Oregon daily emerald., July 19, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

Wood
Founder of University
speech clinic retires
Kenneth Scott Wood, professor of speech who started the
University’s Speech and Hearing Clinic in 1944, has known the campus
since Fall Term 1942.
Wood, who retired early this spring, occupied an office on the
second floor of Villard Hall for nearly 30 years. From that office he
witnessed the many physical and philosophical changes of the
University.
Among changes he has seen, he says, is the increased dedication
of professors to their subject matter and to the University as a whole.
When he and others made the pioneering attempts to start a speech
and hearing clinic, for training students to work with the deaf and
those with speech defects, in the English Department, he says he met
resistance from many of the faculty.
“They were classical scholars, good ones I’m sure, but they didn’t
like the idea of such practical material being taught in the College of
Liberal Arts,” says Wood. He feels professors now realize the value of
such programs. “The University in general is just more flexible, and
the professors are less authoritarian towards their students.”
The clinic began with just a few practicum courses through the
English department. It was the first training program in the state. At
one time, Wood estimated some two to three thousand persons have
been trained in the correction of speech and hearing disorders through
the clinic.
In the mid-fifties, Wood was one of several persons who helped
begin the Eugene Speech and Hearing Center. Wood said the need for a
center in Eugene became obvious as the case load at the University’s
clinic had become too large to handle.
Another significant accomplishment of his career was a two year
study of parents of children with sepaking handicaps. The study
looked at a child’s speech development as it related to emotional
factors in the home. He said he felt that a child’s ability to speak
correctly might depend on how much the child’s parents listened to
him, how often the child was allowed to speak, the quality of the
conversations and how the individuals related during the con
versations Wood said the 1946 study is still quoted today in new text
books.
Two Fulbright grants took Wood and his family away from
Oregon. The first, from 1955-1956, was in Oslo, Norway, in the state
hospital. He also gave talks throughout Norway to parents groups, and
started an American Reading Materials library in northern Norway.
The second grant was with the Ministry of Education in Ankara,
Turkey. There he did extensive work in child guidance and
rehabilitation. The government of Turkey sent people who worked in
speech clinics in Turkey to hear the American professor. Wood \^as in
Turkey from 1962-1963.
Wood says he has been looking forward to his retirement, and had
planned for some time to retire earlier than the mandatory age of 65.
He commented, “It’s in the spirit of the age to retire early and let
people with young, fresh ideas take over.” Wood left the campus in
February of this year on a disability leave.
“I still have some things in my head I want to write, but right now
I don’t plan on doing any more teaching.” As a professor emeritus,
Wood hopes to find some office space on campus to continue his
writing. “After 31 years of being on the campus, it’s hard to break off
sharp the relationship.”
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EOS co-ordinator appointed
Nancy Barcelo, 28-year old
Mexican-American who has been
associate director for social
services at the University of Iowa
since July, 1971, has been ap
pointed coordinator of the
University’s Education Op
portunity Services (EOS).
Barcelo, in her new position at
the University, will be working
with new staff members in the
administrative structure of
Educational Opportunity Ser
vices who are being appointed
especially to serve the needs of
economically-educationally dis
advantaged students.
She will be working directly
with Dean Donald Rhoades of
Student Adminstrative Services,
who is responsibile for the ad
ministration of EOS.
EOS was developed during the
past academic year for the
purpose of restructuring the
established minority programs.
This was in order to bring
economincally-educationally dis
advantaged students more
directly into the mainstream of
University students by chan
neling the services to them
through the regular University
offices and departments
responsible for the services.
All supportive services, such as
tutoring and counseling, for
merly provided by Project
Continuation, Project Life,
Project 75, the Native American
Program, and SESAMEX, will
now be available through new
staff members in the Office of
Admissions, Financial Aids,
Academic Advising, Reading and
Study Skills Center, and Student
Services.
Barcelo’s appointment was
recommended by a search
committee under Dean Rhoades.
A native of California, Barcelo
received her Bachelor of Arts
degree in social welfare and
corrections from Chico State
College in 1969.
She then attended the
University of Iowa and received a
Master of Arts degree in
recreation education in 1972. She
has been in a dual Master’s and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees
program in student personnel at
Iowa for the past year.
Barcelo’s professional work,
during college and university
years, has included a broad
range of activities in camp work,
recreation, counseling and
tutoring disadvantaged students,
and counseling in dormitories. In
her position at Iowa for the past
two years she has been coor
dinator of social services for
minority and low-income
students, supportive counselor
and recruiter of Chicano and
Indian-American students, and
executive director for the
Chicano Indian-American
Cultural Center. During 1970-71
she was graduate advisor to the
Chicano Indian-American
Student Union at Iowa.
Barcelo will report for her new
position at Oregon on August 16,
Dean Rhoades said.
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