the conThe material was reordered
tractor failed to execute contract.
fiom the same company October 3, at the srjne price as originally
ordered - |1.08. .. credit memorandum v;as received October 12, to
cancel invoice of July 12 which was paid.

Requisition No. ..-97268, dated Hay 12, 1932 - Subscription
5.
for Junior Literary Guild Books for one year.
Our requisition was
marked Confirmation Order - Junior Literary Guild, 55 Pifth Avenue,
New York City. The Department of Property & Supplies placed an
order with Mrs. D. Prank .indrews Franklin, Pennsylvania, June 15,
1932 - Order No. 149365.
Payment was requested ..ugust 25, 1932
and the check wo.s mailed to Mrs. Andrews September 20, 1932. ..
memorandum dated September 20, 19L;2 was received canceling order
No. 149865, and another order No. ..-159164 dated September 24 was
placed with the Junior Literary Guild of Now York City as requebted on our requisition.
,

Mrs. i.ndrews returned the check and we mailed it to Harrisburg
to be credited to our appropriation.

Commonv/ealth of Pennsylvania
debartmetstt of public instruction

tea.cher bureau

Harrisburg

MEETING OF THE

BO^D

OF PRESIDEi^TTS, STATE TEo-GHERS COLLEaES

Friday,

January 27, 1933

DOCKET
I.

II.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meetings
of the Board of Presidents held at Harrisburg, November 15,
1932 and December 8, 1932.

Unfinished Bus i ness
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee

Report of committee on "Centralized Purchasing for
the State Teachers Colleges"

Report of Fee Coiimittee

Report of committee re "Budgets for 1933-1935"

Report of committee on "Entrance Requirements"

Question of policy in the matter of issuing certificates in certain specific cases

Federal Tax on adraissions to games conducted by the
State Teachers Colleges

Report of committee on "Standardization of Printing
Forms"
a=

IIIo

Student Progress Card

New Business
li

Summer Sessions in the State Teachers Colleges

Report of Committee on Uniform Entrance Blanks

Provisional College Certificates issued for the past
Twelve Years to Graduates of Pennsylvania Colleges and
Universities

1933

JOUmTAL OF A MEfiTtNG
THE

BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS GOLLEOES

Friday, January 27, 1933

of the Board of Presidents of the State
Teachers Colleges of the Cornmonwealth of Pennsylvania was
held in the Superintendent's Conference Room of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
was called to order by the Chairman at 9:30 o'clock.

A regular meeting

The following were present:

Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
Q. C. L. Riemer
T. T. Allen
Charles R. Foster
A, C. Rothermel
Dallas W. Armstrong
William R. Straughn
Landis Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
J. Linwood Sisenberg
Norman lY. Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsburg
Indiana
Kutztovm
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N. Rule, Chairman
Henry Klonower, Secretary

Doctor C. 0. Crawford, President of the State Teachers College
at Edinboro, was not present due to illness.
1

Approval of the_ minutes of_ the meetings of
the Board of Presidents held in Harrisburg
November 15, 1935 and December 8, 1953.
,

On motion of Doctor Riemer seconded by Doctor Steele it was
voted that the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Presidents held November 15, 1932 and December 8, 1932, be approved
as submitted.

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„

Unfini s hed Busine ss
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Curricular Revision Committee,
reported for the coinmittee.

He stated that the printed copies of the syllabi would be ready
for distribution in about two weeks. He asked the members of
the Board what distribution they desired be nade of the printed
syllabi.
On motion of Doctor Steele seconded by Doctor Hill it was voted
that the distribution of the printed syllabi be left to the
Curric\ilar Revision Committee.
2

Report of the committee on " Centralized
Purchasing for the State Teachers Colleges "

Doctor Straughn, Chairman of the Committee, stated that there
were no new developments since the mimeographed report was
submitted to the Department and distributed to the members of
the Board. He further stated that the mimeographed statement
had been made a part of the minutes of the meeting of the
Board held December 8, 1932.
On motion of Doctor Straughn seconded by Doctor Hill it was
voted that the item be removed from the docket.
3

Report of Fee Committee

Doctor Straughn, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the
Committee. He stated that there were no new developmenta and
the report stands exactly as it appears in mimeographed form in
the minutes of the last meeting. He did not feel that the committee could do anjrthing more until the final report is received
from the Legislature.
Doctor Hill stated that if the payments could be made one month
in advance instead of half a semester in advance it would very
materially help the students in his institution.

Doctor Sisenberg suggested that the fee schedule be changed to
read so that the students would be permitted in eases of sbsolute
necessity to pay one month in advance instead of one-half semester
in advance for board, room and laundry.
Doctor Straughn replied that he did not believe we could secure
anything in the way of a ruling on this suggestion which would be
of help this semester, but it might be written into the new
schedule of fees if and when they are approved.

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On motion of Mr. Allen seconded by Doctor Cameron it was voted
that the question of payment of fees be referred to the Fee
Committee with the request that they especially consider a
Recommendation to the effect that the students be allowed to
pay the board, room and laundry fees one month in advance
instead of one-half a semester in advance and that such a
regulation be made effective at once.
4.

Report of committee re "Budgets for 1955-1935"

Mr. Allen stated that in connection with the budgets, he had
received on a certain Saturday morning a special delivery
letter from the Budget Office with a request that this be
signed and returned to that office the following Tuesday
morning. The report in all but one particular was what had
been agreed upon and what the Board had been thinking, but it
definitely recommended that three million dollars be appropriated for the State Teachers Colleges for maintenance for
the next biennium.

Mr. Allen stated that he finally signed the report with a
single reservation which he addressed to the Governor. He
stated that as a member of the Governor's Budget Committee
he did not approve of the recommendation that ,?3,000,000 be
appropriated to the State Teachers Colleges, but rather
suggested that the appropriation be increased to 5^3,900,000.
He then read to the members of the Board the letter in its
entirety which he had addressed to the Governor.
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Rowland it
was voted that a copy of the letter which Mr. Allen sent to
the Governor be included in the minutes of the meeting of the
Board and that ¥ir, Allen b e extended a vote of appreciation
from the Board for the position which he had taken with reference to the appropriation for the State Teachers Colleges
for the biennium 1935-1935.

Doctor Rowland stated that the three million dollars which had
been included in the budget of the Governor makes no provision
for repairs or construction in the State Teachers Colleges. He
wondered what could be done about it, and he felt that the
Board should take some cognizance of the fact. He had addressed
a letter to Doctor Rule about the matter; Doctor Rule replied
that a statement would be forthcoming indicating the purposes
for which the money collected from students could be spent.
5.

Report of Committee on "Limitation of Enrollments "

Discussion postponed.

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Questio n of policy in the la tter of issuing
certificates in certain specific cases

•

Discussion postponed.
Federal Tax on admissions to games conducted
by the State Teachers Colleges

On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Cameron it was
voted that this item be removed from the docket.

Report of committee on "Standardization of
Printing Forms"

Student Progress Card

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Committee, reported progress.
111=

New Business
1

Summer Sessions in the State Teachers Colleges 1935

Doctor Straughn stated that he had been giving some intensive
thought to the operation of the summer session for 1933. He
stated that if he were permitted to employ available teachers
during the summer session on a part time basis instead of on
a full time basis, he felt sure he could operate the summer
school within the financial limits set. He also indicated
that this could only be done if they were assured that the money
which each institution collects would be returned to that particular institutions
Doctor Rule stated that the wording in the Appropriation Act was
to the effect that the money would be reappropriated back to the
institution which collects it, and the G-overnor has so recommended
it. He further stated that in presenting contracts to teachers
they should be made subject to budgetary limitations and secondly
all contracts should be on the nine months basis (36 weeks), and
the summer session contracts on such a basis as yovir budget
permit s»

Doctor Rule asked each President for an expression of opinion as
to whether they favored a flat rate for the summer session for
all instructors or a proportionate rate on a reduced scale if
necessary for the summer session.
Doctor Tanger stated that he favored the proportionate rate.
Mr. Allen stated that he favors paying on a proportionate rate.

Doctor Armstrong stated that he felt a minimum rate and a maximum
rate based on a lower level probably would be a good thing.

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Doctor Riemer stated that he agreed

v/ith lUr.

Allen's statement.

Doctor Hass stated that he thought the present scheme iias logicallysound as lon^ as the summer session is a regular part of the
institution. The present schedule is based on the assumption that
a standard of service- is forty-t-wo weeks for a regixlar teacher and
it is on this basis that we grant leaves of absence for instructors.
If we are to make a flat rate for the summer session, and he felt
that we must do it as a matter of expediency this year, he would go
along with the suggestion of a flat rate for the siimmer session.
Doctor Hill stated he had nothing to say at this time.

Doctor Cameron stated that they have gone over the salary schedule
and he felt that if they are going to cut salaries and if the cut
is going to be 105^ on the Edmonds Act, we should not go below that
on a proportionate basis for the summer session.
Doctor Rowland stated that he is in favor of a flat rate although
he felt it should be recognized as a reduction and there should
also be some provision for positions, in addition to this flat
rate, for certain administrative officers as for instance the
Dean of Instruction, and some others who would have a heavier
load that the regular teachers in the summer session, but under
the circumstances and with the emergency which ?i/e are facing, he
would favor a flat rate.
Doctor Steele stated he was in favor of a proportionate rate for
the summer session rather than a flat rate on a reduced basis
adjusted to meet the budget.
Doctor Eisenberg stated that he favored a flat rate in view of
the present conditions.
Doctor Rothermel stated that he was in favor of a proportionate
rate.
Doctor Straughn stated that he favored the proportionate rate
on the basis of services rendered.
Doctor Foster stated that if we are contemplating a reduction of
10% in the teachers' salaries, we should take that into consideration for the summer session. He stated he was very strongly in
favor of the idea of having the summer session payments on a proportionate basis so that they will not get more than a 10% reduction in their salaries for the year.

Doctor Rtile stated that it seemed to be the opinion of most of
the members of the Board that a proportionate rate payment was
the one which was favored. He further asked what the opinion
of the Board was wi-t;h reference to the salaries for the next year.
He sta-fced tha-fc he felt we should take our cue from the recommendation -^hat is going into the School Code ap a permissible temporary
measure.
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"Job Analysis"
Mr. Allen asked what effeot if any the
would have on the salaries of teachers.

Doctor Rule stated it might be a good thine; to have the
Salary Committee study this problem now. He felt it
might be a way out of having too many high salaried
positions in any one school.

Doctor Rule stated that with the consent of the Board he
would refer this matter to the Salary Committee: Doctor
Straughn, Doctor Haas, and IVtr. Allen.
Doctor Rule further stated that when the Salary Committee
made its report to him he would have a joint meeting of
the Budget and Salary Committees.
Mr. Allen stated that in order to clarify the whole situation it would be helpful if the State Superintendent sent
a statement to each President covering the policy of summer
school positions, and other pertinent points at this time
concerning positions in the State Teachers Colleges.

