THE MINNESOTAN ?:lte 1/Jtiversif!l Staff Ma!lazine - October 1954 in this issue ... YOU'LL BE READING about the They Made Us Great new Mayo Memorial from time to time in these pages. The building dedica­ Each month during the year THE tion ceremonies, Oct. 21 and 22, are MINNESOTAN will pay special tribute outlined on the opposite page, and to University benefactors in this col­ the 1\ovember Minnesotan will take umn. Since there are many individ­ you inside the 14-story structure. uals and groups who give to the Uni­ HOW IS THE U's legislative re­ versity through gifts of money, se­ quest determined? Pages 4 and 5 show curities, property, books, paintings, how the myriad needs of the Univer­ art objects, and in many, many other sity are translated into dollars and ways, there is not space in these pages cents, and how these figures are ana­ to cover all. We have tried to select lyzed and discussed before being sub­ a cross-section of University benefac­ mitted to the legislature. tors whose gifts, large and small, have BEHIND THE FOOTBALL TEAM helped build this great institution. is a hardworking group of University staff members - coach Lloyd Stein and his four assistants - who plan ROM behind the Iron Curtain the tough regimen that keeps the team Fcomes one of the most unusual in top shape. See page 6. stories of recent gifts to the Univer­ HAIL AND FAREWELL ... We sity of Minnesota. recap the U's June retirement cere­ For 38 years Professor Frederick monies on page 10 and say a warm Klaeber was a faculty member of the hello to new staff members on page 7. Frederick Klaeber English department at the University. While there he gained international Justice department contended that on the ~over . .. f arne as a leading authority on Beo­ this voided his American citizenship. Taking advantage of one of wulf. When he retired from the Uni­ When his attempts to have the those last wonderful sunny versity in 1931, he decided to return money sent to Germany failed, Pro­ fall days, these Duluth stu­ to his native Germany from which he fessor Klaeber, in December 1951, dents lunch leisurely in the had come in 1893. managed to get a letter through to welcome shade of a huge tree World War II broke out while Pro­ American authorities, stating that he on the lawn in front of fessor Klaeber was still in Germany, wanted to leave his American prop­ L"MD's Old Main. Photo by and the educator was forced by the erty to needy students at the Univer· Wally Zambino, photo lab. Nazis to take out German citizenship. sity of Minnesota. In his letter giv­ During those war days Professor ing power of attorney to the Board of Klaeber and his wife lived in Berlin Regents, Klaeber wanted his funds THE MINNESOTAN until 1944 when their home was turned over to scholarships. This let­ Vol. VIII No.1 bombed. Then they moved to Bad Published by the Department of ter began a three-year legal battle University Relations, 213 Administration Koeser which is now in the Russian with the Justice department which Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ zone of Germany. There his wife contended that the property belonged neapolis 14, Minnesota. died. to the government. William L. Nunn, Director Ellen Siegelman ...... Editor After the war Professor Klaeber Finally after years of work by Min­ Julie Henricksson . . Assistant Editor tried to have the money which he had nesota congressmen, a decision by the Liz Ramsden . . . Assistant Editor Advisory Committee: Members of the accumulated during his many years alien property office March 17, 1954, University Public Information Council. in Minnesota sent to him in Germany. turned over to the University the $60,- The Minnesotan is published monthly (His estate, worth $60,000, was in 000 estate of Professor Klaeber. during the academic year, October through May. Copies are mailed free to mortgaged notes on real estate in Hen­ And where is Professor Klaeber University staff members. Subscription nepin county, some cash and annuity today? As far as the University rates for non-staff members are $2 a year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this insurance contracts and pension pay­ knows, he is in Bad Koeser, behind issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial ments.) But the funds had been the Iron Curtain, still alive but a bed­ Union Bookstore. seized by the United States govern­ ridden old man of 91. The one way Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ ited. were taken by members of the ment under the alien property act that the University can reach the pro­ University Photographic Laboratory. when the professor was forced to fessor is through CARE packages Entered as second-class matter at the take out German citizenship. The which are sent to him regularly. post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2 The Minnesotan Mayo Memorial To Be Dedicated

The University's Rene Dubos, member of the Rocke­ first skyscraper feller Institute of Medical Research, will be dedicated and Jack Masur, assistant surgeon at ceremonies on general and chief of the bureau of Oct. 21 and 22. medical services of the U.S.P.H.S. Jerome T. Syverton, head of bacteri­ ology and immunology, will preside. EDICATION of the towering new the first panel on Oct. 21 at 10 a.m. • Cecil J. Watson, head of the de­ D $12,000,000 Mayo Memorial will On the panel are William P. Shepard, partment of medicine, will be chair­ take place October 21 and 22. The second vice-president, health and wel­ man of the fifth panel at 10:15 a.m. centPr which has been under construc­ fare division, Metropolitan Life In­ Speakers are William H. Sebrell, di­ tion since July 1950 is considered one surance Company and holder of the rector, National Institutes of Health, of the most complete research and Outstanding Achievement Award of U.S.P.H.S.; Charles A. Janeway, teaching facilities in the world. the University of Minnesota; A. C. Thomas Morgan Rotch professor of Actual dedication ceremonies will Furstenburg, dean of the medical pediatrics, Harvard medical school; be held at the banquet Oct. 21 at 6:30 school and chairman of the depart­ R. R. Newell, professor of medicine, p.m. in the main ballroom of Coff­ ment of otolaryngology of the Uni­ Stanford UniYersity school of medi­ man Memorial Union. Dean Harold versity of Michigan; Osborne A. cine. S. Diehl of the College of Medical Brines, professor of pathology of the Conducted tours during the entire Sciences will preside. The main college of medicine, Wayne Univer­ dedication period will give those speaker will be Dr. Alan Gregg, vice­ sity; Frank H. Krusen, professor of interested a chance to examine the president of the Rockefeller Founda­ physical medicine and rehabilitation, towering 14-story structure. They will tion. President J. L. Morrill will Mayo Foundation. leave from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from the represent the University; Governor • The second panel, to be held at main lobby of the Union Street en­ C. Elmer Anderson, the state of Min­ 1:30 that afternoon will be presided trance of the center. nesota; Donald J. Cowling, chairman, over by Owen H. W angensteen, head Joined to the University Hospitals, the committee of founders; Leonard of the U's department of surgery. the building contains four wings on A. Scheele, Surgeon General, U.S.P. Speakers include J. Chassar Moir, its first six floors and narrows to a H.S., for the United States Public Nuffield professor of obstetrics and two-wing tower structure for the top Health Service, and Charles W. gynecology, Oxford University, Eng­ eight floors. Some of the medical de­ Mayo, University Regent and profes­ land; I. S. Ravdin, John Rhea Barton partments housed in the upper floors sor of surgery at Mayo Foundation, professor of surgery, University of of new facility include: pediatrics, Rochester, will represent the Mayo Pennsylvania; Mrs. Lucile Petry the School of Public Health, bacteri­ family. Leone, assistant surgeon general and ology, physical medicine with its fa­ chief nurse officer, United States Pub­ Nationally and internationally rec­ cilities for occupational therapy and lic Health Service. ognized authorities in various areas physical therapy. • Closing the professional panels of medical study will be on campus On the lower floors some of the for Thursday will be Henry W. W olt­ during this time to assist with the offices are: psychiatry with patient man, professor of neurology and psy­ dedication. Following a theme of rooms, surgery offices, operating chiatry, Mayo Foundation, and Fran­ "Medical Education and Research­ rooms, modern patient rooms, neurol­ cis J. Braceland, psychiatrist-in-chief, Freedom and Progress in Mid­ ogy, cystoscopy, gynecology, and eye, Institute of Living, Hartford, Connect­ Twentieth Century" these men will ear, nose, and throat offices, adminis­ icut. Donald W. Hastings, head of speak at five professional panels to trative offices, switchboard, gift shop, the department of neurology and psy­ be held in Mayo Memorial audito­ coffee shop. The new 550-seat audi­ num: chiatry, of the University will preside torium is a domed structure that over the panel scheduled for 4 p.m. appears to be a separate building but • Dean Harold Diehl of the College • Friday the professional sessions of Medical Sciences will preside at is really attached to the north wing of will begin with the 9 a.m. talks of the memorial. October 1954 3 The University and the Legislature - III How Does the U Compute Its Legislative Request?

administrators meet to discuss sev­ accountant. Back in '52 the amount eral possible approaches to the prob­ computed for equalizing cost of liv­ lem. ing benefits for academic staff was Questions like these came up in initially figured at $439,430 (later '52: What is the relative importance revised); the sum needed for possi­ of salaries, operation, and building ble cost-of-living increase for civil programs? Should overall costs of service staff was set at $154,520; the the Mayo building be included in the price increase of materials was esti­ requests for the general University mated at $213,724. fund? Should new positions be sub­ When the preliminary recommen­ stantially limited to research and dation has been rewritten to include public service, in the light of enroll­ the necessary statistics, it goes to ment trends? Should a comprehen­ President Morrill, who discusses it sive ten-year building plan be initi­ with both the business and academic ated in '53-'55 or in the following vice presidents. There the problems biennium? These broad suggestions are answered, later analyzed and ten­ form a starting point from which the tative policies determined. accounting department can begin to The report then returns to the ac­ THE UNIVERSITY legislative re- gather data. counting department where three peo­ quest is a long time in the mak­ From these discussions generally ple work for about a month filling. in ing. It is a job in which all Univer­ come alternative courses of action the rest of the statistics, revising orig­ sity departments are concerned - which the Board of Regents might inal estimates. When this job is com­ some in minor roles, others in very possibly take when the facts and fig­ pleted, the entire plan is submitted vital ones. ures are given to them. Recommenda­ for review and further recommenda­ Paperwork for the request begins tions such as these were made in 1952: tions to the administrative committee almost a year before the State Legis­ • That, as a minimum, there be of the University Senate (deans and lature convenes, when the President's requested salary adjustments for directors) and to the special faculty office sends out to all University de­ members of the academic staff in an committee set up after the '51 session partments a request for departmental amount which will equalize average to advise the President. At this point estimates of personnel, space, sup­ academic salaries with the change in there may be and frequently are plies, etc., for the upcoming bien­ the cost-of-living index. changes. nium. (This year these estimates These changes are included before • That an additional cost-of-living formed part of the University self­ the recommendations are presented to increment be sought for civil service survey which also requested estimates the Board of Regents for approval. staff if the cost-of-living index at the for the next ten years.) Each unit Since the report is still highly confi­ time of the submission of requests in­ is asked to compute its needs and ex­ dential, the Regents, in one of their dicate that it is called for under the plain how these will change over the first fall meetings, consider it in exec­ law. next two years. While these requests utive session. are not filled to the letter, they give, • That, by major categories, the in­ when put together, an overall index crease due to the change in the price QNCE THE POLICY has been ap- of what support money the University level of supplies, expense, and equip­ proved, the accounting depart· ment be included. ment begins the main portion of its will need. Late in the summer President Mor­ Primarily responsible for inter­ work of refining figures even more rill calls upon Vice President Mid­ polating these preliminary recom· carefully to form the University re­ quest for General Maintenance, spe­ dlebrook to review the needs of the mendations into statistical facts and cial appropriations, hospital needs, University to be presented to the Leg· figures is the accounting department and building requests. These figures islature. At this time Vice President under Edwin C. Jackson, assistant are combined into a full report of the Middlebrook and a group of other comptroller, and Clifford Plank, chief The Minnesotan 4 University's needs for the Minnesota cost. All these figures are put into maintain the University Hospitals; Commissioner of Administration, who tables and technical explanations. which enable the University to re­ is charged by the Legislature with During this time several represent­ spond to the research needs of agri­ assembling the budget requests of all atives from the office of the Commis­ culture, industry, public health and state departments. sioner of Administration confer at medicine ... which make possible In finished form this information the U, exploring the requests, actual the classrooms, libraries, laboratories adds up to what is called the "gray expenses and incomes, as well as rais­ and other facilities in which students book," a thick detailed dittoed report ing questions. The University is glad and staff perform their work ..." in a gray binder. Only a small idea to have these representatives learn As the "Needs" is sent out, the Leg­ can be given of accounting's complex first hand about the details of the islature prepares to convene. Early in job in preparing this information. budget request. "They know almost January the governor's budget pro­ as much about the U's finances as we posals come out. But work isn't over AMONG THE variables Plank and do," says Plank. for accounting. Sometimes changes his staff must analyze and trans­ Assistant Comptroller Jackson occur between September and De­ late into tables for use in the gray calls the "gray book" the University's cember. Enrollment, for example, book are these: effort to furnish substantially detailed may have unexpectedly jumped or Total income of the University material on the subject to those vi­ slumped. These changes must be from the support fund (General tally concerned with the budget re­ written into the U request. Maintenance) for the past two years, quest. Thus the "gray book" goes to: When the University goes before with anticipated income in the next ( l) the Commissioner of Adminis­ the Legislature, President Morrill biennium. Getting these data re­ tration whose job it is to compile the continues to call for additional in· quires conferences with Dean Robert requests of all state departments, to formation, further breakdowns of fig­ E. Summers, dean of admissions and modify them, and to make up the ures. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Plank, and records, about expected enrollment Governor's proposed Biennial Bud­ their staff keep him and his advisors changes. State offices must be con­ get, a hefty maroon covered booklet well supplied. sulted to learn what revenues will that usually appears shortly after the According to House Appropria­ come in from investment of general beginning of the session; ( 2) the tions Committee chairman Claude University endowments. The deans of President and his U legislative advi­ Allen, "The statistics and information various colleges give the business sory committee; and ( 3) members of the University provides for our com­ office estimates of tuition and course the Legislature concerned with the U mittee is very detailed and has gen· fees. Assistant Dean Theodore Fen­ budget request. erally been very satisfactory." ske, Institute of Agriculture, must make an informed guess on income THE FIRST public announcement Messrs. Plank & Jackson look over an from the sale of agricultural products of the U request comes about De­ analysis to be used in the U' s request. at the branch stations. U Hospitals cember when the "Needs of the Uni­ director Ray Amberg estimates out­ versity" is made available. It is a patient fees for the next two years. small pamphlet explaining the phi­ Fees from Extension, from student losophy behind the request and listing counseling, etc., must all be reckoned, amounts asked for General Mainte­ as well as income having no relation nance, the U Hospitals, special re­ to enrollment - money coming from quests for research, and buildings for such diverse sources as the sale of the next biennium. The "Needs" has waste paper and from the U binderv. a large circulation. It is sent to all An analysis of all these inco~e legislators, state officials, all news­ changes is included in the first ten papers in Minnesota, University staff pages of the "gray book." members, and to the general public Total expenditures for salaries, on request. supplies, fixed charges. Salaries for In the '52 ''Needs" President Mor­ all civil service positions and all aca­ rill explained that less than 50 per demic ranks are computed. Current cent of the fiscal "turnover" of the prices of materials are gauged. University comes from tax or legis­ Plank "s staff must show how much lative appropriations. But, he added: money it will take to create the new "It is the legislative appropria­ positions and services required by tions which determine the level of enrollment increases. Physical plant salaries of staff and thereby the stand­ computes anticipated changes in ards of competence; which provide building floor space and maintenance the supplies and equipment; which October 1954 5 likely to be hurt. In a sense, break­ TRAINING the TEAM ing training is its own punishment. A conscientious player won't break training, nor will any player who Lloyd Stein and his staff thinks very much of his own welfare." During the game trainer Stein and keep grid stars fit his four assistants- swimming coach Lloyd Boyce and trainers Glenn Cos­ tic, Constantine Valentine, and W. Stanley Wilson - are on tap to treat For instance, some Thursday night "E v_ERY COACH has his own any injuries that might occur. "In a 1dea of how to train the team the Gophers will be eating three­ game, every time a play is run there but all of them agree that a f aotball fourths cup fresh vegetable ·soup, 12 are 11 chances of an injury to a mem­ player needs good food-plenty of it oz. (trimmed) sirloin steak, oven ber of the team. In a practice scrim­ -but not too much, either." browned potatoes, fresh buttered mage, there are 22 chances of some­ Trainer Lloyd Stein, assistant pro­ green beans, creamed Waldorf salad one getting hurt. fessor of physical education and ath­ in a lettuce cup, whole wheat rolls, "Generally, these boys come in to letics, flipped through a temporary celery, all the milk they can drink, practice in pretty good shape. Actu­ menu list. "The football team will go and a couple of scoops of ice cream, ally we don't want them to get into to breakfast after the first practice, all served and prepared by the cooper­ too good form before they come, be­ about 9 a.m. They have had nothing ative Union Food Service party and cause overtraining can be a problem, to eat before then, except a glass of banquet floor staff. too. orange juice just before they go out "What does the football player do "Then we train them into their top on the field at 6:30. after dinner? Well, after school starts physical and mental form. Both are "After early practice ends at 8:30, he goes home to study," said Stein. equally necessary. I once saw a the boys shower and change, then go "The player has just as many temp­ player lose 18 pounds in a single over to the Union_ cafeteria. They go tations to slough off as does the ordi­ game down at Nebraska. through the line and pick out their nary student. When students come "Mental training for the game is as breakfasts, anything they please, with here as freshmen the temptation to go important as the physical training. certain restrictions on things like downtown to see that new movie or Football is hard work. The only fun waffles and hot cakes, of course." hear that band is very strong. the player gets out of the game is During the three-week pre-season "If a football player gives in to winning, and to win the team needs practice, Stein said, the team's break­ this temptation he not only gets lower more than muscle. They have to be fast in the Union was followed by marks, but he feels terrible the next able to think football," Stein said. Coach Warmath's chalk talks in morning at practice. He has to be "Mentally and physically, a foot­ Cooke Hall. During the regular sea­ up by about 5:30 to get over here, get ball player's life is no lark. He has son, however, the boys have classes. taped up and be on the field by 6:30. to be able to take it. Good training Lunch at noon is a "light," but If he hasn't had the sleep he needs, makes it possible." adequate meal at the training table he feels the line more and is more And, we might add, good trainers! in the Union Junior Ballroom. How­ ever, complete as the luncheon menu is, it makes no mention of milk. "You notice that we do not allow the team any milk at noon," said trainer Stein. "We give them as much milk as they can drink at night, but Trainer Lloyd none at noon. Well, that's because Stein keeps his milk makes the boys slow down in eye on the diets afternoon practice. They just don't of Gophers Ralph seem to feel like running." Goode,Geno Cap­ Afternoon practice from 3:30 to pelletti, & Verne 5:30 p.m. is followed by dinner at Frye at the Union the training table. This last meal of training table. the day is open free of charge to the squad throughout the season. Dinner is a very hearty meal, with lots of body-building meat, potatoes, and vegetables. The Minnesotan 6 , new year, new faees U Welcomes Newcomers To Staff

Thorp Martin Hoebel

THIS FALL a group of new faculty Another new staff member in the Lazarow received his B.S., M.S., and members joins the University staff. Institute of Agriculture is William P. Ph.D. from the University of Chi­ You will be meeting them and work­ Martin, professor and head of the cago, and then was on the staff of ing with them, so The Minnesotan department of soils. Martin has wide Western Reserve University for ll offers these short introductions to teaching and research experience, his years before coming to the U. acquaint you with the newcomers. most recent position being professor Assuming the post of professor and The magazine, on behalf of the whole in agronomy and bacteriology at Ohio head of the School of Architecture in U staff, extends a hearty welcome to State University and Agricultural the Institute of Technology, is Ralph these faculty members. Experiment Station. He received his E. Rapson. A winner of the Parker Among the newcomers are four B.A. from Brigham Young Univer­ Medal for distinguished building, new department heads and one new sity and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rapson also has won some ten other director. Iowa State College. architectural competitions and prizes. Joining the faculty of the Institute Newly appointed chairman of the He received his B.A. from the Uni­ of Agriculture is William T. S. Thorp department of anthropology, profes­ versity of Michigan and comes to who took over July l as assistant dean sor Edward Adamson Hoebel, has Minnesota from Massachusetts Insti­ and director of the School of Veter­ taken a prominent place profession­ tute of Technology. inary Medicine and professor and ally in American anthropology. Be­ head of the department of veterinary fore coming to Minnesota, he served medicine. Thorp received both his as professor and head of the depart­ EW ADDITION to the faculty of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and ment of anthropology and also as N the department of philosophy, Master of Science degrees from Mich­ dean of the University College at the Vincent Anthony Tomas, has been igan State College. He comes to Min­ University of Utah. Hoebel earned teaching philosophy of art, philoso­ nesota from Bethesda, Maryland, his B.A. from the University of Wis­ phy in literature, and American phi­ where he was chief, section on com­ consin, his M.A. from New York Uni­ losophy at Brown University before parative pathology and hematology, versity, and his Ph.D. from Columbia coming to Minnesota. After earning laboratory of pathology, national in­ University. a B.A. from Knox College in 1936, stitute of arthritis and metabolic dis­ Arnold Lazarow, professor and Tomas got both M.A. and Ph.D. from eases, and chief, laboratory aids head of the department of anatomy, Brown. branch, office of the director, national takes over the vacancy caused by the The interests of Ch ieh-Chi en institutes of health. retirement of Edward A. Boyden. Chang, professor in the department of aeronautical engineering in the Lazarow Chang Rapson Institute of Technology, lie in the field of fluid mechanics and mathe­ matics. He graduated from North­ eastern National University, Peiping, China, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Chang was research professor in the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland. The Minnesotan also sends its wel­ come to all other new U staffers who were not mentioned on this page. October 1954 7 William J. Micheels, new Industrial Educa­ tion head, teaches both high school teachers and industrial foremen and supervisors. The department also has a "take out" service for industry in the state.

English professor Samuel Monk will undertake a historical and analytical study of literary criticism in Restoration England under a Guggenheim fellowship in 1955-56. This year he will be a visiting professor at New York University. staff members YOU SUO

William A. Rosenthal, head of UMD's English department, is also adviser of the Humanist, a new literary quarterly.

Cheerful Doris Creamer stands at the door of the library, where she is secretary to E. B. Stanford. One of Doris' spare-time "jobs" is acting as head marshal for U commencements. The Minnesotan 8 Robert Ames, assistant professor of general studies, is spend­ ing the year in Italy on a Ford faculty fellowship. He will Since 1911 Thomas M. McCall has been employed at focus his studies in Florence on the art of the Renaissance. the Crookston Northwest School and Experiment Sta· tion, where he is now superintendent and professor.

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Charming Frances Larson works in the Pharmacy office, which is uniquely decorated with apothecary jars. At the U for 35 years, she is now Dean Rogers' secretary.

The engineering library-45,000 volumes covering three floors, keeps librarian Hubert Sauter, two assistants, and a clerk busy. Sauter has a degree in electrical engineering as well as library science. October 1954 9 duced the other speakers, William T. 1 BOO years of service Middlebrook, vice-president, business administration, and President Morrill. In his short speech of tribute to the Retirentent Party retiring staff members, President Mor­ rill said, "To all of us - and espe­ Honors cially, I am sure, to all of you who complete this afternoon your Univer­ 56 on Staff sity careers-the purposes of the Uni­ versity have become our purposes. ward Hunstock, Byrl R. Kirk I in, They have dignified our daily work. Helen C. Krefft, Alvin H. Larson, And. as the University moves forward Torsten Lindseen. on its various missions, its achieve­ Verna M. Lundberg, Harry Martin­ ments have been made possible by son, Henry G. Matthews, Ethel Mc­ that work. It is not every man and Intyre, Marie 0. Mollins, Marie woman who has had the opportunity Mousseau, Albin A. Nelson, Oscar E. Down from Duluth for the retirement to participate in such a meaningful Nelson, Mary L. Ober, Clara M. festivities was this trio; retiring staff. undertaking as the ongoing of a great Oberg, Lilien Olesen, Nell M. Paul­ ers Mary Ober and John Cothran and University.... This University is sen, Gustav A. Pihlblad, Philip J. Duluth Provost Raymond Darland. stronger, its purpose clearer and its Riley, Rena Rochat, Clayton 0. Rost, goals nearer because of your part in Harriet Sauerbrunn. ERTIFICATES OF MERIT in its progress." Karl Scheurer, John C. Sletten, C recognition of years of service Homer J. Smith, Walter Ray Smith, to the University were presented to HE 56 faculty and civil service M. Cannon Sneed, Stadie R. Swan­ 56 staff members at the eighth annual T staff members who received Cer­ son, Thomas A. H. Teeter, Alfred H. retirement party held June 4 in Coff­ tificates of Merit were: Myron L. Thor berg, Wilson D. Wallis, Luther man Union Main Ballroom. Armour, Francis B. Barton, Kate P. Weaver, Florence Wellnitz, Mattie Over 400 friends and relatives of Bedard, Simon Berg, Hilma L. Berg­ P. Westgate, Fredrick A. Willius. the retiring staffers gathered to watch lund, John H. Berntsen, Albert Bjork, A Certificate of Merit honoring the the ceremonies which were broadcast Charles Boardman, Edward A. Boy­ late Math Bauer, caretaker on the St. over KUOM. The average length of den, William S. Bren. Paul campus from 1941-1954, was service for the retirees was 30 years, Wilfrid G. Brierley, Alice A. Carl­ presented to his widow at a later date. a grand total of 1,800 years service to son, John C. Cothran, Arthur J. Cur­ Also presented a certificate was the the University ran, May Dudas, Arnold M. Foker, widow of Erick Wallin, University Acting as master of ceremonies wa~ William P. Funk, Folke Gummeson, carpenter who died in September Malcolm M. Willey, vice-president, Stuart W. Harrington, Inez M. Ho­ 1953. Mr. Wallin served the Univer­ academic administration, who intro- bart, Gertrude R. Hull, Charles Ed- sity from 1938-1953.

Retiring staffers from the St. Paul campus, from left, Shop superintendent Al Johnson, standing, examines a Clayton 0. Rost, Inez M. Hobart, and Henry G. Matthews, certificate while retiring physical plant employees (l. tor.) chat over punch and cookies following the ceremonies. Torsten Lindseen, Selmer Berg, John Berntsen look on.

10 The Minnesotan Philip Jordan proves that History Is No Sli.eleton

IS FRIENDS will admiringly tell you that Philip H Jordan is one of the most unprofessor-like chaps they know-summing up in one phrase the lack of pre­ tense and the fund of dry good humor which make his classes so splendidly informaL Compact and deliberate, Jordan presides over classes in Nineteenth Century Amer­ ican history, Minnesota history, and American folklore with both the shrewd eye of the professor of history and the tolerant mind of the true humanist. "The study of history should not be merely the study of a skeleton, but of the living body itself." In pursuit of this theory, Jordan has developed the habit of spend­ ing part of each summer in first-hand observation of Americans at work. This summer, for example, found him towing twenty thousand tons of coal-aboard a new Mississippi tug hauling barges from Cairo to Dubuque. Philip Jordan surveys the wide Mississippi River from In past summers he has spent a week aboard a trans­ aboard a tugboat that is hauling coal barges downriver. continental truck, lived with a Red River wheat farmer, patrolled with the Indiana State Police, and parleyed Jordan was born in Burlington, Iowa. He comes from a with the last of the old handrollers of Conestoga cigars family strongly conscious of its roots in the past. Great­ -the famous "stogies" of the nineteenth century. uncle Henry Clay Jordan-the Jordans migrated from Jordan vigorously maintains that you can no more Virginia soon after the War of 1812-gave him free rein understand history by studying it as a series of isolated in his vast personal library. Grandfather Jordan was incidents than you can comprehend a picket fence by fond of loading the young boy on horse and buggy and looking at a pile of posts. If you lose the continuity, visiting historical spots near the old river town. you lose history's very vitality. History, Jordan points The river flatboats of the Mississippi, the forty-niner out, is an unending narrative of people's fears, aspira­ gold rush, the Conestoga wagons lumbering westward, the tions, ambitions, disappointments, and achievements. Civil War, were all familiar topics of conversation and His great interest is in searching out the hidden cur­ anecdote in the Jordan family. rents that run beneath the surface of history-in recon­ Out of this background came Jordan's consuming in­ structing the lives of the men and women who never made terest in detail, an eye for the hidden story, and a relish the headlines. And it is in this search that he has de­ for a good yarn. Jordan's writings make lively reading. veloped his deep interest in folklore, "the mirror of the In books like his The Singin' Yankee and The National people's interpretation of their own culture." Road he has managed to reconstruct the earthy, vigorous But folklore is only one of his many and wide-ranging life of the plain people whose lives made up the under­ scholarly interests. Writing itself challenges him. Writ­ lying current of nineteenth-century American history. ing is hard work, Jordan will tell you. And yet he gets In such volumes as Uncle Sam of America Jordan has up at five every morning to write at least two hundred given children a fresh insight into their country's past. words every day. His Ohio Comes of Age received the Ohioana Library In his writing Jordan considers it not only important to Medal, and last month his The People's Health was given dig out the facts, but also vital that the facts be com­ the annual award of the American Association of State municated in a balanced and lively fashion to both his­ and Local History. torians and the many other individuals with a deep inter­ Perhaps the most intriguing side of Phil Jordan's char­ est in history. A look at his files turns up a large volume acter is his evident zest for life. He loves to teach, and of contributions to such eminently professional publica­ he loves to dig into the archives hiding the thousands of tions as the American Historical Review and the Missis­ fascinating stories of the country's past. It is a strong sippi Valley Historical Revieu·. But you will also find argument in favor of the study of history to see with his articles have appeared in other such diverse magazines what relish and success this history professor carries his as Antiques and the Bulletin of Merchant Tailors. knowledge of the past into his quest for insight into the Firmly Midwestern, with a broad Iowa drawl which complicated patterns of today. As Jordan says, "The more can range from a biting growl to a pipe-clenched chuckle, you know the more you can learn." October 1954 11 r.ervice and general maintenance crew weren't enough, Archie has a habit of digging in whenever and wherever he's needed. "It isn't unusual," comments Mr. Bridges, his superior, "to find Archie taking some visiting dignitaries on an impromptu campus tour one minute and elbow-deep in an emergency re­ pair job the next." In winter the ten different heating plants for which he is responsible demand a great deal of attention. Some of them require coal, others light or heavy oil; some are hand­ fired and operated by the newest auto­ matic controls. Archie keeps a tight schedult:> for all these plants, and if winter ills lay low anv of his crew the job really become~ complicated: A lifelong resident of Minnesota, Beckwith was one of 12 children raised on a farm near Blackduck. In 1918 he enlisted in the u. S. Navy as an apprentice seaman. ''One day they wrote 'fireman' after my name," he recalls, "so that's what I became. From fireman I gradually worked into sta­ tionary engineering." For more than 30 year~ Archie has lived in Duluth, working first for its Board of Educa­ tion, then for Duluth State Teachers College, forerunner of UMD. As modest as he is busy, Beckwith Engineer Beckwith knows U MD from bottom to the air raid siren on its top. is known for his smile and steady good humor. He is the father of four chil­ dren and grandfather of seven. Always active in his church and his commu­ Warm-Hearted Archie Becli.with nity, Archie now teaches a Sunday School class of junior boys in Duluth. Mali.es UMD Heating Plant Hum Asked if he was as adept and active at home as he is at the U, Archie grinned and said, "I wouldn't claim _NCHIE BECKWITH, chief oper- ing money right away. But I think ating engineer on the UMD cam­ schooling is one of the most important to be a handyman at home. My wife might read this! I just do what there pus, is one of the leading contenders things a young man or woman can for the title of "BMOC" - Busiest have, so I always advise them to stay." is to be done." He now lives across the street from Man on Campus. An average Beckwith day runs from the new UMD campus, and from his Almost any hour of the day you can 7:30a.m. to about 6:00 p.m. "I like front porch he can watch the new find him hard at work hauling, lift­ to get things done and eight hours just health and physical education build­ ing, cutting, delivering, and directing don't seem enough," he explains with ing and other structures being started operation of the heating and ventilat­ a chuckle. Under Robert Bridges, principal or completed. ing systems at UMD. ''One rt>ason why my job has been Sometimes he even does a little engineer at UMD, Archie is charged so intt>resting," he says, "is because I "student counseling." "As I work with the supervision of 19 men and can ~P:> U\1D grow. When I retire I'll around these buildings," Archie ex­ with the operation of the heating and be ablt:> to sit on my porch and look plains, "I talk to quite a few young ventilating systems in UMD's build­ out over the shining new campus. I people. And a lot of them are think­ ings. couldn't ask for a better view." ing about quitting school to start earn- As though supervising this utilities The Minnesotan 12 f:f:So Glad to Know U," Say Home Agents

