In this issue .•. SOUTH ASIA, and especially In· Know Your University- dia, is the subject matter of the Ames library, which will one day belong to the University. Read about what this library contains and how it will bene­ fit U scholars on page 3. BEGINNING WITH THIS ISSUE we start a new series about the build­ ings that have had a distinguished University history . . . Eddy Hall appears on this page. TURNING HIS SUMMER HOME into a vacation spot for DP children -that's what John Akerman, head of aero engineering has been doing the past two years. Pictures of his "camp" plus the heartwarming story of how it's grown, page 4. NEWCOMERS AND OLDTIMERS get separate recognition in this Min­ nesotan. New staff members are wel­ comed on page 7, retiring staffers cited on page 12. EVER WONDER WHO MAKES lJP the pollen count you see in your newspaper during August and Sep­ tember? You'll meet Agnes Hansen, and learn how she makes her micro­ Eddy Hall scopic tallies on page 10. LDEST building on the Minne­ engineering and mechanics in 1894 O apolis campus is Eddy Hall. It and had nine years later been made On the eover •.• was built in 1886 at a cost of $30,000 dean of the Graduate School. October brings us to the be­ and has had a long and varied list of Today, Eddy Hall is one of the ginning of another school tenants during its history. most "miscellaneous" buildings on the year. Our cover, appropri­ Known for some 40 years as the Minneapolis car»pus. Its ground floor ately, offers a photo of a Mechanic Arts building, it originally houses the studios and offices of U young lady who, having been housed the offices and classrooms of radio station KUOM. On the first duly orianted, registered, and mathematics, drawing, and engineer­ floor are Student Counseling Bureau initiated into the mystery of ing-plus testing labs and bench­ offices and testing rooms; tests given classes, snatches a moment's work facilities. by the bureau are scored on the third snooze in the sun with North­ These offices remained in Eddy un­ floor and in attic cubicles on the rop's pillars as a backrest. til the Main Engineering building fourth floor. was erected off the Mall in 1912. The Besides the Dean of Students of­ fices and Student Housing Bureau, THE MINNESOTAN School of Business Administration Vol. VI No. 1 then occupied the quarters until it, in the building also provides a roost for The Minnesotan is published monthly turn, moved to its present Vincent the Bureau of Student Loans and during the academic year, October through May, by the Department of Hall home in 1937. The business Scholarships and the Foreign Stu­ University Relations, Univt'rsity of Min­ school had some rather strange bed­ dents Advisor. nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies fellows in Eddy during the 'twenties Eddy Hall is built of red pressed are mailed free to University staff mem­ bers. Subscription rates for those not -the superintendent of buildings and brick with red sandstone trim. Its on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a grounds, inventory clerk, University brilliant red and green Hopkins in­ copy. Photographs, unless otherwise teriors come as something of a shock credited, were taken by members of the poSt office, employment bureau, and University Photographic Laboratory. telephone exchange. in contrast to the decorous semi­ Entered as second-class matter at the In 1938 the building was renamed antique exterior. The building, in­ post office at Minneapolis, Minn. Copies of this issue are on sale at in honor of Henry Turner Eddy, who cidentally, boasts the only weather­ Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore.' had come to the U as professor of vane on the Minneapolis campus. 2 The Minnesotan r r I

U to Get South Asia Library

EGINNING October 15 the Ames Indian history in 1907 when, on a erous gift is significant not only B Library of South Asia, which European cruise, he began reading to the University and the State of will one day belong to the University about the notorious Sepoy Mutiny of Minnesota but likewise to the whole of Minnesota, will be open for pub­ 1357. Spurred by his interest in the realm of academic enterprise." lic use. The library-a unique re­ bloody Indian uprising which cost gional collection of books, maps, more than 100,000 lives, the St. Paul I'IJCLUDED in the Ames collection charts, and other materials on South publisher began building his exten­ are many treasures for the schol­ Asia-was accepted by the Board sive collection. It is now generally ar studying India. Among these is a of Regents last July as a gift at some reputed to be among the finest and complete 1931 census of India which, future date. largest specialized libraries on South Mr. Ames points out, is a great and Donor of the library is Charles Asia in the United States. now extremely rare anthropological Lesley Ames, vice president of the Commenting on the gift of the li­ document. Other prizes are such sets West Publishing Company of St. brary to the University, President as "The Journal of the Asiatic So­ Paul. The collection represents his Morrill said: ciety of Bengal," and gazetteers of 45 years of continuously accumulat­ "The scholarly interest and compe­ geographical units even as small as ing material on Pakistan, Afghanis­ tence of Mr. Ames are reflected in districts. tan, Ceylon, Burma, and primarily the library-collection which is recog­ Prized among the hundreds of on India from sources all over the nized as a notable and most authori­ maps is a colored English military world. tative resource for Indian and South map of the Indian mutiny area. It Mr. Ames first grew interested in Asian research and study. His gen- continued on page 14 Interior of Ames Library; Mr. Ames is at left. Above, exterior view of the library building on Blue Gentian Road. i Two Weel~s With PLAY

I. T. 's John Akerman helps 32 kids to a summer vacation "Uncle John" Akerman's brood of small guests runs to greet him.

JT WAS a bright hot morning in something about it.' So we decided dred yards. As the car pulled to a early August, and we were all to take a few little ones out for a stop we saw a large white summer primed for an expedition to John couple of weeks. cottage, a small wooden house to the Akerman's summer home, converted "I was very fortunate to find two right, and a spiral descent flanked for the nonce to a "camp" for Lat­ ladies, also Latvian, who were su­ by trees. vian children. We waited outside his pervisors in children's camps in Ger­ Akerman had hardly put on the office while Akerman, head of IT's many during last war, both univer· brakes before kids came swarming aeronautical engineering, cleared up sity graduates. They volunteered to from all over, hopping and scream­ a few appointments and arrange­ help as counselors. Then we got third ing "Uncle Daddy!" "Uncle John!" ments for a Washington trip, and lady-also volunteer-to cook. So in "Look here! Look at me!" One little then we embarked in his gray Ply­ 1951, 18 kids came for two weeks." moppet had an inner tube that need­ mouth for highway 12 to Hudson. Did they like it? ed blowing up; another wanted to "Is not a camp, really," Akerman "They were crazy about it," Aker­ show "Uncle John" a drawing he'd explained with a trace of Latvian ac­ man grinned. "It's nothing fancy­ done; and a little blonde girl was cent. "It is my summer place, and you'll see. Just good food, lots of simply waiting to be kissed. these 32 kids are my guests for two fresh air and freedom to play and He herded them all into the open weeks, that's all," he said matter-of­ run. " yard behind the house and paused to factly. This past spring, Akerman ex­ explain the layout. "That main cot­ How did the whole thing get plained as we turned off at highway tage is where the babies sleep-the started? 95, he was swamped with applica­ four to six year olds. One kitchen "I tell you how it was," Akerman tions, the project having been bruited is there, the other in wooden guest went on, driving fast and keeping his about in Latvian circles. house opposite where the boys six to eyes on the road. "You know there From the many applicants, 32 chil­ ten stay. When it is sunny they all was in last few years huge influx of dren were picked who filled the ne­ eat on this long wooden table under Latvian DP's in Minnesota. In spring cessary qualifications: they had to the trees." '51 we had some Latvian mothers . be Latvian DP's who were orphaned The kids were all in their bathing arrive in Twin Cities whose husbands or had only one parent; they had to suits. We followed them down the had been killed or else were still in be between 4 and lOljz years old, defile as the head counselor led the Russian prisons. since older children are eligible for way to their morning swim i'1 Lake "I myself am Latvian, and I got Y or church camps; and they had St. Croix. We sat in the cool semi­ names of these women through Lat­ to live in the Twin Cities ("If they dark of the boathouse fronting o·; vian church organization. I visited come from the country they get the lake and watched the kids sphsh· some of these homes early in summer enough fresh air anyhow," Akerman ing and swimming and throwing a '51. It was awful. Mothers working said). Last summer, the "camp" ran huge beachball at each other. all day, kids with no supervision and from July 26 to August 10. The staff Akerman puffed fiercely on a cig­ no place to play, apartments crowd­ of volunteers grew to total two cooks arette and explained that this ho:It­ ed, no daddies.... and three supervisors. house was where the older girls from "My wife and I have summer six to ten slept; it was complete! place," Akerman continued, "-I'm "HERE'S where we turn," Aker­ lighted, heated, and ventilated. with my wife alone. We said to man signalled at the sign that There were no planned activities. each other, 'It's a shame to have all said "Lakeland Shores," and we he explained, and very little real this room for just us two-let's do drove down a dirt road a few hun- equipment because funds didn't per- 4 The Minnesotan ..

"We want them to jump and pwy ... run barefoot in the grass ... and wugh a little bit." nut 1t. The Latvian church paid for this two-week undertaking posed any membered the war. Two youngsters most of the food and the camp equip­ special problems. about eight years old would wake ment the children couldn't afford­ "Problems?" he said with an ex­ up regularly at any unusual loud shoes, bathing suits, etc. A few pri­ travagant shrug. "Believe me, there noise, crying in their confused recol­ vate individuals, like Dr. Charles W. are no problems you can invent lection of terror in another place. Mayo, also helped with funds. "What which wouldn't happen here na­ "They play together very nice, is left over," Akerman grinned, "-/ turally- everything from a four­ don't you think?" Akerman asked. cover." year-old who pretends a toothache "You -should hear them when they The daily routine during the two so she can go to her grandma's birth­ sing Latvian songs. It's a real inter­ weeks was fairly well established, day party to the constant splinters national language-first a word of according to Akerman. The day be­ on hands, blisters on feet." English, then one of Latvian." gai-1 at 7:30 a.m., lights out at 9 p.m. There has been very little trouble We got into the car and he stepped "The day's too short for all they with discipline, however. Akerman on the starter. "See that little blonde have to do. When it's raining they and his wife stayed away as much in the sun suit? She has no r~allan­ listen to stories. On a nice day we as possible to give the kids the feel­ guage. She learned German as an just turn them loose. It's cowboys ing of greater freedom. When he infant in orphanage-after both par­ and Indians all the time. They go did come down, he said, he slept on ents died. Now she lives with her swimming twice a day." a cot, his own room having been con­ grandmother who speaks Ukrainian, Three meals broke up the day, verted to sleeping quarters for tots. but the little girl hasn't learned it plus a 4 o'clock pause for milk and "The kids are extremely well be­ yet. English she still doesn't under­ bread and jam. The two oldest girls haved," Akerman continued whit­ stand. So now she's got no language regularly set the table. "Other duties tling away. "We haven't had any at all. But how she understands the we don't impose," Akerman said. damage to the property in two years." others, you'd be surprised," he began "They have been all their years per­ In fact, Akerman himself has only backing down the gravel road. forming duties beyond their age. had to administer corporal punish­ "Ah, kids are terrific! They have Here we want them to have fun." ment twice in as many years-and their own language, I guess." Feeding 32 ravenous children and that regretfully, when he saw in­ five adults was a big chore, but the stances of deliberate cruelty. (Once, cooks handled it with aplomb. The he said, he caught an older boy turn­ chief cook was the grandmother of ing on a sprinkler full in the face of one of the campers-a 65-year-old a four-year-old who was patiently woman who had cooked for 200 in a hunting for a four leaf clover.) "To camp in Germany. do harm on purpose to another kid Meals were often supplemented in -that's the biggest crime, I think." unexpected ways, Akerman recount­ ed. One sympathetic visitor came out wE STOOD near the car door for a day's fishing and contributed watching the kids play tag in his entire haul. The year before last the yard and give each other rides the Catholic Ladies Aid Society of in the Akerman wheelbarrow, their the neighboring St. Francis church favorite "toy." Akerman's thin face made a spaghetti dinner for the grew serious as he explained his whole outfit. Last year a large mill feeling about the camp. Mostly the contributed their fresh sample bread. youngsters were encouraged to jump and play, to shout, to run barefoot A KERMAN sat on a cot in the in the grass, to spend a lot of time boathouse and began whittling outdoors-and to laugh a little bit. absently at a twig. We asked him if Some of them, he said, still re- October 1952 Air-euJtditiuHed J:nburn!ul'fl At U potato farm on the North Shore Nature provides her own greenhouse

QN MINNESOTA's rugged North eluding 10,000 different kinds of -different varieties with. desirable Shore, near Castle Danger, sci­ plants. characteristics. entists in the United States' only out­ Today a large part of Minnesota's 2. Crosses two di:llerent varieties door potato hybridizing laboratory potato acreage is planted with varie­ with characteristics he wants to com­ are developing new and better po­ ties either developed by Krantz and bine. He does this by clipping the 1 tato varieties. his associates or introduced from flower of one plant and transplant­ The 52-acre field laboratory is other state experiment stations and ing its pollen to another. The ferti­ the University of Minnesota Potato tested by the University. lized flower dries up and a seed ball Breeding Farm. Here Dr. Fred A. forms. Krantz, professor of horticulture, 3. Takes see6 to University Farm and two graduate assistants spend in September and grows it in thP every summer developing new lines greenhouse. Tubers are then formed and varieties of potatoes. and are taken to Castle Danger for Krantz believes the North Shore planting the next spring. location offers several unusual ad­ 4. Subjects potato varieties to rigid vantages over traditional greenhouse tests over a period of }:ears. The potato growing, including: increases on pure seed stock are • Ideal climate. Castle Danger made at University branch experi­ has a coastal rather than mid-conti­ ment stations in Duluth, Grand Rap­ nent climate. The humidity is high, ids, and Crookston. the frost-free season fairly long, and It's no easy job to develop a po­ the temperature usually constant be­ tato that's pleasing to. the grower, tween 54-68 degrees during the sum­ the grocer, and the housewife. In mer. All this helps plants develop his long career at the University Dr. and retain their blooms. The high Krantz has developed out of hun­ humidity also makes it an ideal place dreds of lines only seven that were to test for late blight, a most serious significant improvements on potatoes potato disease. already developed. • Freedom from virus and ring What are the important character­ rot. There are no concentrated potato istics the improved spud must have? growing areas in the vicinity that Prof. Krantz carefully examines a po­ It must yield well, be attractive, might cause the spread of these dis­ tato plant at the Cas'tle Danger lab. not be too ·sensitive to hollow heart eases. Thus seed stocks can go out and knobs, have good cooking qual­ to growers clean. Since the University started potato ity and an upright vine. e Low cost. Actually, nature is 'breeding work in 1921 at University Also, it must be able to pass dis­ controlling humidity, temperature, Farm, many new varieties have been ease tests by plant disease experts, and light. A square foot of ground developed. The Warba and Red War­ like the University's Carl Eide, pro­ in a greenhouse would cost 100 ba potatoes in the early 'thirties were fessor of plant pathology. New va­ times more than an equal area at followed by Mesaba and Kasota, and rieties face tests to measure their Castle Danger. more recently by Chisago, Waseca resistance to late blight, and to scab • Greater volume of work. Be­ and Stapa. and virus "X" which cause great cause more space is available than in These new potato varieties don't loss to Minnesota potato growers. greenhouses, more plants can be just happen. They result from many Thus, in many ways, nature's own grown and more crosses tried, mak­ years of painstaking work and a vast air-conditioned I abo rat or y on the ing this one of the world's largest body of scientific knowledge accu­ North Shore of Lake Superior is be­ potato breeding projects. There are mulated over the years. Using this ing used by University potato breed­ 12 acres of field plots alone, three knowledge, Krantz: ers in their search for better potatoes acres of which are in potatoes-in- l. Builds up a collection of plants for Minnesota. 6 The Minnesotan Myers Herbich Wolff Nixon Amberg

Newcomers Welcomed to U Staff

LONG with the thousands of new year's absence, Robert L. Jones takes on's writings is Henry W. Grady: A students entering the University over as research director of the Spokesman of the New South. this fall are a number of new fac­ School of Journalism. Mr. Jones re­ Charlotte G. Wolff, associate pro­ ulty members. The Minnesotan would ceived both M.A. and Ph.D. from fessor in the School. of Home Eco­ like to welcome these newcomers on Minnesota while acting as assistant nomics, assumes responsibility for behalf of their fellow staffers and director of the research division. He instruction in the area of clothing to introduce them briefly as well. ·left this position to become acting and textiles. Miss Wolff received a Teaching humanities courses and director and research social scien­ B.S. from the New Jersey College coordinating the fine arts phase oi tist at the Research Institute, Max­ for Women in 1935, M.A. from the humanities program are the du­ well Air Force Base, Alabama. Columbia in 1940, and another M.A. ties of George Amberg, visiting as­ Arthur Norton Milgram, associate from Western Reserve University. sociate professor in General Studies. professor of mathematics and me­ Mr. Amberg became the curator, chanics comes to the U from Syra­ OTH Army and Navy ROTC department of theatre arts of the cuse University. Mr. Milgram holds Bhave new directors this year. Tak­ Museum of Modern Art, New York a B.S. from Temple University and ing over as head of Army ROTC is City, in 1943 and joined the staff an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the Uni­ Colonel Robert Thomas Connor, pro· of New York University as a lec­ versity of Pennsylvania. From 1937 fessor of military science and tactics. turer in the Division of General Ed­ to 1946 Mr. Milgram taught mathe­ Colonel Connor held military assign­ ucation. Having studied at the Uni· matics at Notre Dame University. ments in the southwest Pacific area versities of Kiel, Munich, and Co. No stranger to Minnesota is Will for over three years and was instruc­ logne, Mr. Amberg received his Ph.D. Martin Myers who recently took over tor in the coast artillery corps, New in 1929 from Cologne and has served as professor and chief of agronomy Jersey, for about four years. as assistant stage director at the and plant genetics. Mr. Myers re­ Our new Navy ROTC head is Heidelberg Festivals. ceived both his M.A. and Ph.D. at Captain Doyle M. Coffee who serves Visiting professor of civil engineer­ Minnesota in 1934 and 1936. Pre­ as professor of naval science. Cap­ ing is Henryk P. Herbich who was vious to his appointment to Minne­ tain Coffee's tour of duty during the formerly professor and head of the sota Mr. Myers held an administra­ war carried him to both Atlantic and Civil Engineering Department and tive post with the U. S. Department Pacific areas. He comes to Minnesota the vice-principal of the Polish Uni­ of Agriculture at Beltsville, Md. from the U.S.S. Union, stationed in versity College, University of Lon­ Another new addition to the jour­ the Pacific. Captain Coffee graju­ don. Born in Poland and a British nalism department is the editor of ated from the U. S. Naval Academy subject, Mr. Herbich received his the Journalism Quarterly, Raymond at Annapolis in 1930. diploma from the Technical Univer­ B. Nixon. Mr. Nixon comes here Other new staff members holding sity College in Warsaw and his Doc­ from Emory University where he was the rank of associate professor and tor of Science from the University professor of journalism and director above are: Adrian us J. Dekker, as­ of Edinburgh. His specialties are of the division of journalism. He sociate professor, electrical engineer­ hydraulic structures and hydrology received his Bachelor of Philosophy ing; Olof Larsell, professor, neuro­ and hydro-electric systems. from Emory and M.A. and Ph.D. anatomy; lver J. Nygard, associate Returning to Minnesota after a from Minnesota. Among Mr. Nix- professor, soils. October 1952 7 1

As a member of the National Advisory Dental Research Council, Dr. Wallace Armstrong, physiological chem­ istry, reviews grants and advises the surgeon-general. Zoologist Dwain W. Warner has recently been elected head of the newly-formed Foundation for Neotropical Research. The foundation plans to study tropical conditions of the New World. U STAFF MEMBERS

At the U 30 years, Alberta Goodrich is office supervisor, YOU SUO Junior College office, and the managing editor, SLA bulletin. A. $30,000 Ford Foundation grant will be nl'U' theories on social communications and Festinger, psychology; May Brodbeck, JJI«owo'•

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Organic chemistry professor Richard T. Arnold holds the post of science advisor to the American High com­ Boning up on Italian is Mitchell Charnley, journalism professor, missioner in Bonn, Germany. Arnold who is on the first Fulbright lectureship in mass communications is on leave of absence from the U. at the University of Florence. Mr. Charnley, his wife, and two children are planning to live in q., small villa near Florence.

Receiving a cita­ tion for supe­ KNOW rior service from Charles Brannan, Secretary of Ag­ riculture, is Glen roy Kunau, left, Goodhue county agent.Ku­ nau's award was given for his skill in "enlisting aid of farmers in carrying out an outstanding pro­ gram to improve farmin[!;." The award also cites his unusual abil­ ity in organiza­ tion and train­ ing. In 1952 only 17 of these ci­ tations were made to metnbers of agriculture extension staffs.

October 1952 9 1 UP for the Count! ' Agnes Hansen's pollen counting takes her to Botany roof daily

move to the Twin Cities from other states and need to know the average pollen count before taking the cru­ cial step. Minneapolis and St. Paul have high pollen counts, Miss Han­ High above the sen says. Only the northeastern quar­ rest of the cam­ ter of Minnesota is relatively hay pus, ·Agnes Han­ fever-free. sen inserts her daily slide in the THE RESULTS of each day's count from April through Sep­ pollen station a­ top Botany roof. tember are plotted on a huge graph for easy reference. Whenever the graph shows a sharp drop, it's a safe VERY morning from April 1 to responsible for their sneezing and bet that it was a cool, rainy day dur­ E September 30 a small, pert wom­ wheezing from the middle of Au· ing which free pollen sank to the an rides the narrow elevator from her gust until the first frost. Ragweed ground. basement office to the top tloor of (whose official monicker is, ironi­ "The worst summer I can remem­ Botany building. She climbs a short cally, "ambrosia") has its highest ber was 1948," Miss Hansen recalls flight of stairs, stoops to get through count during the last week in Au­ in her musical voice. "It was hot a little door, and voila! -she steps gust. and dry-which meant the pollen out on the flat roof of Botany with "Hay fever victims begin to feel really traveled. In a high wind pol­ its magnificent view of the campus discomfort when the pollen count len can be carried 100 miles or and downtown Minneapolis. reaches about 50 grains per square more. She isn't primarily interested in centimeter," says Miss Hansen. "Most "August 24 set the record in '48," the view, however. Without losing of them need advance warning of Miss Hansen recalls. "It was a any time she takes a slide from its peak pollen periods. When they see miserably hot day with a high holder atop the roof and puts a fresh the count is heading well above 100, wind from the southwest. The count slide in its place. Then she returns many sufferers plan to leave the area climbed to 1100 that day! I did to her basement laboratory where for some less hay-fevery spot. We're feel so sorry for all the uncomfortable her real work begins. swamped with phone calls all during people who phoned in." Miss Han­ The sandy-haired woman who the season from hay fever victims sen, herself, does not have ·hay fever makes these regular rooftop expedi­ who want to know, literally, which -"1 couldn't very well, not with tions is Agnes Hansen, instructor of way the wind is blowing!" this job!" botany and keeper of the official Uni­ Occasionally queries come to Miss This past summer was a rather versity pollen count which appears in Hansen from sufferers who want to continued on next page local newspapers during the hay fe­ ver season. Back once more Through August and September in her basement Miss Hansen gives Twin Cities news­ lab, Miss Hansen papers and radio stations a daily re­ makes her pollen port on the number of grains of counts, using a pollen per square centimeter for the special micro­ previous 24 hours. She counts for rag­ scope with a me­ weed, pigweed, Russian thistle, grass, chanical stage wormwood, and other pollens- in­ that permits her cluding nettle, hemp, dock, and plan­ to examine equal tain. areas at regular Of greatest concern to hay fever intervals on the victims is ragweed, which is chiefly slide's surface. 10 The Minnesotan Pollen continued From Normal School to U Branch ... light one, Miss Hansen reports, the high for ragweed being reached on August 27 with 301 grains per square Good Old Days at UMD centimeter. r How is a pollen count made? Miss Hansen claims it's easy, once you Recalled by Two Oldtimers know how. She's been doing it for six of the eleven years she has taught at the University. Each slide she uses is first coated "I was the only male student around. with a pollen adhesive made from here then. It was lonesome in a way vaseline, mineral oil, and emulsify­ --but what a wav to be lonesome!" ing substances. Every morning she An added inducement to attend puts a fresh slide in the metal pol­ the Duluth State Normal School back len "station" on the Botany roof. in those days was the offer of free The slide is kept there for 24 hours, tuition to all who agreed to teach exposed to the pollen-laden winds in the state for two years after gradu­ that blow across the roof. ating. After 24 hours Miss Hansen puts Mr. Olsen studied water color the slide under a microscope with a painting under Max Weber, famous special mechanical stage which marks American painter who last year re­ out 25 areas of the same size at turned to the Duluth campus as ar­ regular intervals on the slide. She tist in residence directing the annual then counts the grains of various UMD Summer Art Workshop. Other kinds of pollen in each of the 2S teachers gave Olsen training in math­ areas-being careful to distinguish ematics, civics, and basic architectur­ the tiny spores of ragweed from those A room £n Old Main recalls memo­ al subjects. of pigweed, and both of these from ries to UMDers Olsen and Anderson. After his studies at DSNS and ex­ a speck of dust. perience in architects' offices, Mr. After she gets a total for each kind WO HEADS peered around the Olsen became a registered architect. of pollen in all 25 areas, she uses a T door of a room in old Main, first Helmer Anderson came to the Du­ simple statistical formula to arrive structure built on the University of luth campus in 1921-the year DSNS at the number of grains in a square Minnesota, Duluth campus, a half­ was reorganized as Duluth State centimeter. At about nine each morn­ century ago- and what they saw Teachers College. He remembers well ing she gives the previous day's brought back many memories. the many years he worked seven days count to local newspapers and radio For Peter Martin Olsen, Duluth a week, year in and year out. "When stations. architect now doing architectural there was a man on vacation," he re­ work for the UMD physical plant, it calls, "the two other shift engineers MISS HANSEN is a dedicated bot- called up memories of being "abso­ in charge of the steam plant had to anist. She loves plants and can lutely the first" male student on the double up to take care of the third even exclaim delightedly over her Duluth campus, back in the days man's shift. There were some long "lovely slime mold" growing apace when it was the Duluth State Normal hours, I can tell you." under glass in her office. She likes School. As senior mechanie, Mr. Ander­ teaching courses in microscopic tech­ For Helmer Anderson, UMD's sen­ son's handiwork and mechanical niques. She likes pollen counting be­ ior mechanic, it recalled many hours skill is evident in many places around cause it is useful. It's not only a serv­ spent maintaining the room and mak­ the Duluth campus, which five years ice to hay fever victims but a teach­ ing alterations. ago had its title officially changed ing aid in the course on pollen analy­ Now an annex to the overcrowded to the University of Minnesota, Du­ sis. And then, you never can tell wh~t library in Main building, the room luth Branch. surprises the pollen slides will bring. once served as a mathematics class­ When he isn't working or making "Why, sometimes when I take in room in which Mr. Olsen took spe­ repairs on his own home, Mr. An­ my slides I find all sorts of things cial instruction while working as a derson is likely to he out fishing for -dust and mica, of course, and also carpenter and general handyman. walleyes in inland lakes or trout in insects, exploded starch grains from "That was back in the 1903-1904 Lake Superior. The wdl-stocked An­ local flour mills, and occasionally period," explains Olsen, a congenial derson freezer testifies that he is as a beautiful scale from a butterfly's Norwegian who has designed many wing!" effective with hook and line as with Duluth homes and office buildings. the tools of his UMD trade. October 1952 II ~ I After the official part of the program was over, the retiring staff members took time out for punch and cookies as they visited with their friends and co-workers. Faculty members honored at the party included: John H. Allison, Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Amy E. Armstrong, Dr. William L. Benedict, Dr. David M. Berkman, Dr. Willard L. Boyd, Dr. Harry H. Bowing, Dr. Albert C. Broders, George P. Conger, Ralph W. Dawson, Dr. Della G. Drips, Richard A. Graves, Herbert K. Hayes, Dr. Bert E. Hempstead, Lewis B. Hessler, Dr. Norman M. Keith. Dr. Edward C. Kendall, Orville M. Kiser, Frank H. MacDougall, Dr. Henry W. Meyerding, Bruce D. Mud­ gett, Dr. Robert D. Mussey, Dr. Gordon B. New, Jean F. Piccard, Dr. John de J. Pemberton, Andrew T. Ras­ A family affair ... Retiring forestry professor John H. mussen, James C. Sanderson, Edward H. Sirich, George t4llison chats with daughter, Leigh, and Mrs. Allison. M. Stephenson, and Dr. Russell M. Wilder.

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ERTIFICATES of Merit, for ten or more years serv· Civil service staff members who received certificates Cice to the University, went to 52 retiring staff mem­ were: Anna J. Benson, Carl V. Benson, Erick Berg, bers at a party June 18 in the Main Ballroom of Coff­ Harry S. Bishop, Georgia Bohmbach, William Cahill, man Memorial Union. Friends, relatives, and colleagues Roy S. Callaway, Litella Colburn, Jean E. H. Fish, gathered in the ballroom to honor the retiring academic Charles Grablander, Gertrude Hartman, Venning P. Hol­ and civil service staffers whose combined University lis, Etalea Johnson, Mary J. Kulstad, Agnes Newman. service totaled 1,564 years. Frank Olson, Joseph Pearson, Elizabeth Pehousek, This sixth annual presentation of the Certificates of Francis 0. Peterson, Joseph C. Poucher, Nicholas G. Merit was broadcast over station KUOM with Dean Reinert, William A. Schebo, Robert Sell, Harriet Sewall, Errett McDiarmid, SLA, acting as master of ceremonies. Andrew Shelde, Charles Stucke, Frank Swanson, and The Certificate of Merit, authorized by the Board of Re­ Gertrude Veblen. gents, is the University's official way of thanking staff members for long and devoted service. Retiring faculty members were presented by Malcolm Retiring faculty members George M. Stephenson, history, M. Willey, vice president, academic administration, who and Edward H. Sirich, romance languages, (center) get reviewed the developments of the past exciting and occa· congratulated by Arthur Upgren, economics, left, and sionally turbulent year at the University. He said that by Errett W. McDiarmid, dean of the Arts college, right. each of the staff members honored by a certificate had won "a permanent place in the heart of this University." In presenting the 28 retiring civil service staff mem· bers, William T. Middlebrook, vice· president, business administration, noted that they came from 13 different departments and had put in a total of 702 "man-years" of service. "These civil service staff members," he con­ tinued, "have quietly performed their services in order that the University can effectively carry out its world­ famous teaching, research, and service activities." President J. L. Morrill awarded the certificates to each retiring staffer present and stressed the importance of the University's teaching function. "In whatever ca­ pacity you have served the University, you have in some measure helped carry forward our mission of teaching. You have therefore had a part in a momentous and truly meaningful undertaking.... Your work is perpetu­ ated in the lives of all the men and women to whom the University has been a teacher and a guide." 12 The Minnesotan President Morrill is flanked by retmng Mayo profes­ sors William L. Benedict, of the department of ophthal­ mology. and Henry W. Meyerding, of orthopedic surgery.

(Above) Two oldtimers from U outposts-Mary Kulstad of the North Central School and Orville M. Kiser of the Northwest School-reminisce over a cup of party punch.

(Right) Showing off her citation to former Admissions and Records coworkers Ellsworth Gerritz, lean McCarthy and True Pettengill, is Litella Colburn. Litella put in 41 years at the U, mostly in the Dean of Women's office.

(Below) Queuing up for punch are, l. to r., Frank H. MacDougall, physical chemistry; Malcolm Willey, aca· demic vice president; and Georgia Bohmback, secretary, soils. Medora Polkey, of U Relations, serves the punch.

October 1952 Ames Library University Hires Firm to Consult continued from page 3 On State Educational TV Survey was the personal map of Lord Can­ ning, governor general of India at To assist in a survey of educational Both C. M. Jansky, Jr., and Stuart the time of the Sepoy uprising. A television possibilities. in Minnesota, L. Bailey, partners in the firm en­ small reproduction of this very map the University has engaged a Wash­ gaged by the University, were active was used as an illustration m the ington, D.C. firm of consulting radio in the early development of U radio book that started Mr- Ames on his engineers. broadcasting. While instructing here quest. The firm of Jansky and Bailey in 1920 Jansky established one of the Another feature of the libran's will serve as consultants to Univer­ first radio telephone broadcasting sta­ map section is a complete Horsburgh­ sity staff members making the study tions. This is now station KUOM. Walkter Atlas of India, of which which will be used as a foundation Bailey served as chief operator of there are only one or two other sets for statewide educational television the University's radio station for a in the United States. planning. time when he was a student and did The Ames Library has recently Major problems to be dealt with considerable engineering work with 'been moved into a modern, elabor­ in the survey are: the University's broadcast service and ately equipped one-story building ad­ L Population distribution in the measurement of the areas covered. joining the Ames estate, Blue Gentian state based on the 1950 census. The firm is now the oldest and Farm, in Egan township, Dakota 2. The state's topography as it re­ largest radio engineering company county-about a half-hour drive lates to television transmission and practicing before the Federal Com­ from the University's Minneapolis the selection of transmission sites for munications Commission. campus. The new library building is the best possible coverage. on Blue Gentian Road, one-half mile 3. How the state could best be Two Staffers Get east of Highway 49. served by an educational television transmitter employing relay stations Fulbright Grants HE COLLECTION, which was to obtain maximum coverage of the Two University faculty members T overflowing six rooms of Mr. area. who have been awarded Fulbright Ames' home and two rooms of his 4. Estimated costs of various plans educational exchange grants are Ar­ gate house, now occupies about one­ for an educational television svstem thur R. Upgren, professor of eco­ half of the 2,500 feet of shelf space in in Minnesota. nomics, and Lorenz E. A. Eitner, as­ the new building. Special cases and sistant professor of art history_ display racks accommodate the many Who's Who Includes Under the terms of his Fulbright extremely rare maps. Air-conditioned 346 From U Faculty award, Professor Upgren will take a and illuminated with indirect light­ sabbatical leave from the University ing throughout, the library includPI' The recently issued 1952-53 edi­ February 1 to June 15 to lecture in a number of museum art pieces tion of Who's Who in America lists economics at the University of Aar­ brought from India. Miss Margaret 346 University staff members, includ­ hus in Aarhus, Del}mark. Horn, a graduate of the Universit) 's ing both active and emeritus profes­ Professor Eitner will conduct re­ library school, is librarian and is aR­ sors. search in Carolingian art history at sisted by a staff of three. This figure is six less than the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts in To insure that his collection will number of faculty members who ap­ Brussels, Belgium. be maintained permanently as a spe­ peared in the previous edition of cialized regional unit, Mr. Ames has Who's Who. Twenty new entries al­ had the library incorporated as an most compensate for the 12 losses Co-Efficients Plan Picnic educational institution, with thrPe due to death and the 14 who left for Members of the Co-Efficients club, trustees and himself as president. positions at other institutions. a group of women civil service em­ Under the terms of the gift to the Of the staffers listed, 217 are pro­ ployees, are planning a picnic for Regents, the Ames Library will be­ fessors on the Minneapolis campus, their first fall meeting. come a specialized unit of the Uni­ 35 on the St. Paul campus, 87 at Club activities for the coming year versity libraries some time on or be­ the Mayo Foundation, four at the include: dinner meetings, bowling, fore June 29, 1961. Meanwhile, the Duluth branch, one at the Crookston music appreciation, ice skating, and collection will remain in its present experimental station, and three are interior decorating. building and the founder and trus­ Regents of the University. Any woman civil service employee tees will continue expanding the li­ The median age of the distin­ interested in joining the club ma,­ lnary, which now contains thou­ guished faculty members is 59.4, with call Evelyn Ahlgren on Minneapo­ sands of books and periodicals and the largest number-66-falling in lis campus, ext. 6236, or Marie Kane hundreds of maps and charts. the 5.5-59 year age group. on St. Paul campus, ext. 387. 14 The Minnesotan The President's Page "The Uniqueness of University Citizenship''

Editor's note: The following is taken from President Morrill's address at the opening convocation of this academic year, October 2.

OU COME to the University in an era of deep-seated University policies and affairs through student member­ Y uncertainty and uneasiness. This is an anxious and ship on committees of the Faculty Senate, and through angry world and time in which we live. Maybe you are two-way consultation in the whole field of student-faculty­ better fortified than the Freshman of my day, more than administrative relationships. 40 years ago. Student activities can be educational; they are a part Most of you were born in the middle '30's, in the midst of the total chance to learn by doing; they are training of a desperate depression. In your earlier school years, for citizenship, rightly conducted. But we must always the nation was convulsed in the conflict of World War. keep in mind that we are a close-knit institutional com­ Since then, in your high school days, our hopes of peace munity, with mutual responsibility to each other, held through victory have been bitterly disappointed. In the specially responsible by the larger society which supports great world-cleavage we have witnessed the rise of Russia us. ,we stand or fall, together. Each achievement, each from the rubble of the Eastern front-flushed with vic­ success, each brilliant advance by any of us enhances tory, falsely forgetful that they owe it as much to others the prestige of all. But let one single individual among as themselves, inflamed with age-old dictatorial greed us, student or staff-member, fall flat on his face or plain­ for the goods and minds and very souls of all mankind. ly falter in the fulfillment of high expectations, and the In these late years, too, we see all Asia and the East­ whole edifice of the University shudders from the shock from the Arab nations of the Mediterranean to the vast of public indignation and disappointment. Our citizen­ masses of China and India-seething in the mixed agony ship is singled out and looked to for good example. and inchoate aspirations of revolution and civil uprising. Either all this is the fixed course of immutable events­ ET ME remind you that "the uniqueness of Uni­ something we are helpless to affect--or it is somehow L versity citizenship" lies in its appeal, its sense of humanly manageable by the uses of intelligence and the loyalty, to study and learning. dependence of Divine Providence. Within its circumscribed cosmos the University offers Your very presence in this University attests the de­ myriad opportunities for civic participation, but all these cision of that dilemma. It attests "the faith that men are are pointed toward the ongoing of the institution itself ennobled by understanding;" that "the advancement of and the realization of its central purpose, which is learning and the search for truth" can be controlling in learning. human affairs. Your every instinct rejects the doctrine of Of course it must welcome new ideas, including un­ blind fate. You know that deeds and decisions count; popular ones. Of course it must encourage resourceful ex­ that it is the doctrine of democracy that the deeds and perimentation in every area of thought and endeavor­ decisions of all of us do count. not only scientific but social and political and philo­ This is what citizenship means, of course-to do and sophical. But its open-mindedness is not open-endedness. decide every day right here on the campus, in every Its unending responsibility is the cool and scholarly ex­ American community, in our state, our nation, and the amination and appraisal of ideas, old and new. More world. often than not, the excited mass meeting and the picket line of protest are the proof that the University has for­ J BELIEVE that education must be preparation for citi­ gotten its true function. The demagogue is the disturber zenship. I believe that campus life in itself is a lab­ of the academic peace. oratory for learning some of the lessons of responsible While the University, in the special nature of its pur­ citizenship. pose and organization and control, cannot offer to its In college we learn first and best from books, of course. students the full-fledged exercise of citizenship, yet it can But let me urge you, in all sincerity, to see outside the and does offer the priceless opportunity of preparation classroom and to take part in student activities as well. for the kind of intelligent citizenship so sorely needed There are scores of outlets open to your interests, your in the world today. efforts and your influence-challenges to campus citizen­ Let me close with what Abraham Lincoln said: ship. "We--even we here-hold the power and have the We are entering the third year of a sincere and serious responsibility. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the effort to make possible greater student participation in last best hope on earth." October 1952 15 O~TOBER 8 TO NOVEMBER 15~ 1952 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY THEATRE Subscription Series Oct. 10, 11-"'Aladdin," by Charlotte Chorpenning. Nov. 1-0pening Concert. I Scott Hall Auditorium, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 11. 1:15 Nov. 7-Claudio Arrau, pianist. p.m. Adults, $.60; children $.40. Tickets go on sale the (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 Wednesday before the week of the opening at the Theatre to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at Box Office, 18 Scott HalL) the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reserva· Oct. 17, 18, 20-2fr-"A Cry of Players," by Will Gibson. tions call University extension 6625.)t Nov. 7, 8, 10-16-"You Never Can Tell," by George Bernard Twilight Concert Shaw. Nov. 9-Rafael Druian, violinist. (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. except Oct. 26 and (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Tickets $.50, $.75, and Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m. Single tickets, $1.20. Sales begin the $1.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the Wednesday before the week of the opening at the Theatre Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. All tickets re· Box Office, 18 Scott Hall.) t served.) t Young People's Concert UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES Nov. 13-Northrop Auditorium, 1 :30 p.m. Oct.-Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism. A detailed ex­ (Admission arranged through local schools.) amination of the entire body of Johnson's criticism. Jean H. Hagstrum. $3.50. UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE Nov. 3-Music and Maestros: The Story of the Minneapoli" Oct. 9-Boy's Town Choir. Symphony Orchestra. An intimate portrayal of the hu­ Oct. 23--Nadine Conner. man side of the orchestra as well as its musical develop­ Nov. 12-Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, All-Gershwin ment. John K. Sherman. $3.75. Concert, Jesus Maria Sanroma. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 Nov.-Free India in Asia. An objective survey of India's to $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of the foreign policies with respect to the other nations of concert at the Artists Course Tickt>t Office, 105 Northrop.) t Asia. Werner Levi, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. CONVOCATIONS Oct. 16-SLA Convocation, Senator Hubert Humphrey in SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS a panel discussion on the value of liberal education. Oct. 23--Tex Ziegler, movies. "Life with the Eskimos as Classroom Lecture . . . American Political Parties, a timely subject in an election year is covered by Asher a Flying Trader." Christensen, professor of political science. Monday, Wed­ Oct. 30-First Piano Quartet. Nov. 6--Hermann Muller, scientist, "Martyrdom of Sci­ nesday, Friday, 1:30 p.m. ence in the Twentieth Century." The Jeffersonian Heritage ... A National Association of Kov. 10-Ballet Russe, (Two performances, 11:30 and Educational Broadcasters tape recording, expressing in 12:30.) living terms the ideals of Thomas Jefferson that help u• Nov. 13--John K. Sherman, critic, speaking on his book, today. Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. "Music and Maestros, the Story of the Minneapolis Sym­ Community Calendar ... Audrey June Booth tells listener" phony Orchestra." about organizations, worthwhile projects, things to do (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to the public and see in the community. Friday, 4:00 p.m. without charge.) As Others See Us ... Alistair Cooke, BBC commentator, Saturday, 4:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 Oct. 8--"Four in a Jeep," InternationaL on the diaL Its complete fall schedule may be obtained by Oct. 15-"The Browning Version," British. writing to the station.) Oct. 22-"The Navajo," American. Nov. 5--"Miracle in Milan," Italian. (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign ATHLETIC EVENTS language films have English subtitles. General admission at Football Games at Home Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, junior admission $.35. Tickets for staff members at $.60 available in the basement of W es­ Oct. 11-Northwestern. brook Hall and the Campus Club.) Oct. 18-Illinois. UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Nov. 1-Iowa. Through Nov. 7-A collection of posters illustrating con­ Nov. 8-Purdue. temporary design, gathered from New York subways, \Memorial Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Single tickets at $3.60 may New York Times, and tourist offices. be ordered from the Athletic Ticket Office, University of (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of Minnesota. Over-the-counter sales begin the Monday be­ Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday fore each game at the Football Ticket Office, 103 Cooke through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open HalL Athletic privilege cards for staff membe1·s, good before performances and during intermissions.) for all athletic events, are still available at $10.00.) t

t Tickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Building, in Minneapolis.

