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River Campus Colleges Teaching mation officer at Rochester included not only the prepar­ ation of news and feature material for local and national press, radio, and television media, but also the writing and editing of a vast array of publications, ranging from the perennial catalogues to special brochures on the Un­ iversity's rapidly expanding activities. During that period Charlie brought to his demanding post the skill and ver­ satility of a seasoned newspaperman (he had served on the old Rochester Herald, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and the Rochester Times-Union). He brought as well a ready wit, a genuine interest in students and in their teachers, and a rare devotion to his university. Despite his heavy professional burdens he found time for numerous campus activities. Oldtimers will remem­ his issue of Rochester Review is dedicated to the late ber his performance as Androcles in Shaw's Androcle'S TCharles F. Cole, '25, director of public information and the Lion; alumni of more recent vintage will recall at the University since 1943, editor of the Review from his work in the Co-Kast production of Guys and Dolls. 1946 to 1959, and, since that time, the Review's con­ Through the years he and his wife, the former Jean sulting editor. He died August 12, 1964 in Strong Mem­ Masters, '25, were familiar figures at major UR functions. orial Hospital. Their son, Michael, was graduated from Rochester in Charlie Cole was known to thousands of UR people 1959; in that year also Charlie was awarded an Alumni -as a prime interpreter of his university and its activ­ Citation to Faculty for "outstanding contributions to ities ... as composer of "The Dandelion Yellow" (in col­ student life beyond the call of duty." laboration with Richard L. Greene, '26) and other college He will be missed by his colleagues, his fellow alumni, songs ... and as a dedicated member of the campus com­ and his university. munity. J. E. BROWN For many years the responsibilities of public infor- Editor CONTENTS The Interdisciplinary Approach ROCHESTER REVIEW, VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 1, September/October, 1964. Editor­ 4 Medicine and Education: Programmed Instruction Judith E. Brown; Art Director-Robert S. Topor; Production Manager-Barbara B. Ames; in Medical Education University News Editor-Margaret Bond '47; Classnotes Editor-Patricia Coppini; Public­ Music and Medicine: The Physiology of Breathing ations Committee: Dr. Priscilla L. Cummings '38GM, '43M (Chairman); Dr. Norman J. for Woodwind and Brass Instruments Ashenburg '38, '40GM, '51M; David A. Berger '35E, '39GE; Russell E. Craytor '35; Ronald 10 The View from Morey Hall-An Interview with C. Heidenreich '48U, '52G; Diane Morrell Jenkins '58; Richard C. Mack '45; Robert J. Dean Kenneth E. Clark Scrimgeour '52. Published by the University of Rochester four times a year in September/ 16 Hands Across the River October, December/January, March / April, June / July, and mailed without charge to all 18 The Ninth Masque alumni. Editorial office: 107 Administration Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. 14627. Second class postage paid at Rochester, N.Y. 20 Faculty Perspectives Why is Pure Mathematics? Professor Arthur H. Stone On the Pre-eminence of Clergy Assistant Professor George G. Berg 23 University News 25 Classnotes INTERDISCIPLINARY is a word encountered increasingly at Rochester. And with in either or both of the other two colleges. good reason, for today, as never before, faculty and students D Faculty from Engineering are exploring with faculty from of the University's schools and colleges are working together Arts and Science the strengthening of mathematics and sci­ in programs of teaching and research that transcend the tradi­ ence courses for engineers.... The Dean of Education has tional boundaries of their respective disciplines. brought together an advisory committee including profes­ A number of these efforts are organized as distinct admin­ sors of chemistry, mathematics, music, psychology, Eng­ istrative units-the Center for Brain Research, the Space lish, and foreign languages. Science Center, the Center for Visual Science. But, as Presi­ For Rochester, such efforts are a natural outgrowth of dent Wallis commented in a recent address, "the thing that what the President termed the University's "intellectual com­ is exciting at Rochester is that the interdisciplinary approach pactness," which makes possible a continuing cross-fertiliza­ interlaces the whole University without interdisciplinary ad­ tion of ideas among its faculties. He concluded: ministrative organizations." "What is happening at the University-and we are encour­ Wallis noted that activities "that began with informal meet­ aging this development at every opportunity-is this: Be­ ings and discussions