REPORT OF PROJECTS SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA REPORT OF THE PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE PROJECTS of the WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION. Ron Stephens State Administrator Eula E. Fullorton Director, Professional and Service Division SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA W. B. Bizzell President M. L. Wardell University Coordinator Norman, Oklahoma April, 1940 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Foreword. 1 Archaeological Excavation of'Prehistoric Indian Sites 2 Dr. Forrest Clements, Associate Professor of Anthropology- Blanket Research Project.'. ........... 4 Dr. K. L. Wardell, Assistant to President Correspondence Studies Project 5 Louis B. Fritts, Director of Correspondence Studies Digging and Preparation of Fossil Bones ...... 7 Dr. J. Willis Stovall, Associate Professor of Paleontology Fluid Meters Research Project . 9 Edgar E. Axnbrosius, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering The Oklahoma WPA Art Project 10 Oscar Jacobson, Director of School of Art Oklahoma Music Project 12 Lewis S. Salter- Dean of School of Fine Arts Statewide Museum Service Project. . 14 R. Boyd Gunning, Assistant Director of Extension Division Statewide Recreation Project , , 15 Ima Janes, Director of Physical Education for Women, and Hugh McDermott, Head of Physical Education Department for Men Word Meanings in Vocabularies Project 17 Dr. Henry D. Rinsland, Director of Bureau of Educational Research FOREWORD The University of Oklahoma has cooperated with the Work Projects Adminis¬ tration in many ways since its organization. Because of the aid given by the Work Projects Administration, the University has been able to provide facilities for research and other work which otherwise could not have been done. During recent nonohs, the University has attempted to coordinate as far as possible the projects for which it is sponsor. It has also sought to have the superintendents and sponsor's agents become better acquainted with each other's work. To do this, meetings are held at which the superintendents and sponsor's agents give reports, discuss common problems and the progress of their projects. Representatives from the Work Projects Administration State Headquarters in Oklahoma City join in those conferences to aid in any way possible. From the reports made by the superintendents of the projects end the discussions concerning then, the representatives from the state offices are able to learn the needs of the University. In turn, the superin¬ tendents learn how their work can be done more efficiently and effectively. The reports contained in this booklet set forth the aims and accomplish¬ ments of the projects. They arc not comprehensive but are sufficient to show the general fields covered in the projects. M. L. Wardell, Assistant to the President -1- ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION OF PREHISTORIC INDIAN SITES O.P. 65-1-65-2491j W.P. 6955 This project is a continuation of previous projects, all of which have as their general purrose the employment of persons certified for 7/.P.A. in archaeological excavations under the supervision of scientifically trained field and laboratory workers and the nreparation, restoration and preservation of prehistoric specimens recovered by these previous excavations for the purpose of scientific study and educational museum displays. The project works with three field units and one laboratory-museum unit. As a field site is completed during the course of the project, another is begun. Groups of unskilled and intermediate grade workers are employed in tho field, each group under tho direction of skilled foremen trained in archaeological field procedure. These foremen are directly supervised by non-certified project superin¬ tendents who aro students or graduates with university training in archaeology and who have had practical field experience under a professional archaeologist. Each site is diroctly in charge of one or more of these formally trained non- certified archaeologists. Responsible to the superintendent in charge are a number of certified workers of the skilled or technical grade to act as foremen, research assistants, timokoopor-clerks, field procurators and field catalogers. Thus, each supervisor is freed from tho task of constantly directing the excavating crew, worrying about correct cataloging and packing, timekeeping, and clerical work. He is able to devote much of his time to the scientific aspects of the work and koep his reports on this side of the project up to date. Each crow has a photographer or a combination photographer and surveyor. The number of men in these field units depends upon the size of the sites. At the present time three sites are being worked. Those arc "site areas" rather than individual sites. One of those is "in the Grand Riwor valley in northeastern Oklahoma where there aro scores of sites which will bo submerged upon completion of the Grand River Dora and hydro-electric project within the next year or two. Wo have already thoroughly prospected