In this issue ... A TRAINING-GROUND for Edu­ Know Your University cation students and a place where schoolchildren can get back on the right educational track-that's the Psycho-Educational Clinic, featured in words and pictures on page 3. A FOOTBALL COACH who never gets to see his own team in action is . Bud Svendsen. Part sleuth, part stat­ istician, he spends his Saturdays scouting U opponents. See page 5. U STUDENTS GO OUT INTO THE FIELD and learn about politics first-hand in a course taught by Ar­ thur N aftalin, political science. Page 6 tells how they dig up information about candidates, pressure groups, and legislation. WANT TO GIVE SOMEONE A CHRISTMAS they'll never forget? Y ou'lllearn on page lO how the girls in Correspondence Study did it, A NEAT, ORDERED WORLD­ that's what UMD Prof. Gerhard von Glahn finds in his hobby, model railroads. See page 13. Burton Hall On the eover . .. Lois Leighton, instructor in WHEN Burton Hall was built in named for Marion LeRoy Burton, the U elementary school, 1895, it was designated as the president of the University from helps a youngster make a Old Library and was intended to 1917 to 1920. clay model to illustrate his house an assembly hall, recitation Burton Hall is the only building on reading. Tying in with our rooms, reading rooms, stacks, and the the campus that boasts Doric columns story on the Psycho-Educa­ University administration unit. and a true Greek entrance. The ex­ tional Clinic, this November The Ariel, a weekly student publi­ terior of the hall is a light Ohio sand­ cover photo was taken dur­ cation, said of the projected building stone. ing the brush-up summer in 1894: "This new building is to be By many it has been called a build­ session for schoolchildren a two-story structure of somewhat ing of architectural inconsistencies. co-sponsored by the clinic less extensive area than the Hennepin One campus wit on hearing that the and College of Education. County Court House, in length 182 building had two architects, one for feet and 135 feet wide." The original the interior and one for the exterior, was sure the two men had never met! cost of erecting the hall is given as THE MINNESOTAN $175,000. The interior of Burton Hall con­ Vol. VI No. 2 tains a series of intriguing corridors The Minnesotan is publi.,hed monthly Burton served as the University li­ during the academic year, October brary for over three decades. Through that wind about the building. On the through May, by the Department of the years Burton has held the de­ balcony-like second floor are lodged University Relations, University of Min­ the College of Education offices in­ nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies partments of political economy, his­ are mailed free to University staff mem­ tory, English, plus General Alumni cluding those of the dean, assistant bers. Subscription rates for those not Association offices and student publi­ dean, Bureau of Educational Re­ on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a search, student teaching, Bureau of copy. Photographs, unless otherwise cation offices including the Minne­ credited, were taken by members of the sota Daily. Since the building lost the Field Studies and Surveys, and stu­ University Photographic Laboratory. history, geography, and political sci­ dent personnel. The high ceilinged Entered as second-class matter at the room that once was a library for the post office at Minneapolis, Minn. ence departments, its sole tenant has Copies of this issue are on sale at been the College of Education. whole University is now a favorite Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. In 1931 the Old Library was re- studying spot for education students. The Minnesotan Psycho-Educational Clinic Helps Children Conquer School Problems

patients. Reading, according to Rey­ ficulties we go into them thoroughly nolds, is the keystone of many ele­ in a series of private sessions that mentary school problems. A slow sometimes last for a few months, reader is usually a poor speller and sometimes for several years. When has trouble writing. The clinic is well we're finished we send a report to the equipped to handle these problems, parents plus a confidential and de­ having begun in 1947 under the lead­ tailed progress report to the school," ership of education professor Guy says Reynolds. Bond, nationally known for his work in remedial reading. The case of Howard Nearly all the 700 clinic patients Let's take a typical case: of the last five years have been ele­ Howard L-- first came to the Arline Reetz, instructor, uses Key­ mentary and high school students. clinic last December in the middle of stone telebinocular to test a young­ There have been rare exceptions­ the third grade. His mother, teacher, ster's visual acuity, fusion, balance. several youngsters of pre-school age and principal had decided he should whose problem was "school readi­ try the clinic after they'd had a joint O MANY parents, the Universi­ ness," and even a couple of GI's who T ty's Psycho-Educational Clinic is conference about his reading diffi­ had never learned to read and were culties. The principal and teacher a training ground where their chil­ sent to the clinic by the Veterans' dren have been helped to overcome wondered if he was really equipped Administration as part of their voca­ to do third grade work. The teacher difficulties and been put back on the tional rehabilitation. right educational track. noted that though he was generally But over in Pattee Hall, the staff How the clinic works agreeable he was frequently inatten­ thinks of the clinic primarily as a tive and occasionally bullied other For each child who comes to the children. laboratory where education students clinic, a definite procedure is fol­ A sturdy, blond boy of eight, can get first-hand experience treating lowed. First, a detailed development­ these schoolwork difficulties. It's as Howard wasn't unusually disturbed al history is provided by his parents in any way. He may have had a few much a teaching and research aid as and teachers. Then there are at least a service unit of the University, ac­ more bad dreams than some kids his two interviews with the parents. Next age, due to an early attack of polio cording to Maynard C. Reynolds, each youngster spends two or three clinic director. which had left him with some exag­ half-days in the clinic taking tests­ "Most of the youngsters who come gerated fears but no physical disa­ measurements of intelligence, social bilities. His early education had been to us are not at all dull. They are maturity, personality, vision, and average and above in their mental ca­ disrupted by frequent changes of hearing. Most important are the school. pacity," Reynolds continues. "Some­ broad achievement tests in writing, times they are so bright they are Howard was given a battery of in­ reading, and language. A diagnosis telligence tests. His scores ranged bored by too easy class material. and suggested plan of attack are de­ Sometimes their training has been from 99 to 121, with a mean of lOS veloped from the total information. -at least average. This gave the spotty. Sometimes their difficulties The fee for this preliminary testing are emotional." clinic staff every reason to believe he and diagnosis is $20. It is paid by could make normal progress. Really deep-rooted personality prob­ parents, sometimes with the help of lems are not handled by the clinic. Howard was above average in the school or a social service agency. arithmetic, but in all the tests involv­ "We leave that work to specialists­ The University's Greater University like the child psychiatrists at U hos­ ing words he did only as well as a Fund has provided a number of chil­ first or second grade beginner. He pitals who can give expert help," dren's aid scholarships where parents says Reynolds. "We work mostly could easily read isolated words, but could not afford the fee. About 2/3 he couldn't pull them together when with the lesser difficulties that slow of those coming to the clinic want a down school achievement." they appeared in sentences and para­ diagnosis only. The other l/3 get graphs. For example, he could identi­ Reading difficulties account for extensive treatment. four out of every five of the clinic's fy a single object-like a chair, when "After we've picked up their dif- continued on next page November 1952 3 continued from preceding page A series of lessons was mapped out, A letter explaining his progress given a multiple choice of words in a and Howard came to the clinic three went to Howard's parents with the workbook; but he couldn't grasp hours a week beginning winter quar­ report that he could now get along more complicated relations. Shown a ter. He was assigned a tutor. His on his own. A detailed record went drawing of a duck and a rabbit, he tutor was a young woman who was to the school showing how Howard was confused by the printed instruc· working for her M.A. in education had improved, where his weaknesses tion to "put an x over the duck's at the University. Miss S-- spent persisted, which training methods tail." many hours just talking to Howard, had worked and which hadn't. To make sure Howard's reading finding out what was bothering him, Howard's case is like many others troubles weren't due to physical dis· and keeping a careful record of each who have been helped at the clinic­ ability, the report on his last physi· session's progress. with the exception that the Greater cal exam was obtained, and a clinic University Fund helped. his parents staff member gave him several stand­ Reading made fun out hy paying two-thirds of the fees ard vision and hearing tests-the She showed Howard picture cards for diagnosis and treatment. Keystone tests for lateral and vertical containing simple words and then The clinic is hard pressed to see imbalance of the eyes, and for acuity phrases, gradually increasing the all the children that come for help. and fusion. He rated good on these speed. She and Howard read together It has a regular staff of six besides and also on the tests for color blind­ a book about a town. It was a hook Reynolds- Miss Arline Reetz, in­ ness, depth perception, and hearing. designed for first-graders. To make structor, Mrs. Shirley Erickson, sec­ His difficulty, it seemed, was due their task come alive they made a retary, and four part-time graduate partly to inadequate training result­ map of the town, locating on it all assistants who supervise the tutors. ing from frequent changes of school, the places mentioned in the story­ Not only does the clinic give pri­ and partly to his lack of interest. The the firehouse, the school, the stores. vate tutoring, but it has also for the outlook for his progress was good. Miss S-- and Howard played a past four summers teamed up with word game rather like anagrams, in staff members of the College of which he used small lettered blocks Ed_ucation to conduct two five-week to build up words when he was given courses for more than one hundred only the prefixes. Howard was shown local school children who are having how to prepare himself for reading reading difficulties (see pictures). aloud by first reading the hook si­ "But although these services are lently to himself. very important," says Reynolds, re­ By the end of March Howard had emphasizing the clinic's place in the almost caught up. He was reading University, "we· still justify our ex­ material of middle third grade dif­ istence on the campus as a teach­ ficulty. When he left the clinic in ing and research aid. This is pri­ June his reading had improved so marily a laboratory where education much that his teacher felt he was students can apply theories and ready to enter fourth grade this fall. methods learned in their classrooms." All the pictures on this page were taken during the special summer sessions conducted jointly by the clinic and the College of Education last summer. A total of more than 100 school children attended the two five-week sessions, mostly to brush up on reading. Above, left, students get private instruction and blackboard reading practice. Lower left, Maynard Reynolds, clinic di­ rector, watches three young girls practice reading and coloring. Lower right, a young man takes a break from the books to model a figure in clay. SATURDAY SCOUT

Coach Bud Svendsen knows all the opponent's football tactics

FOOTBALL scout's no cloak A and dagger man according to Earl rBud) Svendsen, Minnesota scout and coach. There's no place Scout Bud Svendsen diagrams an Illinois halfback sweep as Minnesota's end for undercover scouting in the Big coach George Nash checks a scouting book for the statistics on the play. Ten because rules allow a team to scout each opponent only three times helpful part of this scouting prepara- ness in the line, and picking out pat- during the season. tion is general football know-how terns of play and quarterback strat- "Scouting's not a glamorous affair gained from years in the sport. egy. but just a lot of hard work," Svend­ Svendsen served as Gopher center After sorting his statistics, Svend- sen testifies when he adds up the in the championship days of '34, sen chooses the most valuable facts paperwork that goes into each scout­ '35, and '36, played pro ball with the to go into his report. Svendsen re- ing expedition. Green Bay Packers and Brooklyn calls that while scouting Purdue last The three men doing most of Min­ Dodgers, and coached at Lafayette year he discovered the Boilermakers nesota's scouting this season are College, Penn., and Hamilton Col- would always try a touchdown pass Svendsen, John Kulbitski, freshman lege, N.Y. He came to Minnesota two immediately after recovering a fum­ coach, and Wally Johnson. Svendsen years ago with the Wes Fesler staff. ble or intercepting a pass. Purdue has covered the California, Illinois, tried this against the Gophers and Wisconsin, and Purdue teams. GOOD strong pair of binoculars, succeeded in making a sizable gain The heavy schedule takes him away A a couple of pencils and a sheaf of hut not a touchdown. The scout's from home weekends, so he never mimeographed papers are Svendsen's work enables players to be on the has had a chance to see the Gophers scouting equipment. When he was lookout for just such plays. in action on a Saturday afternoon. keeping tabs on Wisconsin, he used "I know the opponents' numbers bet­ sheets on which were printed the HE week before the Wisconsin· ter than our own boys'," Svendsen usual T formation. The basic seven T Minnesota game, all the informa­ laughs. But he does plenty of group man balanced line can be changed tion gleaned from watching two or work during the week with Minne­ with the scratch of a pen to fit almost three Badger games will be handed fota centers and line-backers. any play. During the game Svendsen to Wes Fesler. Besides this report to A scout's job consists of a great deal notes the down, number of yards to the coach, mimeographed pamphlets more than just sitting down in a go, yard-line, defense, yards gained, are given to team members to ac­ 50-yard-line, press-box seat to watch and also diagrams the play complete quaint them with the opponents. The a football game. "To bring back the with players' numbers. booklets give an introduction to Wis­ most accurate report possible is the "I can't see all 22 players at consin, the type of ball they play, object of scouting," Svendsen says. once," Svendsen admits, "hut I grad­ their players' positions and numbers, It takes a lot of preparation for the ually pick up the pattern of their and diagrams of favorite plays. This contest and concentration during the plays and place the defensive men is just one of the aids to modern game itself. later." Sometimes he can fill in what football and just one part of the For instance when scouting Wis­ he misses by consulting another Min­ scout's job. consin, before leaving for the game, nesota scout who may be watching The Wisconsin game ends the foot­ Svendsen had to study diagrammed the opposing team. ball season but not the scout's work. plays taken from movies of last year's Homework begins after the game During winter quarter Svendsen dia­ Minnesota-Wisconsin game. Then when Svendsen boils down all the in­ grams from movies each play for there were press clippings to be formation he has accumulated. This all nine Minnesota games in prepa­ scanned for injuries and other in­ means hours of paperwork, at home rati9n for '53. Then spring quar­ formation. It's also necessary to know and at the office, spent averaging ter rolls 'round again, and Svendsen Wisconsin players, their positions, yards gained by various types of is out on the field coaching the team and numbers. But probably the most plays, discovering by statistics weak- for the '53 season. November 1952 5 Their Homework is FIELDWORK Professor Naftalin's students learn first-hand about practical politics

How'S this for homework? each of the 14 students in the course Oct. 17. First saw my candidate. was asked to pick a candidate he Told him I would be writing a paper could willingly support for election about him and would be glad to help to the state legislature. Then he had hi5 campaign for the state legislature to scour the candidate's district and any way I could. He outlined his find out all about it-its minority early career in politics and told me and nationality groups, income levels, where he stood on leading campaign past voting records. i5sues. I agreed to help him post "It's amazing," says Naftalin, sign5 in his district. "how quickly the students get a full Oct. 20. Postcard campaign. Ad· sense of the district's political setup." dressed cards for four hours. Oct. 24. Offered to spur A--'s Working for a candidate campaign in my precinct by canvass· Then they concentrated on the can­ ing voters from house to house. didates themselves. Once they over­ Oct. 28, Nov. 1. More meetings come their initial hesitancy and ex­ with Mr. A--. Report5 of my plain their project, students are gen­ progress in house-to-house canvass­ erally warmly welcomed. "The candi­ ing. We discussed campaign prospects dates see these are honest students and politics in general. A ____ who aren't trying to throw any curves, thanked me for help I gave through and they're delighted at the oppor­ Young Republican League. tunity of getting volunteer help," Nov. 5. Victory! We had a big Naftalin says. confab to rehash vote and campaign While students don't ordinarily be­ and see where A-- had shown come campaign managers, they do greatest weakness and most strength. everything else-from writing publi­ city releases and licking envelopes to This notebook was part of an ac­ arranging meetings and soliciting tual assignment for Political Science votes door-to-door. 51-52, Fieldwork in Politics, taught By the middle of October each stu­ by Arthur Naftalin, associate profes­ dent had interviewed his candidate sor of political science. The cour~e, and found out all about him, even to which meets once a week for two some pertinent details of his private hours, is aimed at giving senior col­ life (Married? Income? Children? lege students a working understand· Summer home?), and particularly ing of political organization at the his stand on major campaign issues. local level. After digging up all this informa­ Unlike the traditional course in tion, each class member began the political parties, Political Science 51- tougher job of finding out who was 52 has no textbook or final exam. backing the candidate financially, The students submit three long papers what publicity techniques were used detailing what they have learned in in the campaign, who was helping the field about: a specific candidate, run the show. a pressure group, and a single com­ Finally, after the fateful first Tues­ mittee in the state legislature. day in November, came an election At the beginning of this quarter post-mortem as each student tried to The Minnesotan estimate why his man won or lost, and procedure," says Naftalin, with a convictions? How much power should how the campaign could have been grin. "These kids are all the time on a majority have? How have the press, improved, and in what districts the streetcars bound for the Capitol and radio and television influenced legis­ candidate's strength was greatest and back ... They sit in on all meetings lation?" weakest. of their committee, get to know most By the end of winter quarter the All this hard-gleaned information of the legislators by name, and even course will be finished, but the legis­ was summarized in written reports by strike up brief friendships with Capi­ lature will still be meeting. Judging the students with the aid of a long tol guards. They get, in this way, a from past years, you couldn't keep question sheet prep~red by Naftalin. sense of committee functioning you these students away from the remain­ just can't learn from books." ing sessions with a ten-foot poll tax! Studying a pressure group After many treks to the Capitol Next on the class agenda, beginning followed by some sober reflection, the Evaluating the course this month, is the study of a pressure students write their reports. These re- Many of Naftalin's students have group. Most of these special interest ports are not debates on the pros and continued their interest in politics be­ groups have been amazingly coopera­ cons of the bill's merits, but are out- yond Political Science 52. "We have tive. Whenever possible the student lines of the mechanics by which a bill turned out a couple of ward chairmen follows through on the special inter­ becomes a law. of both Republican and Democratic- est of his candidate, be it conserva­ Who introduced the bill and how? Farmer-Labor parties. One of our tion, education, or mental health. Stu­ What publicity has it got? How is the present Minneapolis aldermen got dents have chosen groups ranging bill referred to committee? What his introduction to politics in this from the American Legion to the does the committee actually do in course. Students often become dele­ Minnesota Wine and Spirits Institute. hearing a bill? How does it get re- gates to the DFL and Republican A few years ago one student covered ported out of committee? What ac- state conventions. But this is not the an organization for the blind, got so tion was taken on the floor? All these purpose of the course," Naftalin in­ interested he did volunteer work for questions are answered in the re- sists. "We aren't trying to recruit or the group for several years as chief ports. create candidates." lobbyist and unofficial executive di­ The actual class sessions are con- Naftalin tries to keep the course rector. ducted round robin style. each stu- completely non-partisan. He makes it Student day-to-day reports on this dent sharing his experiences. Occa- plain that he himself is a Democrat project discuss the history, organiza­ sionally guests from both major par- and has participated extensively in tion, financing, publicity and lobhy­ ties talk to the class. politics-formerly as secretary to Hu- ing techniques of their pet pressure "Though this is a practical course bert Humphrey, now as vice chair­ groups-including questions like: in practical polities," Naftalin says, man of the Hennepin County DFL. How much does the paid director "naturally some theoretical questions However, the fairness with which get? What methods does the organi­ grow out of the fieldwork, and we he teaches the course has been noted zation use to reach legislators? discuss these carefully in class: How by Thomas H. Reed and Doris D. much should repres~ntatives reflect Reed in a recent report on courses Following a hill through their constituents' opinions and how in practical politics throughout the the state legislature much should they consult their own continued on page 14 By the time winter quarter rolls 'round this year the Minnesota legis­ Students in Political Science 51 get briefed by Professor Arthur Naftalin lature will be in session. The final before they go out into the field to do their practical work for the course. class assignment will be to choose a particular committee of the legisla­ ture and follow its treatment of a specific bill. Whenever he can, the student picks a committee in which the pressure group he has just stud­ ied has a direct interest. In this way he can see what that organization does during the legislative session with one major bill-say the long­ term timber bill before the conser­ vation committee. "I tell them to beat it over to the Capitol to attend the opening session and all committee caucuses. and to clip newspaper accounts of l~gislation November 1952 7 Responsibility for smooth operation of 414 campus student organizations belongs to new director of Student Activities Bureau, James Borreson. He and his staffers like their roomy SAB offices in TSMa.

Walter Pattison, romance languages, spent over a year in Europe unearthing biographical mate­ rial for his newly published book, "The Life and Works of the Troubadour Raimbaut d'Orange." U STAFF MEMBE The book was brought out by the ll Press. YOU S

Union dishroom supervisor for ten years, Mathilda Lam­ Margaret Robinson, with the U 17 bert sees that thousands of dishes are washed daily. Her years, answers one of the busiest hobbies include bridge, crocheting, seven grandchildren. phones on campus as receptionist for the offices of the physical plant.

The Minnesotan 8 Serving as chairman of the UMD athletic committee is Emmett Davidson, political science, Duluth branch. Davidson relaxes with a good book in Schonberg, sr. laboratory machinist, his rustic home, built in a secluded, pine-fringed hollow near campus. plants, even grows some in aero lab, ..,ll,uJ.. JJI': crown of thorns and red peppers.

Drs. John Lewis and Richard Varco have rqJOrtcd world's first "refrigerated heart" operation. The pa­ LD KNOW tient's blood temperature was lowered to 79 de­ grees to stop the blood flow five and one-half min­ utes and allow delicate heart surgery to be done.

elected vice-president of the American Association of College Editors, Harold Swanson is in charge of publications, visual aids on the St. Paul campus.

November 1952 9 Meet the ll's experts on from the basket, and the opening of the gifts was a near riot. The big rub­ ber duck made a big impression on them all. Mrs. S __ mentioned a How to Make a Christmas Merry lovely scarf you included for her. "Mrs. S-- also told me of her deep appreciation for the food. And I know turkeys are a rare experience LTHOUGH there's a good month to add all sorts of goodies----choco­ for them, but equally rare is food A of shopping days till Christmas, lates and hard candy, doughnuts made enough for one full meal. Because of the holiday spirit has been abroad by Patsy Holman's mother, and home­ what you sent they are hoping that in the Correspondence Study depart­ made preserves supplied by Grace they can begin to catch up on the two ment for weeks now. Beginning last Tedman. months' arrears of rent. You certain­ month the girls in that office started "We also brought presents for all ly gave them all a very happy Christ- filling a huge bushel basket for a eight kids-from the six month old mas. " needy family's Christmas dinner. This baby up to a boy of 10. Mostly we It's a letter the girls in Correspond­ is the third year they've undertaken bought them clothes, oh, and also a ence Study will keep for a long time. the project--which makes them local big old rubber duck ... Gee," Eve­ In the hope that other University de­ experts on Christmas baskets. lyn concludes, "we really did have a partments would like to make up bas­ The whole thing started from an lot of fun doing it!" kets, Evelyn adds, "It's fun to check idea of Evelyn Erickson, senior clerk things off the list and watch the bas­ typist, back in 1950. It proved so suc­ HE STORY doesn't end there, kets fill up. But best of all is the feel­ cessful that the department filled two T though. The caseworker brought ing that without your contributions baskets in 1951. Their enthusiasm the food and presents to the family, some family would have had to do was communicated to the neighbor­ and early in January she wrote the without Christmas. If we got more of ing Extension division offices in the Correspondence Study department a them, a lot of people would have a basement of Nicholson, whi~h also long letter. Here's how she described merrier Christmas this year." filled a basket. the family's reactions: If your department would like to "Here's how it worked," says Eve­ "I have just talked with the moth­ prepare a Christmas basket, won't lyn Erickson. "We got a caseworker er of the family for whom you girls you contact Evelyn Erickson, 629S, at the Family and Children's Service did so much at Christmas. Apparent­ any day between 12:30 and 1:30. to give us the name of a family who ly they were overwhelmed ... From She can give you helpful suggestions really needed the basket. She asked if Mrs. S--'s description she needed plus the names of agencies who keep we wanted to contribute food or pres­ a squad car to keep the children away families on file. ents-and we decided we'd shoot the works and supply both. So she gave Surr~unding their 1952 Christmas basket are l. to r., Correspondence Study us the names and ages of each of the staffers ,4rlene Kvaale, Patsy Holman, Evelyn Erickson, and Janice Rohme. family's eight kids. "Well," Evelyn continues, "we put a big empty bushel basket on the files where everyone could see it. Late in October we made up a tentative list of what a family that size would need for a bang-up Christmas dinner -plus some extras! "Then we started jogging people to bring food. Once in a while we'd ditto reminders during our lunch hour. Everybody in the office pitched in with daily contributions. One day it would be a can of vegetables, the next some packaged goods that would keep-like dates, or pudding, or rice. "Fridays were set aside for donat­ ing change to the big tin can we kept around for the purpose. With this money we bought a 14-pound turkey, with all the trimmings. We managed 10 The Minnesotan Thanks to U researeh TURKEYS are better than ever!

OU DON'T have to be a gourmet Yto know that your Thanksgiving turkey has been improving with every , passing year. Thanks to research work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and various state agricultural experiment stations, your holiday bird in recent years has probably been more meaty, more tender, more tasty, and more appealing to the eye. Staff members of the University of Minnesota's poultry division are hard at work to maintain and improve these qualities in turkeys while de­ veloping birds with better fertility, hatchability, and growth rates. As H. J. Sloan, poultry division Dr. H. ]. Sloan, chief of poultry husbandry, holds a four-pound Beltsville chief, points out, University research white fryer-roaster. On the table, l. to r.; are: mature Beltsville, about has the double overall objective of nine pounds; large Broadbreasted Bronze hen, about 13 pounds; large Broad­ making turkey growing more profit­ breasted Bronze tom, about 26 pounds. All weights given are drawn weights. able for the farmer while making most meat per pound of weight. Pilkey, poultry husbandman. Much more of these improved meat-type While keeping this meat-type in of the turkey research is also con­ birds available to the consuming pub­ mind, University poultry research ducted in the processing, storage, and lic at lower prices. workers are testing new lines of tur- feeding laboratories in Peters Hall keys to find out which gain weight on the St. Paul campus. URKEY growers and researchers the fastest on the smallest amount of Dr. Sloan, who has general charge T alike are well aware of the fact feed. Reduction of feed costs, the of this work, has taken feeding ex­ that consumer acceptance of turkey most important expense in producing periments as his special responsibili­ meat depends largely on getting a turkeys, would mean a better deal for ty. Robert Shoffner, associate profes­ bird that is suited in size to the num­ the grower and the consumer. sor, and Robert Berg, research assist- ber of people in the family and the In studying turkey nutrition, Uni- ant, are working on breeding re­ heartiness of their appetites. Time versity poultrymen are seeking an- search, and Milo H. Sw:mson, assist­ was when it took a big family to get swers to such questions as how vita- ant professor, is supervising experi­ away with a whole turkey of the size mins and antibiotics affect turkey ments in storage of turkey meat. offered on the market. But nowadays growth and whether the birds prefer In addition, researchers in the Uui- turkeys come in "assorted sizes." their meals in mash or pellet form. versity's School of Veterinary Medi­ You can get either the traditional cine are concerned with stamping out large-size Broadbreasted Bronze or TURKEY research is conducted at such costly ailments as paratyphoid the new smaller Beltsville White. the University's Rosemount agri­ diseases, airsac infections, erysipelas, Regardless of the size of the bird, cultural research center, where a flock blue comb, blackhead, Newcastle and what the farmer, the consumer, and of 3,500 is grown each year and some sinusitis. Their overall objective, like the research worker alike are looking 250 breeding birds are kept. At the that of the men in the poultry divi­ for in the modern-day turkey are a Northwest Agricultural Experiment sion, is to make turkeys a more profit­ long breastbone, wide breast and Station, Crookston, nearly 450 birds able enterprise for the grower and to neck, and plump drumsticks. The. are grown for nutrition and disease make turkey a more plentiful and ideal bird is the one which gives the research under the direction of A. M. cheaper meat for the consumer. November 1952 11 REGENTS' SCHOLARSHIPS are Regents Scholarships Go to 18 making it possible for 18 staff members to take U courses fall quar­ ter. The scholarship winners are car­ rying three to six credits and study­ ing Russian, zoology, histology, typ­ ing, shorthand, playwriting and pro­ duction, and other courses. The scholarships pay tuition for full-time employees, enabling the staffers to take classes related to their jobs. Time taken from work to attend classes need not be made up. The 18 fall quarter winners an­ nounced by the Civil Service commit­ -tee are: Patricia Brown, s~cretary, University High school; Kathleen J. Clayson, junior scientist, medical technology; Marjorie A. Ehlers, sec­ L to r., winners Lois Hamilton, fane Stephenson, Mira Niessner, Corinne retary, Bureau of Veterans' Affairs; Mayer, Marjorie Ehlers, Elsbeth Wooldridge, Mary Goss, Gladys Johnson. Betty M. Ferraro, senior clerk typist, comptroller's office. Evelyn N. McClellan, librarian, ald E. Swenson, senior audio-visual Mary Goss, clerk, library catalog; catalog department; Theodora Muel­ technician; Meredith S. Ulstad, engi­ Lois M. Hamilton, laboratory techni­ ler, laboratory technician, surgery; neering assistant, experimental engi­ cian, dentistry; Gladys L. Johnson, Mira E. Niessner, senior clerk, agri­ neering; Elsbeth Jean Wooldridge, senior clerk-typist, library catalog; cultural library; Mary Quinlan, clerk, senior clerk, inventory .. Morris F. Joonson, personnel assist­ Coffman Union food service; James Further details about Regents' ant, classification; Christa Kosswig. H. Rothenberger, senior medical pho­ Scholarships and application blanks ~ccretary, school of chemistry; Cor­ tographer, dentistry. are available at the civil service per­ rine M. Mayer, clerk typi~t, civil Jane A. Stephenson, laboratory sonnel office, Administration Build­ service personnel. technician, school of dentistry; Don- ing, Minneapolis campus. A B.B.A. the hard way transfer. to University bookstores where he began as senior account clerk. While at the bookstores Ev­ Meet Everett Fisk erett started to earn a degree the in June '51 while his son, Charles, hard way, working full time and car­ didn't start school until Sept. 'SL rying about six credits per quarter in But Everett's story isn't like that of day school. so many other ex-servicemen who Everett's wife, Florence, whom he were in school while their children met at the U, recalls clearly those were. His is a story of 24 years spent hectic days of cramming for exams working at the U coupled with per­ and nights of concentrated study. sistent study that finally paid off. She claims that the family saw plenty After working in the University of Everett, but heard absolutely noth­ library for about 13 years and a stint ing from him because he spent most in the army with a special University of his time with his nose in a book. unit, Everett returned to his old job After six years and an accumula­ as book scavenger in 1945, but he tion of night school credits, GED had a yen for some specialized train­ credits, and others from day school, ing. "It was only then that I discov­ Everett received his much sought­ ered and made use of the educational after B.B.A. Now his job as account­ possibilities that are available to Uni­ ant consists of keeping all accounting records for the Engineering, Union, VERETT FISK wanted to finish versity employees," Everett explains Nicholson, and Ag campus bookstores school before his son began kin­ with a shy, half-smile. E .plus being called on as consultant for dergarten. And he did. Everett gradu­ First there were night school the Duluth branch bookstore. ated from the U with a B.B.A. degree courses in accounting and then a The Minnesotan 12 But modernization reared its trou­ Railroading is ''Model'~ Hobby blesome head when the line was virtually completed. The models of the 80-foot diesel streamliners that of UMD'S Gerhard von Glahn ply America's rails today could not he accommodated on the sharp curves of the old York-Central line. HEN the age of streamliucd the York-Central line and gave it a Consequently, the whole, long track­ W trains invades a peaceful little mountainous Colorado locale. He bor­ laying job had to be done over. But one-man railroad, things are bound rowed the Milwaukee Road's rich ma­ now it will be bigger and better than to happen. And happen they did a roon and Persian orange for a color ever. The "old-fashioned" equipment while ago in the busy little railroad scheme. The line began snaking in has gone up into the mountains, system owned, managed, and oper­ and out of the coal bin, around posts, where short curves are still practical. ated by Gerhard von Glahn, professor generally taking over the von Glahn The new streamliner will be a copper­ of political science at the University's basement. toned job called the "Copper King," Duluth Branch. with black-and-green Pullman cars. Von Glahn got interested in model EATURES of his model electric "!'here are several reasons why I railroading while with the American F railroad are a roundhouse with like my hobby," explains Dr. von Military Government in Germany. A a turntable, a hidden record-player Glahn. "First of all, since we in po­ couple of industrious co-workers had that provides realistic train sounds, litical science are so preoccupied with assembled a model train layout. Pro­ and a complex switching system. a world in various stages of disorder, fessor von Glahn took one look at the All these items involved painstak­ it is a relief to come all by oneself to hustling line, and immediately got ing craftsmanship on the rail mag­ a little world which can be changed bitten by the railroad bug. nate's part. The unassembled materi­ Lo meet problems as they arise. Returning to the U.S., he wolfed als in kits had to be transformed into ''Besides, every man in his heart is all the literature he could find on cars, narrow-gauge track, etc. Even a railroad fan, and I for one am per­ model-railroading and then began or­ hoboes riding the rods needed some fectly willing to admit it. And finally, dering rolling stock, track, trestles, complexion-tinting to make them the rewards of intricate craftsman­ and all the other accoutrements of the more realistic. The scale is 3.5 milli­ ohip are obvious to anyone who has industry. meters per inch- from people and spent any time at a hobby of this Von Glahn called his new property trees to trestles and mountains. kind."

November 1952 13 Fieldwork Extension Division Offers Lecturt!s on continued from page 7 country. Made to the Citizenship "What Makes a Great Book Great?~' Clearing House, which is affiliated with the Law Center of New York "What Makes a Great Book Great?" Shakespeare's Antony and Cleo­ University, the report says of Nafta­ is the subject of the University Gen­ patra will be reviewed Dec. 18 by Morgan Blum, assistant professor of lin's course: eral Extension division's second fall "Since there are those who still lecture series. The series, which fea­ English. Noted poet and critic Allen doubt that a professor who is active tures discussions by Minnesota pro­ Tate, also an English professor at the University, will discuss Sophocles' in politics can avoid taking his parti­ fessors of outstanding literary works, san attitude into a class where parties runs from Nov. 6 to Jan. 29. Oedipus Rex Jan. 8. The final lecture will be given are the subject, it is significant to English Professor Henry Nash Jan. 22 by Issaac Rosenfeld, assistant record that all the present and former Smith opened the series with his talk professor of general studies, on Leo students [in Political Science 51-52] on "Four Ways of Coming at a Tolstoi's War and Peace. The series interviewed agreed that the profes­ Work of Literature." Subject matter will end Jan. 29 with a panel discus­ sor's well known political views did for the lecture was Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. sion by all the speakers. not in the least interfere with the Louis Coxe, associate professor of Leo Marx, associate professor of conduct of the course. Those who English, will act as coordinator for were Republicans testified specifical­ English and a playwright, will speak Nov. 20 on George Bernard Shaw's the series. All lectures will be held ly to the fairness with which they You Never Can Tell. English pro­ at 8:00 p.m. in Murphy Hall Audi­ and their political views were treat­ fessor Samuel Monk will follow Dec. torium. Registration for the lectures ed." 4 with a lecture on Jonathan Swift's is still open through the Extension The report adds that this course Gulliver's Travels. division, Room 57, Nicholson hall. "applies the fieldwork idea more thoroughly than any other we have observed . . . " Many of the stu­ Paul Miller Appointed to Two Library Staffers dents interviewed thought it the most State· Department Board Receive Promotions valuable course they had taken at Paul E. Miller, director of the Uni­ Harold G. Russell, associated with the University. All said it took more versity Agricultural Extension Serv­ the University libraries since 1919, time than any other. ice, will be in Washington, D.C., has recently been appointed assist­ "The fact that students will give until December 12 serving as a pub­ ant director of University libraries. up so much of their leisure time to lic member of a selections board Taking over Russell's former job as political participation," the Reeds which recommends promotion of For­ head of the reference department is conclude, "is an indication of how eign Service Officers of the U.S. Blanche Moen. strong a hold s·uch courses as this Department of State. Russell began his work at Minne: can get on those who take them." The Department of Agriculture sota as head of the circulation de­ nominated Miller for the board which partment, in 1921 became head of Success Story is composed of four Foreign Service acquisitions, and since 1932 has The U's star bowler has finally officers and two public members. been chief reference librarian. come into his own! In recent years Miller has served His new post is described as assist­ You may remember Frank Klotz as chief of the ECA mission to ant director for collections and bi­ from an article on his "three lives" in Ireland and as an adviser to several bliographic services. In this capacity, the April, 1952, Minnesotan. Triple­ Western European governments on Russell will have responsibility for threat Klotz was then a building care­ the improvement of their agricultural problems relating to the "resources" taker in Mechanical Engineering, advisory services. side of the library's administration. plus a master chef and ace bowler Miss Moen has been with the whose bowling skill has brought him U Professor Named University libraries since 1924 and prizes in many tournaments. Iowa Dentistry Dean during this time has reorganized and Now Frank's proficiency has been Dr. William J. Simon, professor built up the collection of U.S. gov­ given official University recognition. of dentistry, has recently been ap­ ernment publications until it became Just this fall he was transferred from pointed dean of the college of den­ one of the outstanding collections his Mechanical Engineering duties to tistry at the State University of in the country. She also served as the Union bowling alleys where he Iowa, Iowa City. Dr. Simon, who curator of material in the rare book replaces Jess Young as bowling rec­ has been on the staff of the Min­ division and, in 1949, visited nu­ reation supervisor. nesota school of dentistry since 1936, merous libraries in the Scandinavian Frank's comment: "This is peachy will take over his new duties on countries to establish exchange rela­ -just what I'd do anyhow for fun!" January L tions with the University. 14 The Minnesotan A message to the staff ji·om President Morrill: Edneational TV for Minnesota

N SIX short years television has become the giant of cost estimates were carefully checked and confirmed by I mass communications. Nearly 19 million TV sets are radio-TV engineers in Washington, D.C. in use. Yet half our population is still outside the reach Educational TV can thus be brought to every Minne­ of TV, for the Federal Communications Commission sotan for not more than $1.69 per person. To operate four years ago "froze" TV station construction. it each year would cost approximately 18 cents per During those six years educators became intensely person. aware of the educational possibilities of TV. Here in It is our conviction that the problem of securing edu­ Minnesota, as in the nation as a whole, educators, citi· cational TV is one for the entire state. It is not the sole zens' groups, and public agencies began some time ago responsibility of the University, and its costs should not seriously to consider the need and possibility of an edu· be charged to, or assumed by, the University alone. Any cational TV system. There was only one hitch-the chan· system should have a strong advisory council represent­ nels were not available. ing all the major interested individuals and organizations Last April came the "thaw." Among other provisions in the state to assure the widest possible educational pro­ the FCC reserved 242 station assignments for non-com· gram-planning and use. The request for funds should mercia! educational TV-two of these in Minnesota (the be made to the Minnesota legislature by a representative Twin Cities and Duluth). The way was opened to bring statewide committee. educational TV regularly into American homes and A pilot committee has been formed recently under the schools. But the FCC set a deadline: applications for chairmanship of Dean Schweickhard, state commissioner these reserved channels must be filed by next June 2. of education, to present the whole problem-and op­ We at the University felt ourselves confronted by a portunity-to a broadly representative conference of responsibility for some educational leadership and states· public school and state officials, citizen-leaders and manship in this situation. Our University Committee on groups, Minnesota colleges, and others interested. Radio Policy faced up to the problem. Indeed, as edi· torials in the Twin Cities' newspapers pointed out, we HE UNIVERSITY, of course,. feels a strong obliga­ would have been "derelict" in our responsibilities had T tion to take part in any group planning. As the largest we not done so. Any TV system, we knew, must serve the single source of program material we are willing to under­ entire state. An engineering survey to determine how to take the operation of the TV network as licensee, if the provide a thorough-going educational TV system, and interested educational agencies and groups, and the Min­ to estimate the costs of constructing and operating it, nesota Legislature, should so agree and decide. seemed to be clearly the first and necessary step. Such a But any request for appropriations for educational TV survey we initiated last summer. should be made in a bill separate from the Regents' re­ quest for University appropriations, the University Re­ HE SURVEY developed these recommendations for gents and administration believe. T educational TV in Minnesota: The whole state-covered system need not be undertaken A key station in the Twin Cities would originate pro· all at once, of course-it can be built up a step at a gramming. Nine supplementary transmitters-planned for time insofar as the satellite stations are concerned. But Duluth-Superior, Brainerd, Rochester, Mankato, Mar­ the Twin Cities and Duluth-Superior channels must be shall, Morris, Thief River Falls, Detroit Lakes, and Hib­ utilized at once, lest they be lost forever for educational bing-could be tied into the Twin Cities station by means use; and the whole system should be comprehended and of a microwave relay for simultaneous TV-casting. This planned for, long-range, at the outset. plan means that Minnesota would have to apply for eight We have done the initial spadework; we stand ready additional channels in order to complete the network. to participate in all further group work which may be Eight of these would be "satellite stations" probably on undertaken. But the people of Minnesota must decide the "ultra-high-frequency" channels outside the two "very basic issue: whether or not Minnesota is to have educa­ high frequency" channels presently assigned for educa­ tional television. The stringent time-limit set by the tional use. FCC makes a decision during the forthcoming legisla­ The key station would cost $1,150,757, including a tive session imperative. new building for studio facilities. Remodeling a building It would be a great tragedy if the plans for educational now in use could shave the cost to $819,144. The micro­ TV in Minnesota were not fully considered and acted wave relay system plus the supplementary transmitters upon during the coming crucial months, I deeply believe. would bring the cost up either to $4,073,534 or $4,742,- I am hopeful the decision will be favorable in the light 103. Annual operating costs would be $544,590. These of the vast educational potentialities involved. November 1952 15 NOVEMBER 15 TO DECEMBER 15, 1952 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY THEATRE Subscription Series Nov. 17-"You Never Can Tell" by Bernard Shaw-special performance. Nov. 20-Nathan Milstein, violinist. Nov. 28-Dorothy Dow, soprano, anJ George London, bari- Nov. 28, 29, Dec. l-7-"The Infernal Machine" hy Jean Cocteau. tone. Dec. 11-Vronsky ami Babin, duo-pianists. (Scott J!.all Auditoriu'!l, 8:30p.m. except Dec. 7, 4:00 p.m. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.7:) ::->mgle ttckets, $1.20. Sales begin the Wednesday before the week of the opening at the Theatre Box Office 18 Scott to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at Hall.)-j- ' the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call University extension 6225.) t UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES Twilight Concerts Nov.-Student Deferment in Selective Service; A Vital Nov. 23-Viennese Program. Factor in National Security. M. H. Trytten. $3.00. Nov. 30-Arthur Grumiaux, violinist. Dec. 7-Gyorgy Sandor, pianist. UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Tickets $.50, $.75, and Through Nov. 23-Watercolors of Alfred Maurer. The inti­ $1.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the mate side of an artist just beginning to become known Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. All tickets re­ as a watercolor painter. served.) t Through Nov. 30--Greek Vases and Tanagra Figures. These Young People's Concert handsome figures taken from the Walker Art Institute Nov. 25-St. Paul Auditorium, l :45 p.m. collection, are objects of aesthetic as well as historical (Admission arranged through local schools.) value. Through Dec. 5--Five Painters of the San Francisco Bay ARTISTS COURSE area. Paintings with the flavor and character of the West Nov. 25-Rudolph Serkin, pianist. Coast by five artists, well-known in their area. (Northrop Auditorium, 8 :3U p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 Dec. 5-Jan. IS-Native Arts of the Pacific Northwest. to $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of the These totems, small sculptures, and masks are borrowed concert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) -j- from the Indian and Eskimo collections of the museums of Portland, Wash. and the University of Washington. CONVOCATIONS Dec. 9-Jan. 9-Contemporary Color Lithography. A color­ Nov. 20-Religion in Life convocation, featuring St. Thom­ ful display of lithography from all over the world in­ as and St. Catherine Choirs. cluding work by Picasso, Moore, Tamayo, and Mari~i. Nov. 26-Football convocation. (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of Dec. 4--Christmas music, University Symphony and solo­ Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday ists. through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open be­ (Northrop' Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public fore performances and during intermissions.) without charge.) EXTENSION DIVISION FALL LECTURE SERIES SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Series li: "What Makes a Great Book Great'?" Critically Speaking . . . Discussions on books, theatre, Nov. 20-Louis Coxe, associate professor of English, "You art, and music at 3:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. Never Can Tell" by Bernard :-:ihaw. Book Chats . . . interviews with authors and publish­ Dec. 4-.Samuel Monk, professor of English, "Gulliver's ers about publications. Mondays at 4:00 p.m. Travels" by Jonathan Swift. Dr. James Rogers Fox . . . Latest developments in the (Murphy Hall Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. Admission to indi­ field of medicine. Thursdays at ll :45 a.m. vidual lectures will not be sold. Fee for the six remaining (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on lectures of the seven-lrcture series is $5.00. For registration the dial. lt>• complete fall schedule may be obtained by and further information inquire at 57 Nicholson Hall, writing to the station.) Lincoln 8791 or Midway 3965.) ATHLETIC EVENTS SPECIAL LECTURE Basketball Nov. 17-Richard Harrison, author, "Scotland Yard." Dec. 13-Nebraska. (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3:30 p.m. Open (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Season tickets for tPn ~ames, to the public without charge.) ~15.00. Single tickets at $1.75 go on sale the Monday of the UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY week before the game at the Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Nov. 19-"St. Matthew Passion," Austrian. Documentary Cooke Hall.) ·r by Robert Flaherty. Hockey Dec. 3-"The New China," Russian, color. Dec. 10-''Lavender Hill Mob," British. Dec. 5, 6~Canadians. (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign Dec. 13-Duluth branch. language films have English subtitles. General admission (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.25 go on at Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, junior admission, $.35. Tickets sale the MonJay of the week before the game at the Ath· for staff members at $.60 available in the basement of letic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke HalL General admission the W esbrook Hall and the Campus Club.) night of the game only, $1.00.)

t Tickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Building in Minneapolis.