have grown into carefully planned co­ cause of the particular mix we have-Music, Medicine, Busi­ operative teaching and research programs between Medicine ness, Engineering, Education, Arts and Science-because of and Education ... Engineering and Arts and Science ... the kind of faculty and students we attract, because of the Engineering and Medicine ... Education and Arts and Sci­ amount and kind of graduate training and research we do, ence ... Medicine and the Computing Center ... Medicine and because of our compactness, we are able to have a and Music." flexible and infinitely varied set of interdisciplinary activities He cited some examples: without the cumbersomeness and rigidity of formal inter­ D Joint faculty appointments have been made in the School disciplinary organizations. Correspondingly, we can give a of Medicine and the College of Education, in the Department college student a university education. In this we are nearly of History and the Department of English, in Education and unique." Arts and Science. • • • D Faculty from one school work with faculty from another to improve teaching in each school. New techniques such as Reflecting the University's interest in interdisciplinary programmed instruction are worked out in one college and activities were two conferences held during the past sum­ the principles are adapted and applied in another. In one mer. At the Medical Center, more than 200 physicians and instance, engineers, programmers, mathematicians, and phy­ educators from the United States and Canada gathered for sicians are working together in applying computer tech­ the nation's first conference on programmed instruction in nology to medicine; in another, faculty from the Medical medical education, which was sponsored jointly by the Col­ School, from Engineering, and from Arts and Science work lege of Education and the Medical School; and at Kilbourn together to teach new courses in biomedical engineering.... Hall, specialists in wind and brass instruments attended a D Faculty from Arts and Science, Engineering, and Medi­ pioneering workshop in physiology under the aegis of the cine are developing new curricular arrangements that will Eastman School and the Medical School. encourage students in one college to take advanced work in Some highlights of these conferences are pictured on the particular areas-or to fill in gaps in their general education- next six pages. 3 "Medical education is in desperate need of innovation. The growing body of knowledge, the increased numbers of students, the lack of professional training in teaching among medical faculty members combine to present a formidable instructional problem ..." "The type of work done in medical schools emphasizes the need for something that will stimulate the learning process, both for medical students and in postgraduate education for the practicing physician ..." "There is probably no field of human endeavor outside of medicine where knowledge is growing at such an ac­ celerated rate and where the need to keep abreast of this knowledge has so many implications for the lives and welfare of other people ... " In these sobering words members of an interdiscip­ linary team from the University's faculties in medicine and education have described the need for new instruc­ tional tools in the field of medical education. Their efforts to explore one promising technique-programmed in­ struction-last summer resulted in a nationwide confer­ ence attended by educators from 64 medical schools, along with representatives of allied fields. In many ways the University of Rochester was an ex­ ceptionally appropriate locale for such a conference: The University introduced the nation's first full-scale college-credit course in programmed instruction back in 1961. Based on these initial experiences in training some 200 teachers in programming, two members of the Col­ lege of Education faculty-Assistant Professor Jerome P. Lysaught and Associate Professor Clarence M. Wil­ liams-wrote the first book on a university's work in this field. In collaboration with Dr. Charles D. Sherman, Jr., of the Medical School's Department of Surgery, Williams and Lysaught launched a three-year pilot project in can­ cer teaching via programming, And, as part of their joint activities, the three men made the first formal survey of programmed instruction in the nation's medical schools. Actually, the Rochester conference was a direct out­ growth of this survey. The team's study had indicated THE that some 35 medical schools throughout the country were using-or were exploring-the possibilities of pro­ INTERDISCIPLINARY grammed instruction. But such efforts, the Rochester APPROACH: group found, were widely scattered; much of the initial research was unreported, and little was known about the actual effectiveness of existing
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