HEN WE ARRIVED at San­ versation between Evelyn Morrow, many staff members involved in plan­ Wford Hall that dismal, rainy our district home agent supervisor, ning and carrying out our visit. night last May, it was the first glimpse and William Nunn, director of Uni­ Just before lunch Hans Hopf, as­ of the University for most of us. Ten versity Relations. Julie Henricks­ sistant director of the Union, took us of us were Canadian girls and the son from the Department of Univer­ through his building where we were eleventh a North Dakotan. The six sity Relations explained the purpose thoroughly impressed with the com­ girls who had been working for the of our visit to campus as we sipped plete student facilities - cafeteria, University as home agents in northern our coffee. ballroom, art craft shop, bookstore, Minnesota counties (Janice Kyseth, "Since none of you graduated from clubrooms. Marshall county; Wilma Stevens, the University of Minnesota and none After lunch in the Union cafeteria East Polk county; Margery Olsen, of you are native Minnesotans, you we walked over to the Student Health Pennington county; Betty Ostlund, don't know much about the functions, Service and with Dr. Philip Kernan, Roseau county; Shirley Shingleton, services, research, or scope of the health service physician, saw in detail Red Lake county; and Irene Johnson, University-which is your employer. the care available to students. Then Kittson county) had been to the St. The Department of University Rela­ we went across the street into the vast Paul campus before. But the Univer­ tions, authorized by President Morrill University Hospitals where Annie L. sity was entirely new to the other five and working with Agricultural Ex­ Baker, director of social services, girls, recent graduates of the Univer­ tension decided that it would be help­ gave us some insight into medical sity of Manitoba, who were about to ful in your work as home agents with facilities and research. begin their home agent's training. the people in your various counties if (Margaret Anderson, Wilkin county; you knew something about the back­ TUESDAY was our College of Edu- Anne Haigh, Meeker county; Shirley ground and services of the U," she cation day, starting in modern, Macpherson, Norman county; Meryl concluded. "So your visit is really sleek Peik Hall where tenth grade Graham, Becker county; and Ethel more than brief look at the campus, home economics students served us Barbour, Crow Wing county.) actually a much more thorough ori­ coffee and donuts before they guided After supper and a very welcome entation than any new student gets." us through their building. Virgil cup of coffee served us by Mrs. Grace In the morning we got our first good Walker of the College of Education Trench, who was then director of San­ look at the campus-large, studded took us the rest of the morning to ford Hall, we got briefed on the with what appeared to he hundreds of see the remainder of his college and schedule for our visit to the Univer­ buildings, many we learned named talk with representatives of various sity. We learned that the idea for after former U presidents. Then we departments. In the afternoon we our campus visit resulted from a con- began to get an idea of the many, continued on next page

During their three-day visit to the University campus, the home agents stopped on the St. Paul campus to examine chil­ dren's toys in the Child Development laboratory of the School of Home Economics. Seated from left are Janice Kyseth, Wilma Stevens, Margaret Anderson, Margery Olsen, Anne Haigh, Shirley Macpherson; standing: Evelyn Mor­ row, district home agent supervisor; Louise Stedman, director of the School of Home Economics; Minerva Jenson, district home agent supervisor; Meryl Graham, Betty Ostlund, Ethel Mae Barbour, and finally, Shirley Shingleton. Home Agents Special Honors Go to Dr. Boyden, continued from previous page peeked in at archery and canoeing Retired Anatomy Department Head classes with women's physical educa­ tion director Gertrude Baker. The retirement of Dr. Edward A. At the Museum of Natural History Boyden from the University faculty we got a careful explanation of some last June was marked by several spe­ of Minnesota's wildlife-deer, birds, cial tributes to the former head of the small animals-in the wonderful nat­ anatomy department. ural habitat displays. And that eve­ At a dinner honoring Dr. Boyden ning the University Symphony Or­ held last May, it was announced that chestra was having its senior recital, "the Boyden Fund of the Minnesota so we were able to get some idea of Medical Foundation, amounting to the training these talented students more than $1,800 contributed by got from the U music department. friends, has been invested in the anat­ A trip to the St. Paul campus for omy seminar room for the purpose of an explanation of the home econom­ reflecting Dr. Boyden's interest in this ics facilities by school director Louise room as the center of the life of the Stedman and her staff was our first department." stop on Wednesday. In the afternoon Dr. Boyden, in turn, presented his we dashed back to the Minneapolis own gift to the anatomy department campus to sit in on Professor Norman -some 275 volumes of anatomical journal for anatomists, was pub­ DeWitt's classroom lecture, In the journals valued at more than $1,800. lished. The volume consisted of four These are to be bound and placed in Classical Tradition, which was then issues of the publication- January the anatomy seminar room. (See being broadcast over U radio station through April, 1954. bookplate, right.) KUOM. Two flights upstairs in Eddy Continuing his teaching and re­ Hall Theda Hagenah, assistant di­ Another tribute was paid to Dr. search, Dr. Boyden is now a visiting rector of the Student Counseling Bu­ Boyden earlier in the year when the professor of anatomy in the Univer­ reau, told us about the testing and "Boyden Birthday Volume" of the counseling services her department Anatomical Record, scientific monthly sity of Washington medical schooL offers to students and staff. As a wind-up to our visit a special dinner party in the Union was sched­ Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration uled for that evening. William Nunn, Planned by Aero Engineering Department Mrs. Nunn, Ronald Abraham, district supervisor of county agent work, Mrs. The University's department of aer­ Fund," which will provide $350 schol­ Abraham, Minerva Jenson, district onautical engineering will celebrate arships for qualified freshmen and for home agent supervisor, and Dorothy the twenty-fifth anniversary of its upperclassmen of superior ability. Simmons, professor and state leader founding Oct. 14 through 16, when The more than 1,000 University extension home program, joined us. it will also hold a technical conference alumni who have received degrees in After dinner, the University movie, on aviation problems in an age of aeronautical engineering since the de­ "Report from the President's Desk," supersonic flight. partment's founding in 1929 will be was shown, and Mr. Nunn told us how Climax of the three-day meeting will invited, with their guests, to inspect the movie came to be made. While we be the presentation of Outstanding the aeronautical engineering facilities chatted after the movie, Mr. Nunn Achievement medals and citations to on the Minneapolis campus and at asked us how we liked our three days six of the University's most distin­ the University's Rosemount Research at the U. "Fine!" we answered en­ guished graduates in aeronautical en­ Center. At the technical meetings University thusiastically. gmeenng. "And do you know more about the Speakers at the Oct. 15 banquet in aeronautical scientists currently con­ U than when you arrived?" he que­ Coffman Memorial Union will include ducting studies at the Rosemount labo­ ratories will deliver papers dealing ried further. President J. L. Morrill, IT Dean Athel­ with various aspects of the Center's Wilma Stevens really answered the stan F. Spilhaus, and Prof. John D. research program. question for all of us. "Besides hav­ Akerman, head of the aero engineer­ Following the conference and com· ing had fun," she said, ''I feel that I ing department. memoration exercises, the Rosemount now know more about the University Another high point of the observ­ Research Center will be open to public than most of the students who have ances will be the establishment of an inspection on Sunday, Oct. 17. been here for four years." "Aeronautical Alumni Scholarship The Minnesotan 14 The President's Page Following Up the Self-Survey

TWO MAJOR preoccupations press upon the University been some preliminary discussion of next steps. There in the new academic year now under way. The first is have been repeated conferences running into late Septem­ our formulation and presentation of needs to the forth­ ber with my associates in the central administration. coming session of the Minnesota Legislature. The second It is my own present thought, subject to still further is our problem of how best to proceed with, and to realize consultation, to bring the problem of procedure and prog­ the most useful results from, the all-University "self­ ress into focus by the appointment of an All-University study" which was initiated last Spring. General Self-Survey Committee, selected essentially and Both of these are related to each other, presently and representatively as follows: for the future. Both are of paramount importance to the Two key members would be a representative of the University, the Legislature and the people of our state. Administrative Committee and the Chairman of the Fac­ Since early June the central administration has been giv­ ulty Consultative Committee. Four others would be staff ing thought to both. It is concerning the latter-the self­ members, each of whom would be asked to serve as the survey-that I should like to comment in this first issue chairman of one of four subsidiary committees repre­ of The Minnesotan for 1954-55: senting the basic areas of teaching, research and services Advance scrutiny of the self-study reports, given espe­ (the latter broken down to include both off-campus and cially to the discussion of biennial needs, reveals the internal services). I would recommend that the member­ conscientious and resourceful thought devoted to the ap­ ship of these subsidiary committees be selected from a praisal of our University operations. This has been a slate of faculty and civil service staff members nominated difficult undertaking; surely a very large one as measured to the President by the General Survey Committee. by the hours devoted to it by members of the staff, aca­ demic, administrative and civil service; patently a sig­ BY SOME SUCH pattern of organization as this, I am nificant one in its implications and potentialities. confident we can move forward soundly to realize Again and again, staff members have remarked to me rewarding results from the total time and thought de­ that even if no further use were to be made of the some voted to the self-study thus far. More than this, by such 5,000 pages of self-study documentation, the results to pr~cedure, I would believe that the responsibility for this point would fully justify the undertaking. In this ultimate recommendations will rest primarily upon the respect we have re-justified the ancient injunction to members of staff upon whom rests likewise the responsi­ "Know Thyself." bility for ~he i~tegrity and ongoing of the University­ But the task remains of pulling this vast amount of and not pnmanly upon the administration. material into some perspective, of re-appraising com­ All that I have been saying refers essentially to the paratively, if we can, its implications for revised em­ self-study documentation dealing with the decade to come, phases in our vast and diverse program of teaching, re­ hut let me add this comment: search and services. The completed self-study forms included data relevant The more inclusive, more broadly based analysis of to the immediately forthcoming biennial needs as well. these materials; the identification and ranking of major These data have entered directly into our administrative problems; the evolution of recommendations which may form~lati~~ of the biennial legislative requests, in process eventuate in reconsidered University policies and plan­ a_t this wntmg. They will be invaluable in our presenta­ ~ing--:all_ this will require the most careful and coopera­ tiOn of these requests, and they will foreshadow our pro­ tive thmkmg and the wisest judgments we can muster for gram and purposes for the future. present~tion to our colleagues of the staff, the Regents, and ultimately to the people of Minnesota via the Legis­ lature. Wi~hin both _the Administrative and the Faculty Con­ sultative committees of the University Senate there has

October 1954 15 OCTOBER 15 TO NOVEMBER 15, 1954 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Subscription Series Through October 29- The Modern Movement in Italy: Oct. 30-0pening Concert. Architecture and Design. This exhibition, circulated by ~ov. 5-Strauss-"Elektra" (in concert form) the Museum of Modern Art, consists of 88 panels of Nov. 12-0rchestral Program. photographic enlargements and plans tracing the develop­ (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 ment of Italian architecture and design in the last quarter to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the century. Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call Through October 25-Recent French Art Exhibition Post­ l-niversity extension 6225.) t ers. A sparkling exhibition of posters for art exhibitors Twilight Concerts from 1950 to 1954 by Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Leger, Ma­ Oct. 31--All-Tschaikowsky program. tisse, Picasso, Miro, etc. ~ov. 14---Program of waltz music. Through October 25--Four Ceramists. Displayed will be (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. General admission tickets the works of Jane Dickerman, Leza McVey, Marguerite at $. 75 can be purchased the afternoon of the concert. Box Wildenhain, and J. T. Abernathy. office opens at 3:30 p.m.) (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of Young People's Concert Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday Oct. 28-Northrop Auditorium, l ::30 p.m. through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open (Admission arranged through local schools.) before performances and during intermissions.) UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES Oct. 22-0ld Vic. "Midsummer Night's Dream" (Tickets Oct. 21-The Doctors Mayo, by Helen Clapesattle. A new, from $4.50 to $1.50.) condensed version of the popular biography of the famous :'olov. IS-London Festival Ballet (Tickets from $3.50 to Rochester, Minnesota, surgeons. The author is director of $1.50.) the University of Minnesota Press. $4.75. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Ticket sales begin the Oct. 27-Business without Boundary: The Story of General 'llonday before the week of the concert at the Artists Course Mills, by James Gray, professor of English at the Univer­ Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) t sity of Minnesota. An account of the development of the SPECIAL ATTRACTION world-famous company which has its headquarters in Oct. 23-0ld Vic. "Midsummer Night's Dream."t Minneapolis. $4.75. (Northrop Auditorium, 2:00 and 8:30 p.m. Tickets from Nov. 5--Book Collecting and Scholarship. A collection of $4.50 to $1.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of five essays by Theodore C. Blegen, James Ford Bell, Stan­ the concert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 North­ ley Pargellis, Colton Storm, and Louis B. Wright. The rop.)t edition for sale is limited to 750 numbered copies. $5.00. CONVOCATIONS Nov. 12- Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Oct. 21-SLA Day. Louis MacNeice, poet and Hedli Ander· Guide for Listeners, by Donald N. Ferguson, professor son, mezzo soprano, in a program of readings and vocal emeritus of music University of Minnesota, and head of numbers. the music department at Macalester College. A music­ Oct. 28------The Honorable Finn Moe, Norwegian statesman lover's handbook of information about the most important and chairman, Norwegian Parliament foreign relations classical symphonies, overtures, and concertos and selected committee. modern orchestral works. Nov. 4---Yma Sumac and her company of Andean drum­ (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul book­ mers, dancers, and musicians (Performance at 8:30 p.m. stores or may be ordered through your local bookstores.) Special ticket prices to University students, faculty, and SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS staff if purchased prior to 5:00p.m., Nov. 4, at 105 North­ "Window on the World" ... A series of short talks by rop Auditorium: $.50, $.75, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Limit of well-known British personalities on life in the British two tickets.) Commonwealth. Thursdays, 3:30-3 :45 p.m. (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. unless designated. Open Cooper Union Forum ... "Foreign Policy Without Fear," to the public without charge unless designated.) a series of significant lectures by experts in the field of international relations. Wednesdays, 3 :30·4 :30 p.m. SPECIAL LECTURES Football ... Ray Christensen's popular play-by-play report­ Oct. 22-Rev. Raymond V. Schoder, professor of classical ing plus analysis by Ike Armstrong, University Director of literature and archaeology. West Baden College, Ind., Athletics. Saturday afternoons. illustrated lecture, "Greece and Rome from the Air." "Jazz Seminar" ... An informative, witty series on the ori­ (Murphy Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public gins and appreciation of jazz by S. I. Hayakawa, noted without charge.) University of Chicago semanticist. Saturdays following Oct. 29-D. 0. Hebb, chairman, psychology department. football. \lcGill University, Montreal, "The Relation of Mammal (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on to His Environment." the dial. Its complete fall schedule may be obtained by writ­ (202 Wesbrook Hall, 3:30 p.m.) ing to the station.) NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES ATHLETIC EVENTS Nov. 7-"What Spare-time Naturalists Do," by W. J. Football Games at Home Breckenridge, director, Museum of Natural History. Oct. 16--Illinois. Nov. 14---"A Big Game Artist Visits Africa," W. J. Wil­ Oct. 30-Michigan State (Homecoming). werding. Nov. 6--0regon State (Dads' Day). (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open Nov. 13-Iowa. to the public without charge.) (Memorial Stadium, 1 :30 p.m. Single tickets at $3.25 each UNIVERSITY THEATRE may be ordered from the Athletic Ticket Office. University Young People's Unh·ersity Theatre of Minnesota. Over-the-counter sales begin the Monday be­ Oct. 16--"Marco Polo," by Geraldine Siks. fore each game at the Football Ticket Office, 108 Cooke (Scott Hall Auditorium, 1:15 p.m. Single tickets, $.40.) Hall.) t tTickets 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. THE MINNESOTAN C:lte Universi!!f Staff Magazine - November 1954

Mauo Memorial Jssue in this issue . .. DID YOU TAKE A TOUR of the They Made Us Great Mayo Memorial Oct. 21 or 22? If not, lean back in your chair and make a remote control visit of the building HOUGH William Henry Eustis that brought the total to about with Tomic Romson, assistant to the T has long been known as a contri­ $1,500,000. director, U Hospitals. In a four-page butor to the medical life of the Uni­ At the time of the dedication of the feature beginning on page 3, Mr. versity through his generous gift of Eustis Wing of the University Hos­ Romson escorts you from the maze of the Eustis Wing of the University pitals on Nov. 10, 1928, just weeks wires on the sixteenth floor to the Hospitals, the story of the motivation before Mr. Eustis' death, the Board Mayo's underground garage. behind this gift may have been for­ of Regents formally cited Mr. Eustis PROVIDING LOCAL COLOR was gotten with the years. as a "great benefactor," adding: the job of Meg Torbert, who helped In 1860 when Mr. Eustis was just plan the furnishings, wall colors, a boy of 15 he slipped and fell while flooring, and draperies of the U's new carrying a pail of water, seriously in­ "skyscraper." You learn on page 7 juring his hip. Because of the lack of how she went about this mammoth proper medical and surgical services, task. when he did get out of bed a year PHYSICAL MEDICINE HAS later, he could only get around on IDEAL QUARTERS in the Mayo crutches. He was destined to be a Memorial, including a fine rehabilita­ cripple for life. tion center. Page 10 takes you there, In spite of his handicap, Eustis and emphasizes the resources of dreamed of becoming a lawyer and physical therapy with its new gym­ nasium, special baths, and other facili­ worked his way through Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Connecticut ties for treatment. Wesleyan University, and Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the on the cover . .. bar in 187t The Mayo Memorial takes the Choosing Minneapolis as his per· spotlight for most of this manent home, within a few years he issue, from the cover to the became successful in several fields­ President's Page. This draw­ law, real estate, investments-and was ing of the new medical teach­ even elected mayor of the city. ing and research center was But Mr. Eustis had another dream. William Henry Eustis made by chief medical illus­ He hoped to found and endow a hos· trator William M. Holmes. pital for crippled children, and when "Mr. Eustis' name will be pre­ he reached his eighties, the time came served in daily service to the children THE MINNESOTAN for the realization of his dream. of the State of Minnesota who are Vol. VIII No.2 James Gray writes in his history of the beneficiaries of his great gift to Published by the Department of the University that when Mr. Eustis University Relations, 213 Administration the University-the Minnesota Hos­ began to distribute his vast fortune Building, University of Minnesota, Min· pital and Home for Crippled Chil­ neapolis 14, Minnesota. "the chief part must go, he decided, dren. The hospital will remain on the William L. Nunn, Director to the care of children who were Ellen Siegelman ...... Editor campus as an enduring monument to handicapped as he himself had been. Liz Ramsden Assistant Editor his generosity and idealism." Advisory Committee: Members of the This hearty man, with the physique University Public Information Council. While the Eustis Wing of the now above the waist of a wrestler, re­ The Minnesotan is published monthly membrred as he came to die, his own sprawling University hospitals no during the academic year, October early sorrow and also an early prom­ longer is devoted entirely to crippled through May. Copies are mailed free to children, it is still one of the busiest University staff members. Subscription ise made to himself to relieve such rates for non-staff members are $2 a areas for pediatrics in the hospitals. suffering in others." year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of t~is The scene of present remodeling and issue are on sale at Coffman Memonal Calling University officials to his redecorating, the wing is now having Union Bookstore. office in 1923, Mr. Eustis presented Photographs, unless otherwise cred· them with a letter which gave the oxygen installed in its patient rooms. ited, were taken by members of the University approximately one million Mr. Eustis' enduring monument University Photographic Laboratory. will continue to serve the children of Entt>red as second-class matter at the dollars. A few months later he sup­ post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. plemented this first gift with others the state of Minnesota. The Minnesotan 2 s~ 7amte ietmt4tUe, ~ tau~~ dvee~ ..

Let's TOUR the Mayo Memorial

High on the roof of the Mayo, with the campus behind him, Tomit Romson, assistant to the director of U Hospitals, prepares to take Minnesotan readers on a "guided tour." • •

T ET'S BEGIN OUR TOUR of know, no other building in the city Environmental Sanitation laboratory Mayo Memorial on top of the L has such windows. on the eleventh floor. As in most of world, on the sixteenth floor roof. Down the hall here IS the room the labs, the floor is covered with To get there from the third, or where we perform electro-encephalo­ black asphalt tile. In general, labora­ ground floor of the building, we will grams to study activity of the brain tory floors are black because it shows take a high speed elevator to the in certain disorders. It is completely dirt more quickly. Public areas are fourteenth story and walk up two free of distracting sources of static tiled in grey and kitchen areas m flights through pipes and condensers electricity. Across the hall is one of yellow. and cooling units. The elevator rises our many labs in this building. The Notice this large shower head. It 700 feet a minute, and we have three counter tops alone in this laboratory is another safety device for the lab of them. workers. Pull the chain and gallons cost $4 per square foot, but they will From the north end of the sixteenth of water pour down. There's one of last from here until nearly eternity. floor roof, you can see the entire these emergency showers at the end In the long run, this artificial chem­ campus laid out before you. Over to of each lab counter, so a technician the northeast, past the mills, is the stone counter top is extremely prac­ who accidentally catches fire has at St. Paul Campus. To the east you can tical for a laboratory, because it most a step or two to get under the see the State Capitol; to the west, won't stain under normal lab condi­ shower. (One of our incidental wor­ downtown Minneapolis. tions. ries is that strangers to the labs will Watch your step, now, going down On ] 3 we have three departments. become curious about these contrap­ to 14. These steps are intended only Down in the north end are some offices tions with chains hanging from the for physical plant staff who come up of the School of Public Health. Con­ ceilings and pull the chain to find out. here to check on the air compressors tinuation Medical Education has an They'll find out, all right!) on 15, and the sprinkler system for area in the center of the floor, and on Around the corner are compressor fire control and the power transform­ the south end are the offices of the units for refrigerating the freezers ers for the elevators on 16. Some College of Medical Science, including used on this floor and downstairs in 14,000 volts come in directly to the a medical faculty room. bacteriology. There is also an escape building. The course in Hospital Adminis­ hatch to provide more than one way The fourteenth floor is devoted to tration within the School of Public out of these labs. This is particularly pediatrics offices and conference Health takes up most of the south necessary in the environmental sani­ rooms, child psychiatry and research end of 12. Housed in the north end tation labs because so many inflam­ labs. These windows are all revers­ are the teaching laboratories of the mable materials are used. ible; they pivot so both sides can be department of biostatistics. The department of bacteriology washed from the inside. As far as I You are now in Dr. Ted Olson's continued on next page November 1954 3 I MAYO TOUR continued the sixth floor. The east wing is a light fixtures that will disintegrate in­ j psychiatric station. The patients here stead of sliver, and extra-heavy I and immunology, with teaching and have their own small occupational screens inside the windows instead of research labs on 10 and 9, is the only therapy department and, as I have bars. A "porthole" of one-way glass department that had to have real, in­ said, their allotted time to go up on gives the nurse an opportunity to lo­ the roof for exercise. The depart­ cate the patient before she enters the stead of artificial, soapstone counter ment's offices are here through the room. tops. The department keeps a few west wing, along with child psychiatry North wing offices and laboratories small animals up here for their ex­ observing rooms equipped with one­ include obstetrics and gynecology periments. The Hospital Diagnostic way glass. with a nursery and delivery rooms; i Lab is housed here, too. The disturbed patient section has otolaryngology and ophthalmology. We now come to our new rehabili­ beds that cannot be broken, glass on On five we have our surgery offices tation center. On 8, besides the lab­ oratories and classrooms common to Student doctors and nurses sit around a soundproof glass observation dome, all floors, we have the administrative one of four that looks down on operating rooms. Here they can watch oper­ • office of the department of Physical ations and listen by loudspeaker to the surgeons below. The Mayo Memorial Medicine. Dr. F. ]_ Kottke has his has 14 air-conditioned operating rooms, complete postoperative facilities. office here. Seventh floor is more or less the clinical part of the Physical Medicine. Physical therapy occupies part of this floor (see story page 10). The south section of the floor belongs to occupational therapy, with a large workroom for patients to do wood work, weave, tool leather, and sew. Through this door off the work­ room is a "heart of the home" kitchen where the occupational therapists teach disabled housewives to run their homes efficiently with minimum effort. Next door is a living room, used for the same purpose. These rooms are not the latest word in home furnish­ ing but are approximately what the average woman might have in her home. Two departments share lounge On this floor a central waiting room opens onto a deck on the roof of the east wing. Surfaced with concrete and fenced in with high wire mesh, this deck will be used by patients in both the Physical Medicine and the Psychiatric sections. A separate en­ trance to the deck leads down to the psychiatric floor. Shuffleboard and other deck games will be installed here, and patients will be able to lie on deck furniture in the sun. When we get down to the sixth floor we have more ter;itory to cover because wings spread out from the tower section here, joining the Uni­ versity Hospitals around three courts. Psychiatry, headed by Dr. Donald Hastings, utilizes a lot of space on Photo Courtesy The Minneapolis Tribune The Minnesotan 4 " , ,

In his new office, Harold S. Diehl, dean of the College of Medical Sciences

In the Mayo main lobby, Raymond M. Amberg, director of University Hospitals

and four surgery observation domes. an induction room, where the patient Through the doors at the end of At each dome there is space for 16 can be anesthetised without the some· the north wing is the Mayo audi­ students to observe an operation, times frightening first-hand view of torium, which links Mayo Memorial without danger of contaminating preparations for the operation. Be­ and the Hospitals to Owre hall and the sterile atmosphere of the operat­ sides our recovery room, we also have the Medical Science buildings. Two ing room below. Dr. Owen W augen­ a sub-central supply station on this steen is chairman of the department. floor, containing utensils and equip­ large lecture rooms are included in Also on this floor are neurology, ment likely to be needed in a hurry. the building besides the 550-seat audi­ torium. urology, and some small nurseries. Ground floor offers variety Single patient rooms on this floor Second floor is our hospital labora­ have their own bath including shower. We are now back where we started, on the third, or ground floor. Here tory and x-ray floor. On the south, Each room has an adjustable high. medical technology; on the east, low bed, a small, compact over-bed the wings house the various out­ x-ray; on west and north, a medical table, and a limed-oak bedside cabinet patient clinics-such as psychiatry, bookstore and a teaching laboratory and dresser. And-just in case you'd eye, ear, nose and throat-and the ad­ for bacteriology. The blood bank is forgotten these are hospital rooms­ ministrative offices. Off the lobby we in the center of the building. each has an oxygen outlet! have a switchboard, a gift shop and coffee shop. We have provided sev­ You might call the first floor a city Fourth floor is the windowless floor. eral special rooms, where waiting in itself. This floor connects with the Fourteen operating rooms take up the families of critically ill patients can first floor of the Hospitals in a block north and east wings; four of them be together. This floor also houses the square area. Mayo's sections are de­ are observable from a dome above. department of medicine, headed by voted to x-ray storage, animal quar- Between each two operating rooms is Dr. Cecil Watson. continued on next page November 1954 5 MAYO TOUR I think I'll take you out through Regents' Scholarships J the garage, since it's the only part of Go to 20 on U Staff continued the Mayo Memorial you haven't seen. I ters, experimental animal surgery, Twenty staff members will attend Uni­ It's a two-level garage, and the lower radiation therapy, and the cobalt unit versity classes winter quarter on Re­ level can be reached from the first gents' Scholarships, the civil service (described in the May, 195~ Minne­ sotan). floor. At present, the garage holds committee has announced. Here too are the central supply 250 cars. The scholarships pay tuition for station and lockers and lounges for Well, the tour is over. But just let full-time University employees to take the staff. The carpenter shop and the me say this: up to six credits in courses related to their jobs. Enrolled in courses that engineering shop are right around the With four years of actual construc­ range from Introductory Sociology to corner from the central supply sta­ tion and $12,000,000 we have built a Stresses in Structures are: tion, where we prepare all supplies research-instruction center to com­ Verna Anderson, senior clerk, ad­ for the Hospital. plete our hospital and medical school. missions and records; Dwain Cald­ Our sub-basement is full of heating It is one of the largest and most care­ well, junior engineer, physical plant; plant and telephone wires. The ex­ fully planned in the world. This is Marjorie Gerlich, principal account change center for the entire hospital truly a living monument to two great clerk, ag experiment station; Mary is down there now. citizen-doctors of Minnesota. .a..a. Hallgren, senior clerk-typist, General Extension Division; Kathryn Ham­ Mode/laboratory is bacteriology's. The piece of equipment in question here mer, junior scientist, hospital chem­ is a W arburg respirometer, used to study the metabolism of bacterial cells, istry laboratory; William Holmes, in particular how they produce and absorb gases. Dolores Lauer, medical medical illustrator. technologist, is recording changes in pressure; Dr. Herman Lichstein, asso­ Marlene Johnson, junior scientist, ciate professor of bacteriology and immunology, computes data; and Joseph medical technology; Roger Jolicoeur, Deal, a graduate student. introduces some nitrogen gas into the manometer. patrolman, protection and investiga­ tion; Grace Lucas, senior clerk-typist, student counseling bureau; Riva Lyone, senior clerk-typist, admissions and records; Marilyn Mork, principal clerk, inventory. Douglas Patterson, engineering as­ sistant, mechanics and materials; Donald Paul, engineering assistant, physiology; Lavonne Petersen, prin­ cipal secretary, University services; Janet Rhame, librarian, library; Ila Smith, secretary, office of vice presi­ dent, business administration. Eleanor Steele, psychometric assist­ ant, student counseling bureau; Mar­ garet Tenold, clerk, library; Paddy Theis, principal laboratory animal at­ tendant, radiology; Ethel Gold, senior clerk, physics. For details and applications for Regents' Scholarships for winter quarter, stop in at the civil service personnel office, Room 14, Adminis­ tration Building, Minneapolis campus. Straub Named to Board Lorenz G. Straub, head of the Uni­ versity of Minnesota civil engineer­ ing department and director of the St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic labora­ tory, has been reappointed to the Army Engineers Beach Erosion Board for six and three-fourths years.

6 The Minnesotan Biggest interior decorating job ...

Meg Torbert Provides Local Color in Mayo

N THE slight shoulders of attrac­ O tive Meg Torbert has fallen one of the biggest interior decorating jobs in the Twin Cities. Mrs. Torbert has just finished selecting the furniture, flooring, wall colors, and draperies Mrs. Torbert has for the towering Mayo Memorial. had to plan every­ She began working on the project thing from mag­ about a year and a half ago part-time netic bedtable (she has been on loan from the catches to drapes. Walker Art Center where she is cu­ rator of design). Her first job was to study the building plans intensively greatest wear was shown by strong­ more neutral shade. I've tried to con­ to get an idea of the building as a whole and of the divisions that make colored walls after equipment had centrate on color accents rather than it up. Then followed a long series of scraped off the paint and exposed large blocks of strong color." conferences with the purchasing de­ glaring white plaster. Many's the Saturday Mrs. Torbert partment, the hospital administration, Her initial problem was to work spent in the empty building telling and the medical departments which out a palette of basic neutral colors the painting foreman just what color would he using the new facility. that would go together and act as to paint a particular room. "He'd do "The main problem," she says, backgrounds or foils for other, a section. I'd suggest a slight vari­ "was to keep the interior cheerful and brighter colors. She finally developed ation. He'd remix the color and paint pleasing without being disturbing. several warm beiges varying from some more. Finally, when we had it We had to see which rooms had light to medium dark; several greens; just right we'd send a sample of the adequate light for close work and a group of yellows; and one red that which ones needed a 'boost' from goes with the others. actual mixture to the paint factory so lighter wall colors. In addition to these eight or nine they could duplicate it exactly." The '"I talked to every department about basic shades, eight other "punchier'' light, warm beige that gives the Mayo its special needs. We had to be par­ colors have been used in small doses, its characteristic "atmosphere" took ticularly careful about rooms where but only in public areas such as some doing, Mrs. Torbert adds. people will be making color judg­ elevator lobbies. ments -such as the blood bank, "All the really bold colors are used wALLS WERE NOT the only anesthesiology recovery rooms, and in places you move through but don't problem. Flooring had to be patient rooms. There we had to keep live in," Mrs. Torbert says. "The planned (specifications called for away from wall colors with high re­ many, many small rooms that make mastic tile throughout, terrazzo in flectivity, like yellow, which tends to up the Mayo have been kept soft and the main lobby). Furniture was make people look a little jaundiced." light. Patients' rooms are quiet in ordered specially; most of it is strong The Mayo interior is very light in color. Although white has become a laminated bentwood molded by an color compared to the old U hospital. hospital bugaboo, I've used it in a electronic process. Chairs are covered Mrs. Torbert spent a lot of time talk­ few places for the nice, cleaning feel­ in naugahyde, a leather-like plastic ing to Mrs. McHugh, the Mayo house­ ing and fine background it offers. that is washable, less expensive and keeper; she tramped for hours around Bright colors really don't function more rugged than leather. the old hospital and decided that the until they are placed against another, continued on page 14 November 1954 7 A Fulbright fellowship has taken Ben Willerman, associate professor of psychology, to the University of Amsterdam, in Herbert E. Wright, Jr., associate professor whose psychology laboratory he will teach research methods. of geology, is now in Iraq on a Guggenheim fellowship studying the physical and climat· ic setting of prehistoric cultures, with em· staff members J phasis on the introduction of agriculture. YOU S. Music librarian Kay Holum has been here four years. She I plays piano and organ, has degrees in music and library For nearly 40 years E. J. Volden has worked at 1 science. Her job: lending records and scores for classes. the West Central School and Station in Morris, where he teaches and heads the business office.

The Minnesotan 8 Jane Leichsenring, profeSsor of nutri­ ti<'ln, is the recent winner of the 1954 BordenAward,ahigh honor in the home ec­ onomics field. Basis for this award was Miss Leichsenring's fundamental studies in nutrition and in experimental foods.

Keeping up the 150,000 names on the U's mail­ ing lists is the job of Harriet Johnson, who • has been working at the University 24 years .

Paintings by Bernard Arnest, assistant professor of art, are LD KNOW on exhibition at the Walker Art Center through November 30.

Mrs. Lillian Hunter has been secretary to the dean of the College of Medical Sciences since 1931. She's delighted with her new Mayo office.

