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Ten Second Reviews, Blanche O. Bush

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Did You See?, Betty L. Hagberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Did You See Learning To Listen and Read Through Movement by James H. Humphrey? It presents a unique and interesting way for children to practice and maintain comprehension skills. The procedure presented suggests working through enjoyable physical movement activities-games, stunts, and rhythms-to develop comprehension skills, first in listening and then in reading. It is published by Kimbo Educational, P.O. Box 246, Deal, New Jersey 07723. The copyright date is 1974.

Reading In The Secondary School: Teaching Vocabulary, The Affective Domain, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

If a high school should do anything, it should help students to think clearly, communicate effectively, and understand themselves with some degree of maturity. Language is that "yellow brick road" to those goals. It is the means of understanding one another, it is the single basic tool of thought. Obviously, students who are not able to understand more than basic English will have to think and communicate under a severe handicap, which in tum must have adverse effects on self-concept. Students coming out of high schools are proving less and less capable of reading the materials they must understand in …

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Western Michigan University is offering the third annual Reading Institute and three workshops which should be of interest to teachers of reading.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer 1974)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• Editorial Page - 177
• A Serendipitous Relationship Between Theory Modification and a Study of Staff Development. - Patricia A. Brown - Page 179
• Recipients Attitudes Toward Welfare - Kirk W. Elifson, William S. Little, William Chamberlain - Page 186
• Social Work Practice and the Social Context - Jeffry Galper - Page 199
• Interorganizational Conflicts: The Case of Police Youth Bureaus and the Juvenile Court - David C. Hollister, Joe Hudson - Page 206
• Evaluating a Pilot Social Service Project for Widows: A Chronicle of Research Problems - S. Roxanne Hiltz - Page 217
• Electives and Undergraduate Social …

A Serendipitous Relationship Between Theory Modification And A Study Of Staff Development, Patricia A. Brown

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

There are instances in which the guiding impetus to a study is a very practical problem, the answers to which are expected to have immediate applicability. Although the practical purpose is accomplished, at the study's end comes the recognition that perhaps the most important contribution of the investigation had been the uncovering of theoretical implications.

The above serendipitous process is applicable to the following report of a limited study of staff development in a new youth serving agency. The study is presented in detail so that the main elements associated with the validation and elaboration of a conceptualization of organizational …

Social Work Practice And The Social Context, Jeffry Galper

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Any effort to define appropriate tasks and directions for social work practice must necessarily come to grips with some analysis of the particular social-political-historical situation within which that practice is being formulated. Too often it seems as though we attempt to define practice abstracted from the particular period in which that practice takes place. It is true, on the one hand, that it is important to develop generic principles of practice. Similarly, it is true that the definition of the social work task is not a matter left solely to the discretion of the profession. In fact, the profession may …

Innovation, Involvement, And Contemporary Service Organizations, Frank A. Kastelic

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Purpose of This Paper

Innovation and involvement have come to be ascribed an almost mystical potency for the task of bringing more relevant services and more human relationships to clients of service organizations. Many descriptive

and hortatory articles have appeared in the social welfare and health literature concerning the virtues of contemporary organizations exhibiting these characteristics, but little in the way of hard thinking about their real implications to service organizations has been done. The majority of the articles are reprises of proposals, or accounts of the first year or two of a program, with an emphasis upon positive prospects …

The Significance Of Ethnicity In Staffing Corrections, Alfred J. Kutzik

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

Until recently the total thrust of efforts to improve the staffing of corrections has been towards the recruitment and development of trained personnel. In the past decade it has begun to be recognized that factors other than training have to be taken into account. Largely as a result of California's groundbreaking Community Treatment Project the personality of staff is now considered by some to be as important as their training and in a few programs those with certain types of personality and training have been assigned to work, i.e., "matched", with juvenile offenders who have …

Evaluating A Pilot Social Service Project For Widows: A Chronicle Of Research Problems, S. Roxanne Hiltz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The decade of the 70's has seen the appearance of a number of publications in the area of "evaluation research", the effort to systematically apply social science research methods to the evaluation of action programs set up for the purpose of helping to solve social problems. Evaluation research is thus one area in which social scientists can be of direct aid in setting public policy about social welfare services.

