1962

> BERFS begins operation and Walter Waetjen is appointed director. Located in the West Education Annex , this building was a sorority house (formerly Sigma Kappa in 1953-54, Sigma Delta Tau in 1954-55) in the "Gulch."

> The Early Childhood Education Department is established.

> The University Nursery-Kindergarten is made an independent unit reporting directly to the Dean.

> The National Science Foundation awards two grants to the College to develop math courses for elementary school teachers and develop elementary school personnel.

> With support from the National Science Foundation, the National Science Teachers Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Science Teaching Materials Review Center (also known as the International Clearinghouse on Science and Mathematics Curricula) is established as part of the Science Teaching Center. The center serves as a teaching review center for these organizations and as a place for review of science books and teaching materials. Dave Lockard is in charge of the Center.

> The Institute for Child Study holds a summer Workshop on Human Development and Religious Education .

> In conjunction with the Department of English, the Maryland State Department of Education, and the National Council on Teachers of English, the College holds a summer workshop for teachers of secondary school English.

> A new major in Curriculum is approved.

> Daniel Prescott receives a Fulbright grant to teach child study at the Kindergarten Training College in Victoria, Australia.

> The Planning and Advisory Council begins work to establish a central audio-visual facility, to be accredited by 1965.

> Three training programs for the newly-established Peace Corps, including one in training science teachers for Ceylon (Sri Lanka), are held at the University of Maryland in the summer of 1962. Charles T. Stewart is appointed to coordinate the College's activities with the Peace Corps.

> A committee is established to form the Foundations course.