November 1954 9 dream of rehab center comes true ... Physical

mersed up to his head in the water. "The tank is particularly useful," says Hazelle Erickson, supervisor of physical therapy, "for helpless para­ plegics, rheumatoid arthritics, and burn patients, because they can be lifted in and out with very little diffi­ culty, thanks to an electric hoist." Equipment for the center was pre­ sented by Crippled Child Relief, Inc. Adults with physical disabilities or illnesses that interfere with their speech can get speech therapy at the rehab center for the first time. "Not only do these enlarged facilities help us to care for disabled people from all over Minnesota, but they also give us better instructional resources for the students who will one day be working in other clinics to treat more patients," Miss Erickson adds. On the eighth floor of the Memorial are the department's offices, research laboratories, appliance shop, and classrooms. The physical therapy classroom contains the same kinds of equipment that are used in treating A five-year-old patient with a spinal defect gets used to an upright pos~­ patients on the floor below. Here PT tion as registered physical therapist Sachiko Kaneko, right, puts the little students practice their techniques on girl on a tilt-board and chief gym therapist Corrine Larson supervises. each other until they have learned them well enough to work with patients. ITH THE DEDICATION of the pre-vocational try-outs and training. "All of this space and equipment is WMayo Memorial, a number of Included in this rehabilitation center very different from our old quarters departments in the medical school will are: an occupational therapy work­ where we had to put plinths in our have, for the first time, adequate teach­ room, a "heart of the home" kitchen offices and our gymnasium was the size ing and research facilities. One such and living room, a woodworking shop, of a large pocket handkerchief," says department is Physical Medicine and print shop, mechanical shop, and a Mrs. Ruby Overman, director of the Rehabilitation, which occupies the business machines training office. course in physical therapy. PT in­ seventh and eighth floors in the Mayo's In physical therapy there are a structors include Martin Mundale, Helen Hislop, and Helen Skowlund. tower section. large exercise gymnasium, hot water The most complete rehabilitation whirl pool baths, paraffin baths, and pHYSICAL methods of treatment center in the state takes up the seventh numerous plinths or treatment tables. have been used for centuries, says floor. Here are facilities for treating One of the larger and more impressive department head Dr. Frederic J. disabled patients by means of occupa­ pieces of equipment is a new hot water Kottke. History records the taking of tional therapy, physical therapy, and bath known as a Hubbard tank. waters, the use of massage, the "laying speech therapy. Both in-patients and Shaped somewhat like the snow angels on of hands," even before the time of out-patients can get this treatment plus children make, it allows a patient to Christ. However, physical therapy did social service, vocational counseling, exercise his arms and legs while im- The Minnesotan 10 Medicine Gets New Home in Mayo Memorial

not become a branch of modern medi­ habilitation program. In the interest pletely the faculties of the disabled, cine until the First World War, when of national survival we couldn't afford but in this new center we can train the Army Medical Program used it to to waste any manpower- including them to adjust to their circumstances. help restore the war wounded. To pro­ that of the handicapped. This physical re-training program in­ vide activity for the convalescing pa­ "It is equally true in peacetime," volves all the facilities of the Uni­ tient, occupational therapy began at Kottke continues, "that if we are going versity Hospitals clinics- urology, about the same time, as a systematic to have the most productive economy orthopedic surgery, etc. -wherever auxiliary service. Gradually it found we must not allow physically handi­ these resources are needed," Kottke its way from the military service into capped people who can become inde­ concludes. civilian hospitals. pendent to sit home as burdens on The re-training program, he says, "The demands of World War II," their community. To restore a disabled is similar to the regimen of an athlete Kottke says, "tied physical therapy, person to the fullest capability is not preparing for competition or of a stu­ occupational therapy, speech therapy, only a humanitarian measure, it is dent in vocational school learning a and vocational restoration together one of our best investments. skilled trade. into a complete and integrated re- "We may not be able to restore com- continued on page 14

Above, left: Dr. F. !. Kottke, head of physical medicine, uses electric stimulation to test rohether a patient's peroneal ~erve has degenerated. This diagnosis forms the basis of therapy by electric stimulation. Hazelle Erick­ son. physlcal therapy s~r:ervisor_ and instructor, adjusts the current. Above, right: Therapists Bill Kasinkus and Rudy Ptak prep~re to lzjt a pallent, an a~cident victim, out of a Hubbard tank. Containing water at body temper­ ature, the tank lS curved to give theraplsts easy access and to give patients room to exercise arms and legs. November I954 II ------

New ag extension head . . . brings research findings to farm families by demonstra­ tion," says Rutford. He belieYes in democracy all along the line in the extension service. "Our county people are not doing things for farmers but working with them as they do things for themseh-es. "We just can't overestimatt> the importance of our Skuli Rutford county agents who are right out 'at the front,' and thanks to increased federal aid we are expanding our I!OUnty program this year," he ctmtinues. Likes Hard Work Economics is his "weakness," he says, and adds "·What­ ever I talk about it's likely to come out economics." He's enjoyed the last thirty years at the U because "the chal­ lenge of education doesn't leave time for being bored." THE NEW director of the agricultural extension serv- ice, Skuli H. Rutford, was voted "the most bashful boy" of his Duluth Central High School Class of 1916. But it wasn't bashfulness that kept him out of many school activities, he explains, it was work- "lots of work." Having to milk ten cows twice a day, beginning at 4:30 a.m., can make a day full. He was then Skuli Hrutfjord, second of three sons of an Icelandic fisherman turned dairy farmer, and the family was running a 50-cow dairy operation near Duluth by the time Skuli was a senior. His two principal high school interests: getting high ·grades and placing high in athletic events. He was Duluth's champion runner in his senior year, winning five firsts in the University's state high school track meet. Young Skuli had made up his mind to go to college. He began as an SLA freshman on the Minneapolis campus. The following summer, Syracuse University offered him a scholarship and he went there as a sophomore to major in agriculture. He stayed in Syracuse from September to June and saved money the hard way by not coming home at Christmas. He returned to Minnesota's St. Paul campus for his junior year and was graduated in 1922, all-senior president of his class. After graduation, he took a job with the University as a soils assistant in southeastern Minnesota; later he joined the Extension Service, first as Yellow Medicine county agent at Clarkfield, then as South St. Louis county Even off campus Skuli Rutford doesn't have time for agent until 1935. In that year he took the first of three boredom. He and his family live in a large frame house leaves of absence from extension to head the state office at 2107 Commonwealth, St. Paul, with an impressive of Rural Rehabilitation, a state-federal project which garden. Rutford is skilled with the pressure cooker, both later became the Farm Security Administration and now in canning and cooking. He began baking the family is the Farmers' Home Administration. bread supply a few years ago and for several years baked He became assistant director of extension in 1943, after three or four times a week. Now that the family (there serving as an economist in land use and conservation are five children) has begun to scatter, the oven-and­ from 1937. dough routine is less frequent. In 1946, he went to Central and South America for the Asked about his name, Rutford grins and confides that State Department and the U. S. D. A., and in the fall of the middle initial "H." doesn't stand for a middle name. 1952 he went back to the land of his ancestors, Iceland, It just backed up a bit when Hrutfjord became Rutford. for the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) to help the Ice­ Skuli and his two brothers-Snorri and Skafti-were landic Government improve its agricultural research and named after Icelandic leaders and patriots by their father, teaching. a devoted student of Icelandic history. "Agricultural extension, while a service unit, is more "My sister's name is Diana," Rutford smiles. "Mother especially an educational arm of the University which named her!" The Minnesotan 12 Meet the lJMD Keiths . . .

They Went

to ALASKA w 'A y

The Mark Keiths at Mendenhall Creek near This sign marks the begin­ Juneau, in tkeir Alaska Highway travel togs. ning of the Alaska Highway.

T AST Sl'MMER decades of antici­ They were not long on the road be­ town not inside but 50 miles outside Lpation bore fruit for biology pro­ fore they adopted the jargon of vet­ the Arctic Circle. fessor Mark M. Keith and his wife. eran highway travelers. They talked The high point of the trip was the Ever since their childhood they'd about stopping at "milepost 101" or sight of Lake LaBarge and the log wanted to see the Yukon country, the "milepost 302." They learned to raise cabin of Sam McGee, made famous in land of Klondike Kate, Sam McGee, eyebrows only slightly at wild prices the Robert Service poem, "The Crema­ the Alaska territory celebrated by Jack in the interior: bread, 50 cents a pound tion of Sam McGee." Inhabitants of London and Robert Service. loaf; cookies, $1 a dozen; milk, 55 this area near Whitehorse, Alaska, con­ Equipped with a '51 DeSoto, two cents a quart; gasoline, 65 cents a firmed the legend. A man had died of recapped and two new tires, and two gallon. scurvy there and a late-arriving doc­ spares, a $1.25 travel guide (The Mile­ They also learned to keep a sharp tor, lacking tools and energy for reg­ post-Guide to the Land of the Mid­ eye out for huge grizzlies that some­ ular burial, had cremated the body in night Sun), and some mild misgivings times poked about in the twilight the firebox of a steamer ice-lock in at the thought of 9,300 miles of un­ shadows-especially around garbage Lake LaBarge. ''It's unlikely, how­ known road, they left Duluth July l cans. "They are among the few ani­ ever," says Dr. Keith with a grin, "that to return 43 days later. mals that will attack unprovoked, and when the doctor opened the door Sam Forewarned by tales of the rugged it wasn't wise to walk out and meet one yelled out 'Since I left Plumbtree, trip over the Alaska highway, the face to face," explains Mrs. Keith. down in Tennessee, it's the first time Keiths decided to take their time and Aside from the 3,500-odd miles thev I've been warm.' " travel light. Going slowly gave Pro­ traveled each way from Duluth t~ By way of summary the Keiths tell fessor Keith a chance to collect leeches Fairbanks, the Keiths added another you that one recap sprung a leak, but upon which he is doing biological re­ 3,000 miles in side jaunts by car, boat, search. the other went the whole 9,300 miles-­ and plane. Among the most memor­ and they've still got it on the car. Pro­ For camping equipment the Keiths able excursions were those to Mt. Mc­ vision and fuel were available every rigged up: a hinged seat that made an Kinley National Park, where they 25 or 40 miles. In short, it was a most adequate car-bed by extending the camped near Dr. Charles Alexander, satisfying expedition. back seat; a small dressing tent that University of Massachusetts entomolo­ "Everyone was wonderfully friend­ could be attached to the side of the gist famed for his crane fly research, ly and helpful," says Keith. "It was car; bedrolls, cooking utensils, and and Cleveland Grant, noted wildlife a trip we'd recommend to anyone with assorted gadgets-all chosen for light­ photographer; and to Circle, Alaska­ ness and compactness. patience, endurance, and a sense of which turns out to be a nearly deserted humor." November 1954 13 I Local Color Physical Medicine Library Shows Collection .J continued from page 7 continued from page 11 Of Outstanding Typography I The main lobby required special To the rehab center come about 70 Selected hooks from what is con­ thought. Mrs. Torbert has played up patients a day now; Kottke expects sidered one of the most important its massive bronze columns by choos· 100 a day "when we really get rolling." gift collections presented to the Cni­ ing bronze columnar lamps for this About a third of the patients have versity of Minnesota library will be area. The lobby's bronze -frame on display through Nov. 25 in the rheumatoid arthritis, another third chairs, some covered in white, some in library lohhy. have neurological disabilities-polio, a vivid orange, were specially de­ The collection of 180 volumes in­ strokes, paraplegia, fractures follow­ signed by William Armbruster, one cluding outstanding examples of of the country's outstanding furniture ing accidents, etc., and the rest have modern typography from some of the designers. miscellaneous disabilities. hest known private presses was pre­ "To restore these people to useful The psychiatry and neurology sec­ sented to the University in August by independence, to keep them from a life tion, Station 60, posed some special Ernest L. Olrich, retired president of invalidism, requires a systematic and director of Munsingwear, Inc., problems. Mrs. Torbert has attempted program staffed by a team of well­ to make the inpatient rooms where and his wife, Mary Rose Olrich. trained therapists under the direct The collection will he placed in the patients may live for several months supervision of a specialized physician. library's special collections room with at a time more like a home than a This is the program we have set up to the Frank P. Leslie typography col­ hospital. The psychiatry lounge, in treat patients and to teach students in lection which was established in 1951. fact, looks rather like a contemporary these phases of rehabilitation care." In the Olrich gift also are works living room with its blue-upholstered about book designers and about couch and plywood chairs. Prof. Short Named to Board papermakers in many countries dur­ In the course of her assignment Lloyd M. Short, political science ing the last 18 centuries and books Mrs. Torbert has visited hospitals in department chairman, has been named reflecting other literary interests of New York, Chicago, and Madison, as to the recently reactivated Schools the donors. well as the Twin Cities. She has ex­ and Universities Advisory Board of Among books about papermaking plored furniture factories and become the Citizens Committee for the Hoover are several by Dard Hunter who pro­ familiar with all the obscure technical Report. duced books for which he made the problems involved in drawing up First specific project assigned to paper, cast and set the type and specifications for furniture and equip­ the reactivated board is the prepara­ printed on a hand press. Bruce ment-down to the number of screws, tion of an aid for secondary school Rogers, who is perhaps America's kind of glue, types of catches to be teachers of history and government foremost typographer, is represented used on bed-table doors. entitled "Improving the Federal Gov­ hy several productions. Volumes by Now that the Mayo interior is fin­ ernment Through the Work of the Frederic William Goudy of the Yil­ ished, Mrs. Torbert will devote some Hoover Commission," which will be lage Press and Daniel B. C pdike of time to revamping the old U hospital distributed to 25,102 schools in the the Merrymount Press are also in­ so that it will be united with the Mayo United States. cluded. building psychologically as well as In another part of the collection, physically. She will also be working Fulbright Grant Will Take which came to the L"niversity in three at the Walker Art Center, where she Werner Levi to Australia installments in August, are many edits the Design Quarterly in addition biographies of eminent American Werner Levi, political science pro­ statesmen, generals, and other public to arranging exhibits in the field of fessor, has been granted a Fulbright figures. design. research grant for 1955-56, according Mrs. Torbert has been connected to John G. Darley, associate dean of Two on Child Welfare Staff with the University in diverse ways the Graduate School and University Named to Psychology Posts for some time now. She got her BA Fulbright adviser. Two faculty members of the uni­ from the U; and, after returning from On the grant, Levi will conduct re­ versity's Institute of Child Welfare Iowa, where she took an MA in art search in Pacific history in the Aus­ have been named presidents-elect of and psychology, she taught interior tralian National University, Canberra, two different divisions of the Ameri­ design here. Australia. can Psychological Association. But her most enduring tie with the The grant is one of approximately Professor Dale B. Harris, Institute university was made 14 years ago 375 awards for lecturing and research director. is president-elect of the diYi­ when she married her Jones Hall included in the program under the sion of childhood and adolescence, office-mate - Donald Torbert, now Fulbright Act which provides for the and Professor John E. Anderson is associate professor in the University use of foreign currencies realized president-elect of the division on ma­ of Minnesota art department. through the sale of surplus property. turity and aging. 14 The Minnesotan The President's Page

Editor's Note: The following excerpt is taken from a speech made by Presi­ dent Morrill at the dedication dinner jar the Mayo Memorial, Oct. 21,1954.

E ARE REMEMBERING tonight that Dr. William WJ. Mayo once spoke of Medicine as the best and most hopeful of all professions - because, as he said, "in Medicine, tomorrow is the great day!" Truly, a longed-for tomorrow has been made to dawn in this dedication - but still with the vast challenge of even greater days to come. profes~ional genius and achievement by medical pioneers At this grateful moment in the life of our state, and of - hut that it is also the dramatic invitation to deserve by the University, the vision and distinguished professional new effort and accomplishment the heritage of these great example of the past are linked with the opportunity and lllt'n, the Doctors Mayo? obligation of the future. All this I wish I might somehow better express. In saying this, I believe that I interpret the feeling and Step by step, in more than a decade, the resources have spirit of Dean Diehl and his associates of our productive been mobilized to make possible the Memorial, tht> build­ College of Medical Sciences. In saying it, I think I reflect ing and its equipment. Steadily new sources of support the shared sentiment of their associates in the Mayo Foun­ have been recruited or have sprung up almost spontane­ dation at Rochester. Surely in saying it, I bespeak the ously in response to the appeal, and the potential, of this sense of trust and of commitment felt by the Regrnts and facility for the struggle against human suffering and the the administration of the University. needless loss of life. The same thought is in all our minds today: the wish I am thinking of those who gave gladly of their own that the late "Doctor Will" and "Doctor Charles'' might means. I am mindful of the very large investment, critical have seen this great Memorial structure, boldly etched to the success of the enterprise, made by the Legislature against the skyline of the University- this massive sym­ in behalf of the people of Minnesota. I am remembering bol of remrmbrance and of faith in their high purposes. the members of the Mayo family; the staff of the Mayo Here tonight are the representatives of the medical pro­ Clinic at Rochester and of our own University; the organ­ fession; of lay organizations and agencies, private and izations active in tht' voluntary solicitation of funds for public; of government, state and national; of the more prevPntive and remedial medicine and public health in than 10,000 individual contributors who have joined gen­ such firlds as cancer, physical rfhabilitation, and the like. erously to make possible this magnificent Memorial gift The indispensable assistance of the National Institutes to the University - and thereby to the advanct>ment of of Health of the United States Public Hralth Service, rep­ medical teaching and research and patient-care. resenting the participation of the citizens of every state, As the spokesman of the University in this ceremonial must receive the recognition it deserves- as, likewise, the occasion, how can I possibly hope to comprehend or iden­ nation-wide rt>:-ponse of the medical and allied health tify them all - or convey to them our appreciation? professions to the opportunity to do honor to the Brothers How can they be made to understand the enormous Mayo and their high-minded ideals. encouragement and incentive given the scholars and scien­ To all those who have revert:>nced the memory of Dr. tists here and all who work with them, by reason of the William J. Ma) o and Dr. Charles H. Mayo - and who confidence shown in them through the placement of this have joined generously to make meaningful that memory Memorial on our campus? in the greater ongoing of medical teaching and research How can I make plain the awart>ness of our University - the University of Minnesota expresses its thanks, and staff that this Memorial is not only the monument to past gives its pledge of unremitting stewardship and endeavor. November 1954 15 NOVEMBER IS TO DECEMBER IS, I9S4 lJniversity of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Arena Theatre Subscription Series Nov. 16-20-"The Dybbuk," Jewish folk-play by Ansky. ~ov. 19-Zino Francescatti. violinist. (A rena Theatre, first floor of 'Shevlin Hall, 8 :30 p.m. Tickets Nov. 26-Rafael Druian, violinist. at $1.20.) Dec. 3-Macalester Chorus. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES Dec. 10-Leonard Rose, cellist. Nov. 26-St. Paul and Epicurus, by Norman W. DeWitt, (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 professor emeritus, University of Toronto. A study of the to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the influence of the Greek philosopher upon the writings of Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call St. Paul. $4.00. University extension 6225.) t Dec.-The Catholics and German Unity, 1866-1871, by Twilight Concerts George G. Windell, assistant professor, University of Dela­ Nov. 28-Eva Knardahl, pianist; all-Grieg program. ware. A detailed study of a significant period in German Dec. 12-"The Nutcracker Suite," Tsehaikowsky; Bob De· history. $5.00. Haven, narrator. Dec.-The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada, by Wilson D. (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30p.m. General admission tickets Wallis (professor emeritus of anthropology at the Uni­ at $. 75 can be purchased the afternoon of the concert. Box versity) and Ruth Sawtell Wallis. A comprehensive study office opens at 3 :30 p.m.) of the culture of an Indian tribe over a period of 300 years. Y onng People's Concerts $7.50. Nov. IS-Northrop Auditorium, I :30 p.m. Dec.-Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Nov. 23-St. Paul Auditorium, I :45 p.m. Analysis and a Review of the Evidence, by Paul E. Meehl, \fov. 30-St. Paul Auditorium, 1:45 p.m. chairman of the psychology department at the University. (Admission arranged through local schools.) A discussion and synthesis of opposing viewpoints in the UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE behavioral sciences. $3.00. Nov. IS-London Festival Ballet (Tickets from $1.50 to (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul bookstores $3.50.) or may be ordered through local bookstores.) Nov. 30-Eugene Istomin, pianist (Tickets from $1.00 to UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS $3.00.) Through Dec. 6-Paintings for Reproduction-The Ford (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Ticket sales begin the Times. ~fonday before the week of the concert at the Artists Course Nov. 4-Dec. 10-Paintings and Drawings of Ivan Majdrakoff, Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) t assistant to the director of the University Gallery. SPECIAL ATI'RACTION Through Dec. 8-Contemporary Enamels. Nov. 16 and 17-London Festival Ballet. Dec. 10-Jan. 21-Eur9pean Print Invitational. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Tickets from $1.50 to Dec. 15-Jan. 17-Photography-Eugene Smith. $3.50. Sales begin the Monday before the week of the con­ (The University Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of cert at the Artists Course Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) t Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public 8-5, Monday CONVOCATIONS through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open Nov. 18-Religion in Life Week; Minneapolis Symphony before performances and during intermissions.) Orchestra recording rehearsal. SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS ~ov. 24--- (Wednesday) Football Convocation. The English Classics .•. Discussion by University English Dec. 2-Henry Williams, Experimental Theatre, Dartmouth department faculty members about great works of English College, Hanover, N. H .. "A Dose of Dramamine." literature from Shakespeare through the Victorian poets (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public with­ and novelists. This survey of the English literary tradi­ out charge.) tion will include dramatized excerpts by the KUOM staff COMMENCEMENT and the University of Minnesota Radio Guild. Mondays, Dec. 16-Millicent C. Mcintosh, President of Barnard Col­ Wednesdays, and Fridays, I :30-2:15 p.m. lege, Columbia University, New York, "Knowledge, Free­ On Stage ... A series of programs on the many facets of dom, and Responsibility." the theater, composed of interviews with leading play· (Northrop Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. Admission by guest card wrights, actors, writers, directors, critics, and choreogra­ only.) phers, among them Walter Kerr, Robert Sherwood, and SPECIAL LECTURE Joshua Logan. Thursdays at 2:00p.m. ~ov. 23-Paul Creston, composer. The Universe: Solar System and World ... This Cooper (Scott Hall Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to those inter­ Union Forum series offers talks by prominent physicists ested.) and astronornPrs on the origin and history of the earth, NATURAL IDSTORY LECTURE SERIES the air around us, the world beyond the atom, the seas and ~ov: 21-Clyde Christensen, professor of plant pathology at oceans, floating continents. Wednesdays at 3 :30 p.m. the University, "Molds and Mushrooms Mean Much to (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on Man." the dial. Its complete fall schedule may be obtained by ~ov. 28-Harvey L. Gunderson. assistant scientist, Minne­ writing to the station.) sota Museum of Natural History, "Camping-Fun or Frus­ ATHLETIC EVENTS tration?" Dec. 5-Color Movie: "Reshaping Nature for Power." Basketball Game at Home Dec. 12-Color Movie by Walt Disney: "Olympic Elk." Dec. ll-De Paul. (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Single tickets at $1.75 and $1.25 go on sale the Monday of the week before the game at the to the public without charge.) UNIVERSITY THEATRE Athletic Ticket Office. 103 Cooke Hall.) t Hockey Games at Home ~ov. 25-28; Nov. 30-Dec. 4---"King Oedipus," by Sophocles. (Scott Hall Auditorium. Evenings at 7:30 Nov. 25; at 8:30 Dec. 3-4---St. Boniface. Nov. 26 and 27, Dec. 1-4; Matinees at 4:00 p.m. Nov. 28 Dec. lO-ll-Winnipeg Barons. and at 3 :30 p.m. Nov. 30. Single tickets at $1.20 may be (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.50 go on purchased a week before the opening at the Theatre Box sale the Monday of the week before the game at the Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) t Office, 18 Scott Hall.)t tTickets 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 ;\Iinneapolis. THE MINNESOTAN Z:lte Universil!f Staff Magazine - :December 1954 in this issue ... I <~ RIDDLE: WHAT DID THE UNI­ They Made Us Great VERSITY BUY for one dollar that I is now doing more than a million dol­ lars of yearly "business"? We won't WHILE MONUMENTS have tra- keep you guessing: it's the Rosemount ditionally been raised to com­ Research Center. For details, partic­ memorate war dead and wounded, it ularly about the aero engineering is only recently that the idea of a facilities, see next page. "living memorial" has taken hold. AFTER SINGING HANDEL~ Back in 1947 this hope for a continu­ MESSIAH, the U Chorus will per­ ing and vital tribute to the dead of form with the Minneapolis Symphony World Wars I and II led The Minne­ Berlioz' "Romeo and Juliet Sympho­ sota American Legion to set up an ny." You'll learn more about this endowed professorship in heart re­ unusual music, about musical tests, search at the University of Minnesota. and the joys and headaches of choral The idea really originated with Dr. conducting in the interview with Prof. Irvine S. MacQuarrie, chairman of James Aliferis, page 6. the U Pediatrics department. He A NEW CARD GAME HAS BEEN talked several times about the need INVEI\TED by James Brown, asso­ for heart research with Dr. L. F. Rich­ Giving Pres. Morrill the final check ciate professor of rhetoric. See page dorf, a pediatrics staff member who for The American Legion Heart Re­ 11 for the details on Lex-o-gram. was active in The American Legion. search Professorship in '52 is CarlEs­ OTHER FEATURES ON: UMD Leaders of the Legion like the late peseth, then Minnesota Legion Com­ political science professor Emmett Joseph Finley, attorney, and Jay C. mander, and Mrs. Bert Count, then Davidson, page 10; Museum of Nat­ Hormel, president of the Hormel Co. President of the Legion Auxiliary. ural History guard lvanovs, page 13. and of the American Legion Founda­ tion, were enthusiastic about helping Behind the whole campaign as gen­ heart research. They proposed at the eral director was dynamic Oliver Aas on the cover . .. Legion's state convention in '47 that of the First National Bank, Minneap­ This shot of a young couple the Minnesota organization and its olis. The importance of the drive was looking, we imagine, rather women's auxiliary raise $500,000 to grimly dramatized by his tragic death wistfully at the site of the support a chair in heart research at in 1950- from heart disease. new St. Paul Union building the University. Although the fund was not quite reminds us-if we needed re­ And so the money-raising began. completed, the accumulated capital minding-that it's December, The 630 posts of the Legion and the was drawing interest, and in 1950, Dr. and COLD outside. Photo by 400 of the Auxiliary set out to bring Lewis Thomas was appointed to the Walter Zambino, Photo Lab. in their "fair share" of the total. They American Legion Heart Research Pro­ held bingo parties, white elephant fessorship. He resigned this fall to sales, and bake sales. They sponsored become professor of pathology at THE MINNESOTAN greased pig contests, card parties, and New York University, and was suc­ Vol. VIII No. 3 ceeded by Dr. Robert A. Good, 32, Published by the Department of variety shows. Some of their members University Relations, 213 Administration sent in small individual checks in formerly associate professor of pedi­ Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ memory of relatives. atrics. In specially equipped labora­ neapolis 14, Minnesota. The University Regents approved tories on the fourth floor of the Vari­ William L. Nunn, Director ety Club Heart Hospital, Dr. Good Ellen Siegelman . Editor the project in January, 1948, and the Advisory Committee: Members of the Legion presented a first installment will do research on the causes, pre­ University Public Information Council. check for $100,000 to the University vention, and treatment of rheumatic The Minnesotan is published monthly in March of that year. fever and congenital heart disease in during the academic year, October children. through May. Copies are mailed free to When, over the course of the years, University staff members. Subscription interest flagged a little, the women in Now that the $500,000 fund has rates for non-staff members are $2 a the Auxiliary helped revive enthusi­ been completed, Dr. MacQuarrie says, year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this "This is the greatest thing the Legion issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial asm, according to Legion leaders. Union Bookstore. Happy to cooperate in this undertak­ has done for us. It has meant a tre­ Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ ing, the University also spurred fund­ mendous boost for our fundamental ited, were taken by members of the raising by putting on at the yearly research in childhood heart diseases University Photographic Laboratory. and has already yielded new discov­ Entered as second-class matter at the conventions dramatic presentations post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. which featured actual heart patients. eries and new advances in skill." 2 The Minnesotan Supersonic Research l{eeps Rosemount Humming

ROSEMOUNT is the University's was carried out, the University he­ tered oYer a comparatively small por­ biggest bargain. The 8,000-acre came interested in this site of the for­ tion of the area's 13% square miles, research center with 200 buildings on mer Gopher Ordnance works. We hut even so, distances are great. it came to the University for $1.00 began negotiations and were just a "If you computed the number of from the War Assets Administration, little surprised when we got it for a people here per acre and applied that on condition the tract be used only for dollar." education, national defense, and re­ Today roughly 2,500 of the Center's ratio to the U's main campus there search in agriculture and medicine. 7,974 acres are allotted to the agri­ would be only four people on the The $129,000,000 plant, originally cultural research station, which is dis­ Minneapolis campus," says Leonard designed for the production of TNT, tinct and independent from the rest Kaercher, Rosemount superintendent. was used for this purpose only ten of the Center. Rattling around in the "And besides space, we have the days during the "Battle of the Bulge," 5,000-plus acres remaining are re­ advantage of a calm, relaxed atmos­ in World War II, according to John search facilities of IT's Aeronautical phere. The 25 researchers who live in D. Akerman, head of the aero engi· Engineering department and of the our staff houses can work when they neering department and director of College of Medical Sciences depart­ want, he it during the regular 8:00 the Rosemount aero laboratories. ments of Surgery, Cancer Biology, a.m. to 5 :00 p.m. hours, or from 8:00 "During those ten days," Akerman and Physical Medicine. p.m. to 5:00a.m. It has to be fun for says, "most of the 950 buildings on To get from one department to an­ researchers to do their best work." the land were contaminated with other- and indeed, to get to build­ The University first got interested dynamite dust, and the War Assets ings within the same department - in Rosemount when the Aero Engi­ Administration sent out an order to you must drive or he prepared for a neering department learned of some 'cannibalize' it. But before the order long walk. The buildings are scat- continued on next page

Aerial view showing Rosemount's supersonic blowdown wind tunnel facilities, housed in a large one-story building. large compressors in the installation next fe\1· vears. "In 19.53," he says. man expects they may reach Mach lO which the C needed for wind tunnel "we completed research projects . to ~ by the year's end. ! research. the value of $1,000,000, and this load To the uninitiate, the wind tunnels "Lo and behold!" says Bernard of "business' should continue. look like huge steam pipes. In the Leadon, lecturer at the Center, "we no '·The Rosemount Aeronautical Lab­ center of the tunnel is a section in sooner started inquiries about buying oratories is unique among the seven which engine or plane models are the equipment than the government or eight largest aeronautical research offered us the whole tract for a token centers in the country because it is placed and observed while the air payment." run not as an independent unit but as rushes by. Different nozzle blocks "As it turned out," Leadon contin­ an integrated part of the department. change the Mach number or speed of ues, "the first $400,000 research proj­ But the staff is not confined to Rose­ the \1 ind in the tunnel. ect granted us by the Navy kept the mount. nor are the facilities there The supersonic or continuous flow station on its feet. We started work restricted to Rosemount people, who tunnels use five compressors totaling on it in the fall of 1946 and in August, come to the University to lecture on 4,000 horsepower which continuously 1947, we ran our first tests in the wind their specialties while aero engineer­ push com pressed air into the tunnel. tunnels. We got a renewal and an ing professors travel the 25 miles to Five ,-acuum pumps of 1,000 horse­ extension on the first contract, and the Center to do research. Most of power constantly suck the air out. ~ince then we've had enough spon· our graduate students are employed This pushing and sucking makes the so red research to support the Center." there." Akerman says. wind inside the tunnels, which can be Akerman says the aeronautical part WHAT ARE the aero facilities at run for indefinite periods. of the Center is completely self-sup· Rosemount? There are eight At much higher (hypersonic) porting. All expenses and salaries are wind tunnels: one transonic, four speeds are the "blowdown" tunnels. paid directly or as overhead from supersonic, and three hypersonic Air travels through these from huge government contracts. The University (blowdown) tunnels. These range in tanks of compressed air on one end put up some money for capital equip­ air speed from zero to Mach 7, or to vacuum tanks of 23,000 cubic feet ment which will be paid off during the seven times the speed of sound. Aker- volume at the other. A one-shot proc-

Scientist Earl Chiswell checks electronic measuring Parts of a sub-miniature digital pressure gauge de­ equipment in Rosemount's instrumentation laboratory. veloped in research lab are inspected by Frank Werner.

4 The Minnesotan css, the entire highspeed blowdown "Often we hit upon an idea for an in slow motion after they're run." of air lasts less than a minute. instrument which isn't directly func­ Although the rapid progress of "Besides our wind tunnel research, tional for aero engineering, hut which aeronautical science makes it impos­ we have experiments in instrumenta­ may have a practical use in other sible to plan far ahead, the U's aero­ tion, heat transfer, ballistics, and elec­ scientific fields," says Werner. "We nautical engineers at Rosemount plan tronics at Rosemount," Akerman says. do not neglect such instruments, hut to keep abreast of the latest devel­ "Since we do not depend on just one adapt them into useful aids for other opments. type of research we can adapt, re­ scientists doing basic research." "Besides the research advantages trench, or ~hift emphasis without Across the street from the aeronau­ Rosemount has given us, it has had obsolescence or loss of money." tical offices is another instrument lab. beneficial by-products, too," Akerman ECAUSE much of the advance Here are designed and built electronic says. "It has raised the department B of basic science rests on instru­ recorders, optical recorders, and in­ to the top three or four in the coun­ mentation, it comes as no surprise struments used in current projects. try, from the standpoint of educa­ that there are two instrument labs at "We design instruments expressly tional competence and facilities. It Rosemount. Over at the blowdown for the aeronautical engineer," says has given us the chance to engage facilities, in a brand new building, is scientist Earl Chiswell. "This doesn't professors who would come only to a laboratory where they not only mean that we are narrow in outlook. institutions where such facilities are develop new tools, but can take the Some of the finest recorders in the available. And we have built up a finished product and install it in the world lie in the realm of optics, and million dollar 'business' which doesn't tunnels down the hall. Among the we are using these and others. We ship a single resource out of the state delicate, jewel-like instruments that have an electronic camera here, for -only a box full of reports! Frank Werner, scientist, and his crew instance, that takes 15,000 pictures a "Finally," Akerman says, "Rose­ have developed here are a probe for second. Similar cameras elsewhere mount is important to Minnesota be­ measuring the temperature of gases, can take up to 2,000,000 pictures a cause it will keep good minds here. a precision pressure gauge, and a tur­ second. These instruments make it And the mind, after all, is the most bulence probe. possible to study the wind tunnel tests important resource we have."