An excellent primer on the problems that are likely to arise in the course of an evaluation effort and the "conventional wisdom" that has been developed thus far is Carol Weiss' …

The Great Potato Debate, James D. Hudson

Honors Theses

Anencephaly and spina bifida cystica are two of the most common severe congenital malformations consistently observed in human populations. Both represent defects in the neural tube and share a significant number of similar epidemiological associations among them, occupational class, geography, sex ratio, maternal age, year and season of the year. In anencephaly most of the brain and upper skull never form usually resulting in death within a few hours of birth. Spina bifida cystica is a malformation of the spinal cord often causing paralysis, vulnerability to infection, and early death. In 1972, Dr. J.H. Renwick presented a controversial hypothesis which …

An Open Letter To Blanche O. Bush, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Author Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to authors in volume 14.

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In the Spring 1974 issue of Reading Horizons we published several teachers' views on certain elementary reading programs. We are continuing with them here, because many of you have suggested we do so. Again we are identifying the critic but not the school system represented.

Recipients' Attitudes Toward Welfare, Kirk W. Elifson, William S. Little, William Chamberlain

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

While the general plight of welfare recipients has long been recognized, little or nothing to date has been ascertained concerning their views toward the system that largely determines their lives. Many recipients find themselves manipulated by a less than personalized bureaucracy but few researchers have sought to examine the experiences and attitudes of these recipients toward that system. Given the recent figures which indicate a "welfare explosion" (Piven and Cloward, 1971), and the vast expenditures for public assistance programs (Skolnick and Dales, 1969:5), the lack of systematic empirical research in this area is disconcerting. Such information should be of considerable …

Interorganizational Conflict: The Case Of Police Youth Bureaus And The Juvenile Court, C. David Hollister, Joe Hudson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Police departments, juvenile courts, training schools, and a variety of welfare organizations together constitute the network of agencies formally instituted to deal with juvenile deviance.I Because each of the organizations has an interest in reducing deviance, it is sometimes assumed that they share the same goals and work closely and cooperatively with each other. The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of inter-organizational relations at one link in this network: relations between police youth bureaus and the juvenile court.

Electives And Undergraduate Social Work Education In A State University, H. Wayne Johnson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

From the beginning of its interest in undergraduate instruction, the Council on Social Work Education has stressed the importance of a broad liberal education for baccalaureate social workers . Such emphasis was restated twice in subsequent CSWE documents, and more recently in other materials which enunciate the standards for the new undergraduate accreditation process commencing in 1974. It is much easier to state the notion of a general education than it is to describe its content and character and there is a tendency to become ambiguous. We are prone to resort to a high level of generalization in characterizing a …

Relief Vs. Rehabilitation: Conflicting Goals Within The American Social Welfare System, Matthew Silberman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

There are two distinct orientations within the American social welfare system. The first orientation is a bureaucratic one in which heteronomous agencies are committed to a set of externally imposed regulations designed to provide relief to individuals who require some form of assistance in order to survive (Blau, 1965; Friedlander, 1968: 258-284; Wilensky and Lebeaux, 1965:233-282). Assistance usually takes the form of monetary grants. The second orientation is professional in character (Meyer, 1959). In many agencies, priority is given to the provision of the rehabilitative services to which professionally trained social workers are committed in principle and to which nonprofessionals, …

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Undergraduate Catalog 1974-1975, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• University Calendar
• Board of Trustees
• Administrative Officers
• Administrative Groups
• Admission
• Degrees
• Degree Requirements
• General Education Requirement
• Student Planned Curriculum
• Colleges and Curricular Offerings
• Major and Minor Requirements
• Teacher Certification
• Expenses
• Credits and Grading
• Student Academic Rights: Policies and Procedures
• Student Services
• Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
• Buildings and Grounds
• The Honors College
• College of Applied Sciences
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Business
• College of Education
• College of Fine Arts
• College of General Studies
• The Graduate College
• Faculty
• Index

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1974, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner

May 31, 1974

Honored Retirees:

• L. Dale Faunce
• Margaret Feather
• Deldee M. Herman
• Dorothy McCuskey
• Clarice Carmody Platt
• Lilija Puze
• Frank Lloyd Van Voorhees
• Marjorie Vivan

Threshold 1974, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Changing Face of Campus • College of Applied Sciences • College of Business • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Education • College of General Studies • College of Fine Arts • Graduate College • Honors College • R.O.T.C. • Athletic Facilities • Libraries • Student Unions • Student Services • Student Employment • Career Placement • Continuing Education • Maintenance • Campus Police

Ninth Conference On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 9th Conference on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 1974), together with the printed program of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America (May 10-11, 1974).

