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anuary 1962 ol. 7, No. 3 LETTER

CALLAN AUTHORS WORK ON NATIVE LEADER Luthuli and Africa Featured in New WMU Book

Great tribute is paid to Albert research and study by faculty mem John Luthuli, noted African leader bers abroad.) and 1960 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Studying under Prof. Kenneth in a new book just published by the Kirkwood, Rhodes professor of race Institute of Regional Studies. relations, Dr. Callan was encouraged Albert John Luihuli and the lo make a study of Luthuli and to South African Race Conflict, is the write on him. His original paper was work of Dr. Edward T. Callan, as later submitted to the Nobel com sociate professor of English, a long mittee at Stockholm and may have time resident of the Union of South played a part in Luthuli's winning Africa, and who last year spent his the coveted award. time in study at Oxford University, Dr. Callan's work was done at St. , under a grant from the Antony's College at Oxford on con WMU Institute. (The Institute of temporary Africa. Born in Ireland, Regional Studies was founded by the WMU educator grew up in the Western Michigan University two Union of , earned his years ago with a grant of $144,000 B.A. degree at the University of Wit- from the Carnegie Corporation of watersrand and his doctorate at the New York. The grant made possible University of South Africa. Before the preparation of new curricula for coming to the United States, Dr. undergraduate study of the non- Callan taught in the South African Western world as well as projects for school system, traveled extensively in Three Instructors Join Faculty for Spring Semester Three new instructors, taking over their duties with the opening of the spring semester, have joined the Uni versity faculty. They are: Chong K. Lewe, in structor in physics; Francis W. De Fea, instructor in business education, and Michael W. Robbins, instructor DeFea Lewe Robbins in English. Lewe comes as a replacement for South Africa, and served as a lec Summer Grant Aids the late Roy Mesick, who died dur turer on South African affairs for ing the fall semester. He is a native the British Labor Government. Michigan History of Seoul, Korea, is married and has Callan's monograph on Luthuli is one son. a full-length study of the life and A grant from the John M. Mun- son Michigan History Fund, admin Lewe was educated at Whitman contributions of the African chief— College and earned his master's de istered by the Michigan Historical detailing Luthuli's dual heritage, gree at the University of Connecticut, Commission, will pay the tuition and Zulu and Christian (being a pro where he has been a teaching assis fees of students admitted to a grad duct of the Board of Missions of the tant for the last two years. American Congregational Church) ; uate workshop during the summer of DeFea is a graduate of Dickinson explaining his dual role as a native 1962. State College in North Dakota, and chief and as a leader of the African The integration of Michigan his the University of North Dakota. His National Congress; and emphasizing tory in high school United States teaching experience has been in Heb Luthuli's work as a mediator be history courses is to be the theme of ron, N.D., the University of North tween the Black and the White in the July 30-August 10 workshop, Dakota and Idaho State College, He South Africa and between the East conducted by Dr. Alan Brown, Mich is unmarried. and the West. igan historian and University archi This new book concludes by say vist. Robbins is a native of Decatur, ing, "Luthuli's frequent expression Applications are limited to high 111., a graduate of Colgate Univer of the hope that goodwill and char school teachers of U.S. history. Two sity, and has just completed his mas itableness may prevail in South Afri hours of graduate credit will be ter's degree at Johns Hopkins Uni ca appear to have earned him, in given. versity. He is married. some quarters, a reputation for soft ness and pliability. But his attempts Grants More Than $50,000 to harmonize alien cultures and to Gifts and grants for the fourth Russian, East European mediate race conflicts are not signs quarter of 1961 to Western Michigan of weakness but of strength. Unlike University totalled $52,758.44, Presi Studies Now a Minor many political figures in Africa, Lu dent James W. Miller has reported thuli views the present realistically Russian and East European Stud to the State Board of Education. This and does not seek a dream world in ies as a minor field of academic included $40,148.34 from the Fed study have been authorized at West the past as do the Afrikaner Nation eral government in support of insti ern Michigan University, according alists, or in the future as some Afri tutes and other programs. Another can Nationalists do. He is not the to President