In .front o.f supersonic tunnel, T. S. Liu, scientist, Junior engineer Howard Peterson adjusts bala.nce that investigates the results o.f blast wave propagation. gauges forces on model inside transonic wind tunnel.

December 1954 5 a matter of ehorus . • • ; --

"My MAJOR INTEREST is just music," said Prof. James Ali­ feris, when we interviewed him in his Scott Hall office. Pleasant, boyish, and literate, Aliferis loves music, he talks about it excitedly, but above all, he knows it-as a student, teacher, composer, performer, and conductor. His musical interests even include tests of musical ability. At Iowa, where he got his Ph.D., Aliferis com­ bined composing (he wrote a sym­ phony for his doctoral thesis) and musical tests. Working under the eminent psychologist Carl E. Sea­ shore, he developed an Auditory Visual Discrimination Test that was published by the University Press last spring and is now being used as one of the entrance tests for music majors. The Aliferis test shows how well a student can relate what he hears with what he sees. Two notes are played, for example, and the student must indicate on a multiple choice answer sheet which one of four note combi­ nations represents visually what he has just heard. "This kind of discrimination is essential for musicians," Aliferis said. "A conductor must be able to see in his mind every note of a score when he is conducting. Likewise, when he studies the score he can hear inwardly just how it will sound. Our test has been shown to correlate very highly with students' actual performance in music theory, the groundwork of all advanced music study." ,l S A YOUNG boy in Cleveland, ft Aliferis played the violin. He con­ ducted school orchestras in high school and college and led a church Photo courtesy Clemens Kalischer choir and college chorus. He did Aliferis conducting at Tanglewood The Minnesotan 6 gram, like the kind of gradual build­ then develops these themes instru­ up football players get. The be­ mentally. ginning of every rehearsal is given "Finally," Aliferis summarized, "in $ over to vocalizing and exercises, the great last movement two four­ warming up to start a free-flowing part choruses, representing the Mon­ on Aliferis - tone. Later we work for color, flexi­ tagues and the Capulets, mourn the bility, and range. If we didn't do this death of Romeo and Juliet." gradually, chorus members would be Aliferis knows this Berlioz work hoarse after each rehearsal." from the inside, having prepared it $ Students get one credit a quarter last summer with a chorus at the for taking chorus three hours a week. Berkshire Music Center in Tangle­ - The two sections of this course, each wood, Mass. "Of course," he remi­ a complete chorus, come together nisced, "Tanglewood is a fabulous some composing, too-an activity he with the few carefully chosen Exten­ place. I was in the original class has had to abandon lately with the sion volunteers to sing at the massed there in '41, along with Leonard Bern­ press of other duties. Tuesday evening rehearsals. stein, Lucas Foss, and Thor Johnson. Aliferis came to the University in A year ago Aliferis, on a grant Koussevitzky wanted to make it 'the 1946 from the Army, where he con· from the Ford Foundation, surveyed Salzburg of America,' with superb ducted the Army Special Services choral activity all over the country. offerings in every department; and Symphony Orchestra. The major He found that the University of that, I think, is what it's become." share of his time here has been spent Minnesota chorus stands in an almost During the six-weeks session at teaching and conducting choral unique position of quality. "Only Tanglewood this summer, the Boston groups. two other University choruses - Symphony gave 24 concerts, six of Of the special problems in con­ Temple and Harvard-Radcliffe-sing them choral-symphonic; the choral ducting a chorus composed of non­ regularly with a major symphony, department put on three concerts of professionals, Aliferis said: "Choral and Minnesota is unequalled in the its own. Aliferis and Hugh Ross of groups are nearly always made up of number of different works we per­ the Schola Cantorum worked a gruel­ music-loving amateurs. Sometimes form every year." ing 9 to 5 day and then directed or they are instrumentalists with a love attended concerts six nights a week. of-but very little training in-sing· "Happily,'' Aliferis went on, "the ing. Although this lack of technique THIS YEAR the chorus is making core of the large chorus was a small four appearances, three of which gives us some headaches, it has its group of 50 handpicked highly are local first performances: The advantages. These amateurs care trained singers, all of soloist quality. Messiah of Handel in December; the about music in a very special and As far as pace and extent of the music Romeo ami Juliet Symphony of dedicated way, and they work fan­ covered-there's nothing quite like tastically hard at it. Berlioz in January, with Aliferis con­ it!" ducting the Minneapolis Symphony; "Our own University chorus," he As if all this musical activity the Bach St. Matthew Passion on continued, "averages 275 people. weren't enough, Aliferis also conducts Good Friday, with Antal Dorati con­ They come right off the campus, rep­ the University chamber singers, a ducting; and, in May, the Bruckner resenting every college, the faculty, group of about 20 excellent, well­ Mass in its original form, with an facHlty wives, and civil service staff. trained performers. Because so many orchestra of woodwinds, brasses, and There are rarely more than 30 people local choirs perform sacred works, organ. from outside the University in Ex­ Aliferis thought a chamber group do­ tension division, nor are there ever Mr. Aliferis was happy to go on at ing rarely heard choral music, mostly more than 25 trained music students." length about the Berlioz, to be played secular, from the medieval through The job is further complicated by Jan. 14. "It's a very strange and the contemporary, would perform a the fact that the chorus sings the wonderful piece, combining words greater musical service. standard musical literature with the and musical ideas in a uniquely suc­ Other Aliferis irons in the musical cessful way," he said. Minneapolis Symphony, which de­ fire: In his spare time he is music mands a high level of performance. "The Prologue is sung, with the director of a local educational re­ "After singing music of the Fred narrator briefly telling the whole cording company; he is Minneapolis Waring type of arrangement in high Romeo and Juliet story; he even sings adviser for the International Society school glee clubs," Aliferis explained, the words, 'according to Shakespeare.' for Contemporary Music; and be­ "it's a little difficult for freshman Using a small chorus, the prologue ginning next month he will be re­ chorus members to plunge into, say, gives in capsule form all the musical hearsing for a May performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony three themes that will follow, so the listener Les Noces, a Stravinsky cantata call­ months later. So we give our mem­ can associate the musical ideas with ing for chorus, four pianos, and seven bers a carefully developed vocal pro- the words being sung. The symphony men on percussion! "'"' December 1954 7 Biochemistry professor Paul D. Boyer has won the Paul-Lewis Labora­ tories Award for En­ zyme Research for his studies in enzyme chem­ istry. The grant will be presented by the Amer­ ican Chemical Society at its spring meetin!! in Cincinnati in April.

Herman Landre, farm foreman, has been A pamtmg in casein by Robert Collins, assistant professor of art, since 1920 and played a large part has been awarded the Artists' Council Prize at the San Francisco Art Association's eighteenth annual watercolor exhibition. "Diners" was the staff members title of the winning painting; Mr. Collins pose!' here with "Bathers." YOU SD

i\ew chairman of the division of science mathematics at the Duluth Branch is Willi

The Minnesotan 8 Senior communications technician in charge of photography, Richard C. Polister was elected as secretary of the Uni­ versity Film Producers Association at its con­ vention in Columbus, 0.

the Northeast Experiment Station, Duluth, moving timber and making fields tillable. Campus postmistress Myrtle Anderson has held her job 23 years, first in the Ad Building, then in Coffman Union. Her hob­ by: kE-eping a scrapbook on U activities. ULD KNOW

+Arline Peterson, prin­ cipal secretary in the Graduate School of­ fice checks degree requirements for all M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. candidates. She also schedules all oral exams for graduate students in medical fields. Her sparetime interesb include mu­ sic, sewing, dancing.

December 1954 9 praf!tit!al politif!s~ filling too many government positions by default. "Too praf!tit!al pleasures • . . many of us think citizenship is a one-way street. We expect a maximum fro~ government and give a minimum. We forget that the American system requires a positive contribution from each citizen." Meet Emmett Davidson This idea animates Davidson's own teaching. (A former Kansas superintendent of schools, he has had experience in many levels of education, likes college teaching best.) A FRIEND has characterized Emmett Davidson UMD Last spring, for instance, he conducted a mock legislative associate professor of political science, as "the Kansas session in a political science class. "We had all grades of prairie in a bowtie." In many respects it is an apt figure. politician," he laughs. "The 'legislature' even included a His penchant for bowties is coupled with a sort of few obstructionists who faced impeachment for their rugged fitness for work, a warm Kansas drawl, and a underhanded tactics!" rolling gait that eats up corridor and campus yardage When Davidson turns from politics proper to the sub­ much as it spanned prairie country years ago. ject of labor-management relations, he has broad personal In six short years Davidson has sent roots deep into experience to draw on. He has held cards in both the his adopted state. Two of his children have attended the machinists' and carpenters' unions and has worked in odd U, and a third plans to enroll soon at the Duluth Branch. seasons at both trades. His experiences in these unions Davidson himself has been extremely active on campus served as background fieldwork for his doctoral disserta­ as a member of several committees and chairman of the tion, "Public Regulation of Labor Union Practices." athletic committee. Prof. Davidson has just finished a two-story addition In the community, Prof. Davidson serves on the city to his rustic log home in a pine-fringed glen not far from charter commission sub-committee that is deep in the the Duluth campus. With a common handsaw and hammer study of proposed revision of the city government plan. he has fashioned handsome, rugged furniture that some­ All this activity is an outgrowth of Davidson's central how expresses the character of its maker. Someday, he belief that "government is no better than the people who hopes, he will have a complete workshop with power constitute it." He tries to carry out this idea practically tools. An expert machinist, he knows the quirks and through a heavy program of day and evening classes, capacities of the milling machine, the engine lathe, the the latter taking him to many northern Minnesota com­ shaper, and other similar equipment. munities, to emphasize the need for qualified persons in Among his other accomplishments is the rather bizarre all levels of government as well as qualified citizens to skill of broom-making. His father used to make cane­ elect administrators. corn and string brooms in the off-season on the family's Davidson believes that because remuneration for gov­ Kansas farm. "Why," says Davidson with a grin, "time ernment service is so low, and for other reasons, we are was when I could turn out 180 brooms a day!"

Scene in a UMD political science classroom: Emmett Davidson and his class discuss a problem in constitutional law.

10 The Minnesotan SlJC-CESS is in the cards! U Professor Invents New Word Game

from those languages. Then I made dealer throws down a card-say, out some cards and I saw that they AT(E). The first player to throw could be combined to produce any­ down another that makes a word­ thing from a two- to a six-card word. like DICT - temporarily "monop­ Then began a long period of polish­ olizes the conversation." No others ing and revising. Brown discarded can then "get a word in edgewise," the Greek roots he had used in favor except for the player's partner, who, of all Latin ones, for simplicity's if he is lucky enough to have ION, MINNESOTA professor's interest sake; he eliminated the roots that can add it to the trick, making DIC­ A in words has led to a new card could be used in only a few possible TATION. Object: to get rid of all game, now on the market for the first combinations (e.g., MONSTRA). the cards in one's hand. time. The game is called "Lex-o­ Brown says his 72 cards give the For those dogged souls who are gram," and its inventor, James Brown, key to the meanings of well over bent on self-improvement, Brown's associate professor of rhetoric on the 30,000 common English words. From manual offers suggestions for build­ St. Paul campus, describes it as the VOC-VOKE root alone, 36 words ing vocabularies, improving reading "Scrabble with a college education." can be made. Most people can list speed and understanding, mastering Lex-o-gram consists of a deck of only a tiny fraction of these combi­ spelling by a knowledge of prefixes. 72 cards. On 32 of these Latin nations, Brown says, but they begin to Devotees of the game, Brown says, "roots" (like CEPT, VOC) are see others after they've played Lex-o­ may well find the dictionary becom­ printed in green; on 16 cards pre­ gram awhile and after they realize the ing one of their favorite books. An fixes like EX and A appear in red. importance of the root for meaning. UNDER-STATE-MENT, if we ever Suffixes are printed in yellow on 16 When he tried his product on some heard one! cards (including ATE, LY); endings of his rhetoric students, tested with­ such as ED and S appear in blue; and out advance warning before and after Prof. Brown, r., regards his opponent two bonus "jokers" account for the working with the cards, they scored Francis Drake, assistant professor of rest of the deck. much better on word meanings on the rhetoric, in a hot game of Lex-o-gram. The trick: to put the cards together re-test. (Most of the cards give the in such a way as to make up words original meaning of the part, like from their component parts. Thus, "CEPT- from Latin capere, to take.") one could get TRANS-GRESS-ION-S While Lex-o-gram is a teaching aid, simply by assembling the proper in­ Brown prefers to think of it as a gredients! game. "It is rather a hybrid," he admits, and says the Chicago firm fiOW DID all this word-play that is marketing it has included a begin? Brown says he's been manual (written by Brown) which having fun with this idea off and on stresses the self-improvement aspect for ten years. He had always been as well as the fun. interested in vocabulary study (he The game has many variations. teaches the efficient reading course Rum-E-Gram, for two to six players, described in the Oct., 1952, Minne­ substitutes for runs and pairs words sotan) , and when he was in the Army of two cards (FIX-ITY) through five with time hanging heavy, he began to cards (CON-VOC-A-TION-S). There think of ways to arouse people's are variations on solitaire, anagrams, curiosity about words and how they and other games, but Brown's favorite are made up. is the one he made up; called Flash-o­ "I knew that 80% of our words gram, it is suitable for two to six are derived from Latin and Greek, so people, preferably in partnership. I hit on the idea of a card game using In Flash-o-gram, all the cards are prefixes, suffixes, and roots derived dealt. The player to the left of the December I954 II Behind the story were many hard U Entomology Department workers - the University's county agents who were "right out on the Saves Minnesota Millions front" day and night, and the State Entomologist's Office, which mobilized the campaign. On the team, too, and FORTY MILLIOJ\' DOLLARS is a The entomologists were on the job working in one of the most complex big chunk of money- especially with spray materials and control sug· sciences men ever tackled, were the when it's made out of hard work in gestions. Some farmers couldn't save staffers of the University of Minne­ the fields of many Minnesota farms. all their crops, but most others who sota's Department of Entomology and And $40 million is the sum profes· acted swiftly prevented what might Economic Zoology on the St. Paul sional entomology savrd Minnesota have been a total loss. In ten days, the Campus, including Profs. Haydak and farmers this summer when several farmers and professional sprayers Granovsky. million tiny, inch-long armyworms treated 1,186,000 acres of crops from This year, the entomologists are appeared suddenly last July and began ground and air and stopped the in­ celebrating their one hundredth anni­ foraging in grain and corn fields. festation. versary as a scientific group. They're not quite "that old" in Minnesota, of course. Minnesota entomology began in 1876 when Alan Whitman was hired by the state and federal governments Clarence E. Mickel, l., head of the Department of Entomology and Economic to study the Rocky Mountain grass­ Zoology, and Laurence K. Cutkomp, associate professor, look at some speci· hopper, then one of the greatest threats mens of the European com borer. Cutkomp has done a good deal of research to midwest farmers. on the borer, plus insecticides generally. In a unique project at the Rose· First systematic study of insects and mount agricultural experiment station last summer, he rigged up some auto· their control in Minnesota began when matic self-sprayers which beef heifers had to walk through on their way to the University's Agricultural Experi­ or from water. Some of the insecticide sprays used checked flies so efficiently ment Station was created and the first that one group of heifers gained 25 pounds each in six IDeeks. Unsprayed station entomologist came in 1888. heifers grazing on the same pasture lost a pound apiece during the same Over the years, the entomologists period. This research is leading to economical spraying compounds and have found new knowledge on how in­ self-spraying units that will keep cattle insect-free and gaining weight. secticides kill; some of the hows and whys of periodic insect infestations and outbreaks; how insects interact in an insect community; and how stored grain can be protected more efficiently from in~ect attack. And Minnesota's University ento­ mologists have added to the tremend­ ous store of facts, which pieced to­ gether, help us live with insects and find out how to remove them from the scene when they interfere with food and fiber production or human health. Working from their research find­ ings, Minnesota's entomologists haw done such things as improving bee raising through increasing the over­ winter survival of the bee colony. better management, pollen substitutes for spring feeding, and use of anti­ biotics in checking bee diseases. A method developed by U entomolo­ gists of checking potato insects with DDT now has gained nation-wide acceptance and has already doubled potato yields. continued on page 14

12 The Minnesotan Michails lvanovs~ (T.S. Museum Guard · Knows Meaning of Freedom

ICHAILS IVANOVS, guard at M the Museum of Natural History, still keeps up with his old profession. For until 1944 Michails was Cura­ tor of Birds at the Museum of Latvia in Riga. Then "The Russians came, and I knew my finish was near," says Michails. "There is no future in any work when a country is overrun with communists." A preYiew of life under the com­ munists had come for Michails in 1940, when the Russians first invaded Latvia. While only the army con­ trolled the country, conditions were not too unbearable, according to :vii­ chail~. But when the secret police came. officials were removed from their positions and were replaced with !oval communists. MichaUs Jvanovs stands before Museum's display of the su·allow-tailed kite. ."We could petition for our old jobs," said Michails, "but on the peti­ Island estate where he had been a twos and threes. It is this latter cate­ tion we also had to include whether domestic worker to come to Minne­ gory which most concerns Michails in or not we were capitalists, if our sota. Naturally gravitating toward his work at the Museum. fathers and even if our great-grand­ the Museum of Natural History and fathers had been capitalists." the University, he first began work at MICHAILS had studied at the Uni- Within a year Latvia was invaded the U that summer as a bird stuffer, versity of Moscow and earned a once more, this time by the Germans. or taxidermist. He became a Museum degree equivalent to a Ph.D. in orni­ When the tide of war favored the guard that fall. thology before the Russian revolution. Russians again, countless numbers "I have many things to do as Mu­ He plans to publish a paper on the streamed from the tiny state, only seum guard, especially on the week­ birds of Latvia in the near future. one-third as large as Minnesota. Many ends when the janitors don't work. "Many of the birds I studied in had no time to go back for even a loaf Then I open the Museum, turn on all Latvia we also have here in Minne­ of bread, and many families were the lights, and close up at the end of sota. A smaller variety of the robin separated. "I knew of families without the day -besides keeping an eye on is native to Latvia, along with two father and many men whose families the children, answering the phone, varieties of loons, both related to the were still behind," said Michails. (He answering questions, selling postcards Minnesota bird. The tiny bank swal­ is unmarried.) and booklets, and taking an occa­ low and the large white-fronted goose He left Latvia carrying his cam­ sional informal tour through the are virtually identical with the species eras and what food and clothing he building." here. And some varieties of owls are could pack on his back. The cameras The matter of tours through the common to all continents." he' sold later to buy food in Poland. Museum of Natural History is of no ''Latvia," said Michails, "is much He spent several months in Poland, little concern to its employees, for in like Minnesota, only warmer because of the sea. There, too, tall pines grow only to flee again ahead of the Rus­ the fiscal year ending last June 12,58·l from the sand. It is a very pretty sian invasion. Germany was his next people toured the building. About place but I do not think I will be go­ "home," which Michails left in 19.50 7, 720 of them went through in 213 ing back. I have good friends at the to come to the United States. guided groups, while 4,860 came as University, and Minnesota is my In 1951 Michails left the Rhode 120 unguidrd groups and in scattered home no,1·." 44 December 1954 13 Entomology U Library Distributes List U Submits Request for continued from page 12 Of Recent Acquisitions General Maintenance Funds In order to make its new acquisi­ University of Minnesota Regents Cooperative research with crop spe­ tions more widely and more immedi­ will ask the 1955 State Legislature to cialists is leading to improved hybrid ately available to the University com­ appropriate $34,525,692 or 67.6 per corn varieties. The University's Min­ munity, the U Library is now issuing cent of the $51,085,058 needed to hybrids 411 and 412 were developed New Books, a selective list of recent carry on the University's regular pro­ by men like Fred Holdaway, Laurence additions to the general library. gram of teaching, non-sponsored re­ Cutkomp, and H. C. Chiang. The listing, which will be published search and public service for the next With over 5% million acres of corn monthly throughout the academic two years, 1955-57, President J. L. around the country, this development year, contains recent acquisitions Morrill recently reported. alone can mean 22 million more rather than new publications, says Basing their computations on re­ bushels of corn a year - a big boost Libraries Director E. B. Stanford. search and service needs and on an to the food supply of a hungry world Copies of New Books are distributed estimated enrollment averaging 21,250 and an economic strengthener to the to the faculty through department for the coming two-year period-an farmer. offices, and department heads may increase of 7 per cent over the 1953-55 Up in northern Minnesota, where address requests for additional copies enrollment average and 13 per cent once-high legume seed yields fell to to the Library Office, 107 Library. over the predicted student load for disastrous lows a few years ago, the Individual copies can be obtained at those years-the Regents have worked entomologists - among them Fred the Main Library service desks and out a budget for this general operation Holdaway, B. A. Haws, Allan Peter­ in the major departmental libraries of the University amounting to $25,- son, and Kenneth Tucker-tackled the 542,529 for each of the next two years. of the University. problem with soils men, agronomists, By deducting estimated University and plant pathologists. income from budget totals, they dete;­ Sociology Professor's Book Far higher yields of Alsike clover mined how much they must ask from have been harvested on University­ Published by Harvard Press the Legislature for general mainten­ managed fields in the last two or three Harvard University Press has just ance-$17,262,846 for each of the two years, and research indicates that farm­ announced publication of the most re­ years. In addition, the Regents will ers can harvest six times as much Al­ cent book by Lowry Nelson, professor ask for a deficiency appropriation of sike as they do now. It's simply a of sociology at the University of Min­ $95,051 to cover the portion of a cost­ matter of disease control, proper fer­ nesota. Called American Farm Life, of-living salary increase for civil serv­ tilizing, and careful management. it is part of the Library of Congress ice employees which could not be paid The entomologists have nearly Series in American Civilization, under from available funds. This increase, licked two problems in the northern the general editorship of Prof. Ralph mandatory under state law, went into legume seed-growing areas. One Henry Gabriel. effect July 1, 1954, and was not pro­ stemmed from the fact that legume Prof. Nelson is in Italy this year on vided in the 1953-55 appropriation. seed crops are pollinated by wild bees, a Fulbright grant doing research on Late Ag Extension Head which are far less numerous now that problems of rural village social or­ Honored by Colleagues the area has been settled and many ganization. trees cut down. The answer: honey The late Paul E. Miller, former director of the University of Minne­ bees. But how many? They are trying Regent Novak Named State's to solve that problem now. sota's Agricultural Extension Service, "Doctor of the Year" Another was the sweetclover weevil, was honored by his fellow extension a tiny insect that can eat enough sweet­ Dr. Edward E. Novak, University workers Nov. 14. Epsilon Sigma Phi, clover leaves and stems to ruin an on­ Regent since 1939, was recently named national honorary extension frater­ coming crop. The entomologists ex­ "Doctor of the Year" by the Minne­ nity, voted him a Certificate of Recog­ perimented with spray materials and sota State Medical Association. Active nition at its annual meeting in Wash­ now have two or three that do the job. in education, business, agriculture, ington, D. C. Miller resigned the directorship in The entomology department occu­ and politics, the 81-year-old doctor pies the northern two-thirds of Coffey still keeps regular office hours after August to accept a presidential appointment to the Federal Reserve Hall's third floor and nearly half the 59 years of practice in New Prague. Bank's Board of Governors. He died basement. The southern third is Regent Novak's agricultural inter­ unexpectedly at his Washington home peopled with specialists of the State ests include the raising of disease-free Entomologist's Office, who work cattle. He helped found the Southern on Oct. 21. In the Certificate of Recognition, closely with University Entomology Minnesota Livestock Show and was he was cited for his 43 years of serv­ and the county agent system in keep­ for 20 years president of the Ameri­ ice to rural Minnesotans. ing insects nearly harmless. can Red Poll Cattle Association. The Minnesotan 14 by the Korean institution and screened by University of The President's Page Minnesota staff members. Two preliminary contracts preceded the main contract Under the first, the University of Minnesota was author­ ized to appoint a Coordinator and his secretary. The HE CAMPUS is generally aware, I believe, that the Board of Regents appointed Dr. Tracy F. Tyler of the T University of Minnesota has signed a contract with College of Education to the post of Professor and the Foreign Operations Administration, of which former Coordinator, effective August 1, 1954. Under the second, Governor Harold E. Stassen is Administrator. The pur­ the University appointed Dr. Arthur E. Schneider to the pose of this contract is to help rehabilitate and develop post of Professor and Chief Adviser in Korea, effective the educational and research programs of the Seoul Na­ September 5, 1954. On October 13, Dr. Schneider left tional University of Korea in the broad fields of agri­ by plane for Korea to take up his new duties. culture, engineering, and medicine. . The FOA contract calls for a total expenditure of Technical cooperation to aid other free nations to $1,800,000 over a three-year period, with $750,000 allo­ achieve a higher standard of living for their people cated for the first year. through economic development is one of the key elements of the foreign policy of the United States. An important HE BROAD PLAN of operations provides for bring­ factor in raising standards in economically disadvantaged Ting to the University of Minnesota for observation areas is the development of strong educational institutions and consultation the President and the Deans of Seoul which then become centers of technical assistance in University's Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and themselves, able in the future to educate the key per­ Medicine for approximately six months each. It also sonnel and carry on the research necessary to make more contemplates bringing to the United States for graduate effective use of local resources in those areas. study selected senior and junior faculty personnel for Nationally there have been earlier contracts arranged periods of one to three years. by TCA and other predecessors of FOA with other in­ In turn, the University of Minnesota will send to Korea, stitutions, but most of these were limited to a single field for varying periods of time, selected staff members to of technology and financed for one year at a time. When advise the appropriate departments of Seoul University FOA decided to embark on a more comprehensive and with respect to curricula, equipment, teaching and ex­ longer range inter-university arrangement, the Unive~sity amination procedures, and staff seminars and conferences. of Minnesota was invited to undertake the Korean project. They will advise the Deans and higher officials on bene­ ficial organizational and administrative procedures as ,l FTER OUR BOARD of Regents indicated favorable well as research and extension in the three fields listed in ft interest, FOA sent a University of Minnesota Mission the contract. to Korea to look over the situation and make recom­ Administratively, I have placed responsibility for this mendations. This Mission was headed by Dean Harold operation under the Office of the Vice President, Academic Macy of the Institute of Agriculture. Its other members Administration. I have also appointed the following included Dean Athelstan F. Spilhaus of the Institute of Advisory Committee to serve as a policy-making group: Technology and Dr. Gaylord W. Anderson, director of Malcolm M. Willey, chairman; William T. Middlebrook, the School of Public Health. Dr. Anderson represented Laurence R. Lunden, Harold Macy, Athelstan F. Spilhaus, Dean Harold S. Diehl on behalf of the College of Medical Harold S. Diehl, and John C. Kidneigh. I have asked Dr. Sciences. Tyler to serve as committee secretary. The Mission's report to the President and Board of This intimate, friendly relationship with a sister­ Regents, and to FOA, was favorable to the project, al­ institution in a far-away land should constitute for us though the members recognized the difficulty of the under­ at the University of Minnesota a notable experience. Not taking because of the vast devastation which the Korean only does it present vast opportunities to render service; University had suffered in staff and equipment, and be­ it also gives us the chance to share in the rich cultural cause of the time and costs involved. It was tentatively life of a people with a long and impressive history and decided to undertake the project if a mutually satisfactory tradition. If this cooperative undertaking is as rewarding contract could be worked out with FOA. A trial work­ as we fully expect it to be, we as a University community plan and budget were then drawn up, and months of shall both give and receive in abundant measure. In this negotiation followed. Finally, after its terms had been way we shall build stronger foundations for international understanding. agreed to by Seoul University, the Republic of Korea, FOA in Seoul and Washington, and the University of Minnesota, the contract was signed September 28, 1954. Prior to the signing of the contract, FOA allotted $1,500,000 outside the proposed contract for equipment and supplies to be procured by FOA from lists prepared December 1954 15 DECEMBER 15, 1954 TO JANUARY 15, 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY THEATRE Subscription Series Dec. 21, 22-·'Amahl and the Night Visitors," by Gian-Carlo :\fenotti. Dec. l /-Norman Carol, violinist. (For time, place. admission information, see listing under Dec. 30-(Thurs. evening) Orchestral program. "[inneapolis Symphony Special Concert- Gala Christmas Jan. /-Friedrich Guida, pianist. presentation.) Jan. !+--University of Minnesota Chorus, Prof. James Ali. feris conducting, the Berlioz "Romeo and Juliet'' Sym­ phony. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 Published-Counseling and the College Program. edited by to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the Prof. Ralph F. Berdie, director, Student Counseling Bu­ Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call reau. Number 6 in the Minnesota Studies in Student Per· l' niversity extension 6225.) t sonnel Work. $1.50. (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul bookstores Twilight Concert or may be ordered through local bookstores.) Jan. 9-Gershwin-Grofe Concert. Richard Zgodava, pian- ist; Gerard Samuel, conductor. UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. General admission tickets at $.75 can be purchased the afternoon of the concert. Box Through January 17-Photography of Eugene Smith. Mr. office opens at 3:30 p.m.) Smith is one of Life magazine's leading documentary pho­ tographers. He has covered many crucial world situations Special Concert - Gala Christmas Presentation and is known for his sensitively honest photographic re­ Dec. 21, 22-"Amahl and the Night Visitors," a Christmas porting. This exhibition has been especially prepared for opera by Gian·Carlo Menotti. Presented by the University the University of ~1innesota. Theatre and the Minneapolis Symphony in association Through January 21-European Print Invitational. An all with the Department of Music. (Curtain-raiser, "L'Enfant European exhibition which will include well known print­ Prodigue," cantata by Debussy.) makers in addition to many who will be new to Twin Cities (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single reserve seat tickets viewers. from $1.00 to $3.00. Young people's matinee of "Amah!" Dec. 17-Jan. 17--Arts of the Pacific Islands. A cross·sec· only, Dec. 22 at 2:30 p.m.; children. $.50, adults $1.50. tion of Pacific Island bowls, masks, and utensils that are Tickets available beginning Dec. 6 in 106 Northrop.) t noted for their grace and excellence of design combined in a functional unit. From the rich collections of the Young People's Concerts American :\fuseum of Natural History. Jan. 6-St. Paul Auditorium, 1 :45 p.m. Jan. 13-Northrop Auditorium. 1:30 p.m. SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS (Admission arranged through local schools.) Journeys Behind the News ... A series of interviews with State Department personnel on problems of American for­ MUSIC DEPARTMENT MUSIC HOURS eign policy. conducted by R. Russell Porter, director of Jan. 4--Piano Recital by Sanford Margolis, ]3.year-old Radio-TV at the Social Science Foundation. University of pianist. Denver. Mondays at 3:30. Jan. ll-To be announced. African Adventure ... On-the-scene recordings of African (Scott Hall Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to the public.) music. sounds of cities and native villages, and interviews, produced by Vickey Corey, educational director of KDKA, CONVOCATIONS Pittsburgh. Tuesdays at 3:30. Jan. 6-University Touring Theatre, "'The Curious Savage,'' Christmas .Music Festival ... Christmas music on KUOM's bv John Patrick. music programs beginning on Monday, Dec. 20. at ll :00 Jan: 13-Howard Pierce Davis. world affairs analyst, a.m., with Music in the Morning, and ending on Friday, "Europe and Education." Dec. 24 from l :30-4:30, with a complete performance of (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public with· Handel's ""fessiah" based on the original manuscript. out charge.) ATHLETIC EVENTS COMMENCEMENT Basketball Games at Home Dec. Hi-Speaker, Millicent C. ~fclntosh, President of Bar­ Dec. 21-Southern Methodist. nard College, Columbia University, N. Y., "Knowledge, Dec. 23-Notre Dame. Freedom, and Responsibility." Jan. 10-Indiana. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. Admission hy guest card Jan. 15-Purdue. only.) (Williams A rena, 8:00 p.m. Single reserved seat tickets at $1.75 may be purchased in 108 Cooke Hall. General admis­ NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES sion tickets at $1.25 are on sale at the Arena before games.) t Dec. 19-"The Prior Claim," color movie produced by the Hockey Games at Home Moody Bible Institute. Dec. 20, 21-Rensselaer. Jan. 9-Mr. Donald K. Lewis. audio-visual advis.er, Museum Jan. 7, 8-North Dakota. of Natural History, "Red Lake Bog." (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single reserved seat tickets at (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open $1.50 may be purchased in 108 Cooke Hall. General admis­ to the public without charge.) sion tickets at $1.00 are on sale before games.) t tTickets 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. THE MINNESOTAN Z:lte 1/Jtiversif!l Staff Magazi11e - ffal/uaru/955 in this issue ... They Made Us Great CHILD PSYCHOLOGY: The First Twelve Years, is the title of a corre­ spondence study course which will he A BLUE-EYED, ruddy-complex- supplemented heginning Jan. 18 with ioned dynamo with greying hair a series of TV lectures by Prof. Dale sits in his office in The John Leslie Harris. For full details on this new­ Paper Company, a Minneapolis firm, est U venture in educational television, in which he has "held every job and see opposite page. every title in the last 40 years" and THE UNIVERSITY HAS ALL thinks about books. Great boob. THE HEALTH PROBLEMS of a big His name is Frank Leslie. city-- and then some! You'll learn through words and pictures on pages He is President of the Leslie Com­ 4 through 6 how an expert team keeps pany and he holds a fistful of other the U safe and healthy. titles in the Minneapolis business CLASSICS PROFESSORS DeWitt community. His deep interest in gov­ and McDonald have become involved ernment took him to Washington in in an extracurricular pursuit that re­ 1948 when he served as the late quires super-sleuthing. Read ahout James Forrestal's deputy on the their strange, funny, and often touch­ Hoover Commission. On earlier ing experiences in translation, page 7. Washington assignments, Leslie made OTHER FEATURES ON: Related the background study for national art; how U class schedule is assem­ civil defense program as a special Frank Leslie bled; how Film Society chooses its assistant to the Secretary of Defense. programE. "Early in life," he says, "you have getting the best, Leslie selected the Photograph of Frank Leslie, this page, by Carroll Wescott. to choose what's important. I decided work of William Morris, Bruce Rog­ the pursuit of truth through beauty ers, and Frederic W. Goudy, the three on the cover . .. was most important. It enlarges your greats of the twentieth-century renais­ mind . . . broadens you . . . and sance in printing. A midwinter night with only your respect for humanity soars ... Leslie's choicest gift is the King a few lights burning ... snow And where do you find beauty? The George Bible designed by the Ameri­ sparkling on the campus ... library leads to the discovery of can, Bruce Rogers. This edition, lim­ and a lone student near the man's search for truth and beauty. ited to only 200 copies, is 20 inches Physics building waits for a The most beautiful books are also the high and bound in scarlet leather. friend in the student publi­ greatest writings of man. What de­ Another ambitious work, Stanley cations office, Murphy Hall. signer wastes time on a bad one?" Morrison's Four Centuries of Fine Photograph hy Al Ominsky. His quest has carried him to Printing, covers the period between Europe five times, led him through 1500 and 1914. The Leslie collection THE MINNESOTAN all the great libraries of this country, also contains some original manu­ Vol. VIII No. 4 from California's Huntington to the scripts and copies of great printing. Published by the Department of University Relations, 213 Administration Congressional Library in Washing­ The way Leslie goes at it, books Building, University of Minnesota, !\lin­ ton, D. C. His last two trips abroad are no musty, dusty subject. And as neapolis 14, Minnesota. when he visited, among others, Trin­ president of the Friends of the Uni­ William L. Nunn, Director ity College, Dublin, the Bodleian, the versity Library, he heads an informal Ellen Siegelman . Fditor JoAnne Alberg . Assistant Editor British Museum, the Medici library organization of book lovers which Advisory Committee: Members of the in Florence, the San Marco, and the stimulates goodwill toward the li­ University Public Information Council. V atic:an, saw the creation of a film­ brary. The Friends meet for high­ The Minnesotan is published monthly during the academic year, October slide library of the world's great art calibre literary programs several through May. Copies are mailed free to and book treasures. These brilliant­ times yearly to spur interest in the University staff members. Subscription colored slides he shares with his Lihrary among book collectors. rates for non-staff members are $2 a year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this friends, and he plans to make them Bringing the library to the people of issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial available as teaching aids to the Uni­ the State is already reaping the re­ Union Bookstore. Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ versity. wards that only come from sharing. ited, were taken by members of the In 1951 he gave the University a Several notable collections have been University Photographic Laboratory. collection of books on typography, presented to the Library and more Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. the art of printing. Concentrating on are in prospect. 2 The Minnesotan classroom of thousands . . . University to Offer Child Psychology on TV