Doctor Rule stated that he would do this within the next
few days.
The letter follows:

"In view of the fact that the present appropriation period ends May 31, 1933 and that
expenditures for the coming biennium will
be contineent upon appropriations approved
by the Legislature now in session, it seems
advisable to present for your inforination
the situation which will probably confront
us so far as appropriations are concerned
beginning June 1, 1933.
In view of the fact that State revenues are
decreasing and that there will probably be
less money available for the administration
of the State Teachers Colleges, I suggest
the following principles be kept in mind in
making tentative arrangements for the coming
year:

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Because of the fact that the character of
students attending the summer session is
different from the character of those
attending the regular session, the summer
session should be placed on a selfsupporting basis and, therefore, so far
as contracts for instruction are concerned,
separated from the regular session,

This means, beginning June 1, 1933, that
no contracts for forty-two weeks should be
issued;

That contracts should be issued only for
thirtj'^-six weeks; and

That arrangements for employment of teachers
for the summer session will be made if, and
when, the enrollment justifies such employment,

'ffhile

no figures are available it is likely
that the present salary schedule may be
reduced ten per cent and the moratoriiffii on
increments continued*

In conclusion, because of the present unsettled
situation, therefore, it would seem reasonable to
make clear that all contracts and arrangements
for the coming year are tentative; and subject to
budgetary lim.itations that the suraiuer session be
placed on a self-supporting basis; that it be made
clear to members of the faculty that no guarantee
regarding summer session emplo^/ment can be given;
and, that temporary modification of the salary
;

schedule downward is likely."
*0n motion of Doctor Foster seconded by Doctor Tanger it was
voted that the summer schools in the State Teachers Colleges
be made self-supporting and that a fee of .^6,00 per semester
hour be charged to all students
2.

Report of committee on

" Uniform

Entrance Blanks^

Doctor Steele, Chairman of the Committee reported for the
committee. He stated that blanks had been drawn up on the
basis of the experience of the several Presidents and a few
minor changes had been suggested*

On motion of Doctor Straughn seconded by Doctor Siaenberg
it was voted to approve the blanks as submitted by the
chairman of the committee on Uniform Entrance Blanlcs.
"^ •

Provisional College Certificates issued
for th_e_ past T]7elve_ Years t£ Graduates
of Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities

Klono'Jer distributed charts indicating the number of
College Provisional Certificates issued over a period of
t'.velve years.
He pointed out that vrhile there r/ere 4,268
Provisional College Certificates issued during the year
1932, this figure does not indicate the number of college
graduates "Jho actually entered the teaching service for
the first time.
Included in this mrniber are many teachers
v7ho have been in service for some time prior and who have
just completed their college preparation.
ViT.

He stated the most conservative estimate would be that
fifteen per cent of the 4,268 teachers who received Provisional College Certificates were teachers in service who
have continued their preparation to the college level.
This number should not be interpreted as new entrants. A
study prepared some time ago by the Teacher Bureau shows
that approximately three per cent of the niomber who received
Provisional College Certificates were not interested in
securing teaching positions, and that of those who made an
effort to enter the teaching service, approximately fortyfive per cent actually secured teaching positions as of
October 15, 1932. It is reasonable to suppose that a nimiber
of these college graduates have obtained teaching positions
in the meantime. The figures do not indicate whether such
positions were secured within the Commonvrealth or in
,

private schools.

He further stated the number of college certificates issued
for the year 1932 is 283 less than for the year 1931.
lY.

Miscellaneous
'- °

S chool Code in Revised Form

Doctor Rule explained the major revisions in the new School
Code and stated that the Code had been compiled with the
help of three members of the House and three members of the
Senate together with the Attorney General. He felt that the
serious part of it was that the preparation of the School Code
had been delayed so long that there had not been time to go
over it carefully and study it as a unit. The Attorney General

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has consulted a good many people so that the revised edition of
the School Code is a sort of composite of the criticisms of the
Department, modifications as the Attorney General's Office
worked them out, and criticisms from the members of the House
and Senate
2

Joint Committee on

" Teacher

Preparation "

Doctor Rule asked to have a special conmittee of the Board
with a coianittee representing the liberal arts colleges
in the mutual interests of teacher preparation in Pennsylvania.

T/ork

On motion of Doctor Rovrland seconded by Doctor Rothermel it
voted that the State Superintendent be authorized to
appoint a small committee from, the Board of Presidents to
cooperate uith a similar coraiT.ittee of the Association of
Liberal Arts Colleges for the furthering of the mutual interests
of teacher preparation in Pennsylvania.

T7as

Doctor Rule appointed the follovjing committee:
1.
2.

3.
4.
5.

Doctor
Doctor
Doctor
Doctor
Doctor

Haas
Eisenberg
Steele
Foster
RoTTland

Miss Marion Giles

Doctor Rule called to the attention of the Board the availability
of Miss Marion Giles v/hose work with girls had been highly praised
by Doctor Eisenberg, Doctor Steele, and Doctor Straughn.
4

Bulletin published by the Association of Trustees
of the State Teachers Colleges of P ennsylvania

Doctor Rowland stated that a small
the fund designated to be spent in
bulletin under the auspices of the
the State Teachers Colleges and he
the Board was with respect to this

sum of monej)- remained from
the publication of the
Association of Trustees of
asked what the pleasure of
additional money.

On motion of Doctor Riemer seconded by Doctor Steele it was
voted that Doctor Rowland be authorized to spend the additional
money in having another supply printed for distribution among
the several institutions.

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Mr. Cresswell distributed copies of a statement Ti7hich he
had prepared which oirblined the high spots of newspaper
publicity and indicated some suggestive subjects for stories.
^*

The State Teachers Colleges as nov
located equalize educational oppor tuiiities - Doctor Rier.ier

Doctor Riemer outlined a study he had made rith reference to
the educational opportunities of the State Teachers Colleges.
On motion of Doctor Tanger seconded by Doctor Foster it r^as
voted that the report be received and embodied in the minutes.

The report follovrs:
"The State Teachers Colleges As Now Located

Equalize Educational Opportunities
I.

Relation of Enrollm.ents at State Teachers
Colleges to Population in Their Code Districts.
Opportunities for higher education are
not equally distributed over the Comraonwealth.
In some sections there is a dearth of such
opportunities; in others there exists a superabundance of them. The table below, in which
are listed the districts assigned to the
thirteen state teachers colleges by Section 2001
of the School Code, 3hov;s how the state teachers
colleges tend to equalize such opportunities.
In the first column of the table are given
the names of the districts; in the second, the
total number of young men and wcraen attending
state teachers colleges of the Coi'inonwealth in
the third, the total population of the district;
in the fourth, the number of persons in the
district represented by one student at some
teachers college. In the Mansfield district,
for instance, a group of 396 people is represented by one student at a teachers college; in
the Clarion district a group of 447 is thus
represented, etc. The table ranlts the districts
in the order of the size of group required for
one student to be represented at some teachers
;

college.

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Relation of Enrollments in Code Districts
of State Teachers Colleges to Population
in Them - October 15, 1932

S.T.C.
Students

District

Mansfield

sent

583

Ratio

Population
out of

231,153

one to

396

•'

422

188,445

447

432

221,567

512

744

449,688

604

Shippensburg

609

395,775

650

Blooms burg

688

466,763

t»

678

615

431,120

701

690

497,987

722

634

525,875

829

'•

763

640 115

839

1013

1 ,023,959

1011

657

769,424

1171

878

1 ,603,952

1827

Clarion
Lock Haven
Indiana

Millersville
Edinboro

California

Kutztovm
E,

Stroudsburg

West Chester

Slippery Rock

II,

•

Uneven Distribution of Opportunities for Higher
Education Over Commonwealth.
On examining the above table the
question arises in one's mind as to why
more young men and women relatively
attend teachers colleges in one district
than in another. Eor instance, why does
it take only 396 in the Mansfield District,
447 in the Clarion district, but 1,011 in
the East Stroudsburg district, 1,171 in the
West Chester district, and 1,829 in the
Slippery Rock district to have one student
representative at a teachers college?
There may be several answers to such a
question. The chief answer, however, seems
to lie in the absence or presence of other
opportunities for higher education.

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Distribution by Code Pi trict a of State
Teachers Colleges

Opportiriities for higher education are byno means evenly distributed over the Coinmonwealth. The folloi^ring list shows the situation
It lists the several districts together
clearly.
TfTith the opportunities for higher education in
each.

Number of Opportunities of Higher Education
Aside fron Teachers Colleges in Code
Districts of Teachers Colleges

Number

Code District

Chester
Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Slippery Rock
Indiana
Shippensburg
California

17
8

'/Test

4
4
3
3
3
2
1

Kutztov.TL

Millersville
Bloonsburg
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Clarion

This uneven distribution of educational opportunity in the field of higher education is v/orthy
of note.
'The abundance of such opportunities in
the districts of West Chester, East Stroudsburg,
and Slippery Rock, rhere thirty-one of the firtytwo institutions of higher education are to be
found, is gratifying to anyone interested in
advanced education. On the other hand, the lack
of such opportunities in the districts of Mansfield,
Clarion, and Lock Haven, in which only three institutions of higher education - one of them no more
than a junior college - are located, is not so
satisfying. Young people wherever they nay be found
want and need such opportunities to prepare for
service and life. Consequently, they drift to
teachers colleges in large numbers in the districts
where there are no other opportxinities for higher
education, and do not do so in such larger numbers

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in districts r-tiere other opportunities are
available. That is doubtless the reason
v,'hy one in 396 people attends a teachers
college in the Mansfield district; one in
447 in the Clarion district; and one in
512 in the Lock Haven district; but only
one in 1,011 attends a teachers college in
the East Stroudsburg district; only one in
1,171 in the ¥est Chester district, and
only one in 1,827 in the Slippery Rock
district. ''Jith facts such as these in mind
one cannot help but feel that the existence
of the State Teachers Colleges is justified.
B.

Di stributi on b3'- Areas Described '"ith
Radiu s of Fifty Miles

This inequality of educational opportunities in the field of higher education is
even more impressive when one compares areas
within a radius of fifty miles described
about the several teachers colleges. Such an
area roundabout Kutztomi, for instance, includes
28 opportunities for higher education; the one
about Test Chester includes 24. One the other
hand, the ones about Clarion and Mansfield
embrace only one each. No wonder the young
people in these two sections flock in great numbers to the teachers college near them if they
desire to prepare for teaching, talcing advantage
of the only opportunity for his^er education.