James W. Miller. $8,790.60 was marked for student wildeyed, revolutionary demagogue loan and scholarship funds. It parallels similar programs in that South Africa's leaders would Far Eastern and Latin American like their followers to believe him to studies. President Miller points out be; his usual behavior in crises re Peace Prize and an extensive biblio that no additional staff or new veals a patient, but imperturbable, graphy on him. courses will be needed, but that the courage." Copies may be obtained from the new program permits the realign The book concludes with Luthuli's WMU Institute of Regional Studies ment of student schedules to fill cer address upon accepting the Nobel at $1 each. tain requirements. Marguerite Logan, Geographer, Dies; Retired in 1959 Miss Marguerite Logan, associate professor emeritus of geography and geology, died at Tor rance, Calif. She first joined the Western Mich igan faculty in 1930, but had been in ill health since before her 1959 retirement, and had been critically ill for two months. A native of Ruthven, Iowa, Miss Logan was educated at the State College of Iowa and the University of Chicago. Her major interest was the pre paration of teachers, and she devoted her complete attention to this task, President James W. Miller presents President Weimer K. Hicks of Kalamazoo College with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the January commencement rites. Assisting are Dr. spending countless hours traveling Russell H. Seibert, left rear, and Dr. L. Dale Faunce, WMU vice presidents. through Michigan to confer with her former students on their classroom problems. Citation Honors Local Educator Miss Logan was also an author, "Weimer Kerr Hicks, your distinguished record in academic administra having completed four books: Ele tion is widely attested by national recognition. As president of one of the ments of Geography, Guide to most outstanding liberal arts colleges in the country, you have dared to Teaching the New Geography, Geo examine the traditional assumptions of Academe, you have experimented graphic Techniques, and Geograph boldly with new patterns of educational experience, you have fostered ad ical Bibliography of all the Major ministrative reforms which have encouraged the development of a true com Nations of the World. munity to scholars. Contributions to the Student Loan "You have moved against longstanding provincialism in higher education, Fund are being made in her memory. both national and international. You have stimulated the healthy interchange of students and faculty among the parts of this country and between the United States and other nations. Such programs should have far-reaching effects in the struggle for universal human understanding. "Your educational neighborliness has been wide ranging. Not only has it included your sister institutions of the Middle West, the East and those in foreign lands but there has been room within it for even your nearest academic neighbor. This we cherish. "Western Michigan University is therefore pleased to award you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, with all the rights, privileges and prerog atives appertaining thereto." Spear Gets National Honor Lease Fort Custer Land Miss Marion R. Spear, head of the A five-year lease on 485 acres of Occupational Therapy department of land in the Fort Custer Military the University from 1944 until 1958, Reservation has been given Western and director of the OT school at the Michigan University by the Depart Kalamazoo State Hospital from 1922 ment of the Army to develop a long to 1944, has been honored by the range field research study in environ American Occupational Therapy As mental biology. Dr. Thane Robinson sociation. In 36 years Miss Spear had of the CO Adams Center for Eco Miss Marguerite Logan graduated some 700 therapists. logical Studies will direct the work. Fraternity Helps Wildlife Preserve Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has donated several days work this winter to the University's Kleinstueck wild life preserve, located in the southwest part of Kalamazoo. Under the direction of the biology staff and assisted by state foresters, the fraternity members have assisted in thinning the red pine plantation. Thinnings are being used to construct rabbit shelters in Kleinstueck, and the wood will be sold for fireplace

use. Miss Anne Fuller of the biology faculty says that this first profit from the red pine plantings will be used to purchase equipment for pruning the remaining trees, to enhance their maturity value as timber. An overall soil and water conser vation program for the preserve has been entered into with the local Soil Conservation District. Plans are de signed to enhance the area as a bio logical laboratory and as a demon stration of woodlot management.

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