Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-28
VOCATIONAL
ASSISTANCE
FOR SENIORS
Kiwanis Members to Give
Weekly Lectures on
Lines of Business.

Lancaster Kiwanis club plans to
give an auxiliary course in vocational
guidance to the Senior class of the
high school during the coming semes-
ter.
Follow SanfOrd'S Suggestions
Following suggestions laid down by
Prof. Sanford, formerly of the faculty
of the University of Illinois, in his
address to the graduating class of
1924, the Kiwanis club has arranged
for a series of talks to the members
of the senior class by representative
business and professional men of the
city on the various businesses and
professions represented here.
For the most part the men who will
conduct this course have chosen from
the membership of the club but in
some instances it has become neces-
sary to go outside the membership or
even outside the city for speakers to
cover important vocations or profess
sions not represented in the club mem
bership.
Plan Worked Out
The plan which has been worked
out by the committee appointed by the
club chairman to arrange this work is
as follows: one day each week, be-
ginning February 4th and continuing
for sixteen weeks, one hour will be
set aside for an address to the senior
class by a business or professional
man in active work in the city on the
business or profession in which he is
engaged. This man will make no at
tempt to influence any boy or girl to
take up the vocation which he repre-
sents, but will endeavor to give the
class an idea of the work required in
such a vocation, the difficulty and ex-
pence of securing the proper educa-
ton, the opportunities offered, the ex-
listing supply and demand for men and
women in that business or profession,
the satisfaction he has found in the
work and the type of man or woman
who will most likely succeed in that
particular line of endeavor.
To Give Talks
Each of the men and women chosen
to give these talks has agreed to do
his best to make his address interest
ing and instructive and has further
agreed that, if any student express in
terest in the particular vocation which
he represents, he will arrange to give
private audience to that student and
go more into detail into the problems
involved than he can do in an hours
lecture to the whole class.
The students will be required by
Principal McNelly, himself a member
of this committee, to keep notes on
this course of lectures and near the
end of the semester to write up COM
prehensive review of the same.
Those who heard Prof Sanford's
wonderful lecture at commencement
last June on 1.-THE Tragedy of the
Misfits" will understand the object the
Kiwanis club is aiming at in giving
this course, that is to enable the stu
dent to know something in advance
from a practical representative of a
business or profession before he takes
up that business or profession as his
life work and so to lessen the number
of insists.
A definite program is being arranged
assigning each lecturer his date and
hour. This program will be mimeo-
graphed and a copy placed in the
hands of each speaker and each stu
dent of the graduating class. Extra
copies will also be printed for distri-
button among the other members of
the Kiwanis club and any others who
may be interested.
BackerS Enthusiastic
Mr.. McNelly and the other members
of the committee who arranged this
program, the Rev. John Birrell and
DR.. Fowler, are enthusiastic about it
and hope for great things as a result
of it. If the men and women who have
agreed to take the time and trouble to
put this course on will give themselves
to the effort as we confidently expect
that they will, and if the boys and
girls for whom they are giving their
time and effort will take seriously
what is being attempted in their be-
half, there can be no doubt that their
hopes are we'll grounded.