In this issue •.. WHAT'S THE IDEAL TEACH­ Know Your University ING SETUP? Asher Christensen of political science tells how his dream job became a reality last summer when he lived in an Austrian castle and taught European students about American institutions. Page 6. UNDERCLASSMEN USED TO get the short end of library lending privileges, but not any more! The unique setup at the Freshman-Sopho­ more Library in Johnston Hall is ex­ plained on page 10. IT'S NOT TOO LATE to fill in the gaps on your Christmas list with gifts you can make yourself. Marion Everson of home economics has some suggestions on crafty gifts and how to make them. Page ll. EVERY JUNE 15th Donald Lewis, Museum of Natural History audio­ visual advisor, heads for Itasca Park -but not for a vacation. On page 12 you'll learn how he works away his summer telling park visitors about Minnesota resources and history. The Temporaries On the cover . .. LONE REMINDERS of the record- three on the St. Paul campus. Sold Our December cover is ap­ breaking University enrollment as scrap were Temporary South of propriately Christmasy; it in the immediate post-war years are Vincent, now replaced by Ford Hall; also illustrates our spotlight­ 16 temporary buildings still scat­ Temporary North of the Library, ed feature on occupational tered about the Minneapolis and now Johnston Hall; and half of Tem­ therapy at the U (page 3 St. Paul campuses. In 1947, 19 such porary South of Main Engineering. and following) . Carol Schad, units were transported to the campus The other half of TSME was trans­ therapist at the Variety Club from Wold-Chamberlain Field and ported to University Village where Heart Hospital, shows two New Brighton to accommodate over­ it now serves as the Village Union. young patients how to make flowing classes. Temporaries that still dot the Min­ Christmas wreaths by simply The Minnesota Daily balked at the neapolis campus are Court of Hol5- sticking pine needle clusters University's plan to designate the pitals, North of Health Service, South into a spongy plastic base. temporary units by mere geographi­ of Powell Hall, West of Hospitals, Photo by Walter Zambino cal abbreviations like TSF and TNM. North and South Courtl5 of Engineer­ The Daily suggested choosing names ing, North of University High, South THE MINNESOTAN to fit the characters of the buildings: of Folwell, North of Mines, and A, B, Vol. VI No. 3 i.e., the Appendix, for the structure and C South of Mines. Another is The Minnesotan is published monthly near the Anatomy building; or the used for storage near the Engineering during the academic year, October through May, by the Department of Bindery, "that legendary place where Oak Street Lab. St. Paul campus University Relations, University of Min· needed books always seem to be," units are South of Administration, nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies for Temporary North of the Library. and South and East of Haecker Hall. are mailed free to University staff mem· hers. Subscription rates for those not The unit near Murphy Hall was Temporaries house classes as well on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a dubbed Mrs. Murphy and kept this as such diverse University offices as copy. Photographs, unless otherwise SAB, Bureau of Veterans' Affairs, credited, were taken by members of the identity through its temporary life. University Photographic Laboratory. Several structures have been torn Student Employment Service, Can­ Entered as second·class matter at the down and sold for salvage to make cer Detection Center, Occupational post office at Minneapolis, Minn. Copies of this issue are on sale at way for permanent buildings, but Therapy, and Federal Project on Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. 13 remain on the Minneapolis and Bangs Disease. 2 The Minnesotan O.T.

Occ11pational theraJIY trains students~ rehabilitates patients

ALL, blond, and breezy Borghild Hansen, director of T ocupational therapy, grins from behind her desk in 209 Temporary West of Hospitals as she shows you a letter she got a few weks ago from a man in an Ohio hospital, reading matter-of-factly: "I should like to place an order for four occupational therapists." "That," she explains, "may give you some idea of the overwhelming demand. Right now about 5,500 registered therapists are needed all over the country. But the 26 colleges and universities which offer OT only turn out 395 occupational therapists a year." Before you set out to explore the U's occupational therapy facilities, Miss Hansen informs you that OT be­ gan at the University about seven years ago, in response to student petition. OT students spend over three years in academic work in liberal arts and specialized science and occupational therapy courses and ten months in clini­ cal work before getting their degrees. Miss Hansen and Winifred Phelps Johnson are the two OT instructors. What does the therapist need? "A rather rare com­ bination of things," Miss Hansen avers ... "interest in people, and a desire to help them-plus proficiency in sciences, and manual and artistic skills." As you walk down the corridor to the OT students' laboratory, Miss Hansen explains the purpose of occupa­ tional therapy at the University. "We're part of the de­ partment of physical medicine and rehabilitation. We provide activities that go hand in hand with physical therapy- activities that sustain the patient's interest, change his attitude, and at the same time teach him to regain use of impaired muscles and joints. We have a .double job-teaching students and supervising the staff therapists who work with patients at University hospitals." By now you've come to room 206, the students' lab­ oratory. You have to walk softly, because some students are taking an exam, but you peer in long enough to see continued on next page Photos, reading down: A little girl plays with a doll­ house (Heart Hospital) ... OT student, patient have an odd checker game ... OT student gives patient practice in dexterity . .. Therapist Carol Schad teaches metalwork to boy in Heart Hospital ... Instructor Winifred fohn­ son and OT student check a plate carved by U Hospitals patient in a cast. Photos on pages 3-5 by Wayne Adams. December 1952 3 woodworking and power tools, and a Then you see something that looks riety Club Heart Hospital. Enroute small section reserved for ceramics. like a cross between a bicycle and a Miss Hansen offers you these ex­ Students here, Miss Hansen says, power saw, which is precisely what it amples of how OT has helped Uni­ not only perfect their skills, but also is. The patient operates the saw by versity hospitals patients: make useful things in the process, like sitting on the bicycle seat and pump­ • An arthritic patient who was taught specially designed bed tables of con· ing the pedals. He can thus saw a typing by a U therapist has since venient height for patients, special piece of wood and exercise his leg found real use for this skill typing chess and cribbage boards. muscles at the same time. By using newsletters for her church. heavier wood, increased resistance • Occupational therapists at the U Strange gadgets help patients can he added. have worked out "time and motion" Downstairs in room 104 of the Other ingenious devices include a studies for housewives with heart temporary is the OT clinic, whence treadle sander, worked by foot pedals trouble. This shows them how to con­ issue materials for the bedside activ­ like those on an oldfashioned sewing serve their energy in all the steps in ity of U hospitals patients-including machine, and a small hand-operated housework-from dusting and bed­ toys and games for children. printing press built with a high han­ making to planning and cooking The clinic is a room full of strange dle to exercise shoulder muscles. meals. equipment, all of which has a double At a table a woman with polio is • OT has often found its way into purpose. A checker board looks un­ making a set of placemats on a huge the obstetrics station. When an ex­ like any you've ever seen. Over the hand loom. Another patient with a pectant mother is sent to U hospitals pegs that stick up from each square mending broken neck develops his early because of possible complica­ are fitted "checkers" of strange, ir­ arm and neck muscles by stretching tions, OT speeds the weary waiting regular shapes. Object: to encourage to pull threads taut on a belt he's days by giving her such projects as dexterity and to develop muscles of weaving. All this activity is super­ making gifts for the family at home patients with arthritis or arm burns vised by therapist Jean Magney. or sewing a layette for the baby to by having them grasp and lift objects The wind whips through you as come. of many shapes. At the same time, you begin the short trip from the it's also a game. frame temporary building to the V a- Therapy with a heart By now you have reached the Heart Hospital. The children's play­ • Therapist Dor­ room has a special flavor. No rough­ tha Esch helps pa­ house here! But though the kids tient in Station are a little restricted in their activity, 60 model in clay. they get a sense of freedom because they can help themselves to any toy from a huge pile, and there are hun­ dreds of them- children's books, dolls, and quiet games.

One of the busiest rooms on campus is' the OT clinic, • 104 TWH. Therapist lean Magney (far left) supervises activity, as polio and arthritis patients retrain muscles and joints by crocheting, weaving, using bicycle-saw. The girl at loom in the foreground is a polio patient.

4 The Minnesotan Therapy at the Heart Hospital isn't only aimed at children, Miss Physical Medicine Is Hansen tells you, OT runs the pa­ OT~s Parent De11artment tients' library, and the student thera­ pists try to do things for the adult "Physical medicine goes back to Hippocrates," says Dr. Frederic patients who are sometimes over­ Kottke, head of the newly created department of physical medicine looked. Recently sophomore OT stu­ and rehabilitation. "The early Greeks used sun treatments and hot dents put on a mock TV minstrel and cold baths over 25 centuries ago," he adds. "But physical show which the adults "just loved." therapy did not become a recognized phase of Teenagers and older patients at the modern medicine until World War I, and phys­ Heart Hospital spend a good deal of ical medicine developed as a specialty only dur­ time at the occupational therapy ing World War II because of the tremendous room on the first floor. Student in­ problems of rehabilitating the wounded and terns under direction of Carol Schad, handicapped." full-time therapist, teach drafting and Physical medicine diagnoses and treats dis­ woodwork; they also show patients eases by physical means-light, heat, electricity, how to work with the lapidary tools massage, therapeutic· exercise, and mechanical and the rich array of semi-precious devices. stones. Treatment in physical medicine comes under Dr. Kottke three headings: Attitude therapy - Station 60 • Physical therapy involves use of heat through diathermy machines, Next you go by elevator to the sixth lamps, hot packs, and hot pads; hydrotherapy-whirlpool baths; floor of U hospitals where Station 60 electrical stimulation to exercise muscles that cannot be moved -the psychiatric section-has its voluntarily; exercises to re-educate muscles and increase strength. own OT unit. "This is one of the • Occupational therapy is aimed at improving the patient's outlook most demanding and satisfying places as well as retraining his muscles and joints through arts, crafts, to work," Miss Hansen says. "Many and occupations. Work is prescribed by the doctor to improve the of the patients here have very high specific disability of the patient. This means each activity must be native intelligence, and they make analyzed closely to see how much motion and energy it requires. beautiful things." She illustrates hy • Vocational therapy is a highly specialized field designed to teach showing you an unbelievably delicate the disabled person a skilled trade at which he can earn a living. placemat threaded with silver. Only more elementary pre-vocational training is given at the U. There's no one in the unit as you Physical medicine and rehabilitation became a full-fledged depart­ walk through it today except the ment of the College of Medical Sciences last July. The staff numbers therapist, Dortha Esch. The first about 22 including three professors-Dr. Kottke, Dr. William G. thing you notice is a big easel which Kubicek, and Dr. Miland E. Knapp. There are also instructors in holds a very competent flower paint­ physical medicine, and physical and occupational therapy, plus medi­ ing. "Anyone referred from the sta­ cal fellows, staff therapists, aides, and technicians. tion to OT can come in here and With the rest of his staff, Dr. Kottke looks forward to 1954 when splash with water or oil paints. Many physical medicine's present 5,000 feet of floor space, mostly in find clay modeling soothing. There's Temporary West of Hospitals, is increased to 20,000 square feet on always a lot of linoleum carving and the seventh and eighth floors of the Mayo Memorial Medical Center. block print-making going on," says Miss Hansen. "What we do here," she continues, get the patients to feel differently out their hostility on things rather "is really attitude tlierapy-trying to about themselves and others, to work than on people. The therapy is suited to the nature of the illness, which means the therapist must read up on each patient to know what's best for or director florg­ him. The psychiatrist prescribes the hild Hansen shows attitude the therapist should assume two students how and the attitude the patient should to use a saw-file. develop. They will in turn "It would never do, for instance, help rehabilitate to try to cheer up a very depressed patients by show­ patient. It just wouldn't work," she ing them use of says. "We put depressed people to tools like this. concluded on next page 5 Occupational Therapy continued Summer· hammering metal ashtrays or sand­ ing tables to help get rid of their hos­ tility. Those varnished wooden tables over there have been sanded to death and repainted literally hundreds of times!" Projects in Station 60 extend be­ yond the confines of the OT room. "This is my seminar With the help of therapists, patients for economists, held in this section have had professional outside near the cas­ tle. I'm in the ski dancers give them dancing instruc­ sweater, center ..." tion, and have held teas for the staff. The patients even put out from start to finish their own mimeo­ graphed newsletter called "60 Cycles." HOW'S THIS for a teaching setup? perience, according to Christensen, Last stop on your tour is the ther­ Living quarters: An 18th century who even now gets vaguely misty­ apy unit of the new child psychiatry Austrian palace, fronting on its eyed at the memory of last summer. center on the sixth floor of University own lake, almost within earshot "The European students were a Hospitals. The therapist in this diag­ of the Salzburg festivaL highly select group, and unbelievably nostic center for emotionally dis­ Students: Young men and women eager to learn. I had been warned it turbed children is Marian Eliason. in their late twenties, represent­ would be breakfast-to-bedtime teach­ ing 15 Western European coun­ ing-and it really was! You were OT's dream home tries; mostly graduates of bombarded with questions every hour By this time you have begun to European universities working of the day and night," says Christen­ realize how scattered the U's therapy as teachers, lawyers, journal­ sen. units are. You can see why Miss Han­ ists. "Classes were usually held in the sen talks dreamily about the happy Colleagues: Eight American pro­ morning or early afternoon. But day in 1954 when OT along with the fessors from colleges and uni­ whenever you looked around you saw rest of physical medicine will con­ versities throughout the coun­ clusters of students talking earnestly solidate and expand its services on try, specializing in music, art, on the lovely terrace that overlooks the seventh and eighth floors of the psychology, history, literature. the lake. Mayo Memorial Medical Center. Then Teaching load: A six-week general "In the evening," Christensen goes the department will have its own liv­ session of two courses-a semi­ on, "we held panel discussions on ing room and kitchen to show handi­ nar in Social Security, and a American-European problems or capped patients how to get around in lecture course on the American heard record concerts. More often their own homes with maximum ef­ Federal System; a week vaca­ than not we adjourned to the little ficiency. There will also be facilities tion, then a four-week session beer-garden across the lake which I for sewing and tailoring and floor­ on The Constitution and Eco­ nicknamed-this is my contribution looms for the exercise they provide. nomic Regulation for a cla~s to Salzburg folklore-'the Branch Of­ Special areas will be set aside for of economists. fice.' We were subjected to incessant woodworking, metalwork, and minor Sound ideal? Impossible? questioning about America and crafts. This was the actual program of American universities. In fact the In the eighth floor pre-vocational Asher Christensen, political science whole ten weeks was one long intense therapy unit trained craftsmen will professor, at the Salzburg Seminar in bull-session." teach radio and watch repair, print­ American Studies last summer. Held ing, and commercial subjects. The pa­ for the past six years and financed by T EST YOU think it was all work, tients who take this training will not private contributions from Europe L Christensen assures you there be ready to step into a career, but if and America, the Seminar has a dou­ was plenty of time for relaxing. Many they're capable and interested they ble purpose: to give European stu­ -of the 120 students and eight faculty can continue on their own. Miss Han­ dents instruction in American life members and their wives made regu­ sen concludes, "Our goal is to get and institutions and at the same time lar junkets to the nearby Salzburg people with handicaps back into to exemplify the best methods of festivaL Weekend excursions took homes or offices and factories in use­ American graduate education. groups to Austrian lakes on a Tooner­ ful lives again." It was a "tremendous" teaching ex- ville Trolley of a train that zoomed 6 The Minnesotan t SALZBURG • • •

Prof: Christensen

found teaching at "Mrs. Christensen and I behaving like tour­ the Salzburg Seminar a ists ... That's the city of Salzburg spread out "tremendous" experience for miles behind us."

along at the furious speed of 12 miles fessors' wives. Many of these wives be even more positive and insistent an hour! took courses-but generally not the in its leadership." Exploring the castle was itself an ones given by their own husbands! Christensen found misconceptions adventure. Called Schloss Leopold­ as well as enlightenment. Many of skron, it was built as a palace for the HOW do European students stack his students, including the econGm­ archbishop in the early eighteenth up against Americans? ists, had no idea of the regulatory century. Lately it belonged to the "I found them generally much bet­ changes of the last 30 years and per­ famous Austrian producer, Max Rein­ ter trained in humanities and lan­ sist in thinking that the United States hardt, and is now the property of his guages than American students," economy is run by "robber barons." widow. Christensen claims. "They were amaz­ Many of them also had no real "Reinhardt completely refurbished ingly well·informed, too, about the awareness of the amazing · progress the place," says Christensen. "It now U.S. federal system and our foreign the U.S. has made in race relations contains a Chinese room, a Venetian policy. A few suggested jokingly that during the last 15 years, he says. room-fitted and decorated in High they really should vote in our Novem­ One thing that completely mysti­ Renaissance, and a porcelain room ber election, since they had almost fied them all was "your political with an exquisite white porcelain as much at stake as we did. party system." According to Christen­ chandelier. "It was encouraging tCl see how sen, their most common question "We dined in the ballroom of the well these students understood the was: "Can a Democrat support a Schloss," he continues, "and being logic of our international relations. Republican and still be a Democrat?" a Mozart addict from 'way back, I They recognize the U.S. as the world's used to amuse myself by speculating. leading power, but they didn't feel, ANY DISCOVERIES made the that Mozart might well have given as I thought they might, that they M teaching experience gratifying. recitals in that very room!" were being inexorably ground down "It was a delightful surprise to see Mrs. Christensen was a castle re· by the 'giant of the west.' Some how seriously these young people ceptionist, along with the other pro- thought, in fact, that the U.S. should were going about their life work. I did not find the defeatism I had been led to expect," Christensen says. "My first-session "There was no feeling of 'What's seminar was like the use-we're at the edge of an small UN .. . l. to abyss ...'" r., front row: A­ What he recalls most fondly is the merican, French, spirit of community at the Seminar. American, Pol­ "It was wonderful," he says "to see ish, English; baclc young people-some of them former row: Swiss, Yugo­ prisoners of war-from countries that slav, A. N. Chris­ seven years ago were at each others' tensen, French'& throats sit around a table talking German. Photo calmly, sensibly, and with remark­ was taken on able good will about a touchy prob­ the front steps of lem like German rearmament. This Schloss Leopolds­ was a tremendous experience for me kron, our castle." -and a very hopeful one." December 1952 7 Warner Clapp, who during the last 16 years has snapped many of the pictures you see in Univer­ Most of Dr. Richard Smith's time is spent in the sity publications, has taken over duties as new fourth floor labs at the Heart Hospital working head of the photo lab on the St. Paul campus. on rheumatic fever research. A medical fellow in pediatrics, Smith has a three-year Rockefeller Foundation fellowship for study of the disea~e. U STAFF MEMBERS

At the University for 39 years and head of the history department for YOU SH eight, August C. Krey has written books in the fields of his special interest including medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history.

Serving as chairman of the division of ed1 ogy at the University Duluth branch is lJ

The Minnesotan 8 Katharine Densford, director of the school of nursing for 22 years, says that nursing should meet the needs of human beings on all levels. To fulfill this goal Miss Densford Chairman of the U Board of Regents R. J. trains nurses in instructional as well as practical fields. Quinlivan was named president of Govern· iug Boards of State Universities and AI· lied ln8titution:;~ at a meeting in Oregon. Fonner pro hockey player with the Chicago Black· hawks, John Mariucci now coaches Gopher icemen. lie hopes for a good season with a young team. KNOW

Everything bought by the U goes through the purchasing department where princi· pal clerk Margaret Salisbury has worked for 23 years. Margaret enjoys knitting.

December 1952 9 help themselves, form an aisle down the middle, and reading tables line both sides of the room. "We have a very simple system," Rohlf says. "Volumes are arranged by depart­ ments--e.g., English, Art, Geography, and History. Under each of these divisions books are alphabetized ac­ cording to author." Because the library is mostly self­ service, a very small staff consisting of Rohlf and four helpers can man­ age it, check out books, return books to shelves, and secure new volumes. The library has liberal lending privileges. Books can be borrowed for a week at a time with unlimited re­ newal if they are from the open shelves and for a day if on reserve.

New Johnston Hall Library Is Underclassmen's Paradise

HE Johnston Hall Freshman­ didn't have to compete with upper­ T Sophomore Library is one place classmen for reading materials. That's on campus where underclassmen get why Johnston Hall contains onlv all the breaks. · books connected with junior colleg~ "The library's lending privileges course numbers one to 49. Course are strictly for freshmen and sopho­ textbooks and material on outside mores although faculty, graduate stu­ reading lists make up most of the dents, and upperclassmen are wel­ volumes in the library. come to use the reading room and Over 5,000 volumes with 3,800 Johnston librarian Robert H. Rohlf collection in the library," Robert different titles are now available in Rohlf, head librarian at Johnston the library. Approximately one-third Has the library been successful'! Hall, explains. "If faculty members are borrowed from the main library, According to Mrs. Dorothy Dyer, do manage to get a book out of our and the rest belong to Johnston with assistant professor of general studies, library in preparation for lesson as­ orders out for 1,500 more books. it's been very helpful in her family i!iignments and they fail to return it, In addition to texts there are a few life courses. "More students are doing we sic the students on them, and basic reference books including dic­ the reading because the books are those books come back in a hurry!" tionaries, encyclopedias, and hand­ easier to get to. From the 8tudent Rohlf says. books. If a student can't find what and faculty viewpoint the Johnston The unique setup at Johnston Hall he wants at Johnston, he can always Library is a very satisfactory ar­ is an attempt to encourage greater go next door to the main library. rangement," she concludes. use of library facilities by underclass­ Librarian Rohlf bears out Mrs. men that seems to have succeeded. A HE library, decorated in bright Dyer's opinion. He quotes a total survey taken in 1951 showed that al­ Tred and pearl gray, occupies the of 60,000 users in the first six months though freshmen and sophomores to­ entire ground floor of Johnston and of operation, with an increase every taled one-third of the University en­ is one of the most well-lighted and month as more and more students rollment, they made up only one-fifth cheerful study rooms on campus. It discover what the library has to of­ of library users. has study tables and chairs for 250 fer. What's more, its popularity has Early in 1952 the Johnston Li­ and lounge-type reading chairs for been steadily increasing. During fall brary opened, and underclassmen had 20 more. quarter the library got 350 percent a library of their own where they Open shelves, where students can more use than last spring. 10 The Minnesotan CHRISTMAS CRAFTS • • •

Home Ec~s Marion Everson suggests gifts you can make

T HAPPENS every year. Christ­ scarves. You can even dress up car­ glass, a pan or any other flat surface, I mas is just a week away, and then~ tons of matches with block prints, us­ preferably washable, can be used to are still gifts to get for Aunt Helen ing a monogram or a special design hold the ink when you are ready to and Cousin Sue, to say nothing of on the match cover. do the actual printing. those "exchanges" for the holiday Instead of going through the labo­ party at your next club meeting. But rious process of making the linoleum Textile Painting the thought of battling those frenzied blocks yourself, buy them at a hobby Interesting designs done with tex­ shopping crowds leaves you cold­ shop. They're already mounted on tile paints will add a decorative note literally! wood, and they're inexpensive. You'll to luncheon sets, scarves, handker­ This is where Marion Everson, in­ need to buy a carving tool, too, with chiefs, placemats, tea towels, and structor in home economics, comes to which to make your design on the aprons. As a matter of fact, practi­ the rescue. linoleum block, and a roller for print­ cally any fabric surface is suitable for Miss Everson, who teaches classes ing. Block printing inks are readily textile painting. in related art and has done extensive available, as are the directions for the For supplies you will need flat-end work in crafts, believes you can get a printing process. A small piece of textile brushes, stencil paper on which lot of enjoyment and relaxation from you will work out your own designs, making Christmas gifts. Even at this Marion Everson carefully inks her li­ single-edge razor blades or a small late date, it's possible to make a few noleum block before printing from it. knife to cut out the design on the simple gifts, she says. Here are some stencil paper, and a set of textile of her suggestions which you may paints. want to try: After you have cut out the stencil, place it on the fabric; then with the Enameling copper costume jewelry flat-end brush apply a small amount For interesting, colorful results in of paint. Work from the outer edge a hurry, try enamel on copper. Buy toward the center. There are many a thin-gauge copper from any hobby possibilities for variation in the use shop or craft department for ear­ of your paint. You can fill in the rings and pins. Backs for these pieces stencil solidly with one color, or you of jewelry are also available at hobby can obtain different brush effects by shops. Use a pair of heavy garden shading some areas or creating a shears to cut the copper in the desired stippled effect. Or you can place a shape. variety of stencils on top of each Now you are ready to add some other, working out a pattern in many decorative touches with inexpensive colors. . enamels, such as the type available in Miss Everson gives this final word sets for painting fishing plugs or of advice: Make simplicity the key­ other outdoor sports equipment. Be­ note of your design. Block printing cause the enamel dries very quickly, and textile painting both lend them­ it is conducive to free-flowing strokes. selves to bold designs. You'll prob­ For texture interest, bits of screen, ably want to use bright, gay colors to wire, sequins, or small beans can be give a cheerful note to your gifts. dropped into the wet enamel. After Gifts you've made yourself are a the enamel has dried, glue the ear­ real joy to give. If you haven't time ring or pin backs to the copper, using to follow through on these Yuletide a household cement. suggestions, you might keep them in Block printing mind, says Miss Everson, for birth­ days, holidays, and even for next A block print will give distinction Christmas-or as hobby possibilities. to place mats, tea towels, and neck Meantime, happy Christmas giving! December 1952 11 Itasca "Vacation" ls Hard Work­ But Naturalist LPwis Loves it

Lewis is a robust man, of me­ actually woven cloth from it. dium height, who looks at home in Or perhaps the hikers come upon the woods. In fact he spent the sum­ a white spruce, often used as a mers of '36 and '37 in the state Christmas tree. Lewis has members forestry service tenting out at Itasca. of the group break a white spruce But now he considers the park cabin needle, smell it, and try to guess that doubles as a summer home and what the odor reminds them of. laboratory a much more comforta­ Guesses vary from paint to cabbage ble place to spend three months. until someone finally discovers it His infectious interest in natural smells like a cat. This is why many On a trail walk Lewis leads a group history makes his audience eager to cats like to sleep in Christmas trees of Itasca visitors along lakeshore. learn the thousands of facts he has and why the white spruce has been to tell about the geography and wild­ dubbed the "cat" spruce, Lewis ex­ life of Minnesota. plains. His work is what Lewis calls a Where did all this intimate knowl­ URING the winter months when "seven day a week public relations edge of nature and Minnesota history Donald Lewis sits at his desk D job with absolutely no time off from come from? Partly from Lewis's col­ in the Museum of Natural History, June 15 to Sept. 15." A look at the lege work in science and years of he often wistfully recalls summer­ extensive weekly program planned teaching high school science at Red time memories of the lush, green for· for Itasca Park visitors shows that continued on page 1•t csts of Itasca Park. He thinks of he is perfectly right. long walks beneath tall pines and Back at his M N H desk, Lewis exam­ What Lewis considers the most im­ along the shores uf Lake Itasca. But ines pressed native Minnesota flowers. portant and also the most time-con­ mostly he remembers the thousands suming parts of his job are trail of park visitors who have shared walks which are scheduled four times these experiences with him. a week. These mile-long treks through Most of the summertime activity the deep woods are spent carefully at the park is due directly to Lewis, examining the flora and fauna of the who holds what could be called the north country. ideal summer job -three months Lewis, clad in a forester's uniform, spent at Itasca Park working at acts as a guide and is a source of "nature interpretation." On loan to amazing information on any bird, Itasca from his job as audio-visual flower, tree, animal, or insect the adviser at the U Museum of Natural group may encounter along the trail. History, Lewis carries on the con­ He tries to impress his listeners with centrated program with his wife as the need for conservation, but he his only helper. doesn't preach. Instead he puts what Lewis's "nature interpretation" is he calls a "sugar coating" on the part of a nature study program in pill of educating the public by mak­ Minnesota state parks similar to pro­ ing his walks as vivid as movie jects conducted in the large national thrillers. parks. Its purpose is to acquaint visitors with the natural history of Minnesota and to demonstrate wise THE GROUP stops along a pine use of natural resources. needle-covered path to examine a This plan was initiated in several 5pider that hangs suspended in air. parks in 1947 with the cooperation They watch in concentrated attention of the Division of State Parks of the as Lewis draws the delicate thread Department of Conservation, the Min­ from the spider's stomach. Then Lew­ nesota Museum of Natural History, is tells his "students" that the web is and the University of Minnesota. so strong that experimenters have The Minnesotan 12 In a typical pose, Darland is seated at his desk with telephone in hand and master class schedule m background.

Meet RAYMOND DARLAND-UMD's New Dean

NINE POUND CATFISH caught Appointed to the deanship last catalog revisiOn, and UMD's faculty A through the joint efforts of five summer, Dr. Darland has since oc­ representative on the Minnesota In­ men makes a mighty tempting candi­ cupied the office adjoining that of tercollegiate Athletic Conference fac­ date for the frying pan. But when Dr. John E. King, UMD provost, ulty advisory board. He also serves one of these fishermen has a great in the Laboratory School building. on a special U Senate committee on deal of scientific loyalty, that catfish Working in close conjunction with faculty participation. can just as easily end up in a zoo. Minneapolis campus and UMD ad­ His off-campus activities range That's just what happened last ministrative and academic person­ from the theoretical to the practical, summer when UMD's academic dean nel, Dr. Darland has become respon­ with memberships in many organiza­ Dr. Raymond W. Darland saved the sible for numerous details of the tions including the Minnesota Acad­ catfish from the frying pan for a Duluth branch operation. emy of Science and the Duluth zoo more permanent position as a speci­ Affable and mild-mannered, with committee. men in the Duluth zoo. an authentic Kansas flavor in his His interest in photography has re­ Dr. Darland can occasionally take speech and humor, Dr. Darland meets sulted in excellent shots of plant and a few moments from his busy sched­ people with disarming ease. The animal life which Dr. Darland values ule for his favorite form of recrea­ tweeds he usually wears complement both as personal craftsmanship and tion-fishing. Walleyes and North­ his good looks and rugged frame. as teaching aids. He is most proud of erns are his preferred quarry, but Although a glance over Dr. Dar­ combat photos taken while serving as catfishing on the Cloquet is coming land's daily schedule would show a lieutenant on the USS Hyde, an up fast on the Darland list. that every second is full, no one has attack transport in the Pacific. In recent months leisure moments yet heard him say "sorry, too busy." Dr. Darland came to UMD m have become sparse as Dr. Darland On campus he is still teaching six 1947 from Nebraska where he re­ fulfills his new duties as academic hours a week (plant ecology, con­ ceived his doctorate and also taught. dean at UMD, while continuing his servation, dendrology.) He is past He is married and enjoys spending teaching and extra-curricular activi­ chairman and present secretary of the his scarce leisure moments with his ties in science and conservation. curriculum committee, supervisor of wife and two children. December 1952 l:l , Lewis Dora Smith Talks at U Diversity Awarded Trophy continued from page 12 Boston Convention For Community Chest Drive Wing. Of course, in his job at the Education professor Dora V. Smith The University is the possessor of Museum of Natural History he is -in gave a major speech at the opening a silver Community Chest trophy, daily contact with natural history­ session of the 42nd annual conven­ thanks to the support of faculty and editing films, conducting tours of the tion of the National Council of civil service employees. museum, setting up displays, giving Teachers in Boston in late November. The trophy was awarded to Hen­ talks, and writing commentaries for Speaking on "The English Lan­ nepin county Community Chest dis­ film strips. The little stories that make guage Arts, a Link Between Yester­ trict 4 7 which includes the Uni­ his trail walks so exciting to amateur day and Tomorrow," Miss Smith, versity and the State Board of Health nature lovers were "just picked up" director of the National Commission for top donations in the non-down­ from long experience in the outdoors. on the English Curriculum, presented town competition. Every year three Longer versions of the trail walks the commission's report. traveling trophys are given, one to are auto caravans which circle the Harold Allen, assistant professor each winner in the downtown, non­ park, stopping at scenic spots along of English at the University, also downtown, and rural Hennepin coun­ the way. Twice a week Lewis leads a attended the convention. ty areas. The University placed fifth dozen cars out on this 20-mile trip. in all 48 districts. There are no dull evenings during Hydraulics Experts to Meet Assistant Dean Richard Gaumitz the summer because movies and lec­ At University in August of the School of Business Administra­ tures on conservation are given four Hydraulics experts from all over tion and chairman of the University nights a week. Running and prepar­ the world will gather at the Univer­ district, says that the U donated ing films, posting advance publicity, sity Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, 1953, for $26,181.90 or 106.7 percent of its and keeping records also take up a lot the next biennial meeting of the In­ quota. He states, "The University of time. ternational Association for Hydrau­ accepted its share of community re­ In addition, self-guiding nature lic Research. It will be a joint con­ sponsibility and made a fine perform­ trails need repairs, displays must be ference with the hydraulics division ance." changed at the park museum, supplies of the American Society of Civil En­ He points out that district 4 7 was must be brought in from town, and gineers, according to IAHR Presi­ so near the second place winner that a thousand and one odd jobs always dent Lorenz G. Straub. if each of the 20 captains and 265 pop up. To keep up a schedule like Straub heads the U's civil en­ solicitors had collected 15 cents less, this takes a lot of time and energy. gineering department and directs the the University would not have won Many people ask Lewis how he can St. Anthony Falls hydraulic lab. the trophy. keep up such a tough program for three solid months. For a man dedi­ cated to a job as Lewis is, it's the Delegation of Faculty Members Attends results that count. The rapid growth in number of visitors to the park, Land-Grant Colleges Meeting in Washington from 8,500 in 1947 to 94,000 last Fourteen U staff members, includ- psychology professor; Lorenz G. summer, means an ever-increasing ing President Morrill, attended the Straub, director of the St. Anthony audience for Lewis's "nature inter­ 66th annual meeting of the Associa- Hydraulics laboratory and civil en­ pretation." tion of Land Grant Colleges and gineering head; and Dr. Wesley W. "That's the kind of a seven-day-a­ Universities held in mid-November Spink, professor of medicine. week job that's worthwhile," he in Washington, D. C. Representa- Representatives from the St. Paul smiles. "Anyway I can recuperate on tives of 69 land-grant institutions campus attending the conference were my job at the museum. Here I only participated in the sessions. Harold Macy, director of the agricul- have to work eight hours a day!" The Minnesota delegation was led tural experiment station; Theodore by President Morrill and President H. Fenske, associate director, agri­ Emeritus Walter C. Coffey, now serv- cultural administration; Paul E. Mil­ Education Prof-Speaks ing as acting president of Hamline ler, director of the agricultural ex­ Donovan Johnson, associate pro­ university, St. Paul. Two deans, Ath- tension service; Louise Stedman, head fessor of education at the University, elstan F. Spilhaus of the Institute of of the home economics school; Doro­ spoke on "School Adaptations for Technology, and Julius M. Nolte of thy Simmons, state leader of the ex­ Gifted Mathematics Students" at a the General Extension division, also tension home program; J. 0. Christ­ conference of the Cooperative Com­ attended. ianson, director of agricultural short mittee and the Office of Education Other faculty members who made courses; and Dr. Martin H. Roepke, held in Washington, D. C., in No­ the trip were John G. Darley, assist- acting director of the school of vet­ vember. ant dean of the Graduate School and erinary medicine. 14 The Minnesotan The Regents' Legislative Requests

THIS IS A "legislative year"-the biennial occasion Departmental and divisional requests for restored and when the University must account for its activities needed new positions far exceed this amount. New space and expenditures, and renew its request for state sup· needs asked by the staff exceed $35,000,000; the Regents port to the Minnesota legislature and the people of the feel they cannot request even a third of that amount. state. It is, properly, a critical time-and it is an anxious JNDEED, let me repeat here what I remarked at a one. The responsibility of University "spokesmanship" recent faculty dinner-meeting sponsored by the Min­ rests heavily upon the Regents and the administration. nesota Chapter of the American Association of University "The advancement of learning, . . . the instruction of Professors: youth and the welfare of the state" are at stake. Their The Regents' legislative requests represent a compro­ needs and meaning must be reinterpreted to the demo· mise-a cpnscientious compromise as between the docu­ cratically chosen representatives of the citizens and tax· mented needs of the University and the practical attempt payers upon whose interest and understanding the Uni­ to make some realistic appraisal of the financial situa­ versity must rely for its basic maintenance, its ongoing, tion of the state and of the Legislature's ability to pro­ and improvement. vide institutional support. The sums asked are large·-millions more, actually, for These requests must likewise look to the future, for 1953-55 than were appropriated for the current biennium. the future is the principal concern of the University. (The amounts requested by the Regents for "general Its students are the citizens of tomorrow. Its research is maintenance," for buildings, for special research and the discovery of new knowledge (or the re-interpreta­ service projects, and for hospital maintenance are sum­ tion of old) for the uses of the future. Based on birthrate marized below.) statistics alone, our enrollment will exceed 30,000 in the Prices for everything the University must buy have early 1960's. The productivity of the University's research risen steadily, and the cost of living continues to mount. in agriculture, in industry, in medicine and health, has New buildings, including the magnificent Mayo Me­ been proved. New demands for new experimentation and morial, must be staffed and serviced. Civil service salary public service press upon us daily. increases are authorized under state law. Academic salary So vital is the training of Minnesota youth for citizen­ increases are likewise required to meet the higher cost ship and competence, so productive the potential of re­ of living, and for "merit and promotions." search for the wealth and welfare of the state, that well it Student enrollment, estimated by both the University can be said: the measure of support given the University and the last legislature at an average of 17,000 annually is, in truth, the measure of the people's faith in their during the current biennium, will be 18,800 at least for own future. each year of the coming biennium. Despite enrollment this year and last considerably exceeding the 17,000 average estimate, the University has found it necessary to eliminate the equivalent of approximately 311 full­ time positions, at an estimated saving of $1,330,000.

SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS Biennium 1953-55 1952-53 CATEGORY APPROrRlATION PROPOSED APPROPRIATION 1953-54 1954-55

General Maintenance $14,236,654 $17,215,793 $17,537,505 Special Appropriations 1,096,500 1,446,000 1,446,00J University Hospitals U. of Minnesota Hospitals ...... $1,095,864 $1,190,807 $1,384,645 Psychiatric Hospital 216,956 233,221 466,442 Child Psych. Hospital 115.000 126,138 163,138 Rehabilitation Center 265,000 Sub-total . .. . 1,427,820 1,550,166 2,279,225 Buildings -1951-53 2,095,690 1953-55 10,428,000 December 1952 15 DECEMBER 15, 1952 TO JANUARY 15, 1953 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY GA U.ERY EXHIBITIONS Subscription Series Through Jan. 9-Contempo Color Lithography. A color- Dec. 19-Rafael Druian, violinist. ful display of lithograph; from all over the world, includ­ Jan. 2-Eugene Ormandy, guest conductor. ing work by Picasso, Moore, Tamayo, and Marini. Jan. 9--The University Chorus with soloists· Robert Through Jan. 15--Native Arts of the Pacific Northwest. Rounseville, tenor, and Kenneth Smith, baritone. These totems, small sCulJ?tures, and masks are borrowed Jan. 15-Robert Jamieson, cellist. from the Indian and Eskimo collections of the museums (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30p.m. Single tickets from $1.73 of Portland, Wash., and the University of Washington. to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at Through Jan. 18---Master Drawings. Two great collectiom the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations of drawings of the master French, Italian, and German call University extension 6225.) t artists of the past 500 years are gathered for an eJ<­ Twilight Concert tremely large showing. Dec. 28-Gerard Samuel, conductor. (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth Hoors of (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Ticket" $.50, $.75, and Northrop Auditorium, is opel\ to the public 8-5, Monday $1.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the through Friday. Concertgoers :"".Will find the Gallery open Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. All tickets re­ before performances and durin;; intermissions.) served.) t Young People's Concert SIGNIFICANT UNIVE•.. BROADCASTS

Jan. 13--St. Paul Auditorium, 1:45 p.m. Voices of Europe ... A series 1d t .. ve recorded interviews (Admission arranged through local schools.) with Europeans who are ·'a.Lve and sensitive to the CONVOCATIONS tragedy and dilemma of cond'itions that surround them." Thursdays at 1 :30 p.m. ~ Jan. 8---"Harvey" by the University Theatre touring players. People Under Communism ..~. Seven to ten one-hour Jan. 15-Margaret Mead, anthropologist, ··From the South programs dealing with the subjugation of the people in Seas to Modern America." !ron Curtain countries. Saturda;ys at 3:30 p.m. ( 1\'orthrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public Ways of Mankind ... A series of studies of man and his without charge.) development by leading anthropologists and sociologists. Tuesdays at 1 :30 p.m. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SERIES Classroom lecture beginning Jan. 5 ... Sociology of Work; Jan. 4-""Glimpses of Our Southern Indians," sound film. an analysis of the occupational group, the tactory, and Jan. 11-"Spring in August," lecture by S. R. H. Cooke, the business enterprise as social institutions explained professor of mines and metallurgy. by Theodore Caplow, associate professor of sociology. (Museum oj Nalllral History Audtloriam, 3:00 p.m. Open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Frid:~ys at 1 :30 p.m. to the public without charge.) (KUOM, the University radio st~ion, broadcasts at 770 UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY on the dial. lts complete winter sdtedule may be obtained by writing to the station.) Jan. 7-"Roshomon," Japanese pri~e-winning tilm. Jan. 14-'"A Nous la Liberte," French film. (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign ATHLETIC EVENTS language films have English subtitles. General admission at Basketball Games at Home LoJJJJy l'ickt•t Uttice, ::li./4, junior admission $.35. Tickets for staff members at $.60 available in the basement of Dec. 23--lllinois. Wesbrook Hall and the Campus Club.) Dec. 30--Michigan State. Jan. 3-Northwestern. UNIVERSITY THEATRE Jan. 5-Wisconsin. Jan. 9, 10, 12-18-"Henry lV" Part 1, by William (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Single tickets at $1.75 go on :":lhakespeare. sale the Monday of the week before the game at the (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. except Jan. 18, 4:00 Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) 1" p.m. Single tickets, $1.20. Sales begin the Wednesday before the week of the opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Hockey Games at Home Scott Hall.) t Dec. 19, 20--St. Boniface of Winnipeg. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATIONS Dec. 26, 27-Toronto University. Dec.-The Soybean Industry, With Special Reference to Jan. 9, 10--Michigan State. the Competitive Position of the Minnesota Producer and (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.25 go on Processor. Ray A. Goldberg. $5.00. sale the Monday of the week before the game at the Jan.-William Cowper, A Critical Life. Maurice J. Quinlan. Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall. General admission $4.50. the night of the game only, $1.00.)

Yfick"t" for th<"'t' evf'nts are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and tht' Downtown Tickt't Office. 188 Northwestern Bank Building. in Minneapolis.

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In this issue • • • AFTER ONLY FIVE YEARS, the Know Your University University's Program in Scandina­ vian Area Studies has made an im­ pressive record of institutes, public lectures, visiting professorships, and courses on many phases of Scandi­ "'I navian life. See page 5. I

WITH HIS GOPHERS strong con­ I tenders for Big Ten honors, basket­ "'! ball coach Ozzie Cowles tells what it takes to be a championship player.

Page 6. ~ I EVER SPEND MADDENING I HOURS working a Chinese puzzle? Charles Hatfield, mathematics, tosses them off in seconds. What's more, he designs and makes his own compli­ cated wire puzzles. See page 7. LENDING MONEY to staff and students and collecting it again caused some $230,000 to pass through U coffers last year. You'll learn how loans and collections work, and get human interest sidelights on a warm­ hearted U collection agent on pages lO and 11.