those areas and know exactly where tve individual sites arc located. Other areas now being worked lie in Cherokee and LoFlCro counties. Sites have boon" surveyed and aro available in Ottawa, McCurtain, LIcIntosh, Kay, Texas, Cimarron, Beaver, Adair and Custer counties. The second major phase of the project employs not so many persons as the actual field work, but it is no loss important. Material com!ng in from tho field excavations must bo cleaned, classified, treated with preservative in some cases, restored, permanently cataloged, photographed, and much of it prepared for museum display and study collections. A non-certified project superintendent acts a.s curator. This curator assigns specific tasks to various typos of certified " "orkers who will be responsible for seeing that they aro'correctly performed. Those workers consist of prcparators, catalogers, clerks, typists,~research checkers and assistants, draftsmen, handicraft workers and helpers. These cer¬ tified workers aro divided into a laboratory group and an office-museum group, each under tho direction of an assistant project superintendent responsible to the project superintendent. This phase of the project is oxtrcmely important for publication'of results depends upon the accomplishment of this laboratory and museum work. -2- The third, phase of the project consists of a survey locating and mapping archaeological sites in Oklahoma. A few counties have already been surveyed but the general southeastern section of the state is completely unknown from this point of view as is the western part with the exception of the two western¬ most counties of the Panhandlo. A survey of the southeastern counties should reveal sites which connect east Texas culture with tho Arkansas valley and Grand River valley of northeastorn Oklahoma, while sites in the west should enable us to establish a continuous distribution between the Texas Panhandle cultures and those of vrastorn Kansas and Nebraska. A non-certified project superintendent with several certified helpers locates sites in the archaoo- logically unknown sections of tho state, classifies thorn by type and maps them in detail. All of this is supervised by a general superintendent whoso function is to soe that each project superintendent does his work efficiently and correctly, to direct the general administration of the project—and most important—coordinate tho several results into reports for scientific publication. Tho rapid destruction of Oklahoma's prehistoric sites through the processes of agriculture, construction work and similar activities, makes it imporativc that the prehistoric record bo analyzed at the present time if it is ever to be done. Archaeology is in a peculiarly fortunate position to cooperate with the Work Projects Administration set-up because it can utilize a large amount of unskilled and semi-skilled labor. W.P.A. cooperation has enabled the University of Oklahoma to do an amount of archaeological research in four years which would have taken at least a generation or more if the work had to rely upon tho ordinary university appropriations and occasional private grants. These Work Projects Administration projects involving the excavation of archaeo¬ logical sites are preserving the prehistory of the State of Oklahoma. The results in the form of publications, motion pictures, museum displays and tho like will be available for tho general purposes of education and scientific study. Dr. Forrest E. Clements, General Superintendent -3- TEE BLANKET RESEARCH PROJECT O.P.. No. : 65-1-G5-2533; W.P. No.: 7023 Project sponsored bj- the University of Oklahoma was put into operation April 1, 1S40. The word "blanket" in the title is significant; it means that this project can include work in many fields of University research. The purpose of this University project is to enable educators to carry on research by having the routine work done by certified people. The first units of work approved for immediate operation were bibliographical studies in the General and Geology Libraries, the completion of work on the subject of historic sites in Oklahoma, and the indexing of the volumes of Books Abroad. 1. The Geology Library Unit is producing a complete and corrected file of oil well logs of Oklahoma. This involves work with approximately 60,000 logs which, when completed, will have made more useable materials of vital importance in the study of petroleum geology. Lists of state and federal publications, and periodicals will be checked for duplicates and volumes lacking. As a result the former will be used for exchange with other libraries, and the latter will be added to the Geology Library. Topographic naps are being re-filed and checked for those duplicated or lacking; card indexes will be prepared for use in connection with those maps. 2. The General Library Unit is concerned with the verification of author entry cards of available information of Indian tribes of the United States. These cards will be checked against the original copies, Library of Congress cards, documents, and trade catalogues. As a result the library will be able to offer students, librarians, and historians better means for reference work. 3. The Historic Sites Unit of Oklahoma will complete work begun on a former project. From maps and other date., narratives will bo written and a handbook compiled. This will be an addition to the history of this State, as well as a benefit for students and historians. 