MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Fa&Stty HIGH PRAISE ACCORDED Mscs School of Veterinary Medicine
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SPARTAN ALUM N I M A G A Z IN E FIRST TELEVISED COMMENCEMENT MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE fa&Stty HIGH PRAISE ACCORDED MSCs School of Veterinary Medicine REPORT OF THE COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: "The Council ganized and distributed over the various wishes to commend the efforts of your administration and Dean Clark specialties. and his staff for the excellent progress made in the School of Veterinary An adequate and modern autopsy room Medicine. It is hoped that the present high level will be maintained so has been incorporated in the new struc that veterinary medical students will continue to receive the benefit ture which affords facilities for both of very adequate training." large and small animals. Equipment, audio-visual material, classroom, labora tory and office facilities are on a high level, the committee stated, adding that NCE AGAIN Michigan State and research laboratories are excellent "this department ranks with the best College's School of Veterinary Medi in space and arrangement and have the O in veterinary education." cine has received the accolade of "ranking most modern equipment . the autopsy with the best in veterinary education." room is one of the best . excellent plan Large Teaching and Research Staff In a report submitted to the Council ning evident in the construction of A staff of 25 members is engaged in on Education and forwarded to President animal quarters and other facilities for teaching and research in the Department John Hannah, a committee of the Coun research. of Bacteriology and Public Health. This cil, which had visited the school for the Staff Morale High is a well-trained and balanced staff with purpose of observing the training pro considerable experience, the committee Apparently, the committee felt that gram for veterinary medical students, reports, and is doing a very good job in the spirit and cooperativeness of the staff rated department after department as its field. As with the other basic science was a clear indication of a department's among "the best in the colleges of vet departments, it ranks high among similar value. It particularly mentioned the erinary medicine." departments in other colleges of vet Anatomy Department as having a well- erinary medicine. Four of the five departments—Anato qualified staff with a morale of high my, Physiology and Pharmacology, Ani level. They also noted that the research Numerous Changes Made mal Pathology, and Bacteriology and program was well planned and super Public Health, were cited as among the The Department of Surgery and Medi vised. This department has six full-time cine has had numerous changes made in first in the country. Further, the De members and one graduate assistant. partment of Surgery and Medicine the physical facilities since the commit tee made its last inspection in 1951. A was commended for showing "progres Good Job in Teaching and Research new reception room for the small animal sive thinking in their hospitalization The staff of the Department of Physi methods." clinic has been constructed. The ken ology and Pharmacology is "well-quali nels have been remodeled, and an addi Graduate Program Excels fied, stable, young in years, and doing tional small animal operative room has The School's graduate study program a good job both in teaching and research," been provided. exceeds that of any college of veterinary according to the report. "Classroom and Also, a new operating room for cattle medicine, the committee stated. At the laboratory facilities are excellent and has been provided on the second floor, present time, there are 127 graduate the equipment is superior, both in num additional space for the horse clinic, and students taking advanced work, in addi ber and quality." an x-ray therapy room built in the space tion to 247 undergraduates. A 66-member The department has nine full-time staff formerly occupied by locker rooms. faculty, 37 of whom are veterinarians, members. Three are veterinarians who Praise for All provides a high quality of teaching for are responsible for teaching the veteri both undergraduates and graduates. nary students, and six, non-veterinarians In general, what was said for one department was said for all, in the com During the past year, over $100,000 who teach human physiology and special mittee's report. The teaching staff and in gifts and grants were received in addi course work in endocrinology and meta physical facilities of the School were tion to the funds provided by federal bolism. rated with the highest in the land. The and state governments. Research Highly Developed School also has an elaborate program Committee Runs Out of Adjectives Both graduate and research work in of research underway. In describing the physical facilities the Department of Animal Pathology The Council reports that it has voted of the school, the committee had only are very highly developed, the committee "to continue full accreditation for the words of highest praise . the teaching reported. Graduate courses are well or School of Veterinary Medicine." THE RECORD Vol. 59—No. 5 MARJORIE KING, Editor August 1, 1954 RUSSELL POWERS, JR., '49, Associate Editor A. WESTLEY ROWLAND, Editorial Advisor STARR H. KEESLER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; TED EMERY, Assistant Sports Editor; JOHN MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KUHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; EARL C. RICHARDSON, Agricultural Editor; BARBARA BROWN, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Informa tion Services. Campus pictures by PHOTO LAB photographers. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. She Took Them At Their Word Mrs. Carpenter Visits 75 Foreign MSC Grads ii~f F YOU ever visit my country, are planning to experiment with mixed Night" in Baghdad. There, the alumni JL please contact me!" classes this year. Then if parents react called a special meeting in her honor. This invitation was extended to Mrs. favorably, coeducational classes will be During the evening she gave a lecture Louise Carpenter many times by foreign installed in that one school. This school and conducted a panel discussion, as well students when they completed their came about as the result of the work as talked over old times with eight for studies at Michigan State College. of a former M.S.C. grad and various mer M.S.C. grads. Last September, Mrs. Carpenter, '17, other American graduates who interested "Every one of our former Iraqi stu took a sabbatical leave from her duties the prime minister and the minister of dents is working in the job for which as assistant counselor to foreign stu education in establishing a model school he was trained. When you think of it, dents and as director of adventures in along the lines of an American com that is a real record," Mrs. Carpenter munity school. world understanding. Her purpose: "to said. She spent almost a fortnight in see the sights and say hello to my many Up-Hill Climb in India Iraq visiting with her former charges, friends." and even made a trip up in the moun In India Mrs. Carpenter witnessed During her seven-month tour, she met examples of the big up-hill climb which tains to see Sabri Raoof, '51, an engineer with 75 former M.S.C. students in coun must be made there by educators. who is on a big dam building project tries of the Near, Far, and Middle East. in northern Iraq. Sushela Lingaiah, '52, is organizing a All extended her a royal welcome, over department of home economics in the "I am convinced," Mrs. Carpenter said, joyed to see someone from "their school." Bangalore branch of Mysore University. "that it is important to remain in con tact with our former students after they While in Hong Kong, Mrs. Carpenter's She said, "It's a struggle, because of leave the United States. It proves to path crossed that of Dr. Walter Fee, lack of money and equipment. And then them we are interested in their problems head of M.S.C.'s history and political too, the people could help themselves and are ready to help them just as we science department. They met again in more, if they had the 'Yankee intuition would our next-door neighbor. Then too, Japan and with three former grads for improvising'." formed an alumni association, one club they can give us invaluable information in Tokyo, and one in Osaka. Big Night in Baghdad about their countries, which will help us understand their culture and which may Thailand Looks to American Methods One of the biggest events of Mrs. Carpenter's trip was "Michigan State eventually lead the way to peace." "The influence of American colleges and universities should not be under estimated," Mrs. Carpenter commented. In Thailand, for instance, there are 25 American graduates in the Ministry of Education, alone, three of them from M.S.C. Educators in Thailand are working toward adaptation of United States methods. One former M.S.C. student ex plained to Mrs. Carpenter that much learned in America cannot be used immediately. For example, in one school the Thais MICHIGAN STATE NIGHT in Baghdad: Mrs. Louise Carpenter, assistant counselor to foreign stu dents, visits over tea with M.S.C. grads in Baghdad. Left to right, are: Kamal Al-Wali, '53; Hashim Zwayne, '52; Mrs. Carpenter; Hassan al-Dadah, '51; Khalil Obaidi, '52; Robert Hicks, '53-'54 Fulbright Re search Fellow; Nahmud Khaffaf, '52. Ryder Outlines Aims As Dean of Engineering M.S.C.'s new dean, Dr.