UMD~s Old Main On the cover . .. Our spotlight this month LD MAIN on the Duluth Branch In 1915 an east wing was added, falls on Agriculture, which 0 campus has a patriarchal air. Its and an auditorium was begun, to be has just dedicated the brand weatherworn redstone and brick ex­ finished 12 years later. new ag library occupying terior has absorbed the sunlight and Old Main has experienced a series our January cover. Other storms of more than half a cen­ of academic and physical changes agriculture features: a story tury. Its high-ceilinged rooms, with as the Duluth institution has twice on retiring dean Clyde Bail­ glossy oak wainscoting and paneled had its status altered. In 1921 it be­ ey and incoming dean Har­ doors, recall an earlier day when came Duluth State Teachers College, old Macy, page 3; news of UMD was the Duluth State Normal authorized to grant a four-year de­ the revamped Institute of School. gree. In 1947 it became the Duluth Agriculture, page 14; and Old Main had its troubles in youth. Branch of the University of Minne­ President Morrill's appraisal Its central portion, completed in sota. of the reorganization, p. 15. January, 1901, burned almost to the The building's classrooms are in ground the following February. Dr. constant use for both day and eve­ THE MINNESOTAN Eugene W. Bohannon, president of ning classes. Most UMD stage presen­ Vol. VI No. 4 the Normal School, thus became a tations and cultural events are given The Minnesotan is published monthly in its auditorium. It now houses two during the academic year, October president without a college. He con­ through May, by the Department of tinued to order necessary equipment divisional offices-social studies and University Relations, University of Min­ and supplies even though there was humanities-plus the office of stu­ nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies dent personnel services, and the home are mailed free to University staff mem· no place to put them. Luckily, the hers. Subscription rates for those not building was repaired before the >mp­ economics, health and physical edu­ on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a plies arrived. cation, and industrial arts depart­ copy. Photographs, unless otherwise credited, were taken by members of the In the fall of 1902 the first stu­ ments. Headquarters also for UMD's University Photographic Laboratory. dents of DSNS-a class of six girls­ business office, library, and news Entered as second-class matter at the service, Old Main-architectural pa­ post office at Minneapolis, Minn. matriculated. In 1909 a west wing Copies of this issue are on sale at was added to Young Main as the triarch of the Duluth Branch--con­ Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. school outgrew its cramped quarters. tinues its important role. 2 lMne ~Urunesotan The deans get together: left, Harold Macy, new dean of the Institute of Agriculture; right, Clyde H. Bailey, dean emeritus. (Picture at right is of Walter C. Coffey, former agriculture dean and U president emeritus; at left, photo of another University pres· ident emeritus, Guy Stanton Ford.)

Dean Bailey Retires; Harold Macy Heads Reorganized Institute of Agriculture

MORE THAN 52 years ago- just lJr. Bailey was literally born within versity, and his Ph.D. from the Uni­ before the turn of the century - the shadows of the great flour mills versity of Maryland. a youngster of 13 presented his cre­ of Minneapolis, perhaps forecasting dentials to the University's School of a career that was to bring him the DR. BAILEY'S RISE through the Agriculture. Officials were hesitant at distinction of being one of the professional ranks to Director of first, but a few tests convinced them world's great cereal chemists. the Experiment Station and finally to that Clyde H. Bailey could carry the Dr. Macy was born in Hudson, Dean of the Institute is common work of the school at that early age. N. Y.- a city close to the soil which knowledge. During those years he On December 31, after devoting offered its young folks ample oppor­ earned the listing as one of the "Ten over 40 years to the University, Dr. tunity to work on farms during sum­ Ablest Agricultural and Food Chem­ Bailey retired as Dean of the Insti­ mer vacations. ists in the U. S." and "One Hundred tute of Agriculture. Into his place has Dr. Bailey spent much of his early Living Great of Minnesota." He has stepped another renowned scientist, boyhood on his grandfather's farm in been president of the American Asso­ Dr. Harold Macy. Isanti county. This stimulated his in­ ciation of Cereal Chemists, was in­ This is the story of these two men terest in farming. To add to his strumental in developing enriched entrusted with the leadership of the knowledge of farming he attended bread, and has been widely honored University's largest unit. Both can the School of Agriculture from which for his work in biochemistry. look back on years of fruitful service, he was graduated in 1905 after tak­ His natural curiosity and inventive­ and both are looking forward to even ing off a few years to work in the ness have led him to adapt a device greater service to argiculture - Dr. Department of Bacteriology. for testing the carbon content of iron Macy as dean and Dr. Bailey in many In 1911 he became a member of and steel to testing the respiration in official and advisory capacities. the University staff as assistant chem­ grain. Another invention credited to Strangely enough neither man was ist (sometimes facetiously referred him is the widely used Bailey short­ born on the farm, but both have be­ to as bottle washer) . Later he earned ometer, which measures the breaking come as intimately connected with his B.S. from North Dakota Agricul­ strength of certain flour products. agricultural interests as men can be. tural College, his M.S. from the Uni- continued on next page January 1953 3

~------· continued from preceding page many are too far removed from the New Library Building Well known, too, are Dr. Bailey's people. It is only natural, then, that administrative abilities, his keen an­ one of his objectives as Dean will be On St. Paul Campus alysis of issues, and his deep interest to help "bring the University close Dedicated January 14 in the welfare of all personnel of the to the people." Institute. In doing this, Dr. Macy will work THE NEW LIBRARY building on In speaking of Dr. Bailey, Dr. Har­ with a reorganized Institute of Agri­ the St. Paul campus of the Uni­ old Macy says, "He has blended to­ culture. Key personnel in the reor­ versity was dedicated during cere­ gether all the characteristics of a gen­ ganized Institute are five principal monies held Wednesday evening, tleman and a scholar." Those words assistants: January 14, followed by an open are heartily endorsed by all his col­ • Paul E. Miller remains director house in the library. leagues at the University. of the agricultural extension service Principal speaker of the evening which includes county agents, home was John A. Hannah, president of THE NEW DEAN, Harold Macy, agents, 4-H club leaders, and state Michigan State College. Presiding is a well known dairy bacteriolo­ specialists. was Dr. Harold Macy, dean of the gist and research administrator. Even • Hubert J. Sloan takes over Dr. Univen;ity's Institute of Agriculture. before attending Cornell University Macy's former position as director of Dr. W. C. Coffey, president emeri­ on a scholarship, he dreamed of agri­ the agricultural experiment station. tus of the University and former culture as a career. After g!"ac!uation Sloan is well known for his research dean and director of the Department from Cornell. he served as bacteriolo­ in poultry and his efforts in behalf of Agriculture, gave the invocation. gist for the city of Geneva, N. Y., and of the poultry industry. He has been President J. L. Morrill spoke for as a chid sanitary inspector for the chief of the department of poultry the University. A feature of the pro­ American Red Cross. husbandry for several years. gram was the presentation of Out­ Dr. Macy joined the staff of the standing Achievement awards to six • Austin A. Dowell becomes direc­ University in 1919 as assistant pro­ distinguished alumni of the College tor of resident instruction and as­ fessor. During the ensuing years he of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home earned his Ph.D. at Iowa State Col­ sistant dean of the College of Agricul­ Economics. ture, Forestry, and Home Economics. lege. In 1946 he was made director Guests then attended the library After starting as a livestock special­ of the University's agricultural ex­ open house where a rural art show ist, Dowell was superintendent of periment station. was displayed on the ground floor. the Northwest School of Agriculture As a dairy bacteriologist, he played The new library building is a 140 and Agricultural Experiment Station an important role in maintaining the by 60 foot structure of three stories at Crookston from 1927-37. Since quality of Minnesota dairy products. plus a "penthouse." It has a capacity His research on butter and his in­ that time he has been professor of of 140,000 volumes and seats 500 agricultural economics on the St. Paul struction of buttermakers through students. The State Legislature ap­ campus. short courses helped pave the way for propriated $540,000 for the building Minnesota's enviable reputation as • Theodore Fenske, assistant dean at its 1949 session, and this amount one of the nation's leading butter pro­ of the Institute, will serve as admin­ was supplemented by an additional ducing states. istrative assistant to Dean Macy. Mr. $173,000 in 1950, when rising costs As a member of the U. S. Armed Fenske's work will be much the same threatened to force abandonment of Forces in World War II, Macy su­ as he performed as associate director building plans. The library was com­ pervised the transfer of medical sup­ of agricultural administration, with pleted in the summer of 1952. plies and sanitation facilities to the some additional duties. Fenske was With an exterior of brick and built continent immediately after D-day. former superintendent of the school on functional lines, it contains all new For this and other work he received of agriculture and experiment sta­ furnishings of natural birch and is two . of the highest awards of the tion at Morris. lighted by fluorescent strips. French government- the Chevalier • An assistant dean of the School The building has five levels: a sub­ of the Legion of Honor and the Or­ of Veterinary Medicine is yet to be basement used for mechanical equip­ der of Public Health. named. ment; a ground floor which contains "With this new team and new set­ a reading room, book storage stack, ONG INTERESTED in interna­ up, the University's Institute of Agri­ staff room, wash rooms, and a receiv­ L tional communication, Macy re­ culture looks forward to years of ing room; a first floor, with reading cently studied agricultural libraries even greater service to the State," room and administrative offices; a in South America to recommend ways says Dean Macy. "The foundation second floor, given over to interrelat­ to improve their exchange of printed laid by such men as Dean Clyde H. ed reading and book stack space; materials. Bailey and President Emeritus W al­ and the partial third floor or "pent­ Dean Macy's contact with univer­ ter C. Coffey will be a firm one upon house," for mechanical equipment sities abroad has convinced him that which to build." and a large seminar-conference room. 4 The Minnesotan • Thanks to fine resources, regional interest U Pioneers in Field of Scandinavian Area Studies .. est library on the Scandinavian coun­ offers no Ph.D., although Ph.D. can­ tries outside of those countries them­ didates can, if they choose, minor in selves. As one Scandinavian scholar Scandinavian area studies. put it-with some exaggeration­ The major in Scandinavian studies 'lt's the next best thing to walking takes course work in three broad Props show scope of Scandinavian into the Royal Library in Stock­ fields of Scandinavian life: language Area Studies program. Included holm.' It's been a great boon to study and literature, philosophy and fine are: bust of Swedish playwright and research in our field," he says. arts, and particularly social sciences. Strindberg, record album by Fin­ Although the universities of Cali­ Typical of the courses he can take nish composer Sibelius, books and fornia and Washington are thinking are: Scandinavian Foreign Policy; pamphlets on Scandinavian art, of establishing Scandinavian area Scandinavian Folk Movements-their philosophy, and social sciences. programs, right now only two uni­ social and political significance; versities in the U.S. have them­ Swedish or Norwegian Conversation; the University of Minnesota and the Strindberg and the Drama in Revolt "WHY SCANDINAVIAN Area University of Wisconsin. In fact, and Transition; Art Movements in Studies?" Alrik Gustafson, Minnesota has a unique arrangement 20th Century Scandinavia; Kierke­ director of the Program 'in Scandi­ with Wisconsin by which the two gaard r.11d Scandinavian Philosophy. navian Studies, asks as he tilts back universities exchange students and Whai do graduates in Scandi­ reflectively in his chair. "Well, many staff and even hold joint summer navian studies do? Some have gone people feel that Scandinavian coun­ sessions alternately m Minneapolis into international public relations, tries have been unusually successful and Madison. the cousular service, or intelligence in providing for their people a way agencies. Some teach courses in Scan­ of life that tends to reduce the sharp HERE at the University, Scandi- dinavian studies at other colleges tensions that everywhere affiict pres­ navian area studies is part of and universities. Several have gone ent-day society. They offer social ex­ the whole International Relations abroad on Fulbright fellowships. periment short of revolution. and Area Studies program. Students Evidence of the fine cooperation "Particular aspects of Scandina­ can get a B.A. or M.A. Like other the program has had from partici­ vian life have been taught in colleges American universities with area stud­ pating departments is offered by the and universities and studied by gov­ ies programs, the Minnesota program continued on page 14 ernment officials and journalists," he goes on. "But until Minnesota's Scandinavian Area Studies program Scandinavian A rea Studies committee includes professors: Lawrence Steefel, was set up in 1947, there was no history; Paul Holmer, philosophy; Theodore Blegen, Graduate School dean overall critical approach to the study and committee chairman; Alrik Gustafson, Scandinavian Studies director; that brought together all the major William Anderson, political science; Oscar ]esness, agricultural economics; facets of Scandinavian life." Lowry Nelson, sociology. Committee member Arthur Upgren is on leave. The program here was begun un­ der a five-year grant from the Car­ negie Corporation of New York. The University of Minnesota was a logi­ cal choice for pilot work in Scandi­ navian studies, Gustafson feels, be­ cause of: its long-standing, widely respected department of Scandinavi­ an languages and literatures, the regional interest in Scandinavia, and the exceptionally fine local resources. High on the list of these resources, says Gustafson with pride, is the University library. "It is the great- January 1953 5 a------

up their interest in college ball. "Some of the players need a little fathering from time to time," Cowles says. "Some come to me for advice on studies, or maybe because they need a job to help them through school; it's all a part of the coaching!" In addition to a year 'round search for players, and coaching during fall and winter quarter, Cowles also conducts summer school classes.

THE PLAYERS have a pretty big job themselves. They're out on the court practicing every afternoon during the season besides keeping up with their studies. "To stay in shape during the sum­ mer," Cowles says, "many o{ the boys play baseball or softball and others talj;.e laboring jobs where they get plenty of exercise. Take Ed Kalafat, he was using an air hammer last Basketball Coach Ozzie Cowles tells summer." Even while playing games the boys What Makes a Champion have a scouting job to do. After Cowles has learned the general plan N the basketball court fans rec­ players come from? Quite a few are of set offense and defense of an oppo­ 0 ognize Gopher coach Ozzie from Minnesota, but some are drawn nent from his advance scouts, he be­ Cowles immediately by his ever-pres­ ·from western Wisconsin and Mon­ gins to gather information on indi­ ent bow tie and ready smile. Chatting tana. It's a big job to keep on the vidual players. about the team back at his office, lookout for new players. Cowles is That's where the boys come in. The Cowles is the same dapper coach with kept posted on promlSlng high coach assigns those on the bench a the same genial smile. school players by alumni, friends, certain player to watch and as soon "Fair size, quickness, instinct, com­ and high school coaches. as they discover a weakness or tipoff petitive spirit, and coordination­ "This was sent to me by a friend," to a certain play, they tell Cowles. these are the things we look for in a Cowles says, as he takes from his Because the Gophers play every Big player," Cowles explains. desk a folded sports page from an Ten team twice, the boys can do much Besides these physical attributes out-state paper. "My friend is interest­ of their own scouting during the first Cowles wants boys who will train, ed in this boy and thinks he might game and really be well prepared for take sports seriously, and behave make good Minnesota material. So I the second. themselves. "We want high class keep my eye on the boy." Other let­ Illinois and Indiana are Minne­ boys," Ozzie continues, "and we try ters and clippings of the same type sota's biggest competition for the '53 to steer clear of those who can't keep litter his desk. Big Ten crown, Cowles thinks. The up with their studies so we won't be Cowles also gets a chance to meet Gophers are not a tall team, and al­ bothered with ineligibility. high school coaches and players at though the first string players are "Athletics should be secondary. A his many public appearances through­ veterans of one or two years, the player's first thought should be to out the state. He estimates he has bench is a little inexperienced. For get an education," Coach Cowles de­ made over 500 appearances at ban· the first time Minnesota is playing a clares. "But," he adds, "a boy can quets, luncheons, and other functions complete double round robin for a gain a lot from athletic competition." during his four years at Minnesolia. total of 18 conference games. He also points out that twice in the When these high school players At Michigan before he came to last four years a basketball team come to Minnesota, they start basket· Minnesota, Cowles is now starting his member won the l:onference medal ball under freshman coach Joe Van­ fifth season here. Evidence of the which is awarded to the Gopher ath­ cisin. This year about 120 went out fine job he has done at Minnesota lete who is the best all around athlete for freshman ball. While co<1ching the is the composite of rankings for the and scholar. Varsity squad, Cowles must maintain past four seasons which places Minne­ Where -do these ideal basketball contact with the new boys to keep sota third in Big Ten standings. 6 The Minnesotan Meet Math~s Charles Hatfield- His Hobby is PUZZLING

HARLES HATFIELD, assistant his puzzle "the tiring irons," perhaps C professor of mathematics, is liter­ because solving it makes one feel as ally a man with a bagful of tricks. though he'd been subjected to medie­ Just ask him about his hobby- mak­ val torture instruments! ing puzzles- and he will haul out a Ever since that original gift, Hat­ gray suitcase he carries to his Folwell field has been an avid collector of office and pull from it a dazzling puzzles - wire puzzles from Chile; assortment of wire puzzles in many wood blocks that fit together and shapes and sizes. Some of these look have to be separated; puzzles that like bent egg-beaters, others like stars, border on magic tricks. some like hearts, one like a bishop's It wasn't until recently, though, hat, and others like abstract modern that Hatfield began making his own. jewelry. He started fiddling with bits of wire How did all this puzzle-making and string during his spare time back begin? Hatfield guesses he first got in '45, when he was an ensign in the interested in puzzles 'way back when Navy. "I've never yet been in a naval he was a kid of about ten, inspired establishment that wasn't somewhat by his mother's gift of a Chinese overmanned!" he grins. object in nearly all these puzzles is wire puzzle. The puzzle involved free­ therefore to free the key piece, either ing one ring from a group of rings OST OF Hatfield's puzzles have by putting it through or around suspended from a horizontal shaft. M been rather small and made openings in the rest of the puzzle. It took him several minutes to figure from aluminum wire. But last year, Ancestor of the more complex puz­ out how to work it the first time. preparing for a demonstration before zles is what Hatfield calls "the heart Now he can toss it off in a mere 20 the Faculty Women's Club he made puzzle" (see picture, left). Here the seconds. The English, he says, call some large-scale copper demonstra­ key is the inside loop of the heart. tion models which run several feet Other puzzles' key pieces are vari­ Hatfield shows how key piece is freed high. ants on this part: a long needle-like in "heart" puzzle. This simple puzzle His tools are extremely simple­ projection, a piece of string, a illustrates principle behind more com­ "almost primitive," he says: wire, a hinged piece that can he squeezed to­ plex puzzles for which it is a model. pair of round-nosed pliers for twist­ gether to pass through a hole or ing loops in the wire, wire-cutters, opened wide to go around a curve. and Mason jars. (Mrs. Hatfield has Using variations on these pieces, Hat­ occasionally deplored the disappear­ field has managed to construct puz­ ance of her best jars, but Hatfield zles so complicated that with the ad­ finds they are very useful models for dition of each succeeding loop the bending wire in round circles.) puzzle becomes twice as hard to solve. Hatfield's hobby is really some­ Hatfield has an extremely non· thing of a mathematician's holiday. utilitarian attitude toward his hobby. "There are mathematical principles • He pursues it "very spasmodically" underlying all these puzzles," he says. these days in his home workshop. He When he began to talk about the knows of no books on the subject for principles of simply connected and amateurs, and is not thinking of writ­ multiply connected regions, involving ing one himself- though he may mathematical concepts of genus, poly­ one day try to market his puzzles. hedra, etc., he parted company with He has made a few tentative tries this layman. at introducing his two young daugh­ Putting it in simpler terms, Hat­ ters, aged seven and four and one­ field says that these wire puzzles all half, to the intricacies of puzzle­ work on one principle: an optical solving; hut he reports somewhat illusion makes the key piece appear to ruefully, "They seem to be leading be attached to the rest of the puzzle, very normal lives and aren't inter· but it is not actually attached. The ested in the least!" January 1953 7 The first girl since the war to work in the U mail room in the basement of the Administration building, Helen McGill sorts mail, supervises nine boys who deliver campus mail.

Melkor Sletten spent 21 of his 24 years at the University as janitor in Jones Hall before he was transferred to Ford Hall. Norwegian.born U STAFF MEMB Mel made skis before he started work at the U. Professor Helen Canoyer heads the retail store train· YOU S ing sequence in business administration. With the U since 1930, Miss Canoyer enjoys painting as a hobby. Elected president of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, Richard Jordan also heads the U's mechanical engineering department.

8 The Minnesotan Genial Fred Berger, who has recently been appointed the acting director of the Center for Continuation Study, takes time out to relax in the Center lounge. Jay H. Sautter, associate professor of veteri­ nary medicine, has been named a member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Receiving a National Safety Council public interest award for "exceptional service in the cause of farm safety" from Safety Council President Ned Dearborn is Ray Wolf (left), extension information specialist in radio. This is the third year Wolf KNOW has earned national honors in farm safety for station KUOM.

Minnesota Association of Colleges has been added that education professor Robert Keller already the Bureau of Institutional Research and S.enate Committee on Institutional Relationships.

January 1953 9 -·

I ~ MONEY: The U Lends

nancial aid. Last year they saw some more in these special fields.) 3,000 students; of these, 700 needed After one or more counseling in· just financial advice, and 972 were terviews the student fills out an ap· given loans. All loans must be ap­ plication form giving his: education­ proved by George Risty, friendly Bu­ al and work record, educational ob­ reau director. jectives, and character references. "Any registered student in a day­ The counselor goes over the com­ time college of the University who pleted application to see if he is is making 'satisfactory progress to­ a satisfactory academic risk. Then ward an educational objective' is Risty reviews it and prescribes the George B. Risty eligible for loans," says Risty. "Mon­ type and amount of aid. "We go ey can be borrowed for books, tui­ over these applications very care­ tion, maintenance, and medical care fully," he explains, "because we hold HE UNIVERSITY last year -but student expense is often in­ a public trust to use our loan funds T loaned $121,556.67 to 1,232 stu­ terpreted broadly to include things the best way we know how." dents and staff members. Getting this like furnishing a quonset at U vil­ Where does this money come from? money to those who need it and lage." The U now has some 120 loan funds getting it back again involves people After a student is referred to totaling nearly $535;000. Of this total in several University offices. the Bureau by his faculty adviser, amount, about $350,000 is now avail­ Staff members go through the of­ friends, or a student personnel of­ able. Funds come from individuals, fice of Laurence R. Lunden, U comp· ficer, he explains to a financial coun­ industrial firms, estates, University troller, if they want to borrow from selor there just what he needs. He classes. the $15,000 staff and employee's loan may want only $50 to tide him over Some funds apply only to special fund. They can borrow up to one until a delayed GI check comes groups: women, Negro students, Jew­ month's salary (if less than $300) through. The Bureau extends this ish students, blind or crippled stu­ for a year, at only 4% interest. type of short-term emergency loan dents, or students in particular fields But this fund is solely for emergen­ for 60-90 days without interest. of study. The two largest funds are cies - medical bills, family deaths, "If a student has long-range money open to all: the Gilfillan Trust Fund etc. troubles, a counselor at the Bureau (about $125,000) established in 1901 Lunden says this is the first time will help him work out a detailed by Judge John B. Gilfillan; and the he has seen the fund fully loaned, budget and will show him how to cut Ludden funds (totaling about $111,- with a waiting list. Naturally, all corners-how to economize on food, 500), left to the U in 1915 by John requests are carefully screened. The for instance, through eating co-ops. D. Ludden, prominent lumberman. only security a staff member must If the student simply needs advice offer is his agreement that the Uni­ on how to live within his income, FTER Risty approves the appli· versity can attach his payroll check that one interview may clear things Acation and it is reviewed and co­ if he fails to pay or terminates his up. If he needs additional aid, a loan signed by the dean of students, it U employment. After the applica­ or scholarship or both may be the goes to the office of Clarence Larson, tion is approved by the dean or de­ best answer," Risty says. director of trusts. "It's our baby from partment head and by Mr. Lunden, then on," says Larson, a lawyer who it is sent to the office of Clarence E. UPPOSE a student needs money manages to be both efficient and Larson, director of trusts and loan S over a long period. Students in pleasant. collections, for processing. most colleges of the U may borrow The loan is then "processed." This up to $300 in one academic year, means a promissory note is made up, TUDENTS have a little harder provided their maximum debt to the an invoice signed, and a check draft­ S job borrowing money. At the U does not exceed $600. A student ed payable to the student or staff Bureau of Student Loans and Schol­ in medicine, dentistry, or veterinary member. There is no collateral, no arships, a division of the Dean of medicine, may borrow $500 a year cosigner-all that's required is the Students' Office, a full-time counselor with a $750 maximum debt. (The applicant's signature, plus his record and two part-time administrative fel­ Regents made this special provision and references. lows interview students who need fi. because tuition and equipment cost All student loans, says Larson, are 10 The Minnesotan

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I ~ made on a promissory note for a year the four people in Larson's office or less; they can be renewed with­ who handle collections as part of out any trouble while the student their jobs. is still in school, as long as he can show cause for its extension. CCASIONALL Y a commercial The interest rate is considerably 0 agent is 'sent out or a tracer is lower than the 6 or 7% charged by used to locate students who have left banks and finance companies. It va­ Minnesota. And every summer Elmer ries according to the instructions of Johnson, part-time field representa­ the fund donors. Some funds carry tive of the office, travels around the no interest charges: among these are state to pay personal visits to alumni Clarence E. Larson the short-term emergency loans from who owe money (see story below). the Faculty Women's Emergency "The University's record for col­ Loan Fund and the Mortar Board lection is good," says Larson, "and money available to loan; the GI Bill (senior honorary) Loan Fund. nearly all its ex-students and staff has expired for many vets with fami­ A few funds for medicine, den­ members have been very reasonable lies; non-veterans don't get federal tistry, and allied fields carry only about paying debts. Last year we support; and the cost of living has 2Yz% interest. Most of the others collected $110,252.27- only about zoomed. are lent at 5%, but the University $11,000 less than we lent," he says, The University is one of the few obligingly reduces the charge to 4% with justifiable pride. educational institutions which has put while the student is still in school. Both Risty and Larson expect loans the personnel function of counsel­ Larson's office really begins its to increase in the years ahead. Risty's ing and administering financial aid work after the student leaves the U. bureau has seen a dramatic boom under one roof, and the fiscal job of It must keep in close touch with him since it began in 1943: from $11,206 collection under another. Both Lar­ to remind him about his obligation in student loans in 1944 to $52,000 son and Risty agree enthusiastically to the University. This means fre­ in 1949 and 'way up beyond $98,500 that this makes for greater efficiency quent phone calls and letters from last year. The reasons? There is more all around.

"Collection with l(indness''- That's Elmer Johnson's Aim JF YOU think of loan collectors mer collection work the principles body was hard up- including young as a hardbitten breed who enjoy that have been impressed on him graduate students in sociology. His nothing more than pressing people from years of teaching sociology. A summer assignment then was to col­ for money, you have to reverse your chatty and affable man, with the lect money that had been pledged idea completely when you come to tenderest sensibilities, he talks not during the booming 'twenties by stu­ Elmer Johnson. in terms of collecting but of "ra­ dents and alumni -pledges ranging During the year, Johnson leads a habilitating", being tactful, and keep­ from $25 to $1,000 for the Stadium fairly normal life as assistant profes­ ing the "debtor" unembarrassed. and Northrop Auditorium Building sor of social studies in the St. Paul "I worry about the job a lot," he Fund. campus School of Agriculture. But says. "But in more than 24 years Johnson covered everyone in Min· during July, August, and September, collecting student loans, and dormi­ nesota who had pledged money, set­ he changes roles to become an of­ tory debts, and University health tled when necessary at a reasonable ficial University collection agent, rep­ service accounts, I can honestly say payment- and eventually enough resenting Clarence Larson's office of I have never had a complaint of money was collected to pay all the loan collections out in the field. rude, rough, or unkind treatment." building bills plus a surplus for the Mr. Johnson is no Jekyll-Hyde, Johnson's collection career began organ! Now Johnson collects debts though. He carries over into his sum- during the depression when every- continued on next page January 1953 11 I Johnson things don't get settled until fall. Johnson has found Minnesota stu­ -'41 continued from previous page Farmers get their money and the dents generally very good in paying. I professional people get theirs only "We seem to meet our goal of keeping of former students throughout the I after the threshing and harvesting. loans liquid, with loan assistance state and neighboring communities. What I often do is take a post-dated continually going out and coming "I gather my accounts in May and check from these small town busi­ back in." begin searching records," he ex­ nessmen payable after harvest time! The personal contact is.what John­ plains. "Then I group them into itin­ son likes best about his summer work. eraries- for example, going along "ONE OF my greatest satisfac- "I follow some people year after ~ highway 61 I'll reach debtors up tions," Johnson adds, "is that year," he says. "I see their first office, through Sandstone, Duluth, Superior, I haven't made these people feel cha­ their first job. I meet their husband j and the Iron Range communities. grined, but tried to make their alma or wife, I see their first baby, I watch Then I'll circle around to Grand mater both father and mother aca­ their first efforts at home buying and Rapids, down 169 through Aitken demically and financially." As the establishing themselves in a profes­ and that way. It takes about five of only University representative seen sion. I have made friends all over 1 these circuits to cover the state. I by many of these alumni after they the state as a result of this - people always take care of the unsecured ac­ leave school, Johnson is a kind of I'll stop and visit years after they are j counts like board and room debts blotter for gripes about "mean teach­ through paying." right away." ers" and University weaknesses. For Why does Johnson like his job? Johnson offers this revealing in­ these complaints, he says, he tries to "Well, it's putting into practice the telligence: apply the "proper therapy." More things I've always been most inter­ • During the summer he travels often, he hears the University praised ested in- social psychology and hu­ some 10,000 miles to make about 500 by its alumni. man relations. The daily things that separate visits or contacts, in cover­ "Though we're a secular, large, and are mundane to a lot of people- ill­ ing the state accounts. impersonal institution, we seem to ness, small successes, children's prob­ • About half of the people who owe build up a remarkable esprit de corps lems -these are exciting to me. In money live in the Twin Cities; the in our students. There is a closeness my summer job in the field I work rest are scattered throughout the and feeling of loyalty that one never with people all the time-and I like state. expects," he says with a smile. people!" • The mobility is "terrific"; in almost half the cases Johnson speaks with the parents of students who have moved. • In approximately half the cases the people who owe money are just Elmer Johnson beginning professional careers as sets out collecting lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers. with his leather HAT IS THE Johnson tech­ brief-case ... "To Wnique of collection? convince students "You have to be very careful in who owe us mon­ dealing with people who owe money," ey that they are he says. "Their attitude will depend not unique in any a great deal on your approach. I way," he says, make the collection extremely pri­ "] frequently tell them about a vate, not discussing it with the hus­ U survey which band or wife- we don't want to showed that dur­ hurt anyone's pride. I try to show ing a period of these former students that they're eight years in the not unique at all, that many of our '30's, 80% of our students have borrowed money. students went "Then we try to work out a pro­ through the U on gram of payments, based on their in­ student aid-eith­ come. We can't interfere with their er on scholarships real needs. A car, for instance, is a or on U loans!" necessity - not a luxury - for a doc­ tor," Johnson continues. "We work out special adjustments. In rural communities for example, The Minnesotan 12 In a year's sojourn UMD family discovers PERUVIAN PARADOXES

HESTER W. WOOD, director of C the office of student personnel services at the Duluth Branch, took his family-Mrs. Wood, Robbie, 16, lI Marilyn, 9, and David, 20, to Lima, I Peru, a year ago when he was named to a UNESCO commission on educa­ tion in Peru. After a two-week "indoctrination" period at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Wood family took up resi­ dence in a picturesque section of Lima, and the changes in their living style really began. Marilyn and Robbie went to all­ The UMD Wood family-Robbie, Marilyn, Chester W., Mrs. Wood, and David girl and all-boy schools respectively. -revive memories of their year's Peruvian sojourn by examining souvenirs. Co-education is just getting a foot­ hold in Peru, and in the lower grades it is still unknown. Peru in search of information about be instituted in Peruvian schools was The Wood's living tempo relaxed. Peruvian schools. He saw Peruvian not well received. Yet at the time Such luxuries as the three-hour lunch jungles from the air. He went by troubles between students and admin­ hour were not at all hard to take. canoe and motor launch up jungle istration had closed four Peruvian With housekeeping help delighted to rivers, infested with bloodthirsty in­ universities. work for the princely stipend of 200 sects and vicious foot-long fish. In the mountains of Peru, the soles ($16) per month, the Woods Woods found spectacular natural found it impractical not to employ HE Wood children discovered beauty and fascinating Indian cere­ a maid. T many differences in the schools monials and celebrations. In her Marketing was a vast change from and scho~l activities. A teacher meant cities an emerging series of social that chore in the States. Instead of just what he said when he advised improvements made them conscious shopping in a single supermarket the class that he would "dictate." that Peru was hard at work better­ where one might buy meat, dairy The teacher would open a text book ing the lot of her people. products, groceries, greenstuffs, and and read all period, requiring stu­ But after a year in another land sundries, Mrs. Wood now had to visit dents to copy his words verbatim. and another culture, the Woods were a half-dozen separate markets. With teachers in limited supply happy to be home. "It's good to be She bought steak for 50 cents a and their time at a minimum (many back where we don't have to boil pound, oranges for 15 cents a dozen. were part-time teachers who had other all of our water," said Mrs. Wood as But she found that she had to pay $1 occupations) as many courses as she resumed her household duties for a box of graham crackers and possible were compressed into the in their Morley Heights residence in two to three times the American "bimester," half a semester. Duluth. "It's wonderful to feel the price for breakfast foods and many The Wood children also discovered pace and purpose of American educa­ other processed items. that extracurricular activities were tion again," was Mr. Wood's com­ Mr. Wood, on the other hand, lux­ almost unknown, except for some ment. "I just wish I could make the uriated in gasoline at seven cents choral singing or an occasional game kids around here understand how per gallon, haircuts at 30 cents. And of Rugby. lucky they are to have the schools. one dollar bought movie tickets for Among the many suggestions for they do," declared 16-year-old Rob­ the whole family! educational improvement Mr. Wood bie. "It's good to see the snow when Mr. Wood changed his traveling made as UNESCO consultant, his Christmas comes," observed 9-year­ habits somewhat, too, as he roamed recommendation that student councils old Marilyn. January 1953 13 Scandinavian Studies continued from page 5 Agriculture Department Gets Revamped, many Scandinavian plays put on by the University Theatre - both in Retitled "Institute of Agriculture" small, experimental productions and as part of the Theatre's major se­ THE UNIVERSITY'S Department Other units will continue to be re­ ries. Says Gustafson, "It is this of Agriculture has been reor­ sponsible to the dean through an constant vital relationship to a large ganized to conform with other similar assistant dean of the ·Institute. These number of representative depart­ University educational units and to include the agricultural schools and ments that makes the Scandinavian increase efficiency in the organiza­ experiment stations at Crookston, program a vigorous and useful one." tion. Morris, Grand Rapids, and Waseca; "The Hangman," by Nobel prize­ One of the major changes made the School of Agriculture at St. winning playwright and novelist Par was the renaming of the Department Paul; the agricultural experiment sta­ Lagerkvist, was staged by the U of Agriculture as the Institute of tions at Duluth and Rosemount; the Theatre last spring. It was part of Agriculture, to conform with the In­ St. Paul campus business office; the a four-day public institute, Art and stitute of Technology. Office of Admissions and Records; Society in Modern Scandinavia, ar­ The Institute will have the same the Information Service; and the ranged by the Program in Scandi­ functions as before the reorganiza­ Library. navian Area Studies in cooperation tion. It still includes teaching on the Teaching and research divisions with the Walker Art Center and the college level and in the five Schools (such as agricultural economics, hor­ Minneapolis Institute of Art. At the of Agriculture, research, and agri­ ticulture, and plant pathology) will sessions, guests: heard experts dis­ cultural extension activities. be known as departments rather than cuss Swedish architecture, saw two All of the University's work in the as divisions. These departments will Danish art films, visited exhibits field of agriculture, forestry, home still be responsible to the Experiment on Finnish painting and Norwegian economics, and veterinary medicine Station director for their research printmaking. will be centered in the Institute. Three functions and to the Resident In­ Drawing on experts from this major units of the newly-designated struction director for their teaching country and abroad, the program Institute will be the Agricultural Ex­ functions. has sponsored two other institutes­ periment Station, Resident Instruc­ As a means of clearing up confu­ one on Democratic Folk Movements tion, and the Agricultural Extension sion caused by similarity of names in Scandinavia, and another on Scan­ Service. and titles, the reorganization was en­ dinavia in a Divided World. Dean of the Institute Harold Macy dorsed by University officials, espe­ "These institutes and the public will have five principal assistants as cially in the Institute itself. It was lectures we hold from time to time named on page 4. also approved by the Advisory Coun­ are basic to the University's Scandi­ cil of the University's Department navian program," says Gustafson. FURTHER CHANGES m the set­ of Agriculture, which is made up of "For it isn't just an academic project up are as follows: agricultural leaders throughout the with a series of basic courses and state. research projects. It should reach The Agricultural Experiment Sta­ out to inform the large off-campus tion will be responsible for all re­ Nutritionist Grace Brill public about urgent problems in search. Scandinavia's international relations Resident instruction will be under Attends Food Institute and new developments in her arts a director who will he assistant dean Extension nutritionist Grace Brill and social sciences." for the College of Agriculture, F ores­ attended the National Food and Nu­ "The Program," wrote President try, and Home Economics. The col­ trition Institute in Washington, D. C., Morrill in a recent statement, "has lege will continue to include the in mid-December. She served on a many fine achievements to its credit. Schools of Forestry and Home Econ­ special committee concerned with I have been particularly impressed omics, both headed by directors, and the adequacy of the American diet in by the widening cooperation that it the academic departments. terms of nutritional health. has enlisted on an interdepartmental The Agricultural Extension Serv­ More than 400 representatives of basis in the setting up of a variety ice will operate as in the past and governmental and non-governmental of new courses dealing with social, will include extension education work agencies, including over 35 state ex­ economic, and political aspects of in agriculture, home economics, and tension nutrition specialists, attended modern Scandinavia and its people; 4-H in all counties of the state. the Institute. by its use of experts from the Scan­ The School of Veterinary Medicine Among subjects discussed at the dinavian countries; and by the pub­ will now he a separate unit directly meeting were the country's progress lic impact of the program through responsible to the dean of the In­ in the nutrition field and ways of its several conferences." stitute. . strengthening nutritional programs. 14 The Minnesotan The President's Page

UST AS THE STATE and its developing pattern of J needs and problems changes, so must the University steadily respond by reorganization to tackle these prob­ lems and meet these needs. To one who sits at the center of things, nothing is plainer than the constant change which is going on in the colleges and departments and in the general operating pattern of the University. The departure by retirement, and sometimes by death, of outstanding University leaders who have pioneered in their time, imposes the necessity and offers the oppor­ tunity for the discovery and the appointment of others competent to carry on this process of continuous change and more effective response to the job the University must strive to do. The retirement of Dr. C. H. Bailey as dean of the In­ An outstanding poultry research man, Dr. H. J. Sloan, stitute of Agriculture follows the completion of a splen­ succeeds Dean Macy as director of the Agricultural Ex­ did administrative achievement. Crowning a distinguished periment Station, which will be responsible for all re­ career at the University extending over more than 40 search within the Institute. years, Dr. Bailey was instrumental in the reorganization Dr. A. A. Dowell, distinguished land economist and of the Department of Agriculture which took place offi­ livestock marketing specialist, becomes the director of cially on November 7, 1952. The University feels keenly Resident Instruction and assistant dean for the College the retirement of this outstanding biochemist and ad­ of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics. Under ministrator. Nevertheless, we may hope to gain the bene­ Dr. Dowell will also be the Office of Short Courses re­ fit of his mature judgment and long experience in the sourcefully directed by Dr. ]. 0. Christianson. years ahead as Dean Bailey takes an honored place among Mr. Paul E. Miller will continue as the able and dy­ the University's elder statesmen. namic director of the Agricultural Extension Service, Dr. Harold Macy, who has succeeded Dr. Bailey as with its state and county extension progrems and the 4-H dean of the Institute, brings to his new position both program. long teaching and administrative experience and an in­ Dr. T. H. Fenske as assistant dean of the Institute will ternational reputation for work in dairy microbiology. continue his competent leadership in the supervision and In view of Dean Macy's wide acquaintance among agri­ coordination of the Institute's several schools of agricul­ cultural and educational groups throughout Minnesota, ture and the outlying experiment stations, with additional and the great confidence which he enjoys among his pro­ responsibilities under the dean of the Institute. fessional colleagues, the administration of the new dean Not yet chosen will be an assistant dean of the Insti­ of the Institute of Agriculture promises much in scientific tute in charge of the School of Veterinary Medicine, who advance and educational achievement in agriculture. will report directly to Dean Macy. The entire reorganization of the Institute was planned wHILE THE Institute of Agriculture will retain the by staff members of the old Department of Agriculture same functions as the older Department, the ad­ under retiring Dean Bailey and was endorsed enthusi­ ministrative reorganization should result in a much astically by the Advisory Council of the Department­ clearer public understanding of the relationships among a council made up of agricultural leaders throughout the its various components. state. All of the University's work in the fields of agricul­ Under its new title and with its outstanding leadership ture, forestry, home economics, and veterinary medicine the Institute appears to be off to a flying start as the will be centered in the Institute. Under Dean Macy five new year begins. principal assistants will administer these fields of work. They are the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, the director of Resident Instruction, the director of the Agricultural Extension Service, an assistant dean as administrative assistant to the Dean, and an assistant dean in charge of the School of Veterinary Medicine. January 1953 15 dANUARY 15 TO FEBRUARY 15, 1953 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY THEATRE Subscription Series Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 2-8-"Lute Song" by Raymond Scott, et al. Jan. 23---Jascha Heifetz, violinist. (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. except Feb. 8, 4:00 Jan. 30-Artur Rubinstein, pianist. p.m. Single tickets, $1.20. Sales begin the Wednesday he· (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 fore the week of the opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at Scott Hall.) the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reserva· CONVOCATIONS tions call University extension 6225.) t Young People's Concert Jan. 22-Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra rehearsal. Jan. 27-St. Paul Auditorium, 1:45 p.m. Jan. 29-Hans Christian Sonne, financier. (Admission arranged through local schools.) Feb. 5-Julien Bryan, film-lecture, "Tito's Yugoslavia,~ Coffman Union Ballroom. UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE (Northrop Auditorium, except where noted, 11 :30 a.m. Feb. 4--William Warfield, baritone. Open to the public without charge.) Feb. 11-Michael Rabin, violinist. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY $1.50 to $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week Jan. 21-"Day of Wrath," Danish film. of the concert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 Jan. 28-"The Medium," Italian film of Menotti opera, Northrop.) t sung in English. (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign Ian· SPECIAL LECTURES guage films have English subtitles. General admission at Jan. 27-Arthur E. Gordon, professor of Latin, University Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, junior admission $.35. Tickets of California, "The Development of Stone Writing Among for staff members at $.60 available in the basement of the Romans," 8:30 p.m. Murphy Hall Auditorium. Open W esbrook Hall and the Campus Club.) t to the public. Feb. 5, 6-"The Quiet One," American documentary. Feb. 2-JJr. Eric Mann, educator, traveler, and lecturer, (Nicholson Auditorium, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. General ad· "Today in World Affairs," 3:30 p.m. Museum of Natural mission, $.40. Tickets must be purchased in advance in History. Open to the public. the basement of W esbrook Hall or the Campus Club.) , Feb. 9-The Countess of Listowel, European journalist, "Can the Kremlin Hold the Satellites?" 3:30 p.m. Mu­ UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES seum of Natural History. Open to the public. Jan. 23-William Cowper, A Critical Life. Maurice J. BENEFIT PERFORMANCE Quinlan. $4.50. Feb. 14-Parade of Quartets (Barber Shop), Heart Hos· (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul book­ pita! Benefit Performance. stores or may he ordered through your local bookstore.) (Northrop Auditorium, 8:15 p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 to $3.00 on sale at the Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Voices of Europe . . . A series of tape recorded inter­ NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SERIES views with Europeans who are "alive and sensitive to Jan. 18-"Bird Magic in Color," Dwain W. Warner, the tragedy and dilemma of conditions that surround curator of birds, Museum of Natural History, and assist­ them." Thursdays at 1 :30 p.m. ant professor of zoology, reports on the Cornell Uni­ People Under Communism ... This series of hour-long versity-Carleton College Mexican expedition. programs deals with the subjugation of people in Iron Jan. 25-"Critical Locations in the Twin Cities," John R. Curtain countries. Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. Borchert, associate professor of geography, traces de­ The Ways of Mankind ... A series of studies of man velopment patterns responsible for the present form and his development by leading anthropologists and of Minneapolis and St. Paul. sociologists. Tuesdays at 1 :30 p.m. Feb. }-"Nature's Half Acre," Walt Disney sound film. Classroom lecture . . . Sociology of Work. Theodore Cap· Feb. 8-"Nevada-The Awakening of the Desert State," low, associate professor of sociology. Mondays, Wednes­ sound film. days, and Fridays at 1 :30 p.m. (Museum of Natural History, 3:00p.m. Open to the public (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 without charge.) on the dial. Its complete winter schedule may be obtained UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS by writing to the station.) Through Feb. 13---Historical Photography in America. A ATHLETIC EVENTS selection of photographs from the Eastman Kodak Com­ pany from 11!50 to lYOO, including pictures of the early Basketball Games at Home West, Civil War, and experimental photos. Jan. 17-lowa. Jan. 23-Feb. 22-Malcolm Myers. A collection of prints Jan. 24---0hio State. and tempera paintings by Malcolm Myers, assistant pro­ Feb. 7-Purdue. fessor of art, University of Minnesota. (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Single tickets at $1.75 go on Jan. 23-Mar. 6-Coptic Textiles and Contemporary Jewel· sale the Monday of the week before the game at the ry. A series of Egyptian textile pieces and remnants, Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) t rich in color and design, which form a background for Hockey Games at Home a selection of contemporary jewelry by five West Coast Jan. 30-31-North Dakota. jewelers. Feb. 13-14--Michigan. (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.25 go on of Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Mon· sale the Monday of the week before the game at the day through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall. General admission before performances and during intermissions.) the night of the game only, $1.00.) t Tickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Building in Minneapolis.

