the DMLC
Volume 85, Number 1
September 1994
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Dr. Martin Luther Coll~e
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TUTOR ON THE WING by Jenn Krueger Returning once again to DMLC this fall , I observed many changes on campus. Who could miss the crater behind Old Main? There were also two new parking lots. The maintenance building had been painted, as well as the Hillview/Highland laundry room. Perhaps the most surprising discovery was a sign across the hall from my room which read , "Tutor Zimmermann ." A tutor? For the women? I must investigate! Tutor Natalie Zimmermann is the new Assistant to the Dean of Women. She is originally from Arizona where both of her parents are teachers. Her brother Seth is a sophomore here . She graduated from East Fork and attended a community college for two years in Arizona before transferring to DMLC. After graduating in 1990 her first call was to Michigan Seminary where she served as a tutor for three years. This year she accepted the call to DMLC. I asked what it is exactly that she does . Besides keeping busy with her Shakespeare class, she helps out with volleyball and plans to do the same for softball. She is also available to counsel students. Her favorite part? She loves to talk and this position gives her the opportunity to do so. Working with Dean Haar is also something she enjoys. Finally I asked where she could see herself ten years from now. "Hawaii ," she jokes. Uh huh. Seriously, she would love to teach kindergarten. "I can see myself in a big dress with fingerpaint all over it." Sounds like a plan to me.
New Ulm, Minnesota
When All Is Said and Done by Sarah Westphal It has been said that the easiest way to change history is to become a historian. Well watch out - I'm joining the amateur ranks . My qualifications as a chronicler are scanty, unless you count the legion of "back in my day ... " phrases that have been etched in my cranium throughout the years. This summer alone I was back-in-my-day'd against a wall, pelted with kernels of the past such as, "back in my day kids were diffe rent. Teaching was a whole 'nether ball game in the good ol' days. Things just aren't the way they used to be ... " ad nauseam. Well sure, that's no secret. Change is a constant companion, and we would do well to set an extra place at our tables for it. No one needs to be reminded that this year is riding on the wheels of Progress and Transition. How can I resist the stuffy catch-phrases? This is an historic year. We are history in the making. These are the times that - well , enough. When all is said and done, we'll have come a long way. And if what I've been told is true, that "kids just ain't what they used to be;" well, neither are their teachers. With apologies to Professor Hartwig, let the past speak for itself. Rules For Teachers
-18721. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys. 2. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils. 3. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. 4. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books. 5. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed. 6. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good rea~on to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty. 7. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.