A Study Of The Relevance Of Debate Through A Comparison Of Propositions With Congrssional Deliberation, Janine Holloman

Honors Theses

This paper actually began with a Spring semester, 1973 independent study project. The project was to compile a record of intercollegiate debate at Western for each academic year from 1921 to 1974.

Western Official News, April 11, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Myron L. Coulter; Interim President on Job, Incomplete (I) Grade Clarified, Probationary Period Extended, Publications Committee Created By President, Dr. Miller's Portrait Is Installed in Auditorium, Financial Assistance for Undergraduates, Rules for Research Involving Human Subjects

University Magazine Vol. 32 No. 3, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• President's Message
• Old and New Renaissance Women
• The Black Woman in Literature: Who Is She?
• The Female College Graduate and the Job Market
• Women's Resource Center
• Mom Gets Her Bachelor's Degree
• Yes Virginia, WMU Does Have Inter-Collegiate Athletics for Women
• Notes from Paradise
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Effects Of Surface Sizing Agents On Bod Of Recycled Papers, Lynn Berry

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Surface sizing agents can be major contributors to a mill's BOD loading. A 2% solids application of polyvinyl alcohol will give little or no BOD as compared to a high BOD resulting from a 8% solids application of anionic and cationic starch. The use of polyvinyl alcohol will give equivalent or better strength properties along with better sizing and high wax picks with only about one-half to three-quarters of a pound pick up per 3300 ft². High sizing values were achieved with the starches but at higher pick up levels. Polyvinyl alcohol could be best used in combination …

"The Evaluation Of Bacterial Cellulose From Acetobacter Xylinum As A Potential Papermaking Material", Thomas R. Arnson

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Bacterial cellulose was biosynthesized by Acetobacter xylinum on an enriched growth medium of glucose, yeast extract and KH₂PO₄. The bacterial cellulose fibers were found to be about one-fourth the size of an average softwood fiber.

Pulp and paper total mill effluents and alfalfa extract were exchanged for the glucose and the yeast extract in the growth medium to see if they could substitute for these materials. Kraft and NSSC total mill effluents were found to substitute for the glucose. The alfalfa extract was found to be a better and cheaper material than the yeast extract. Acetobacter …

No-Sulfur Semi-Chemical Pulping With Na2Co3 And Naoh, James P. Hanson

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Na₂CO₃/NaOH cooking liquors were evaluated as possible pulping agents for the production of semichemical pulp for use in corrugating medium. Optimum ratios of Na₂CO₃/NaOH were found to be 2/1 to 4/1. Pulp produced with ratios within these figures were equal to tensile and concora and higher in yield when compared to NSSC pulp made at the same temperature, time and Na₂O/chip ratio. By increasing either the time or the Na₂O, higher tensile and concora tests were obtained but with a slight sacrifice in yield. Na₂CO_{3 …}

Linear Programming As A Technique For Least Cost Furnish Analysis, James B. Keeler

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

This study was a limited laboratory scale investigation of whether or not linear programming was a viable technique for determining the least cost furnish blends. It is original in that it used actual laboratory developed data for input to determine the linear programming model, and the results were actually produced in the laboratory to see if constraints were met. The materials used were a bleached hardwood, a bleached softwood, tab cards, clay and TiO₂. It was found that requirements of linearity and averaging inherent in the linear programming caused results which were not as accurate as needed. However, …

Investigation Of The Static Mixer For Improved Heat Transfer To Black Liquors, Bruce J. Redmond

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The objective of this experiment was to determine an improved method by which evaporation of kraft black liquors to the 50 to 65% total solids level could be sufficiently performed in multiple effect evaporators. This would eliminate the need of the highly malordorous direct contact evaporators which are presently used. Heat transfer characteristics of the Kenics Static Mixer were examined to determine if its application in multiple effect evaporator tubes would possibly reduce viscous liquor film layers which now hinder heat transfer. A single pass heat exchange unit that allowed removal of the inner tube and its replacement by a …