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Two lengthy articles here. One is typical Division of Music information, and the other sounds really odd in retrospect.

BJU Student Rank High On National Tests

Bob Jones University students have gained an enviable record in making unusually high scores each year on the National Teachers Examination and on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants examination.

Last year the average mean score of the BJU students on the accountants examination was 25 per cent above the national average, and one-third of them scored above the 80th percentile. One student, Kenneth Burch of Fowler, Colo., ranked in the 96th percentile. Mr. Burch has accepted a position as a junior accountant with the New York office of Price, Waterhouse and Co., an international public accounting firm.

Kenneth Eugene Burch is a member of the Class of 1967. He married Jean Anna Hicks, a Home Ec major from the Class of 1968 in the Spring of 1968.

According to Dean Laurence Lautenbach of the university's School of Business Administration, BJU students have taken the test for the past six years, and each year their scores have been well above the national average. The test is the form E, level II, 2-hour senior accounting examination.

Two BJU seniors ranked in the top one percent of the Nation on the National Teachers Examination last year, according to Dr. Walter G. Fremont, dean of the university's School of Education. Sixteen BJU students ranked in the top 10 per cent of the nation on the test.

Students scoring in the top one percent were Paul A. Loder of Flint, Mich, and Miss Laura J. Hadley of Cherry Creek, N.Y. Both were awarded graduate assistantships at BJU and are presently pursuing graduate degrees.

Paul Allen Loder was a Bible major but was scheduled to teach Math the next year. He married Sandra Gehman in June 1967.

Loder did teach one year at BJU, and he now is at Indiana Baptist College.

Laura Jane Hadley was a Christian Education graduate in 1967, and she did teach for two years. And I can’t find her after that.

This is the 17th consecutive year seniors in the School of Education at BJU have made scores higher than the national average on the NTE. The past year's average for the BJU seniors was 632, ranking them in the 60th percentile. The national average score was approximately 612.

Last year 96.6 per cent of the 116 students who took the test made scores sufficiently high for a grade A teaching certificate, according to the scale ot standards adopted by the South Carolina Education Department.

Similarly, on the advanced test in education of the graduate record examinations, BJU seniors majoring in this field consistently make an average score above the national aver-age. Last year the education students ranked above the 73rd percentile with an average score of 473 compared with the national average of approximately 418. Twenty-one students scored in the top 10 per cent in the nation.

In the past eight years, more than 1,000 BJU graduates have been certified and have taught in at least 42 states.

Music Teachers of S. C. Plan Meeting at BJU

The eighth annual convention of the South Carolina Music Teachers' Association and the Southeastern regional convention of the National Association of Teachers of Singing will be held Nov. 24 at Bob Jones University. In conjunction with these events. the South Carolina String Teachers Association will hold its annual meeting and workshop.

David Gibson, chairman of the piano department of Furman University, is president of the Music Teachers' Association; and Virgil Smith, chairman of the music department of Coker College, is first vice president and program chairman for the convention. John McCrae, chairman of the opera department of Converse College is president of the S. C. chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing; and Dr. Gail Gingery, chairman of the division of music, Bob Jones University, is program chairman for the meeting of the teachers of singing.

Many distinguished musicians will participate in the three-day events. Bruce Symonds, professor emeritus of Yale University, will serve as piano clinician, and will judge the piano auditions and play a recital in the Concert Center at 8 p. m., Nov. 2. Loren Withers, chairman of the piano department at Duke University, will present a workshop on modern methods in teaching piano technique.

Of special interest to pre-college teachers will be the work shop presented by David Carr Glover of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Glover is considered one of the most successful composers of piano teaching material in the United States today. He will be assisted by two teachers from the Glover School of Music and Creative Arts in Portsmouth.

Dr. John Boda, professor of composition and theory at Florida State University, will present a theory workshop with emphasis on compositional devices in contemporary piano literature.

The National Association of Teachers of Singing will conduct regional auditions at all levels for the students of members. On Saturdav, Nov. 4, the regional competition for the singer of the year contest will be held. The finals of this contest will be held in Chicago in December. A nationally known vocal authority will be present as workshop consultant for the sessions to be held on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday evening, Nov. 3, the convention banquet will be held in the university's Dixon-McKenzie Dining Common when the speaker will be Dr. Maurice Hinson of Louisville, Ky., president, Southern Division, Music Teachers National Association.

More than 300 are expected to attend this convention, which is considered one of the outstanding events of the musical year in South Carolina and will draw delegates from the surrounding area.

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