THE UNIVERSITY is about to outline and recommended reading work with children in diverse ways. embark on a teaching experiment. list. An "old hand" at radio and televi­ Beginning January 18 over WMIN­ Professor Harris feels the televi­ sion ever since his first KUOM course TV (Channel ll) Professor Dale sion series has really exciting possi­ in 1941, Harris himself expects to Harris, director of the Institute of bilities. ''TY is here to stay, educa­ learn a good deal from this TV ven­ Child Welfare, will give a 13-week tionally speaking," he says. "This ture. It requires him to condense by series of lectures on child psychology. course is only the beginning for us almost half the material he gives in U radio station KUOM is helping in at the University. It poses the inter­ Child Welfare 80, the regular child the production of the programs, which esting question: Can the University psychology course offered during the will be telecast at 10:00 a.m. every interpret material to the general pub­ day and in evening Extension claoses. Tuesday and Thursday. lic so that it makes a direct contribu­ "I have to ask myself, 'What two or These half-hour TV programs will tion without sacrificing its scientific three main points can be made in each supplement the regular course in integrity? self-contained half-hour lecture, and Child Psychology: The First Twelve "I believe it can," Harris adds, how can I make them most effec­ Years which will be given through "and my goal will be to demonstrate tively?' This means re-thinking the the U Extension Division's Corre­ the usefulness of the available body entire course and boiling it down to spondence Study Department. The of scientific knowledge on child de­ essentials." three-credit home study course in­ velopment." Professor Harris emphasizes that cludes written lessons and examina­ He will try to show that child psy­ this undertaking, while aimed partly tions and costs $15.00 for tuition. chology is not the wisdom of a group at parents and "casual listeners," is Viewers who do not want Univer­ of sages nor a bunch of tricks to be primarily instructional. Credit stu­ sity credit can increase their under­ pulled from a hat, but rather the re­ dents must have taken the prerequi­ standing of these telecasts by order­ :-;u It of research-sometimes exciting, site course in General Psychology, ing from Correspondence Study a always painstaking- that can guide and they will be required to read the $1.00 syllabus containing a course teachers, parents, and others who continued on page 14

Prof. Dale Harris warms up before the Tflil;Jfl\-TV camera in preparation for his lecture series on child psychology.

January 1955 3 Tea1n of health experts morks at

Keeping U SAFE

Lee Stauffer records temperature and humidity in walk­ in refrigerator of health service's special diet kitchen. That's where Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Olson come in. Each year they check on 8,000 students' living quarters - EVER HEARD OF "environmental designated the Students' Health Serv­ including dorms, fraternity and soror­ health"? Although it sounds ab­ ice as official health department for the ity houses, co-ops, and some 1,200 pri­ stract, it covers such basic elements as U. In 1951, the Regents adopted a code vate dwellings. Villages of quonsets, the food you eat, the water you drink, which covers almost every aspect of prefabs, trailers, and barracks for the air you breathr. And it covers environmental health. married students take the two women much else too -everything from rats Bond, the public health engineer, on another round of inspection. to radium. literally. directs a versatile team which, as he Technical know-how and their prac­ The University community creates says, "checks everything from fruit tical slant as homemakers guide the the Yast range of health hazards one salad to isotopes, from chlorinated women. As Mrs. Mann points out, might expect to find in a city, some of water to rooming-house fire escapes." ''To do this work, you have to know them intensified. For example, per­ Team members are: Lee Stauffer, about electrical circuits and fuse re­ centage-wise, more people eat out. sanitarian and assistant to the public quirements, but you also must talk the More live in short-term rental housing. health engineer; George Michaelsen, homemaker's language. If you can't Many are exposed to laboratory haz­ industrial hygiene engineer: Ralph understand her, how can she under­ ards. And, in a sense, all work in an W ollan, health physicist; John Mor­ stand you?" industrial environment. Its health ris, safety supervisor; and Joan Mann Food services are checked sen·ice, directed by Dr. Ruth Boynton, and Ernsta Olson, sanitary inspectors. is the University's health department. Several have faculty rank and give Food standards early attracted the The University has a unique health special public health lectures for grad­ attention of public health experts. set-up, outstripping most colleges and uate students. The University and its students oper­ uniYersities, which limit their concern "The University is a full-scale labo­ ate more than 100 food services. Bond to food services, student housing, and ratory for public health students," and Stauffer survey them all, from the the like. Bond explained. ''Here engineers and Campus Club to the Stadium conces­ For many years- from 1918 on­ sanitarians can learn first hand from sions serving 65,000 on football Sat­ Minnesota's program followed a typi­ visits to the milk pasteurization plant, urdays. Health experts even go off cal pattern of part-time inspection, food services, water supplies, shops, campus to check manufacturing plants mostly of swimming pools, housing, and laboratories." and test their products for University and food services. Then came World use. Staff inspects student housing War II and a heavy veteran enroll­ Drinking water, too, comes in for ment. Campus facilities strained at Student housing is the grand-daddy testing. The University community the seams, bringing health hazards of all environmental health services. slakes its thirst with water drawn from into sharp focus. University admin­ Since 1918, the University has shoul­ deep drilled wells and in a few cases from shallow hand-pumped wells. istrators attacked the problem in many dered responsibility for inspecting all And the unusual needs of laboratory ways. buildings in which its students room, and research equipment intensifies the First, in 1949, they brought Richard provided the student is not living with Bond, a Cornell University public close relatives or doesn't own his own water problem. "The University develops its own health engineer, to the Minneapolis home. The program, of course, is the water supply on the St. Paul campus campus to organize and direct an en­ housing bureau's direct responsibility, and out at Rosemount," Stauffer ex- vironmental health department. The but health service people lend techni­ same year, the State Board of Health cal assistance. pictures, next page; story, page 6 4 The Minnesotan Inside the Van de Graaff genPrator, health physicist Ralph W allan checks for radioactivity with a device called a "cutie pie." Physics grad student and Prof. ]. Morris Blair look on.

"Full speed ahead!" Mamie Moore, health service cook, learns from ] ohn Morris, newly appointed safety super­ • visor. how to use fire extinguisher.

George Michaelsen checks for toxic mercury vapor on floor of heart catheterization lab while ll!farr Dahlstrom, student technologist, performs a test.

In U pasteurization plant public health engineer Richard Bond and plant manager Glenn Marsh .cee if recorded temperature in pasteuri::er, 1., is cor­ rect. Belou', fohn Morris gives llll'dical technolo­ gist Pat Fish a lesson in broken glass disposal.

January 1955 Keeping U SAFE department ordering it to assess poten­ classified them into two groups: those continued jrom page 4 tial hazards and set up safeguards. caused by an unsafe act of the indi­ After it arrives. W oil an is again on vidual and those caused by an unsafe plains. "Here on main campus, we use deck, making periodic lab visits to condition. And "unsafe act" led by city water." test radiation background levels. two to one. Preventive safety training Water content of eight swimming seems to be the answer. pools on the several campuses adds Radium therapy takes Wollan to U Enter John Morris, safety super­ another column to Stauffer's checklist. hospitals where he tells the attending visor, who this month joined the Uni­ He checks for bacteria, chemical treat· nurse how much time she may safely versity staff aftt>r 1.5 years as insurance ment, and temperature. Bond and spend at the patient's bedside and how to handle the patient, his clothing, and company safety consultant. He will Stauffer also review plans for altering be available as consultant to supply the water-supply svstem and supervise utensils. There arc, incidentally, no isotopes technical safety information for civil disinfection. service training. Treatment and disposal of the Uni­ lying around loose. All radioactive versity's used water supply is similar materials are stored at Rosemount. Morris will supervise safety And nobody can touch them but Bond, to that of any urban community, but Morris won't police or inspect, but W ollan, et al. To illustrate the hazard. it is somewhat aggravated by contami­ will advise. For example, he will work W ollan cites an industrial plant in the nated and infectious wastes from hos­ with student planners in eliminating east where a worker spilled about 2.5 pitals and bacteriological labs. Dis­ accident hazards in homecoming ex­ milligrams of radium. (That's about posal of radioactive wastes is a prob­ hibits. "General safety regulations the size of the exposed lead on vour lem in itself. Each sink, each pipe serve as a guide, but they don't protect pencil.) The radium got loose. and through which such deadly wastes flow the student unless he knows about was distributed through the Yentilat­ is tagged for the plumber's protection. them," says Morris. ing system. Result: plant closed for And that's where Ralph Wollan, In October and November, 1954, several months at a cost of $250,000. health physicist, takes over. W ollan, 318 injured students reported to the a newcomer from Oak Ridge, has to health service. Of these, at least 20 per U improves industrial hygiene call on his imagination and scientific cent were injured in dormitories, fra­ know-how to prevent excessive radia­ The University of Minnesota has ternity and sorority houses, or room­ tion exposure to personnel. even more industrial health problems ing houses. The upshot is that preven­ "The Atomic Energy Commission, than you might suspect. Its civil serv­ tive safety will be integrated into the since 1946, has demanded a meticu­ ice staff includes many proft>ssions, regular housing program. lous check on radioactive isotopes to trades, and crafts. That's where w·ol­ "Preventive safety, housing, food, protect individuals using them," W ol­ lan's work dovetails closely with that water supply, radiation and industrial lan recalls. "A Lniversity advisory of seasoned staffer George Michaelsen, hazards- they are all aspects of one committee regulates their use on cam­ industrial hygiene engineer. whose larger problem," Bond, the director, pus, a safeguard AEC requires." pursuit of dusts, gases, and Yapors emphasizes. "Each man's function has taken him into teaching and re­ dovetails with the next, which illus­ Caution: radioactive materials search labs and shops -- and even trates the value of a team approach to Last year the University use of iso­ garages. Michaelsen is particularly the total environmental health prob­ topes became so widespread (about concerned about laboratory techni­ lem. We also benefit from this team­ 20 departments order isotopes for re­ cians who work with toxic Yolatile work on the departmental level. With­ search, diagnosis, therapy) that a full­ solvents. out the cooperation of other depart­ time expert was needed. Wollan's "Teachers and researchers work ments, this program would be impos­ work has several phases: He traim with materials that create hazards they sible. We have a close working rela­ personnel individually in the tech­ know about Lut often fail to recogniz~ tionship with many departments such niques of handling radioactive mate­ or apply to their own situation,'' as the physical plant, university serv­ rials, and plans to give general instruc­ Michaelsen explains. "It is not safe ices, office of the dean of students, tions for technicians as part of their to assume the chemist is adequately athletic department, and the heads of in-service training. He also supervises protecting himself against toxic gases many academic and non-academic de­ a long range film-badge program. nor the radiologist is going to safe­ partments," Bond concludes. Each of the 225 technicians who rou­ guard himself against the danger of This, then, is the story of a team of tinely handle radioactive materials or ionizing radiation ..." men and women who, to protect your operate x-ray machines wears a sensi­ In its accident rate, the Unhersity health, track down everything from rats to radium, to insure the Univer­ tive photographic badge. Every two also mirrors other communities. Last sity against the hazards of community weeks the badge is processed for radi­ year the U's study of student accidents living. The University is not only ation exposure. underlined the need for a more inten­ insured ... you might even say it's Before an isotope shipment arrives sive accident prevention program. Re­ BOND-ED! u on campus, W ollan hikes over to the ports of employee accidents roughly The Minnesotan 6 . ··.-¢-" ~~~~J.\~ Profs Hunt Clues In Cryptic Pursuit

Most letters take hours to piece out because they are so full of "ferocious misspellings" the translator must lit­ This letter is all erally ignore the written words and Greek to clasdcs try to get the sound instead. Occasion­ profs William ally McDonald has to call on a Greek McDonald, 1., and faculty member for help. Norman DeWiLt. Some letters are excrllently written, and these McDonald shows to his stu­ dents to demonstrate that the Greek language remains alive and not greatly changed from its classical just about the only unsolved puzzle CLASSICS professor these days form. A also has to be something of a in tlw dossiers of the classics depart­ super-sleuth. ment. Professor McDonald estimates HE DEPARTMENT also gets Consider Professors ~orman De­ that he donates 60 to 70 hours a year T calls from individuals and news­ Witt and William McDonald. translating letters, diplomas, and papers for Latin translations. "We One day last April the phone rang other stray documents that come into do a brisk trade in translating diplo­ in DeWitt's Folwell officE>. On the the office - proof that Greek and mas," says DeWitt. Requests have other end was a Mrs. MacRoberts who Latin art:> not dead languages. come in from Maine to California. said she had inherited a gold band .Most translation requests come "Anything which seems to be about ring with "some strange writing on from American families who have foreign languages, but is somehow it," and couldn't the University please received letters of thanks from people unidentifiable, comes in to us," he help decipher it? in Greece to whom they've been send­ grinned. De Witt suggested the woman make ing CARE packages. "These letters Most requests for help with Latin a carbon impression (by rubbing a are pathetic things,'' McDonald says. are fairly conventional. An advertis­ pencil over a piece of paper placed "Frequently they come from the area ing firm may want a Latin motto. A on the ring) and send it to him, which in the Ionian islands that has recently science department may need a new she did [see reproduction above]. been hit by earthquakes. The writers word. DeWitt was once asked by a Prof. DeWitt pursued the problem are genuinely grateful, usually send genetics professor for a word that off and on until September, when he their pictures, and often end up with would describe a particular mecha­ finally decided he'd have to give up. a moving plea for more help." nism of cellular reproduction. He As far as he could tell, the characters The Ford Motor Company in St. coined "exogenion," from Greek, i.e., represented no known alphabet or Paul last year asked McDonald to "that which comes out of the gene." language system, but might be the translate a letter from Greece. "The Editorial writers sometimes ask for secret symbols of some fraternity, chap who wrote it lives in a village I the correct Latin version of a phrase lodge, or order. know very well, right near the site they dimly recall from high school. "If this is the case," he wrote Mrs. where I did some archaeological exca­ Recently a man called and said his MacRoberts, "they are unknown to vation with Carl Blegen. The man daughter had got as a wedding gift anyone outside the order, and those must have got the Ford address from a silver platter that had "some stuff on the inside probably won't tell. a box containing Ford parts. on it that looks like Greek." (It turned "Since April," he continued, "I "This letter also turned out to be a out to be Spanish.) have shown the signs t~ all sorts of request for financial help. The writer "Then, in this very lively traffic people and have drawn a complete was building a house for himself and we'll frequently get someone who ran blank. The trouble is that if I don't had already put up the walls, but he across some Latin in an abnormal know what they are I don't know now needed money to put on the roof. psych book and wants it translated. whom to ask. And if I did know then The Ford Motor Company must have These requests," he says with a twin­ I wouldn't have to ask!" seemed synonymous to him with a kle, "we turn over to our Vulgar Latin The Case of the Inscribrd Ring is prosperous and bountiful America." experts!" January 1955 7 Every requisition for printing, supplies, and equipment passes through the pretty hands of Laura Kummet, semor clerk in requisition adjustment. At the University nearly five years, Laura likes ice·skating and piano·playing. W. 0. Lundberg, director of the U's mel Institute, Austin, has been asked A book on The Drau·ings of Giovanni-Battista Piranesi by help establish an international Hylton Thomas of the art department has been published for exchange of data on fats and by Faber and Faber, London. Thomas did research for the book under a Sheldon traveling fellowship from H<:rvard. staff m@mb@rs YOU SH

For 20 years Florence Stephens has been a main­ stay in the home economics office, where she is principal secretary. Florence enjoys traveling.

8 The Minnesotan John A. Anderson takes over from Dr. Irvine S. McQuarrie as head of the pediatrics department. Dr. Anderson received four degrees from the U and taught here between 1937 and 1943. Dr. Josef Brozek, who is new book editor of the Journal He comes to the U from Stanford. of Human Biology, measures soft tissue on an x-ray. He is one of a team studying body structure for a long·term research project in the U lab for physiological hygiene.

Vivian Hewer, assistant professor and senior student personnel worker, and Donna Farrell, psychometrist, look m·er the test records of a student in the Eddy Hall offices of the counseling bureau. Mrs. ULD KNOW Hewer has been at the University seven years; Mi~s Farrell, one year.

oseph A. Richardson came from Minneapolis ampus to be UMD librarian. He is planning to move books from Old Main to new library.

January 1955 9 of reel interest . . . How Film Society Picl~s Its Programs

Kameradschaft 78 mins. German, '31 "Pabst's famous film of a mining dis­ aster, set in a Franco-German border village in the Ruhr, 1919. The enmi­ ties between French and German The Film Society meets to approve its zcinter quarter movie schedule: seated, miners and their families, aggravated l. to r., Marthe Blino IJ, oriental and Slavic languages; Leon Reisman, General by the war, are overcome tchen an College, English; Helen Daugs, audio-visual, film society secretary; Emma explosion in the French side of the Birkmaier, U High; Jllrs. Richard Elliott, Faculty Women's Club; R. E. Moore, mine brings the German miners io the English; W' es Grabau· and Helge Hanson, audio-visual; H. Harvard Arne­ rescue . . . one of the outstanding son, Art, chairman; George Amberg, General Studies. Standing are Clint achievements of the early sound peri­ Schroeder, student; Jerome Liebling, art department. Not present for the od, remarkable for its naturalism and picture: Edward Downes, music; Asher Christensen, political science; imaginative use of realistic sound." Gerald Hill, General College, music; and Ralph G. Ross, General Studies. Blurbs like this from a foreign film distributor's catalogue helped the students, its main work is done by a the Film Society has a special interest University Film Society choose its rotating subcommittee of three people in and understanding of the film Winter quarter movies. Its members every quarter. Together with Wes medium. Prof. George Amberg, for also used film reviews, personal expe­ Grabow, Audio-Visual materials ad­ example, was formerly curator of the rience, and the advice of the Audio­ viser, the two faculty members and department of theater arts, Museum Visual Education Service in making one student pore over film catalogues of Modern Art in New York. When their choices. and Audio- Visual's bulging review the small committee has picked about While the overall committee actu­ files in Wesbrook Hall's basement. 15 movies for the following quarter, ally numbers 15 staff members and Grabow says nearly everyone in Grabow and others at Audio-Visual offer their advice. A film may be re­ jected - as was the French Harvest this quarter- because it has no Eng­ Film Society Showings lish subtitles. Sometimes a rental fee Winter Quarter, 1955 may be prohibitive; they range from Museum of Natural History Auditorium $17.50 to $75 a film, and the Society aims to be self-supporting. 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. Admission, 50 cents Not only do Audio-Visual staffers Jan. 5-A Star 1s Born. American; original version with Janet know about the conditions of particu­ Gaynor, Fredric March. lar prints, they can often suggest old Jan. 12-Passport to Pimlico. British comedy. pictures that tie in with current film Jan. 19-The Gunfighter. American western with Gregory Peck. or play versions. Thus, U filmgoers Jan. 26--State Fair. American musical with Jeanne Crain. recently saw the old Fredric March­ Feb. 2-Fanny. French comedy with Raimu. Janet Gaynor A Star Is Born, and they Feb. 9-W'ilson. American historical film with Alexander Knox. will be treated on Feb. 2 to Marcel Feb. 16-Kameradschaft. German drama. Pagnol's French comedy, Fanny, on Feb. 23-Chaplin Festival: Burlesque on Carmen; The Cure; The which the new Broadway musical is Floorwalker; The Fireman; The Pawnshop. based. Mar. 2-Young Chopin; Polish film biography with Chopin When the list has been pared down mUSIC. to nine titles for the quarter, it is All foreign films have English subtitles. submitted to the large committee for continued on next page 10 The Minnesotan They Put Out English, forestry, all of them. They tin any more," Mrs. Kawamoto said. send in a form which gives course All this material, which leads the U's Free numbers, credits, sections, probable student through a maze of red tape to enrollments, instructors, desired class registration, is then put together and "Best-seller" periods, and preferred rooms. Mr. marked for the printer. Ausen, the supervisor here, approves fROM SKELETON OUTLINE to Three regular employees, Mrs. Jac­ printer's manuscript in twelve all the room assignments." queline Boynton, Mrs. Ilene Onion days. That's the story of the Univer­ Small wheeldex files, like plump and Mrs. Jean Benson, assemble the sity quarterly Class Schedule. pink, blue, and yellow tires, yield more material. Four temporary helpers It all happens in the Room Sched­ information. The listings are checked type and proofread. Mrs. Kawamoto uling Office, room 220 Administration. with these master filrs and then sup· supervises, edits the supplementary Minneapolis campus, where a staff of plemented to include prerequisites, material, and handles all special prob­ eight works at top speed. sequences, and special conditions. lems. Merely passing through the office University recorder True Pettengill The schedule began appearing in during this time is like negotiating an sends in additional material on regis­ its present form in 1948. Under Ver· obstacle course. Narrow paths wind tration instructions and dates, course non Ausen's direction, improvements between desks and tables piled high fees, and the quarterly calendar. have been made continually to make with forms, files and manuscripts. Physical Plant supplies a list of build­ it good looking, easy to understand, Directing operations in the midst ing names with abbreviations. Room and as complete as possible. of this organized confusion is diminu­ Scheduling adds explanations, a direc­ The entire staff is proud of assem­ tive, black-haired Mrs. Ada Kawa­ tory of departmental offices, list of bling - in only twelve days - the moto, who takes the commotion in tallied courses, an index, and campus most widely read publication on cam­ stride. She decisively disposes of each maps. pus. And Mrs. Kawamoto adds, with emergency to keep the process moving. "This year we're adding a new fea· fingers crossed, "Next time we plan "We get our information from the ture. We're going to include a com­ to do it in ten ..." departments," Mrs. Kawamoto ex­ plete final examination schedule. It plained. "Each submits a listing - won't be published in the daily bulle- -Ada Hanley, '55

Ke~ping things_ humming in the room scheduling office are, l. to r., Ilene Onwn, facquelwe Boynton, and, on the phone, principal clerk Ada Kawamoto. FILM SOCIETY continued approval. The emphasis is on fine films, American and foreign, which are no longer generally available. Staff members' suggestions are wel­ come, says Grabow. All the King's Men was screened last quarter in re­ sponse to requests from American Studies staff. The faculty in Slavic languages has been asking for a Po­ lish language film. Result: on March 2 the Society will present Young Cho­ pin, in Polish with English subtitles. As adviser to University staff on films, filmstrips, charts, and graphs for class use, Grabow sees more than his share of films. He gets invited to many local "exhibitors' previews" of new movies held on "Film Row" in downtown Minneapolis. He also keeps tabs on films used by such groups as the German, French, and Indo-Ameri­ can clubs to see if they are suitable for a larger campus audience. Sometimes the end of the dav finds him reaching wearily for eye:drops. But ask him if he likes movies and he answers emphatically, "You betcha!" January I955 II SLA, in General College, and in the School of Business can also take spe­ cial courses in this area.) Related art has its own majors, too. Mo:-t of these have concentrated on interior design, in which "seeing and doing" play an important part. Port­ able rooms on the fourth floor of the home economics building permit stu­ dents to accumulate decorating expe­ rience by working out problems in room arrangement and color combi­ nations. A small "store" contaius an assortment of furnishings from which they can draw. A course in supervised retailing taught in cooperation with Schune­ man's, Inc., St. Paul, gives students a good background for jobs in depart­ Profs. Gertrude Esteros and Evelyn Franklin, l., are shown in one of the ment stort:"s and decorating studios. "portable rooms" in the related art laboratory. Juliette Myren and if elen Students in this course work at Ludwig. r., check fabric from the "store" used by home furnishing classes. Schuneman's one day a week, attend this class two hours a week. Graduates of the related art and business course have gone into such Related Art Shows Value of diverse fields as retailing (the most popular), advertising and display, Good Design in Daily Life and fashion coordinating. Related art staff member Helen Ludwig was herself in merchandising, HEN you mention the related art ing, interior design, color design, etc. training interior decorators for a large Wsection of the School of Home From the beginning related art has Indianapolis department store before Economics, you often hear the ques­ been an integral part of home eco­ she came to the University. Another tion, "\Vhat is related art?" nomics at the liniversity. Josephine staff member, Evelyn Franklin, has As staff members themselves ex­ Berry, head of the home ec department been decorating consultant for a "'lin­ plain it, these courses are concerned from 1913 to 1918, saw the need for neapolis hotel and continues in that with the art that is part of personal, art in homemaking training, and in capacity part-time. home, and family living. Their aim is 1913 she brought to her department to help students "sensitize themselves Harriet Goldstein, who was then F THE OTHERS in related art, to see beauty and deYelop the ability teaching art on the Minneapolis cam­ O Juliette Myren was an extension to produce it" in their daily surround­ pus. A few years later Yetta Goldstein home furnishings specialist at the UniYersity of Massachusetts before mgs. joined her sister. To learn whnc art As taught at the University, related could make a genuine contribution. the coming to Minnesota. Gertrude Este­ art is integrated with the whole home two women sat through nearly en,ry ros also did high school and collrge economics program: Related art staf­ home economics course before theY teaching, and spent two years in :\ew fers help students in meal planning started teaching their own related art Guinea and the Philippines as a Red Cross hospital recreation worker; classes select attractive and appropri­ classes. .Marion Everson, who specializes in ate table settings. One interior deco­ Since that time the section has crafts and costume design, had a ~imi­ rating class suggests furnishings for grown and now includes five full-time lar position in the Labrador-:\ew­ the home management houses and is staff members: Gertrude Esteros, 1rho responsible for any major redecorat­ heads the section; Helen Lud\l·ig, foundland area. With all due modesty, the related ing. And a related art staff member Juliette MyrE"n, Marion Everson, and art staff believes the popular sequence even helps direct activities in the chil­ Evelyn Franklin. liYes up to its goal: '"To help students dren's play school. EYery home economics student on enrich their lives by developing their Titles of related art courses indi­ the St. Paul campus takes som~ re­ abilities to express themselves through cate the concern for all areas of home lated art courses in the attractiYe color and the many useful materials economics - textile design, costume third-floor classrooms of the new all around them." design, home planning and furnish- home economics wing. tStudents in The Minnesotan 12 young in heart . . . hear the wolves and coyotes howling at night, he said, 'That's about enough of that.' So I took a business course and got a job downtown." After sev­ Elizabeth Haley Shares eral changes of employment, she turned to homemaking. She retains her interest in English. UMD Students~ Problems "Sometimes a student will show me a theme or a report. I can't help mak­ ing a correction or two in spelling or r.'THANK GOODNESS," the girl to UMD's professional counseling grammar," she laughs. breathed from the doorway. staff. When her only daughter, Elizabeth "Someone did find it." She came in Nominallv, her work involves su­ Anne, was married last summer and to claim the lost package after peek­ pervision o.f the "tudent lounge in moved with her husband to Riverdale, ing inside to make sure it was the Washburn hall, operation of the part­ N. D., Mrs. Haley thought time once sweater she had bought for her boy­ time employment bureau, and secre­ spent with her growing offspring friend. tarial work. would now hang heavily on her hands. The sympathetic ear and friendly The woman in the office was talking But the companionship of her hus­ advice are "extras." But for the stu­ on the phone ... "For a few hours band, the duties of her tasteful house­ dents who bring their problems to her hold, volunteer hospital work, and her on Christmas day? WelL most of the door, they are among her most impor­ many campus interests more than students will be busy with their own tant services. account for an ordinary day. Usually Christmas but we'll try to find some- Perhaps her enjoyment in working up about 5:30 or 6 a.m. to tidy her one ... " with students stems from an earlv home before going to the campus, she From the doorway time again~this desire to teach. She received a teach­ loathes idleness. a young man with a crewcut and a red ing certificate after attending the Col­ "I wake up glad I can go to work jacket: "Did you say you had a part­ lege of St. Scholastica in Duluth for on the campus," she says. "To me time sales job for aluminum ware? three years, majoring in English. Her there is no reward like the one I get What does it pay? Where do I go?" first classroom was in a rural commu­ working with young people, sharing 1\ow a tall basketball player was nity near Duluth. their successes and their joys, their striding toward the phone . . . "Cotta "When I told mv father I could sPthacks and sorrows. I like it here!" call home," he explained, already dialing. "It's really important." Another student came to the door, UMD recreation zwrker i"li;:;abeth Haley zt·elcomes students like Audrey Best noted that others were in the office, n·ho visit her in search of part-time u:ork, lost articles, or good advice. and walked away, trouble still on his face. "I'll be back," he said. These were among the happenings during a random five minutes in the office of Mrs. Elizabeth Haley, recre­ ation worker in the UMD office of student personnel services, who might better be called "Mrs. UMD." Hers is varied work on the campus that has been a major interest in her life for more than seven years. She came to UMD shortly after it was con­ verted from Duluth State Teachers college in July, 1947. As a friendly adviser, she speaks from her own experience as a mother as well as from her memory of prob­ lems and perplexities, the headaches and the heartaches, that she experi­ enced in her own early years. When the problems are too involved to be helped by a friendly word or sugges­ tion, however, she refers the students January 1955 13 ------