In this issue ••• EVERYONE RECOGNIZES the Know Your University part that doctors and nurses played in the recent polio epidemic; but very few know the behind-the-scenes story of how a tireless group of U Hospitals maintenance men kept life­ saving respirators running, around the clock. See page 3. A POET AND CRITIC of distinc­ tion is now a professor of English at the University. Allen Tate talks about his career as writer and teach­ er, page 7. BUYING AND CARING FOR home equipment is part of the train­ ing of many U home economists. See page ll to find out what these students learn, plus tips on buying. IT MAY BE NO CATASTROPHE if your room thermometer is a few degrees off, but it's a major mishap for a research scientist. As head of the U Standards Lab, John Wertz, physical chemistry, checks thermom­ eters and many other measuring de­ vices for U departments. Page 12. On the cover . .• Pillsbury Hall Given the grisly February landscape, we decided to ILLSBURY HALL was named for in the early days. A 1921 bulletin of turn indoors for our cover P former Minnesota governor and University buildings notes that the this month~ Hence the pic­ University benefactor John S. Pills· entire basement of the building then ture of Ivan Majdrako:ff, as­ bury who, back in 1889, presented served as the student health service sistant to the director of $150,000 to the state for construction with a 27-bed capacity. the University Gallery. He's of a "science hall." Today Pillsbury, better known as shown setting up a display In return for his gift to the Uni· the Geology building, houses the de­ of native Indian and Eski­ versity, Pillsbury asked "some assur· partment of geology and mineralogy mo art of the Pacific North­ ance that, when I am dead and gone, and Minnesota Geological Survey. west m Northrop's third this institution shall be kept for all According to a 1908 Directory of floor gallery. More about time broad in its scope, powerful in the University, the building is 240 I van, his job, and enthusi­ its influence, as firm and substantial feet long and 77 wide. Its exterior of asm for the University, p. 10. in its maturity as it was weak and red and white sandstone has black­ ened with the years and gives an ag­ struggling in the days that saw its THE MINNESOTAN birth." ing but solid and sturdy appearance. Vol. VI No. 5 A steeply pitched red tile roof, a The Minnesotan is published monthly The Legislature gratefully accepted during the academic year, October the gift, adopting resolutions which facade of four arches, and a high through May, by the Department of were suitably engrossed and which tower make the building look like a University Relations, University of Min­ dark fortress. nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies were hung in Pillsbury Hall, pledg· are mailed free to University staff mem­ ing "itself and the faith of the state The interior of Pillsbury, like so bers. Subscription rates for those not to preserve the University for all many University buildings, was re­ on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a done by Johns Hopkins and now has copy. Photographs, unless otherwise times intact as a single institution." credited, were taken by members of the The departments of animal biology, halls of pearl gray, forest green, and University Photographic Laboratory. botany, geology, mineralogy, and bright red. The modern decorating Entered as second-class matter at the scheme contrasts with the glass cases post office at Minneapolis, Minn. paleontology complete with lecture, Copies of this issue are on sale at recitation, laboratory, and museum of ancient rocks and other geological Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. rooms were quartered in Pillsbury specimens on display in the halls. The Minnesotan 2 +--Clarence McKelvey fixes a port m the respirator of a U Hospitals patient.

The Bacli:stage Battle against POLl 0

University Hospitals crew kept respirators running to save hundreds of lives

N IRON LUNG looks something ends and evenings- from June to and ended at 8:00 a.m. the next day A like a boiler tank fitted with November, servicing, shipping, and when polio was here. Our big prob­ four plastic windows and six metal checking the desperately needed res­ lem was making certain we always ports. A patient whose respiratory pirators. had enough respirators for ourselves muscles are paralyzed lies enclosed H. Fred Hamilton, maintenance and the hospitals in the area, includ­ in the respirator from his neck down. supervisor at U Hospitals, who spear­ ing Sister Kenny, General, Ancker." About 16 times a minute a set of headed the operation, says: The respirators came from pools bellows pumps air in and sucks air "Our workday started at 8:00 a.m. all over the United States, Hamilton out of the low-pressure respirator, making a soughing sound r~ther like A recently received respirator is put into perfect working order by George gentle snoring. The rhythmical in­ Hilton, !., as William Mattox checks its internal pressure on a manometer. crease and decrease of air pressure causes the patient's lungs to expand and contract - in other words, to breathe. A conventional respirator costs about $2300. Its real value is impos­ sible to determine. It is worth as much as a human life, for it is the only means of keeping alive patients with acute respiratory polio. Handling, servicing, and shipping these respirators is a life and death fight against time. Last summer, when polio struck hard in Minnesota, the l_Tniversity became a pool for respirators in the upper midwest. U Hospitals received 93 respirators from all over the country and shipped 73 out again. Mechanics and main­ tenance men at U Hospitals worked around the clock- without com­ plaints and without glory. They put in 793 hours- many during week- February 1953 3 .------

explains. "They came in every way have a meeting to plan a new piece patient from his room in the polio _, you can imagine - sometimes by of equipment. It may have been sug­ station to the ambulance entrance of army and navy plane, sometimes by gested by a doctor, a therapist, or a the hospital," says Hamilton. overland trucking or 'railway ex­ maintenance man. Somebody will "Several times we've pushed an press," says Hamilton. "I'll never for­ recommend a footboard to prop up 800-pound respirator, containing a get how a hospital in North Dakota the patient's feet inside the iron lung patient, from one extreme end of the sent a highway patrol car to escort and prevent 'foot drop'- the flabbi­ hospital to the other. We work with its respirator up here!" ness of foot muscles that makes some 50-foot extension cords and plan the Some people needed respirators for polio patients shuffle when they walk. route in advance so we can pull the only a few days, some for weeks and "Or someone else may dream up a cord out of one socket and plug it even months, Hamilton explains. "On Rube Goldberg device that will turn into another without missing a single a Friday evening we might have 14 pages automatically for respirator respiration enroute. standbys not in use. By Sunday our patients. If we think a suggestion "The really ticklish part is getting polio cases had often jumped so high seems reasonable, we'll ask the sci­ the patient out of the hospital and we'd be on the phone canvassing for ~ntific apparatus shop or one of our onto the truck. The respirator con­ extra respirators any place in the own boys to make it up. taining the patient is very carefully country that could spare them. One thing I will say, during the entire epidemic this year we always had enough on hand, and never had to have any made specially, like we did back in '46." Receiving and shipping the pre­ cious respirators was just part of the hospital crew's work. They also had to inspect the iron lungs and keep a 24-hour vigil to see there was no breakdown. Thanks to a special wir­ ing job done by electrical foreman Adolph Green and his crew, duplicate switches were installed to eliminate the risk of overloading circuits and causing a breakdown that would have meant operating every respirator by hand.

ERE'S HOW Hamilton describes H a typical day during the epidem­ A. F. McGilp, maintenance foreman, and Fred Hamilton, U Hospitals main­ ic's peak in August or September. tenance supervisor, estimate the number of respirators they'll need for the day. "At 8:00 a.m. we begin, ready to stick with it all day if necessary. We "After this," Hamilton goes on, loaded onto a transfer truck with a haven't a man who wasn't willing to "we have a conference with the local hydraulic tailgate. To prepare them work the clock around, often at great representative of the National Foun­ for operating the respirator manually inconvenience. At 8:00 we make a dation to decide on our requirements on the trip, the doctor briefs our complete tour of the three polio sta­ for the day and also to build up for maintenance men about the number tions. We check all respirators to see the weekend when we seem to get our of respirations per minute and the that they're in perfect order, then heaviest load. Sometimes we've had depth of respiration this particular service and oil them. We keep a log as many as 23 respirators going at patient needs," Hamilton says. of all our incoming and outgoing res­ once-all makes and models." "Before we take off, and while the pirators, and we record the serial respirator is still plugged into an number and room location of every HE DAY'S BIGGEST headache electric socket in the hospital, the respirator in use. T and biggest challenge is moving men practice working it by hand. "While that's going on," Hamilton an iron lung patient from U hospitals One man will turn the switches that continues, "we have maybe unloaded to another local hospital. This re­ control the depth; another cranks one or two respirators at the ambul­ quires the most exacting teamwork; the lever that regulates the number ance entrance, and then we check the slightest mishap could be fatal. of strokes per minute. They've got these over and service them." "Usually three men from our crew, to get it timed absolutely perfect! "Then maybe a bunch of us will plus a doctor and nurse, wheel the "When all this is synchronized," 4 The Minnesotan ~ says Hamilton, "we're ready to take off. The cord is pulled out and the I respirator is now operated entirely by hand. We start moving, and it's a ~ regular caravan! Heading it up is a I police car from Protection and In­ vestigation, with its siren blaring away. Next is the transfer truck with the driver, the patient in the respira­ tor, the doctor and nurse and main­ tenance men. "I follow last in my car so I can observe the whole open end of the truck while we're moving. I carry extra 50-foot cords so that if there should be a hitch we could plug the respirator into a socket in any home or place of business along the way. "We always plan in advance the smoothest, most direct route with the least traffic. We managed to make more than 15 moves across town this year without any mishaps! "Back at the hospital we start the whole business of receiving, check­ ing, replacing respirators all over Hydraulic tailgate truck moves respirator patient from U Hospitals to an­ again. Through the summer and most other local hospital. It's a team job involving doctor, nurse, maintenance men. of the fall, it was a never-ending job," he concludes. summer. Like the men on the crews what it meant when a kid got polio Hamilton, who has been at the Uni· he put in hundreds of hours on week­ and had to get treated right away­ vers1ty 32 years, himself pitched into ends and evenings. or else! Well, there were no com­ the battle against polio with single­ He tells, with a grin, about his plaints after that. In fact," he chuc­ minded devotion during the long, hot rather weird Saturdays: kles, "I once overheard one of my "Whatever spare time I had last neighbors saying in a friendly kind Gay W ahlstedt throws the emergency summer I worked on building an of way on the phone, 'I wonder how control switch for respiratory cir­ addition to my garage," he explains. the polio man is making out!' " cuits. This special system of dupli­ "Well, during the epidemic my Sat­ Another U hospitals staff member cate wiring prevents power failure. urdays at home were out of this who oversaw much of the mainte­ world! I had a 40-foot extension cord nance work is maintenance foreman strung from my phone into the gar­ A. F. "Scotty" McGilp. Among the age where I worked, and believe me, other crew members who worked I lived at the end of that phone on around the clock during the emer­ weekends! I was in constant touch gency: Otto Christensen, Leo Gru­ with doctors and hospitals and Na­ ette, George Hilton, William Mattox, tional Foundation people locating Clarence McKelvey, Harold Olson, and releasing respirators. James Pepper, Bob Rosenkranz, Gay "Why, sometimes it took five hours Wahlstedt, and Lowell Walsh. long distance phoning to get hold of In tribute to the Hospitals crew, a single respirator. And my eight­ Mr. Les Walters, state representative party telephone line didn't help any! of the National Foundation for In­ (We live in a rural area.) I heard fantile Paralysis, says: "The Founda­ rumors that people on the line re­ tion is more than grateful to Mr. sented my tying up the phone most Hamilton and his staff for the out­ of the day. standing service performed in keep­ "Well, I caught a couple complain­ ing Minnesota hospitals supplied with ing about it once, and boy, I really life-saving equipment during the 1952 gave it to them! I asked them did polio epidemic. The entire state owes they have kids and did they know a great deal to these men." February 1953 5 Photograph /or The Minnesotan by John Croft

The Minnesotan Talk with Allen TATE

One of America's most distinguished men of letters tells of the road that has brought hi1n to Minnesota

HE DAY we called on him in for people like me who don't want colleges and universities in the coun­ This Folwell office, Allen Tate, who to--and can't-write a best-seller!" try. I'm convinced that's true." was wearing a tweedy suit and smok­ Mr. Tate went on to say that Er­ As for Minnesota's size, Mr. Tate ing Fatimas rather rapidly, looked nest Hemingway was the only first­ is less aware of it than he had ex­ up from his work, and began talk­ rate writer he knew who makes a pected. "In a university as large as ing in a soft southern accent about living at his writing. Most writers, this, one tends to think about it in writing and teaching. he said, are forced to find full-time small units, so it doesn't seem so "I've tried nearly every kind of jobs. In England several of them very big after all. I was much more literary occupation," he said with a have gone into publishing houses, oppressively aware of size in a small wry smile. Born in Clarke County, but "publishers there work at a college where everyone knew every­ Kentucky, in 1899, he was graduated reasonably slow pace; they have at­ one else." from Vanderbilt University, where tracted men like T. S. Eliot and What Mr. Tate likes best about the he was associated with the southern Herbert Read. I worked in an Amer­ University is the freedom allowed its literary agrarian group known as the ican publishing house for several faculty. "This freedom is greater Fugitives. (The group included for­ years and found the pace so hectic here than anywhere I've ever been, mer University of Minnesota English I couldn't even write a letter!" and I have more opportunity to do professor Robert Penn Warren, now "Many writers," Mr. Tate added, my own work. All members of the at Yale. Says Mr. Tate, "All our "have the delusion that they need a graduate faculty are expected to do group but one is up north now, at livelihood from an occupation not at just that. It's what keeps them alive, universities .... We're sort of carpet­ all connected with their writing. I gives vitality to their teaching." baggers in reverse !") think that's very bad. In most cases What was Mr. Tate doing now? At various times during the last it leads to a kind of schizophrenia: "As usual," he said dryly, "I'm toss­ two decades Mr. Tate has been: you're just split in two between your ing 15 balls in the air all at once." holder of the chair of poetry of the work and your writing. Teaching-if He is working on a long poem that Library of Congress; poetry and you happen to like it, as I do-is has been appearing in sections in sev­ belles lettres editor of a New York a very happy solution. My courses eral of the leading "little" maga­ publishing house; and editor of the at the University [Interpretation of zines. In April or May Henry Reg­ Sewanee Review. His teaching career Poetry, Literary Criticism] are so nery will bring out Mr. Tate's latest has taken him to Southwestern Uni­ much an extension of my own work book of critical essays, all of which versity in Tennessee, Princeton, New outside of class that they merge have appeared in print since 1948. York University, and lately to Min­ quite beautifully. The collection is called The For lorn nesota, where he is professor of Eng· Demon-after an essay on Edgar lish. During this time he has written OW DOES Mr. Tate rate Minne­ Allan Poe, whom Tate compares to and edited more than a score of H sota among the many places "a forlorn demon staring at his im­ volumes of poetry and criticism. where he has taught? age in a mirror." "Till I was 36," he explained, "I "Well, I could put it this way: "I'm also doing a whole book on was entirely a free lance writer and Although Minnesota is a state in Poe for the American Men of Letters never had a regular job of any kind. which some attempt is made to edu­ Series. And I've almost finished a Then I discovered I was writing cate all the people, we have here at comparative study of Poe and Dante things I didn't want to write just to the University a tradition that up­ --a project I've had in mind for the make money, so I began to teach. I holds the very highest standards-as past 15 years. I don't compare them think teaching is the only solution high as the best privately endowed continued on page 14 February 1953 7 Norma Hovden, who started with the U libraries in 1943, now the circulation department which includes the main library Lee I. Smith, chief of the Organic division of the lation desk, reserve desk, Upson room, and Johnston hall School of Chemistry, has been a member of the Na­ tional Academy of Science for nine years. Smith is one of the three U faculty members elected to the U STAFF MEMBE Academy for high achievement in scientific fields. YOU S

During December, psychology professor Donald Norman Min drum has taken over duties as executive directo G. Paterson traveled to Ohio State University to of the National 4-H Club Foundation of America. Previous! receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He he served as assistant Minnesota 4-H Club leader at the also edits the Journal of Applied Psychology.

The Minnesotan A $21,616 U.S. Public Health Serv· ice grant for cancer research has been made to John Wild, research associate in electrical engineering.

Head of the College of Education's student-teaching program is Paul R. Grim. His department supervises 500 students who teach in 177 schools .

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Familiar face around Coffman Union is that of Pat Barton, clerk typist, who does student personnel work under Hans Hop£, assistant director of the I Union. Pat says she doesn't have time for hobbies I IJLD KNOW because housekeeping takes up all her extra time.

In her eighth year at the University, Katherine Reik enjoys her job as office supervisor in the General College office. She likes to hike in her spare time.

February 1953 9 I ~ U Gallery "Idea Man'' Finds I Local Art Activity Booming

hibits should be presented. • Current and upcoming exhibits "It's a fascinating procedure," he for which Ivan will work out instal­ says. "We have a schedule of exhibits lations and publicity (he also designs for the year- paintings, pottery, gallery posters and catalogues and drawings, posters, photography. Each appears frequently on radio and TV exhibit poses an entirely different dis­ art programs) : history of photogra­ play problem- for every show we phy, metal sculpture, Japanese prints, are faced with the problem of divid­ and shows by U art faculty members ing the available space. The hangings, Malcolm Myers and Allen Downs. partitions, or panels must be in keep­ Majdrakoff says the Gallery's ex­ ing with the tone of the exhibit." hibits are really a team job with a As he takes you to the newly re­ good deal of overlapping: Mrs. Law­ Majdrako!J arranges a display of Na­ lighted fourth floor of the gallery, rence coordinates the ideas and goes tive Arts of the Pacific Northwest. Majdrakoff explains how he works: through complicated arrangements "What I really try to do is to con­ for the shows. Betty Maurstad, cura­ JVAN MAJDRAKOFF is a person- sidr.r each exhibit like a single paint­ tor, often does research connected able and intense young man who ing and work out a total overall with them. I van plans the exhibit, for the past year and a half has been composition. This boils down to cap­ and "Hawkie" (Carl Hawkinson), assistant to Mrs. Ruth Lawrence, di­ turing my own psychological reac­ who is a whiz with a saw and ham­ rector of the University Gallery in tion to the works of art and then mer, translates his suggestions into Northrop Auditorium. trying to bring out their most salient wood and fabric, making all the props His early years were spent within features." with his assistants. Jean Huddleston, the New York City public school sys­ Here's how Majdrakoff has dra­ gallery secretary, makes the labels. tem; later he studied painting and matized recent Gallery displays: And then the exhibit goes up! design in Cranbrook Academy of Art • For a show of light, airy, Alfred Majdrakoff is delighted with the in Bloomfi ;}d Hills, Michigan. Maurer watercolors the huge fourth Gallery. "Mrs. Lawrence has built up The Majdrakoffs- his wife paints floor gallery with its unrelieved our reputation so that we get stuff under the name Julia Pearl- came length was divided by hanging panels from institutions which are ordinari­ to Minneapolis in September, '52. of white cheese-cloth stretched on ly willing to send things only to the When Ivan isn't working at the gal­ white frames. This did the job of country's major museums. Then, too, lery he's most likely painting rigpt breaking up the space; and the the space and possibilities for creative alongside his wife in their huge gauzy, transparent cheesecloth blend­ display are much greater here than studio. He complains goodnaturedly ed effectively with the watercolors. in eastern galleries where it's so and with a certain husbandly pride • For a show of master drawings, crowded, about all you can do is set that she keeps on taking first prizes some of the drawings were displayed pictures up side by side." in local contests like the Art Institute on long, waist-high pink counters; Biggest Gallery obstacles, Ivan and State Fair shows-while he of­ curving out from the fourth floor feels, are the absenee of an elevator ten gets seconds or thirds! The cou­ gallery's gray walls, these tables broke and the fact that the fourth floor is ple's most recent coup was the $100 up the long gallery and permitted the rather inaccessible except for con­ awards each got for their entries in spectator to get closer to the very certgoers and the hardy enthusiasts the Hallmark Christmas art show; detailed drawings than he could if who can climb four flights of stairs. the entries were reproduced in Life. they were all hanging on the walls. (The third floor gallery is handier.) What is Ivan's job at the gallery? • Majdrakoff tends to hang pic­ As for Minneapolis, the Majdra­ Primarily he is concerned, he says, tures a bit lower than they are tra­ koffs are as delighted with it as a with "installations," which means the ditionally hung, on the theory that eouple of kids with a new toy. "We're setting up of exhibits from start to "most museums hang pictures at the really amazed at the art activity here. finish. Not only does he receive sight line of guys like me- 6'1" and Julie and I have had more opportuni­ paintings that come in for exhibit; over! I try to remember that most ties to exhibit our work than we ever he is basically an "idea man," who people aren't that tall, and I put would have in New York. In short," dreams up ways in which the ex- them nearer the average sight line." I van grins, "we lik0 it fine!" 10 The Minnesotan Home Equipment Course Teaches P' s and 0' s of Pots and Pans"

OUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT is taking the drudgery H out of the lives of American women, giving them Instructor Doro­ more leisure time. thy Bonnell, r., Yet most women could get far more satisfaction from supervises Janice their appliances and other equipment if they knew more Haier, home ec about buying them wisely and caring for them properly. junior, who com· With that in mind, the School of Home Economics pares baking re· added to its curriculum four years ago, two courses in sults in oven and household equipment: a basic course required of every electric roaster. home economics major, and an advanced course cover­ ing special problems. After spending some time in home equipment lectures At the end of the course, students have a basic knowl· and lab periods, a home economics student can come up edge of every piece of equipment in the laundry and with sound suggestions about: what materials to use on kitchen. kitchen counters and floor, what kitchen arrangement Because of the tremendous interest, an intensive course will save most time and energy, how to choose and care in household equipment will be offered by the University for kitchen, laundry, and cleaning equipment. this summer from June 15-July l. It is designed especially Instructor Dorothy Bonnell says the objectives of the for home agents, home economics teachers, and other course are not only to train students to buy and care practicing home economists. For further information for equipment wisely, but also to show them the funda­ about the course, write or phone the School of Home mental physical principles behind every appliance used Economics, University Farm, St. Paul. in the kitchen and laundry. Through actual experience working with equipment in the laboratory, students learn how to operate and care for it and compare different models available on the marke_t. Buying Pots and Pans? One laboratory assignment might be to bake on cookre If you're just starting housekeeping, or if you sheets of different materials to see how they affect brown­ need to replenish your supply of pots and pans, ing. Another day the girls will compare meals prepared you'll appreciate some tips from Dorothy Bon­ in the oven, in a roaster, and in a pressure saucepan as nell, in charge of household equipment at the to expense and convenience, as well as appearance, taste, University of Minnesota. Her advice is to look and flavor of the product. for pans with: But their big project during the quarter is to plan a • Straight sides kitchen with all the equipment that is to go into it. Each • Flat bottoms student must plan the kitchen for a family of a particular • Rounded corners s:ze and income in a definite locality. To make the project • Handles that are heat resistant as practical as possible, many of the girls who are en­ and welded to the pan gaged to be married draw kitchen plans for themselves. • Tight-fitting lids Some re-arrange their parents' kitchens. • Material that will transfer heat Drawing a kitchen plan, showing arrangement of cup­ evenly boards and all equipment, is only the first step in the Buy only what you can use. Complete sets of project. Students must decide what materials sh?uld go pots and pa:1s are impractical and expensive un­ into cabinets, floor, counter tops, and wall covenng and less you are sure you will use every one. must select brand names for 16 different pieces of equip­ Miss Bonnell adds this caution: Don't believe ment, including such major items as range, refrigerator, the false statements about the dangers of using wa~her. To be sure that each girl has actually made a aluminum - statements which are spread by study of available equipment, she must compare her house-to-house salesmen in an attempt to make choice with appliances made by two other manufacturers, homemakers discard perfectly good pots and discussing advantages and disadvantages of each and pans for new, expensive sets of other materials. giving reasons for her selection. Aluminum is perfectly safe to use. In fact, it is Time and motion studies, too, are made of the kitchen an ideal material for cooking utensils because in the project, to show how many steps tlw homemaker must take when working. is is ~uch a good conductor of heat. February 1953 11 1 At lJ Standards Lab 1

• • • ACCURACY Is the Best

Wertz prepares a platinum resist­ Poliey ance thermometer for a "test run."

OHN WERTZ unlocks the door to nace is for thermocouple testing. Motioning to a metal case about J the glass- enclosed room in the Wertz gives an example of the the size of a small doghouse, Wertz basement of the Chemistry building kind of havoc that inaccurate meas­ explains that it is used to test ther­ and steps into the unpretentious lab­ uring instruments can create: "Sup­ mometers. Connected to this box is oratory. No letters on the door an­ pose a firm contracts a manufacturer what is called a Mueller bridge, a nounce that this is the University to make parts for their machine of a machine that measures resistance to standards laboratory, one of the few specified diameter. If the manufac­ l/10,000 of an ohm. places in the country where various turer's micrometers are off just a On our ordinary thermometers types of fundamental measuring de­ fraction of a millimeter, the parts temperature is measured by the vices can be checked for accuracy. simply won't fit." length of a mercury column, but at Wertz, assistant professor of physi­ "The great bulk of our calibration the lab temperature is measured cal chemistry and head of the stand­ is on temperature measuring devi­ much more accurately by resistance ards lab, explains that most of the ces," Wertz says. "When someone of the platinum wire registered by work done here is for the University's buys a thermometer there is no guar­ the Mueller bridge. As the tempera­ biological and physical science and antee that it is registering the correct ture of the platinum wire increases, engineering departments. But some temperature. To most of us who own its resistance will also increase. A test runs are made for outside firms. room thermometers, a few degrees schedule transposing temperature de­ "We stick to fundamental types of either way doesn't make any differ­ grees into amount of resistance is calibration that commercial firms ence, but in a research lab, it's a mat­ used as an aid to calculation. don't offer, like accuracy of weight, ter of considerable importance." The platinum thermometer and the length, temperature, voltage, resist­ test thermometer are placed in the ance, and current," Wertz says. ERTZ moves over to one of furnace where resistance is measured The lab began a year ago upon a Wthe three long laboratory tables, at an arbitrary checking point, say recommendation made by Wertz to opens a wooden box, and uncovers a 160 °. Then the test instrument is IT Dean A. F. Spilhaus. Spilhaus saw carefully packed thermometer about checked against the standard ther­ that the project would be a conven­ two feet long. This coil of platinum mometer, and the difference, if any, ience because the National Bureau of wire is a resistance thermometer, the is noted. If the test thermometer is Standards, which calibrates all Uni­ lab's primary reference for tempera­ off a few tenths of a degree, regis­ versity standards lab checking instru­ tures from -183° to 500° Centi­ tering 160.22° instead of 160°, the ments, had developed such a back­ grade or -300° to 930° Fahrenheit. research workers can subtract the log it took from six months to a The king-sized "thermometer" is appropriate value when they use it. year to check instruments. worth about $250. "If it were to For each instrument tested, the stand­ Scattered about the lab is what break, it would take about six months ards lab issues a certificate stating appears to be a hodge-podge of com­ to have a new one calibrated at the the degree of accuracy. plicated machinery. But Wertz ex­ National Bureau of Standards," Dean Spilhaus says of the lab, plains that each instrument has a job Wertz cautions. That's why only two "Numerous departments of the Uni· to perform. A glass case at the back men, Wertz and research assistant versity and one or two outside in­ of the room holds weights for com­ Robert Batdorf, work in the labora­ dustrial concerns have already had paring masses, a tall structure with tory. Overhandling or carelessness standardization and calibration work slots for a meter bar tests lengths, a with an instrument might cause it to performed on campus. The labora­ small stand with a ruled glass slide be dropped or scratched resulting in tory promises to be an important and microscope is used for check­ inaccuracy. In the first year over 75 unit for service to all-University re­ ing short lengths, an insulated fur- tests have been run. search." 12 The Minnesotan "We Lilie It Here~"

Say Oldtimers from Oak St. Lab

"THEY'RE beginning to call the Oak Street Lab the old peo­ ple's home," laugh the two oldsters who inspired the lab's new moniker. Herman Fors, at the University 28 years in July, and Lauritz Clausen, with the U 33 years, both work at the Oak Street Lab and are due to retire this spring. But of all the U's staffers these two old friends are probably the two most reluctant to leave the University. Clausen explains it this way. "We may talk about how fine it would be to retire, but when it gets to be just Cooperation by two old friends, Lauritz Clausen and Herman Fors, gets a five or six months away, it's hard to board sawed in a jiffy on the power saw in the Oak Street Lab workshop. think of leaving." Herman seconds Clausen's sentiments when he says, Herman and Lauritz worked in has the stuffed head in his cottage. "By now I know every corner of the Experimental 13 years together until A glance at some other group pic­ Experimental Engineering building 1937 when Clausen was transferred tures shows that Sugar Lake has (where he works most of the time) , to Oak Street. Both work at what been the favorite spot for many and it'll be like leaving my home." they term "a little of everything" in­ University parties. Clausen recalls Both men are small, wear rimless cluding carpentry, machine work, those days when, "The faculty and glasses and have gray hair. Herman anything else that needs to he done. everybody from engineering would is the taller of the two, Clausen the come out for a party one or two times rounder. "All over the campus they AVE they any definite plans after a summer." He promises that "when know me by Herman, but Clausen H retirement? Herman says no, but I retire, I'll have time to have people here, he's always called by his last Clausen, who is a bachelor, has been out, and we'll have some really big name," Herman explains, a touch of preparing for years. He points to a parties." Swedish accent betraying his Scandi­ batch of snapshots that hang above And Herman will be a very willing navian ongm. Clausen originally his desk. They show his cottage and guest as he has been so many times came from Denmark back in 1905 garage that he built himself at Sugar in the past. A few years ago he was and proudly flies a Danish flag below Lake about 60 miles from Minne­ a great dancer and even taught his the American flag on his lake home apolis. "I'm going to move out there wife to dance. But now when his flagpole, he tells you. and fish for the rest of my life," he wife asks him to polka, he shakes his Herman, a senior lab attendant, has plans. head and takes to the cribbage board been taking care of instruments for Fishing is a favorite sport with as a less strenuous form of entertain­ students at Experimental Engineering both men. They've done quite a bit ment. for years and has seen thousands of of it together and will never forget What do these two oldtimers think students come and go. He boasts that the time they dragged in a mess of of the University after a combined he could find friends all over the 75 sunnies, two and one-half pounds total of 61 years in its employ? world among these former students if each, in a couple of hours. But they Herman says he has been perfectly he wanted to travel. Right now Her­ found more sport in bagging one big satisfied with his job from the very man is on loan to the Oak Street Lab one. Clausen says it weighed 15 first day because "we have always where he is helping to build a cold­ pounds, Herman claims it was 18, worked under such fine men." Clau­ room for mechanical engineering re­ but anyway it was the biggest pick­ search. sen calls the U, "the best place of erel they ever caught. Clausen still work I've known." February 1953 13 Allen Tate Winter Quarter Regents' Scholarships continued from page 7 Awarded to 20 University Staff Members as poets-this would put Poe at rather an unfair disadvantage-but Twenty staff members will attend medicine; Gladys L. Johnson, junior I do compare them historically and University classes winter quarter on librarian, catalog department; Mary philosophically." Regents' Scholarships, the civil serv­ Krecklow, secretary, Social Science ice committee has announced. Research 'Center. ESIDES TEACHING, writing, The scholarship winners are taking Christa Kosswig, secretary, ana­ B and revising, Tate has several courses which will help them in their lytical chemistry; Jean McCarthy, responsibilities which take him off jobs at the U. The courses include personnel supervisor, admissions and the campus and even out of the reading guidance, shorthand, letter­ records; Howard G. Nessel, store­ country from time to time. He is a ing, 19th Century Scandinavian liter­ house manager, chemical storehouse; member of the National Senate of ature, abnormal psychology, and gen­ Mira Niessner, senior clerk, agricul­ the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is eral zoology. tural library; James H. Rothenberg­ also on the board of advisers for The 20 winter quarter winners er, senior medical photographer, den­ a handsome quarterly, "Perspectives are: Eva R. Ansell, junior librarian, tistry. USA," put out by the Ford Founda­ library; Sally Berg, senior clerk, ad­ Marion Strom, clerk-stenographer, tion in German, Italian, and French vanced standing; Beverly Bergen, University High School; Constance editions; an anthology of American clerk - typist, community program Wiederholt, clerk-typist, Student Ac­ creative and critical writing, it is service; Dwain J. Caldwell, drafts­ tivities Bureau; Elsbeth Jean Wool­ sent to artists in Europe to foster man, physical plant; Marcella Ann dridge, senior clerk, inventory; J o­ greater understanding. Fakler, clerk-typist, air science and seph Zdechlik, principal stores clerk, Mr. Tate himself has become a tactics. inventory. roving ambassador of the arts. Last John Z. Garwick, technical labora­ Further details about Regents' fall he and Thornton Wilder rep­ tory assistant, chemistry; Martha A. Scholarships and application blanks resented American literature at a Gordon, principal clerk, University are available at the civil service per­ UNESCO Arts conference in Venice. College; Mary Goss, junior librari.m, sonnel office, Room 14, Administra­ Last May he spent two weeks in geology department library; Marce­ tion Building, Minneapolis campus, Paris at the International Exposition lene Hanson, clerk-typist, veterinary University ext. 6398. of the Arts, sponsored by the Con­ gress for Cultural Freedom. (Other F. Stuart Chapin to Give Charter Day Convocation American writers who attended: W. Annual Social Science To Feature Pageant H. Auden, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, and Research Center Lecture Highlighting University Week, Feb­ Glenway Wescott.) At the confer­ ruary 22-28, will be a special Char­ ence Mr. Tate read the lecture he The Social Science Research Center ter Day pageant presented at convo­ had delivered at the University's Phi of the Graduate School will hold its cation Thursday, February 26, at Beta Kappa meeting last spring, "The sixth annual public lecture on prob­ 11:30 a.m. in Northrop Auditorium. Man of Letters in the Modern World." lems of current interest in the social The pageant, called "A Streetcar Purpose of the Paris conclave, said sciences February 25, at 3:30 p.m. in Named Intercampus," uses as its Mr. Tate, was "to demonstrate to Murphy Hall Auditorium. theme the familiar intercampus trol­ Western Europe the creative vitality Dr. F. Stuart Chapin will speak on ley around which a series of humor­ of the free west, to expose encroach­ "New Horizons in Social Science Re­ ous, historical sketches are woven. ments of the Soviet Union on the search." Dr. Chapin was formerly di­ Skits depicting classroom scenes, the artistic life of Europe, and, by im­ rector of the School of Social Work U testing bureau, a football player plication, to win over those Euro­ at the University for 27 years and taking a final exam are among the pean artists and intellectuals who chairman of the department of soci­ scenes in the pageant. may have been inclining toward ology and is internationally known Members of the University Thea­ commumsm.. " for his work in the social sciences. tre, University Symphony Orchestra, Although he had some reservations This may be his last public appear­ and music department will take part about whether these conferences really ance before his retirement from the in the 40-minute pageant. accomplish their ambitious aims, Mr. University in June. University Week, honoring the one Tate said hopefully, "They do give In his talk Dr. Chapin will treat hundred and second birthday of the writers and artists from the free na­ social science research from the in­ University, will feature displays in tions a chance to get together and ternational and national aspects, deal­ Twin Cities store windows, alumni talk-and something always comes ing with UNESCO and new teaching meetings, and speeches in out-state cities by faculty. of that!" theories in social science research. 14 The Minnesotan The President'~s Page

Television: A Challenge to the Edueator

N THE PAST WEEKS the University has had the Since early 1951, beginning with a special docu­ I pleasure of cooperating with a truly astounding num­ mentary prepared for WTCN-TV (now WCCO-TV) by ber of other Minnesota educational groups and organi­ the staff of KUOM, University of Minnesota personnel zations in the formulation of a concrete proposal to have appeared almost every week on both KSTP-TV and establish an educational television network. WCCO-TV. Educational program materials-from a con­ At the end of January the Minnesota Citizen's Com­ servation series for children to a documentary on taco­ mittee for Educational Television was putting the last nite and a regular weekly broadcast of agricultural in­ touches on this proposal for presentation to legislative formation-have been made available to Minnesota tele­ leaders in St. PauL Included is a request that a State vision viewers for almost three years. Commission be created by the Legislature to determine program policies reflecting the considered judgment of ET OUR EFFORTS thus far in television necessarily all the major educational interests in the state. Within Y have been more sporadic than sustained, more mod­ the Commission's policy framework, the University as est than bold. We have only begun to di~cover the pos­ the proposed licensee would conduct a professional tele­ sible uses of the television camera to amplify and ex­ vision operation, drawing heavily upon the resources of tend our day-by-day University teaching job. many elements in the Minnesota community. Whether or not the Legislature decides· to grant the There is abundant evidence to demonstrate how pro­ request of the Minnesota Citizen's Committee, it would foundly the coming of television has altered the leisure­ seem foresighted that each of us on the staff of the time as well as the purchasing habits of our population. University begin to look at his own subject-matter and The chairman of the Federal Communications Commis­ his own teaching methods with an eye to their adapta­ sion has seriously compared the coming of television to bility for the new medium. the invention of printing, and there is food for thought The directed seminar, the lecture, the informal discus­ in that statement. In many homes in which there is little sion, the demonstration-none of these should be over­ read but the daily newspaper, the television receiver pres­ looked as possible vehicles for the widest variety of sub­ ently provides a day-long flow of persuasion, entertain­ ject materiaL We must think not only of audiences rep­ ment, advertisement, and information. resenting a majority of our people, but also of specific The television industry thus far seems to have con­ needs of the professional and economic groups whose ceived of its function primarily as a means of selling television receivers can make our University facilities goods and services, with a philosophy of trying to please available in living rooms, offices, and meeting-places for all of the people all of the time. 75 and 100 miles around. Non-commercial television, on the other hand, does not As of the first of the year, well over 320,000 television suffer from the compulsion to please at any cost the mass receivers were in use in the area served by Twin Cities audience. It conceives of its task as the same one in commercial television. As each receiver can be consid­ which each of us at the University is engaged- the task ered to represent a family, the Minnesota television audi­ of educating. ence already must be calculated as close to a million At Iowa State College we have seen a "pilot plant" people. Surely within the resources of this complex and for American educational television at work for almost articulate University we shall be able to discover a great five years. In the Iowa example, in the example of a many intellectually stimulating materials for this vast score of institutions throughout the nation which have audience-much of it, perhaps a goodly proportion of it, received generous cooperation from commercial stations, hungry for reality, for useful knowledge, for fruitful we can begin to see the future of television in education. ideas. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, indeed, such cooperation has ber.n notable. To date 15 educational institutions or groups, from Connecticut to California, have formally applied for or have been granted licenses by the FCC to operate educational television stations and networks. February 1953 15 FEBRUARY 15 TO MAR~H 15, 1953 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES Subscription Series Feb. 15-"Winter on Superior's North Shore," by Dr. W. J. Feb. 27-All orchestral concert. Breckenridge, director, Museum of Natural History. Mar. 6-Wagner's Opera "Parsifal," concert version with Feb. 22-"Wilderness Areas," a kodachrome-illustrated the Apollo Club and the Cecelian Singers; soloists-Set visit to two legally preserved wild areas by Harvey L. Svanholm, tenor; Margaret Harshaw, soprano; Marko Gunderson, Museum of Natural History assistant. Rothmueller, baritone; Desire Ligeti, basso. Mar. 1-"A Naturalist's View of Florida," color film and Mar. 13--Paul Hindemith, composer, guest conductor. talk by Whitney Eastman, vice president of General (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 Mills. to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at Mar. 8-Canada's Banff and Jasper Parks," sound film. the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reserva­ (Museum of Natural History, 3:00 p.m. Open to the public tions call University extension 6225.) t without charge.) Twilight Concert UNIVERSITY THEATRE Mar. 1-Ervin Laszlo, pianist. Feb. 20, 21, 23-Mar. 1-"Peer Gynt," by Henrik Ibsen. !Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Tickets $.50, $.75, and (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. except Mar. l, 4:00p.m. $1.00. Sales begin the Monday before each conc~rt at the Single tickets, $1.20. Sales begin the Wednesday before the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. All tickets re­ week of the opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott served.) t Hall.Jt Young People's Concert UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Feb. 19-Northrop Auditorium, 1:30 p.m. Through Mar. 6-Coptic Textiles and Contemporary Jewel­ (Admission arranged through local schools.) ry. A series of Egyptian textile pieces and remnants, rich Special Concert in color and design, which form a background for a Feb. 20-Viennese program, Irra Petina, soprano. Benefit selection of contemporary jewelry by five West Coast for Symphony Pension Fund. jewelers. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single ticket~ from $1.00 Through Mar. 9-Malcolm Myers. A collection of prints to $3.00. Tickets on sale at the Symphony Twket Office, and tempera paintings by Malcolm Myers, assistant pro­ 106 Northrop.) t fessor of art, University of Minnesota. UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE Feb. 23-Mar. 9-Art and Music, Young People's Symphony Mar. 9-Vladimir Horowitz, pianist. Art Project. A display of school children's impressions (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 of symphonic music, done in water colors, finger paints, to $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of the pastels, crayon, wire, and other art media. concert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) t (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of CONVOCATIONS Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday Feb. 19-Brotherhood Week panel discussion. through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open Feb. 26-University Charter Day pageant with the Univer- before performances and during intermissions.) sity symphony orchestra, theatre, and music departments. SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Mar. 5-"Harvey," the University Theatre. (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to the public with­ Folk Songs and Footnotes ... Broadcasts presenting both well-known and little-known folk music of the world out charge.) SPECIAL LECTURES ranging from Tibet to Trinidad and showing similarities Feb. 26-Cecil Tilton, author, educator, and Far East au­ among peoples. Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. Man and Society . . . This series brings to the air spe­ thority, "Far Eastern Affairs." Museum of Natural His­ cialists in science and art who will interpret and evaluate tory Auditorium 3.30 p.m. Open to the public without conflicting views in this critical period. Speakers in­ charge. clude: Anthony West, Malcolm Cowley, and Gilbert Mar. 4-Arthur Bliss Lane, former U.S. Ambassador to Seldes. Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. Poland, "Dangerous Concepts of Government," Museum BBC World Theatre ... A new series of dramas !tan­ of Natural History Auditorium, 3:30 p.m. Open to the scribed from the British Broadcasting Company. Wed­ public without charge. nesdays at 3:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on Feb. 18--"Brief Encounter," British film of Noel Coward's the dial. Its complete winter schedule may be obtained by drama. writing to the station.) Mar. 4-"Magic Garden," South African, and "David," British prize-winning documentary. ATHLETIC EVENTS Mar. 11-"Water Birds," Walt Disney Tru-Life Adventure, Basketball Games at Home and animated cartoons. Feb. 16-Michigan. (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign lan­ Mar. 7-Indiana. guage films have English subtitles. General admission at (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Single tickets at $1.75 go on Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, junior admission, $.35. Tickets sale the Monday of the week before the game at the Ath­ for staff members at $.60 available in basement of W es­ letic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) t brook Hall and the Campus Club.)t Hockey Games at Home Film Classics Feb. 19, 20-"Grand Illusion," French early classic anti- Feb. 20, 21-Denver. war film directed by Jean Renoir. Feb. 27, 28--Brandon College. Feb. 26-"Stage Coach," American western. (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.25 go on (Nicholson Auditorium, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. General admis· sale the Monday of the week before the game at the Ath­ sion, $.40. Tickets must be purchased in advance in the letic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall. General admission the basement of Wesbrook Hall or the Campus Club.) night of the game only, $1.00.) t Tickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St · Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Building, in Minneapolis.

