SOONER MAGAZINE July, 1941

Hervey New Law Dean [Campus Review]

TWO meetings, highlighted by Charlaine Tullis, whose resignation was Law School was made at this session. a change in the dean of the University accepted . Ray A. Heady, University of Kansas Law School, were held by the Board of The board changed the title of Dr. Roy journalism professor, was named to suc- Regents during the waning days of the Gittinger, '02ba, from dean of administra- ceed Mr. Copeland on the journalism fac- regular school year, on May 30 and June tion to dean of admissions. It approved ulty. 9. the election of Jesse H. Glass, who will Ingo Maddus, Jr., professor at the Phil- Most important action taken by the re- serve as full-time secretary for the Naval adelphia College of Pharmacy and Sci- gents was the acceptance of the resigna- R. O. T. C. at the University . ence, was employed as mathematics in- tion of Julien C. Monnet, dean of the The regents announced no action on the structor at the University . School of Law for 32 years, and the ap- State Senate "Little Dies" committee's The board accepted the resignations of pointment of Dr. John G. Hervey, '23ba, recommendation that Dr. Maurice Hal- Dr. Charles Nelson Berry, '14bs, '14ba, '25aw, dean of the Law School at Temple perin, '29ma, professor of Romance lan- associate in surgery, and Dr. Hugh M. University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to guages at the University, be removed Galbraith, instructor in neurology, from succeed him. from the faculty, but indicated the facts the School of Medicine faculty. Present for the May 30 meeting of the were being reviewed. Leaves of absences were granted Dr. regents was President-Elect Joseph A. At the June 9 meeting of the board, a Robert B . Howard, '36bs.med, '38med, Brandt, '21ba . Greatest part of the session number of resignations were accepted and assistant in surgery ; Dr. Stanley F. Wild- was devoted to the task of accepting res- leaves of absences were given several mem- man, '22ba, 22bs.med, '24med, associate ignations and making appointments to bers of the University Medical School fac- in neurology ; and Dr. William E. Streck- fill vacancies. ulty and the staff of University Hospital, er, '34bs.med, '36med . The last two have Fayette Copeland, '19ba, associate pro- Oklahoma City . been called to active duty in the Army. fessor of journalism, was appointed to the Appointment of Dr. Hervey to succeed Resignations of internes who have been newly created position of counselor of Dean Monnet as dean of the University called to active duty include Dr. Harold men, succeeding C . C. Bush, jr., '23ba, '32ma, who has been acting dean of men . Clarence Frost. '31ba, news editor of the Hobart Democrat-Chief, was named as assistant in journalism to succeed Frances Hunt, '29ba, instructor in journ- alism, whose resignation was accepted by the board. Addle Lee Pickard, '39journ, proof- reader for the University Press, resigned . Her place has been taken by Betty Cop- mann Lynn, '38drama. Joyle Marie Grif- fin, '41ed, was employed in the Graduate Placement office to succeed Pauline Gilles Rogers, '38ed, whose resignation was ac- cepted . Juanita Farris was named secretary of the University radio station, WNAD, suc- ceeding Myrtle Blair Hoover, '37, who resigned. Marian Widlake was employed as secretary in the University Extension Division to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Jean Hamilton . Elizabeth R. Hall, now with the Uni- versity of Michigan Health Service, was appointed to take the place of Mrs . Ida Lucille Wallace, '28ba, '34ms, who re- signed as instructor in bacteriology at the University School of Medicine, Oklahoma City. Frank Rinehart was named custodian of the botany department stock room to replace Ivan Rainwater, who resigned. Vinnie Mae jolly was employed as tech- BACHRACH nologist at Ellison Infirmary, succeeding John Gaines Hervey, '25law, new dean of the School of Law

JULY, 1941 F. Bertram, Dr. Maurice B . Winstead, "This sentiment the regents heartily ap- and Dr. Vernon L. Bolton. proved. After all these years, I am happy At the University Hospital, Oklahoma to be able to testify that there has never City, Dr. M. Kurzner, assistant in pedi- been any such interference, and that no atrics, was given leave for active duty one could have received more cordial and with the Navy at San Diego, California, satisfactory co-operation than I have re- for the duration of the national emer- ceived from the Boards of Regents and gency . the University presidents during the en- Those on the hospital staff whose res- tire period . ignations were accepted by the board are "And, now, in laying down the inspir- Dr. Benedict E. Abreu, instructor in phar- ing and constructive burden of organiz- macy; Kendall Knutson, laboratory tech- ing and conducting for 32 years the State nician ; Mable Milne, head nurse; Dora University Law School in this great new Ella