Number of Opportunities of Higher Education
Aside from Teachers Colleges in ^reas
Described about Several Teachers
Colleges within a Radius of
Fifty Miles
Area about

Number of Opportunities

Kutztown
West Chester
E. Stroudsburg
California
Slippery Rock
Indiana
Millersville
Bloomsburg
E^inboro

28
24
10
9
9

?
7

6
5

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Shippensbiirg
Lock Haveu

4
1

Clarion
Mansfield

l'»

The meeting adjourned at 4:15 P»M.

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
INSTRUCTION
TEA.CHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

DEPARTIffiNT OF PUBLIC

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PRESIDEi^JTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
,,

Friday, Fiarch 17, 1933

DOCKET
I,

II.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meeting of
the Board of Presidents held at Harrisburg, January 27, 1933.

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee

Report of committee on "Uniform fees, deposits and repayments"

Report of committee on "Limitation of Enrollments"

Report of committee on "Standardization of printed forms"
a.

III.

Student progress card

Report of committee on "Uniform Entrance Blanks"

Report of Joint Committee on "Teacher Preparation"

Question of policy in the matter of issuing certificates
in certain specific cases

New Business
1.

Additional courses for the summer session

Enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges as of
February 15, 1953

Professional Status of Teachers as of November

List of graduates v/ho received certificates of graduation
as of January 1933

Number of degree graduates, indicating the elective fields

1932

JOliroiAL

OF A MEETING
OF

'fflE

BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS CGLLiirxES
ERIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933

A regular meeting of the Board of Presidents of the
State Teachers Colleges of the CommomTealth of
Pennsylvania was held in the Superintendent's Conference Room of the Department of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was called to order by
the Chairman at 9:30 o'clock.
The following were present:

Francis B. Haas
i^obert M. Steele
n, C. L. Riemer
Leslie Pinckney Hill
T.

T. Al].en

C. Crawford
Charles R. Foster
A. C. Rothermel
Dallas W, Armstrong
T. R. Straughn
Landis Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
T. Linwood Eisenberg
Norman Y/. Cameron

Bloomsburg
California
Clarion
Cheyney
East Stroudsburg
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

James N. Rule, Chairman
Henry Klonower, Secretary
1.

Approval of the minutes of the meeting of the
Board of Presidents, held in Harr i sbiirg
January 27, 1955.
,

On motion of Doctor Cameron seconded by Doctor Tanger it
was voted that the minutes of the meeting of the Board of
Presidents held January 27, 1933 be approved as submitted.

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II.

Unfinished Business
Report of the Curricular Revision
Corrirnittee

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Ciirricular Revision Committee,
reported for the committee.

He stated that the conmittee is still waiting for final word as
to the delivery of the bound copies of the printed syllabi for
the instructors in the State Teachers Colleges.
Doctor Rule immediately got in touch with the Director of the
Bureau of Publications of the Department of Property and Supplies
and asked him to telephone immediately to the bindery and get a
definite date as to when delivery could be expected.
Mr. Ho*d, Director of the Bureau of Publications, informed Doctor
Rule that a part of the order would be shipped Tuesday, I/Iarch 21,
1933 and the balance of the order about one week later.
2.

Report of committee on "Uniform Fees ,
Deposits and Repayments "

Doctor Straughn, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the
committee.

He submitted the following report and stated that this report is
a supplementary one to the report submitted at the last meeting
of the Board:
"In view of the fact that the Teachers
Colleges are an integral part of the
public school system of the Commonwealth and are governed by uniform
regulations in the Administrative,
Fiscal and School Codes, it is
imperative that these institutions
function as a system rather than as
isolated units. It is believed by
the committee that these institutions
can not function efficiently on less
than an annual basis, that the summer
session must be considered as a part
of the regular annual v?ork of the
school and that comparable uniform
salaries within certain grades should
be paid in all Teachers Colleges conducting a summer school.

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The committee believes that the Commonwealth possesses a responsibility for the
in-service training as well as the preBecause
service training, of teachers.
of the different econoijiic status of
teachers in service it is believed justifiable to place a relatively larger share
of the cost of instruction upon teachers
in service.
The committee, therefore, recommends that
the following fees be in effect for the
summer session of 1933:
1.

Contingent Fee
Five dollars per semester hour

A minimum contingent fee of fifteen
dollars ($15) will be charged.
2.

Housing ree
a.

Forty- two dollars ($42)
Tiis fee will cover the cost of
room, board and limited la\mdry
for students

Fifty- four dollars ($54) shall
cover the cost of room, board,
and limited laundry for faculty
members

Special Curricula Contingent Fees
In addition to the above fees students
in the special curricula will be
required to pay a fee to cover the
cost of materials, supplies, equipment,
and special services used in the
laboratories, shops, or studios of the

special curricula.
These additional contingent fees will
be as follows:

Art
ip6.00
Commercial Education
2.00
Health Education .... 6.00
Home Economics
12,00
Industrial Arts
6.00
Music
24.00
.

.....

Respectfully submitted:
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Robert M. Steele
Charles R. Foster
Francis B. Haas
Norman W. Cameron
William R. Strau^n, Chairman"

Doctor Straughn further stated that it was the intention of the
Board to maintain the integrity of the Salary Qualification
Schedule.
Doctor Haas stated that inasmuch as the appropriations ?jere made
for a two-year period, the major responsibility was to balance
the budget over a t;'ro-year period.

He further stated that ve must figure out roughly how much of
the amount is available for the first year and then keep in
mind that if there is a justification for charging a larger
fee for the summer session and keep in mind that we are going
to make the summer sessions self-supporting over a two-year
period; this might req^uire an additional lowering of salaries
for the Slimmer session, but maintain the salary schedule and
make throughout all the institutions another percentage cut.
Cn this basis with the thought in mind that the budget is to
balance over a two-year period, the summer session can be
organized and through the experience of the first year, the
second year budget may be balanced.
Doctor Rule stated that he was willing on this basis to approve
the report as submitted by the committee without any reservation
but with the understanding that every institution would balance
its budget over a two-year period; the summer schools are to be
self-supporting as far as class-room instruction is concerned.

Doctor Rowland asked if this does not mean that the salaries
are to be uniform on a percentage basis?
Doctor Rule replied "yes."
On motion of Doctor Straughn seconded by Doctor Cameron it was
voted to accept and adopt the report on "uniform fees, deposits
and repa^/ments, special report for the summer session of 1935"
as submitted by the committee.
3.

Report of committee on "Limitation of Enrollments "

Doctor Riemer, Chairman of the committee reported for the
committee.
The report follows:

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OUR COMMONWEALTH SECURE
"HOW
THE PROPER SUPPLY OF TEACHERS
FOR ITS PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Before undertaking to limit the enrollments at the state
teachers colleges the Committee would submit to the
Superintendent of Pu-tlic Instruction the following
recommendations
I.

Inasmuch as the attempt to control the production of teachers by exercising control
only over state teachers colleges has proved
futiie, not only in this state but also in
other states, the Committee would recommend
that the state control somewhat more strictly
all the institutions preparing teachers for
its public schools.
The paragraph below from a treatise on Teacher
Preparation Standards in Texas depicts the
situation in our state so well that it deserves
to be quoted.
It points to the futility of
attempting to control teacher output by exercising
control only over state teachers colleges.
'There can be no practical plan of enrollment
limitation for our teachers colleges until
there is a definite relation between entrance
into our teachers colleges and into the teaching
profession ... As the situation now stands,
we find a spirit of competition existing among
the schools t*Lich prepare for the teaching
profession, and this competition results in an
ever increasing student enrollment, instead of
the opposite
a limitation
Our whole
philosophy of enrollment looks to a bigger
rather than to a smaller enrollment
Our
colleges want more students, the teaching profession needs fewer and better teachers.
As
long as our minds are dominated by the
'bigger
elephant' idea
we can expect no practical
plan of limited enrollment, and should have none
as applicable only to the teachers colleges.'

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II.

Inasmuch as there is no longer a dearth of teachers in
the Commonwealth, the Committee would recommend that
the agencies or channels through which teachers may
secure enough credits or semester hours to meet the
requirem.ents of certification, be reduced to schools
which are equipped, organized, and administered to
offer a professional type of preparation to the yo\ing

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men and women who may choose to prepare for teaching
as their life work. At present, it seems, it is
still possible to secure, at least in part, the credits
required for certification at one of our high schools,
at junior colleges, at arts colleges, at religious
colleges, through extension courses, during the
regular year, during summer sessions of two, six or
nine weeks etc
,

The following quotation from the treatise on Teacher
Training Standards mentioned above would seem to
provide a solution of some of the difficulties which
are involved in the control of teacher output in our
State:
'Those of us in teaching have often been
confused hj the low ideals of the past
in respect to our profession and our
professional preparation. We can
never be very proud of our profession
until we make it distinctive, which
means distinctive preparation, ks long
as any young person with a degree can
come in and compete with the trained and
experienced teacher on an equal footing,
there will be a chronic oversupply of
job hunters for teaching positions, a
large part of them not really professional
people. That situation exists today. We
need a professional type of preparation,
and we wish no compromises with those who
keep such preparation undifferentiated

from non-vocational activities.

We want the type of uniformity that is
characteristic of all true professional
schools; that is, curricula that are
uniformly professional. That idea should
imbue every course given.
It should
dictate the set-up of every course of
study and curriculum; and it should be a
consideration in the selection of every
staff member in the teacher-preparing
institutione.
III.

Inasmuch as it is impossible for teacher training
institutions to establish and maintain a proper
relation between, the supply and demand of new
teachers in no other way, the Committee would
recommend that these institutions be provided
with more definite and reliable data than are
now available regarding teacher supply and demand.
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To do so would doubtless entail some labor.
The solution of the problem \'7ould, however,
TiTithout such information
be worthwhile.
the institutions in question will not be
able to formulate an efficient program for
the supply of new teachers.
A.

below an attempt
data regarding
teachers that may
the shrinkage of
the teaching personnel as v/ell as
to its expansion.
It is hoped that
they may prove to be more reliable
and more definite than any furnished
heretofore, and that they may shed
some light on the limitation of
enrollment at state teachers colleges.
In the paragraphs
is made to supply
the nuraber of new
be needed, due to

Demand for New Teachers Due to
Shrinkage of Teaching Personnel
In his study of the Occupational
Stability of the Graduates of Pennsylvania State Teachers College,
1910 to 1930, Dr. Thomas J. Breitwieser
showed that there was a shrinkage in
the teaching personnel, which consisted
of graduates from our state teachers
colleges, of 33, 9^2 during the first
five years of service. If this percentage
is accepted as worthy of general application and is applied to the total number of
teachers in service, for instance, during
the year 1930-31, the figures in the table
below will result. The table contains
figures concerning the nuraber of teachers
in each field of service, the 33.9% fiveyear shrinkage, and the average yearly
shrinlcage.
In the elementary field,
according to Dr. Breitwieser's findings, a
total shrinkage of 14,569 could be expected
over a period of five years; that is, on the
average, 2,914 per year; in the secondary
field the shrinkage would amount to 6,028,
that is, on the average, 1,206 per year. If
the same formula may be applied to the supervising officials, there wo\ild be among them
a shrinkage of 650, or 130, on the average.