4. The research work of the hod .rn L-.nguag. s Department of The Books Abroad Unit, is the production of a detailed index of the volumes cf Books Abroad, a magazine which gives reviews of the important books of other countries. This is the only publication of its kind in the world. A card index on the titles, authors, and subject matter of the several thousand articles will be compiled and made available to readers of Books Abroad. It is to be expected that units in adult education, paleontology, geology, medicine, community studies, and others Y„rill soon be added to the work of the University of Oklahoma Blanket Research Project. Mildred Redding, State Superintendent -4- CORRESPONDENCE STUDIES PROJECT O.P. No.: 6G5-G5-3-292; VI.P. No.: 6213 This project is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma for the following purposes 1. Even though there are a large number graduating from the high schools each year it is still true that many men and women have not com¬ pleted their high school education. By means of this project, any one ambitious to complete their high school education will have the opportunity to do so, 2. Many high schools, on account of limited finances or insufficient demand to justify scheduling classes, do not offer certain subjects which some students desire to meet the following needs: (a) certain college entrance requirements, such as Foreign Language, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry, etc. (b) enrichment courses, such as Art, Music, Etiquette, and (c) vocational preparation, as Journalism, Business Training, Home Economics, etc. 3. There are many, whether they are high school graduates or not, who desire training for special fields of endeavor, as Diesel Engineering, Dairy Husbandry, etc. The following are eligible to take Correspondence Studies courses: 1. Persons over twenty-one years old who think they can do the work; 2. Persons under twenty-one years old who arc not in school and "who have done the necessary preparatory work to take the desired course or courses; 3. High school students who have the approval of their principal. Courses in the following subjects are offered: Acetylene Holding; Agriculture; Arithmetic; Art; Bookkeeping; Business; Drawing; Economics; English; Etiquette; French; Gorman; History; Homo Economics; Journalism; Latin; Manual (Practical) Arts; Music; Recreation; Radio; Sciencs; Service Station; Social Science; Shorthand; Speech; Spanish and Typewriting. These courses do not provide an EASY way to secure a high school education but they do provide a CONVENIENT way to secure a high school education. It requires as much effort, if not more, on the part of the student to work out a unit of high school credit through correspondence as it does to work out a unit of high school credit in actual attendance. The courses arc constructed so as to make possible a desirable teaching relationship between the teacher and the student by correspondence. December 31, 1959 there were 7,078 individual students enrolled in 8,553 courses and 1,927 had boon completed and credits transferred to the Registrar's office, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Five hundred and fifty-seven students have enrolled in 660 courses from December 31, 1933 to April 1, 1340 and 225 courses have been completed and the credits have been transferred to the Regis¬ trar, University of Oklahoma during this time. An analysis of those enrolled in correspondence study courses reveals the follow¬ ing types of people making use of the Correspondence Studios Courses: 1. Isolated students 7. High School, additional credits necessary 2. "Shut-ins" 8. Irregulars 3. Adults 9. Inmates of state institutions 4. Post-graduates 10. "Perambulators"; sailors, children of circus, show, 5. "Drop-outs" on tour 6. CCC enrollees 11. Vocational training Practically every conmunity in the state is represented by persons taking courses. The personnel of the project consists of: 1 State Superintendent, 2 Assistant State Superintendents, 36 Professional and Technical, 9 Skilled, 20 Intermediate, and 2 Unskilled workers. One hour each week, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, liondays, is given over to a general meeting of all people working on the project for the purpose of "In-Service Training." Departmental problems arc discussed at this time by the employees and by the supervisory staff. As a result of this training, we believe, our personnel is keeping up to date with clerical, secretarial and teaching procedure, thereby fitting then better to enter private employment in their various classifications. Since September 1, 1939 this project has never been "over-manned" in any department therefore each and every employee has had the opportunity to be well trained in