Brooks, nurse ; Margaret Bolton, state, I can only say in closing the record, nurse; Grady Bell, electrician ; and Harry `Whatever is writ is writ, would that it Johnson, plumber. were worthier .' " The regents also voted to discontinue President Bizzell, in commenting upon wrestling at the University until the sport the retirement of Dr. Monnet, said : can be handled by a full-time coach. Stu- "The long service of Dean Monnet to dent coaches have had charge of the squad the Law School of the University is out- for the last several months . standing in American higher education. Action on the University budget for He organized the Law School in the be- next year was held up pending apporti- ginning and has administered the school onment of funds which will have to be continuously through the years. "Few men have rendered such conspic- made among the institutions of higher Julien C. Monnet, who becomes dean uous service to any institution as Dean learning in Oklahoma by the newly cre- emeritus after 32 years as head of the Monnet has rendered to the University ated board of State Regents for Higher School of Law Education. during his long and notable career. It has been a genuine pleasure and priv- new dean, Dr. John G. Hervey, Change in Deans The ilege to me to have been associated with who has held a similar title and position the dean during the past 16 years and I Thirty-two years ago, a young fellow at Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn- have come to appreciate his high character named Julien C. Monnet resigned from sylvania, since 1939, received a B . A. de- and to admire his intellectual ability. the faculty of George Washington Uni- gree in 1923 and the LL. B. degree in 1925 "Hundreds of judges, lawyers, and other versity, Washington, D. C ., to come to from the University of Oklahoma . His public officials will regret to learn of Dean the University of Oklahoma campus, or- Ph. D., degree was conferred by the Uni- Monnet's retirement. I have never known ganize a School of Law and become its versity of Pennsylvania in 1928. any of his former students who did not dean. Dr. Hervey was admitted to the Okla- have the highest respect for him as a man This fall, Dean Monnet will relinquish homa liar in 1925. Before joining the and a profound student of the law. Every his position to begin a sabbatical leave of faculty of Temple University, he taught at member of the Board of Regents shares absence for the scholastic year 1941-42. the University of Pennsylvania . He was fully in the sentiments I have expressed." His successor as dean will be Dr. John legislative adviser for the Pennsylvania In commenting upon the appointment G. Hervey, '23ba, '25law, to whom he re- Commission on Revision of Public Ser- of Dr. Hervey, President Bizzell said : fers as "one of my fine boys whom I hold vice Company Laws in 1932-33, and has in high esteem." been consultant to Governor Earle of "The appointment of Dr. John G. Her- Dean Monnet, whose new title will be Pennsylvania . vey as Dean Monnet's successor gives as- Dean Emeritus of the School of Law and The new dean is a member of the surance that the high standards of ac- professor of law, had a background rich American Bar Association, Pennsylvania complishment in the Law School are to in education and legal experience when Bar Association, Pennsylvania Historical be continued . Dean Hervey holds both he came to Oklahoma in 1909. He holds Society, Phi Beta Kappa and Acacia fra- the 13. A. and LL. B . degrees from this three degrees from the University of Iowa ternity. He married Hallie Holloway, institution . He was a student for three -A . B . degree in 1892, LL. I3 . in 1893, '24, in 1925. They have two children, years under Dean Monnett who speaks and A. M. in political science and history Janis Marilyn and John Douglas . of him as `one of my fine boys whom I in 1905. As a student in the University, John hold in high esteem.' In 1908, he was granted an LL. B . cum Hervey was a varsity debater for three "After completing his law work in the laude degree by Harvard University . years, was president of his fraternity chap- University, he entered the University of Three years after Dean Monnet's arrival ter, was elected treasurer of the Student Pennsylvania and took his Ph. D. there. on the campus, he was named acting pres- Council, and belonged to several honorary He has served successively as professor, ident of the University, a position which groups . He earned his way through associate dean, and dean of the Law he held for almost a year. school, working first on a room-and-board School at Temple University . As a He is a member of the American Bar job, then in a drug store, and later as as- writer on legal subjects and as an edu- Association . Oklahoma State liar Associa- sistant in government and library assistant. cational administrator Dean Hervey has tion and Phi Beta Kappa. Formerly he In regard to his