TRAINING OF PARK EXECUTIVES 997 



tend to broaden the education and outlook of the future park executive." 

 Report signed by Allen S. Wootton, Park Engineer, Vancouver, B. C., 

 chairman; W. L. Skoglund, Park Superintendent, St. Joseph, Mo.; L. P. 

 Jensen, Arboriculturist, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Mo.; E. A. 

 Piester, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Iowa 



State College, Ames, Iowa. 



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SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 



"The second report of the committee of the American Institute of Park 

 Executives on Training of Park Executives, July 15, 1924, is to be taken 

 as supplemental to the committee's report submitted last year at the 

 Kansas City Convention, the two forming the complete report of your 

 standing committee on this subject. After mature consideration, your com- 

 mittee is of the opinion that the time is not yet ripe for the institution of 

 a four-year university course, and that for the present the efforts of the 

 executives of the institute should be concentrated on the initiation of the 

 apprenticeship system in park work, and the establishment of the two- 

 year university course. 



Your committee recommends the following apprenticeship and uni- 

 versity curricula, the latter to follow immediately after the former: 



Suggested Three-Year Apprenticeship Course. 



(a) In nursery (all branches of work) 12 months 



(b) With forestry gang (planting, pruning, spraying, etc.) . 6 months 



(c) Practical construction (grading, seeding, planting, etc.) . 9 months 



(d) Drawing office and field work 6 months 



(e) General office 3 months 



Night school subjects to be taken during apprenticeship: 



(a) Mathematics (algebra and trigonometry). 



(b) Drafting, map-reading and blueprint reading. 



(c) Public speaking. 

 (d} Accounting. 



Botany in lieu of (b) if student has attended a technical high school. 



University Curriculum (two-year course). 



First Semester Credit Hours 



English 3 



Elementary botany 4 



Principles and appreciation of landscape architecture (leading to its 



application in park design) 3 



Money and finance 2 



Elementary surveying 4 