good working habits as oach one has had a full day's work to perform each day. Perry Carmichael, State Superintendent -6- DIGGING AND PREPARATION OF FOSSIL BONES O.P. No.: 665-G5-3-89; W.P. No.: 5353 This'project started operations at Norman in Cleveland County, September 10, 1938, with a personnel of twenty-five certified workers and one non-certified superintendent. Separate units were later established near Arnett in Ellis County, for the purpose of excavating Pliocene mammal bones and at Kenton in Cimarron County, to excavate Jurassic dinosaur bones. This is a continuing project and has as its purpose the excavation, restoration and mounting of fossil bones in Oklahoma and the description, preservation and exhibition of this material to the public in the form'of completed bones and skeletons, dioramas and scientific murals, photographs, drawings, lantern slides, newspaper articles and published scientific papers. Lecture and radio programs have also been used as we11 as conducted tours of our museum at the University of Oklahoma. The Cleveland County crew, located at the university, docs some excavating near Norman and makes short collecting trips over the state but the mojority of its work is confined to cleaning, restoring and mounting the fossils sond in by the field crows. This preparation work is done in a well equipped laboratory. Photo¬ graphs are developed and printed in our dark room and space has been provided for the painting of scientific murals. Many of our better fossil specimens are on exhibition in the Museum of Geology and Paleontology in the Geology Building, though spaco prohibits the display of most of our larger bones and mounts. Several interesting murals and dioramas arc also to bo seen in tho museum and hallways of the Geology Building. An accurate count of visitors has not been made continuously during the life of this project. However, special invitations have recently been extended to the science departments of thirty-six high schools and colleges within convenient driving distance of the university. Four schools havo already taken advantage cf this invitation and sent about thirty students each. Many other clubs and private groups have visited the museum by appointment and the Sunday visiting hours from two to five p.m. are drawing more and more people as this new policy becomes better known. Moro accurate counts woro started in February, 1940. The following is a summary of the larger accomplishment of this project up to March 1, 1940; (1) Five Permian reptile blocks havo boon mounted in cases in tho Museum of Geology and Paleontology at tho University of Oklahoma. Many other small deposits were excavated and final painting completed on Permian Reptile Mural. (2) Three hundred dinosaur bones excavated in Cimarron County. (3) Two hundred and fifty Pliocone mammal bones of mastodon, camel, rhinoceros, horse and various carnivores wore excavated near Arnett in Ellis County, Oklahoma. -7- (4) Practically all bone3 in storage at the university have been cleaned and restored and catalogued, consdrvatively estimated at 10,000 bones and fragments and 20,000 teeth, (5) Two fine skeleton mounts of a recent bear and alligator. (6) Ten lectures were given before high schools, colleges, and clubs over the state. (7) All fossil bones are being catalogued and stored where they will be available for exhibition and research problems. (3) As rapidly as possible casts of important specimens are being made for distribution to colleges and schools of Oklahoma and for exchange with out-of-state institutions. Much remains to bo done in this field. (9) A collection of fossil trees has been arranged in an out¬ door garden at the university, (10) Three scientific papers have been published and several others are being prepared. Considerable work remains to be done in cataloging and mounting of specimens. Several excellent dioramas and murals arc planned and arc in various stages of completion. Added to these are numerous isolated deposits reported to us over the state which awc.it excavation and preparation. There aro still many aroas in Cimarron, Texas, Seavor and Ellis counties, which offer potential and known bone deposits of dinosaur and pliocene mammals for excavation. There is also a vast Permian area in the state which has scarcely been touched. The School of Geology attaches great importance to any new fossil deposits which mag- add to our knowledge of the Permian period. Ralph B. Shoad, State Superintendent -8- FLUID METERS RESEARCH O.P. No.: 65-1-65-102; W.P. No.: 6346 The University of Oklahoma in cooperation with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Special Research Committee on Fluid Meters is conducting an extensive research program on fluid meters of the displacement type. This work is being done in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratories of the University of Oklahoma using labor as furnished by the W.P.A. The present work has been in progress since November 11, 1939. One crew of six specially trained workers are required to conduct this work in the laboratory, while the results are calculated