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per year. The shrinkage in the entire
teaching personnel of 62,676 teachers
would amount to 21,247 teachers, that
Is, on the average, 4,250 per year.

Table I.

Shrinkage of Teaching Personnel During
First Five Years of Service

Teachers in Service
1930-1931

Total

Kindergarten

Total

Av. Yearly
33.9f5
Shrinkage Shrinkage

598

41,411

Fleinentary

Continuation
All others
Total Elem.

356
611

Junior H. S.
Senior H. S.
Supervisors

5,522
12,260

Grand Total

42,976

14,569

2,914

17,782
1,918

6,028

1,206

650

130

62,676

21,247

4,250

Demand for NeW Teachers Due to
Expansion of Teaching Personnel

During normal times there is a demand
for new teachers, furthermore, due to
the expansion of the teaching personnel.
To show this increase as well as the rate
of increase of the teaching personnel
annually from 1926 to 1931 the table below
^sas prepared.
It shows that, on the
average, for the past four years this
increase has amounted to about 1,264 new
teachers per year, that is, to about 2.1^
of the total number of teachers employed;
for the past three years it has amounted
on the average to 1,005 new teacher per
year, that is, to about 1.64^ of all the
teachers in service.
Table II.

Increase of Teaching Personnel Due to
Expansion from 1926-1931

Teachers

1926-27

1927-28

1928-29

1929-30

1930-31

Number

57,623

59,661

60,583

61,629

62,676

2,038
3.5

922
1.5

1,046
1.7

1,047
1.7

Growth in Num.ber
P. C. Growth

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Deraand for New Teachers Due to
Shrinkage and Expansion of
Teaching Personnel

The table belo?7 contains a summary of
what was determined above regarding
the demand for new teachers because
of the shrinkage and the expansion of
the teaching personnel.

Average Annual Demand for
Expansion
Due

Element ary

Nevf

Teachers Due to Shrinkage and

Secondary

Supervisory

Total

Shrinkage

2,914

1,206

130

4,250

Expansion
Total

1,005
3,919

1,206

130

1,005
5,255

Due to lack of data it was impossible to
distribute the number of additional teachers
due to expansion over the various fields of
service.
They were then placed among the
elementary teachers, which, of course, is not
exactly correct.
B.

Supply of New Teachers
In addition to reliable data relative to the
demand for new teachers there should be
available, moreover, data equally reliable
regarding the supply of such teachers.
In
the paragraphs below an attempt is made to
provide such data.

At present new teachers are supplied through
many channels and agencies. A system of
control as to enrollment and teacher output
would require and should possess accurate
data relative to what these sources of new
teachers have done for a period of years.
The two tables below were prepared to show
in part what might be done of advantage and
value to the profession.
1.

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The first table gives some idea of what
was. done in the output of teachers at

the state teachers colleges from 192V to 1932,
It shows that they
a period of five years
supplied annually on the average 2,756 teachers
for certification in the elementary field. This
figure includes, however, irany graduates who
Tirere teachers in service and secured their
certificates of graduation during the summer
sessions or by extension. They were not, of
coiirse, teachers new to the service.
.

Table III.

Certificate of Graduation from State Teachers Collee^es

Two- Year

Year

Three-Year

Four -Year

Total

1927-28

3,020

495

158

3,673

1928-29

3,073

414

3,555

1929-30

2,985

719

3,761

1930-31

2,508

924

3,480

2,196
13,782

8
700

1 ,082

3 ,297

3,286
17,755

2,756

140

659

3,551

1931-32
Total

Average
2.

Comparison of Output of Teachers Colleges
TJith that of Arts Colleges
Inasmuch as prospective teachers secure
credits to meet certificate requirements
for the most part at the teachers colleges
and the arts colleges of the Commonwealth,
it should prove of interest and of value
to see what these two types of institutions
did, for instance, during the year 1930-31.
The table below gives such figures for the
year in question.

Table IV.

Total Certification of Teachers during 193Q-31

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Field of Preparation
T7;o-year Elementary

Four-year

T.G. Graduates

A.C. Graduates

Total

S,508
53

Four-year Art

Fcur-year Health

137

Four-year Kindergarten

Four -year Music

Three-year J.H.S.

Four-year

Total

2,819

661

549

J.H.S.

Four-year Conmerce

Four-year

H. 3c.

2,819

Four-year 3.H.S
Grand Total

3,480

3,606

5,606

3,606

7,086

According to the table above it should be noted
the teachers colleges graduated 3,480 for the
first nine grades of the public schools of the
Commonnealth; the arts colleges, on the other
hand, graduated 3,606 for the last three or
tovr grades.
2,819 of the graduates from the
teachers colleges \7ere prepared for the elementary
school and the fields of art, health, and the
kindergarten. 597 of their graduates had prepared
for the j\mior high school; 19 for the teaching
of commerce, and45 for the teaching of home economics,
The 3,606 graduates from the arts colleges had prepared for the most part for the senior high school.
3.

Comparison of Supply and Demand of New Teachers
In the table below are set side by side the demand
and supply of new teachers during the year 1930-31.
Due to lack of data no account could be taken of the
number of duplicates, that is, of the teachers in
service who secured certificates of graduation and
were here included in the supply of new teachers.

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Comparison of Teacher Demand and Supply During 1930-31

Table V.

Demand

Suppl?/-

Elementary

3,919

2,819

Secondary &
Supervisory

1,336

4,267

Total

5,255

7,086

Field

Surpl\is

Shortage

Net Surplus

1,000

2,931

1,631

Shrinlcage of Student Enrollments on Y/ay

Through College
In order to establish the proper relation
between supply and demand of teachers, the
teacher-training institutions should know,
furthermore, to what extent their student
enrollments shrink on their way through
college.
Tfith the help of the teachers
colleges a study was undertaken to discover
the rate of such shrinlcage or mortality''.

On the basis of the findings of this study
It
the following table was drawn up.
pictures the shrinlcage of 1,000 students,
entering the state teachers colleges, on
their way toward graduation, by curricula
and by years. Of 1,000 students who enter
these colleges, 822, that is, 82.25^ on the
aArerage, are graduated from the two-year
curricula, and 569, that is 56. 95^ on the
average, from the four-year curricula.

Table VI.

Curricula

Shrinkage of One Thousand Students At Teachers Colleges
from Admission to Graduation by Curricula and Years
First Year

Second Year

Two-year

1,000

853

Four-year

1,000

785

Third Year

Fourth Year Graduation
8S2

697

638

Shrinkage of Teaching Personnel of One Thousand
Teachers
In the table below is diown, fxirthermore the
shrinlcage of 1,000 teachers from entrance to
college on their way to graduation and appointment as well as during their first five years of
service. From the two-year curricula, as was shown
above, the teachers colleges of the state graduate
B2,Zfo of the entrants and frcm the four- year
curricula 56.9^. For an iinder standing of the table
,

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it must be assumed, moreover, that only
about 90^ of these ^iiraduates would be
-.available for positions and that according to Dr. Breit-Teiser only 66.1% of the
graduates entering; the service v/ill still
be teaching at the end of five years of
service.

Table VII.

Curricula

Ttjo

-year

Four-year

of Teaching Personnel of One Thousand
Teachers from Entrance to College to End of Five
Years of Service.

Shrinlca^'-e

At Entrance

At Graduation

Appointed:

90^^

After Five Year:
Service-66.1^

1,000

822

740

489

1,000

569

512

338

Application of Formulas to Demand Established
for 1930-31
In the table beloyr is sho";m. the number of graduates
and of nevj entrants that vrould have been required
to meet the demands in the elementary as vjell as
in the secondary field according to the formulas
established above, since the demands for these tTio
fields ^.'ere 2,914 and 1,336 respectively.

As uas stated above, the average yearly demand to
meet the shrinkage during the first five years of
service is one-fifth of a 33.9 percent shrinkage.
For the year 1930-31 this irould amount to 2,914.
It may be assumed that only 90% of the graduates
will be available for the positions to be filled.
2,914, the average annual shrinkage, divided by
.90, results in 3,240, the number of graduates
required to meet the demand due to shrinkage.
This figure was again divided by ,822, the percentage of graduation, in order to determine the
required number of new entrants to the teachers
college, which resulted in the figure, 3,942.
The same procedure was followed in the case of
the demand in the secondary and supervisory
fields except that the number of graduates was
divided by .569, the rate of graduation from
the four-year curricula.
On account of lack of data the increase or
expansion in the teaching personnel had to be
treated as affecting the elementary schools,
which, of course, is not wholly correct.

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Application of Formulas to Demand for 1930-31

Table VIII.

Av, Yearly Demand

Field

Required Graduates

Required Entrants
To College

El. School

2,914

3,240

3, 942 (Two-year

Expansion

1,047

1,163

1,415

Sec .School

1,336

1,480

2,601(Four-yeai'

5,297

5,883

7,958

Total

curricula
"

According to Table III abo^e, it should be noted, the
teachers colleges graduated at no time in any one year
the number of teachers required, for instance, in 1930-31.
The average annual output for the elementary school v/as
only 2,756, which included even many teachers in service.

N.B.

Comparison of Supply and Demand of Teachers
During 1930-31

The table below shows the demand and supply
of teachers in 1930-31.
In the first column of the
table is indicated the field of service; in the
second column, the average yearly demand caused by
the shrinkage of the teaching personnel over a
period of five years as well as the annual increase,
each divided by .90; in the third column, the
actual n\imber of graduates from teachers colleges;
in the fourth column, the actual number of graduates
from arts colleges, receiving college provisional
certificates; in the remaining columiis, totals,
surpluses, etc.

Comparison of Supply and Demand of Teachers
During 1930-31

Table IX.

Field

—

Demand

Elementary

4,403

2,830

Sec. &
Supervisory

1,480

652

3,606

4,258

2,778

5,883

3,482

3,606

7,088

2,778

Supply
T.C.

Total

N.B.

A.C.

Surplus

Shortage

Net Surplus

Supply
1,573

2,830

1,573

1,205

In the case of the output by arts colleges no deduction was
made for teachers in service or for those who might not care
to teach.
G.

Application of Formula to Entering Glass of 1932

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If the reasoning that has preceded is correct,
the class that entered our state teachers colleges
in September, 1932, should fare as is shown in the
table below.
82.2^ of those who registered in
the two-year curricula, and 56.9^ of those who
registered in the four-year curricula, will be
graduated.
90^^ of the graduates will be available
for positions, to fill the gaps caused by shrinkage
and placed added through grov/th or expansion.

First Semester Enrollment October 15, 1932

Table X.

Curricula

Entrants

Graduates

Available

P. C.

Two-year

1,622

1,334

82.2

1,200

Sec. Ed.