TV Course Viola Stallman Receives Short-term Leaves Go to continued from page 3 4-H Service Award 13 on University Faculty hefty text, Jersild's Child Psychology, A distinguished service award has Thirteen University of Minnesota fourth edition. been presented to Viola Stallman, sec­ faculty members will study and do The course begins with a general retary of the state 4-H club office at research in nine foreign countries as description of scientific method illus· the University of Minnesota, by the well as the United States during the trated by studies of how and why State 4-H Club Agents' association. first few months of 1955 as recipients the child psychologist observes chil· Miss Stallman was cited for "faith­ of salaried short-term leaves granted dren. Then Harris will talk about ful service and leadership to boys and by the University Board of Regents infant behavior and its importance girls enrolled in the 4-H club pro­ in December. for later personality development. gram in Minnesota." She has been The leaves are the first given He will go on to analyze the child's secretary in the state office 24 years. through a new program planned to social behavior and the learning of The presentation was made at a supplement the customary sabbatical social skills; his emotional develop· meeting of the club agents' associa­ leave program. It provides leaves for ment; his mental life, including lan­ tion held during the annual Agricul­ one school quarter on full salary for guage, memory, and thinking; and tural Extension Service conference. selected members of the faculty who finally, the growth of his personality. have achieved permanent status on the The course will wind up with some U. of Chicago Awards University staff. discussion for the general viewer on Honorary Degree to Koltho:ff These faculty members are thus what the scientific study of children enabled to devote themselves to inten­ An honorary doctor of science de­ can mean to parents. "We will try to sive research work required to com­ gree was awarded by the University get across the idea that child psychol­ plete studies and scientific investiga­ of Chicago last month to Professor ogy isn't something you 'use' on tions in which they are involved. They I. M. Kalthoff, head of analytical youngsters to bring them into line, can also carry on their studies in uni­ chemistry in the University of Minne­ but rather a means to help the child versities and research laboratories sota's Institute of Technology. realize his potentialities for growth. elsewhere during the three-month free It can teach parents to do a better job In the citation accompanying the period. degree, Professor Kalthoff was de­ by making the 'task' of parenthood The 13 leaves granted for winter scribed as a "distinguished chemist more interesting," he says. quarter will take faculty members to who extended classical methods of Japan, England, France, Germany, Harris estimates that preparing the chemical analysis, who discovered and Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and TV sessions will require about twice elaborated modern methods, and who New Zealand. Others will pursue as much time as preparing the regu­ has assumed leadership in turning the research projects in intergovernmen­ lar day-time course. He will use no path of analytical chemistry from the tal relations, entomology, plant pa­ script, but will rely on brief notes. refinement of technique to inquiry thology, education, neurophysiology, At first, he expects to rehearse each and exploration." botany, and psychology. program before the cameras. As in A presentation statement issued by Faculty members receiving the his classes, Harris will lecture stand­ the University of Chicago regarding leaves are: William Anderson, politi­ ing and will use the blackboard and Professor Kalthoff reported in part: cal science professor; Allan H. Brown, teaching charts frequently. "As a young man in Holland, he botany professor; Laurence K. Cut­ The main departure from the reg­ undertook a task that no one has since komp, associate professor of entomol­ ular course will be a greater use of attempted - an experimental study ogy and economic zoology; Louise T. demonstration material. Because it is of virtually the entire field of inor­ Dosdall, assistant professor of plant almost impossible to observe children ganic chemical analysis. The result pathology; Willis E. Dugan, educa­ directly in a half-hour program of these studies was the improvement tion professor; Dr. Ernst Gellhorn, geared to move without any hitches, and extension of classical methods. neurophysiology professor; Gerald Harris will introduce short film epi­ "At the age of 33, he emigrated to Hill, assistant professor of general sodes of children observed at the In­ the United States to become professor arts; Olga Lakela, curator of herbar­ stitute. He also expects to use tape­ of chemistry at the University of Min­ ium, Duluth Branch; William A. Mc­ recordings of children's school con­ nesota. His attention had by then Donald, associate professor of classi­ versations and interviews, supple­ turned toward the evolution of new cal languages; Cecil H. Meyer, asso­ mented by explanatory comment. kinds of analytical methods, especially ciate professor of business and eco­ To enroll in the correspondence those based on the principles of elec­ nomics, Duluth Branch; William E. course for credit or to receive the trochemistry. His brilliant work has Peterson, dairy husbandry professor; $1.00 syllabus, write: The Corre­ provided analytical tools that have Dr. Wesley W. Spink, medicine pro­ spondence Study Department, 254 now become indispensable in the re­ fessor; Gina W angsness, assistant pro­ Nicholson Hall, Minneapolis campus. search laboratory." fessor of German. 14 The Minnesotan The President~s Page immediate concern, is the maJor source of income that goes into the General University Fund - item 6f, left. And this is the way the request for the General Mainte­ nance appropriation is arrived at: The Maintenance Request The Regents, upon the basis of experience and of de­ tailed budgetary analysis that starts back in the depart­ ments and offices of the deans and directors, and with Y THE TIME this issue of the Minnesotan reaches carefully canvassed administrative recommendations be­ B you, the 1955 Legislature will be in session and the fore them, determine the total amount they believe is University will be presenting its needs, as determined necessary in the General University Fund for salaries, by the Regents, for consideration. This presentation is a supplies, expense and equipment to carry forward the difficult assignment, so complex and diverse is our Uni­ established program of instruction, public service, and versity program-and it is an anxious one. non-sponsored research. From this carefully derived fig­ The University's requests fall into four major groups: ure of the total cost, they then subtract the equally care­ (1) General Maintenance; (2) "Specials" for such pur­ ful estimate of income that will be available in items poses as research, agricultural extension programs, bene­ "a" to "e" in heading "6" at left (General University ficiation of low grade ores, etc.; ( 3) the University Hos­ Fund). The difference between the estimates of costs of pitals; and (4) Buildings and major remodeling. carrying the program and the estimates of income is the Of these, the General Maintenance request is basic; it legislative request for General Maintenance. provides the money that makes the University's educa­ FOR THE BIENNIUM beginning July 1, 1955, the Re- tional and service program possible. Whatever affects, gents determined that an annual budget of $25,542,529 favorably or unfavorably, the central "maintenance ap­ is required for the regular program of teaching, research, propriation" affects the University's total program. That and public service. They estimate income of $8,279,683 is why it is so important that members of the staff under­ annually and ask for a maintenance appropriation for stand how the General Maintenance request of the Regents each year of the biennium that is the difference between is built up. That is why I want to explain these steps the two figures-or $17,262,846. on my page this month. To do this it is first necessary For 1954-55 the comparable maintenance request of to understand that the total University income and ex­ the 1953 Legislature was $17,118,737. The increase now penditures for teaching, research, public service and asked, compared with the 1954-55 asking, is small in­ related activities are classified under six headings: deed, in the light of the needs now confronting us. l. Trust Funds. Income from endowment funds and cur­ The Regents, in framing their askings for the 1955 rent grants and gifts expended for such activities as scholarships, loans and prizes, and sponsored research Legislature, have taken many factors into consideration: including many federal research grants such as those the improvement of the faculty salary situation, needed from the United States Public Health Service, etc. 2. University Services Funds. Income from and expended civil service salary adjustments, requests for additional for such activities as dormitories, cafeterias, print shop, services that cannot he put off indefinitely, and the first cold storage, the laundry and revolving- funds. steps in preparing for the inevitable enrollment rise. 3. Federal Appropriations. Funds provided by the Fed­ eral Government to be used for Agricultural Extension. In the "Needs of the Biennium" pamphlet which we research and, in lesser amount, for instruction. always publish as a reference aid to members of the 4. Special State Appropriations. The funds specifically Legislature, copies of which are now available and will and separately appropriated by the Legislature for the University of Minnesota Hospitals and for special re­ he given to anyone who is interested, the details behind search, county agents, Agricultural Extension and the General Maintenance request are set forth-together many other special purposes. 5. Physical Plant Funds. For buildings and related capi· with the details behind the asking for Specials, Univer­ tal investment. sity Hospitals, and Buildings. 6. General University Fund, with income from the'e sources: Each of these categories is of vital importance-but a. Tuition and student fees in closing this page, as in starting it, I wish to stress that h. Earnings of University departments it is the General Maintenance appropriation that is para­ c. Permanent University Fund d. Swamp land fund mount. That is why I am here especially calling it to e. Standing millage tax of 23 I 100 mills your attention, with the hope that every member of the f. General maintenance appropriation of the Legisla­ ture. staff will therefore better understand just what is in­ volved when my associates and I appear before the Leg­ Since Trust Funds, University Services Funds, and islative committees to present the Regents' requests. Federal appropriations (with minor exceptions) are ear­ marked for special purposes, they are not available for general uses and accordingly cannot he merged with regular instructional and research funds. They do not enter into legislative appropriations. The General Maintenance appropriation, which is our January 1955 15 JANUARY 15 TO FEBRUARY 15~ 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY THEATRE Subscription Series Jan. 27- Feb. 5-''Misalliance" by Shaw. ]an. 21--Nicole HE"nriot, pianist; Gerard Samuel, conduct· (Scott Hall Auditorium. Evenings at 7:30, Jan. 27, and at in g. 8:30 p.m. Jan. 28, 29, Feb. 2-5. Matinees only at 4 p.m. ]an. 28-Artur Rubinstein. pianist. Jan. 30 and 3:30 p.m. Feb. l. No performance Jan. 31. Feb. 4--Byron Janis, pianist. Single tickets at $1.20 may be purchased a week before the (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott Hall.) t to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call MUSIC RECITAL University extension 6225.) t Jan. 31-James Johnson, pianist, pa~t winner of Schubert Twilight Concerts Club scholarship. ] an. 16-Show TunE's: KE"Tn, Porter and RodgE"rs; Gerard (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public.) SamueL conducting. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES ] an. 23-Russian-Oriental, Gerard Samuel, conducting. Feb.-The Geology of the Cuyuna District, Minnesota: A Jan. 30-Latin-American Music, John Simms, pianist. Progress Report. By Frank F. Grout, professor emeritus (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30p.m. General admission tickets of geology and mineralogy. l·niversity of Minnesota, and at $.75 can be purchased the afternoon of thE' concert. Box J. Fred Wolff, Duluth geologist. No. 36 in the Geological office opens at 3:30 p.m.) Survey of Minnesota. $3.00. Young People's Concerts Jan. 18-St. Paul Auditorium. 1:45 p.m. UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Jan. 25-Northrop Auditorium. ] :30 p.m. Jan. 15-Feb. 28-Four American Graphic Designers. This (Admission arranged through local schools.) exhibition of internationally known designers Leo Lionni, THE UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE Noel Martin. Herbert .Matter. and Ben Shahn covers a Jan. 17-"Three New Stars" featuring Siw Ericsdotter, wide range in the flat graphic field. It was prepared by mezzo-soprano; David Bar-Illan, pianist; Robert McFerrin, the Museum of '\Iodern Art in New York. baritone. Admission by invitation only. Jan. 19-Feb. H)--Old Music: Manuscripts and Instruments. Feb. 9-Alexander Brailowsky. pianist. (Tickets: $1.00- Because of the success of last vear's exhibit of ancient $3.00.) music, the theme is being repeated this year with the Feb. 12-Parade of Barbershop Quartets. (Tickets: $1.50· following twist: the display of old instruments from many $3.00.) cultures is augmented with a selection of medieval music (Northrop Auditorium. 8:30 p.m. Ticket sales begin the manuscripts on parchment with a unique and abstract Monday before the week of the concert at the Artists Course beauty of their own. Ticket Office, 105 Northrop.) ·1 Jan. 21-Feb. 28-Rising Talent. Here is an opportunity to see paintings by five "rising" young artists working within CONVOCATIONS the New York School of so-called abstract expressionism. Jan. 20-Harrison Salisbury.. 'lloscow correspondent of The Several canvase• each by Beauchamp, Hartigan, Muller, N en· York Times. Resnick, and Rivers will be exhibitt>d. Jan. 27-Earl L. Hilfiker. film lecture "Indian Goose Hunt." Feb. 3-Per Monsen. Norwegian author and journalist. SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Feb. 10-Froelich Rainey, anthropologist and director of the American Classics ... Discussion of such favorites as The University of Pennsylvania ~1useum. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick. Red Badge (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public with­ of Courage, and Sister Carrie by English department fac· out charge.) ulty members. The University Radio Guild will dramatize SPECIAL LECTURES excerpts. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1 :30 p.m. Jan. 18-Paul Henry Lang. Professor of Musicology, Colum· Gilbert Highet program ... A new series by book critic bia University, and music critic of The Nezc York Herald Gilbert Highet. Works by Dylan Thomas, James Thurber, Tribune. and Japanese poets will be discmsed. Wednesdays at (Scott Hall Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to those inter· 4:45p.m. ested.) The Art of the Film ... George Amberg, associate professor Feb. 8-Dr. E. K. Strong. Jr .. Professor Emeritus of Psy­ of General Studit>s, will analyze film techniques and cur· chology, Stanford University. "tlse of the Strong Voca­ rent films. Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. tional Interest Blank in Counseling." (Mayo Memorial Auditorium, 8:00p.m. Open to the public. ATHLETIC EVENTS NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES Basketball Garnes at Horne Jan. 16-Dr. Dwain W. Warner, assistant professor of zool· ] an. 15-Purdue ogy at the University, "Mexico- Natural History Next Jan. 24--N orthwestern Door." Feb. 7-0hiiJ State Jan. 23-Color Movie: "Waterbirds," Walt Disney studio Feb. 12-Illinois presentation. · (Williams Arena, 8:00 p.m. Single tickets at $1.25 and $1.75 Jan. 30-Color Movie: "Water-A Critical Resource." go on sale the Monday of the week before the game at the Feb. 6-Harvey L. Gunderson. assistant scientist, Natural Athletic Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) t History Museum. "The Wild Rice Harvest." Hockey Garnes at Horne Feb. 13-Dr. F. S. Cutler, curator, Minnesota Historical Jan. 21, 22-Denver Society, "Tepees and '\Vigwams in Minnesota." Jan. 28, 29-Michigan Tech (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open Feb. 4, 5-Michigan State to the public by ticket only. Tickets are free and may be Feb. 8, 9-Colorado College obtained up to four weeks in advanct> at the '\luseum by ( Willwms Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.50 go on direct request or by mail [enclose a stamped self-addressed ,ale the Monday of the week before the game at the Athletic envelop<"].) Ticket Office, 103 Cooke Hall.) t tTickets 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. THE MINNESOTAN , 'Cite UJtiversil!f Staff vtlagaziJte - 1ebruaru 1955 l

in this issue . .. IN A LONG, MACHINE -FILLED They Made Us Great ROOM in TSMB a group of skilled craftsmen work in metal, turning out THE BELLS which sing out from precision equipment for U hospitals Northrop Auditorium pace the and scientific labs. You'll meet the student and faculty member as they hardworking crew on page 5. hurry to class. FAMOUS UNIVERSITY- BRED And a few blocks from campus. in grain varieties like Lee and Thatcher southeast Minneapolis, a quiet, modest don't just happen overnight. A pic­ man-neither student nor teacher­ ture story on pages 6 and 7 shows listens attentively when the carillon how U scientists test and develop a bells strike the hour. new strain over 15 years. The man is Harry Rowatt Brown, THE STORY BEHIND a Univer­ who in 1948 gave the University two sity elevator operator's gift to the U sets of bells-Flemish and English­ of $160.13 is one of the most unique as a memorial to his wife, Frances and touching in the University's files. Miller Brown. A retired real estate and Page lO gives the details. construction man, Mr. Brown studied NEW EMPLOYEES ARE FIND­ piano years ago at the Northwt:st Con­ ING the University a friendlier place, servatory of Music. He has always en­ © .MtnneapoJis ~tar thanks to regular "Get Acquainted" Harry Rowatt Brown joyed bell music and thought that the sessions at which U policies are ex­ plained and illustrated. See page 13. University, as one of the most im· permitting chords and harmonies. portant institutions in Minnesota, Since 1948, the bells have struck the would be a fitting home for this me­ hour and marked the beginning and on the cover . .. morial gift. Mr. Brown has also end of class periods. And this year, Professor H. Harvard Ama­ established a bell maintenance and Brown expanded the use of the bells son, our cover subject this scholarship fund. by giving the University two roll play­ month, Is caught in a rare In this age of electronics, the ers, which work on the same principle moment of repose during an Frances Miller Brown Memorial Bells as that of the old player piano. opening at the Walker Art are no giant cast-iron forms swaying The snatches of brief melodies you Center. Mr. Amason's dual in a bell-tower. Instead, they are hear just before the hour strikes are career as chairman of the housed in a small 8xll foot room in played on a small roll player, operated U Art department and direc­ the auditorium's second floor dressing mechanically by a clock keyboard. tor of the Walker is chron­ room area. The bells lend themselves to a range icled on pages 3 and 4. Photo­ A series of steel cabinet boxes, en­ of campus moods. During the holi­ graph by Eric Sutherland. casing innumerable wires, relays, and days, Easter and Christmas, Religion other minute parts, crowds the room. in Life week, and even before Satur­ But electronics have not made the day football games, James Johnson, a THE MINNESOTAN musician obsolete. The musician's music major, who was awarded a Vol. VIII No. 5 Published by the Department of keyboard sends impulses to hammers scholarship for this purpose, gives University Relations, 213 Administration in the cabinets which strike tuned rods, special concerts on the bells. Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ tiny pieces of metal, some weighing KUOM, the University's radio sta· neapolis 14, Minnesota. tion, beams bell music as it begins and William L. Nunn, Director only three ounces. Ellen Siegelman . • . . Editor These rods then give off barely ends its broadcast day, reminding re­ JoAnne Alberg . . Assistant Editor audible sounds. These sounds are cent alumni of their campus years. Advisory Committee: Members of the amplified 100,000 times or more by an "Certainly, here on campus, the University Public Infonnation Council. The Minnesotan is published monthly electronic device and the result is a carillons give an atmosphere which during the academic year, October clear bell tone that can be heard up to students will long remember," said through May. Copies are mailed free to Malcolm Willey, U vice president, University staff members. Subscription four miles away. rates for non-staff members are $2 a Both Flemish and English bells can academic administration. Willey, year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this be played from consoles which re­ whose office is within easy listening issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial distance, believes that "the bells give Union Bookstore. semble spinet pianos. The English bell Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ console with its two octave keyboard the listener a warm and nostalgic feel· ited, were taken by members of the lends itself to simple melodies, played ing. We can all thank Mr. Brown. University Photographic Laboratory. Daily his gift renews for us an experi· Entered as second-class matter at the one note at a time. The Flemish bell post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. console has a five octave keyboard ence which enriches our lives." The Minnesotan 2 two jobs with but a single aim . . . The Busy Life of H. HA.RVARD ARNASON

''I AM a school teacher, and the For the next two hours, if this is a He gets to the Walker Art Center, thing I like above everything else teaching day, he is working on his lec­ at 17th and Lyndale South, sometime is teaching." H. Harvard Amason ture, interviewing students, and sign­ before 3:00 and immediately gets off says this a little ruefully because his ing requisitions. ("You'd be surprised a batch of letters. Then there may be two big jobs as chairman of the art how much time is spent signing requi­ a Board of Directors meeting or per­ department and director of the Walker sitions!") haps a conference of Walker staff Art Center don't give him much time From 10:30 toll :30 he teaches his members to go over the exhibitions for teaching these days. course in Modern Sculpture, and for scheduled for the next three years or to "I keep getting 'trapped' into ad­ the next hour sees more students or review the success of past shows. ministration," Amason smiles. He Art department staff. Lunch frequent­ Although this regimen would leave attributes this in part to his "unfortu­ ly turns into a faculty meeting. After most people panting, Amason says nate predilection for holding more that, if he can snatch an hour he may calmly, "It's not really as complicated than one job at one time," an almost d,o some re8earch on the French sculp­ as it seems. For one thing, any admin- continuous condition since 1936 when tor, Houdon, for a book he is writing. continucd on next page he taught at Northwestern University and simultaneously served as special Here Prof. Amason confers with some of the University Art department mem­ lecturer in the Chicago junior col­ bers who have also taught Extension courses at the Walker Art Center; in leges. Later, when he was working at the usual order: Cameron Booth, Lorenz Eitner, Amason, and Donald Torbert. the Frick Collection in New York, from 1939-41, he also taught nearly full-time in Hunter College extension classes. His first major go at administration came during the war. Amason went to Iceland from 1942-44 with the OWl and gave the first illustrated lectures on modern art at the University there. "Somehow," he says, "this made me an expert, and the next thing I knew I was back at a desk in Washington helping draft ideas for setting up cul­ tural and public relations programs abroad." Deliberate and distinguished-look­ ing, Prof. Amason says he does his Walker job in the "spare time" from his University commitments. A typi­ cal day runs something like this: Up at 6:30a.m. !The Arnasons live in the Idea House, a specially designed modern house within a mobile's throw of the Walker.) He delivers his two children - 12-year-old Eleanor and 8-year-old Jon- to the U high and elementary schools, and reaches his Jones Hall office about 8:30. February 1955 3 istrative job imolYes proper organi­ through free studio art classes for facilities. v;·e·re still offering art zation and delegation of authority, high school students. Held on Satur­ classes in seven different buildings, and luckily, both the staffs I supervise day mornings, they often introduce and we look forward to the day when are extremely competent and hard­ young people to the Center. Even the we get new quarters in the proposed working. finger-painting set gets special atten­ fine arts building.·· "But even more important," he con­ tion in parents' and children's session Amason also looks forward to some tinues, "both my jobs really form a on Sunday afternoons. utopian future when every University unified whole with a single aim. Like The Walker Art Center is a com­ student takes an art or music course: the University, the Walker Art Center pletely autonomous institution fi­ ''We're acutely aware of the needs and is an educational institution - but nanced by the T.B. Walker Founda­ talents of specialized students and dirl'cted more largely at the adult pop­ tion. But because of his dual role, candidates for the M.A., M.F.A. (Mas­ ulation. Because I'm interested m Amason has been able to coordinate ter of Fine Arts), and Ph.D degrees. teaching I haw tried to enlarge its many of its activities with those of the But about 9Q(~ of our students are not educational activities." University. Thus: art majors, and we feel that, like the • The University Extension Divi­ Walker, the Art department's main job 1\E OF THEWA YS this has been sion offers for credit at the Walker is general education - training the 0 done is by making the Walker a evening courses in Art History, in consumers of art to understand and real community arts center. Arnason Painting, and in the Art of the .Film support it. In this way our museums says that with the fantastic increase taught by such U professors as Ber­ and universities work hand in hand." in museum attendance since the war, nard Amest. Cameron Booth, Lorenz people have come to modify the old­ Eitner, Walter Quirt, and Donald Tor­ fashioned idea that museums are just Reston to Speak Feb. 22 bert, of Art; and George Amberg of places for storing batches of other­ General Studies. The Walker location James B. Reston, chief Washington wise homeless pictures. has proved very convenient for Exten­ correspondent of The New York "We have tried to make the Walker sion students in south Minneapolis. Times, will give the first of a series a place where the various arts come of lectures at the l. niversity in • The two institutions occasionally together through film programs, po­ memory of Gideon D. Seymour. Presi­ co-sponsor lectures on art and archi­ etry and play readings, a summer dent Morrill has announced that Mr. tecture. schedule of events that ranged from Reston's topic will be "An Appraisal Doc Evans' Dixieland jazz to Schubert • A graduate course in museum of the Cold ·war.'" The lecture, free quartets and art films. These pro­ training is now being developed joint­ and open to the public, will be given grams drew as many as 1,000 people ly by the Walker, the University Art at 8:30p.m. February 22 in Northrop to the open-air stage set up in back of department and the U Gallery (part Auditorium. the museum. Displays of useful ob­ of the Art department). This will be The distinguished lecture series was jects and our publication - Design the only set-up in the country, Arna­ established by the Cniversity regents Quarterly - show museum visitors son says, which trains students for last September as a tribute to Mr. Sey­ how movements in contemporary art work in small museums and one-man mour, who was executive editor of the and design make themselves felt in community art centers. The two-year Minneapolis Star and Tribune from objects of daily use." Master's degree will require substan­ J 944 until his death last May. The pro­ Amason places the greatest empha­ tial coursework in art history, design, gram, sponsored by the University and sis on museum exhibits, striving to and art materials, plus an intensive financed by the Star and Tribune, will show art students and the general pub­ internship in Twin Cities Museums. bring to Minneapolis speakers who lic works that may be familiar but Students willleam such diverse skills are world leaders in varied fields of have never been seen at first-hand in as setting up exhibits, lecturing, writ­ public interest. this area. ing publicity releases, arranging re­ In recognition for his work Mr. Since he took over the Walker ceptions, and raising money. Reston has received the Pulitzer prize, directorship in 1951, the museum has Talking about this graduate course the award of the Overseas Press Club, discontinued its yearly cross-sectional brought Mr. Amason hack to his con­ the French Legion of Honor and the show and has substituted a selective cept of the teaching of art at the Uni­ Norwegian Order of St. Olav. A survey of contemporary art - Euro­ versity. Only recently, he says, were Washington correspondent for The pean and American together- focus­ the U's various courses in art history, New York Times since 1941, he was sing on some one theme. Two years design, etc., put under one adminis­ with the Associated Press in New York ago it was "The Classical Tradition"; trative roof. and London before joining the Times last vear, "Realitv and Fantasy." This "We have concentrated in building staff in London in 1939. year\ show, late. in '55, will present a sound faculty and curriculum, with No tickets are required for this lec­ the leading exponents of Expression­ a wide selection and the proper bal­ ture, the first of several to be pre­ ism. ance between history and practice sented under the Seymour lectureship The museum educates directly courses. Right now we need new before June, 19.55. 4 The Minnesotan man. con,trucb a hormone pellet press Craftsmen "Show Their Metal~~ for Animal Husbandry from a design he improvised. Most machine operators, Rosendahl In University Apparatus Shop explains, are too spt>cialized to cope with the variety of this shop's work. That's why Rosendahl's men must THE UN I\ ERSITY plays an elab­ pyrex rod and tubing into equipment have training in experimental work, orate variation on the "do it your­ for dozens of laboratories. I See MIN­ building equipment from the specifi­ self" theme. NESOTAN, October, 19'19. I cations fresh from a design board and In two campus scientific apparatus Some equipment demands the skill never constructed before. shops, :-killed craftsmen work with of both glass blower and metal worker. their hand~ and heads to develop re­ After Greinke blows the glass, it is At the far ~ide of the long room, search equipment of metal and glass. taken across campus for completion another lab machinist, Henry Petersen The equipment, not available on the to the metal work shop in the second designs a new x-ray mount for an oper­ commercial market. is custom-made to temporary south of Mine~. ating table for the Mayo MemoriaL meet the needs of scientists and doctors There Erick Rosendahl, foreman, Petersen and his fellow- workers in UniYersity laboratories and hospi­ and his crew of "six good, all-around have spent many hours at their tals. men," as Rosendahl calls them, work benches designing new items - like Sometimes the researcher himself with lathes, band saw;::, milling ma­ the plastic stopper measuring 85/1000 makes the blueprint of the equipment chines and drill presses-precision in­ of an inch in diameter, and recondi­ he needs for his experiment. Just as struments which measure to the four­ tioning old hospital equipment-like often, the craftsman in the scientific millionths of an inch. the half-ton deep freeze centrifuge. apparatus shop engineers the design. The jungle of equipment in the large Ed lckman, a newcomer, is testing Edward F. Greinke, the University's quiet room reminds you of a carpentry the operating table switches he has glass blower, manages the scientific ;;hop. But the shavings on the floor just finished, and Louis Bono, another apparatus shops. Greinke and his two are not of wood - they are stainless lab machinist, cuts threads on lucite assistants, Arthur Haut and Joseph steel and brass. • drain tubes or cannulas, used for Guzik, work in their small bailiwick One craftsman, Edwin Hahn, senior draining intestinal fluids of laboratory in the Physics building basement. lab machinist, who specializes in sur­ subjects. There, with a few hand tools, a lathe, gical equipment, bends over his lathe Bob Rhame, another senior labora­ a torch, and most important - their as he fashions delicate skull drills. tory machinist, assembles a reduction own lung poKer. they shape and twist At the next bench, Rosendahl, the fore- printer (he has made every part except the bellows and lenses) for the U's A veritable hive is C's metal shop; in the center foreman Erick Rosendahl photo lab, Nearby, Larry Espy recon­ confers u;ith Henry Petersen; Edwin Hahn is at instrument-maker's lathe, r. structs a pure water vacuumizer used by the Hospital pharmacy to remove air from intravenous feeding bottles. To do their work, Rosendahl and his crew must talk to the technicians who call on their skills: bacteriologists, chemists, geologists, engineers, physi­ ologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, pharmacologists, pathologists, and many others. Thr numerous varied projects listed on the metals ~hop worksheet give added testimony to the crew's versa­ tility: Audio Visual's movie projector, a rat-feeding mrchanism for psychol­ ogy department's acti\·ity cages, an attachment for a goniometer (device that measures motion in a joint) for Physical Medicine, a fraction collec­ tor for the Hormel Institute-and now and then, rven an occasional coffee percolator! February 1955 5 from Seed to Brea

That~s how lo to develop hardy

NEW VARIETIES of grain aren't developed overnight. On these pages U scientists show how it's done: (Picture l) Here begins a new variety of wheat or oats. In this picture the pollen-producing units of a selected "mother" plant are removed. In a few days the "mother" will be dusted with pollen from a selected "father" plant and the cross-or "marriage"-will be complete. The hybrid plant produced by this cross will I. the eross-breeding . . . inherit traits from both parents. Such desirable character­ istics as high yield and disease resistance can thus be combined. (There is no normal "marriage" in the grain families, which normally reproduce by self-fertilization.) (2) In the agronomy greenhouse Professors J. J. Christensen, left, head of plant pathology, and W. M. Myers, head of agronomy, examine an F 1 , "child" of the union made in picture l. F 1's offspring which best resist the several kinds of diseases will be allowed to reproduce and continue their strong qualities. ( 3) Here a graduate student in plant pathology is in­ jecting disease spores into the descendants of F 1 plants after about three years of experimental growing and selective trials. The scene is a field test plot on the St. Paul Campus. ( 4) Shortly after this, harvested grain from several "lines" goes back to the laboratory for testing. Louis Cuendet, associate professor of agricultural biochemistry, pours a sample of wheat kernels into the small mill that grinds it into flour. ( 5) Biochemistry lab technician Calvin Norris tests 2. after 6 months: Fl hybrids the elasticity, resistance, and breaking point of dough

3. after 3 years: disease-injeetion 4. after 4 years: flour samples . . .

6 ~~~ fiftee11 years scientists need [gh-yielding grains

made from the flour ground by Cuendet. After bread from this dough is baked Norris will examine the tex­ ture, crumb color, and volume of the sample loaves. ( 6) Ten to twelve years after the "marriage" the new variety has acquired its own strong personality. The next step is seed increase. A bushel of foundation seed shipped to California in October for winter growing will come back to Minnesota as 50 to 60 bushels. Planted here in the spring, these will yield up to 1,000 bushels of seed. Now Minnesota's registered and certified seed growers B. alter 15 years: bread lor the table -outstanding farmers who are members of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association--enter the increase plan by producing registered seed on their own farms. Here Carl Borgeson, associate professor of agronomy in charge of seedstocks at the University, inspects a certified seed grower's field of oats. After three years of increase the new variety may have grown to 20,000 bushels and will be given a name. (7) This harvest-perhaps 14 years after the "mar­ riage" and the first F 1 hybrid plant-is the early fruit of years of work by U scientists and cooperating Minne­ sota farmers to perfect new varieties of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and corn. (8) One of the final results of the long pull of plant­ ing and testing: bread for Minnesota tables-in this case that of seven-year-old Kathleen McKay, whose father, Gerald R. McKay, is Extension visual aids specialist on the St. Paul Campus. Fifteen years in the making, the University-developed grain in her snack began as a baby © International Hanester wheat variety years before Kathy herself was born. ?. alter 14 yf>ars: the harvest

5. anti laboratory testing

6. after 10-12 years: seed increase Sec"y in UMD's division of educa­ tion and psychol­ ogy, Betty Lou Barlass says cook­ ing is a hobby as well as necessity. Her other spare­ time interests: fishing, reading.

Florence Smith, news service secretary for 12 years, distributes University releases to a statewide press. After visiting Europe last year, she hopes to travel soon again.

History professor Ernest S. Osgood staff members is author of The Day oj the Cattle­ man, published in YOU S 1928 and current­ ly reissued by the First thing you hear when calling Rosemount is the University Press. pleasant voice of Lois Callahan, only full-time telephone operator at the research center. Nearly 1500 calls a day go through the 98-phone switch­ board manned by Lois during the last eight years.

8 The Minnesotan Long a member of the committee organizing the U Red Cross drive, principal engineer Eugene H. Turnberg has been here 24 vears. Dr. Stella Sikkema of the Student Health Service staff combines three careers: specialist in internal medicine, homemaker, and mother. She· keeps pictures of her chil­ LD KNOW dren Bruce, 7, and Carol, 17 months, on her office desk.

Orville A. Dahl, chairman of Botany since 1947, examines a photograph of a pollen wall magnified 16,000 times. His studies took him last year to the Cell Research Institute in Stockholm.