by the sponsor representative. The object of the project is to provide employment for needy professional, educational and clerical persons in carrying out research work in connection with fluid motors of the positive displacement'typo, commonly called volume meters. The performance of these meters as to accuracy, viscosity correction and rate-of- wcar will be studied when measuring viscous liquids. The tost results mil show tho nature of errors in those'meters. Some of these errors can be enumerated as follows: (A) slip in Scaling, (b) pressure slip relationship, (c) mechanical and hydraulic 'friction, (d) pressure drop required to drive, (e) displacement as a reference value. These tests will therefore provide the factors to bo used in the metering of oil with this typo of noter with loss uncertainty than is now the case. At the present time the first tests cover tho determination of tho accuracy of registration, over several rates of flow and xvith several grades of refined oil. The oil in tho system may be heated or cooled by suitable heat exchangers. The test equipment is so arranged that it is a simple matter to change from one oil to another. The motor companies have donated motors in two different sizes in capacities up to 500 gallons per minute capacity. Tank gauging the present standard method for buying and selling oil occasions sufficient and trained personnel for its operation that now methods of measuring are being resorted to. The industry further encourages this work. Tho results of this research work will be of great value not only to tho user and manufacturers, but also to such public bodies and officials as State Public"Utility Commissions, Conservation Commissions, and Weights and Measures officials. At the present time the list of meters included in the program includes all positive displacement meters used for metering oil ifiado'in the United States. The total estimated cost of these meters will oxceod $8,000. The fact that such a large number of motors arc included is evidence of tho widespread interest in the work. Exceptional progress has been made to date on this work. However, much remains to be done as each meter should be tested with a total of four different oils, each oil having a different viscosity index, ranging from the range of lubricating oils to gasoline having very little lubricating value. To complete the work to the final conclusion, it will be necessary to'continue the work for ah indefinite time. It cannot be finished, as was intended, in the present project. It vail require another project of an equivalent length to finish after tho present is completed. Tho results will bo made available to the public, however, through various progress reports made from time to time as the work progresses. E. E. Ambrosius, Project Supervisor. —» 9— THE OKLAHOMA WPA ART PROJECT O.P. No.: 65-1-65-108; W.P. No.;6310 The WPA Art Program is rapidly becoming the focal point for all art activities in Oklahoma. In early 1936 the first art centor in Oklahoma opened its doors in Oklahoma City in a small store room on South Robinson relatively unheralded and decidedly unimpressive except in its possibilities. Shortly thereafter in the Public Library in Tulsa the second art center came into being. Since that time the first has grov.nL into the beautiful, efficient and highly significant art center housed in the municipal Auditorium; the second is no longer in existence, but before it closed it had moved to specially designed quarters "'.here a very fixe program was carried out, which, without doubt, gave the needed impetus that brought about the present Philboook Galleries in Tulsa, in whoso program the Oklahoma Art Project is cooperating. Now in Oklahoma there are thirteen centers operating or awaiting final details of assignment, renovation or organization. From such information as we have at hand this is the largest number of galleries in any one state. And this has been done in the face of the fact that the requirements on the Art Project for the establishment of an art canter are perhaps the most difficult to meet on the part of the sponsor of any of the Professional and Service group of projects. Suitable personnel for this work is hard to find on the certified rolls. Art teachers of good training are scarce. Persons of fair education and background with pleasing personalities are not too often found in small communities on the rolls. Location for the gallery is often a very difficult problem. In keeping with the stated purpose of the project to forward the nationwide movement for the democratization of the arts tho location of the art gallery must be in a central place, easily accessible to down-town areas. It must be largo, cloan and attractive, and should have at least three rooms available for the project. To co-sponsor the project with the University of Oklahoma, which is the official sponsor, an art association must be formed with representatives from all the major interests of the community. It must eventually incorporate itself and agree to an extensive program of art activities initiated and paid for by itself to