640 On Your Dial: The Iowa State College Bulletin (1946)

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CHOOSE YOUR JOB The eleventh annual radio course in vocational guidance, “Choose Your Job ” will con- tinue through the months of April and May under the guidance of Professor M. L Cushman of the Department of Vocational Education. Each program will consist of an interview with a leader in the occupation under consideration, and general in¬ formation about the training, rewards and necessary abilities. More than 300 high schools in Iowa are setting aside time on Monday afternoons at 2:30 for their students to listen to this feature. Summaries of each broadcast with vocational references are available to listeners on request. Dr. Charles E. Friley President of Iowa State College ABC BROADCAST WOI and the American Broadcasting Company will tell the story of Iowa State’s newest research station in Central America when the “American Farmer” program is broadcast from studios of the college station at 11:30 a. m. on April 20 Dr Charles E. Friley, Iowa State’s president, has announced that this new research center in Guate¬ mala will be an outpost for the study of corn and other crops originating in Central Amer¬ ica and of importance to midwest agriculture. This new agricultural study center, believed to be the first of its kind operated by a United States educational institution, independently of the government culminates 2 years of plant exploring and preliminary corn research begun in Guatemala early in 1944. Dr. George Goodman, now at the University of Oklahoma, and Dr I E Melhus head of Botany and Plant Pathology at Iowa State, will supervise the research center.’ This American Broadcasting Company feature from Station WOI is one of a series originating at points of agricultural interest around the country.