Prof. J as. Cuneo i~ newly- elected president of the St. Paul Institute which stages the annual Festival of Nations. Cuneo hrought to the U the idea of lan­ guage houses and founded the Span­ i:-h House in 1912. February 1955 9 A freak accident ... a Last Will and Testament ••• A $2.50 watch, a savings passbook - These are the unusual ingredients of

The Gift from

FRED JOHNSON was a Univer- watchmen's room looking for help ... as "very polite, extremely neat, and sity employee from 1920 to to get the bull loose. independent." The files are silent on 1936. His story can be pieced together "Fred Johnson, one of our watch­ Mr. Johnson until they record his re­ from official documents, time cards, men, went down to help. With the tirement in 1936. and correspondence in the files of the assistance of a switch-engine the bull office of trusts and the physical plant was dragged loose from the bridge A lonely life for 16 years department. and brought back to solid ground. After this date Fred Johnson lived He was born Franzen Gottfrid Those assisting the policeman had left a lonely life. He had no close friends Johansson in Fagenhults, Sweden, in the rope around the hull's horns and and no known relatives. He was fre­ 1869. In 1891, he filed his "Utvan­ neck but untied the rope around his quently ill. University staff members drare-Kontrakt" with the Swedish feet. When the bull got up and found who occasionally visited Johnson re­ government and came to this country; his feet were loose he charged the call that he lived in a one-room cubi­ for some years he worked as an crowd. cle with one window, near the car­ orderly in the state hospital at St. "Mr. Johnson, our watchman, was barns on First Ave. N.E. He had Peter, Minnesota. He became a unable to get out of the way and was virtually no personal belongings. He citizen in 1897. struck by the bull, being knocked un­ would buy milk and some oranges to The University had its first contact conscious for twenty minutes or more. eat in the room and went out for his with Fred Johnson in 1920. On May He was not well at the time and con­ one meal a day in the late afternoon. 24 of that year he was notified that a ditions were no doubt aggravated by It was on one of these afternoon janitor's job for which he had applied this experience.... " walks in the winter of 1952 that he was open. He was hired immediately For the next five years, Fred John­ slipped on an icy sidewalk and broke and later worked as a night watch­ son continued working but was fre­ his hip. He was taken to General Hos­ man. quently bedridden and under treat­ pital and in his sixth week there he ment at U Hospitals for kidney and died. A hull on the campus spine injuries. He resigned in 1924 When his will was read it revealed The accident occurred on the night because of illness; the records show that he had drawn it in 1944. Here is of August 28, 1920. Here is how he was then earning $100 a month. what it provided (the language is not H. A. Hildebrandt, a former Uni­ Fred Johnson's; the impulse is) : versity physical plant superintendent, Appeal to the legislature "I understand full well the handi­ described the accident in a letter to A bill was introduced in the State cap crippled children experience; the A. J. Lobb, then University comp­ Senate in 1925 "appropriating money urgent need of assistance, wherever troller: for the relief of Fred Johnson," but obtainable .... I further appreciate "A bull-escaped from a slaughter the Legislature failed to act on it, and the possibility of rendering such as­ house in the midway district-ap­ Comptroller Lobb therefore directed sistance on the part of the University peared on the campus on August 28, physical plant to employ him as an of Minnesota in its program of pro­ 1920 between the hours of 9 :00 and elevator operator in the Administra­ viding hospital facilities and a con­ 10:00 o'clock p.m. The bull went into tion building "or in other light em· valescent home for crippled children. the old Northern Pacific railroad cut ployment." This being so, I give, bequeath, and [which then ran across the campus] For ll years, then-from 1925 un­ devise to the University all my estate and started to cross the railroad til his retirement in 1936-Fred John· -real, personal, and mixed, wherever bridge when he was caught between son ran the Administration Building situated." the ties. The policeman came to our elevator. Employees remember him continued on next page 10 The Minnesotan from cafeteria to cafe • • . Student-Staff Teamworli Pays Off in UMD Project

The project began in early No­ ci pal engineer; Mrs. Miriam Schroe­ vember. To encourage more food con­ der, cafeteria manager; Dr. Robert F. sumption, lowered prices, and more Pierce, speech department assistant varied menus, student government professor and audio equipment ex­ representatives came up with specific pert; Robert E. Wood, UMD artist suggestions for the cafeteria, plus an and designer; and Thomas Walton, offer to help carry them out. industrial education instructor. Student Commission president Grant During vacation, the cafeteria Thanks to Thomas Walton, industrial Merritt, Duluth, appointed a student echoed with the activity of painters, education instructor, on ladder, and committee to work out details with carpenters, kitchen workers, and stu­ student Rodney Anderson, Duluth, new administrative representatives. Ralph dent volunteers. Some administrative drapes are hung in the UMD cafeteria. Miller, Duluth, an art major and com­ officers put on old clothes to help the missioner of student welfare, spent students and other employes. HEN UMD students and faculty many an hour looking, talking, and Wood sketched four murals depict­ W returned from their Christmas analyzing as he sought ways to ing dancers in Egyptian, African, Gay vacation, they found a transformed brighten the cafeteria. Nineties, and contemporary settings. campus cafeteria which inspired name "We worked on the theory," ex­ He and art students Richard McDon­ tags like "The UMD Flame," "Ciro's­ plains Miller, "that if the cafeteria nell, Richard Wold, and George Bo­ on-the-Campus," and "The Bulldog had a more colorful atmosphere, the gart, all of Duluth, painted these Bistro." students would use it more and assume murals on a row of pillars in the The metamorphosis of a rather more responsibility in keeping it neat middle of the cafeteria. plain place to one vibrant with color, and attractive." To decorate the west wall and at­ sound, and "downtown" atmosphere As the project progressed, the com­ tractively camouflage the dish-bussing resulted from cooperation, under­ mittee consulted at length with campus station, Wood used geometric designs standing, and elbow grease of UMD personnel-Earl Hobe, UMD business in the style of the modern Dutch ab­ students, staff, and administration. manager; Robert W. Bridges, prin- stractionist, Mondriaan. Prof. Wal­ ton, also assisted by students, hung the grey-green, rust, and yellow draperies FRED JOHNSON continued from preceding page Wood had selected. Students waxed floors, washed fluo­ Of what exactly did Fred Johnson's some money for crippled children was rescent lighting units, cleaned win­ estate consist? He had some $700 in completely dashed. dows, tables, and chairs. A nickel­ postal savings bonds, about $16 in A final discovery odeon provides music until permanent cash, and a couple of retirement But then it was discovered that Mr. overhead speakers can be installed. checks. The total sum was $816.83. Johnson also had a savings account in Knotty pine wainscoting transformed He also had a trunk, which was the St. Anthony Falls Bank near his an adjacent private dining room into opened by Clarence Larson, director room; that his savings book showed a "The Ranch Room." of trusts, Floyd Brown, Ralph Krasky, balance of $160.13; and that, by some This tight work schedule required and the late Wallace Blomquist, all of amazing stroke of luck or foresight, many hours from many volunteers. physical plant. "There was nothing he had made out the account to "Fred Some of them worked on New Year's in it-" Larson recalls sadly, "only a Johnson, or the Board of Regents of Day; and even after midnight of the few old clothes and an old-fashioned the University of Minnesota." This day before classes, several dedicated fobwatch, worth about $2.50." account balance, of course, went di­ souls were putting on the finishing The $816 didn't even go around to rectly to the Regents. It was credited touches. pay the large hospital bill nor the ex­ to the Crippled Child Relief Rehabili­ The staff and student volunteers say penses of the funeral, attended by tation Center (now part of Physical the enthusiastic response of UMD many of Johnson's physical plant col­ Medicine in the Mayo Memorial). cafeteria users amply justifies the in­ leagues. It seemed that Fred John­ And so Fred Johnson's dream was vestment of time and effort. "Ciro's­ son's wish to leave the University realized after all! on-the-Campus" is really in business! February I955 II ------

"exemplary service"

ETHEL SLIDER Ends 38 Years At University

WHEN ETHEL SLIDER came to the university in 1916, Zoology was a new building, and her office looked out oYer grassy spaces to pri­ Yate homes where Coffman Union now stands. She's seen a lot of changes since then, having served under every chairman of Zoology and within the lifetime of every University president from Folwell to Morrill. Miss Slider got a B.A. from Carle­ ton College in classics with enough credits for a major in zoology. After taking special training in slide tech­ nique, she came to the U to work with Dr. Hal Downey, one of the world's leading hematologists, who needed help in making slides of blood cells. She's been here ever since-38 years -until her retirement last December 13. As time Kent on she was given re­ Ethel Slider returns for a picture in slide lab where she worked 38 years. sponsibility for staining and mount­ ing the specimens for many of Zool­ appreciated the university's libraries Four other University staff members ogy's 40,000 slides-10,000 in general and other special facilities. retired recently after long service. zoology, 200,000 in parasitology, and Dwight Minnich, present chairman THE MINNESOTAN salutes Miss Caro­ some 10,000 in other fields. She had of Zoology, says of Miss Slider, "She line Hansrud, who retired as stores charge, too, of all optical equipment has worked with a deYotion and skill clerk in the linen room. University and saw that students were supplied that put her in the top rank of slide Hospitals, after 37 years; and Mrs. with microscopes in good repair. and stain technologists in the country, Marie C. Peterson, also linen room Ethel also maintained Zoology "s live and she represents with distinction an stores clerk, who retired after 24 years cultures, kept in special culture media exemplary long-term service." at the University. in a temperature-controlled room. In Her main outside interests at pres­ On December 31, Miss Mellie R. recent years her work included making ent are churchwork and bird-watching. Phillips, administrative secretary in plastic molds in which whole speci­ A member of the Minneapolis Bird the office of the dean of Extension mens of insects and tinv animals were Club and the Audubon Society, she division, left the University after 37 preserved intact. can tell you where to find the early years in its employ. Miss Evangeline Whatever mysterious part her name birds in Minneapolis parks. Last sum­ P. Pierson, tabulating equipment su­ played in determining her occupation, mer, with a group of fellow-enthusi­ pervisor in the comptroller's office, Ethel Slider says her ancestry accounts asts, she went far afield-to the Gaspe retired after 36 years at the Univer­ largely for her fondness for delicate peninsula-to seek out Atlantic Ocean sity. All five of these retiring staff work: her father was a Lake Crystal birds. But she confesses a preference members will receive Regents' certifi­ jeweler and watchmaker. for this upper midwest area ... "North cates of merit for their longterm serv­ Modest and quiet, she says she liked Dakota's wonderful for ducks and ice at the annual retirement party to "all my work:· and particularly geese," she says dreamily. be held in June, 1955. 12 The Minnesotan to help the new employee understand how lost a visitor to our big campuses can feel," says Pieper, "and we sug­ gest ways to direct the visitor so he isn't shuttled endlessh- from one build­ ing to another." Using the telephone to make friends for the University is also emphasized during the discussion of "public and student relations.,. Among the prob­ lems considered: how to answer the telephone properly, how to give infor­ mation and transfer calls, how to use the Staff Address book as a telephone aid, how to place calls through the seven large switchboards and many smaller departmental ones on the two Twin Cities campuses. Part of each orientation meeting is also devoted to answering questions the new employees have about Univer­ sity personnel policies and employee facilities. At a "Get Acquainted" meeting, traznzng coordinator Frank Pieper explains a pictorial chart showing the University organi::;ation to new civil service THE IDEAS for these "Get Ac- staff members: standing (l. to r.), Carold Wilford; lack Ervin, Margaret quainted with the l'niversity Meet­ Larson, Matt Smigleski, Elizabeth Moellenhoff; seated, Janis Christensen. ings" came largely from supervisors and department heads who have felt for years that University employees should be acquainted with the pur­ New Staffers Get to Know U poses of the l'niversity as a whole, says Pieper. NEW CIVIL SERVICE employees film: to give new employees a quick "The biggest part of this orienta­ on the Minneapolis and St. Paul but comprehensive idea of the varied tion," he continues, '"is done by the campuses are going to find it a lot teaching, research, and service activi­ supervisors, themselves, who make easier to get to know the University ties of the l'niversity and to show how new employee~ feel at home in their from now on, thanks to the office of the work of every employee helps department. their building, their sur­ civil service personnel. Since early carry out these activities. roundings, and their particular job. January, the personnel office has been The film also illustrates the several "In trying to deepen this feeling of holding "Get Acquainted with the sources of L-niversity income. Empha­ belonging, loyalty, and understanding University" meetings for an hour and sizing the major support provided by by explaining the overall purposes and one-half, regularly. Each new full­ public funds, it points out that this policies of the University, we in the time employee- about 2.5 join the gives all who work at the U a special personnel office are only supplement­ civil service staff every week- is in­ responsibility to the taxpayers of the ing what department heads and super­ vited to one of these sessions at a time State for friendly, efficient help. visors do." convenient to his work schedule. In addition to the film, a large-pic­ As part of this philosophy, it is Conducted usually by Frank Pieper, torial organization chart helps new through their department heads that coordinator of training, these meetings employees visualize how the U oper­ new employees are invited to the "Get are designed "to give new employees ates as an association of colleges, Acquainted" meetings. As soon as the a well-rounded picture of the work and schools, institutes, and other agencies, notice of appointment comes into the organization of the University and of and how its internal student service personnel office, an attractive "Wel­ every employee's share in it." and business service departments exist come Packet" - containing the em­ Central feature of the meetings, says to help the teaching, research, and ployee handbook, information on l! Pieper, is a 20-minute movie call~d public service departments. employee benefit plans, and the invi­ "This Is the University of Minne­ How to help students and the public tation to the meeting- is sent to the sota," a documentary-type film photo­ use C facilities with maximum ease is appropriate department head, who graphed entirely on the Minneapolis also a subject for discussion at these then arranges for his new staff mem­ and St. Paul campus. Purpose of the '·Get Acquainted" meetings. "We try ber to attend the session. February 1955 13 c-- -

ACLS Re-elects Dean Blegen Miss Pierson Retires Documentary Film on U Lab Theodore C. Blegen, dean of the To Be Telecast Feb. 20 University's Graduate School, was re­ A documentary-type film on the elected vice chairman of the Ameri­ University's laboratory for physio­ can Council of Learned Societies at logical hygiene will be telecast over its recent annual meeting in Washing­ WCCO-TV (Channel4) on Feb. 20 at ton, D. C. 9:30a.m. Produced by CBS-TV and The council is a federation of 25 featuring laboratory personnel in national organizations concerned with their studies on cardiovascular dis­ the humanities-history and the arts, ease, the film is part of a series on re­ languages and literatures, philoso­ search in colleges and universities phies and religions, and the human­ called "The Search." istic aspects of the social sciences. Cleveland Group Recognizes Dean Re-elected to Council Prof. Davis and Colleagues E. G. Williamson, dean of students, Prof. E. W. Davis, Mines Experi­ was recently re-elected to the National ment Station, was recently cited by Advisory Council of the United States the Cleveland, Ohio, Advertising National Student Association. Club on behalf of the Cleveland in­ The association aims to serve the dustrial committee for his contribu­ students of the nation and to improve tion to American industry by the de­ and stimulate student government. velopment of the taconite beneficia­ tion process. The citation stated that U Has American Legion Post "his genius and that of his colleagues Tall candles, rosy punch, gifts and The Uni'.'ersity post of The Ameri­ have unlocked new sources of basic congratulations marked the party fan. can Legion, organized last year, no-.r ores to today's needs and as a bul­ 14 for Evangeline Pierson, retiring includes some 30 members drawn wark in times of future national as tab equipment supervisor after 36 from University armed forces vet­ peril." years. Photograph by Clarence Smith. erans. Officers for 1955 are: William T. Harris, Jr., director of the Uni­ versity news service, commander; Staff Committee of 17 Named for Robert C. McClure, professor of law, Minneapolis Campus Red Cross Drive vice commander; Joseph P. Leverone, custodial and grounds superintendent, A committee of 17 faculty and staff Harold Menssen, assistant to the di­ vice commander; Martin Snoke, assist­ members has been named by President rector, University services; Warren ant to the dean of students, adjutant; J. L. Morrill to serve as division chair­ G. Meyer, associate professor of edu­ Herbert G. Heneman, Jr., professor of men for the 1955 Minneapolis Campus cation. economics and industrial relations, Red Cross Drive. They will serve Walfred L. Pedersen, senior per­ service officer. under Gordon Starr, director of stu­ sonnel representative; Ralph A. Wilbur L. Layton, associate pro­ dent unions, who is general chairman Piper, professor of physical educa­ fessor of psychology and assistant for the drive. tion and athletics; Miss Mabel Pow­ director, student counseling bureau, Ralph Hopp, assistant director of ers, senior college and placement chaplain; Lee Hart, assistant to super­ libraries, is assistant chairman. Others counselor; Miss Janet Salisbury, edi­ vismg engineer, sergeant- at- arms; on the committee are John Buttrick, tor, University Press; Eugene N. Franz Montgomery, associate pro­ associate professor of economics; Turnberg, principal engineer; Ralph fessor of English, historian; Donald Robert Christine, billiard recreation J. Willard, principal accountant, G. Paterson, professor of psychology, supervisor, Coffman Memorial Union; comptroller's office. Americanism chairman; Maurice William H. Edson, associate professor The drive will be conducted March Connery, assistant professor of social and director of student personnel. 1-11. A quota of $10,500 has been work, child welfare chairman: and Dr. Forrest Erlandson, assistant set for the Minneapolis campus. Chester B. Grygar, principal account­ dean, school of dentistry; Gerlad J. Under an organization plan which is ant, employment chairman. Giefer, librarian and assistant to the new this year, a number of captains Meetings of the post are held in director; William Kleinhenz, assistant will work with the division chairmen Coffman Memorial Union at noon on professor, institute of technology; and representatives in the drive. An­ the second Tuesday of each month. Miss Marilyn Kurzweg, secretary, other innovation will be the an­ Anyone interested in joining can con· University hospitals; Gordon Low, nouncement of individual quotas for tact William T. Harris, Jr., 214 Ad­ semor student personnel worker; each division. ministration, ext. 6700. 14 The Minnesotan \

The President~s Page

University Seeks Social Security Benefits for Staff

,tS MANY STAFF MEMBERS already know, the 1954 ft Congressional amendments to the Old Age and Sur­ vivors Insurance (Social Security) are of great signifi­ cance to University of Minnesota employees- Not only do these amendments open the door for us for the first time, but also they make full retirement and survivor coverage possible as early as July I, 1956_ There are qualifications, of course, and among the most important of these are the provisions that: for the necessary funds, to provide coverage for academic L Such early coverage is possible only if the present staff members eligible for membership in the University's Legislature enacts enabling legislation providing faculty retirement plan. that such coverage shall be retroactive to January 1, It is natural that there should be considerable interest 1955_ in the benefits that are available. Should enabling legis­ 2_ A referendum among the staff must receive a favor­ lation be drafted, these will be explained, of course, in able majority. full detail. The University proposals would assure that 3. Funds must be available to finance the University's in no case would our participation in OASI reduce the share of the cost. benefits now available under the existing retirement pro­ My purpose in writing now is not to go into the details gram, and in virtually every case OASI coverage would of the program that the University Insurance Advisory enhance retirement benefits. Committee, Vice President Middlebrook and Mr. Ray F. Of importance parallel to the retirement benefits is the Archer-with staff assistance-have worked out, and let very substantial value of the dependent and survivor me add that they have done a truly magnificent job. benefits under OASI to those staff members affected. Rather, it is to give assurance that the University is in­ It should be obvious to all that the obtaining of all tensely concerned with the progress of enabling and these OASI benefits for the civil service and academic appropriation legislation at this session. staff would be a milestone of greatest significance in our The University has been working in close cooperation retirement-insurance programs and would strengthen our with the State Employees Retirement Association in their position markedly in the attraction and retention of staff. efforts on behalf of all civil service employees, including I am in communication with the Administrative Commit­ those on our staff. Also, the Regents have authorized the tee and the Faculty Consultative Committee on this entire administration to prepare and submit to the Legislature matter, and further reports to the staff will be made as the necessary enabling legislation, together with a request circumstances warrant or require.

February 1955 15 FEBRUARY 15 TO MARCH 15, 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONVOCATIONS Subscription Series Feb. 17-Vinnette Carroll. actress, dramatic program. :'liar. 11-"Das Lied von der Erde." Mahler; Set Svanholm Feb. 24-Charter Day, Governor Orville L. Freeman, speaker. and Elena Nikolaidi, principal soloists. Mar. 3-Ryder-Frankel Dance Duo. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.7S (Northrop Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. Open to the public with­ to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the out charge.) Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call Mar. 10-Special evening convocation: Boston Pops Orches- University extension 622S.) t tra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor. Young People's Concert (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Admission from $l.SO to "\Iar. IS-Northrop Auditorium, l :30 p.m. $3.50. Discounts to students. faculty, and staff at 105 North­ (Admission arranged through local schools.) rop Auditorium beginning Feb. 28.) Artists Course UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Feb. 24-Brian Sullivan, tenor. l\Iar. 4-Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. Through Feb. 28-Rising Talent. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30p.m. Tickets from $1.00 to $3.00. Through Feb. 28-Four American Graphic Designers. Ticket sales begin the Monday before the week of the con· Feb. 18 to Mar. 19-Eskimo Contemporary Sculpture. cert at the Artist Course Ticket Office. lOS Northrop.) t Mar. 1 to Apr. 3-Drawing Invitational of outstanding Amer­ ican contemporary artists. including work of DeKooning, SPECIAL CONCERTS Gwathmey, Thon. Feb. 2S-Recital by Edward Berryman, organist and choir­ l\Iar. 4 to 27-Children's Music and Art Exhibit. Work by master of St. Mark's Cathedral. Northrop Audtiorium, pupils of Twin Cities and suburban public and parochial 8:30p.m. schools. Mar. 6-University Concert Band. Northrop Auditorium, (The University Gallery. on the third and fourth floors of 4:30p.m. Northrop Auditorium. is open to the public 8-5 Monday Mar. 8-Concert by University Symphony Orchestra, Prof. through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open Paul Oberg, conductor. Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. before performances and during intermissions.) (These events open to the public. No admission charged.) UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES COMMENCEMENT Feb. 17-The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman, edited Mar. 17-Speaker, Carroll M. Shanks, president, Prudential by Tom Burns Haber. The first publication of some 800 Insurance Company of America. "The New Frontiers of lines of poetry by the English poet who is best known as Democracy." author of "A Shropshire Lad." Haber is on the faculty of (Northrop Auditorium, 8 :00 p.m. Admission by guest card Ohio State University. $4.50. only.) Feb. 23-Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919- NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES 1920, by Robert K. Munay. An analysis of the wave of fear Feb. 27-A. H. Larson, assistant professor emeritus, plant which swept the United States after World War I. Illus­ pathology and agricultural botany at the University, trated with newspaper cartoons of the period. Mr. Murray "Plants Have Personalities." teaches history at Pennsylvania State College. $4.75. Mar. 6-Dr. W. J. Breckenridge, director, Minnesota Mu­ ]\hr.-The Nation and the States, Rivals or Partners?, by seum of Natural History, and "Back River Arctic Report," William Anderson, University political science professor. a movie account of the 19S3 University-Wilkie Back River A discussion of background issues in the controversy over Arctic expedition to the northern Canada tundra country. balance of authority, functions, and finances between the '\Iar. 13-"Bear Country," color movie by Walt Disney pho- nation, the states, and the local governments. Prof. Ander­ tographers. son is a member of the President's Commission on Inter· (Museum of. Natural History Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open governmental Relations. $3.75. to the public by ticket only. Tickets are free and may be l\Iar.-A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs: obtained up to four weeks in advance at the Museum by Articles in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, compiled by direct request or by mail renclose a stamped self-addressed Tom B. Jones, University professor of history, Elizabeth envelope].) Anne Warburton. and Anne Kingsley. $5.50. UNIVERSITY THEATRE Mar.-Nen- Perspectit·es in Counseling, edited by Vivian Feb. 24 to '\Iar. 5---"0thello" by Shakespeare. Hewer, University assistant professor and senior student (Scott Hall Auditorium. Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 2S and personnel worker. (No.7 in .Minnesota Studies in Student 26 at 8:30 p.m.; Feb. 27 at 4:00 p.m.; Feb. 28, no perform· Personnel Work.) $1.50. ance; Mar. 1 at 3:00 p.m.; Mar. 2-S at 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.20 may be purchased a week before the opening ATHLETIC EVENTS at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott Hall.) t Basketball Garnes at Horne Feb. 28-Iowa. SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS :\far. 5-Wisconsin. Scandinavian Music Series .... 1\Iusic of the classic and ro­ (Williams Arena, 8 :00 p.m. Single reserved seat tickets at mantic periods presented in cooperation with the Univer­ $1.75 may be purchased in 108 Cooke Hall. General admis­ sity's Scandinavian department and the American-Scandi­ sion tickets at $1.25 are on sale at the Arena before games.) t navian Foundation of New York. Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. Cooper Union Forum ... Series: Contemporary Trends in Phi­ HockeY Garnes at Horne losophy. Feh. 19-"World Orientations"; Feb. 26-"Gandhi Feb. 18 and 19-Michigan. and the Philosophy of Non-Violence"; Mar. 5---"The Chi­ (Williams Arena, 8:30 p.m. Single reserved seat tickets at nese World View," and Mar. 12-"Schweitzer and the Phi­ $1.50 may be purchased in 108 Cooke Hall. General admis­ losophy of Reverence for Life."' Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. sion tickets at $1 are on sale before games. lt tTickets 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. THE MINNESOTAN C:ltc University Staff Magazine - )'tarclt 1955 in this issue ... A MINNESOTAN EXCLUSIVE. They Made Us Great Beginning on page 3, we present a report from Korea written by Arthur TUDIES ON housing for the aged, Schneider, professor of forestry, now S the metabolism of the foetus, on lt>ave as chief adviser in Korea bovine diseases, the predictability of of the Seoul National University Co­ adjustment in certain parent-child re­ operative Project under the Univer­ lationships-these are just a few of sity's contract with FOA. the University of Minnesota projects A VOLUNTARY retirement-invest­ that have been carried on through ment plan designed to protect the grants from the Louis W. and Maud shrinking purchasing power of retire­ Hill Family Foundation, St. Paul. ment dollars has been started by a Following the death of Louis W. group of U staff members. You'll Hill, Sr., one of the northwest's lead­ learn how it works on page 13. ing industrialists, the foundation re­ THE FACULTY DANCES ... ceived his entire estate in 1948. It Pages 6 and 7 present a picture story uses the income from this capital to showing the Faculty Dancing Club finance studies in the cultural arts, in action and relating its history. education, health and medicine, the OTHER FEATURES ON: U natural sciences, agriculture, philoso­ wrestling coach Wally Johnson, page phy, and the social sciences. 10; Robert Wood, UMD's busy art­ Executive director A. A. Heckman ist-lecturer, page ll; University- de­ says that while Hill Foundation proj­ veloped plants and ornamentals for ects are not limited to any one field, your garden, page 12. their emphasis consistently falls on Louis W. Hill, Sr. (1872-1948) basic research and on pioneer appli­ on the cover . .. cation of basic theory. tions with medical school staff The weather being so capri­ Concentrating on studies in the members, who felt that the funda­ cious these days, we decided upper midwest area, the Foundation mental medical sciences at the Univer­ to pass up a seasonal photo gave $794,147 in grants during its sity would be greatly advanced by for our March cover in favor fiscal year ending Feb. 28, 1954. Of having in their midst a scientist in­ of this timeless shot showing this total, some $367,000 went to Uni­ terested in the most basic mechanism the monument to Universitv versity of Minnesota projects, rang­ of enzyme action. students who fought in the ing from the Malignant Disease Fund • A three-year, $90,774, study on Spanish-American war. under Dr. Owen W angensteen, Sur­ the role of the hypothalamus in be­ That's the Armory m the gery, to a study of the usability of havior changes associated with psy­ background. Minnesota clays in ceramics, pro­ choneurosis and mental disease ( divi­ posed by University Gallery Director sion of neurophysiology). THE MINNESOTAN Ruth E. Lawrence. • A three-year p r o gram to Vol. VIII No. 6 Largest-scale University projects strengthen adult education in agri­ Published by the Department of backed by the Hill Foundation are: culture through cooperation of fed­ University Relations, 213 Administration Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ • The Minnesota Center for the eral, slate, community, and Univer­ neapolis 14, Minnesota. Philosophy of Science, set up and sity personnel, under supervision of William L. Nunn, Director maintained for three years, beginning Prof. Milo Peterson, ag education. Ellen Siegelman . Editor in 1953, through a grant of $118,000. Says Dean Theodore C. Blegen of JoAnne Alberg . . Assistant Editor Advisory Committee: Members of the Purpose of the center, says director the Graduate School: "By its balanc­ University Public Information Council. Herbert Feigl, Philosophy, is "to ing of basic research and pioneering The Minnesotan is published monthly study the logical and methodological application, the Hill Foundation is during the academic year, October through May. Copies are mailed free to foundations of the sciences, concen­ doing a very great service to the Uni­ University staff members. Subscription trating during these first three years vt>rsity and the state-a service that rates for non-staff members are $2 a year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this on the basic concepts and presuppo­ will inevitably result in notable sci­ issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial sitions of psychology." The center is entific and educational advances. The Union Bookstore,. the only one of its kind in the country. University is deeply indebted not Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ ited, were taken by members of the • A ten-year endowed rest>arch only for specific Hill Foundation University Photographic Laboratory. professorship in enzymology. This grants but also for the planning and Entered as second-class matter at the resulted from Heckman's conversa- statesmanship behind these grants." post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2 The Minnesotan Prof. Schneider gives U staff a report

fro HI KOREA

Seoul engineering dean Yung Mo Hwang discusses plans with Prof. Schneider.

Believing that U staff members would like to know more out shells of buildings were in evidence here and there, about our sister university in Korea, which we are helping all rubble had been cleaned up, streets were in reasonably to rehabilitate under an FOA contract, The Minnesotan good shape, traffic- both vehicular and pedestrian­ has asked Prof. Arthur Schneider, chief adviser in Korea was as heavy as I'd ever seen it. The city gave every of the Seoul University Cooperative Project, for an infor· impression of normalcy a~ its citizens went about their mal report. Here is his open letter to University staff: daily business. Noticeable was the decrease in the number of bull·carts Seoul, Korea on the city's streets and the increase in trucks and auto­ 3 January 1955 mobiles. The horse-drawn buses of 1943 had given way YEARS OF TURBULENCE- of war, of uneasy IX completely to gasoline powered buses. Rickshas, never peace, of rehabilitation - had passed since last I had S very numerous in Seoul, had been supplanted by taxis of seen Korea. From the little-known "Land of the Morning every make and vintage. Streetcars looked just as tired Calm" Korea had, in the space of these few years, come as they did before the war, and hauled the same jammed­ into world prominence. No longer was it a land of ori­ to-the-door crowds. Bicycles, those super-important con­ ental mystery; no longer just an unknown peninsula in a veyances of the Orient, seemed present in the same num­ hazy location off Asia's mainland. bers as formerly. The very mode of travel on this aerial crossing of the Pacific did much to dispel the impression of farness as People seem better off well as the air of mystery that in former years had en­ shrouded the country. Things just don't seem mysterious It's my general impression that the people of Seoul are when you're flying at a comfortable altitude in bright considerably better dressed than before the war and that sunlight. A far cry indeed from the 1947 small-morning­ they are well fed. Shops and stores seem well supplied hour anchorage off Korea's west coast while waiting for with merchandise. day to dawn and a pilot to come aboard, then the slow All this reflects some very marked progress in recon­ working up the island-studded and mountainous coast to struction and rPhabilitation in the space of a fairlv short the anchorage off Inchon. period of time- a tribute to the indomitable nature of An advantage of altitude is that the physical perspec­ the Korean people and to the very substantial assistance tive often engenders mental perspective. The air view of they have received from people of other lands. the peninsula varied in no major way from that of years School buildings, it appears, have suffered from the before the war. The mountains looked no greener and war more than any other single class of structure. Schools no barer; villages, cultivated areas, and roads appeared lend themselves too easily to troop use which makes them the same; the war's destruction was obscured. prime targets for destruction. It was thus a most pleasant It was amazing to find that even the aerial view of the surprise to find the main buildings of the Colleges of capital city, Seoul, had undergone no evident major Medicine and Engineering of Seoul National University change. Such destruction as had occurred - with the in relatively good shape. The same is true of many of the exception of Han river bridges- either was not readily other structures of the main campus including, fortu­ evident or had been obliterated through clean·up and nately, both the library and administration buildings. reconstruction after the truce. Despite this situation, the less fortunate effects of war The trip from the airport to downtown Seoul by car on the educational facilities become evident rather was equally surprising. Though bombed-out or burned. continued on next page March 1955 3 Hands across the Pacific: Prof. Schneider presents Il Sun Yun, Seoul University vice president, with a Regents resolution pledging support in the cooperative project.

classrooms and laboratories, accentuated by the cold at this time of year, is one of drab discomfort. The College of Agriculture at Suwon, a town 26 miles south of Seoul, was hard hit by the war. Many of its buildings were destroyed, and all were damaged. Though considerable rehabilitation work at this college has al­ ready been done, its physical plant needs are far from having been met. Furthermore, its equipment was almost completely lost during the war. Here also, however, plan­ ning for rehabilitation and improvement continues and action often crowds the planning stage. But a very great deal remains to be done at Suwon. Our "sister-relationship" with Seoul National Univer­ sity made possible through the contract entered into with and financed by the Foreign Operations Administration is something new both for the University of Minnesota and for Seoul National University. It has been most encouraging and gratifying to observe and sense, both in quickly. Ninety-five per cent of the teaching and research Korea and at Minnesota, the appreciation of potentialities equipment of these colleges is gone; what remains is gen­ inherent in this undertaking. I have found officials and erally in poor shape for use. The buildings are unheated staff members of Seoul National University most friendly except for three wards in the university hospital and a and cooperative, and deeply interested in this technical few offices equipped with space heaters. Maintenance­ assistance program. It has been my observation that this roof patching, window glass replacement, and painting, interest extends far beyond the University, too, both in etc. -is badly in arrears. The aspect of many of the government and business circles. This view of Seoul National University's engineering buildings shows the extent of war damage.

