The border vidette., 1930-09-06
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NEWS
University of Arizona (Tucson)

Plans for an October meeting
of the Father Kino memorial
committee are being formulated
by DR.. Frank Lockwood, chair
man. The meeting is to be held
in either Phoenix or Tucson.
At this meeting the progress
of the committees efforts to Sc
cure suitable memorial for the
historic padre of the southwest
will be reviewed and q program
of activity for the winter will bs
outlined.
Several of the committee mem
bers who are out of the state at
the present time are expected
home soon and when they arrive
the group will have it's first fall
conference. Committee mem
| bers expected to return some
time during September include
Alex Berger, w.. 81. Brophy,
Paul Dougherty, and DR.. D. T..
MacDouRal.
While visiting in California
this summer. Doctor Lock wood
conferred with Harry Carr, col
umnist of the Los Angeles
Times" on the Kino plans and
learned that Southern Califor
mia is deeply interested in the
proposed memorial THE Times'
regarding the padre as the grea
est figure in south hwesthern his
tory.
Interest in the Kino memorial
has been international and dur
ing this summer the Memoirs
of Father Kino" have been trans
lated into Italian. The memoirs
were edited by DR.. Fl. e. Bolton
and permission to translate them
was secured through Doctor
Lock wood from Doctor Bolton.
| D. G. B Trener. president.of
the museum of national history
at Trent, Italy, has written to
Doctor Lockwood in the interest
of Kino's admirers in his native
couutry. A memorial was recent
| ly erected in his native village
in Italy and the program for the
event contained pictures of south
.Iern Arizona where the mission
ary accomplished his greatest
work. A letter from the Italian
am bassador and SiRnor Trener
express 2eep appreciation to the
| Arizona committee for their
memorial work.
| The wrong start after high
school may often wreck pro
missing career.
| That is the belief of Dean
Emil r. Riesen, head of the Col
lege of Letters, Arts, and Scien
ces, at the University, who has
represented Arizona at q con
ference of educational leaders
at Chicago this summer.
A survey of the field, Dean
Riesen states. has convinced
educators that many students
who belong in college have not
availed themselves of its oppor
tunities while many who would
be much better off in vocational
training or business and appren.
tice trades have wasted their
time by attending the wrong
institutions.
when a high school graduate
gives himself an honest ability
test and when that graduate
asks for vocational guidance
there is little question of what
to do after secondary school
training is over" the dean
states. THE student can easily
be directed to training that is
best fitted to his needs"
A survey of the high school
graduates of one middlewestern
state, Wisconsin, the conference
revealed, showed surprising
number of graduates with high
scholarship who had no inten
ton of continuing their educa
tion by college work. The gra
duates were divided into tour
groups according to scholar.
ship. In the lowest quartile of
5000 students. 1000 gave def
mite intention to go on to college
while in the upper quartile there
were 1000 out of 5000 students
who had decided to stop their
educationOl training with high
school.
It is Dean Riesen's belief that
the students with high scholar.
ship should continue their ednca
tion at the University while
those who are'~more adept in
other lines should receive voca.
tional training. The Arizona
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