Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Junior College Dean
Explains Advantages
OF 2-Year School
By Donald Michoel Rouh

BY Donald Michoel Kouh
Many parents ask Dean Dom
aid E. Deyo of Montgomery Jun
ior College:
"Why should I send my son or
daughter to a two-year SCHOOL,"
II think I can probably best
answer that by an illustration"
Dean Deyo often replies.
"A couple of semesters ago We
accepted a young man who had
transferred from a university
after his freshman year with
what might be called an undis-
tinguished scholastic record. He
was a fairly bright boy-his high
school credentials were excellent.
1--WE learned that his high
school faculty advisers had coun-
seled against his applying to q
large university.
But while they knew he was
Intellectually capable of ham
ding college work, they felt ne
had not made a proper social
adjustment to his high school
environment. They suggested he
enter Montgomery Junior Col
lege, but he was adamant in his
preference for the university.
"Well. he got lost in the :huf-
de, swamped by numbers.
Now" continued the dean,
"for the moral: A junior college
is usually better able to cope with
the individual needs of the stu
dent than can the bigger insti-
buttons. In the case of the stu
dent I mentioned, he was able to
profit by our comparatively small
faculty and student body. He
was no longer a number but an
individual"
Situated between Takoma Park
and Silver Spring, near the Dis
trict line, the school sprawls on
8 acres. Dean Deyo said it's
often thought of by Montgomery
County residents as the 18th
and 14th grades"
With only a few World War II
veterans left studying under
P. L. 346, the old CT bill, Dean
Deyo has noted a gradual up
surge Of Korean veterans en-
rolled under P. L. 55O-about 20
per cent in all. Male students
outnumber female by more than
so per cent.
Reason for the large number
of Montgomery County students
matriculating lies in the tuition
advantage. Montgomery resi-
dents pay SIS a semester. Mary
land, but out-of -county, resi-
dents pay $3.50. ando ut-of- State
students 5000. Local students
find the going much easier than
others because they can live at
home, said Dean Deyo.
Montgomery Junior College
has tailored its academic pro-
gram along two lines. One cur
riculum sizes UP the needs of
the student planning to transfer
to a four-year college or univer-
sity at the end of his sophomore
year. Usually he is interested In
a professional program pre-
law. pre-engineering. pre-medi-
cine. pre-education. About half
transfer to other colleges, chiefly
to the nearby University Of
Maryland or to George Wash
ington University.
Two-Year Curriculum.
The other half enroll under the
terminal" curriculum.
This enables the student who
may not have the money, inclina-
ton or time to go on to a senior
college to prepare himself for a
career. Under this program he
gets a "packaged" two-year cur
riculum.
Actually, statistics show that
senior colleges until recentlv
were losing up to go per cent of
their entering students at the
end of the sophomore year"
said Dean Deyo, IAN indication
that many students are not in
terested, for one reason or an
other, in a four-year program"
Graduates are awarded the as
Soclate of arts degree, designed to
qualify them for work in industry
is technicians. engineering aides.
Junior engineers and in other
'emi-p 70 essionaI positions
Women are especially interested
N the schools medical and gen.
eral secretarial courses.
In 1850, the college acquired
'he campus. facilities and equip
nent of the former, well-known
Bliss Electrical School. It con-
,inues to offer courses under that
The school has a faculty of %
'ull-time teachers, many of
whom have been there since the
college opened in 1916. The
normal turnover is about 10 per
ENTHUSIASTICALLY lower than
other schools, according to Dean
0eyo.
I'VE recently produced our
first DOCTOR" beamed Dean Deyo.
He was one of our first students
when we started nearly 10 years
ago. Several of our graduates
ire lawyers and school teachers,
md not long ago, one of our
former star athletes became an
assistant coach in a Montgomery
County high school," the dean