754

429

56.9

386

Special

600

342

56.9

308

2,976

2,105

Total

1,894

The figures in the second coliimn of the table above
were secured from the reports of the teachers
colleges to the Department.
According to these
reports, 1,622 students registered for work in the
two-year curricula. If the percentage of graduation
of our study is correct, 1,334 of them will be
graduated. The average yearly number of graduates
for the last five years has been 2,756. If the'
reasoning regarding this matter, that has preceded,
is correct, there should soon be a dearth of
elementary teachers.

According to the reports from the teachers colleges,
1,354 students enrolled in the four-year curiricula.
If 56.9^^ is the correct percentage of graduation
from the four-year curri cula, 771 of them will be
graduated, barely enough to meet the needs in the
field of the junior high school, let alone those
required in the special fields. The average yearly
output of isuch teachers by the teachers colleges
has been 799,
It is of interest to note that the enrollment in the
two-year curricula decreased 29.6^; in art, 37.5^5;

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in health, 40.6^5; in music,
The entire first semester enrollment
decreased 22. 55^. There was a slight increase
in the enrollment for the secondary school,
home economics, and the kindergarten.

in commerce, 18.3?S;

25.55».

Table XI.

Compar ison of First Semes-ter Enrollments
as of October 1931 and 193 2
:

Increase

Decrease

1931

1932

2,304

1,622

722

754

Commerce

115

Health

350

208

142

Home Economics

Ind. Arts

Kindergarten

Music

133

Total

3,841

2,976

910

Curricula

Two-year

Secondary School
Art

Net
Decrease

682
32

865

Recommendation
In the light of the above facts it is the recommendation of the committee that the enrollments at the
several state teachers colleges should be maintained
at the quotas assigned for the first semester of
1932-35, and that a continuing study be inaugurated
to determine accurately the supply and demand of new
teachers in order to anticipate and prevent a repetition in the future of the serious shortage of teachers
of 1921, and that any limitation of enrollment in
institutions approved for teacher preparation be conditioned on the findings of such study."

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On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Tanger
it -jas vote d that in view of the remark.s made and the
situation as mderstood by all, the very excellent report
made by Doctor Riemer be accepted with thanlcs and consideration given to it at some subsequent meeting of the
Board.
4

Report of committee, on "Standardization
of Printed Fonns"
a.

Student Progress Card

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the cominittee, reported progress.
5

Report of committee on "Uniform Entrance

Blanl-:s "

Doctor Steele reported that they had received a shipment
of paper and vrere nou ready to print the orders for the
several colleges on entrance blanks to be used v/ithin the
institutions. These print jobs are to be done in the
print shop as student projects.
Doctor Tanger stated that they also were in a position to
do some of this work in the print shop as student projects
for the industrial arts cui-riculum.
6.

Report of Joint Committee on "Tsacher
Preparation"

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairnian of the committee representing
the State Teachers Colleges, reported for the comjnittee.

He stated that the committee had had tvra meetings T7ith the
liberal arts college presidents. At the first meeting tbey
had a general discussion of the question and then they
agreed to meet at a later time. A sub -committee of two from,
the teachers college group and a similar number from the
liberal arts colleges agreed to meet and discuss the matter
further concerning certain principles. This was done and
then the entire group met for a second meeting. The meeting
adjourned with the agreement that each would report to their
respective groups the general discussion and the principles
agreed upon. They also agreed to have another meeting,
Monday, March 20, 1933 in Harrisbiirg.
Doctor Steele took notes for the teachers college group and
Doctor Hanson for the liberal arts college group.
Doctor Hanson drew up a brief in which he referred to seven
general statement which were more or less agreed to in a
tentative fashion.

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Doctor Eiseaberg read the brief prepared by Doctor Hanson
as his underatanding of the meeting.
Doctor Eisenberg stated that he felt the comraittee should be
instructed on any proposals to which the Board of Presidents
might agree in order that they may more intelligently confer
with the entire group when they next meet.

Doctor Steele's report follows:

"BRIEF
Covering proposals for a cooperative arrangement between
the Liberal Arts Colleges and the Teachers Colleges
for the preparation of teachers
1.

The basic principle on which any system of teacher
education must be built up is the interests and
welfare of the children of the public school.

No scheme of cooperation between the Liberal Arts
Colleges and the Teachers Colleges can be discussed
from any angle which omits this basic principle. It
is natural for each group of institutions to approach
the problem from the basis of self-interest, protection, or institutional ambition and to seek an
exclusive field for exploitation.
2.

The second principle which must govern a system of
teacher training is that the Commonwealth must accept
the responsibility for controlling and directing teacher
education in order to fulfill the constitutional mandate
'to provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough
and efficient system of public schools, wherein all the
children of this Commonwealth above the age of six years
may be educated, and shall appropriate at least one
million dollars each year for that purpose.'
In order to do this the Commonwealth must set standards
and develop patterns for the training of teachers for
all grades of the public school system. It may not
grant exclusive rights to any field of teacher education
that limits the State's authority to determine the
quality of teacher preparation.

The Commonwealth is responsible for the setting of high
standards of preparation for teaching regardless of the
field in which this teaching is done and is also
responsible for the rigid enforcement of these standards
regardless of the institution in which the training is
done.
In other words the State is responsible for fixing
the standards and seeing to it that no institution,
whether State controlled, State aided, or private, is

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accredited for the preparation of teachers until and
unless these standards are met. It should also provide for careful inspection and for the rigid
enforcement of the standards set.
4.

It is desirable that the most efficient and most
economical system of teacher education be established.

Reasonable attention must be given to the supply and
demand for teachers. Enough teachers must be prepared
for every level of teaching to allo'ff a safety margin
and provide for selection. It is obviously inefficient
and uneconomical, however, to prepare manjr more teachers
than are actually needed for the service. It would seem
possible, therefore, to effect a satisfactory and constructive arrangement for cooperation betv."een the
Teachers Colleges and the Liberal Arts Colleges and
Universities of the Commonwealth that would fix the
major responsibilities of each tjrpe of institution
and prevent unnecessary and harmful competition or
duplication, ^ith this end in viev; the follo"'.'ing
proposals are presented for such a scheme:
a.

It is proposed that at the earliest possible time
the standard of training for the elementary
schools be made four years of post high school

training;
b.

The standard of training for the secondary schools,
five years of post high school training;

The fifth year shall be graduate work and shall be
taken in a recognized Graduate School or Graduate
Department of Education. It would be necessary
here for the State Council of Education or some
other body to set standards and determine the
accreditment of acceptable graduate departments.
It is expected that this year of graduate work
would be concerned chiefly with professional work
in the case of Liberal Arts graduates, and with
additional subject matter work for Teachers
College graduates who seek certification for the
high school field.

At the earliest possible time a single minimum
sala^ry schedule for each level of training should
be established. That is, there should be no
distinction made for different grades where equal
training has been secixred and equal quality of
work done. The minimum suggested is ylOO per

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month minimum for the four year level and J125
minimum for the five year level.
e.

The Teachers Colleges shall concentrate their
work on the elementary field and shall only engage
in the preparation of secondary teachers to the
extent and under the conditions prescribed by the
It is proposed here
State Council of Education.
that the Teachers Colleges shall, beginninp;
September 1, 1933, restrict admissions of students
who desire training for the secondary field to the
numbers prescribed by the State Council of Education.

The Liberal Arts Colleges shall confine their work
so far as it is possible to the four years of
academic preparation for high school teachers and
shall only engage in the training of elementary
teachers to the extent and under the conditions
that may be prescribed by the State Council of Education for experimental Y/ork. In '.any case where
the Liberal Arts Colleges continue the preparation
of elementary education after September 1, 1953,
they shall be required to meet the same standards
now required by the American Association of Teachers
Colleges for teachers colleges for laboratory schools,
libraries, and supervision of student teaching,

The field of the special subjects such as Axt» Music,
Health Education, Home Economics, Industrial Arts
and Commercial Education, shall be considered the
field of the Teachers Colleges and of such institutions as are now accredited in these specific fields.
Additional courses shall not be approved until it is
clearly shown that the demand for teachers demonstrates
the need for such additional departments or courses.

The junior high sahool field and the departmentalized
7th, 8th, and 9th grades shall be considered as an
overlapping field until such time as it is considered
advisable by the State Council of Education to apply
the requirement of five years of training for teachers
in these fields.

Definite standards shall be set up under the direction
of the State Council of Education to include requirements for laboratory schools, library facilities, et
cetera for the institutions, and requirements for
certification restricted to the junior high school
field for the transition period.

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state aided institutions shall confine their
work to the graduate field and to graduate
courses I'or supervisory officers."

On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Tan'::er it v.'as
voted that the report be accepted with thanks and that the
report be used as a basis for further discussion with the
thought in mind that the committee will keep the members
of the Board informed as to the findings.

Question of policy in the matter of
issuing certificates in certain
specific cases

Doctor Rule stated that the State Council of Education had
asked for some specific information and advice v;ith
reference to issuing certificates in certain cases.
Doctor Rule specifically stated the case in question and
asked what the pleasure of the Board was -ith reference to
this or other similar cases.
Doctor Haas suggested that all cases be considered on their
merits and on the basis of the recommendation of the faculty
who are responsible for the graduation and completion of
courses.
Doctor Rule stated that he agreed with the suggestion made
by Doctor Haas.

New Business

III.

Additional coiirses for the sumier session

Doctor Foster asked that this item be postponed until the
next meeting.
2,

Enrollments in the State Teachers Colleges
as of February 15, 1935

Mr. Klonower explained that these enrollment charts had
been mailed to the several institutions for checking
purposes and as soon as the final checked copies were
received, the corrected copies would be mailed to the
Presidents for distribution.
3.

Professional Status of Teachers as of

November

1952

Mr. Klonower stated that a copy of this chart had been mailed
to each President with a letter of explanation indicating the
advances made by the several school districts.

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List of graduates who received cer ti ficates
of graduation as of January 1955

Klonower explained that a copy of this chart had been
mailed to each President and a copy would be filed in the
minutes of the meeting of the Board.
¥sr,

Number of degree graduates in.dicating
the elective fields

Mr. Klonower explained that a copy of this chart indicating
the elective fields of the degree graduates had been mailed
to each institution and a copy would be filed in the
minutes of the meeting of the Board,
IV.

Miscellaneous
1.

Legislative Letter of Superintendent

Doctor Hule distributed copies of his weekly legislative
letter, to County and District Superintendents for the
information of the Presidents. He also distributed a copy
of a letter issued by the Executive Board of Pennsylvania
State School Directors' Association.

On motion of Doctor Elsenberg seconded by Doctor Tanger it
voted to adjourn at 2:00 P. M. to meet at the call of
the Chairman.