In this issue •.. MANY OF THE U's professors emer­ Know Your University iti are busier now than they were before retiring. The Minnesotan here­ with sketches the activities of four of the . best-known emeriti-Profs. Bell, Beach, and Ferguson, and Presi­ dent Emeritus Coffey. Page 3. NOT MANY PEOPLE wouid give up a week's vacation time to go fight a flood. But that's just what Louise Liggett did last spring. Louise, a sec­ retary in Continuat;on Medical Edu­ cation, manned a Red Cross mobile unit in flood-stricken Bismarck. N.D. She tells about it on page 7. . SUNDAY AFTERNOONS at Cooke Hall are something to behold: staff members and their children invade the basketball courts and the pool; the apparatus room rings with the shouts of kids swinging on ropes and bouncing on the trampolines. Come with us to a staff-family gym session, in words and pictures on pages 10 and 11. PICTURE CREDITS: Page 3. Dick J?hnson; page 5, John Croft; page 6, Cor­ bm Gwaltney, Johns Hopkins University; Nicholson Hall pages 10-11, John Croft. On the cover . .. EDATE Nicholson Hall, which ties the west wing was added. In Though never to our knowl­ S now houses General College and 1925 the Campus Club moved into edge the subject of an ode, the Extension division, once bore the the newly built east wing where it the old intercampus is dear proud insignia of a U.S. battleship. had a lounge, library, dining room, to the hearts of thousands of The Regents' docket for Sept. 26, and ten sleeping rooms. daily commuters to and from 1942, scheduling Nicholson as head· The fourth remodeling took place the St. Paul campus and U quarters of the U. S. Naval Train­ shortly after the building's name was Village. The cover photo does ing School (Electrical) reads as fol­ changed to Nicholson Hall in honor look a bit mild for March­ lows: "Voted that for the duration of Edward E. Nicholson, dean of hut then, we can dream, of the war or for such period as it student affairs from 1917 to 1941. can't we? Photograph by may be occupied by the Navy de­ The 1946 reconditioning made room Walter Zambino. partment, the former Men's Union for 18 classrooms, Extension divi­ sion, bookstore, University of Minne­ shall be designated as the USS Min­ THE MINNESOTAN nesota." sota Press, and the social science de­ Vol. VI No.6 Four times during its varied ca· partment. An auditorium with a seat­ The Minnesotan is publi~hed monthly ing capacity of 500 was added to the during the academic year, October reer Nicholson has undergone major through May, by the Department of remodeling. After its construction in rear of the building, and a series of . University Relations, University of Min­ 1890, it was occupied by the depart­ glass doors replaced the dark hole nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies that previously served as a front en­ are mailed free to University staff mem· ments of chemistry and physics, but hers. Subscription rates for those not in 1914, the hall was remodeled for trance. on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a the use of the men of the University Part of University Theatre still copy. Photographs, unless otherwise credited, were taken by members of the and became the Minnesota Union. occupies Nicholson. Racks of gay University Photographic Laboratory. It then contained a kitchen and costumes line walls of the third floor Entered as second-class matter at the costume shop, and in the scene shop post office at Minneapolis, Minn. dining rogms, lounging rooms, of­ Copies of this issue are on sale at fices, a ball room, Little Theater, wooden planks are transformed into Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. and game rooms. In the early twen- colorful stage settings. 2 The Minnesotan The Grand Old Men

Young in spirit, the u~., professors emeriti continue to lead bus}, fruitful lives

E. T. Bell, pathology

HE UNIVERSITY'S professors emeriti are a ven­ into two parts: one is a survey of the autopsies of those T turesome lot. Scattered all over the United States­ U hospital patients who died of diabetes during the time indeed, throughout the world, many of them are still Bell has been here. Professor Bell is examining tissues hard at work. Teaching continues to occupy a good num­ from 1600 diabetics to learn: when they had the disease, ber of them, but some have gone into fields as diverse as how long they lived, what changes took place in the fruit-ranching (Frederic Mann, professor emeritus of pancreas and kidney. architecture, has a small "ranch" near San Francisco) The second part of his research involves producing and atomic research (IT dean emeritus Samuel C. Lind experimental diabetes in rats. Bell has found that patients is consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, Oak who get diabetes late in life usually have enough insulin Ridge, Tennessee). in the pancreas to get along-this means the disease The Minnesotan would like to follow the post-retirement results from something more than simple insulin short­ careers of all these men whose work has added luster to age. Bell is hunting down clues to see what else causes the name of the University. But space permits only a diabetes. small sample-four men who continue to represent the Prof. Bell's work is not confined to the three days a highest traditions of scholarship, research, and devotion week he spends at his University office. The other two to education. week-days he serves as consultant in pathology at the VA hospital. There he still gets a chance to keep his teaching hand in by instructing one class a week in tumor Elexious T . .Bell~ ("Tommie" to diagnosis for residents and clerks. hosts of friends and students), is among the country's "I guess the only concession I've made to retirement is moEt distinguished pathologists. After 39 years at the that I don't work Saturdays, like I used to." And Bell University, he retired as professor emeritus of pathology confesses he doesn't feel quite the same pressure to get on June 30, 1949. in at 8 o'clock sharp. But on July l, 1949 he was back at his old desk in Bell says he misses teaching, but he still hears from a 101 Anatomy, and he has been coming in regularly ever good number of 3- or 4,000 students he has taught over since. "I come to the office three days a week and work the years. just about as hard as I ever did," Bell says. "I have re­ "Everywhere I go to lecture-and I've been to Michi­ ceived a U.S. Public Health Service grant which pays for gan, Montana, Washington, and Texas recently-I'm a technician and supplies, and I am working on the same always finding some Minnesota boy who remembers problem that's absorbed me for years-diabetes." me." Right here in the University's Medical School are The research Bell is doing in diabetes is really divided continued on following page March 1953 3 former Bell students Harold Diehl, Owen Wangensteen, he says. "There's nothing like the U's Bach Society at and Cecil Watson. But Professor Bell adds dryly, "The Macalester-and I miss it. But I will get a chance to con­ number of people I see is decreasing, I would say ..." duct this spring-an all-Beethoven program with the St. Since his retirement Bell has not only continued his Paul Civic Orchestra, which is affiliated with Macalester." research, but has also edited a widely used symposium Ferguson gets to his office about 9:00 every day and on Hypertension, published by the University Press; he works through till about 5:00. Administrative details and has continually revised his standard textbook on pathol­ meetings consume roughly three-quarters of his work­ ogy and his monograph on kidney diseases. He even day. The rest is spent teaching. finds time to take in meetings of professional groups "I teach the history of music, about which I'm sup­ like the American Diabetes Association and the American posed to know something-! have written a hook about Association of Pathologists. it [The History of Musical Thought]. I also teach piano, What is Bell's formula for a fruitful retirement? and I give a course similar to one I taught at the Uni­ "I'd say it's just indispensable for someone in the versity called ''The Basis of Musical Expression." sciences to continue after retirement to engage in some Ferguson's steely eyes glinted as he warmed up to his activity that challenges his interest, or to keep on with favorite subject with real esthetic delight. "This is not his previous line of research .... As for me, I'm a lot so much the mechanics of elocution, hut the getting out happier working than being idle." of an idea-how does music 'say' what it has to say? Professor Bell confesses his recreation is "rather mild." This is a long and complicated business about which He says he isn't much of a hunter or fisherman, that he I've written a whole book I hope to publish one day. used to play golf but gave it up because "I really wasn't "But one can say briefly," Ferguson continues, "that very good at it." What short vacations he takes are music is really a most subtle concatenation of tensions usually in the winter, when he sometimes drives out with that correspond to the tensions our emotions produce Mrs. Bell to visit a daughter and two granddaughters inside of us. We haven't any names for most of what in Laguna Beach, California. goes on inside us . . . and there are no real names for Bell still smokes his three or four cigars a day and these feelings evoked by music. Also, the rhythm in music regards the idea of giving them up as "preposterous." in some mysterious way corresponds to our physical pat­ His only hobby, he says with secret delight, is "working terns of reaction: the rhythm of the slow movement of those double crostics that appear in the Saturday Re­ Beethoven's Eroica suggests the internal rhythm of our view, though I'm not smart enough to answer 'em with­ arms and legs in grief ... " he broke off, "But I could out looking things up. I've sort of lost my taste for the go on with this forever!" ordinary crossword puzzles-they're too easy to he fun!" Moving to the piano, Fergy began toying with the keys and ruminated aloud, "I guess I just can't help my­ Donald N. Ferguson~ is to self about teaching. It's partly a question of love and anyone hound up in the musical life of the Twin Cities, partly of habit. I've gone round and round so many col­ not just a name, nor even a human being: he is an in­ lege years I just don't want to stop. I'm glad, too, that stitution. Concertgoers know him for the literate, learned, I'm still near the University, where my real roots are." and witty program notes he has written for Minneapolis Right now besides teaching and administrative duties. Symphony performances for 21 years. Others know him Ferguson is writing new program notes, revising his old for his equally delightful commentaries on the Metropoli­ ones for a collection the University Press will put out. tan Opera programs here each spring and for his weekly This scarcely leaves him time for a hobby, he says. "Critically Speaking" broadcasts over KUOM. Looking back over a long and devoted life in music, At the University, from which he retired as professor Ferguson thinks he has enjoyed everything, but most of emeritus of music in 1950, after 37 years-students knew all composing. "If you've got an idea in your head there's "Fergy" as the originator of the University Symphony no excitement like getting it down." Orchestra, as choral director of the U's Bach Society, Hearing a trio he composed some years ago being and as a stimulating teacher of music history. played by Macelester's Flor Quartet recently, he was Stopping in at the Center for Continuation Study after prompted to exclaim to himself, "By golly! That's still his KUOM broadcast late one Friday, Ferguson lit up a a pretty good piece." pipe ("Some people think of pipes as rather plebeian, Now, as always, Ferguson finds it hard to narrow his but I've always enjoyed them") and talked about his interests; teaching, writing, conducting-all these he con­ post-retirement career. His speech is both polished and tinues to enjoy. "I've had a very good time," he says in salty, combining traces of his Wisconsin boyhood and summation, "though l have spread myself out a bit. But his years of musical training in England. then, I'm quite willing to think of myself as an amateur!" "Dr. Turck of Macalester asked me a few months be­ Ferguson concludes epigrammatically, "The only ad­ fore I left the University if I'd go over to head the Macal­ vice I should give a man about to retire is: 'Don't!' ester Music department for him. I was a little diffident People who just want to watch the clouds roll by don't because I hadn't done any administrative work before, watch very long; they just peter out. I intend to keep really, but I think we've stirred up some activity there," right on working." 4 The Minnesotan Walter C. Coffey, president emeritus

Donald N. Ferguson, music

Walter C. Colley~ president the board of trustees of Hamline, a director of the emeritus of the University, and until March l acting YMCA, board member of the Nutrition Foundation of president of Hamline University, says, "I'm really what New York, and president of the Twin Cities Unit, Na­ you might call 'an old bird.' I was retired back in '45- tional Dairy Council. and I was 69 then, a year past the customary retirement And last September he became acting president of age.'' Ham line University, a position he held until March l Despite his talk about advanced age, Coffey at 77, when Dr. Paul H. Giddens was named to the post. gives the impression of real alertness and vigor. At Hamline, Coffey regularly got to his office at 8:30, "I've got my own philosophy about retiring," Presi­ though he confesses taking long lunch hours. His big· dent Coffey says. "I think it means two things: l) doing gest job at Hamline was to round up and inspect talent what you like to do; and 2) not over-taxing your for the presidency. In the course of interviewing candi­ strength." dates he traveled to Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Doing what he likes to do for Coffey includes golfing. Syracuse, Scranton, and Nashville. "I love golf, never played till I was about 50 ... I do During his seven-month stint as acting president, he the best I can but don't play to win.'' (His average: nine found time for giving chapel talks rich in his own rare holes in 45.) His golfmates are retired ag professors brand of anecdote and even for chatting with students W. P. Kirkwood and A. C. Arny, old friends of Coffey's ("It's my policy," he says cannily, "to let on like I know from the old days when he was dean of the Department everyone!") (now the Institute) of Agriculture. "Added to all this was the day-to-day routine of ad­ His other loves are: keeping up with four grandchil­ ministration. But the decisions I had to make came quite dren, taking care of his flower and vegetable garden, naturally after my years at the University," he says. reading "in a somewhat desultory fashion," and color President Coffey does get back to the University oc­ photography, which at 77, he has just begun to investi­ casionally, plans to see more of his old friends here in gate. the future. He has a great fondness for the U, but has All his talk about "taking things easy" is belied by studiously avoided "trying to advise or control. ... When his staggering list of activities and memberships. He has a man leaves a position, he should leave it completely," been chairman of the board of directors of the Federal he believes. Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He is still: chairman of continued on following page March 1953 5 His immediate plans include a trip to California and side of our culture. Many European scholars and teachers Hawaii with Mrs. Coffey. After that he will probably have been hospitably received in the United States, and continue "doing what he likes best." they lay themselves out to make you as welcome over And what would that be? there as they were made here. In essence our ideals and "Well, I tell you," he says, rubbing his chin specu­ sentiments are the same as theirs, and the young man latively, "what really means the most to me is being and woman student of Strasbourg, Gottingen, or Lille is associated with educators and exchanging views with 'nice' in the same way as the student at Urbana, Minne­ them .... That's what keeps you active." apolis, or Baltimore. And, one is tempted to add, young! "My Harvard teaching was the most comfortable, since I was on half time, with three hours a week and one subject at a time. From the point of view of a scholar Joseph Warren Beach~ or writer, the fault of our American university system is internationally renowned scholar and professor emeritus too many teaching hours in too many subjects for too of English, writes us from Johns Hopkins University, many weeks. We seem to think we must do all the work Baltimore, where he is now visiting professor of English: for our students. The retired professor is indeed fortu­ "Here is my history since leaving Minnesota in 1948. nate to get teaching appointments here and there. This First a year of leisure in a California garden reading con­ keeps him in touch with the young-with their vitality temporary poetry. Then a year's appointment teaching and enthusiasm, and with their new ideas. at Harvard, another at Illinois, another at Paris and "For the retired professor the ideal program would be Strasbourg, and this year at Hopkins. one lecture a week in one subject for nine months. He "In the summer of 1950, there were two wonderful could then spend half his time making these lectures months at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. good, and the rest in the cultivation of wisdom and The subjects offered were those most in demand, mainly amenity. American fiction and poetry of this century. Salzburg "You ask about my writing. 1950 saw the pub­ and Paris were the most rewarding because the students lication of A History of English Literature by Craig, represented such a high degree of selection, and because, Anderson, Bredvold, and Beach (Oxford Press) and a in explaining American cultur!! to European scholars, volume of my poems, Involuntary Witness (Macmillan). one felt that one was promoting understanding and good The poems were largely the product of leisure in that will between the Old World and the New. California garden. Since then a few poems and many "We take our blessings for granted, and the troubles lectures for French ears, but no time to put these last of the world have not brought us face to face with Giant in shape for publication. Despair. But the European student, living among the "Arrangements have been made for the reissue this ruins of his world, is fighting for every shred of his year of my study, The Method of Henry lames. This was humanism. He is deeply impressed with the brute power published by the Yale Press in 1918. Last summer and of America, and eager for any glimpse of the humaner fall I spent writing a lengthy introduction to this volume, passing in review the scholarly literature of 35 years, and attempting to bring the whole subject into sharper focus in the light of new information and new critical insights. f oseph Warren Beach, En{{lish "Illinois and Hopkins are great centers of graduate study. Graduate students in English here are picked scholars from all over. Illinois has one of the great libraries. One of their professors told me that in buying they had lost more books to Minnesota than to any other institution. "Everywhere people know about the Minnesota English department, and young scholars are hopeful of getting an appointment there. They still associate Robert Penn Warren with Minnesota, and they brighten up at the mention of Henry Nash Smith, Samuel H. Monk, William Van O'Connor, Leonard Unger, Allen Tate, James Gray, and half a dozen other names of veterans or newcomers. If they are in American studies they salute the name of Tremaine McDowell. Well, our English department has always been known for illustrious scholars, from Fried­ rich Klaeber down through Oscar Firkins and Carleton Brown to E. E. Stoll, who still identifies the name of Shakespeare with that of Minnesota in the minds of stu- dents everywhere from Berkeley to Berlin." AA Th~ Minnesotan Louise Liggett Fights Floods During Her U Vacation

RIVING an eight-ton truck is the waning floodwaters of the Mis­ D tough work for any man, but souri River and serve flood victims Louise Liggett does it - and in her at their doors. spare time! "After the first day or so, all we On call evenings and weekends to had to do was tap the siren, and the drive for the Motor Service of the people were so conditioned they Minneapolis and Hennepin County swarmed out to the mobile unit to Red Cross, Miss Liggett, secretary to get their rations," Louise says. Dr. Robert B. Howard, director of They served cake and coffee and Continuation Medical Education, han­ hundreds of sandwiches and cookies dles both an eight-ton mobile can­ to flood workers and victims who teen unit and a Red Cross station were trying to d;g the mud and silt wagon with ease. from their houses. In one house they Louise worked in the Red Cross saw a home freezer half filled with blood bank during World War II, mud, and a vacuum cleaner perched and after reading a pamphlet on vari­ ous volunteer services, decided the Louise helps a vwtor at the Con­ Motor Service was a good place to tinuation Medical Education Office. continue her Red Cross work. Between mobile unit and station They stayed at a Bismarck hotel wagon calls, the Motor Service keeps every night but could have slept on its drivers busy on jobs which vary the stretchers in the mobile unit if from battling disasters, such as the necessary. Louise calls the unit, which Brooklyn Center tornado and Bush is the only one of its kind in the Lake drowning, to transporting enter­ nation, more complete than any home tainers to performances at the Veter­ kitchen, with a large double sink, ans Hospitals. 100-gallon water tank and hot wa­ After a training period consisting ter heater, full-size refrigerator, six­ of a first aid course, driver's road burner gas stove, its own power gen­ test, orientation to the Motor Service, erating system, electric water pump. lectures on traffic laws, motor me­ Windows open up so people can be chanics, history of the Red Cross, fed from a ramp attached to the unit. and disaster training, Louise became During her two years with the one of the 12 Minneapolis women on Motor Service Louise has: transport­ call to drive the huge mobile unit. ed workers and supplies to and from Energetic, red-headed Louise loves disaster scenes, participated in Civil her Red Cross work. "My most ex­ Wearing hip boots, Louise waded to Air Patrol and Civilian Defense air citing call was to help in the North the canteen unit during floods that alert;o;, driven in parades, taken work­ Dakota floods last April," she recalls. struck Bismarck, N.D., last spring. ers to and from blood mobile op­ Louise shelved her plans for a long erations. two-week summer vacation and ar­ on a roof top. Other homes had been Louise keeps her uniform in her ranged to take a week from her va­ chimney-deep in water. Powell Hall office just in case she cation time to help in Bismarck. The girls worked fast, covering gets a call right after work. "I really She traveled about 1,200 miles as much distance at meal time as look forward to the calls I get every and, along with a canteen worker possible. After dark they parked the two or three weeks. My volunteer who was flown there, worked over unit, made sandwiches, and tucked work seems to fit right in with the 100 hours that week, setting up can­ them away in the refrigerator so type of work I do at the U, here in teen service right in the street. The there would be a supply for the next the Continuation Medical Education girls soon discarded their trim Red morning. "We were so tired at night, office," Louise says, "because both Cross uniforms and donned blue we could hardly pull off our hip are concerned with the health and jeans and hip boots to wade through boots." Louise remembers. welfare of the community." March 1953 7 Frank Whiting, director of the University Theatre, points out tht location of his office on a scale model of the proposed new l; Theatre building. Community support is now being enlisted fo1 a Theatre Building Fund Drive to finance the $700,000 structure~ Besides teaching swimming and camping, physical education instructor Sue Tinker acts as adviser I to the Women's Athletic Association. Mrs. Tinker calls it a big job because over 1000 girls par· U STAFF MEMBERS ticipate in events sponsored by WAA each quarter. YOUSD I Helborg Gilbertson's warm smile welcomes visitors to the office of Ray M. Amberg, director of University Hospitals. Miss Gilbertson has been sec· retary to Mr. Amberg since 1943, and she also doubles as a notary public. Thomas Joseph serves as an assistant dean of the Institute of Technology and professor of mines and metallurgy.

8 The Minnesotan ~· I

Now in her twenty-first year at the ag library Myrtle Hales, senior clerk, works at the aquisition desk send­ ing out, checking in periodicals, and mending books. The American Heart Association has awarded its first career investigatorship to Victor Lorber, professor of physiology. Scientists are chosen for the program with the expectation that the association will under­ write their work for the remainder of their careers.

LD KNOW Dorothy Nicholas, in charge of the educational skills clinic of Student Counseling Bureau, was guest speaker and consultant at the 1953 Read­ ing Institute held in Philadelphia in February. man who keeps the Duluth branch bookstore running smoothly Oliver Anderson. Anderson and his family live on a five­ "farmette" where they grow vegetables and have an orchard.

March 1953 9 The Minnesotan goes to a Staff-Family

families who would like to use the the three flights of stairs, he told us equipment here at Cooke Hall. how the sessions are financed. "Well, I took an informal survey "We started out about a year and a among staff members I knew and half ago, in the fall. I had guaranteed found that many would like the the Athletic department to cover ex­ chance to use athletic equipment. penses, just in case the idea didn't Then I talked to the Athletic depart­ go over. Well, the first two Sundays ment to make arrangements for the we went in the red, but on the third use of Cooke Hall from 3 :00 to 5:00 we cleared. Now we average 80 peo­ Dieter Eckert (son of Ernst Eckert, on Sundays, and they willingly agreed ple each Sunday, about one-third mechanical engineering) shinnies up a to put on extra help in the pool and adults and two-thirds children, and rope while Algund Hermann ( daugh­ locker rooms. we have representatives from almost ter of Rudolf Hermann, aeronautical "They let us use the tennis, hand­ every department of the U. When the engineering) holds it steady for him. ball, volleyball, badminton courts, Athletic department took over the and the apparatus room. Come see sessions this fall, we gave them $90 the two trampolines we have set up," we made last year," Upson adds. IT WAS a typical bleak Sunday aft- Upson said. "They're the elasticized "To cover expenses we charge 25 ernoon in February so we decided mats used by tumblers." cents for adults and 10 cents for to drop in at the staff-family gym In the apparatus room a little girl, children, and when a new family session at Cooke H 3ll to get a little her hair flying and face aglow, ran joins the session we ask $1.00 per summertime recreation-away from to Upson shouting, "Mr. Upson, Mr. family initiation fee. Any staff mem­ the wintry blasts. Upson, I just did a flip on the tram­ ber, academic or civil service, is wel­ When we arrived, it was just 3:00, poline-finally!" Upson beamed and come to come with his family or and children were lined up at the congratulated her. bring guests. door anxiously waiting their turn to At the far end of the room a small pay the dime that would enable them girl clung to the high bar, and then A S WE approached the pool, the to use the pool, gym, and other ath­ dropped lightly to the ground. Two .l1 water was frothy with kicking, letic equipment. Parents- U staff other children, like frisky squirrels, diving bodies- the older children members all- waited patiently with scampered up a rope that was sus­ churning up the deep end of the pool, them. After checking in, the children pended from the ceiling. and parents helping the younger ones scurried to the dressing rooms- the Upson returned and suggested we master the dog paddle in the shal­ girls upstairs and boys downstairs­ go look at the pool. On the way down low end. The three children of Dr. changed clothes in a wink, and head­ ed for the pool and gym. By the time we reached the gym, Always willing to give advice, Ralph Upson briefs these eager swimmers on there were several spirited basketball fundamentals of diving. All three were so wrapped up in the lessons that games in progress with groups of they dove into the pool before the photographer could get their names. teen-age boys thundering back and forth across the floor. As we watched them, Ralph Upson, professor of aeronautical mgineering and origi­ nator of the gym sessions, came over. l!pson, a soft-spoken man who gets along wonderfully with children, be­ gan to tell us how he started the rec­ reational sessions. "Although I'm not much of an athlete myself, I have al­ ways been interested in recreational athletics and thought that there were probably other staff members and 10 ~ Gym Session f Carleton Chapman, medicine, includ­ ing Andie, 6, had already graduated to the deep end. Directly below us three would-be frog men broke water, peered up at us with goggled eyes, Above, John, Jr. shoots for the basket and with a kick of flippers submerged. while John Darley, assistant dean of On the springboard assistant SLA the Graduate School, watches. R., dean Russell Cooper was helping his Arthur Naftalin, political science, two daughters, Julia and Sarah, learn explains some of the fine points of basketball to sons Mark and David. to dive. Upson lined up behind a small girl and waited his turn. The children watched in awe as he exe­ cuted a very nice front one-and-a-half. After a few words of encourage­ ment to the practicing divers, Upson emerged from the pool. "We haven't any formal lessons," he said, "but everyone is very helpful and ghd to give informal advice. "I can see a lot of value in these Sunday sessions besides the tremen­ dous amount of fun we have. They create a greater interest in the Ath· letic department facilities and teams. "Then, too, if some of these little tykes become interested in sports now, by the time they go to college, they'll be pretty well experienced," Upson concludes. "Who knows, may­ be we have some future Minnesota Caught by the photographer at the pool's edge are three intrepid frog-men: athletic stars right here at our Sun­ l. to r., John Nicholson, Bob Barr, (son of Robert Barr, State Board of day gym sessions!" Health), and John Saine (son of Taito Saine, pharmaceutical chemistry).

L. to r., I ngolf Hermann (son of Rudolf Herman~, aero engineering), makes a wild but unsuccessful grab at the rings. Chatting on the parallel bars are Dorothy Gross and Mary Saine (daughter of Taito Soine, pharmaceutical chemistry). William Van O'Connor, English, gets helped out of the pool by daughter Willa and Carol H age;lund. From Main Gym to Leif Ericson Park- drowned out the words. Near disaster threatened when the blazing beacons in a dramatic torchlight scene almost All the World's a Stage set fire to some curtains. And Ham­ let did suffer from the weather as To UMD's Harold Hayes frosty nights came with uncommonly blustery autumn winds and, on one UST four days before Harold Where would the audience sit, peo­ evening, drenching rain whipped JHayes, UMD's theater director, ple asked- on the grass? No, on through the crowd. was slated to put on Marlowe's Dr. bleachers loaned from the National But it wasn't all difficulties. Thou­ Faustus in January, 1951, his son Guard Armory or public schools or sands of people, many who had was born. It was characteristic that anyplace else they could be got. How seen Shakespeare for the first time, the new arrival was named "Christo­ could the actors' voices be heard over praised the productions warmly. The pher" after the 16th century play­ the combined noise of Superior's students and local people who acted wright Christopher Marlowe- for pounding waves, London Road traf­ in the plays said it was a rewarding Hayes often relates experience of the fic, puffing trains, and unruly young­ experience. And several city groups stage to that of life. sters? Well, the actors would just and departments who had contribut­ It was also characteristic for Hayes have to shout out, perhaps with the ed special equipment felt a closer tie to take the joint production of the help of mikes. Hayes figured that to the University Branch. play and the birth of his son in his once the crowd got there they could In his regular productions, Hayes' usual vigorous stride. For he seems be held -barring only a real down­ ingenuity is taxed by UMD's limited to thrive on overcoming difficult situ­ pour or a deep freeze. stage facilities. For I Remember ations. He's used to donning his Mama he supplemented the scenes in "Hayes' casuals"- a pair of dirt­ R. HAYES bulldozed over all Mama's cordial kitchen by construct­ stained coveralls and a battered paint­ M these problems, produced Mac­ ing "stagettes" on wheels. Recently er's cap- and plowing right into beth for a combined audience of he converted the Main gym into a production problems on the stage, in more than 6,000 in 1951 and Hamlet theater-in-the-round, played Shake­ the scene shop, even in Lei£ Ericson for nearly as many last summer. speare's Twelfth Night to a record­ Park on the shores of Lake Superior. Some of the anticipated difficulties breaking audience. The park, with its stone platform did materialize. Without mikes, the PERFECTIONIST when it comes and twin towers, struck Hayes two Macbeth cast emerged from six pro­ to his student productions, Hayes summers ago as a natural outdoor duction nights with just about A has his own notions about the im­ stage for Shakespearean productions. enough voice to muster a faint whis­ portance of theatrical experience in a But he had to overcome a number of per. During some of the most beauti­ student's life. objections to the project: ful soliloquies a tooting ore train "It has been my privilege," he UMD Theater director Harold Hayes gives his 13-month-old son Christopher says, "to watch young persons add an introduction to the world of sock and buskin via Theatre Arts Magazine. 'cubits' to their stature, spiritually and intellectually. I do not exagger­ ate. I know of no human activity which demands the continued highly disciplined use of body, mind, and emotion as does the dramatic role, deeply felt and sensitively expressed. "I have seen young actors come face to face with, and understand, those moments of supreme crisis fro~ which great plays are wrought: falling in love, marrying, taking one's place as an adult, giving birth, win­ ning justly as in comedy, losing just­ ly and unjustly as in tragedy, ques­ tioning all things, pursuing happiness, dying. "I can't help but believe that once having cleared such climactic hurdles imaginatively they will find less for­ midable similar problems they will meet later in actual life." 12 The Minnesotan Alvin Larson's motto-

Man~ Di~ Those CRAZY Weeds!

AKE it from AI Larson, weeds are the craziest plants! T AI (Alvin H. Larson, assistant professor of agri· cultural botany) has been studying weeds for a long time-practically ever since he joined the University staff in 1917. Behind Larson's mild manner and soft speech lies a steadfast determination to help farmers lick the vexing weed problem. He points out that from the point of view of men and livestock, there is something "abnormal" about the serious weed pests. And he likens his job to that of a physician or psychologist studying abnormali­ ties in human beings. The most troublesome weeds are those having some "crazy" characteristic that especially helps them thrive in competition with the "sane" plants that man depends Alvin Larson, l., and H. G. Heggeness, instructor of on for food, fiber, and oil crops. The kinds of plants that botany, examine a giant foxtail, a serious weed pest in farmers cultivate, if left to themselves, could not survive southern Minnesota. The weed often grows six feet tall. the rigors that weeds can withstand. As an example, Larson cites the giant foxtail, a se­ rious Southern Minnesota weed pest that grows six feet grow and reproduce without being disturbed by grazing. or higher. The giant foxtail came to the U.S. from China Weeds are generally much hardier than the neighbor­ -apparently in a shipment of millet seed. This weed, ing plants with which they compete, says Larson. Par­ which threatens to become even more of a problem in ticularly troublesome in this respect is hoary alyssum. the future, not only competes for moisture and fertility This weed, which is specially adapted to the light sandy with farm crops, but by shading out the sun it handicaps soil needed by clover, has often threatened to choke out the farmers' valuable plants. Mow this hardy perennial Minnesota's clover crop. down and it may spring up again in a couple of weeks Larson credits the growing cost-consciousness of farm­ and produce seeds, even if it gets no higher than a few ers with being a major factor in bringing out a realiza­ inches .... To make matters worse, it will produce seed tion of the seriousness of the weed problem, which costs in only two months from the time of germination-a U. S. farmers more than either insects or diseases. shorter growing season than most of the farm crops in Minnesota. ARSON IS NOT alone in his study of weeds. Univer­ L sity departments attacking weed pests through re­ MONG the many other weeds which Larson has "psy­ o:carch include: agronomy and plant genetics, horticulture, Achoanalyzed" are the orange hawkweed, meadow forestry, and agricultural engineering. buttercup, and ox-eye daisy, which are serious pests in Their research leads to recommendation of appropriate the meadowlands around Duluth and on the Iron Range. control methods, such as cultivation and tillage, summer One of the weapons of the orange hawkweed is the fallowing, choice of cropland, grazing, mowing, and the beauty of its flowers. Because of these flowers people rapidly growing use of chemicals. (For the layman, in­ often transplant it to their home gardens, and thus give formation on the subject is contained in Extension Pam­ it a chance to multiply under favorable circumstances. phlet 187, "Chemical Weed Control in Minnesota," The meadow buttercup h "hot" (it burns the mouths of which may be obtained from county agents or the Bul­ livestock), therefore animals avoid it and. permit it to letin Room, University Farm, St. Paul.) grow and reproduce undisturbed. Larson's particular research at the University con­ The ox-eye daisy's "secret weapon'' is its offensive cerns weed distribution, structures, and characteristics. smell and bitter flavor, which keep livestock from eat­ This kind of study provides the basic knowledge neces­ ing it. Like the meadow buttercup, it is thus allowed to sary before weed pests can be controlled. March 1953 13 University of Minnesota Week Extension Division Holds Indian Planning Conclave Features U Lecturers, Displays The first All-Indian Planning Con­ ference ever attempted in the nation was held at the University when the TALLIES REVEAL that the re- exhibit at Minnesota Federal; ento­ Extension division played host to a cently concluded University of mology display of bees at Twin City delegation of 29 Minnesota Indian Minnesota Week, co-sponsored by the Federal in Minneapolis. leaders Feb. 20 and 21. Minnesota Junior Chamber of Com­ The forestry department displayed Purpose of the planning conference merce and the University Alumni Minnesota evergreens at Corries; ge­ was to give Indian leaders a chance Association, was a successful venture. ology, mineral board at the Ryan Ho­ to talk over common problems. The As part of the 1953 University tel and jewel replicas at Weld Jewel­ results 'of their discussions will be Week celebrations (Feb. 22-28), Uni­ ers; University legal history exhibit presented to non-Indian groups at versity faculty members appeared as at J. C. Penney Co.; concerts by Uni­ meetings which will be sponsored by guest speakers at alumni club meet­ versity student musicians at Wylie the Extension division next June and ings throughout the state, and eight­ Piano; nursing department hospital November. een University departments exhibited nursery displays at the Dayton Com­ Discussion topics centered around displays in Twin City office buildings pany and Twin City Federal in St. law and order, claims, opportunities and stores. Paul. for children, community living, and Staff members representing the Naval ROTC had a display at methods of earning a living. Sioux, Cniversity at alumni meetings were Northwestern Bank; ROTC and Air Chippewa, and Winnebago tribal con­ John Akerman, aeronautical engi­ ROTC, Hubert White; soils depart­ ference leaders and council presidents neering, who spoke at Austin and ment, Sterling Electric; University from out-state Minnesota attended the Thief River Falls; George A. Thiel, Theatre, Thorpe Brothers; Univer­ meetings. geology, Cloquet; Harold C. Deutsch, sity Film Society, Albrecht; Univer­ history, Mankato and Minneapolis; sity Gallery, Emporium; University Neville Pearson, audio-visual educa­ Press, Powers; Mines Experiment Education Staff Members tion, Marshall. Station, First National Bank. Attend Chicago Meeting Skuli Rutford, agricultural exten­ On the U Week Committee from Twelve faculty members from the sion, Wadena; J. 0. Christianson, the State Junior Chamber of Com­ college of education attended the an­ agriculture short courses, New Ulm; merce: M. Wayne Field, chairman, nual meeting of the American Asso­ Asher Christensen, political science, Frank Chase, John Sather, and Harry ciation of Colleges for Teacher Edu­ Detroit Lakes; Oscar Jesness, agricul­ Powers. Representing the University: cation in Chicago Feb. 12-14. tural economics, Virginia; Theodore the Alumni Association, University The delegation, headed by Dean Fenske, agricultural administration, Relations, Agriculture Information Walter W. Cook, included professors Chisholm. Service. Willis E. Dugan, Ruth E. Eckert, Edwin H. Lewis, Richard L. Kozel­ President Morrill writes, "I should Paul R. Grim, Palmer C. Johnson, ka, Ben B. Sutton, and CarlL. Nelson, like to add a warm 'Thank you' to Carl L. Nordly, and Ray G. Price. all of business administration spoke the Minnesota Junior Chamber of Arnold W oestehoff, director of the in Minneapolis, as did Robert J. Hol­ Commerce, the Alumni Association, college's bureau of recommendations, loway, entomology; Phillip J. Smith, and those staff members and friends and Cyril J. Hoyt, director of the speech and theater arts; Herbert of the University who worked hard bureau of educational research, also Heneman, Jr., economics. and planned far in advance to make attended. Gertrude Esteros, home economics; this year's University of Minnesota Three members of the art educa­ George M. Schwartz, geology; John Week a meaningful observance in the tion staff--Clifton A. Gayne, depart­ Martin, International Relations Cen­ life of the state." ment chairman, and assistant profes­ ter; William C. Rogers, State Organ­ sors Mildred Page and William R. Hastie traveled to Chicago to partici­ ization Service; Edward Silberman, Henry Nash Smith Speaks St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Lab also pate in the sessions. Following the conference, Dean spoke in Minneapolis. At Barnard College Cook, accompanied by W oestehoff, Exhibits in downtown buildings in­ Henry Nash Smith, English pro­ went to a meeting of the American cluded demonstrations of painting fessor, spoke March 3 at Barnard Association of School Administrators and sculpture by an art department College, New York City, on "The Re­ in Atlantic City, N. student at the Donaldson Company; construction of Literary Values." J. Dean Cook then attended a meet­ University Artists' Service scale mo­ Nash was one of six professors and ing of a committee of the Educa­ del of the University at Schunemans; authors invited to lecture in a special tional Testing Service, Princeton, business administration projects at series of talks on "The Search for N. J., before returning to Minnesota. Northwestern Bank; dental hygiene New Standards in Modern America." 14 The Minnesotan Tribute to J. Seneca Jones, 1885-1953 Regent of the University of Minnesota, 1946-1953 I

Editor's note: Mr. ]. Seneca ]ones served this University faithfully for seven years as a member of its Board of Regents, until his death r last month. To honor his memory, the President's Page this month prints e.xcerpts from a eulogy of Mr. !ones delivered by The Reverend Leonard P. Cowley, chaplain to Catholic students at the University. This moving and eloquent tribute was delivered at memorial services for Mr. /ones at the Center for Continuation Study on February 9.

Mr. Jones had good names. In fine Christian tradition he was given at birth the names of spiritual heroes of the past. John, the champion of supernatural virtue, and Seneca, the champion of natural virtue, were his patrons. And in good Christian tradition he emulated the lives of each hero and has been found worthy of the names he bore. A good legend for the crest of John Seneca Jones might well have been a text from St. John, "Let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth." Or we might easily take a text from Seneca, "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." . . . Always fervently interested in education, he entered the active apostolate of education when he was selected as a Regent of the University of Minnesota. I shall ever remember how fearfully he as­ sumed the prerogatives of this esteemed position. Ever a conservative in his philosophy of education, he contributed immeasurably by his wisdom and judgment to the remarkable growth of the University during his tenure as Regent. It is, therefore, eminently fitting that we extend sympathy to the adminis­ tration of the University on the occasion of the loss of a very good Regent. We knew J. Seneca Jones as a national leader in the field of agriculture. The Farm Bureau of the State of Minnesota shall ever be in his debt. However, as able as he was in the commerce of agricul­ tural commodities, he shall be remembered for his concepts of the vast sacramental of nature which point to the Author and Giver of all the blessings of the earth. The press of administrative duties never dimmed his spiritual outlook. Those who knew him well will remember how eloquent he could be in this accent. It was really a delight to overhear him speaking with a farmer on the details of his work. Consequently, we must extend sympathy also to the directors and members of the Farm Bureau which has grown so great under the direction of this benefactor. The simple life he chose for himself and the simple manner that characterized his dealings with those who shared his interests are his best remembrance. His loves were well ordered. He was, above all, a loving husband and father. His devotion to his family was exemplary. They will feel keenly the pangs of separation, and we wish there were a way we could help them bear the heavy burden of sor­ row. So, to them we extend the deepest sympathy. It is our fond hope that after they have suffered the acute constrictions of sorrow they will be happy in the memory that J. Seneca Jones did as much as a man could to serve them and a whole State that mourns him.

The Reverend Leonard P. Cowley

March 1953 15 MARCH Iii TO APRIL Iii, I9ii3 U11iversity of· Minnesota Calendar of" Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY Apr. 15, 16, 17-""La Ronde;" French prizewinning film. Subscription Series (lYorthrop Auditorium, 3:il0 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign Ian·. Mar. 20-All Orchestral program. guage films have Englist. -subtitles. General admission at Mar. 27-Monique de Ia Bruchollerie, pianist. Lobby Ticket Office, $.74. iunior admission, $.35. Tickets Apr. 3-Zino Francescatti, violinist. for staff members at $.6 available in the basement of Apr. 10--Beethoven Ninth Symphony with Macalester Col· W Psbrook Hall and the C pus Club.) t lege Choir, Leona Scheunemann, soprano; Ann Bomar, contralto; David Lloyd, tenor; Kenneth Schon, baritone. SPECIAL LECTURE (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 Apr. 6-Louis MacNeice, English poet. Topi~ to be an· to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the nounced. >··. •. · Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call \Museum of Natural HistJ ~Auditorium, 3:30 p.m. Open University extension 6225.) t to the public without cha: Twilight Concert UNIVERSITY GAl :RY EXHIBITIONS Mar. 15-St. Olaf Lutheran Choir, Olaf C. Christiansen, Mar. 16-Apr. 20--Japanes; ~ints. These multi-colored director. woodblock prints borrow\ .!rom Edwin Grabhorn, San (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Tickets $.50, $.75, and Francisco, combine sensiti; ·lie and simple forms. $1.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the Mar. 16-Apr. 27~Japanese "; Art. An exhibit from the ::-iymphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. All tickets re· Seattle Museum shows o cts of humble, mass-pro· served.) t duced, hand art made of 1 cter, wood, and earthenware. Mar. 20-Apr. 11-New Talenr. The work of 20 young New Young People's Concerts York painters. Mar. 17-St. Paul Auditorium, 1 :45 p.m. Mar. 30-Apr. 19-Big Ten Staff Artists. Each Big Ten art Mar. 19-Northrop Auditorium, 1 :30 p.m. department has several reco1 ·~ed artists on its staff. The Mar. 24-----Northrop Auditorium, I :30 p.m. lJ niversity is represented i1 1is exhibition by Bern~~ord (Admission arranged through local schools.) Arnest, Cameron Booth, Walt 1 Quirt, and Josephine Lutz Rollins. · UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE (The University Gallery, on tl.e third and fourth floors of Mar. 31, Apr. 1-Ballet Theatre. Northrop Auditorium, is open to the puolic 8-5, Monday (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 through Friday. Concertgoers -will find the Gallery open to $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of the before performances and during intermissions.) concert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) t SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSUY BROADCASTS CONVOCATIONS Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra telecast . . . Sundays Apr. 2-Sacred music for Easter by University of Minne- at 2:30 p.m. on WCCO-TV. See your newspaper for sota A Capella Choir, Caro Carapetyan, director. schedule. . Apr. 9-"England," color film by Robert Friars. . . How's ?'ou~ Healt?? ... Dr. ~ames. Rogers Fox, physi­ V

t Tickets for these events are also availahle at the Field Schlick Tickf.t Officp in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office. 188 Northwestern Bank Building, in Minneapolis.

