Make Way for Music

Abstract

RECENTLY The Texas Outlook, magazine of the Texas State Teachers Association, devoted a number of pages to music education. Among the thoughtful articles was an adaptation of a speech delivered by Don R. Slocomb at a convention of the Texas Music Educators Association in Austin. Italics included in the reprint (with permission) on this page have been added in anticipation of the reaction of experienced music educators everywhere.

Mr. Slocomb is superintendent of schools in Giddings, Texas. As The Texas Outlook commented, “He can afford an objective view of the relative importance of music in the classroom since his background includes being a mathematics teacher and a college athlete as well as membership on the Texas Region XVII Music Executive Committee. He began teaching math at Galena Park in 1932, and served as principal from 1933 until 1952. when he accepted the Giddings superintendency.”