?ras

Secretary

Approved:

fj-^-w^^-X-^S

ff l^^^^ Jt~ I

^}3

l-'N^

S'merintendent of Public Instruction

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SUMMARY OF ENROmffiMTS IN PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DEPARrRJENT OF PTBLIC I^ISTRtCTION

TEACHER BUREAU
Harrisburg

Different Students

Number
class

Teacher Training in
Regular Currieule
AS of February 15 1933
=

•;;l~TCTAL Class

-^1

'*u eit

^eco

e^ter

Eecrnn
Third

iltjitnlary

t'oxxr

Second
Thild
Elemtntary
iintprmeciiatej Four t
SecLOd
Third
:y
Fourth
First
four -year

^.t.i
ar

itsr
taT

ar
ar
Year
Year
Year

1
"i

Fourth Ye
second
Third
Fourth
First
Second
Third
Fourth
First
Second
Third
Fourth

Year
Year
lear
Year
/ear

Year
Year
Year
Year
Year
Year
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Fourth Year
First Year
Second Year

CoiiUJierce

Health
Eiucation

Home

Industrial

Fourth Year
Second Yv^ar
Third Year

Kinder-

Garten

Second Year
Third Year
Fourth Year

Kusic

^Li.'^

1"4

10
B
4
4
89 104
6
8
13
2
21 _
_

48
1117
lc3
uZ
152
9

4
73e
724
(7M
eo7
50
59
-.7

12
Vi

Held
10

1
-

4b
63
54
64
_

59
46

32
32

46
42
17

25
20

15
11

r ~:r
13

49
44
49
36
27
27

24
34

15
8

79
92
79

IZ —^ -J—
_^ _L -^

Nuir.ber

Lessons

Total

Service

Minutes

Re-

"ay

120

5415

102
102
96

_
_

_
-

—_ -^ -^ -^ — -^
r\

- '-^

46
55
34
-

58
57

74
50
5b

731

285
06

180

28t

-'^S'^

r-.20

74
-

'?..:''.

r.-.n

159

43
25
15
15
-

-r-

IZ —z-

81
17

~Tf
5

23
It

32
31

^
L^

-^ -^—
1

- !_;-.

29
26

COLLEGES

110

65
24

26
-

"
"i

737

_
_

8
101

2.C

68
450 737
Class rv (Part-time Studio
students
Lessons Individual
Teacher-Pupil Basis)
A. Part-time ONLY
B. Regular Students-EXTRA Work
i

TOTAL,

-1

241

498

KALE FsaxE TOT.a.

111

l.i8

;

'!.

355
«27

Class III
Class I
Full-time Student! Part-time Campus
Students taking
Regular Curricula less than 13 s.h.

TOTAL

'
'.

;

3
7

''^'..

)

ii^wiC

OTHE-'S

ffiLE fE.'ALEU

--jt^

A
110.

r—-——

Blocnsburg
-

"'30'

Cheater

(^er.t

1-^

± ZI
-^
±
~1
T
T

V.est

Day

r!ent

'^^'

27
-

-r-

15
-

"z^T

4446 1574 4445

2^^9

^esiDay

-lent

Lock Haven
Mansfield
tiillersTille

;iaBS iva|

Class III

lesi-

dent [ray

4^6
724
75

Last Stroud sburp.

Class

b
59

of Day and Resident Students

Cheyney

14
3
-

-^-

-^\zz. -^

46
39
32
11
12
11
16

81
72
12

—

-lia- '-^

TOTAL

zz -^4 IZ

—

28
38
47
22
-

48
40

224

14
71
57
45
34

:± -^- -r

Length

—

568

Enn, 11of
Centers
TThere
Teachers
Classes

Extension Courses

74
41

4
4

o*
95
80

1^-1 107 132

43
191
209
207
170
77
54
39
40

611 619 144 348 680 489 1264 514

501

Oihers

3
3

Class II Students

tcc-r

Secondary

Alt

2
g

First ^

"IHS-year

Students

-r-

East Stroudsturg
Edinboro

680
489
1264

322
196
289
151
176

3b8
293

363
410

111

4cr30

25
15

-r^

IZ IZ

MillErsville
Shippensburg

556
568

252

347
316

-e -^

SI ippe ry Pock
1167

312

855

IVest

Chester

209

4121 257
1039 6 ?,713
Kon-local Schools 48831 33b

Practice
School
Campus Schools

48
55

•

1
'<

Class V Pupils
-

514

586

Kutztowi
lock Haven

i
1

73 250 323
190
333 ISll
313
600 •m^IzA_r1

421
653
810

195
297 370 512 443
1218
510 515 170
130 311

280
2457
561 1819

510

DISTRIBUriCN OF STUDENTS BY COUNTIES IN STJO'E TEACHERS COLIZGES
As of FEBRUARY 15, 1933

Pock

;

Che-star

" T Y

MillersTille

Shippensburg

1
Mansfield

Slippery

TOTAL
Adams
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver
Bedford
Berks
Blair
Bradford
Bug ks

Butler
Cambria
Cameron
Carbon
Center
Chester
Clari on
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
£lk
Erie
Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Fulton
Greene
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata
Lackawarjm
Lancaster
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigh

9019

;

611

;

5b5
111
78
62
368
13?

106
78
210
193
4

83
49
214
173

103
155
165
212
38
259
212
5

160
13
22
36
310
128
14
213
384
119
47
131

2
2

;

2
1

;

iviercsr

197
3
8

;

t"eri-y

Philadelphia
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Sny lifer
Sonferset

Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Ven an go
Warren
V/ashiufrton

Wayne
WestraDreiand
V/yoming

York
Total from Pennsylvania

From other states

;

156
-

16
-

;

164

37
1
-

;

1-:-:

;

48
5

;

~
_
_
_
15
_

79
-

;

255

ee
_

;

30
si

;

135

;

348

;

14
1
4
15
-

1
-

10
6

;

1
1

_
38

113
-

„

;

3
29

140
_

488

1264

;

10
-

;

It
20

;

511
3

1
59
27
20
-

5
1

3
4
1

- ^
-

343

;

4
52

;

2
2

;

1
1

;

1
2

;

5
1

;

5
2

;

'.go

14
49
55
16
6

;

4
69
-

;

15
43
177
^
1

;

2
-

;

1S4

;

4
9

4
1

£11

2
2
5
1

;

'8
'4
96

;

2
11

;

567
1

;

3
2

797

'63

;

2
11
58
4

;

556

664

;

•

;

22
»

;

1-:-

;

•

;

1
1

;

3
4
16
_

585

;

;i33
11
19

;

•

;

;122

;

-:-!-;-:

•

2
3

;

4
74
13

4
3

;

!
i

645

117

;

17
1

;

1
1

;

619

;

2
50
14

;

119
10

;

607

;

2
3

;

-;-:-:-

1
i

;

;191
11
12
-

;

213
21
32

;

32
1

11
3

;

_:-:-;
:

_
_

;

6
1

-:-:-;-

145j

1
2

-'-'-;-

_
-

;

300
54

;

15
1
3

;

56
186
-

;

11
3
3
3
-

•

86
-

;

3
1

13
4

;

il67

1797

1568

;

240

;

3
5

;

4
34
1
1
10

;

1
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MEETING OF THE BOABD OF PRESIDEl^TS, STATE TiiaCHERS COLLEC-ES
irerNESD/i.Y,

May 10, 1935

DOCKET
1.

II.

Reading and consideration of the minutes of the meeting
of the Board of Presidents, held at Harrisburg,
March 17, 1933,
Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular Revision Committee

Report of coimiiittee on "Uniform Fees, Deposits
and Repayments"

Report of committee on "Standardization of
Printed Forms"
a

III.

St uden t Progress Card

Report of joint committee on "Teacher preparation"

Additional courses for the

Nevj

Business

High school graduates and the present economic situation

State Standard Limited Certificate and the Noraial
School Certificate

Budgets

Report of special committee on salary

Suirjmer

Session

JOUIWAL OF A

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OF THE

BOARD OF PRESIDENTS, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
Vi'ednesday,

May 10, 1933

A special meeting

of the Board of Presidents of the
State Teachers Colleges of the CoramonTrealth of Pennsylvania was held in the Superintendent's Conference
Room of the Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was called to order by the
Chairman at 9:30 o'clock.

The following were present:

Francis B. Haas
Robert M. Steele
Leslie Pinckney Hill
G. G. L. Riemer
T. T. Allen
C. C. Crawford
Charles R. Foster
Dallas U. Armstrong
Landis Tanger
Albert Lindsay Rowland
J. Linr/ood Eisenberg
Norman YJ. Cameron

James N. Rule, Chaiiraan

Henry Klonower, Secretary

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Blooms burg
California
Cheyney
Clarion
East Stroudsbur^
Sdinboro
Indiana
Lock Haven
Miller svi lie
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

Doctor A. C. Rothermel, President of the State
Teachers College, Kutztocm, "'as not present
due to illness. He was represented by Fff. Elraer
D. Baver, Bursar.
Doctor '.Tilliara R. Straughn, President of the
State Teachers College at Mansfield, waG not
present due to illness. He '"as represented by
Doctor A. T. Bell-inap, Dean o;" Instruction
I.

Approval of the minutes of the
meeting of the Board of Presi dents held in Harrisburg
March 17, 1955.
,

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor
Foster it T:7as voted that the minutes of the
meeting of the Board of Presidents held March 17,
1953 be approved as submitted.
II

Unfinished Business
1.

Report of the Curricular
Revision Coiimiittee

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Curricular
Revision Committee, reported that the sj^Habi
had been printed, bound and forwarded to the
State Teachers Colleges for distribution to
the members of the instructional staffs.
2

Report of committee on " Uniform
Fees Deposits and Repayments"
,

In the absence of Doctor Straughn, Chairman of
the Committee on "Uniforra Fees, Deposits and
Repayments", Doctor Steele reported for the

committee.

Doctor Steele, reporting for the committee,
submitted the following report for the consideration of the Board:

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DEPG3IT3, and MPkr/lWIS

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i'EACI-KRS COLLEG-ES

Effective June 1, 1933

Student Activi

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FEES

?ee

A fee to be determined by each iastltvtion will
be collected from all students and admin istero-' under
resulations approved by the Board of rrus:;ees through
a coojerative organization. This fee rrill cover the
cost of stucont activities in athletics, lee inures,
entertainments, student publications, et cp.tera.

Contingent Fee
1.

Regular Session

A contingent fee for each student in each curriculum
is charged as follows:
HaJ.f Semes oer

Elementary Ciu'riculums
Secondarj'- Curriculums
Art
CoffiiTiercial Education
Health Education
Home Econom.ics
Industrial Arts
Music

4 18.00

18.00
27.00
21.00
27.00
36.00
27.00
54.00

This fee covers registration and keeping of records of
students, library, student welfare, health service (other
than extra nurse and quarantine) and laboratory faciliti ?b.
2.

