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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1946)
Guidance Center Offers Vocational Aptitude Tests By Jessie Becker ^ Two places on the campus which should be better known to most students (especially freshmen) are the University testing bureau and the veterans’ administration guid ance center, which are situated in the north end of the PE building, and which every year help hun dreds of students and veterans to choose a vocation or solve other problems. In addition to students on the campus, veterans from all over southern Oregon are receiving vo cational guidance in the testing bureau. Originally, the psychology de partment sponsored the personal research bureau, where students could get vocational advice. Last year a new department called the University testing bureau was or ganized especially for this work. Now the bureau is under contract to the veterans administration and ^counsels ex-service personnel as well as students. The Eugene of fice of the veterans’ administration is conveniently housed in the PE building near the testing bureau. Set Up In 1943 Veterans’ administration guid ance centers came into being soon after March, 1943, when Public Law 16 provided for education and training opportunities for disabled veterans. In June, 1944, nearly all veterans whose education had been inter rupted and who had been in the service for a time since September, 1940, became entitled to months of training equalling their months in the service plus one year. This was Public Law 346—the GI Bill. Birthday Party The University of Oregon vet jepuns,’ administration guidance center has just celebrated its first birthday. It was the first center in Oregon and, according to Em met F. McGraw, chief one of the first on the west coast. A University student wishing to learn about his vocational abilities may arrange for a three-quarter hour interview with a highly trained and well-informed voca tional counselor. The counselor has access to a file of information which is recent and authoritative on nearly every vocation in the United' States. Counselor Helps During this conference the stu dent discusses his interests and abilities with the counselor. They arrange for the student to take a series of tests to discover more about himself. In special rooms the tests are administered. After the tests are taken, the ^gtndent again confers with a coun selor and on the basis of the tests along with previous information, they come to a general conclusion about what the student is fitted for. The student is advised, but is under no obligation to follow any course of action. All of this will only cost the student from 25 cents to $1, depending on the number of tests he takes. This fee is not charged to veterans referred to the testing bureau by the veterans' administration. Of course all of the activities and results of testing bureau work are deep dark secrets. Nobody out side the testing bureau can know what results are unless a written request is submitted. Serves 12 Counties The veterans’ administration guidance center serves an area comprising 12 southern counties of Oregon. They are Lane, Crook, Deschutes, Harvey, Jefferson, Coos, Currey, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake. Veterans receiving vocational guid ance fall into two groups—those covered by the Servicemen’s Re adjustment act of 1944 (The GI Bill) and those covered by Public Law 16 (disabled veterans). Under the GI Bill any veteran entitled to educational or training benefits may secure advisement and counseling services upon re quest to the veterans’ administra tion. He receives exactly the same type of vocational guidance that students do, except that he does not have to pay the fee. If he signs a statement saying he requests vocational guidance at the veter ans’ administration office, Uncle Sam will pay his fee. Like students, these veterans are free to do what they want after receiving counsel. They may ..elect either education at a govern ment approved institution or ap proved on-the-job training to re ceive subsistence from the govern ment. Disabled Too Public Law 16, Part 7, provides for education and training oppor tunities for disabled veterans whose disability prevents resum ing their old job or who are not using their abilities at their pres ent job. To receive the benefits of this law, veterans must have vocational guidance and be agreed with the counselor on vocational plans. Every effort is made to fit these men into positions which will not aggravate their disability. From all over southern Oregon disabled veterans come to receive this coun seling. During their stay, they re side at a dorm. In PE Building The testing bureau and the vet erans’ administration in the north end of the PE building are modern pleasant rooms with an air of CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR FUTURE NOW CANCER DRIVE Municipal Electric and Water Utilities great efficiency. There are offices, private counseling rooms, testing rooms, and the scoring room Probably the first person one would see is Mrs. Dorothy M. Mar shall, who is officially receptionist and secretary, and unofficially the one who keeps things running smoothly. Staff Named Director of the testing bureau is Dr. Leona E. Tyler of the psychol ogy department. Counselors are: Dr. D. L. Adler, Dr. H. C. McMur try, Dr. L. F. Beck, John Leiman, and William Cass. In charge of administering tests are Mary Cor rigan, Edith Brown, Gordon Read, and Mrs. Mary Jean Sargent. Working long, hard hours in the scoring room are Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard and Mrs. Bette Fager strom, while Dorothy Rasmussen, William Bolander and Patricia Bolander work part-time. McGraw Chief In the veterans’ administration, Emmett F. McGraw is chief. Also in the administrative office are Elma Doris Haveman, secretary, and Mrs. Pauline Isberg, clerk stenographer. In the ‘advisement office Vernet C. Lee is vocational adviser, with Mrs. Patricia Young as his secretary-receptionist. Training officers are Merville Thompson and Ward Leek, on-the job training: and Robert Gridley, Rex Cooper, and George McCrack en, institutional training. In this office Virginia Murphy, Rose Ma rie Allen, and Ruth Thygerson are clerk-stenographers. Field Officers In addition, there are two field training officers who contact vet erans, assist them to enter train ing and supervise them in these programs. Zeno Dent is at Kla math Falls, and William Woodford is at Medford. From the local office Rex Cooper will be located at Bend shortly, while a fourth training officer is scheduled to be situated at Coos Bay. GRAFT, CORRUPTION (Continued from page tzvo) but he didn't need to slam the door so hard. An associate editor of one of our major news-magazines said, “Nobody proved that Pauley has done anything more compro mising than any party treasurer does every day.” Honest Harold, however, is now the darling of both leftish extrem ists and G.O.P. royalists. They have locked arms to embarass the man from Missouri, but it isn’t going to be easy. Harry has a habit of coming up swinging, and his crit ics cannot escape the fact that Truman is meeting the problems of his muddled political inherit ance with disgusting efficiency. Labor tension has eased; OPA lids are holding; production is rolling forward with negligible groanings, and foreign policy is taking on a positive shape. However, there is one thing greatly to be desired in the president—that he play more and more the role of Harry Tru man. For anyojie else he is a poor substitute. 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