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·~ . I In this issue • • • HOW DID THE UNIVERSITY Know Your University come to own some Pillsbury jewels? What unit of the U was founded by a doctor who lived in a tree house near Minnehaha Park? You'll find the answers in the human story be­ hind the U's endowment, page 6. THE MERE THOUGHT of being housemother to several hundred high­ spirited girls would panic most wom­ en, but Comstock's director, Grace Nelson, takes the whole thing in her graceful stride. See page 10. WHEN PERCY LOWE BECAME BLIND in 1922, his first reaction was despair. But the encouragement of family, friends, and advisers im­ l.., pelled him to keep trying, and to­ day he teaches agricultural econom­ ics on the St. Paul campus. Page II tells his unusual success story. THE THEATER IS GETTING A BOOST in Minnesota, thanks to the U's Loan Play Library. Part of the Extension division's Community Pro­ gram Service, the library annually lends more than 4,000 volumes to high schools, clubs. Page 12. Ag Union (Old Dairy) On the cover . .. ACK in the '90's University staff Before many years had passed, an The College of Education is B members used to carry big pails addition was built to house a chem­ in the limelight this month of foaming milk from the "Old Dairy ical laboratory for dairy nutrition with a cover shot of Peik Building" which most of today's stu­ research. The University photograph­ Hall, the college's newly ded­ dents know as the Ag Union on the ic lab has long since been housed icated secondary laboratory St. Paul Campus. in these quarters. school. Page 3 headlines the Erected at a cost of $30,000 in When Haecker Hall was built in dedication and takes you on 1891, the red brick building housed 1924 to take over the expanding a tour of the new building. the dairy department including a dairy department, the first and sec­ Page 4 spotlights the col­ creamery located on the first floor ond floors of the "Old Dairy Build­ lege's Bureau of Field Stud­ ing" became classrooms for agri­ where students now sip cokes and ies and Surveys, which IS hold coffee hours. The building was cultural economics, rural sociology. getting us better schools. a social gathering place at that time, Today the red brick building is too, for there staff members and the center of student activities on THE MINNESOTAN often their children came to get milk. the St. Paul campus. But the present Vol. VI No.·7 A cheesemaking room occupied the Ag Union is far removed from its The Minnesotan is published monthly. east side of first floor, and the game­ beginnings in 1916, when a lounge during the academic year, October was provided for men students only through May, by the Department of room once served as a place for dairy University Relations, University of Min­ livestock judging. in the basement of Dairy Hall. Final­ nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies Early students recall the second ly, in 1938, women made their voices are mailed free to University staff mem­ bers. Subscription rates for those not floor as the spot where they were heard and $25,000 was spent for re­ on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a called on the carpet by the dean or modeling the basement and first floor copy. Photographs, unless otherwise where they parted with hard-earned to provide lounges for both men credited, were taken by members of the University Photographic Laboratory. dollars to pay fees. Administrative and women. Entered as second -class matter at the offices were there, along with the of­ With a new Ag Union building in post office at Minneapolis, Minn. prospect, another page will soon be Copies of this issue are on sale at fice of T. L. Haecker, head of the Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. dairy department. added to the history of Old Dairy. 2 The Minnesotan , .. Peik Hall Dedicated March 31 .. Education's laboratory school to open spring quarter

EIK HALL, the newly built sec­ A long, light library occupies much counselors can test and talk with P ondary laboratory school for the of the first floor of the four-story teen-agers. College of Education, was officially building. Though it was still unfur­ Quite unique is the arrangement dedicated at a banquet in Coffman nished at the end of March, one i of classrooms and department offices. ~ Memorial Union on March 31. The could see how ideal a study place it Each department planned its own banquet also featured the presen­ layout, and this has resulted in a tation of outstanding achievement similar overall plan with interesting awards by President Morrill to five variations. In social science, for ex­ distinguished education alumni, and ample, each staff member has his an address by Roy E. Larson, editor own office, and facing these is a cen­ of TIME, Inc., and chairman of the tral area where student teachers can National Citizens Commission for the work. In every case offices of staff Public Schools, on "Whose Responsi­ are directly across from the class­ bility is Public· Education?" rooms where they will teach. Thus Named after the College of Edu­ social science classes will all be held cation's late dean, Wesley E. Peik, in the four classrooms across from the new building is the first to be the department offices. AU classrooms completed in the College of Educa­ are on the sunny south side of the tion's three-unit building plan. Fi­ building facing the Knoll. nanced by funds from the 1949 and 1951 Legislatures, the new four-story ECAUSE University High School structure on the edge of the Knoll B is a small experimental school, with its accompanying gymnasium its student body is limited. Class­ should be ready for occupancy some­ rooms seat 30, including space for time during spring quarter. observers. All classrooms have con­ According to Dean Walter W. Cool,c ference rooms near them where stu­ of the College of Education, "The dents can work out group projects. building fills the college's need for a The classrooms will use fluorescent laboratory school where pupils can lighting; they all have plenty of learn in an ideal environment, where blackboard space, and in some cases the school people of the state as well long, blackboard-sized cork bulletin as the 2,000 teachers in training on hoards. the campus can observe master teach­ Standing by the high library win­ Each department has made its own ing, and where experimentation is dows of Peik Hall, Education Dean innovations: foreign languages has carried on with equipment, materials, Walter Cook and U High Principal reserved space for recording ma­ and teachini methods. Sterling Mitchell check blueprints. chines; biology will have an aquari­ um; mathematics gets built in stor­ pEIK HALL has very little in com- age cabinets for wood models. mon with the traditional old­ would he. Windows extend the length In every classroom provisions have fashioned high school most of us of one wall, shielded by metal baffies been made for audio-visual aids. On knew. Here are no steps cratered which deflect glare from snow and the third floor is a complete audio­ with wear, no monotonous tan walls sky without impeding vision. visual unit. It houses all the elec­ and somber wood trim. Peik Hall is Also on the first floor, a string tronic equipment to run the clocks all light and space: limed oak trim, of administrative offices of U High's in the school and gym, a public ad­ and cabinets built in for compact­ principal and assistant principal con­ dress system connecting all class­ ness; walls of light warm green or nect with the main reception office rooms, and equipment for closed­ gray with an occasional touch of and lead eventually to the counseling cirquit TV which will enable student­ bright red; metal bannisters and ex­ unit, where University personnel­ teachers or visitors to sit in one posed brick in the interior. work students and regular U High continued on page 14 April 1953 3 Bureau of Field Studies paves the way for

Better Schools for Minnesota

report is a tool for a school board material, several research assistants to use when it wants to begin a set out for White Bear to start the building program. It proves whether field work. or not a new school is needed." Checking physical appearance and Physical appearance of school build­ school records, Domian, an assist­ ings in a school district is only one ant, and another staffer who doubles part of the detailed survey. Studies as a photographer visited each of the are made of the economic and his­ ll schools in the area. The schools Superintendent of White Bear public torical background of the city, popu­ ranged from one-room rural schools schools R. !. Hanson and Otto Da­ lation trends and estimates of future to 13-room buildings in the town of mian, bureau director, examine ar­ school population, financial condi­ White Bear Lake. Some were in pret­ chitects' plans for a million-dollar ad­ tion of the district. The survey even ty bad shape. The village schools dition to White Bear high school. suggests how to finance rehabilitation were old-Webster was built in 1887 of present schools or construction of and Washington in '1893-lighting "NATION'S SUBURBS Show new buildings. was poor, sites were too small, spe­ Unprecedented Population In- Here's how the bureau handled cial facilities were lacking. crease. " the White Bear problem. All these observations went into "Enrollment in U. S. Suburban After the boards of education re­ the survey report to show that new Schools Skyrockets." quested a survey be made of the school buildings were needed badly. "Educators Point out Need for area, a representative of the bureau (The bureau doesn't draw plans for New Schools." conferred with them to get a clear new buildings, but does work with Members of the boards of educa­ picture of the problem. (Since the architects to recommend number of tion of the seven school districts of bureau is part of the University, rooms .and type of facilities needed.) White Bear Lake, Minnesota, read every survey contract is drawn up Information on the birth rate in these headlines with alarm. White between the Regents of the Univer­ the area made it possible to estimate Bear was a rapidly growing suburb sity and the district school board. the number of potential White Bear of St. Paul. The village elementary Surveys are made on a cost basis, students. The figures Domian came schools, Webster and Washington, and school districts billed monthly.) up with showed there would be were dingy and poorly lighted, and a 110% increase in enrollment by their antiquated classrooms were al­ Fieldwork gets the facts 1964. This meant more space and ready bulging. Then the real work of the survey larger staffs were needed. The boards of education realized began. Records at the Minnesota De­ Locations for proposed schools they had a serious problem and pro­ partment of Education in St. Paul were the next problem. This meant ceeded to do something about it. were checked for average daily at­ determining where the suburb was That's where the College of Edu­ tendance, enrollment figures, and tax expanding so new schools could be cation's Bureau of Field Studies and rates. Armed with this background built close to sections with the high- Surveys came into the picture. Otto Domian, who took over as director Bureau staff mem­ when Mervin G. Neale left the bu­ bers confer over reau, says White Bear's problem is a drawing board. similar to that of most of the 35 L., Fay Shackle­ school districts which have been sur­ ton, Lois M. Ran­ veyed by the bureau during its four dall, Florence years of operation. Harvey, Marion "Our job here at the bureau is Whitehead, Sam­ to get the facts relating to the school uel W. Harvey, district's specific problem, analyze Henry Resman, these facts, and then make recom­ Glenna Revier, mendations," Domian explains. "Our & Mavis Jensen. 4 "

Outdated Washington school still houses a few White Bear students, but most grade schoolers now go to new Lin­ coln School. White Bear got the new school thanks largely to the Bureau of Field Studies' 1950 recommendations.

est rate of population increase. explained patiently to his audience to start building programs. "It's grat­ The surveyors also observed that the observations contained in the re­ ifying to see action taken on the the seven school districts included port. He answered their questions strength of our studies," he says. in the area surveyed could be con­ with facts and ended with these rec­ "In our four-year history about $25.5 solidated easily into one large dis­ ommendations: the area should be million worth of school expansion trict to give the community better reorganized into one district and has been planned as a result of our educational advantages for their tax debts as well as financial resources recommendations-and a good part dollars. Pooling the financial re­ of all the districts should be pooled. is already under construction." sources of all seven commumties As soon as the reorganization was St. Paul, Winona, Fergus Falls, would result in fewer schools, but effected, a bond issue should be sub­ Alexandria in Minnesota and Yank­ these would be large, centrally lo­ mitted to the voters to provide for ton and Mitchell in South Dakota cated, better equipped buildings that immediately necessary school build­ have all carried out building pro­ no district could finance alone. ing facilities. He also suggested that grams because of surveys, and many a long range building program be more communities are following suit. Office staff does ''homework" adopted by the district. Besides studying the physical needs Back at the bureau's home office "From then on," says Domian, of a school district, the bureau has which is tucked away in a corner of "action was up to the school board made some reports on instructional the old Burton Hall library, office to accept or reject the survey made needs of a community. The largest staffers took over on the final work by the bureau. At White Bear they project undertaken by the bureau is of the survey. A field work assistant accepted it." a statewide survey of public schools handed his boiled down material to The school board ordered the short in cooperation with the Minnesota an editorial assistant who edited his summary for the citizens of White State Department of Education. The copy for grammar and style and got. Bear and began a campaign for a first completed report in this series typists ready to cut stencils for the bond issue to finance new schools. gives an inventory of existing fa­ final report. cilities and needs of Minnesota's The bulky, 175-page mimeograph­ Bureau surveys bring results schools. ed report, representing six months Within a few months of the pre­ Domian's field work staff consists of work was finally completed, and sentation, the voters had approved of research assistants S. W. Har­ Domian set a date with the school recommendations for an elementary vey, Roy C. Prentis, Henry Resman, board at which he would report on school site. In the fall of 1952 a new Frank H. Smith, Karl J. Vander the findings of the bureau. Webster school was opened to re­ Horck, and William Strand. Office (The bureau also puts out a short, place old Webster, and in Febru­ workers are editorial assistant Lois attractively printed summary of the ary 1953 the grade school children Randall; engineering assistants Glen­ survey to be distributed to citizens moved from outdated Washington na Revier and Fred G. Goff; secre­ of the community if a school board school to modern Lincoln school. taries Rita Randleman, Mavis Jen­ orders the summary. Important con­ Both Webster and Lincoln are cheer­ SPn, and Marion Whitehead; senior clusions of the survey complete with ful, light, comfortable schools built clerk Vern a Olson; clerks Florence maps, charts, and graphs are in­ on a low sprawling design of tan Harvey and Fay Shackleton. cluded in the booklet.) brick with hundreds of windows. Says Education Dean Walter W. The office at White Bear High was Domian has received letters from Cook, "Our teacher-training program filled with school board members many school boards telling how, and Bureau of Field Studies and and school officials as Domian hand­ through the help of the bureau's sur­ Surveys are part of a pattern to give ed each a copy of the report. Domian veys, voters have passed bond issues us the best schools in the nation." April 1953 5 TO SOME PEOPLE the Univer- sity's endowment is just a sum of money swathed in a mist of de­ The U's ENDOWMENT bentures, wills, and "fiscal considera­ tions." But a little digging shows that the and how endowment has hundreds of human stories behind it. A man named William Henry Eus­ tis, crippled for life at 15, established The permanent University fund. -nearly $12,000,000-represents a a $2,000,000 fund to build a hospital This was nearly $31,000,000 last piling-up over the years of gifts and for crippled children at U Hospitals. June 30. The State Constitution pro­ bequests that have come to us with But to encourage the contributions vides that this fund is "to be main­ the proviso that the principal re­ of others, he insisted the hospital not tained intact in perpetuity" and the main untouched. Of the 150-odd gifts bear his name. income turned over to the University. that make up this fund, the great A brilliant if somewhat eccentric The fund's principal was much bulk has come from private individu­ doctor who lived in a tree house near smaller when it began. That was back als. Minnehaha Park, who threw his se­ in 1851, when the University was The interest on general endowment curities in a box and never even created by the territorial legislature; bequests is used for: teaching, (e.g., bothered clipping coupons, gave the the fund was furthered by a series of endowed professorships like the University $150,000 to found the federal land grants to colleges and American Legion professorship in Dight Institute of Genetic Research. universities, including the famous heart research held by Dr. Lewis A Minneapolis milling magnate Morrill act of 1862. The lands the Thomas) ; research (largest single gave the University his late wife's University got during those early research fund is the $3,000,000 Mayo jewels to be sold to support cancer re­ years were scattered all over the state. Foundation Fund paying stipends for search. Thus the University's records Some was mineral land, some forest, Foundation research fellows); serv­ contain the following item from the some open prairie. ice (e.g., Minnesota Hospital and inventory of the Pillsbury jewels: Home for Crippled Children, set up Mining, lumbering add revenues "Platinum diamond emerald bracelet at U Hospitals by William Henry with 258 round diamonds weighing Over the years, says Lunden, these Eustis); scholarships, loans, and stu­ approximately ll carats, 45 baguette lands were leased, and they brought dent aid. diamonds weighing 5% carats with in royalties from mining and lum­ 9 emeralds averaging% carats each." bering. The fund was substantially Unusual gifts increase funds How do all these scattered gifts fit boosted by an act of the 1923 State Behind nearly all these gifts is a together? Let's begin at the begin­ Legislature which provided that 10% story, says Mr. Lunden. Some of ning. Laurence Lunden, University of the state's mining tax receipts go them come in conventionally, as se­ comptroller, explains the University's into the U's permanent fund. This curities. But even then, they may endowment like this: money-part of the occupation tax­ have a novel twist. For instance, back "Our endowment is the permanent really mounted up during the '40's, in the 1920's, the Laura Spellman base of University operations. The when unprecedented demand for iron Rockefeller Foundation gave the Uni­ principal can never be drawn on, as ore meant highly stepped-up mining versity a grant with the stipulation it can in an outright gift. Interest activity. that we invest the money in stock of on this principal provides income for By now we have sold most of the Parents' Institute, publishers of Par­ the University." original grants, Mr. Lunden says. We ents' Magazine; and that we use the As of last June 30, our total endow­ still owned about 26,530 acres in income from this stock to further ment was $42,697,088.61. How does 1952. Last year the income from sale the work of our own Institute of this compare with other universities? of lands and revenues from those we Child Welfare. This double-barreled Lunden says a number of private own, plus interest on the fund's prin­ attempt to advance child study ex­ universities have larger endowments cipal came to $703,482.26. plains why for many years we owned (Yale, Princeton, Chicago; Harvard Although this is just a fraction of approximately 25% of the stock of heads the list with an endowment of the U's operating expense, Lunden Parents' Institute. more than $300,000,000) . But only says it represents an important and But not all gifts come to us in the two state universities (California and constant security, and was even more form of securities. oil-rich Texas) have larger endow­ essential in the early days as "an "We will normally fall heir to ments than Minnesota. encouraging gesture that gave the ·farms and city real estate. For many The $42,000,000-plus endowment, initial impetus to our University." years," Lunden says, "we owned and says Lunden, is actually divided into The general endowment. The bal­ operated three downtown office build­ ings-the Corn Exchange, the Flour two parts: ance of the $42,000,000 endowment 6 The Minnesotan • ..

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Exchange and the Eustis building. "Mr. Middlebrook and I are pres­ ently examining our interest in the George S. Clark bequest which will set up an endowed professorship for the study of hypertension. Mr. Clark left us, among other things, an in­ terest in about 20,000 acres of land in West Virginia and we are looking it over in the hope there will be coal deposits on it." Antiques, art objects, furnishings, and semiprecious jewelry came to the Laurence Lunden, comptroller, l., and /.Allan Topping, investment counsel, University at the death of Anne Dud­ see that our endowment grows through gifts and through careful investment. ley Blitz, former dean of women. The property was sold at public auction invested for us by the state board of ties, industrials, railroads, govern­ and the money received went into the investment of which Regent George ment bonds. We also have substantial Anne Dudley Blitz Student Loan Lawson is a member. - holdings (21%), says Lunden, in Fund. The nearly $12,000,000 general en­ "quality" utilities and industrial stock It is the job of Clarence Larson, dowment is put to work by the Uni­ -cm-nmon and preferred. director of trusts (see Minnesotan versity itself. One of Topping's tasks is to check January, 1953, p. 10), to work with All investment recommendations our securities, together with U secur­ attorneys in drafting the language to originate with Mr. J. A. Topping, ity analyst Alvin 0. Leuzinger, to see be used in wills where the Regents University investment counsel. Top­ they are maintaining their quality. are named beneficiaries. When the ping scrutinizes market reports, stud­ The majority of funds are "com­ will is finally probated, Larson repre­ ies brokers' services, makes industry­ mingled" for investment purposes, sents the University at the proceed­ wide surveys of market possibilities. and the overall distributive interest ings. His office then handles the long "My job," Topping explains, "is rate has been a consistent 3lf2%. and often complicated appraisal of really to interpret the economic cli­ Behind the statistics: bequests. mate in which we have to work and The heart of the matter Larson also works with the other to suggest the most desirable invest­ Having explained the complex en­ end of the endowment-the invest­ ments for us at any given time." dowment-investment procedure, Mr. ment of the mony. He has physical Topping's recommendations must Lunden relaxes, lights up one of his custody of the University's securities, be approved by Mr. Lunden and many pipes and adds, "You know, clipping coupons, receiving dividend finally by the investment committee there's a great deal more to this busi­ checks, keeping accounting records. of the Board of Regents, working ness than statistics and financial con­ He also makes the actual purchases with Vice President Middlebrook. siderations. I always like to think of of stock and bonds after Regents' Both Topping and Lunden describe what went on in people's minds and approval. Larson says his office has the University's investment policy as hearts when they left gifts to us. bought, sold, and exchanged as much extremely cautious. "This is a trust "One of the most moving explana­ as $59,000,000 worth of securities a relationship in which we must keep tions is a letter Dr. William Mayo year. the principal intact," says Lunden. wrote to the Regents in February "Our objective, of course, is to get 193~19 years after the Mayo Foun­ Investment makes the the greatest income we can, but al­ dation had been set up as a part of endowment pay dividends ways giving first thought to the safety the University Graduate School. Dr. Which brings us to the question: of our funds. Naturally, we don't Will praised the harmonious associa­ How is all this money invested? take any flyers or long shots." tion between the Mayos and the Uni­ Who decides where it is to go? The hulk of our assets ( 65%) are versity and told how it all began. The permanent University fund is carefully selected bonds-public utili- continued on page 13 April 1953 7 As director of the Greater Univer­ sity Fund, Robert Provost raises money for research equipment, fel­ lowships, scholarships, and extras the U doesn't carry on its budget.

Dr. Leo Rigler, professor of ra­ diology, spent the last two months in India as a member of a team of 15 medical scientists who advised doctors in latest medical methods. The trip was sponsored by the WHO and Unitarian Service Committee.

Co-author of a recently published book, Con­ scription of Conscience, Mulford Q. Sibley, associate professor of political science, teach­ es courses in American and Recent Political U STAFF MEMB Thought and also in Problems of Democracy. I YOU When anyone has a special breakfast, luncheon, or dinner at the Union, party floor supervisor Mildred Toop sees that all the tables are set, food is prepared, and meals are served on time.

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'he School of Business Administration trains secretaries primarily l)r top management under careful instruction of associate professor :rnestine Donaldson who specializes in office management and layout.

Down in the well-stocked basement of the storehouse and shops building Art Olson, OULD KNOW senior storehouse clerk, dispatches gro­ ceries to U dormitories and cafeterias.

~didate for "Most Accommodating Person on the UMD Pretty Ardell Agre likes to meet people, which is very Belva Alexander, operator of the UMD PBX board. Mrs. important on her job as secretary-receptionist in the reps a large scrapbook of clippings of UMD activities for Information Service office, on the St. Paul campus. ran questions come to her via the telephone circuits.

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HOUSEMOTHER to HUNDREDS

Comstock as if it were my own home the Heart Hospital. Their creative because it is my home now. I have ability found an outlet in the Christ­ the same problems any housewife mas decoration contest among corri­ might have-only on a much larger dors, which resulted in elaborately scale. For instance, last summer when decorated halls depicting all types of we put up new curtains for our 280 Christmas scenes - from Santa's windows, it meant buying about workshop to Christmas in foreign $6,000 worth of material!" countries. "The government of the dorm is HERE ARE two sides to Mrs. left completely to the girls," Mrs. T Nelson's work. The business side Nelson says proudly. "We keep the consists of purchasing for the dorm, dorm in physical running order, and Picture of calm dignity, Mrs. Nel­ hiring new employees, budgeting, at­ the girls furnish the social life and son enjoys reading in her apartment tending meetings, planning decora­ activity. They elect their own presi­ on the second floor of Comstock Hall. tions and furnishings. All the busi­ dent every year, and their electioneer­ ness of running the dorm smoothly is ing rivals that of a national presiden­ carried on in Mrs. Nelson's first floor tial campaign. They also have a dorm Comstock office. council to plan social activities and MRS. GRACE NELSON, a hand- "At the hall we have a dietitian to act as spokesman for dorm improve­ some woman with gray-white plan meals and supervise cooks, a ments. hair and jet-black eyebrows, directs housekeeper in charge of the custo­ "A full-time counselor is adviser to Comstock Hall with a calm hand and dial staff, a secretary who handles all the house council and also supervises gracious dignity. office details, a registered nurse, and the counselors in each corridor. These In the relaxed atmosphere of her several switchboard operators." are graduate students with whom apartment on the second floor of Many girls can find part-time work younger girls can discuss their prob­ Comstock Mrs. Nelson explains, "I no at the dorm, too, as switchboard op­ lems about college life. So I know longer consider my job as work. It erators, bus girls, snack bar atten­ there's always somebody there if a is my whole way of life. I have been dants, or dishwashers. girl needs help." director of women's residences--that Mrs. Nelson explains that the Mrs. Nelson likes to do little things includes Comstock, Sanford, and 13 dorms are self-supporting units that for the girls to make the dormitory co-ops since 1950, and before that I are part of the department of Service seem more like home. She still talks was director of Sanford Hall for ten Enterprises. Each women's unit has of the wonderful time she had pre­ years. After 12 years of dormitory a director under Mrs. Nelson, and paring a pancake breakfast in her life, I can't imagine living any other each must be run within the income tiny apartment kitchen for the girls way." received from resident students. in her corridor. Her other innova­ Her apartment is an example of tions are a snack bar that is open the atmosphere that Mrs. Nelson has HE OTHER and more enjoyable evenings, and several kitchenettes created for her girls, and it is a T half of Mrs. Nelson's job is work­ with electric plates so girls can pre­ pleasant surprise to anyone who ing with the girls. Some women might pare their own snacks. thinks of life in a dorm as drab. It shudder at the thought of being "I think girls who go to college is a woman's apartment with a hall­ housemother to 378 college girls, and don't live in a dorm miss some­ way of bright red, decorated in a but Mrs. Nelson thrives on it. She has thing," Mrs. Nelson says. "Dorm Chinese motif. Her collection of fra­ three married sons, but no daughters girls learn to get along with all kinds gile demitasse cups fills several of her own. She loves the Comstock of people, practice self government, shelves, and antiques are everywhere. girls' spirit, vitality, and imagination. and become a little more ip.dependent. The small fireplace in her comfort­ As an instance of their initiative, When I went to the University, I able living room gives a final home­ she cites the melodrama they pre­ didn't live in a dorm, but, you see, like touch. sented in the Comstock ballroom, I've had the chance to do it over Mrs. Nelson continues, "I run last year, proceeds of which went to again. And I love it." 10 The Minnesotan Progress was slow. It took him 12 says, "I don't use braille very well, Ag Instructor months to accomplish nine months' only for notes and such. I haven't studies. Finally in 1924 he got his developed any great speed in reading Overcomes Master's degree in agricultural eco­ it either. Braille requires a touch nomics and was accepted on the Col­ skill which comes through practice. Blindness lege of Agriculture faculty. Lowe is very pleased with the way Besides his studies, Lowe had the his students react to him. "Nobody difficult problem of learning to walk ever mentions the fact that I can't pERCY M. LOWE is an instruc- by himself again. He didn't go out see. If it is mentioned, I'm the one tor of agricultural economics at alone until two or three months after who mentions it." the St. Paul campus. His students the accident, when he started taking Lowe is helped when he gives ex­ regard him as a good one. Only one short walks near his home, using a aminations by the St. Paul campus thing distinguishes him· from other cane to find his way. honor system, under which students instructors-he is . blind. He used another method, too. "Lis­ sign a pledge they won't cheat in Lowe has been blind for 31 years, tening for footsteps, I would follow exams. This way, he doesn't have to ever since a day in 1922 when, as a people down the street-preferably proctor exams. young man just out of agricultural women because their high-heeled Lowe's sharp hearing sometimes college, he was blasting stumps from shoes made a harder noise. I'll bet tells him things he can't see. One his cut-over farm near Brainerd. some of them didn't know what to day he asked a question of a boy in A dynamite cap he was crimping think when I started to follow them," his class, a boy who Lowe knew liked onto a fuse exploded. At the hospital Lowe chuckles. to bluff. Lowe thought he heard he was told he was irreparably blind. a rustling of a Daily so he took a Blindness to a newly-married ROUTINE CLASS WORK gives chance and said, "You're more in­ young man just starting out can be a Lowe very little trouble. He terested in that Daily than in class, tremendous blow. "I didn't want to uses a braille slate and stylus to aren't you?, A roar of laughter from accept the idea of being blind for a make his class outlines. However, he the class told him he was right! long time," Lowe recalls. "I had feel­ ings of despondency and discourage­ As he reads material in braille with his left hand, Mr. Lowe transcribes ment, but my first concern through it for lecture notes with his right hand, using the braille slate and stylus. those years was my family." Lowe's comeback represents a suc­ cess story-the story of conquering a handicap that would prevent most people from leading an academic life. Probably one of the persons who helped him most was John D. Black, then chief of the University's divi­ sion of agricultural economics. Lowe visited him at the suggestion of the state division of vocational re­ habilitation in St. Paul. "Mr. Black was one of the first individuals I came across who wasn't discourag­ ing," Lowe says. After finding out that Lowe had received good grades, Black advised him to continue his education and become a teacher.

S 0 LOWE WENT back to school this time to the University-~ difficult task for a blind man. He had to. have someone read his school­ books to him-usually his wife and sometimes a classmate. Examinations he took orally. Diagrams gave him so much trouble that "I always felt I was working with bible-thin paper with mittens on." April 1953 II .. seven-day reading period: It gives users a chance to "shop around," before ordering in quantity; it is much more efficient than choosing blindly from a publisher's catalogue. During the year ending July 1, 1952, the library loaned 4,172 differ­ 1 ent volumes. Most of these went to high school dramatics coaches. Other steady customers include women's clubs, PTA's, 4-H groups, and cam­ pus groups--especially theatre stu­ dents. The library also offers technical advice to perplexed amateur direc­ tors and to high school dramatics teachers who may be doubling in mathematics. "What kind of play should we do?" is the question most frequently asked, Peterson says. The library's Loan Play Library director Paul Peterson helps Margaret Cain, speech stu­ answer will depend on what it can dent, pick a play from the library's collection of more than 5,500 volumes. learn about: the age of the audience, the stage facilities, the age and num­ ber of players and maximum royalty the group can pay. Peterson, who has Loan Play Library Brings read through most of the library's .5,500 volumes, can then help them choose. Good Theater to Minnesota Peterson says there has recently been a greatly increased demand for "WE WANT to help the people plays, ranging from one-act to full­ the classics. Whenever a group writes . recognize that good drama length, plus books on play-production in for a non-royalty play, the library isn't just a frill or an 'extra,' but is -in short, anything that will help a generally recommends one of the an integral part of fruitful living," director," says Peterson. great standbys--Sheridan's Rivals, says Paul Peterson, director of the The library's main function-as its works of Goldsmith, Shakespeare. University's Loan Play Library. The title implies-is loaning plays. It re­ Most popular year after year are old library, part of the Extension divi­ ceives a sample acting edition of Broadway favorites like Arsenic and sion's Community Program Service, every play put out by nearly all lead­ Old Lace and Our Town. not only sends examination copies of ing publishers. These are bound, The library also gives advice on plays to amateur theater groups all catalogued, and described in the li­ staging, lighting, costuming, and over the state, it also gives them ad­ brary's bulletin every three years. make-up. It tells prospective directors vice on play production, aiming all The bulletin gives a thumbnail sketch how to get special sound effects, the while to raise the general level of each play, indicating by abbrevia­ where to get scores for musicals, how of drama throughout the state. tions: publisher, suitability for high to get around using expensive scen­ Beginning modestly in 1927, the school production, size of cast, cos­ ery. Loan Play Library was housed until tume, set, arrangements for royalty. recently in two cramped rooms in The bulletin goes to each high school ETERSON'S EYES ·brighten as TSMc. It has now moved to Wes­ in the state, to leaders of church and P he speaks of the climax of the brook Hall, where, along with the U civic groups, and women's clubs, and library's work, the annual high Theatre play and record library, it to anyone who requests- it. school one-act play festival, of which takes up most of the third floor. The he is manager. High schools all oyer stacks of the library are filled with OW DOES the library work? An the state choose a play from a list of thin paper-bound volumes of single Hindividual or group can borrow 20 submitted by the play selection plays and fatter cloth-bound antholo­ up to eight plays at a time for seven committee. (Some of last year's pro­ gies, days. There is no charge except post­ ductions: Chekhov's The Boor and "We've got more than 5,500 vol­ age, but overdue books are charged The Marriage Proposal, Sheridan's umes containing more than 10,000 at five cents a day. Advantages of this continued on next page 12 The Minnesotan Rivals, the 16th century Elizabethan drama, Gammer Gurton' s Needle). Meet Howard Hanson. . . The eight best high school produc· tions in each of the state's eight re· UMD's Expert on Shakes and Quakes gions are chosen to be given in Scott .. Hall in April. The festival, says Peterson, begins OWARD G. HANSON's vocabu­ at 9:30 and ends at 4:00 on a Satur­ H lary has taken on a whole new day afternoon. There is no winner, set of terms like "microseisms," "seis­ hence no bitter competition. Each mic noise," "horizontal and vertical production is rated excellent to poor waves" and others common to seis­ on its own merits by U Theatre staff mology-the study of earth tremors members and high school directors. -since he became director of Du­ I This year's festival, to be held in luth's seismograph station. Scott Hall April 18, will be open to The station, a little brick and ce­ the public. Peterson anticipates a ment structure on "Rock Hill," was hectic day, since the sets of three U established this winter on the new r Theatre plays are being stored back­ UMD campus by the University and stage; this means the eight high the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. school casts will have "about two Hanson, head of the Duluth Branch square feet of space" on which to physics department, worked with Dr. maneuver! D. S. Carder, Washington, D. C., In praise of the library, Mr. H. R. principal seismologist for the Geo­ Peterson (no relation to Paul), execu­ detic Survey, in setting up the deli­ tive secretary of the State High cate instruments and recording de­ . School League, says it is giving "a vices that comprise the Duluth unit. valuable and most desirable service The apparatus is so sensitive it can Howard Hanson, l., checks opera­ to schools of the state who are par­ catch tremors caused by a man walk­ tion of UMD's new seismometer with ticipating in drama work." Directors ing a quarter of a mile away. Dean Carder, seismologist with the of amateur theatricals throughout The Duluth station fills in one of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Minnesota echo the statement. the blanks in a seismographic net­ Not content merely to continue the work throughout the continent used the surrounding shores- will also job it's doing, the library hopes to to study and record full-scale as well register on the device. increase its usefulness. According to as small earthquakes. Besides his work at the seismo­ James Lombard, director of Concerts Among the special advantages of graph station, this summer Hanson and Lectures, a plan is now under the Duluth station is that it permits will undertake a U.S. Office of Ord­ consideration to bring the library's study of the effect of a large body of nance Research project involving service directly into the schools, water upon its borders. It will help study of the effect of various gases through theater clinics and dramatic determine the effect as towering in "quenching" the flourescence of counseling. waves, whipped up by a northeaster, sodium iodide particles that have Peterson waxes euphoric at the lash the rugged North Shore. "Under­ been exposed to ultra violet rays. idea: "Imagine what we can do if we water storms"- strong conflicting The $ll,OOO grant for this project can actually go out into the state to currents far below the surface inter­ is the first of its type awarded a confer with teachers and students and mingling with a violence that 'lhakes UMD faculty member. club leaders. I believe we can signi­ -·------ficantly raise the level of performance Endowment continued from page 7 and increase appreciation of good "He said he and Dr. Charles had believed that it ought to return to the drama all over the state." always planned to set aside from sick in the form of advanced medical their earnings any sum that seemed education which would develop better in excess of what might be called a trained physicians and reduce the Ruth Eckert Named V.P. 'reasonable return' for their work. amount of sickness. My brother and Ruth E. Eckert, education profes­ And gradually, they felt this money I came to the conclusion that this sor, has been recently elected vice should go for better postgraduate could best be accomplished through president of the National Society of medical education." the State University .... The people's College Teachers of Education. Lunden draws out from the files money, of which we have been the Last month, Miss Eckert attended the original letter and reads aloud: moral custodians, is being irrevoc­ the National Conference on Higher "The fund which we had built up ably returned to the people from Education in Chicago. . . . had come from the sick, and we whom it came." April 1953 13 Peik Hall alwork, woodwork, printing, and University Press to Hold continued from page 3 welding (a ramp connects the weld­ Conference in Honor of ing shop with the ground level so Margaret Harding, Director classroom and observe students and a car can be driven in for repairs) Mrs. Margaret S. Harding, who teacher at work in another. complete the arts-crafts set-up. I Believing that audio-visual aids are will retire June 30 as director of the '1 central to experimental teaching, the u HIGH students will no longer University of Minnesota Press, will ! staff has provided a sound studio for have to trek to Cooke Hall or be honored at a conference the after­ recordings, two darkrooms, a movie Norris Gym for their physical edu­ noon and evening of May 11 on the preview room, and four small record­ cation classes. A separate building subject, "Today's Challenge to the listening cubicles. houses a large gym, which can be Writer and the Reader." What sharply sets the building off converted by an electronically con­ Morris L. Ernst, author, lawyer, from the old-fashioned school is the trolled sliding panel into two sepa­ and a leader in the cause of civil space devoted to laboratories where rate girls' and boys' gyms. Folding liberties and a free press, will speak students really put theory into prac­ bleachers, rather like roll-top desks, at the evening session, a dinner in tice. A small greenhouse will give seat 500 people. Connected with Peik the Main Ballroom of Coffman Me­ botany students the chance to apply Hall by an underground tunnel, the morial Union. He will talk on "The what they learn in the classroom. gym also houses physical education Climate of Fear in the World of The fine and industrial arts and do­ offices, a recreation room, and locker Books." mestic sciences rub elbows in the and shower facilities. The afternoon session will be a basement. Home economics students "Our faculty and students can hard­ forum on "Problems of Publication will have a small living and dining ly wait to get into their new home," for the Scholar-Writer." Speakers area at their disposal plus six unit­ says Sterling Mitchell, principal of will include Chester Kerr, secretary kitchens and a complete clothing sec­ U High. "We feel it is an ideal set­ of Yale University Press; Thomas J. tion. There's plenty of room for fine ting for pioneer work in secondary Wilson, director of Harvard Uni­ arts students to splatter away. Met- education." versity Press, and Charles E. Ode­ gaard, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Michigan U Philosophy Journal Lowry Nelson Publishes and former director of the American Read 'Round the World Migrant Worker Study Council of Learned Societies. Theo­ dore C. Blegen, dean of the Univer­ A survey of the geographical dis­ A new pamphlet, "Migratory Work­ sity Graduate School will preside as tribution of the circulation of Philo­ ers-the Mobile Tenth of American moderator. There will he open dis­ sophical Studies, the journal of ana­ Agriculture," written by Lowry Nel­ cussion following the panel of talks. lytic philosophy published by the son, professor of rural sociology, has This session is planned to give University Press, revealed that the just been issued by the National practical and specific help on pub­ journal goes to subscribers in 17 Planning Association. Nelson pre­ lishing problems to graduate stu­ foreign countries, 40 states, and the pared the report for the NPA agri­ dents and faculty members. It will be District of Columbia. culture committee on national policy held in the Women's Lounge of Coff­ The foreign subscribers are located of which he is a member. man Union from 2:00 to 5:00p.m. in such far-flung places as the Afri­ The pamphlet analyzes social and Both afternoon and evening ses­ can Gold Coast, Tasmania, New Zea­ economic problems of migrant work­ sions are open to all who are inter­ land, England, the Scandinavian ers, describes efforts to overcome ested. Dinner tickets may be pur­ countries, and many of the conti­ their difficulties, and proposes meas­ chased at the University Press, 10 nental countries of Europe. Cali­ ures to benefit these workers. Nicholson Hall. fornia leads the subscriber list in the U.S., with New York second. Dean Cooper Speaks to Anderson Returns from The journal is edited by Herbert WHO Egyptian Mission Feigl, U professor of philosophy, and Mississippi Groups Wilfrid Sellars, chairman of the de­ Assistant dean of SLA Russell Recently returned from a teaching partment of philosophy, advised and Cooper spoke to members of the mission to Egypt for the World assisted by Paul E. Meehl, chair­ Mississippi Association of Colleges Health Organization is Dr. Gaylord man of the psychology department, at Jackson, Miss., March 19, on "The W. Anderson, director of the school John Hospers and May Brodbeck, Essentials in a College Education." of public health. assistant professors of philosophy. The next day Dean Cooper discuss­ Anderson headed a three-man teach­ Established in 1950, Philosophical ed "The Relation of the State Uni­ ing mission of American health spe­ Studies is issued six times a year and versity to the Other Colleges of cialists who conducted seminars and publishes contributions from scholars the State" at a meeting of Univer­ in-service training courses for the m this country and abroad. sity of Mississippi alumni. Egyptian ministry of health. 14 The Minnesotan The President's Page

Editor's note: The remarks below are taken from a speech given by Presi­ dent Morrill on March 13, welcoming delegates to the Conference on Pre­ paring College Men and Women for Politics, in Stillwater, Minnesota. Spon­ sored by the University of Minnesota and the Citizenship Clearing House (affiliated with the Law Center of New York University}, the conference dis­ cussed the question: How can colleges and universities help the student ob­ tain better preparation for active participation in political affairs of his community? Conference participants included state officials and legislators, representatives of both major parties and of nonpartisan political organiza­ tions, journalists, and professors and administrators from colleges and uni­ versities throughout Minnesota.

T IS NEARLY 40 years ago that the American Po­ cinct, the township, and the neighborhood. Surely these I litical Science Association reminded its members that can become teaching tools. political science teaching and citizenship training in the Does this mean that the professor of politics must be colleges and universities has been too strictly confined a practitioner? Well, we require it in other fields of "to a consideration of abstract notions and principles study! There are risks of misunderstanding, especially which find scant place in the actual operation of govern­ in the public-supported university, in this policy. It can mental affairs . . . to theories about civil society and mean more misery for the president! But the risks will too little concerned with political affairs as they are." be balanced by the inescapable responsibility of the The admirable report of the Association on "Goals for teacher for critical objectivity in his field of study and Political Science" attests to an awakened sense of re­ research, I am confident. sponsibility. Despite current alarums and excursions to the con­ More broadly based is the vigorous new movement in trary, despite an occasional rare and astonishing betrayal, American higher education for a "general education" the American college teacher can be trusted-and the that will link learning with life, integrating science and tradition of academic freedom he will dignify by his scholarship to make them more relevant to the problems devotion. that confront us in our contemporary social and political experience. NIVERSITIES, in the high tradition of science and But the newer, more realistic, more useful and practical Uscholarship in the western world, must restate in approach to training for citizenship will require new each new generation their age-old mission, which is the methods, and greater freedom for the teacher in a ter­ transmission of our cultural heritage, its reappraisal and rain pitted with potholes of partisanship and replete reinterpretation in a changing time, and the discovery with the risks of popular prejudice. of new knowledge and ideas bound in themselves to It would seem, in all common sense, that universities bring new change for the enrichment of the future. To and colleges in their endeavors to train for citizenship pass on, uncritically, to their students an acceptance of have failed to make use of the community as the rich the status quo is to abrogate their function, to prohibit natural laboratory that it is-and that the gulf between progress and deprive democratic society of the fruits of the academy and the arena of practical politics must freedom. close, as in this conference the Citizenship Clearing House It is still the difference of opinion that makes a horse and our University seek sensibly to close" it. race-and politics without controversy is inconceivable. The glory of free societies, as the British Denis Brogan S THERE merit in the clinical approach for students wrote, is "that they produce a great many people of I and professors to the political process? I mean the all kinds because they let them produce themselves." . idea of internships as in medicine; or the "work-study" It is a characteristic of young people, of students, that scheme long since initiated in engineering education by they cherish ideals; that they respond to high challenges. the University of Cincinnati, adapted to other areas by The democratic ideal was born among the small city­ Antioch College, now spreading elsewhere in various states of ancient Greece where, as Becker was written, fields of professional training-a plan whereby students "it flourished brilliantly for a brief century or two and alternate their periods of classroom study with super­ then disappeared." But its vital essence the centuries vised experience in the field for which they are prepar­ have preserved. To the challenge of good citizenship ing. Every community has a school board, a village or good students will respond. It can be made a more mean­ city council, a county commission, or other governmental ingful motivation in American higher education. It can body. Political organization reaches down to the pre- glorify our heritage. April 1953 15 APRIL 15 TO MAY 15, 1953 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

METROPOLITAN OPERA CONVOCATIONS May 15-Der Rosenkavalier, 8:00 p.m. Apr. 16-Parents Day convocation. Haydn Mass No. 2 in May 16-La Boheme, 2:00 p.m. C by University Chorus directed by Prof. Caro Cara­ May 16-Samson et Delilah, 8:30 p.m. petyan and University Symphony Orchestra directed by May 17-Don Giovanni, 2:00 p.m. Prof. Paul Oberg. (Northrop Auditorium. Tickets from $3.00 to $7.50 go on Apr. 23-Education Day convocation. Speaker: Dr. Clyde sale May 4 at the Opera Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. Mail Kluckhohn, director of Russian Research Center, Har­ orders accepted now at the Opera Ticket Office.) t vard University. Apr. 30-Johnson E. Fairchild, social geographer, traveler, SPECIAL CONCERTS educator, and author, "Geographical Illiteracy." Music Department May 7-0gden Nash, famous writer of light verse, "A Apr. 24-Joint concert, Lorraine King, harpist, and Ed­ Noontime with Ogden Nash." ward Berryman, organist. May 14-Stephen Spender, British poet. . (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to the public with­ out charge.) out charge.) Apr. 30--Varsity Band Pop Concert. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES (Coffman Union Ballroom, 12:30 p.m. Open to the public May-Backgrounds of English Literature, 1700-1760. Cecil without charge.) A. Moore. A volume of five studies of the sources from May 10-Joint Concert. University Chorus and University which writers of the period drew their most popular Concert Band. ideas, by a professor emeritus of English at the Uni­ (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ versity of Minnesota. $4.50. out charge.) (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul book­ UNIVERSITY THEATRE stores or may be ordered through your local bookstore.) Children's Theatre SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Apr. 20-25, 27-May 2-"The Piper," presented by sixth Classroom Lecture • . . Modern Political Thought. Carl graders. Joachim Friedrich, professor of government at Harvard (Scott Hall Auditorium, 1:15 p.m. except Apr. 24, 7:30 University. The course deals with political thought of p.m. Tickets for evening performances, $.60; for matinees, and before the three great revolutions (English, French, $.40. Sales begin the Wednesday before the week of the Russian) as background for study of main ideological opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott Hall.) t issues of the present time, especially of the East-West conflict. An l\iAEB tape recording. Mondays, Wednes­ UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY days, Fridays, at l :30 p.m. Apr. 22-"Man in the White Suit," British film. Coronation Preview ... This program features interesting Apr. 29-"0pen City," Italian film. historical anecdotes and traditions relating to the coro­ May 6-"The River," British movie filmed in India, di· nation of Queen Elizabeth IL Wednesdays at 5:45 p.m. rected by Jean Renoir. Drama of Poetry ... A series of brief commentaries illus­ May 13-"Under the Paris Sky," French film. trated by readings dealing with individual poets. NAEB (Northrop Auditorium, 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. All foreign tape recording from the University of Wisconsin. Thurs­ language films have English subtitles. General admission days at 1 :30 p.m. at Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, junior admission, $.35. Tickets (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on for staff members at $.60 available in basement of Wes­ the dial. Its complete spring schedule may be obtained by brook Hall and the Campus Club.) t writing to the station.) UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS ATHLETIC EVENTS Baseball at Home Apr. 15-May 20--Japanese Student Show. An exchange exhibit of student art which gives an excellent impres­ Apr. 18-Baseball clinic. sion of the work being done in Japanese colleges and Apr. 28-Carleton. May 5-Augsburg. universities today. Apr. 24-May 22-Photography of Allen Downs. A one man May 8-lndiana. show by the head of the University photography depart­ May 9-Purdue. (Delta Field. Time to be announced.) ment. Apr. 24-June 19-Student Work from the Departments of Tennis Architecture, Home Economics, Art Education, and Gen­ May 11-Iowa U. eral College. Four exhibits in one, this show includes \University courts, 1:00 p.m. Open to the public without student painting, drawing, sculpture, design, and build­ charge.) ing plans and models. Aquatic Show (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors May 1, 2-"Planetasia," presented by the Aquatic League of Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Mon­ of" the Women's Athletic Association. day through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery \Cooke Hall, 8:15 p.m. Tickets on sale at Norris Gym­ open before performances and during intermissions.) nasium, and the night of the show at Cooke Hall, $.72.)

t Tickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Buliding in Minneapolis.