Summer Session
a.

Five dollars per semester horj
^'.:
fifteen
dollars (vl5.00) will be c-iorgel.

A minimum contingent fee

Contingent Fees - Special Curriculums

In addition to the above fe?? students in
the special cujrriculums vjill be required to pay
a fee to cover the cost of iraterials, supplies,
equipment, and special services used in the
laboratories, shops or studios of the special
curriculums.

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These additional contingent fees vrill be
ar l'ollo7>rs:
Sumiie r

Art
Commercial Education
Health Education
Home Economics
Ividustrial Ajts
.

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III.

Seosion
60 00

2.00
6.00
IS .00

6.00
24.00

Housing Fee
1.

Housing rate for students:

The housing rate for students shall be ,.o3.0C
per one-half semester and §42.00 for the Sunnr-r
Session. This includes room, meals and li .ited
laundry.
(a)

For rooms f/ith running water an additional
c^ar7e of 99. 00 per student per semester,
or „;3.30 for the S^Jinmer Session may be made.

(b)

No reduction in the rate is to be nade for
laimdry done at home nor for absenei of
students ^^ho go home for a fevj davs. 'it a
time.

(c)

A student may, at the discretion

cf ir.e

dci.ble
President of the college, occupy
.00
room alone bjr paying an additional
a semester or vlS.OO for the Summer Session.
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(d)

?or the piirpose of meeting the rbiu;; ^r-^nts
in those colleges where off-caiurais "•'uo'.ing
students board in the college dinirv r-'Om,
and to meet the requirements of t'.e Hcrne
Management Clubs in the two institutions
maintaining home economics curricil'Ojr.s, the
housing rate shall be divided ;;S.-0 for room
rent and vS.OO for table board.
;.

Housing rate for employes other tha;.i tiicse included
in the State Classification Schedule (fa^'ilty,
clerks, etc.) shall be -'^Q.OO per week.

The rate for transient meals shall be:
Brealcfast, ;j0.40; Lunch, $0.40;
Dinner, -^0.50.

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Damage Fee
be responsible for ci^mnges, or
breakage or loss, or delayed return ol" collo.'^e
property.

St\i.dents slivill

Infirmary

F_e_e

After three oays in the colle{re infirirary, the
college shall charge an additionf.l ^1 .CO for
each day.
Day students v/ho may be adjiiitted to the inf i^shall pay board at the rate of ,^S.OO a day.
charge includes the regular nurse and regular
medical service, but does not i3iclude specWl
nurse or special medical service.

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Isolati on liospital Fee
If the colle'ie maintains an Isolation C;,uarx.ioine
Hospital for contagious diseases, the college
shall charge olO.OO per week additional, but this
service charge does not include trainee nurse or
special medical service.

Day students, who may be admitted to the Quarantine
Hospital shall pay the board rate of -$2.00 a day
(see V above), and in addition shall pay ^tiIQ .00 a
week, but this additional charge does not include
trained nurse or special medical service.
VII.

Tuitio n F e_G
Students whiOse residence is out of the SL.-ite shall
be charged a fee of ,i;105.00 pei' semester; .^55. 00
per Su'.TTriier Session. (It is understood that this fee
has been operative since Jime 1, 1929, for entering
students only.

Out-of-State students shall pay the contingent fee
in addition to the tuition fee.

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VIII.

Private Instruction Fees
The cha rge for private lessons in music, in tne
State Teachers Collep;es maintaining the special
curriculum in music, shall be:
1.

Voice, piano, band or orchestral instrument f.,
$24.00 per semester - for one lesson per weeK

Pipe organ, ^Ms.OO per semester
lesson per week.
2.

for one

Rental of piano for practice, 1 period per day,
96.00 per semester.

Rental of pipe organ for practice, 1 period
per day, ^36 .00 per semester.
Rental of band or orchestral instruinents ^6.00
per semester.
.{For Summer Session the charge is one-third of above
,

rates.
3.

The charge for private lessons in music in the State
Teachers Colleges not maintaining the special music
curriculum shall be fixed as follows:
The Board of Trustees of a State Teachers Colle ^e
not offering the special curriculum in music, may,
subject to the approval of the Superintendent of
Public Instrucl ion, enter into contract with
individuals to give private lessons in music in
order to afford an opportunity for students tc continue their musical education. Such agreement shall
provide reasonable reimb\irsement to the institution,
for any service or overhead supplied by the institution.

IX.

Degree Fee

A fee

of -iS.OO shall be paid hy each candidate for a
degree to cover the cost of degree diploma,

Record Transcr i pt Fee
Onedollar (,j1.00) shall be charged for the second and
each subsequent transcript of records.

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Delinquent

A-^ coi mts

No student shall be (Enrolled, graduated, or receive a
transcript of his record until all previous charges
have been paid.

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DEPOSITS

Advance Registration Deposit

A deposit of jlO.OO shall be made by all student? when tney
request registration. This is a guarantee of the intention cf the
student to enter college for the term or semester designated. It
is deposited with the Revenue Department to the credit of the
students contingent fee.
If, hov;ever, the student notifies tne
college at least three weeks before the opening of college that he
is unable to enter, or if the student is rejected by the college,
repayment of this deposit will be made through the Department of
Revenue, on application from the student through the college
authorities.
Check or money order for this amount must be dravm to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
C.

J^j

OTHER

:i'£ES

OR DEPOSITS PaRI;nrTLD

No fees or deposits, other than as specified above may be
charged by a State Teachers College.

REPAIT.'IENTS

II.

Repa3mient will not be made:
1.

To students who are temporarily suspended, indefinitely
suspended, dismissed, or who voluntarily withdrav: from
college.

For any part of the advance registration deposit for any
cause whatsoever except where students give notice of intention to withdraw at least three weeks before the college
opens or when the student is rejected by the college.

A repayment will be made for personal illness, the same being
certified to by an attending physician, or for such other reasons
as may be approved by the Board of Trustees for the amoiant of "che
housing and contingent fees paid by the student for the part of
the semester which the student does not spend in college.

III.

The advance registration deposit will be returned to students provided they notify the college not less than three v.'eeks before the
opening of the semester or term of their intention not to attend,
or provided the student is rejected by the college.

Committee s
Doctor Norman ?. Cameron
Doctor Francis B. Haas
Doctor C. R. Foster
Doctor Robert M. Steele
Doctor 'Yilliam R, Straushn, Chairman

"VOB-

On motion of Doctor Bowland seconded by Doctor
Eisenberg it Tias voted to delay discussion on
the matter of "Uniform Fees, Deposits and
Rcpaym.ents"' until after luiicheon.

Hie Board adjourned at 12:25 to reconvene at 2:00 P.M.

Doctor Sisenberg stated that he thouglit the rate for
board ^7as too high and that this should be reduced.
He felt that the rate should be about ^6.00 per Tieek
instead of ^7.00, and that the fee for board, room
and laundry should be made pa.Table one month in
advance for such students who ~ere not able to pay
for one-half the semester as hid been the practice.

Doctor Rule asked for an expression of opinion from
the members of the Board on the following questions:
1.

Do you feel the rate for room, board,
and laundry should be -.i^V.OO?

Do you feel the rate for room, board,
laundry should be reduced to :;^6.00
Tfith a slight increase in the contingent
fee?
and-

Doctor Tanger stated he favored the :;?7.00 rate;
Allen favored "i^G.OO per week if the contingent
fee were increased to ^ilOO; Doctor Armstrong favored
?6.00; Doctor Riemer favored $6.00; Doctor Crawford
favored ,,i6.00; Doctor Haas stated that he favored
the ,?7.00; Doctor Hi].l favored ^6.00; Doctor Cameron
favored 37.00; Doctor Rowland favored •;,J7.00; Itr.
Baver, representing Doctor Rothermel in his absence
favored •i?7.00; Doctor 3"ceele favored -jjcOO; Doctor
Eisenberg favored ^6.00; Doctor Belknap, representing
Doctor Straughn, stated that he knew that Doctor
Straughn was opposed to any increase at all in the
contingent fee and he felt that he would prefer the
•^7.00 to the s)6,00 rate; Doctor Foster favored the
§7.00 rate.
Ivlr.

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Mr. Allen
it was voted that the housing fee be changed from
$7.00 to ^6.00 per week and the contingent fee
increased to -^SO.OO per semester. There were five
votes for and nine votes against the motion.

Doctor Rule declared the motion lost.

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On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Foster
it xia.s voted that the report of the coraniittee on
"Uniform Fees, Deposits and Repayments" be adopted
as submitted ~ith the provision that the President
of the institution may at his discretion authorize
pa3mients not less than one month in advance to
'^rorthy students.
3.

Report of committee on "Standardization
of Printed Forms"
a.

St udent Progress Card

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Committee, reported progress.
4

Report of joint committee on
" Teacher Preparation "

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Corranittee, reported for
the committee. He stated that the committee was making
progress. They had had further meetings of the joint
committee and agreed, not unanimously, on certain general
principles.

A committee of one representing the State Teachers Colleges
and a committee of one representing the liberal arts
colleges were deputized to deliver the report in person to
the State Superintendent.
Doctor Eisenberg stated that he had delivered his report
to the Superintendent and his thought was that the next
move would be for the State Superintendent to bring this
report to the Board.

Doctor Eisenberg further stated that Doctor Hanson was
the committee of one representing the liberal arts
colleges to deliver the report to the State Superintendent.

Doctor Cam^eron asked r.'hy it was not possible to have the
report at once so that every member of the Board would be
informed as to what has been suggested by the committee.

Doctor Eisenberg then stated that after conference with
the State Superintendent concerning the report of the
joint committee, it was decided that the ethics of the
situation would be fully maintained if the Department of
Public Instruction would mimeograph the report and send
it to each of the Presidents within a short time and then
have it brought before the Board for discussion at its
next meeting.

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The Board agreed to this sug.^estion.
5

Additional course s for the Summer Session

Doctor Foster stated that he had asked to have this item
placed on the docket. He felt they were very -rell prepared at Indiana to offer certain courses which irrere not
listed in the present curriculuins. These coiold be
offered as electives if approved by the State Superintendent,

Allen stated that it T?as his thought according to the
present set-up that six semester hours vexe the maximum
amount of free electives that could be offered in any one
institution.

J\lir .

Doctor RoTJland stated that if this ;7ere true, it did not
give the institution a chance to exercise its judgment,
or the students much choice in the selection of electives.
In many cases he felt that the instructors neve -^ell
equipped to offer other courses than those indicated in
the approved curriculuins.
It was suggested that this matter be referred to the
Chairman of the Curricular Revision Committee, Doctor
Eisenberg.

Doctor Eisenberg stated that it was his judgment that only
six semester hours of free electives could be offered in
any one curii culum for graduation, but that more courses
could be offered if and when approved by the State Superintendent within the institution.
II'I.