retirement as dean of become widely known throughout the was an editor of Harvard Law Review . the School of Law, Dean Monnet said in country . In returning to the University, Alumni of the School of Law, which a letter to President W. B. Bizzell : he brings with him a rich experience in has become known throughout the nation "When I came here in 1909 to organize legal education." for its high standards, are working in the Law School, the regents stated that their profession in Oklahoma and the they wished me to accept full responsi- Defense Training Report other 47 states. Two who have become bility for conduct of the Law School and About three hundred men had been prominent in state and national affairs results obtained . I answered I would be given special vocational training for na- are Governor Leon C. Phillips and Paul willing to do so provided there was no tional defense and placed in jobs by the A. Walker, member of the Federal Com- interference, political or otherwise, with end of the spring semester, according to munications Commission . internal management . a report on the University national de-

SOONER MAGAZINE fense activities filed by Dr. M. L. Wardell, D. Desper, Thomas P. Ewing and Jack assistant to the president and chairman of CAMPUS CALENDAR G. Morgan, Field Artillery ; and Norman the National Defense Council at the Uni- F. Williams, June 30 to July 12-High School Band Ordnance . versity. Clinic . The report showed 350 men had com- June 30 to July 12-Drum Majors Course . Colchicine Work Expanded pleted courses in aircraft welding, June 30 to July 25-Speech Activities In-' general stitute. A grant of approximately $6,400 from welding, ship yard welding, and structural July 7, 8-Conference on the Modern In- the WPA and another of $l,000 from the and pressure vessel welding. Of these, 127 dian . Carnegie Corporation of New York will were placed almost immediately in air- July 7 to 11-Conference on Latin Amer- soon make possible a substantial expan- craft plants, while others found jobs in ican Literature and Life. sion of the plant research being conducted July 9, 10, 11-Museum Conference. the Army Air Corps Service, in various by Dr. O. J . Eigsti, of the University bot- industries, or July 9, 10, 11-Fourth Annual Visual Ed- as instructors or inspectors. ucational Conference. any faculty. Dr. Eigsti is a pioneer in the Twenty-seven had completed training July 9, 10, 11-Conference on Radio Edu- use of the drug colchicine to stimulate as machine operators and 24 placed in cation . the development of new varieties of plants, jobs. July 10-Massed Band Concert . a process which might easily have startling In July 10-Guidance Conference . engineering defense training of col- July 14 effects on agricultural economics . lege to 24-Choral Music Groups and grade, 27 students completed a special Directors Institute. The WPA funds will provide a work- course in engineering drawing by the end July 15, 16-Statewide WPA Drama ing staff of as many as ten persons to Tournament. of April and many of them went into em- handle details of experimental planting. ployment immediately. The College August 3-Baccalaureate. of August 5-Summer Convocation . The Carnegie grant will be used largely Engineering sponsored a night course in August 7 to 14-Boys' State. for technical supervision. engineering drawing at Oklahoma City The grant from the WPA is part of the Junior College, with an enrolment of 90. University's general research assistance Seventy-two were expected to complete Dr. Brandt favors a decrease in Univer- project. the work by late June and some secured sity enrolment if necessary in order to employment as draftsmen before finish- Religion Courses Listed ing the course. make it possible for students who really want an education Twenty-four courses in engineering to have the personal Courses taught in the Oklahoma School de- instruction they need. fense training were offered by the of Religion will be printed in the class Uni- pointed versity for the Summer Session, He out that the average teach- schedules of the University, following with ap- ing load proval by the Office of Education, at the University is 22 students, passage of a resolution by the Board of Wash- although ington, D. C. national standards prescribe 10. Regents May 30. Expansion of the newly created Univer- `The University can only anticipate Religion courses which meet the stand- sity Research Institute to a $1,000,000 what it may be called upon to offer by ards of the University shall be given cred- plant with the assistance of federal the way of special courses in the College funds it, the resolution stated . However, the was suggested by the president-elect. School of Religion will continue to main- of Engineering in the future," the report "This is to be an investment for the tain its own faculty and buildings,with- stated . "At the present time all the fa- state of Oklahoma, not just for the Uni- out assistance from the University or the cilities of the College of Engineering are versity," he said. "The minimum cost of state, just in the past. now being used . It would be difficult as an efficient building for this type of re- resolution were distrib- under the present circumstances to ex- Copies of the search is about $1,000,000 . 