In this issue ••. WHAT IS THE MOST WIDE­ Know Your University SPREAD chronic disease in the world today? Guess again-it's den­ tal caries. Here at the University an attempt to check these pesky cavi­ ties-particularly in children-is be· ing made by the Caries Control Lab. For details, tips on reducing tooth decay, see page 3. BASEBALL COACH Dick Siebert just returned from a flying junket to Japan for the Far East Command, for whom he gave a short course to amateur armed forces baseball coaches. You'll get his impressions of the trip on page 6. RETIRING STAFF MEMBERS oc­ cupy the spotlight this month. Some 70 of them will leave the University June 30. Page 10 gives their names and length of service. Stories about retiring staff members Margaret Har­ ding and Hilma Reitan will be found on pages 7 and 13 respectively. IT'S NOT ONLY POSSIBLE to eat a complete dinner made up of University developed foods-a group Wesbrook Hall of legislators actually did it! Page 12. ACK in 1895, construction of nervously to have their teeth ex­ On the cover • .• B venerable Wesbrook Hall was de­ amined at the dental infirmary which Our four young women on layed for months because of lack of treated 400 persons daily. this month's cover remind us building materials, causing consider­ In 1932 the hall was officially that once again it's cap and able concern to medical students who named Wesbrook Hall in honor of gown time, a time of endings were eager to move into their new Frank F. Wesbrook, dean of the and commencements. As the laboratory. When it was finally com­ medical school from 1906-13. With school year closes, The Min­ pleted, Wesbrook doubled the amount the change in name came a new set nesotan, too, winds up for of experiment space available to med of occupants as General College took this year with the hope that students. over the building. Wesbrook quar­ all its readers will have a The building, made of Minnesota ters gradually became too cramped pleasant and fruitful sum­ stone and cream brick, cost $65,000 for the growing college, and in 1951 mer. See you next fall! and originally housed all types of General College moved next door to medical sciences: departments of his­ Nicholson Hall. Today Wesbrook, newly decorated THE MINNESOTAN tology and embryology on the first Vol. VI No.8 floor; bacteriology, pathology, and in pale green and gray, houses a The Minnesotan is publibhed monthly physiology on the second floor; and most surprising mixture of tenants. during the academic year, October museums of histology, pathology, and For here the philosophy department through May, by the Department of University Relations, University of :\lin· anatomy on the third. Part of the jostles Service Enterprises on the nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies basement was a large animal room first floor, KUOM offices are on the are mailed free to University staff mem­ second, and the loan play library is bers. Subscription rates for those not with cages for rabbits, guinea pigs, on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a rats, and mice. on third along with the University copy. Photographs, unless otherwise When the new medical campus Theatre play and record library. credited, were taken by members of the University Photographic Laboratory. was built in 1912, the science depart­ The basement is home of audio­ Entered as second-class matter at the ments moved out, turning the build­ visual education. Here movies are post office at Minneapolis, Minn. produced, microfilming done, records Copies of this issue are on sale at ing over to dentistry. In the "Old Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore. Dentistry Building" patients waited and tapes made in recording studios. 2 The Minnesotan ·' Lab technologist Mary McLean microscopically examines bacteria from a saliva specimen sent to caries laboratory.

'!'!Nothing but th,e tooth ••• ~~ Caries Control Lab Attaclis Tooth Decay

OOTH decay is the most wide- a mailing tube, and a piece of paraf­ tin that encourages growth. of bacilli. T spread chronic disease in the fin. He is directed to chew on the After 72 hours undisturbed in an world today. paraffin early in the morning before incubator at body temperature, the Americans spend nearly a billion eating, brushing his teeth, or smok­ growth is visible to the naked eye. dollars a year getting their teeth ing, and to expectorate the saliva that What you see is little white specks filled. accumulates into the bottle. like tiny planets in a miniature uni­ It would take six times as many "Next he simply seals the bottle verse, or snowflakes in a glass paper­ dentists as we now have to fill the and sends it in its cardboard mailing­ weight. Each of these spots is a col­ nation's cavities. tube to the Caries Control Labora- ony of many thousands of bacteria Here in Minnesota, an attempt to tory. We get about 1,000 of them that has grown from one of the origi­ do something about the alarming yearly." nal bacteria in the sample. amount of tooth decay' is being made Then a laboratory technician at the Dr. Mitchell's diet research on ham­ in the University Caries Control La- University takes over to find out how sters supplements work of caries lab. boratory, 219 Owre Hall. many Lactobacillus acidophilus hac- Recently made a part of Dentistry teria a given volume of the speci- for Children at the U (since caries, men contains. These lactobacillus or cavities, occur most frequently in "bugs" are one breed of the ornery children), the lab is directed by bacteria responsible for most tooth Prof. Harold Wittich, pedodontia. decay, according to Mitchell. They Dr. David F. Mitchell, associate feed on sugar in the mouth and professor of dentistry and former produce lactic acid which eats into head of the laboratory, explains how tooth enamel and causes cavities. this service unit of the School of The saliva is diluted with water. Dentistry works: ("If we didn't dilute it, we'd have a "Any dentist can request our serv- whole jungle of microorganisms be- ice for a patient with excessive tooth fore very long," says Mitchell.) A decay. The procedure is quite sim- small amount of this mixture is put ple. The patient gets a small bottle, on a culture plate covered with gela- Head of children's dentistry and caries lab director Harold Wittich gives a young patient at U dental clinic a friendly warnin{!; about eating sweets.

When the lab technician analyzes the specimen microscopically, she can determine how many bacteria there were for a cubic centimeter in the original specimen. The count is con­ sidered high if it numbers 50,000 or more bacteria per cubic centimeter. (Sometimes it reaches 1,000,000!) continued on next page 3 At this point one is led to ask, For two weeks the patient gets Other preventive measures are sug­ Why bother to go through this whole no refined sugar at all-he is strenu­ gested. Some of these apply especially procedure? Can't you just look into ously urged to avoid everything that to children, for children get more a patient's mouth and determine the is sweet, looks sweet, or tastes sweet. cavities than adults and they are amount of tooth decay? The count is taken at the end of two generally rather less cooperative in The answer is yes and no. The weeks. the dentist's chair. The big hope is importance of the laboratory's work, After this period, the patient con­ to catch caries early to prevent deep according to Mitchell, is that it in­ tinues to eschew candy, chewing gum, drilling, or better still, to stop them volves a series of re-checks. "A high sweet soft drinks, cake, etc., but he from developing at all. count means high caries activity at is allowed to add a small amount of Additional recommendations the a specific time. It takes months to potatoes and bread, which contain laboratory makes include: develop cavities, but only three days lots of carbohydrates but not refined • Brushing teeth after eating. This to count bacteria. If we can reduce sugars. applies to eating at mealtime and be­ the number of bacteria, we can ex­ If the count taken after this four­ tween-meal snacks. Mitchell recom­ pect to reduce the future develop­ week period is low, the patient is al­ mends rinsing the mouth vigorously ment of cavities. After we've put a lowed to gratify his sweet tooth once if no toothbrush is at hand. Experi­ patient on a prescribed regimen, we a day. "This," says Mitchell, "is he­ ments demonstrate, he says, that no check to see what results we're get­ cause the balance of power inside the dentifrice-not even the widely bally­ ting." mouth has now been changed: the hooed ammoniated dentifrices-have non-acid formers are now more nu­ been shown to be as important in How the lab fights decay merous than the harmful acid form­ controlling decay as the mechanical ers." For people with a high count the act of brushing itself. Dr. Mitchell A final count after six months laboratory generally recommends a and Dr. Dwight S. Chernausek dem­ shows how well the patient has cut six-weeks course of action. onstrated this finding on hamsters, down his tooth decay by reducing It consists mainly of a diet th<.t small experimental animals whose his sugar intake. Prescribed diets at first eliminates sugar and then back teeth are very much like human vary according to the age and phys­ gradually reintroduces it in small molars. ical needs of the patient. doses. Refined sugar-pure cane or • Sodium fluoride. If this is ap­ beet sugar-is really the villain of plied to the teeth by a dentist it can Diet not enough the piece, since it is converted into cut down tooth decay as much as acid by the "bugs" and this acid dis­ But a diet that sharply reduces 40% in children and young adults. solves the tooth enamel. sweets isn't enough, says Mitchell. Mitchell contends that artificU fluoridation of municipal water sup­ Dr. Wittich discusses with a parent the lab's recommended low-sugar diet. ply, while of doubtful value to ad­ ults, has been very helpful in pre­ venting caries in children. In fact, experiments show that if a child grows up in an area where water is fluoridated, it will prevent cavities throughout his adult life. Fluorides are not poison, as some people con­ tend, provided they are introduced in proper amounts much as chloride has been introduced in drinking wa­ ter all over the world. • Regular visits to the dentist. This, of course, is the old standby of having teeth filled as soon as possible with frequent check-ups. Says laboratory director Wittich, "More than 60% of the lab's work is done with children, and we firmly hope that by combining diet control with other preventive measures we can reduce their dental caries and help these children grow into health­ ier adults."

4 The Minnesotan ''General Studies Program Retrieves Values of Liberal Education"-Cooper

"THE GENERAL EDUCATION idea is as old as liberal educa­ tion itself," says Russell L. Cooper, assistant dean of SLA and chairman of the U's General Studies depart­ ment. "M.an has always wanted to provide for more than his vocation alone, to enrich his 'off duty' life." Two developments have stepped up the growth of general education dur­ ing the last half-century. First, the vocational emphasis of the liberal arts curriculum has increased; sec­ ond, the boundaries of knowledge · have been dramatically pushed back, leaving the college student faced with a dazzling but often fragmentary ar­ ray of highly specialized courses. The general studies cabinet meets: l. to r., /. W. Buchta, representing na­ "Actually," Cooper goes on, "we've tural science; Mary Turpie, American life; Harold Allen, communication; been retrieving some of the great Dorothy Dyer, family life; Ralph Ross, humanities; Arthur Naftalin, so­ traditional values of liberal education cial science; and Russell Cooper, chairman of the department. Roger B. by setting up integrative courses to Page, head of personal orientation, could not attend the cabinet meeting. make the student a better citizen and at the same time, a more intelligent and interesting human being." general education to students who nell College in Iowa where he had didn't want or couldn't take four taught political science, to head the cOURSES IN general education years of college. department. began almost simultaneously dur­ By the early 1940's-thanks to By offering courses in humanities, ing the '20's in a number of leading the interest and zeal of former SLA social sciences, natural sciences, fam­ universities. Forerunners of much dean T. Raymond McConnell-many ily life, personal orientation, and broader present programs, these in­ faculty members began to feel that communication, Minnesota's general cluded: a contemporary civilization SLA students deserved a wider choice studies program has carefully hewed sequence at Columbia University; a of general education courses. In 1944 to the U Senate blueprint. course at Chicago in. The Nature of the University Senate passed a reso­ the World and Man, aimed at giving lution endorsing general education BECAUSE IT covers so many students a sampling of all branches and proposing its goals at the Uni­ fields, general studies has natural­ of knowledge; and a course at the versity.* ly presented some difficulties. Often University of Minnesota called, sim­ General studies became a full­ when texts did not exist for their ply, Orientation. fledged department of SLA in 1944, courses staff members had to write The Orientation course was set up and Cooper was imported from Cor- their own. (Thus Mark Graubard's by John B. Johnston, then dean of Fundamentals of Biological Sciences, • Among these goals, to enable the stu­ the Arts college, and was taught in dent: to understand the ideas of others Raymond G. Price's Consumer Edu­ its early days by Mary Shaw, phi­ through reading and listening, and to ex­ cation.) losophy, George Thiel, geology, Dean press his own ideas effectively; to acquire Newest of these texts is An Intro­ knowledge and attitudes basic to a satis­ ]. W. Buchta, and others. factory family life; to participate as an duction to Social Science (see Min­ Out of this one carry-all course, active, informed citizen in discussion and nesotan, May, 1950). This collec­ solution of current social problems; to tion of readings in the social sciences the U's present general studies pro­ understand fundamental discoveries of sci­ gram has developed. It got a further ence in their implications for human wel­ was edited with detailed introduc­ boost when General College was set fare; to understand and enjoy literature tions by Profs. Arthur Naftalin, Ben- art, and music; to choose a socially useful up in the '30's to give a two-year and personally satisfying vocation. continued on page 14 May 1953 5 Meet Dick Siebert- U's "Mr. Baseball" Holds Coaching Clinic in Japan

"The clinics could have been a little better if we had been able to go outside and demonstrate with actual field-play, but we may be able to go back next fall when the weather is warmer," Siebert adds hopefully. "I have never lectured to a more enthusiastic group of men. Even during coffee breaks they would keep us talking, so it was quite a satisfying experience." At the end of each clinic, "graduation exercises" were held and all the men received their coaching cards from Siebert. Then they scattered to their respective bases bringing their increased skill back to their teams. In Tokyo Siebert stayed at the Dai lti Hotel con­ structed by the Japanese for the proposed 1940 Olympic Games. He recalls happily the hardy steak dinners he had at the hotel for 45 cents and the 30-cent breakfasts. slEBERT got an inside look into Japanese baseball and calls the Japanese even more avid fans than AST NOVEMBER Minnesota baseball coach Dick Brooklynites. He says they are extremely interested in L Siebert received a letter from the War Department. keeping physically fit and exercise whenever possible. It wasn't the usual "Greetings," but an invitation from "During noon hours factGuam, nesota winter begins, players practice in the Indoor Korea, and the Philippines-amateur coaches all-were Sports Arena. flown in for the sessions. But Siebert takes his complex schedule in stride and Because of poor weather all meetings were held in says whether he is needed at the University, in Litch­ base theaters where Siebert lectured for about five hours field, or Japan, as long as it spells baseball he's glad to a day, with films, slides, and diagrams. oblige. 6 The Minnesotan U Press Pioneer ... Mrs. Harding can look back on a long, fruitful career

HEN EVER A REPORTER asks Margaret Harding W if she has a hobby, she usually answers, "Yes~- 1 read books." This is hardly a complete answer, since it gives no hint of her other leisure interests-politics, travel, and her grandchildren. But her passionate belief and interest in good books of all kinds explain how the University of Minnesota Press has developed under her direction during the past 26 years. "I remember designing a bright yellow jacket for it­ A woman of obvious personal force, with a pleasant, my first-on the premise that scholarly publications need musical voice, Mrs. Harding has guided the Press from not be restricted to the customary forbidding gray paper its beginnings in 1927 until her retirement this June. covers," Mrs. Harding says. She had previously done considerable high school and Other luminaries in the first catalogue: Mary Ellen college teaching of history and English and helped Chase (now professor of English, Smith College) ; Alice found the American Federation of Teachers. She was Tyler (U history prof); Dr. Richard Scammon (late dean also extremely active in women's trade union organiza­ of the U medical school). tions. In 1918 she married Professor Samuel Harding, later VER THE YEARS Mrs. Harding has maintained that collaborated with him on several widely used history O "the University Press should carry the work of the textbooks. An editor as well as a teacher, Professor campus beyond the campus. It must publish not only Harding served on the original University of Minnesota scholarly works but also a certain number of 'liaison'. faculty committee that was authorized in l92.'i to found books that bring the work of specialists to educated non­ the University Press. specialists." Two years later Professor Harding died, and Mrs. The range of U Press books has been great-from Harding was left with three small children. But a pro­ technical monographs to occasional children's books, fessional career was not new to her, and when Guy from subjects of regional appeal to those of worldwide Stanton Ford, then dean of the Graduate School, m­ significance. vited her to become a part-time editorial assistant on Landmarks that stand out in Mrs. Harding's memory the infant press, she took the job, turning down an include: The Birds of Minnesota by Thomas Roberts; offer to teach in a girls' private school. Child Care and Training, by Marion Faegre and John E. "For one thing." Mrs. Harding explains, "I had taught Anderson; James Gray's history of the University; The so long I could do it with my left hand. Publishing, though, Doctors Mayo-the Press's largest-selling book, by editor was something new and challenging. What clinched it, Helen Clapesattle, who will succeed Mrs. Harding as I think, was the earnest injunction of Frank Maloy director of the Press. Anderson (a former University history professor) not Future plans? Mrs. Harding nods her head emphatical­ to shut myself up with a lot of women ..." Mrs. Har­ ly. "I'm in very good health and I do want to work part­ ding points out with an ironic twinkle that the Press time-editorial work, or teaching, or perhaps in women's itself is now staffed almost entirely by women-albeit a trade union organizations. I also plan to devote more most congenial group. time to civic affairs and local politics." Her one require­ Soon Mrs. Harding was officially made editor of the ment, she adds with a shiver, is a job that won't keep her Press. She did everything in those early days but wrap here winters. books-and type. (She doesn't to this day use a type­ Mrs. Harding was honored at a conference and dinner writer.) Her main job at the outset was to gather all on May 11. In paying tribute to her, Vice President Wil­ the scattered U publications that had been printed at ley, chairman of the committee on the Press, has said: the University print shop, catalogue them, and sell them. "Mrs. Harding's achievement has been a notable one, for The 1928 catalogue-the Press's first-included some starting with nothing but good intentions and University illustrious titles and authors. First book published under backing of a most general sort, she developed the Uni· Mrs. Harding's aegis was political science professor Har­ versity Press to a point where its outstanding list of old Quigley's From Versailles to Locarno. books now has an international reputation." May 1953 7 Professor of neurophysiology Ernst Gellhorn has printed his research findings in a book called Physiological Foundations of Neurology and Psychiatry, which was published by the University Press during April.

U STAFF M~.L ...... &.I~ ...

Two Murphy Hall custodial workers, Gun­ nar Gustafson and Anker H. Pedersen, YOU S pause in their work to have a picture taken. It's an everyday occurrence for Anker who often poses for photography students. Recipient of a Markle Foundation scholarship for As head of the library's bio-med room, Vera Clausen plans search on viruses such as polio is William department work, selects books and periodicals, helps stu­ assistant professor of bacteriology and u. uu

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Friendly, blonde Lillian Hefta has been secretary to U At 30 Gus Turbeville is one of the youngest col­ Comptroller Laurence Lunden for four years. After work lege presidents in the nation. Formerly head of hours Lillian dabbles in photography and likes to sew. UMD's sociology department, he took over as head of Northland College, Ashland, Wis., on April I.

Mae Walker, assistant cook at the ag union, says her job includes every phase of food LD KNOW preparation-ordering supplies, supervising student workers, selling over the counter. Mrs. Walker has been with the U since 1943.

Within the last six months Edwin H. Lewis, associate professor of business administration, published two pamphlets on state economics-"Minnesota's Inter­ state Trade" and "Wholesaling in the Twin Cities." U to Honor 70 at Retirement Party

THIS YEAR 70 retiring staff mem- elude the following (length of time liam H. Huffman, truck driver, 28 bers will be honored by the Uni­ for academic staff members is based years; Cora Thompson, laundry man­ versity at a party early next month on initial appointments as instruc­ ager, Univ.ersity Hospitals, 28 years. at Coffman Memorial Union. Certifi­ tor or above) : Clyde H. Bailey, Ivan Doseff, professor of art, 27 cates commending the retiring staff­ dean of the Institute of Agricul­ years; Olaf R. Noren, grounds crew ers on their service to the University ture, 42 years (see Minnesotan, Jan­ foreman, 27 years; Carl 0. Ander· will be presented to those who have uary 1953); Christian L. Lund, la­ son, laborer, 26 years; Margaret S. been with the University lO years boratory machinist, 41 years; Roy Harding, director, University of Min­ or longer. Childs Jones, professor and head, nesota Press, 26 years; Edith A. Elvin C. Stakman, professor and School of Architecture, 40 years; · Lindberg, secretary, bacteriology, 26 chief of plant pathology and botany, Mark J. Thompson, professor and su­ years; Herman Schmeckert, build­ who has been here 44 years, takes top perintendent, Northeast Experiment ing caretaker, 26 years; George Sund­ honors for number of years at the Station, Duluth, 40 years; Lilly A. by, senior custodial supervisor, phys· University. Second in length of service Lindstrom, senior cashier, Institute ical plant, 26 years. is George C. Priester, professor and of Agriculture, 40 years. Carl A. Anderson, building care­ former head of the mathematics and taker, 25 years; Carl J. Persson, mechanics department, with 43 years. cLARA BROWN ARNY, profes- building caretaker, 25 years; Mel­ Custodial worker Hilma Reitan ranks sor of home economics education, kor Sletten, building caretaker, 24 as the civil service staff member with 38 years; Jean H. Alexander, assist­ years; Marie Apelt, telephone opera· the longest record-42 years (see ant professor of education, 37 years; tion supervisor, 23 years; Jessie page 13). Marvin J. Van Wagenen, associate Hitchcock, junior librarian, 23 years; Stakman, who is an internationally professor of educational psychology, Carl G. Larson, building caretaker, famous authority on cereal rusts and 36 years. 23 years. smuts, will deliver the Cap and Gown Hervey H. Barber, professor of Arthur Reese, utility man, 16 years; Day convocation address to this year's inorganic chemistry, 35 years; Emily Erik W. Mossberg, building care­ graduating class. During his 44 years L. Hanson, principal account clerk, taker UMD, 15 years; Eugene Kaar, at the University Stakman has earned 3S years; Frances J. Newman, princi­ senior general mechanic, 12 years; an imposing list of national and pal laboratory attendant, 35 years; Gust Erickson, building caretaker, international honors, including mem­ Harry J. Ostlund, associate professor 11 years; Joseph J. Claessen, fire­ bership in the National Academy of of business administration, 35 years. man, lO years; Andrew Bakalar, Sciences and the Association for William A. Peters, district super­ building caretaker, 10 years; John the Advancement of Science, of which visor county agent work and assistant W. Larson, food service worker, 10 he was president. In a book recently professor, agricultural extension, 35 years; Dorothy Willson, laundry published Stakman was named one years (died May 3, 1953) ; Nina L. worker, 10 years. of the "100 Most Important People Youngs, instructor, business admin­ in the World Today." In the interna­ istration, 35 years; William H. Alder­ ETIRING civil service staff mem­ tional field he worked with UNESCO, man, professor and chief, division of R bers who have been at the U less studying the effect of radioactive horticulture, 34 years; Lauritz Clau­ than ten years are: Edwin A. Berg· substances on plant pathogens and sen, senior laboratory machinist, 33 strom, 9; C. 0. Lund, 9; Anna Wes­ other microorganisms. years; Joseph Kelley, building care­ ke, 9; Arthur Afdahl, 8; Elsie Brown. George C. Priester started at Min­ taker, 33 years; Robert T. Jones, 8; Henry Nacht, 8; Otto Nuotio, 8: nesota back in 1910 as an instructor professor of architecture, 33 years. Katherine E. Ritchell, 8; Oline Ness. and later received his M.A. from F. Stuart Chapin, professor of so­ 7; Harold LaFond, 7. Minnesota and Ph.D. from Michigan. ciology, 31 years; Ralph F. Crim, Clara H. Thompson, 7; John Wal­ He was head of the mathematics and associate professor, agricultural ex­ kowiak, 7; Emma P. Edwards, 6; Jo­ mechanics department from 1940-52. tension agronomy, 31 years; Kari G. seph E. Watner, 6; William A. Erick­ During his long career at Minnesota, Gulbrandson, housekeeper, 31 years; son, 5; Catherine Helsper, 5; Mabel Priester kept up with his two favor­ Theodore Swanson, carpenter, 31 P. Hill, 4; George A. Kimpton, 4; ite hobbies, music and fishing. years; Herman E. Fors, senior la­ Garfield V. Swanson, 3; Albert An· Other retiring staff members in- boratory attendant, 28 years; Wil- finson, 2; Evans J. Marquesen, 2. 10 The Minnesotan • A typical musical evening in the Alspach home: lane plays the vio­ lin, Addison, the piano, and Eliza­ beth, the cello. Mrs. Alspach and musical son Edward (who plays pi­ ano and tympani) listen to the trio.

side the home by playing in the East high school orchestras and the UMD orchestra. Both Jane and Elizabeth have won three superior ratings in the junior auditions conducted by the Minnesota Federation of Music Clubs. Elizabeth this year won a su­ perior rating in the student audi­ tions, a step beyond junior audi­ tions. Edward plays percussion in the UMD and the Duluth Symphony or­ chestras. Although primarily inter­ ested in piano, he studied percussion simply because a percussionist was needed. It was at Iowa that the twins got UMD family has talent to spare ... their first systematic music training. When they were four, a student teach­ er worked with them an hour a day, The Musical Alspachs alternating between musical games, singing, and practice. Today, each spends about 2S hours a week in va­ USIC reigns supreme in the no Mozart, who could toss off a sym­ rious music activity-without being Mhome of Addison M. Alspach, phony in a week because he knew prodded. "I recommend this system head of UMD's music department. almost before setting down a single of starting early and varying musical A visit to the Alspach home would note what the whole work would experience to other parents who find Elizabeth and Jane, the 16- sound like. No, I have to forge it want their children to enjoy music," year-old twins, playing cello and vio­ out, like most composers do. I like Alspach says. lin respectively during their regular to call our kind 'smiths', who have practice sessions. Edward, 18, would to work and re-work each element Gift with a Human Story probably be busy \\"ith one of his before we're satisfied with the fin­ (Based on item in Regents' Docket piano pupils. Later in the day Ad­ ished piece," Alspach says. for AprillO, 1953) dison Alspach might be supervising His opera, on which he is now all three children in advanced piano working, is based upon a play writ­ Fred Johnson served as an elevator work. Mrs. Alspach, the only non­ ten by Marcus Bach, a colleague at operator at the University for many musical member of the family, just Iowa. It involves a conflict between years before his retirement. Last year sits back and enjoys the music. "religious fanaticism and the incur­ he died. All this is just the beginning of sions of academic doubt" in a com­ After his death it was found that the Alspach family musical activity. munity of Flagellantes in the South­ he had a savings account at the St. Composing is another of Alspach's west. It should he completed this fall. Anthony Falls office of the First Na­ musical accomplishments. His "Sym­ Besides his composing, Alspach tional Bank containing $160.13-an phony 1945", which was written has a full load of college duties­ account which was in the name of when he was teaching at the U of administration, instruction, orches­ "Fred Johnson or the Regents of the Iowa, has been performed by the tral direction. In addition to rehears­ University of Minnesota." University of Iowa and the UMD ing the orchestra twice a week for The Board of Regents in receiving orchestras. When it was presented a concert every quarter, he volun­ the gift decided that since Mr. John­ by the Duluth Symphony this spring, tarily directs the Northern-Aires, a son himself had been crippled, the it won considerable critical acclaim. topnotch male chorus making its money would be given to the Crip­ Alspach calls his composing "forg­ mark in the Duluth area. pled Child Relief Incorporated Re­ ing"-in the blacksmith's sense. "I'm The Alspach twins take music out- habilitation Center. May 1953 11 ---·~------

EATING Your Way Through the University At a unique dinner legislators learned about U research- the easy way

ROAST TURKEY and dressing, ting methods, thinning practices, and for Minnesota's $40,000,000 turkey mashed potatoes, squash, salad regeneration processes for aspen and industry. with blue cheese dressing, honey, jack pine. The light fluffy turkey dressing cheese-and for dessert, a raspberry was made from U turkey expert W. sundae. Sound like a delicious din­ oN the dinner tables were bowls of A. Billing's famous recipe for "Non­ ner? It was! rosy Haralson and Prairie Spy Soggy Stuffing," (see Minnesotan, This was the menu for a meal pre­ apples meant for eating as well November 1950.) pared entirely from University de­ as decoration. The University Fruit A peat land research project pro­ veloped products and served to some Breeding Experiment Station at Ex­ duced the potatoes for dinner. Be­ members of the Minnesota State Leg­ celsior, provided these plus the lus­ fore the U started its peat land islature at a special dinner during the cious Latham raspberries for dessert. study, these lands produced nothing past legislative session. At the Fruit Farm, guests learned, but a little celery. But today some As a graphic demonstration of the over 60 varieties of fruit have been 25,000 acres of Minnesota peat land scope of U research the printed din­ developed under the direction of Wil­ yield $17,500,000 worth of fresh ner menu explained where each of liam H. Alderman, head of the divi­ vegetables including one-third of the the dinner items was grown and sion of horticulture. potatoes grown in Minnesota. Profes­ which University department pro­ The large 35-pound turkey and sor of horticulture Fred A. Krantz duced it. From the menu guests smaller fryer-roaster birds that made supplied the potatoes. learned the following facts: up the main course were grown at The first item told about the pa­ the Rosemount Research Center, NOTHER University product was per upon which the menu itself was where a flock of 3500 turkeys is kept Asquash, a new variety with the printed. It was made by the North­ for researeh purposes. Working un­ rather technical title of "Faribo Hy­ west Paper Company in Cloquet, der H. J. Sloan, former head of brid R." It resulted from the squash­ from pulpwood produced from Min­ the poultry husbandry department breeding portion of a larger project nesota grown jack pine and aspen. and now director of the agricultural on vegetable breeding carried on by The menu also explained that the experiment station, U poultrymen are the horticulture department under U experimental forest in Cloquet has developing birds with a high meat Professor Arthur E. Hutchins. been the scene of experiments in cut- yield that will produce greater profits continued on next page

These are the men who contributed products from their departments for the dinner. Standing behind the foods that they helped to develop are, l., Mykola Haydak, entomology, honey; Fred Krantz, horticulture, potatoes; Arthur Hutchins, horticulture, squash; Hubert Sloan, experiment station, turkeys; William Alderman, horticulture, ap­ ples; Willes Combs, dairy husbandry, ice cream and cheese; E. H. Rinke, agronomy and plant genetics, popcorn. 42 years at the lJ •• Hilma Has a Party

PRIL 13 was a big day for Hilma Reitan. At two A o'clock that afternoon about 50 of her co-workers gathered to give her a party in the Union and say good­ bye to the lively little woman who retires this June after 42 years at the University. 1:-'resent at the· party in the fifth floor lounge of the campus club were friends of Hilma's from the Union (she is a custodial worker there), and from the old days in Shevlin Hall, where she worked for many years. On behalf of many friends, Union custodial supervisor Hilma's friends from physical plant and admissions and Ray Goff gives retiring Hilma Reitan a farewell gift. records came too. On behalf of all of them, Union custodial supervisor Folwell-I saw him here. I came here when Miss Com­ Ray Goff presented Hilma with some money and a black stock was still alive and Northrop was president. He leather handbag with the injunction to "keep it well was the kind of man that knew everybody.... I have filled and not put it in the University archives." seen the University grow, oh my! Where we are now There was coffee and cake, flowers and tall green can­ in the Union were all living-houses and even stores!" dles in silver candlesticks. And Hilma herself looked es­ Hilma, who came here with her family from Sweden pecially trim with her hair newly set, her eyes sparkling, at 22, still has the traces of an accent. She lives with and a fresh corsage (orchid and roses, contributed by a brother, likes sewing and cooking, and continues to "Patty from the Union beauty parlor"). bake rye bread and coffee bread regularly. Retiring with the longest civil service employment rec­ She confesses to mixed feelings about retiring. "I have ord this year, Hilma actually came to the U 46 years enjoyed to work here, otherwise I wouldn't have been ago-in 1908. For six years she was a cleaning woman here so long, I guess. I haven't thought much about re­ in Folwell Hall, then brand new. After three years away tiring. It's going to be funny. I might even get up in from the University, Hilma returned in 1917 to Shevlin the morning and come back to work, just from habit! Hall, where she did custodial work and served at coffee ''I'll miss everybody. Everyone's so nice and friendly parties until the Union opened in 1940. here. But I figure after you work at one place so long, "I knew them all," says Hilma in reminiscence. "Even it's time to make way for the new ones ..."

Eating Your Way through the University continued from preceding page Three items on the menu came Mykola H. Haydak, associate pro­ As a sample of the huge new taco­ from Willes B. Combs, chairman of fesor of entomology and economic nite industry of Minnesota, pellets the dairy husbandry department­ zoology provided honey for the din­ and boxes of taconite material were Minnesota Blue Cheese used in the ner from the bee hives of the ento­ given to the guests. Until 1949 only salad-dressing, "Nuworld" white mu­ mology department where research the legislature, which provided funds, tant cheese, and sweet cream butter· projects in beekeeping are being car­ and Professor E. W. Davis and his milk ice cream for the sundae. ried on. colleagues at the Mines Experiment Minnesota Blue, made of cow's As the guests left the dinner they Station were interested. Now industry milk and ripened in sandstone caves were asked to take several more Uni­ is using the entire process, exactly along the Mississippi River bank has versity products along with them. as developed on the U campus. added a new facet to Minnesota's They got bags of popcorn called Min­ Guests were also offered an apple dairy industry because today Minne­ hybrid 250, and the first popcorn tree, one of a variety developed by sota manufactures over six million hybrid ever grown on a commercial the Fruit Breeding Station, to be pounds of this pungent cheese every scale in the nation and developed planted in the spring. year. The ice cream was a result of by the University. E. H. Rinke, pro­ Guests agreed it was a delicious experiments in milk by-products car­ fessor of agronomy and plant ge­ dinner- and what's more, a most ried on for a number of years by the netics, donated the popcorn from his pleasant object lesson in University dairy husbandry department. department. research! May 1953 13 Here Are Highlights of '53 Summer Session • • • CHOICE of some 1200 subjects graduate nurse. (Second session.) program this year will be held at A will be available to students dur­ • Family Life Workshop from July Madison, Wisconsin, in cooperation ing the University's two summer ses­ 6 to 24 for teachers, administrators, with the University of Wisconsin, sions-June 15 to July 18 and July counselors, social workers, sponsored with staff drawn from both Minne­ 20 to Aug. 22. This year both ses­ by an interdepartmental committee sota and Wisconsin. sions will run five weeks, the sec­ headed by Dorothy T. Dyer, associate ond session adjourning a week earlier professor of general studies, with THOSE INTERESTED in study- than usual to enable summer students representatives from the Institute of ing on the shores of Lake Su­ to return to their occupations. Child Welfare, School of Home Eco­ perior can take their courses at the According to Thomas A. H. Teet­ nomics, School of Public Health, and Duluth branch where they will find er, dean of the Summer Session, division of family life. such classes as: about 10,500 students will attend the • Economic Problems of Today, a • Workshop in Painting conducted U this summer. Teeter says that ap· special survey course, planned for by noted American painter Arnold proximately 32% of them will en­ the non-major and specially designed Blanch, during second term. The roll in the Graduate School, 23% in to bring teachers up to date on social workshop, fast becoming a tradition SLA, and 20% in the College of studies. Harlan M. Smith, assistant at UMD, attracts art students from Education. professor of economics, will teach the all over the nation. Some of the most unusual of the course. 1200 courses offered include: • Problems in State School Ad­ • Studies in Rural Education, a ministration. For the first time staff class which will give students the op­ • Human Relations in the Health members of state departments of edu­ portunity to work on curriculum Field, to be held during the first two cation from all over the nation will problems and general improvement weeks of the first term and taught by be able to attend a two-week session of education and rural life. Leo W. Simmons, professor of sociol­ on state school administration prob­ In addition to the large number of ogy at Yale University. The course lems from July 20 to Aug. 6. Head­ courses, the University has planned is aimed at graduate nurses, social ing the staff is J. T. Berning, assist­ a program of recreational activities workers, hospital service personnel, ant commissioner of education, Min­ for summer school VISitors and and those in related fields. nesota State Department of Educa­ staff members which includes sum­ • Psychiatric Nursing, designed to tion. mer sports, excursions, concerts, lec­ aid in the clinical preparation of the • Scandinavian Area Studies. The tures, and movies.

General Studies Retrieves Values continued from page 5 jamin Nelson, Mulford Q. Sibley, the curriculum. We want to keep this see pictures and listen to recordings Donald Calhoun, Andreas Papan­ a department for non-majors, mostly to supplement their coursework. dreou. Published by Lippincott, the at the undergraduate level. Our aim Another current general studies book has already been adopted in a is to improve existing courses." project aimed at improving existing number of colleges and universities. How is this being done? courses is a research study con­ Where does the department get its In humanities, for instance, under ducted by Dorothy Dyer, head of staff? the leadership of Prof. Ralph Ross, family life. The survey analyzes the "Somewhat more than half the the fine arts emphasis has been marital adjustment of students who general studies courses this spring strengthened in the belief that to took the SLA functional course in are being taught by our own staff understand a period you must know preparation for marriage, including members," says Cooper, "ranging its art and music as well as literature, a follow-up three, five, and ten years from full professors to part-time in­ philosophy, and history. George Am­ after their enrollment. The study will structors. The remaining sections are berg, former curator of the Museum compare the marital adjustment of a taught by people loaned to us by of Modern Art's department of thea­ similar group who did not take the other departments, from whom we've ter arts, was brought here last fall course. always had excellent cooperation." to assist in developing the art offer­ How successful is the Minnesota ings in humanities. general studies program? If student EAN COOPER is rather chary As an innovation this quarter, the enrollment is any indication, it's a D about future plans for the de­ Union Fine Arts room will be made resounding success. For although no partment. "We are trying to halt into a kind of working laboratory general studies course is required, our original expansion, lest the de­ where humanities students, music stu­ this department now has more reg­ partment proliferate like the rest of dents, and others on the campus can istrations than in any other in SLA! 14 The Minnesotan -- I

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In Retrospect: The University and the Legislature

URING THE first four months of 1953, the Legisla­ We are likewise grateful to my own administrative D ture--its committees and its subcommittees-gave associates and to other staff members whose presentation consideration to the Regents' requests for financial sup­ to the Legislature of our needs was diligent and effective, port of the University in the coming biennium. persistent and persuasive. Especially are we appreciative For general maintenance the University requested ap­ of the interest and efforts of the many friends of the proximately $33,916,000; for University hospitals, University in the Senate and in the House who gave $3,747,000; for extension, research, and special items, staunch support to the needs of the University. To loyal $2,846,000; and for new buildings, $10,709,000. alumni and members of our University Dads Association These estimates of need had been carefully and min­ and many others who helped to plead our case, sincere imally compiled. They were less than originally author­ thanks are also due. ized by the Regents, being necessarily reduced when the legislative decision was made to grant no new cost-of­ MODEST SALARY INCREASES to eligible staff mem- living increases to state employees. bers will be made, and some staff relief can be given They were presented to an economy-minded Legislature in overcrowded departments in order to meet the needs that was increasingly committed, as the legislative weeks resulting from anticipated increased enrollments. But es­ passed, to the principle of either reducing state expenses sentially, the University of Minnesota for the next two or holding the line on future expenses. years must operate on a "hold the line" basis. Indeed, In its closing hours, the Legislature made available to demands arising from increased enrollments will bring the University approximately $29,776,000 for gener­ to the University campuses evidences of austerity. al maintenance; $3,526,000 for University hospitals; Over the next two years it is clear to me that all of us $2,4 73,000 for extension, research, and specials; and will be called upon to re-examine most carefully all of $4,456,000 for new buildings. of our programs and services to the end that all possible Obviously the appropriations actually made were con­ economies be made, that all functions be reappraised, and siderably less than those requested. Let us compare them that our activities in teaching, research, and public serv­ with the sums appropriated in 1951 for the present bi­ ice be conducted at maximum efficiency with minimum ennium: cost. This is an assignment that will require the fullest In 1951 the Legislature appropriated $28,373,000 for cooperation and the best intelligence we can muster. general maintenance; $2,778,000 for University hos­ pitals; $2,191,000 for extension, research, and specials; and $2,096,000 for new buildings. It will be seen that appropriations for the next biennium exceed those for the present biennium. For these increases, granted despite the difficult revenue and taxation problems confronting the Legislature, all of us are deeply grateful.

May 1953 15 MAY 15 TO JUNE 15, 1953 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

CONVOCATION SPECIAL CONCERT

May 21-Cap and Gown Day. Elvin C. Stakman, professor May 26-Senior Commencement Recital. University Sym­ and chief, plant pathology and botany, "Minnesota, Hail to phony Orchestra with graduating seniors as soloists. Thee!" (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 p.m. Open to the public out charge.) without charge.)

SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Saturday at the Opera ... A series of operas including June 7-Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, The Temple, Cleve­ Dido and Aeneas, :ialome, Cosi Fan Tutte, Carmen, which land, Ohio, speaker. "The Faith Which Will Serve Us Best." can be heard each week during the summer. Saturdays (Northrop Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open to the public.) 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Little Orchestra Society Concerts . The programs in this series are a blend of classical and romantic music COMMENCEMENT played by the Little Orchestra Society at Hunter College, with the enlightening comments of David Randolph, music June 13-President James Lewis Morrill, speaker. commentator for WNYC. Saturdays 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Memorial Stadium, 8:00p.m. Open to the public.) Cooper Union Forum ... "The Male of the Species," a series of diverting and informative talks by noted anthro­ pologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists on the cultural and psychological vagaries of the human male. Among the UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS topics: "The Patriarchal Society," "The Competitive Spirit in Man," "Fathers are Parents Too," "Psychological t;f. Through June 19-Student Work from the Departments fects of our Industrial Civilization," "Emotional Maturity of Architecture, Home Economics, Art Education, and for Husbands." Tuesdays beginning June 2 at 7 p.m. General College. Four exhibits in one, this show includes student painting, drawing, sculpture, design, and building (KUOM, the University rad1o station, broaucascs at 770 plans and models. on the dial. Its complete spring schedule may be obtained by writing to the station.) (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open before performances and during intermi,;sions.) ATHLETIC EVENTS

Baseball at Home UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY May 19-St. Thomas. May 22-''Fantasia," a Disney animation in technicolor. (Lexington Ball Park, 8:00 p.m.) (Northrop Auditorium, 4:00 and 7:30 p.m. General admis­ May 22, 23--0hio State. sion at Lobby Ticket Office, $.74, ·junior admission $.35. Tickets for staff mt'mbers at $.60 available in the basement (Delta Field, game May 22 at 3:30 p.m. and May 23 at of Wesbrook Hall and the Campus Club.) t 10:30 a.m. Tickets at gate, $.60.) Football UNVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATE May 23--Spring football game. (Memorial Stadium, 2:30 p.m. Tickets at gate $1.25. June-Answerable Style: Essays on Paradise Lost. Arnold Combination price for May 23 baseball and football games Stein. A fresh interpretation of Milton's epic through the if purchased in advance at Cooke hall, $1.00.) use of both new and traditional techniques of criticism by a former Minnesotan who is professor of English at the Track University of Washington. $3.50. May 16--University of Iowa. (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul book­ stores or may be ordered through your local bookstore.) (Memorial Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Tickets at gate $.60.)

t Tickets for these evt'nts are also available at the Field Schlick Ticket Office in St. Paul and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Building in Minneapolis.