supplement those provided by the project. It must also agree to put on a membership drive in which it vail attempt to secure as members of the association hundreds of persons in every walk of life. Tho foe must be small so that this will be possible. This association must take an active part in tho running of the gallery, assuming its full share of responsibility with the "Work Projects Administration and the University for its success. These rather stringent re¬ quirements arc for the purpose of insuring a permanent art program for the community if and when WPA help is withdrawn. The Art Project now employs a total of sixty-one persons in carrying out the widely varied activities of the galleries. The average program consists of a series of exhibitions, largely of contemporary art, in all media, a part of which are provided by the Exhibition Section of the WPA Art Program in Washington, and the rest by tho local co-sponsors. Shows chango every two or three weeks, ilany of them are composed of works of Oklahoma artists, a practice which we particularly encourage. The pictures sent in the collections from Washington are usually made up of works produced by artists employed by tho project in its production units in tho larger population centers where many of the artists had gathered when it became evident that they could not make a living with their art at home. -10- The depression caught then there and relief rolls were the only answer for many" of them. You will see works bearing, their names in all our best-known private and public galleries all over the country. Some of America's finest artistic talent is now producing for WPA. Uncle Sam has become the greatest patron of the arts of all time. Another feature in the program of the galleries is the schedule of lectures, gallery tours and other types of informal educational ac¬ tivities for the general public. Every possible effort is made to show that art has a relationship to the things of this everyday world, and that the princi pies of good design as used in a picture or a piece of sculpture are essentially the same as those used by industrial designers in designing locomotives, automobiles, furniture, kitchen wares, commercial packaging and the liko. The third major activity of the gallery is the gallery school, which is operated when qualified art teachers arc available. This is a. free school, designed not to train pro¬ fessional artists, but to develop in many people an appreciation of the problems of the artist, and a familiarity with his tools and media. Artists may become self-supporting again only when the public begins buying their wares. An interested, informed public will develop into a buying public. In conjunction with the project we operate a brochure and poster designing unit and a silk-screen printing process unit, whoso facilities and services arc available to other WPA projects. A by-product of all these activities is the excellent training given workers in these fields. A rccont check of attendance figures shows that over eight thousand persons each month participate in some form of art activity. This number is growing month by month, and with its growth, Oklahoma, from a state in which art interest in 1936, was stagnant if not completely absent in many places, is rapidly becoming ono of the most art-conscious states in the entire middle-west. Centers operating arc: Bristow, Claremoro, Clinton, Sdmond, Harlow, Oklahoma City, Okmulgee, Sapulpa, Shawnee, Skiatook, Stillwater; centers approved, but not yot in operation aro: Cushing, Sand Springs. Homer R, Heck, General Superintendent -11- OKLAHOMA. 1.IUSIC PROJECT O.P. No.: 65-1-65-110; VI.P. No.: 6322 The general aims of the Oklahoma WPA I.Iusio Project are to reemploy and retrain needy unemployed musicians, instrumentalists, singers, and other concert performers, and those participating in music education. The purposes of the project are to rehabilitate musicians, thus retraining them for new forms of work in music end allied fields, to establish high standards of musicianship, and to educate the public in an appreciation of musical opportunities. Officially sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma YfPA Music Project is at present divided into four active units; the Oklahoma WPA Symphony Orchestra, the WPA Ilusic Production Unit, the WPA music Education Unit, and an administrative unit. The total employment on the project on April 15, was 221 persons. Oklahoma WPA Symphony Orchestra: Since its organization in the summer of 1937, the Symphony has performed 291 concerts before 234,521 people. Of this number, 78 were school concerts which were heard by 67,273 school students, most of whom had never before heard a symphony orchestra. The work of the Symphony is divided into three seasons - a winter symphony series in Oklahoma City; a tour of state cities in the spring; and a summer series of Starlight Symphonies in Oklahoma City. The personnel of the Symphony averages between sovonty-five and eighty. However, between sixty-five and seventy musicians are carried on tour. The Symphony, now on its third state tour, has