1 am hopeful University officials by Nick pand the program already set up in that uted among we can get federal aid so that we can . college. It might be well, however, to ob- Comfort, dean of the school tain the larger building." consider the possibility of a demand that The courses were reinstated into the Looking forward to the might be made for expanding defense Semi-Centen- class schedules for the convenience of stu- nial celebration, Dr. training in the College of Engineering." Brandt said he dents enrolling in the courses, but they doesn't want the historic event to be "a will not be listed in the University's gen- Idabel Man stuffed shirt affair." In addition to the eral catalog. New Regent academic phases of the celebration, he'd In the closing hours of the 18th legis- like to see a number of events of popular Sigma Nu Chapter Honored lative session, the State Senate confirmed appeal for the general public. The University chapter of Sigma Nu Governor Leon C. Phillip's appointment of J. M. Craig, Idabel, as a member of New Officers Assigned fraternity was 1941 winner of the trophy the University Board presented by the national headquarters to of Regents to fill Ordered to active duty at the Field Ar- the unexpired the outstanding chapter in the mid-conti- term of John Rogers, '14 tillery Replacement Training Center at law, Tulsa. nent division, which includes six states Fort Sill are 12 University R. O . T. C. and 13 chapters. Mr. Rogers has been named a member graduate s newly comissioned as second The states are Oklahoma, Kansas, Tex- of the State Board of Regents for Higher lieutenants. Education. as, Missouri, Arkansas and Nebraska. His term, which Mr. Craig They are Albert C. Bailey, Jess E. Mc- will fill, terminates March 29, The cup is awarded on the basis of schol- 1947. Mr. Donald, Leo E. Thomson and Arthur C. Craig is manager arship, social activity, size of membership, of the Dierks Lumber Wood 11, all of Oklahoma City ; James E. Company at Idabel intramural achievement, participation in and formerly has Goldsmith, Tulsa ; Robert L. Hutchins, served on the Planning and Resources campus organizations, and events and Lawton ; James J. Johnson, Norman; honors won by the chapter. Board and the State Forestry Commission . Glenn E. Jones, Leedey; Edward E. Mc- Selection of the University chapter as Collum, Bartlesville ; Claude H. Malone, Brandt Meets With Regents winner was made at a convention in Kans- Apache ; Max E. Riley, Mustang ; and as City, Missouri . Eddie Hurst, Oklaho- His hopes and aspirations for the Uni- James W. Thompson, Shawnee. John K. ma City, was chapter president. versity-its students and faculty members, Flowers, Norman, has been ordered to its Semi-Centennial Celebration to be held the ordnance training center at the Aber- Cadets Hear Randell Cobb in 1942, its role as a vital factor in Okla- deen proving ground, Maryland . Randell S. Cobb, '19law, was the prin- homa-were discussed by President-Elect R. O. T. C. instructors given extended cipal speaker at the University's 1941 Joseph A. Brandt, '21ba, when he at- duty at the University are First Lieuten- military convocation ceremonies when 119 tended a Board of Regents meeting in ants Stuart F. Brady and Bill James Tutin, members of the advanced R. O. T. C. Norman May 30. Field Artillery; Second Lieutenants Dale PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 30)

JULY, 1941 7 J. Herbert Taylor, '41ros, $800 scholarship to Ann Randel, Shawnee ; William F. Gin- Campus Review study at Blandy experimental farm, University gerich, Okmulgee; and Tennyson Suagee, of Virginia. (Continued FROM PAGE 7) Edwin Rogers, '41ms, $900 Francis Hinton '40ba, Norman. Title of the essay was Mauls scholarship in biology to be used at Prince- "A Foreign Policy for the United States unit were given commissions as second ton University. for the Next Decade." lieutenants. Kearney R. Adams, graduate student, $500 Entrants included college students in In his address, a plea for unity of scholarship to the Long Island College of Medi- cine, Brooklyn, New York . Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Okla- thought and action among the democratic Graduates who received teaching assistantships homa. Miss Randel will receive an A. peoples, Mr. Cobb said the United States are : M. degree in government and history at government will throw its army, navy Lilyan Clayton, '40ba, $500 graduate assistant- the end of the summer session. Suagee and air forces into use to make the aid- ship in the Department of Zoology at Duke the same University. will receive an M. A. degree at to-Britain program effective if such meas- Harold V. Huneke, graduate student, $500 time. ures are necessary. Mr. Cobb is assistant graduate assistantship in the Department of Math- state attorney general and state com- ematics at the University of Iowa. In National Magazine mander of the American Legion . John W. Saunders, '40zoo1, $950 teaching as- sitstantship in the Department of Zoology at Betty Lou Roberts, University home At the ceremonies, Louis K . Sharpe, Johns Hopkins University. economics student from Oklahoma City, Checotah, was presented a medal for being Wishard F. Lemons, graduate student, $400 has been selected as one of the "Most the outstanding R. O . T. C. graduate. teaching assistantship in the Department of Beautiful College Girls of 1941" and is philosophy at Boston University. Enter West Point Frank W. Binckley, '41eng, $2,800 teaching pictured in a recent issue of Look mag- scholarship in the School of Architecture at Co- azine. Among the newcomers who entered lumbia University. Miss Roberts' photograph was included the United States Military Academy at in the beauty section of the University West Point, New York, July 1 were three Co-Ed Athletic Awards yearbook this year. She is a member of Oklahomans, all former students in the Margaret Jones, '41 phys.ed, Oklahoma Kappa Alpha Theta sorority . University . City, won the annual award given by the Two of the boys, who have been friends Women's Athletic Association for out- Speegle Given Award for ten years, are sons of army majors, standing leadership in activities at the Cliff Speegle, '41ed, center on Tom and are members of Phi Delta Theta. University . Stidham's football teams for the past three They are George 13. Brown, Jr., and Miss Jones, Josephine Duncan, St. seasons, has been named recipient of the Charles Bootz, both of Oklahoma City. Louis, Missouri ; Mary Jane Hopkins, Hal Niemann the outstanding Brown took a month's training at Fort award as Shawnee ; and Betty Haselwood, Oklaho- Sooner athlete of the year. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, before going to West ma City, were selected as outstanding Point. The third Sooner entrant is Cor- The award is based on scholarship, ath- women in intramural sports and each re- letics, character and promise of a success- don Shumard, Sapulpa. ceived a bracelet . ful future. It is presented by Phi Gamma Naval Cadets on Cruise Chi Omega sorority won the associa- Delta fraternity, of which Niemann was tion's loving cup for having the most a member . Niemann, a University polo Oklahoma's dry-land gobs, approxi- first and second places in intramural player, was killed in a polo match at Ros- mately 100 Naval R. O. T. C. students sports. The sorority had 85 per cent of well, New Mexico, several years ago. from the University, last month departed its membership entered in competition for their first cruise on vessels in the Gulf during the year. Funds Appropriated of Mexico. Sports managers reported that 1,794 The University of Oklahoma, along They were accompanied by Lt. Alex- coeds participated in the intramural pro- with the other educational institutions of ander M. Kowalzyk, assistant professor of gram during the year as compared with the state, received a 4.18 per cent cut in naval science. Two weeks' training will 1,476 last year. its general fund appropriation for the be given the students during the cruise . next biennium when the newly created Chimes May Replace Whistle Scholarship Awards State Board of Regents for Higher Edu- Soft, soothing tones of Westminister month Eighteen University graduates will be cation held its first meeting last heard on the Univer- engaged in research and part-time teach- chimes soon may be and allocated the legislature's lump sum the piercing blasts ing during the next school year as a re- sity campus instead of appropriation to the various institutions . of the whistle on the Engineers' building Governor Leon C. Phillips, '16law, had sult of thirteen scholarships, totaling $10,- which regularly is blown six times each reduced the lump sum appropriation for 050, and five teaching assistantships, total- day . all the educational institutions by $200,- ing $5,150, which have been awarded. Experimental work has been conducted regents figured this as 4.18 Graduates who received scholarships 000. The state by attaching a loud speaker to the West- spread the cut over all the are: per cent, and Arthur Ellsworth, '4llaw, $800 scholarship to minister chimes' clock in the lounge of institutions on the same percentage basis. Harvard University, the Student Union building and broad- The reduction in the University's bud- John Knight, '41eng, $150 graduate scholar- casting the chimes over the campus from get was $52,226. The $70,000 increase ob- ship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . atop the Union tower. tained for the salary budget in the legis- Robert S . Tippet, '41law, $1,500 