New Business
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High school graduates and the present
econ omic situation

Mr. Klonower stated that he had received a memorandum from
Mr. Bristow seme time ago in which it Tiras indicated that
approximately 55,000 young people would com-plete their
courses in the public secondary and private secondary
schools within a month or so. He further indicated that
many of these young people had planned to go to college to
continue their preparation, but due to the present economic
conditions would not be able to follow their original plans
for an education.
It was suggested that these young people be permitted to
attend the State Teachers Colleges either as full-time
students in four^year curriculums or in short courses
designed in all the phases of citizenship. The c\arricul\jEis

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need have nothing to do with the preparation of teachers,
but would be merely provided to take care of this emergency
situation, particularly to get these young people off the
streets and a',7ay from the breeding places of discontent.
Home-making, child-care, and domestic arts and science
courses might be provided for the girls, while courses in
commercial education and industrial arts could be provided
for the boys.
Mr. Klonower further stated that if nothing else nere
accomplished these drifting young high school graudates
would be housed in the dormitories under the most favorable influences that could touch them during their
adolescent period.

He felt that here was an opportunity to render a type of
service which ought not to be neglected. It might even be
possible to get the support of the Association of College
Presidents and that the Liberal Arts Colleges would each be
willing to accept a quota of these 55,000 high school
graduates.

Doctor RoY/land stated that he felt it was wrong to give the
impression that there were empty rooms in the dormitories
of the State Teachers Colleges and facilities available to
give recognition to this sort of thing. He further stated
that at Shippensburg they expected to have every room filled,
and the only way that such a condition could be met was by a
very substantial provision of both space and money for this
purpose*
Doctor Haas referred to that section of the School Code
which states that students other than those preparing for
teaching may at the approval of the State Superintendent and
when it does not interfere with the teacher preparation
program, enroll other students, but he pointed out that this
provision had been entirely deleted at the recent session of
the General Assembly.
The matter was dropped from, the docket.
2

•

State St andard Limited Certificate and
the_ Normal School Certificate

Doctor Eisenberg, Chairman of the Curricular Revision Committee, stated that the committee had given some consideration
to this question and they recommended as follows:

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If the Oiiinibus Bill is signed, the Board of
Presidents recammends to the State Council
of Education that the State Standard Limited
Certificate be issued in place of the Normal
School Certificate, effective for all
students who enter subsequent to June 1, 1933.

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Foster it
was voted that the recommendation of the Curri cular
Revision Cominittee with reference to the State Standard
Limited Certificate be referred to a committee for study
and that a report be made at the next meeting of the Board.
3.

Budgets

Doctor Rule stated that he would like to have the special
committee on salary which has been studying this problem
continue lintil the final allocations of the budgets are
made. He felt that they had done a very helpful and
instructive piece of work and he asked unanimous consent
of the Board to continue the comiaittee.
Doctor Cameron raised a question as to why such a large
reserve of ^200, 000 was held out since the original
appropriation was considerably reduced.
Doctor Rule stated that this -jiSOO.OOO was held in reserve
for two reasons; first, for almost immediate re-allocation^
and secondly, for emergency purposes.
On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Steele it
was voted to continue the special salary committee until
the State Superintendent would discharge it.
4

Report of special committee on

" Salary "

Doctor Haas, Chairman of the Committee, reported for the
committee.

He stated that Doctor Rule had appointed the special committee
of the Board April 19, 1933 to study the salary situation and
see what the prospects were for the coming year.
The committee had had two meetings and on getting into the
problem it was discovered that this question tied up with many
other conditions.

Doctor Haas, reporting for the committee, submitted the following report for the consideration of the Board:

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"Your special cotTCiiittee held a second meeting in the
office of the Superintendent May 4, 1933 at 1:30 o'clock.
Tlie following were present:
Doctor Roviland, Mr. Allen,
Doctor Haas, Chairman, and Mr. McClure of the Department.

The conmittoe reviewed the material presented to date
and considered at length the tabulation of the figures
developed by }Jir McClui-e under the plan sent you imder date
of April 24, 1933.
The committee desires to emphasize the
fact that it must be clearly understood that the object of
the suggested proposal is to distribute as equitably as
possible a fixed sum of money upon the basis of an actual
current situation and thereby make it possible to estimate
the probable future situation in terms of enrollment and
fees. The committee submits for your consideration a modification of this plan developed by Mr. McClure and calls
attention to the following major points involved in the
revision:
.

The limit of enrollment used is developed
from (a) the actual n-umber of students who
had a right to retujcn to the institution
and who did return as of October 15, 1932
and (b) 80?^ of the first semester Class I
students as of October 15, 1931 which shall
be the figure unless this total is less than
90^ of the whole niunber of Class I students
as of October 15, 1931 in which case such
90'-/o shall be the figure.
.

Instead of the flat overhead proposed in the
original plan there is substituted a figure
which refines the overhead by distributing
the institutions in four classes as follows:
A.

Enrollment under 399, overhead ^15,456.

Enrollment 400-599, overhead

Eirollment 600-799, overhead ^24,601.

Enrollment over 800, overhead oE5,760.

.,,;£2,701.

The effect of this refinement is, of course, to
relate the overhead allowance more closely to
the actual situation.

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The distribution of the proposals for the individual institutions as presented in the attached exhibit
is based upon (a) a state appropriation of ^.'^,000,000,
(b) the fees as suggested in the report of the Fee Coiumittee
and (c) the current enrollment as developed under the
enrollraent limitations approved for the current year by
Doctor Rule.

After reviewing all the factors involved, the
committee is of the opinion that the operations of the
institutions for the current biennium v.'ill necessitate a
probable salary reduction for all employes of at least 10^
together with saae reductions in the number of instructors.
Therefore, the committee suggests for consideration the
following general recommendations in order to meet the
irimediate emergency needs for the coming year because of
the probable reduction in State appropriation and because
of the necessity for preparing immediately a balanced
budget for the ensuing year:
1.

That beginning June 1, 1933 the compensation
of all regular employes on either salarj;- or
wage pa77rolls be reduced 10^,
(Note:
Limitations of General Appropriation Act H.B.
260)

In applying the proposed salary reduction a
basic exemption of ftlOOO is contemplated,
except that there shall be no exemptions for
part-time and cooperative teachers.

It is contemplated that the proposed salary
reduction will be based upon total compensation which shall include the cash salary plus
maintenance, if any«

If the proposed adjustment of salaries is not
sufficient to balance the budget on the
instructional side after talcing into consideration a proper distribution of general operation
and housing costs, further reductions may be
made, if and when the board of trustees of
any teachers college shall present to the
Superintendent of Public Instruction evidence

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him that the college
does not and will not have sufficient
funds to pay the salaries required by the
salary schedule on the basis of this 10^
reduction.

v;hich shall convince

The advisability of reviewing further the salary
situation for cooperative teachers was considered by the
committee. A number of plans were discussed. There has
been a steady improvement on the quality of the cooperative
teaching under the incentive of the present schedule and we
It must be remembered
do not want to lose this improvement.
also that while the colleges on the State side represent a
system which can set uniform standards, the school districts,
on the other hand, are divided by the State into classes of
varying size and financial abilities. The colleges must be
able within reasonable limit to adjust to these situations.
Considering all the factors involved at the present time,
the committee recomjnends that a special committee be
appointed by the State Superintendent to study the present
cooperative teaching situation and to make before the close
of the 1933-34 college year a report with such recommendations
as will improve the efficient and economical administration
of this function.
,

It is understood, of course, that any plans proposed
will be subject to such legislative action as may be approved
by the Governor and to such regulations as the Governor may
set under the authority of the Administrative Code, and,
furthermore, that the first responsibility under the Appropriation Act is charged to the Superintendent and that any
action of the Board of Presidents is in the natiire of suggestions to him at his request.

RESOLVED: The Board of Presidents recommends for
your favorable consideration the report of the
Special Salary Committee as herewith presented as
a suggestive basis for distributing the State
approp]:;"iation for State Teachers Colleges and the
Oheyney Trainiiig School for 1933-34.

Respectfully submitted.
Committee

Albert Lindsay Rowland
T. T. Allen
Francis B. Haas, Chairman"
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Doctor Cameron raised a question as to whether the salaryreductions of 10^0 were to be tfiken from the salary as
received for the current year or from the salary as it
was last year before the increment was returned.

Doctor Rule stated that he felt it should be on this
year's salary and that as closely as we held to the provisions of House Bill 1374 relative to the teacher
salary situation, we T/ould receive less criticism.
Doctor Steele stated that he agreed with vrhat Doctor
Cameron had stated; in some cases the people on the
higher scale who had reached the limit of the classification did not need to return any part of their salary
last year, because they had received no increment, but
those on the lower levels who are gradually worlring
their way to the top, were affected by the ruling and
now they would receive another reduction.

Doctor Rule asked for an expression of opinion from
each member of the Board stating that he would like to
do just what the members of the Board felt was the
right thing to do.
Doctor Cameron stated he favored the contract salary;
Doctor Rowland favored the actual salai-y received for
the year; Mr. Baver, representing Kutztown, favored
the actual salary; Doctor Eisenberg favored the actual
salary for the present year; Doctor Belinap, representing Mansfield, stated he felt there would be fewer
questions raised on the actual salary basis used;
Doctor Foster favored the contract basis; Doctor Tanger
favored the actual salary; Mr. Allen stated that he was
somewhat in synipathj'- with what Doctor Steele had stated,
but he favored the actual salary basis as a matter of
necessity; Doctor AiTastrong favored the actual salary
basis; Doctor Riemer favored the contract salary; Doctor
Crawford favored the actual salary received; Doctor Hill
favored the actual salary basis.
Doctor Rule stated that it appeared the
the actual salarjr basis being used.

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favored

On motion of Doctor Haas seconded by Doctor Rowland it
was voted that the Board of Presidents recomiriond for the
favorable consideration of the State Superintendent the
report of the Special Salary Committee as presented by
Doctor Haas as a suggestive basis for distributing the
State appropriation for the State Teachers Colleges and
the Cheyney Training School for 1933-34.

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IV.

Miscellaneous
1

Proposed nee ting
of I nstruc tion

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the Dean s

Mr. Klonower stated that it had been suggested that a
meeting of the Deans of Instruction be held ar an
early date in order to discuss sorae of the quf stions
which have come up in the evaluation of credentials
and in order to assure a uniform policy in these

matters.
On motion of Doctor Rowland seconded by Doctor Foster
it was voted that the Board authorize the Director of
the Teacher Bureau with the consent of the State
Superintendent to call a meeting of the Deans of
Instruction at an early date.

Adjournment

On motion of Doctor Eisenberg seconded by Doctor Haas
it was voted to adjourn at 4:30 P. M. to reconvene in
a special session Friday, June 16, 1933 at 9:30 A. M.
in the Superintendent's Conference Room.

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