given a total of fifty concerts in sixteen state cities, many of which have reengaged the orchestra each year. On tour the orchestra usually gives one or two programs in the afternoon for schools, which have about fifty per cent attendance from the rural schools, many driving in from a distance up to fifty miles. The evening periormance is for the general public. A total of 30,000 school children and 15,000 adults have attended symphony concerts while the Symphony was on tour in state cities. The Oklahoma State Symphony Society, an organization formed for the purpose of perpetuating a state symphony through local state symphony societies, has served in the capacity of cooperating sponsor since April, 1933, and has assumed the responsibility for providing the assistance, both financial and other, necessary in carrying out the Symphony's activities. Music Production Unit: This unit, which is a corollary of the Symphony, co .sists of 21 composers, music arrangers, music copyists, and music librarians. Its general purposes are to reemploy, retrain, and rehabilitate unemployed copyists, arrangers, and composers; to provide a music library for the Symphohy; to provide teaching material to tho Music Education Unit; and to transcribe folk music for the purpose of preserving it. Through this unit the Symphony is gradually filling its most urgent need - a library of music. WPA Ilusic Education Unit: This unit, on April 15, had assigned to it 111 music teachers, servicing an enrollment of more than 14,500 people, both children and adults, who would not otherwise be able to study music. One hundred and eleven communities in 51 counties are receiving the benefits of this work. The general aims of the Music Education Unit are to reemploy, retrain, and rehabilitate unemployed music teachers; to provide musical training and opportunities for all to whom it is not otherwise available; to provide leisure-tine musical activities; to create a larger intelligent musical public, thereby creating a demand for -12- professional employment; to provide technical assistance for recreational centers and directors; disseminate musical information; and to provide therapeutic advantages of musical activities where needed. Through the organization of free WPA music classes, the Husic Project has actually- created an unusual amount of new business for the music merchants of Oklahoma. Since April, 195G, those enrolled in free WPA music classes of the Project have spent the staggering sum of £>112,000 on musical instruments, materials, sheet music, music books, and other music equipment. This is an average of £>2,333 in new music business for every single month of the existence of the music Education Project I Research in Folk and Indian Music: Since this is an important phase of the work, it is well worth mentioning here. In 1035 and 1937, a unit of the project was established for research in Oklahoma folk and Indian music. The purpose of this project unit was to classify, transcribe, and make a permanent record of folk and Indian music found in Oklahoma. It was necessary to close this unit before the work had been completed, but we hope to bo able to reestablish it in the near future. Dean Richardson, General Superintendent -13- THE STATEWIDE MUSEUM SERVICE PROJECT O.P. No.: 65-1-65-33; W.P. No.: 6276 The Statewide Museun Service is a Community Service Project of the Division of Professional and Service rrojects of the Work Projects Administration, The University of Ok 1 alio,:a is the sponsor of the project, and the state offices are located at Norman. The purpose of this project is to furnish employment to needy professional and clerical persons by: (l) establishing museums throughout the state, or assisting the enlargement of museums already in existence, and (2) carrying on a museum program in connection with each museum that will benefit the community by (a) pro¬ viding a permanent collection of museum materials pertaining to the historical, scientific, industrial, ana artistic development of the area, and (b) enriching the curricula of the public schools with visual aids through study and organized public activity. In accomplishing this purpose, 35 operating museum units, which are well distributed over 27 counties of the state, have been established or enlarged. These are usually co-sponsored locally by the public schools. Approximately 120 certified workers have been instructed in the preparation, assembling, and care of museum objects and put to work operating the local units. In building each museum's permanent collection, emphasis is placed on material of special interest to the community where the museum is located. The state office furnishes traveling exhibits which are of a general nature, such as a bird collection, works of art, photographic exhibits, glass slides, and other teaching materials. Each unit (l) collects, prepares, and preserves materials from local sources, (2) prepares package library material for general school circulation from museum centers, and (3) directs the program of children's groups, which are organized for the purpose of studying