scholarship sufficient to to Columbia University. Present equipment is not lature's recommendations was salvaged by Ronald Bollcnbach, 411etters, $400 scholarship allow the chimes to be heard for any distributing the $52,226 reduction among to study history at Princeton University. great distance, but plans are being made maintenance items, including travel al- L. Hart Wright, '411aw, $1,200 scholarship to to purchase necessary equipment so that lowance, repairs, non-structural improve- University of Michigan . the new system will be ready for use in and ma- James Biondo, '41fa, $1,000 scholarship to ments, replacement of equipment, study drama at the University of Oklahoma. the fall. terials and warehouse stock. Charles W. Riddle, '41soc .wk, $300 scholar- The state regents ratified legislative ap- ship to study in the School of Social Work at Essay Winners propriations of $407,500 for a research the University of Chicago. the University, $25,000 for Wilfred Jackson, '41fa, $500 scholarship to Three University students have been building at study at the New York School of Fine and Ap- named winners in a regional essay-writing the University's share of a federal armory plied Arts. contest sponsored by William and Mary project, $8,893 for land purchase, $10,000 Tcnnyson Suagec, '40ba, $1,200 scholarship College through its Institute for National for new antenna equipment for WNAD, to study at the University of Chicago. . and $40,000 for an NYA-sponsored low- Grade H, Nunn, '39ba, '41ma, $800 Penfield Policy. Each of the three received $100 scholarship to study at New York University. The winning trio consisted of Betty cost housing project for students.

30 SOONER MAGAZINE The land purchase item is to buy a of laboratory planning, of which one of spent ten weeks in England getting first tract of more than four acres which is the most interesting features is that of hand information on defense plans of that now a part of the University's intramural movable partitions. On the return trip nation. field. When the University bought the the Mellon Institute and Gulf Research I" An invitation to send paintings with major part of the field more than a de- Laboratories at Pittsburgh were carefully an art exhibition that will be shown over cade ago, there was not quite enough studied . the nation has been extended to Oscar 13. money to buy the entire area needed, and These latter laboratories represent the Jacobson, director of the School of Art, Frank '10ba, '12ma, Buttram, Oklahoma extremes in building design . The Mellon and John O'Neil, '36fa, '39m .fa, instruc- City acquired title with the understand- institute is an enormous Grecian temple tor in art. Sponsors of the exhibition are ing that he would deed it to the Univer- with marble halls, the interior formed in- the American Federation of Art and Delta sity whenever the money became available. to a nine-story laboratory building with Phi Delta, national art fraternity . The appropriation was never secured un- elegant appointments . In contrast, the Dr. Carl C. Rister, professor of history, til this year. Gulf Research Laboratories consist of a delivered the commencement address at The state regents elected John Kane of group of cement-block buildings designed the forty-ninth annual commencement Bartlesville, as chairman ; Frank Buttram, for utility only and gaining whatever at- exercises of Hardin-Sun mons University, '10ba, '12ma, Oklahoma City, vice presi- tractiveness they have from skillful ar- Abilene, Texas. Dr. Rister is an alumnus dent; John Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, secre- chitectural design . They are, however, of Hard in-Simmons and formerly taught tary; and lien F. Saye, Duncan, assistant excellently equipped for their work. One there. He is teaching this summer at the secretary. of the local problems will be to secure University of Missouri, Columbia . Three members of the board are gradu- the maximum space possible for the avail- ates of the University of Oklahoma. The able funds while maintaining a style of I' Dr. E. E. Dale, 'Ilba, head of the de- third in addition to Mr. Buttram and Mr. architecture which will harmonize with partment of history, is giving series of Rogers, is J. E. Peery, '30m.ed, who is the general plan of the campus . lectures this summer. He and Mrs. Dale superintendent of schools at Minco. The work of this committee will be of (Rosalie Gilkey, '17ba), will visit Okla- Herbert Branan, '32ba, '38law, Musko- great value in furnishing a basis for the homa A. and M. College, Stillwater; Uni- gee attorney and former member of the design of the building . The building versity of Ohio, Springfield; Cape Girar- legislature, was appointed by Governor will serve primarily to furnish adequate deau, Missouri ; and Ann Arbor, Michi- Phillips to assist the board in its organi- facilities for research in the basic sciences . gan. zation . It will also serve to alleviate the cramped I" Dr. Elmer L. Lucas, '34ph.d, is teach- condition in which the department of ing this summer at Oklahoma A. and M. Building Plans Proceed physics has been working for twenty years. College, Stillwater, to temporarily take the place of the head of the department The first step toward the preparation of Since the work of the Institute as it de- who has been granted a leave of absence. plans for the new Research Institute velops will involve many departments, Usually Dr. Lucas spends the summer building was taken in June when a group its activities will in no sense be centered serving ranger naturalist and lecturer of four professors made a two weeks' trip in one building . However, the building as a National Park inspecting laboratory buildings and visit- is being planned so that space will be with the United States Service, Yosemite National Park, Cali- ing research institutes. The party con- available for research projects in various ornia. sisted of Dr . Guy Y. Williams, Professor fields which can be taken care of ade- of Chemistry; Dr. J. Rud Nielsen, Profes- quately in a building of the laboratory Oscar 13 . Jacobson, director of the sor of Theoretical Physics ; Dr. Lloyd type. School of Art, received the honorary de- Swearingen, Professor of Chemistry ; and The building, for which a total approp- gree of Doctor of Fine Arts from his alma Dr. William Schriever, Professor of Phy- riation of $407,500 was voted by the legis- mater, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans- sics. The group is now working upon a lature, is assured now that the funds have as, at commencement exercises. One of report which will be made the basis for been definitely allocated by the Oklahoma Mr. Jacobson's paintings, an Oklahoma further studies by another committee con- State Regents for Higher Education. landscape, has been chosen as one of the sisting of Dr. Homer L. Dodge, Director 50 best paintings in the United States to Wright Best Law Student of the Research Institute ; Mr. Walter be exhibited in leading South American Kraft, Superintendent of University Util- L. Hart Wright, Blackwell, was se- cities this summer . It was displayed at ities; and Joe E. Smay, Director of the lected by Julien C. Monnet, dean of the the San Francisco World's Fair last sum- School of Architecture . This group will University Law School, as 1941 winner mer and was awarded a silver medal. make a tour of inspection early in July. of the annual Nathan Scarritt award for t F . F. Gaither, '21ba, '26m.ed, is work- The four science professors left Nor- maintaining the highest scholastic aver- ing toward a doctor's degree in education man by automobile on June 2. At St. age in the class of law graduates. this summer at Stanford University, Palo Louis they examined the physics build- Wright's record of 65 hours of A and Alto, California . ing at Washington University, which em- five hours of B gave him a grade average 0" Dr. Fritz Frauchiger, assistant profcs- bodies many unique features and was one of 2.93 for five semester's work in Law sor of modern languages, is working this of the most interesting buildings seen on School . Donor of the annual award-a summer in the Linguistic Institute at the the trip. At Cincinnati they studied the gold medal and a cash gift of $100-is University of North Carolina, Chapel operation of the Basic Science Institute Nathan Scarritt, '23law, Enid. Hill, North Carolina . of the University of Cincinnati and in- Wright is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, 0" The title of Dr. Roy Gittinger, '02ba, spected the physics and chemistry build- Order of Coif, Senate Club and Bombar- has been changed by the Board of Regents ing. At Columbus, Ohio, considerable diers. He was a cadet colonel in the Uni- from dean of administration to dean of time was spent in studying the plan of vcrsity R. O. T. C. admissions. Dean Gittinger's duties will the Ohio State University Research Foun- be the same. He has charge of checking Faculty dation . From there the committee drove student standing and directing the prep- directly to Princeton for a conference with Brig. Gen. Harry J. Malony, comman- aration of University catalogs. President-elect Brandt on Sunday, June 8. dant of the University R. O. T. C. from " Dr. W. A . Fowler, director of Student While in the East the party visited the 1931 to 1935, has risen in rank in the Health Service, is studying this summer Frick Laboratory at Princeton and the United States army until he now is one at the University of Minnesota, Minne- new Bell Telephone Laboratories near of six key men who compose the top apolis, and at the University of Wiscon- Summit, N. J . These are now under staff. His title is assistant chief of staff sin, Madison . Dr . Fowler was granted construction and embody many new ideas in charge of war plans. This spring he a leave of absence.

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