rocks, birds, nature, handicraft, history, etc. There arc 76 such groups now in operation. During the half-year ending with April, 1940, more than 59,000 persons visited the museums, and over 60,000 child hours were spent in museum activity. The state office (l) makos contacts leading to the establishment 'of new units, (2) trains personnel to carry on the work of the various units, (3) furnishes traveling exhibits and study materials to the units, and (4) broadens and stimulates the work through a weekly half-hour radio broadcast over the University Station, W1TAD. For the future, the Project plan is (l) to carry the work forward until at least one unit is established in each Oklahoma county, so that all the State will be reached by the educational service that the project offers; (2) to continue to sponsor classes, lectures, and child activity clubs, so that each community will feel the influence of its museum; (o) to prepare and circulate further study and exhibition material, to enrich school curriculum and aid historical knowledge; (4) to make the museum such a part of the community's cultural life that the community will feel the need and value of the project; and (5) to continue the employment of needy professional and clerical persons. R. Boyd Gunning, General Superintendent -14- STATEWIDE RECREATION PROJECT C.P. No.: 65-1-65-103; W.P. No.: 6320 SPONSOR The University of Oklahoma is the official sponsor. This serves as a guarantee to the citizens of Oklahoma that all activities of the Recreation Project are conducted in accordance with accepted educational and recreational stan¬ dards . VJTIY DO WE IIAVE RECREATION PROJECTS L. To provide leisure-time organization, leadership and service to urban and rural communities in co-operation with local governmental and private agencies, which will result in: a. A free public Recreation Program for both adults and children, rich and poor, all creeds and colors. b. A year-round Recreation Program operating in winter as well as summer. c. A sufficient number of facilities for recreation so that one will be easily accessible to every member of the poDulation. d. A sufficient variety of leisure-tine activities so that each person will find one which interests him. ACTIVITY PROGRAM Recreation is a state of mind. An activity which is interesting and fun for one individual nay be work and drudgery for another. Hence, a wide variety of activities must be provided to meet the needs and interests of all. The Recreation Project assists communities to noet recreational nee ds by providing a balanced and diversified program of recreational activities planned to neet the interests and needs of all age groups. The Activity progran of the Oklahoma Recreation Project includes the following: Metal Work Clubs, Forums Team Games Lcathcrcraft Stunt Nights Wood Carving Pottery Rug Making Photography Modeling Ch.- .rades Parties Camping Mo oderaft Nature Lore Tin Can Craft ringing Games Folk Dancing Games and Sports Gardening Hobbies Dramatics Pantonines Contests RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATEWIDE RECREATION PROJECT The Work Projects Administration is responsible for quality of work oxocutod and shall exercise such direct supervision as is required to maintain efficient project operation. The Statewide Recreation Project shall: 1. Provide supervisory personnel. 2. Carry c 1 in-service twining for emplcm i Recreational Loaders. 3. Set up and maintain program standards. 4. Plan program content in relation to community needs. 5. Act in advisory capacity in assisting communities plan and construct Recroatiorial facilities. 6. Assist communities in making recreation surveys to determine recreational needs of community and the resources which are available to meet these needs. APPLICATION FOR PROJECTS The Recreation Project shall not go into any community until assured of community support and commit ity interest. Community support and interest are demonstrated by the community when they fulfill the following pre¬ requisites : 1. Preliminary meeting of interested citizens with a representative from the Recreation Project. 2. Organization of a Recreation Council. After the council is organized a formal request nay be made for the services of tho Recreation project to the General Superintendent of the Statewide Recreation Project, Room 207, Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City. Jerome R. Needy, General Superintendent -16- WORD TTEANIHGS IIJ VOCABULARIES PROJECT O.P. No.: 66-1-05-235j iake laboratory installations and removals of meters to be tested: make laboratory tests and tabulate, compile, correlate and summarize the data,pertaining to these tests. Oo Pc. No® 65-1-65-2537 W.P0 No0 7025 Froject Supervisor: Miss Mildred Redding Description; Oklahoma University Blanket Research To prepare studies in Educational Research. 0:, P0 65-1=65-2491 R.P0 No. 6955 hrojeot Supervisor: Dr. E0 C. Cienents Descriotion: Archaeological — Excavating Indian Mounds Excavating Indian Mounds and pre •aring speci r.ens recovered by these excavations for the purpose cf scientific study and educational museum displays.