4 The Minnesotan It is much too early, of course, to be discussing the details of curricula, teaching methods, research programs, and service and cultural activities of Seoul National Uni­ versity as seen through Western eyes. But let me say that fortunately, the administrators of Seoul University share the generally accepted Western concepts about the role of higher education: that a university is no more nor less than the make-up of its staff determines; that this staff must not only teach present knowledge, but must, through research and scholarship, add to man's store of knowl­ edge; that the technical and cultural influence of the university must be carried far beyond the campus and throughout the country. This gives representatives of both Minnesota and Seoul a common sense of obligation to use as a guide in con­ sidering details of organization and operation. Major effort concerning this project has thus far been expended along three main lines: ( 1) getting equipment On recent trip to Minnesota, Seoul University president lists prepared, reviewed, and ready for procurement; Kyu. Nam Choi chatted with agriculture dean H. Macy. (2) determining physical plant needs and preparing plans and estimates for both rehabilitation and new con­ Life at the Chosun has been reasonably comfortable. The struction; and ~ 3) working out staff exchange plans. order of the day here in Korea being change, however, Some progress has been made in each area. The first of it's not clear exactly what the housing situation will be Seoul National University staff members to go to the in the future. United States under this program will be the Deans of the The OEC will probably occupy office space in some Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Medicine, who buildings now in use by American armed forces. It is also it is planned will leave Korea in January. Next, senior expected that the Chosun Hotel will be returned to Korean staff members of each of these colleges will go to Minne­ authorities in the not-too-distant future, and that OEC sota under present plans; junior staff members will personnel will be billeted elsewhere. However, it is cur­ follow. rently planned that Minnesota personnel will maintain It is expected that Minnesota staff members will begin offices at Seoul National University, and billets, wherever arriving in Korea during the late winter or early spring. located, will be of the same quality as provided for OEC employees. How we live in Korea Our laundry and pressing is done at the hotel; for dry For those who are generally interested and especially cleaning we use the 8th Army PX, where one can also get for any of you who may be considering participating in photographic service and where I have found a good vari­ our program here in Korea, a few words on living accom­ ety of toiletries, magazines, candy, snacks, cigarettes, tour­ modations, etc., may be in order: The Office of the UNC ist items. and even some clothing (primarily socks, T­ Economic Coordinator (the Korea part of FOA) has shirts, etc.). Near the PX is the 8th Army Finance Office responsibility for the logistical support of our staff mem­ where we procure local currency \hwan). bers. Consequently I've been housed at the Chosun Hotel, Transportation, drawn from a car pool, is currently in where OEC personnel live and where most of them work. rather short supply, hut may be improved, if present plans materialize, by early spring. This account has given but a scanty glimpse of the Seoul area of Korea- no more than an introduction to Minnesota's operations under the Seoul National Univer­ sity cooperative project, and a few details of the circum­ One of the best preserved buildings stances under which some Americans live here. As the on the Seoul University campus project progresses I hope to provide more detail through is the main hos pita! building further reports of this kind. of the medical school. Arthur E. Schneider Professor of Forestry University of Minnesota on leave as Chief Adviser in Korea Seoul National University Cooperative Project 5 l

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• • Mrs. Thor Gullickson (left) talks with Mr. and Mrs. Ned Flanders (center), dancing club secretary·treasurer, u·hile Proj. Gullickson listens at the right.

NCE A MONTH during the academic year some 130 dollars a couple per year, is open to anyone with a per­ O faculty members and their wives don evening clothes manent academic appointment with rank of instructor or and sashay off to the Main Ballroom of Coffman Union. above, or a clinical appointment in the medical school. Here, for several hours, they waltz, rumba, foxtrot, lindy Application may be made by calling Profs. Borchert, and even- the courageous ones- mambo, to the tunes Flanders, or any board member. of a six-piece orchestra. Open membership was not always a club rule. They are members of the Faculty Dancing Club, and Joseph lVI. Thomas, who retired as assistant dean of the best recollection on campus dates their tradition back SLAin 1945, is a longtime member who recalls the early to the turn of the century. years when the club rigidly controlled admittance of mem­ Mr. and Mrs. John Borchert (geography) jointly serve bers and when one veto blackballed a newcomer. as president, and Mr. and Mrs. Ned Flanders (education) When Dean Thomas came to the University in 1909, the are secretary-treasurer. "To make full use of the admin­ club was a "going concern of about 18 couples- faculty istrative talent and not overwork anybody," Borchert says, and a few from the outside" who danced in Shevlin Hall. "board members rotate every few years." Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lazan (mechanics and mate­ HE early years were the "closed shop era," chuckles rials) and Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Johansson (bacteriology T Dean Thomas. When Thomas came to the University, and immunology) head the hospitality committee. Dr. dancing club members prompted Ada Comstock, then a and Mrs. John McKelvey (obstetrics and ~ynecology) are colleague in the Department of Rhetoric and Public in charge of the membership committee; Dr. and Mrs. Speaking and later the U's dean of women and Radcliffe C. Knight Aldrich (psychiatry) and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer College president, to find out how good a dancer Thomas Slagle (public health) pIan refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. was before they invited him to join. (Now the club doesn't Norman Ceaglske (chemical engineering I write publicity, even ask the prospective member if he can dance!) and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Grismer (romance languages) The Dean's two-step must have met with Miss Com­ plan the music. stock's approval because he was accepted immediately, "We're just a bunch of people who like to dance," says was active for 36 years until his retirement, and is now Borchert. Some enjoy the lilt of a waltz, others relish a senior member of the club. Latin-American beat, some are real gone on modern jazz. He was elected president no less than three times. All age levels and almost every academic department is "Everytime the club got into financial difficulty," says represented. Thomas with a smile, "they named me president because Three times a year, a dinner in the Campus Club pre­ I had many young instructors in my department whom I cedes the dance. Dancing club events are among the few could dragoon into membership." functions at which tuxes and formal gowns are required, "But really, I think it is most worthwhile. I always and this, says Borchert, "doesn't seem to disturb anybody believed senior members should keep it alive for young ... matter of fact, they seem to like it." instructors and their wives. It is one channel - at one Every year, the club circularizes newcomers, and mem­ time the only channel- through which the University bers can bring guests. Membership, which costs twelve family can get to know one another better." The Minnesotan 6 Upper left: Mrs. Al Stoesser and Mrs. fohn McKelvey; upper right: Mrs. Robert Wise and Prof. & Mrs. Thomas 0' Brien (inorganic chemis­ try). Lower left, Mrs. Flanders chats with a guest, Mr. Robert Bruce.

photos hy AI Ominsky March 1955 7 -j

Genevieve Stoddart, at the U since 1920, keeps an eye on everything from budgets to violets as versatile senior secretary in the zoology dept. Supervising admissions to 75 athletic events a year keeps B. E. !Ted) Kingsley busy. He also sees that stuff members U athletic facilities are kept in excellent condition. YOU SD Albert C. Heine, 38 years a staff member, supervises Associate professor of social work Werner Boehm is one Rosemount's agricultural experiment station, goes of 50 Americans who are planning the International Con­ in for photography, carpentry in his leisure hours. ference of Social Work to meet in Munich this August.

8 The Minnesotan IT Professor William R. Weems has left for one year in Korea, where he will advise the Seoul Uni· versity on engineering problems.

Latvian·born Mikelis Geistauts, machinist at the Rosemount areo research labs, became an American citizen last month. LD KNOW

Erna Reese, art dept. secretary four years, likes to dance, travel in her spare time.

Eleanor Mehling does double duty: she's the UMD art depart­ ment secretary as well as the recep­ tionist at Tweed Gallery, Duluth. March 1955 9 ,- -

headaches aplenty for If wrestling coach ...

Meet Wally Johnson

MILING, JOVIAL Wallace T. Johnson, University Kubes decided to forego his final year of wrestling to play S of Minnesota wrestling and freshman football coach, football in the North-South Shrine game at Miami; 123- is not easily discouraged. But his Cooke Hall cronies pound Ed Anderson, who finished fourth in the country have noticed long, deep furrows on his forehead lately. in 1954, suffered a broken leg in a practice bout; two year And small wonder! Seldom has a varsity coach been letterman John Munn did not report; Paul Bengtson, plagued with ~o many misfortunes. Take last year, for another '5-t regular, joined the armed forces; and promis­ instance. Minnesota should have had one of its best wres­ ing sophomore Charles Prunty underwent an appendec­ tling teams in several seasons but: two of the most prom­ tomy just before Christmas which kept him out of the gym ising student matmen joined the armed forces; two others for more than two months. were scholastically ineligible, and the team captain missed Johnson, himself, joined the casualty list for a week the first four dual meet,; because of a rib separation! early this winter with a severe virus attack. Despite these Still undaunted, Johnson looked forward to a better setbacks he manages to keep pace with his busy schedule than average team this year. But misfortune reared its of boxing and wrestling classes, football skull sessions with Murray Warmath and the assistant coaches, and head again, and herewith the re~ults: heavyweight Chuck wrestling practices- including evening workouts with boys who need extra coaching. Too busy? Not Johnson. "Working with these young men in football and wrestling is very satisfying. It gives me a feeling of accomplishment and pleasure to see the athletes progress from year to year and gain new skills," he says. "And despite all their setbacks, our wrestling squads have retained their 'will to win' and seem to show greater spirit with each match," he adds. Perhaps the wrestlers get their renewed vigor from Johnson himself. Wally is one coach who is not afraid to mix it up with his student wrestlers, taking on two or three almost every afternoon. Captain Ron Malcolm, who has won seven of eight matches this season, is still trying to "beat the boss."

1937 GRADUATE of Detroit Lakes High School, A Johnson came to the University that fall and has since earned two degrees at the U- a B.A. in education and an M.Ed. While an undergraduate Johnson was twice intramural middleweight boxing champion, received freshman foot­ ball numerals as a halfback, participated in varsity foot­ ball as a center in 1938 until a broken leg ended his grid career, and won varsity wrestling "M's" in 1940 and 1941. His football injury is the subject of much jesting by his friends. It seems the ex-GDpher who inadvertently broke Johnson's leg is now Governor Orville Freeman! After teaching at the University, serving three years in the Navy, and coaching football and wrestling at South Dakota State and Luther College, Iowa, Johnson returned to his alma mater in 1952 and has been here ever since. He and his wife, Almeda, and their three children live in South Minneapolis. 10 The Minnesotan all about Wood-mo••k ...

UMD Artist Has Design for Living

OR A DEDICATED artist, Robert F Wood, lecturer in art at UMD, Robert Wood finds time for a breathtaking array poses with some of other interests: o j his paintings. Since he came to Duluth in 1952 Below, wife loan Wood has: played the lead, opposite serves coffee in his wife, Joan, in a Duluth Little their remodeled Theater production of "Bell, Book, Duluth apart­ and Candle"; designed and produced ment, which was sets for the UMD University Theatre; featured in a na­ designed brochures, programs, and tional magazine. other literature for campus and com­ munity activities; given public lec­ tures and demonstrations; judged art exhibit every month. Under the pres­ shows; advised campus art and stu­ sure of a deadline I can get twice as dent activity groups; served as inte­ much work done," he avers. rior decorator for the recent volun­ Wood has had 15 one-man shows tary UMD cafeteria refurbishing (see since 1950. Most of these were in his Minnesotan, February 1955). native California, and several others As if all this weren't enough, he were held at the Minnesota State Fair and his wife completely remodeled and the UMD Tweed Gallery. Twin an old mid-town Duluth apartment Cities residents will be able to see his which justified a five-page color work at the Walker Art Center, Min­ spread in McCall's magazine (Feb­ neapolis, from May 1-June 10 of this ruary, 1954). And he also built, from year. scratch, a lowslung mustard-color sports car. GRADUATE of Pomona College The ear, which has a rebuilt '39 A and the Claremont Graduate Ford frame and uses parts from vari­ School, Calif., from which he re­ ous other makes and models, was ceived the Master of Fine Arts de­ Wood's first attempt at car-building. gree, Wood studied under California So successful was the undertaking which meant some rugged open-car artist Millard Sheets. Although he is that he and his wife traveled in the driving in the early winter tempera­ doing some oil-painting, Wood gen­ car three times from Duluth to Cali­ tures of Duluth! erally prefers to work in watercolors, fornia. The automobile was not quite In addition to all this, Wood about which he feels he is constantly finished on their first trip in 1952. teaches 24 hours of class a week in learning new things: Wood had just put on the headlights drawing, watercolor and oil painting, "Last summer in California I was before they left California and had design, and lettering. He gets time able to develop some new approaches not yet received the special removable for his own painting during evenings while devoting full-time to painting. plastic hard-top which he had ordered and weekends! I felt an excitement and freshness from a manufacturer. Result: the Wood carries off these feats with a in the paints themselves, and this was six-day cross country trip was made relaxed, almost casual air, and says very gratifying. Discovery is always sans top; and this part never did he would welcome even more work. a great reward for the artist." arrive until the following January, "I wish sometimes I could have an At 29, he has discovered much. March I955 II Ask University horticulturists

How Does U Garden Grow?

INNESOTA'S EXTREMES of veloping early blooming varieties, M heat and cold may irk its citi­ began the University's chrysanthemum zens now and again. And that isn't breeding work in 1936. By his re­ all. An erratic climate harasses tirement in 1949, he had developed plants too. and introduced 26 garden chrysanthe­ In fact, Minnesota's rigorous win­ mum varieties adapted to northern ters stimulated University horticul­ climates. Now, many of these grow Wenonah, a University-developed lav­ turists to map an ambitious plant not only in the Midwest but through­ ender 'mum, soon to be available. breeding and testing program- not out the country. Most popular are only in fruits and vegetables, but also the rich purple Chippewa, the dark lavender, early flowering 'mum, and in ornamentals (plants cultivated for yellow Butterball, pink Dr. Longley, Vulcan, a dark red double blossom­ decorative purposes). Purple Star, white Dee Dee Ahrens, will be introduced to home gardeners For brilliant colored chrysanthe­ white Glacier, Redgold, and Violet. this year. mums that riot in a burst of bloom After Dr. Longley retired, Robert Roses pose problems too. Nippy before frost strikes, gardeners can Phillips, assistant professor, and November nights find Minnesotans thank the University-and men like Richard Widmer, instructor, contin­ heaping mounds of soil, straw, leaves, the late Dr. L. E. Longley, assistant ued this work and in 1952 introduced or marsh hay on their delicate rose professor. As recently as twenty two new varieties - Harvest Bronze plants in anticipation of immediate years ago, few chrysanthemums flour­ and Prairie Sunset. The breeders frost. This annual routine is one ished in northern regions because stress hardiness, new colors, larger which gardeners would gladly skip­ autumn frosts killed buds before they blooms and more varieties of the if they could. The horticulturists are bloomed. cushion type. Two new outdoor trying to help by developing hardier Dr. Longley, who pioneered in de- chrysanthemums-Wenonah, a light rose plants. The work was started by Dr. Long­ ley who developed four: White Dawn, a low climber with white gardenia­ like blossoms, now sold throughout the country; L. E. Longley, a red hybrid tea rose; Red Rocket and Pink Dick Stadtherr, Rocket, single shrub-type roses espe­ research fellow cially suited for the background of in horticulture, flower borders. Now Phillips, in his plants some cut­ effort to develop stronger plants, is tings of Canadian using the native prairie rose as one hemlock for pro­ of the parents in his experiments. pagation pur­ Leon C. Snyder, head of the hor­ poses. It requires ticulture department, has news for 6 to 10 weeks to those who cast envious eyes south­ root most cuttings ward at luxurious azalea and rhodo­ in the special dendron blooms. These, along with polyethylene pro­ redbud, flowering dogwood, vibur­ pagating case in num, weigela, and cotoneaster from U' s greenhouse. many parts of the U. S. are being tested on the St. Paul campus, at the University fruit breeding farm near Excelsior, and at branch agricultural stations. The hardiest will be used continued on page 14 12 The Minnesotan to market~ to market . . . Voluntary Association Helps Staff Invest for Retirement

OW MUCH will the dollar be Completely voluntary, the as­ wholly optional, within specifird lim­ H worth when we're ready to re­ sociation is a private project. its. Moreover, each individual's in­ tire? What if we go through a period Although it is not University­ vestment is entirely his own, available of continuing inflation? How can we sponsored, participation is lim­ in cash four times a year at the cur­ protect ourselves against the ever­ ited to full-time University staff rent asset value of the inve,tment rising cost of living if our retirement members, both academic and shares. income is in the form of a fixed dvil service. Dr. Visscher, president of the as­ pension? No get-rich-quick scheme, the sociation, lists these advantages of Questions like these were upper­ group has two objectives: to permit group rather than individual invest­ most in the minds of Dr. Irvine Mac­ staff members to participate in a reg­ ment: "First, this regular program Quarrie, Prof. 0. B. Jesness, Dr. Leo ular investment savings program un­ stimulates continued savings and in­ Rigler, and others about a year and der favorable purchasing conditions; vestment. Second, most people with a half ago when they began talking and to provide a "partial hedge" small amounts to invest would hesi­ about a voluntary supplement to against inflation for the buying power tate to use a broker; but through the the present University retirement of retirement incomes. association, the staff member's money is inve5ted by experts in a balanced plan. STAFF MEMBER actually THE <:nd diversified portfolio of securities, buys shares in an investors' mu­ They agreed that U staff members thus spreading the risk and relieving tual fund which invests money in di­ should have a "balanced'' retirement the individual staff member of diffi­ versified securitirs. The association program that would protect them cult and time-consuming decisions. whether the value of the dollar went plan is most effective over a long "Furthermore," adds Visscher, up or down. This would mean sup­ period during which the short-term "service costs are reduced by group plementing the present fixed-rate rises and falls of the market are participation. The investors' service's University pension plan, especially evened out. 'loading charge' for an individual helpful in a period of deflation, with Not only is membership completely a hedge against possible inflation, voluntary, but the amount invested is continued on next page mirrored by stock market activity. They talked with other interested staff members and surveyed the oper­ ations of various investment services. Then they drew up articles of associa­ tion which were approved by the Se­ curities Exchange Commission m Washington. Talking over Now starting its second vear, the plans for the Uni­ University Retirement- !~vestment versity Retire­ Association has some 140 members ment -Investment who have invested more than $120,- Association are 000. The association's seven-man board members board of directors includes: Dr. Mau­ James Fitch, rice B. Visscher, physiology, presi­ dairy husbandry, dent; Prof. James B. Fitch, dairy hus­ vice - president; bandry, vice-president; Prof. Robert ! ohn H. Williams, C. McClure, law, secretary-treasurer; physics; Robert Prof. William Anderson, political sci­ C. McClure, law, ence; Dr. Irvine MacQuarrie, pedi­ secretary - treasu­ atrics; Director Louise A. Stedman, rer; and Maurice home economics; and Prof. John H. Visscher, physi­ Williams, physics. ology, president. March 1955 13 Voluntary Association Helps Staff Invest How Does U Garden Grow? continued from page 13 continued from page 12 for breeding purposes. And come investment of $15,000 may run about in Investors' Mutual Fund in 19.:1-0 spring, University scientists will plant 7%~{ but for a group with large had a liquidating value of $3,900 in forty varieties of flowering crabapple. aggregate purchasing power the 1954; $1,000 invested in the Invest­ Thanks to the U's plant breeding charge is much lower- now 311 ~;;, or's Stock Fund in 1945 had a liqui­ program, Minnesotans already are en­ for the University association." dating value of $3,640 in 1954. But joying the lovely spring bloom of the this, McClure points out, was during Flame crabapple, the Newport plum, does the plan work in actual ow a period of rising common stock and the Orient cherry. All three bear H practice? prices and is not necessarily an indi­ fruit and enhance the shrub border. ( 1) As an interested staff mem· cation of future performance. A new experiment began in Octo­ her you would fill out a membership i 5) As a member you can draw ber with appointment of Richard application, agreeing to pay the $5.00 out your money at any of four times Stadtherr as research fellow. Stadt­ annual dues and to make the $200 a year. While intended for long­ herr will work on trees and shrubs, annual minimum deposit. term saving, your balance can be propagating and testing woody (2) After you are accepted you withdrawn in case of an emergency. plants. In Minnesota conditions, he fill out a form letter to the Marquette I 6) If you continue to participate will test different grass combinations National Bank stating the amount of until you retire you will then get and study lawn fertilizing and weed your initial deposit. This money will from the bank, stock certificates for control. be used to buy shares, for which the the number of shares you have pur­ U scientists do not neglect the in­ bank is custodian, in a mutual fund. chased. These are redeemed by the door gardener, either. Widmer is The association has for the present mutual fund all at once or at any in· trying to improve cultural methods to selected Investors' Diversified Serv­ terval you wish. produce thriving house plants. He is ices, Minneapolis, as manager of the also searching for cheaper produc· If you would like further informa­ two mutual funds in which its mem­ tion methods so florists can sell to tion on the Retirement-Investment bers can in vest. These are: consumers at lower prices. Association, write to Prof. Robert a. Investors' Stock Fund- This Better lawns, more and better flow­ McClure, 110 Fraser Hall, Minne­ is a "growth" fund, which keeps pace ers and woody plants for Minnesota apolis campus. with the market. Consisting mainly gardens is the horticulture depart­ of common stock, it represents a • ment's goal. But the public can only somewhat greater risk and offers help achieve it by planting varieties greater potential gain than the more U Plans Safety Conference horticulturists recommend as best conservative To Be Held in April adapted to local conditions. b. Investors' Mutual Fund-This The University has invited colleges As your guide, you can consult is a "balanced" fund, consisting of and universities throughout the coun· "Woody Plants for Minnesota," an some common stocks, some preferred try to send delegates to the Second agricultural extension service bulle­ stocks, and some bonds. More stable National Conference on Campus tin by Snyder and Marvin E. Smith, than the Investors' Stock Fund, it Safety to be held at the University University extension forester, which promises less risk as well as less April 18-20. lists trees and shrubs suitable for local weather conditions. Copies are potential growth. Aimed at a nationwide exchange of available from the Bulletin Room, (3) You deposit money regularly. ideas on specific problems in pro­ St. Paul campus, or from any county Says Prof. McClure, "We encourage moting the safety of students and em­ members to put in small amounts ployees, the conference will include extension office. consistently rather than large sums discussions of fire safety, campus • all at once. There's less risk that occupational health problems, archi­ Deans Chair Meetings way, and it makes the habit of sav­ tecture, traffic safety and parking Dean R. E. Summers, admissions ing easier." problems, radiation protection, and and records, and Dean H. T. Morse, ( 4) The dividends and capital other topics. Prof. Richard G. Bond General College, served as meeting gains on your shares are automati­ of the University Students' Health chairmen at the Tenth National Con­ cally reinvested without a sales Service will speak on safety standards ference on Higher Education early charge and are credited to you ac­ for off-campus housing. this month in Chicago. Dean Sum­ cording to your share in the associa­ The conference is sponsored jointly mers chaired a meeting on methods tion. The bank sends you quarterly by the University and the National in selecting college students and Dean statements on your investments. Safety Council. All sessions will be Morse headed a session on starting The amount will vary with market held at the Center for Continuation and appraising a general education conditions. An investment of $1,000 Study on the Minneapolis Campus. program. 14 The Minnesotan The President~s Page

Governor Freeman~s Charter Bay A.ddress:- ~~The University and Minnesota"'s Future"

On February 25 the University marked its l04th birth­ freedoms, it must be constantly re-won. day. The Charter Day convocation this year was made the The State of Minnesota is today deeply involved in the more impressive by the presence of our speaker, Governor world-wide struggle of the cold war, in the challenging Orville L. Freeman, himself a graduate of the University. test of the strength of free democracy, face to face with In a manner both gracious and incisive, Governor Free­ oppressive totalitarianism. And this University has much man testified to the important role the University has to contribute to strengthening Minnesota and the United played in this state in past years and will play inevitably States in that struggle. in the years to come. All who heard his address were im­ Only through this institution and others like it can the pressed both by its content and by the evidences of friend­ critical shortage of engineers, physicists, and physicians ship it so warmly expressed. For the benefit of the many be met. All over the world today a frantic race for staff members who were unable to attend the convocation technical and scientific knowledge goes on. That race I am devoting the balance of this page to portions of the and with it the future of mankind will be won or lost in Governor's address. J. L. MORRILL the classrooms and laboratories of our universities .... No one can say whether the present international HOSE OF US who are close to the University, either tension will continue for a decade or a generation. There­ T as faculty members, students or alumni, are conscious fore, it is important for us to carry on with our normal of the important role that the University plays in the life functions, to educate our children, to improve our social of our state. But thousands of other Minnesotans are not services, to increase on all fronts our production. And in so well informed. It is important, I believe, that the each of these areas the University has an important role. University tell and retell its story of progress and con­ Desperately needed teachers for the large number of tribution to Minnesota as we are trying to do here today. children now entering grade school must be provided. Far too often these days I hear strong criticism of the Research designed to develop and improve new products, University-criticism which is emotional rather than to find new uses for untapped natural resources must be factual in content. It is vital, I believe, that constant expanded. Economic and sociological data, so we can attention be given to informing the public what the Uni­ better understand our state and its people and better versity does. Here, as always, the price of public support compete in the present national contest between states to is public awareness of the truth. attract new business, must be had. The birthrate in Minnesota has been rising steadily since World War II. At the same time the proportion THE UNIVERSITY can make an especially signi-ficant of our young people who go to college has been increas­ contribution to the wealth of the state through further ing. This means that there will be a sharp increase in research in the field of agriculture. Efforts to increase enrollment at the University in the early 1960's, and con­ production must continue. But the problem of low farm servative estimates indicate that by 1970 the University prices, especially for dairy products, calls for immediate enrollment will be almost twice as great as it is today. attention. We must also concern ourselves with the prob­ The construction of classroom buildings, the recruitment lem of distributing so-called agricultural surpluses, and of teachers, and the expansion of the administrative and with the future of the family-sized farm in the changing service staff must be planned now so as to keep step with picture of Minnesota and America. these increased needs. The University and our state Gov­ Finally, it is essential that our University continue to ernment must plan carefully and systematically to meet take an important part in the formation of public opinion this need. Biennial improvisation, so often the rule in -in helping our people learn the facts about the prob­ the past, is totally inadequate to meet the needs of the lems which they face as citizens of Minnesota in a period next decade. of basic adjustment here in the state, and tension of the I know that President Morrill is already working in international scene .... this direction and I can promise you that your state The freedom of America, our spiritual heritage, our administration is anxious to work with him and the representative government-all of these are threatened University. in the world in which we live. But today we have a firm Let me at this point make it clear that I consider it confidence in our institutions and in ourselves. It is my vitally important that the academic freedom of the Uni­ conviction that our University will, as it has in the past, versity be guarded against undue interference or pressure play a vital part in the progress which I firmly believe from outside sources. The tradition of academic freedom we will make, so that Minnesota, America, and all the was firmly established here long ago, but like all other world may be a better place for its people. March 1955 15 MAR~B 15 TO APRIL 15, 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY CONCERTS UNIVERSITY THEATRE PERFORMANCES Subscription Series April 14-23-"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen. March 18-Walter Gieseking, pianist. (Scott Hall Auditorium. April 14 at 7:30 p.m.; April 15 and March 25-All orchestral program. 16 at 8:30 p.m.; April 17 at 4:00 p.m.; April 18, no per· April 8-(Good Friday program) Bach's "St. Matthew formance; April 19 at 3:30 p.m., and April 20 through 23, Passion," with the University Chorus. 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.20 may be purchased a week (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.75 before the opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott to $4.00. Sales begin the Monday before each concert at the Hall.) t Symphony Ticket Office, 106 Northrop. For reservations call Arena Theatre University extension 6225.) t April 13-16-"Don Juan" (in French) by Moliere. (Arena Theatre, first floor of Shevlin Hall, 8:30 p.m. Tickets THURSDAY MORNING CONVOCATIONS at $1.20.) :\larch 31-"Words and Music," dramatic readings by Claude Raines, stage and screen star. UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATIONS (Two performances, ll :30 a.m. and 12:30 at Northrop Audi. ~larch-The Ten-Year Story of the IRC, by Roberta J. Nel­ torium. General admission: 75c at the door; SOc in advance. son of the University's Industrial Relations Center staff. Ticket office: 105 Northrop Auditorium.) Industrial Relations Center Bulletin No. 15. $1.00 April 7-Film lecture ''Finland," by Hal Linker, world trav. April-The Art of Child Placement, by Jean Charnley, eler. assistant supervisor, children's unit, Family and Children's (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. No Service, Minneapolis. $4.50 admission charge.) (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul bookstores or may be ordered through local bookstores.) April 14---"Curiosities of the Mind," Dr. Stanley S. Jaks, mentalist. UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. and 12:30. No admission February 18-.March 19-Eskimo Art. Carvings by contem­ charge.) porary Eskimos working in their own tradition. COMMENCEMENT February 23.1\Iarch 28-Paintings and Sculpture done in ~'larch 17-Carrol M. Shanks, President, Prudential lnsur. University art classes. ance Company of America, ''The New Frontiers of March 1-April 3-Drawing Invitational. Work of 20 promi­ Democracy." nent contemporary artists. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. Admission by guest card .March 4-22-Children's Music and Art: Annual showing of only.) children's visual interpretations of musical compositions. ,\larch 24-April 25-Norwegian Arts and Crafts. Ceramics SPECIAL LECTURE and mural paintings. April ll-Boris Goldovsky, lecture·demonstration, "Piano April 1·May !-Ceramics, jewelry and weaving by Uni. Portraits." versity art students. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public.) April 7·May 13-Theme Show: Fish. Works of various cu]. April 13-Carl Rowan, Minneapolis Star and Tribune jour. tures- paintings, sculpture and decorative arts- which nalist, "Asia as I Saw It." Lecture under the sponsorship represent fish. of the Sidney Hillman Foundation. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public.) SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS Gilbert Highet Program ... The Anthon professor of Latin MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS at Columbia University discusses books, old and new, March 29-Concert: Sinfonia chorus of Phi Mu Alpha, that he likes or dislikes. Wednesdays at 4:45. men's music fraternity at the University. Art of the Film ... Prof. George Amberg, General Studies, April 5-Holy Week concert: Hamline University Choir. gives a series of 15-minute programs reviewing current April 12-Recital: Thelma Hunter, pianist and University films with critical analysis of the film medium, to help de­ music staff member. velop an appreciation of cinematic techniques. Thursdays (Scott Hall Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to those inter­ at 3:30. ested.) Contemporary Trends in Philosophy ... This latest Cooper Union series offers such authorities as Sobodh Chandra March 26-Recital: Joan Lindusky, contralto. Roy, S. I. Hayakawa, William C. Barrett, Harold Taylor, (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30p.m. Open to those interested.) Ernest Nagel, and Paul Tillich, talking about the phi­ losophy of Gandhi, Schweitzer, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY others. Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. SUNDAY PROGRAMS (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 or March 20-"Painted Canyons": color movie of Bryce, Zion, the dial. Its complete spring schedule may be obtained by Cedar Brakes, and Grand Canyon. writing to the station.) March 27-Lecture by Prof. Homer T. Mantis, mechanical engineering, "How's and Why's of Weather Prediction." Child Psychology: The First Twelve Years ... This lively April 3-Lecture by U. W. Hella, director of Minnesota T.V. series on child development is given twice weekly by state parks division, "Making Better Use of State Parks." Professor Dale Harris, director of the Institute of Child April 10-Lecture, Dr. W. J. Breckenridge. Museum of Welfare at the University. Natural History director, "Behind the Scenes in a (WMIN-TV, Channel 11. Tuesdays and Thursdays irom Museum." 10:00 to 10:30 a.m.) (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 3 :00 p.m. Open to the public by ticket only. Tickets are free and may be ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS obtained up to four weeks in advance at the Museum by April 2-Baseball Clinic conducted by coach Dick Siebert. direct request or by mail [enclose a stamped self-addressed (Field House, morning and afternoon, beginning at 9 :00 envelope].) a.m. Open to those interested without charge.) tTickets 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. THE MINNESOTAN rite Universil!f Staff Magazine -- April 1955 l I in this issue . . . A LARGE PART of sponsored re­ They Made Us Great search at the U is underwritten by the Office of Naval Research. On the opposite page you'll read how ONR HE GEORGE P. TWEED Art operates on campus. T Collection and Gallery in Du­ WHEN TWENTY-THREE U driv­ luth is a memorial to a man who for ers swell their chests with pride you'll nearly six decades exercised his in­ notice they're each wearing a pin that dustrial, financial, and civic leader­ shows they've driven one year with­ ship upon the emerging economy and out any accidents. Page 5 tells about the social development of the North­ the winners and the special training west. they got. His accomplishments in mining, FULL OF LORE ABOUT LAW is metallurgy, banking, and manufac­ Prof E. A. Hoebel, head of anthro­ turing brought numerous distinctions pology, author of a recent book-The to Mr. Tweed. His great interest in Law of Primitive Man. He talks about art won him membership in the Amer­ his researches among the Comanches, ican Federation of Art and the Paint­ Shoshones, and Pueblos on page 6. ers and Sculptors Association, as well SINCE THE MODERN hospital as lay membership in the Grand Cen­ provides a focus for people's hopes tral Art Galleries. and fears, administering it takes skill When Mrs. Tweed (now Mrs. Ed­ Mrs. Edward Tuohy and understanding. You'll meet James ward Tuohy) turned over to the Uni­ Hamilton, director of U hospital ad­ versity in September 1950 the art col­ ministration course, on page 10. lection and gallery in memory of her art classes to lectures for adults on OTHER FEATURES ON: Frank late husband, President Morrill such subjects as "Pitch, Color, Time, Hansen of UMD and his role in a termed the gift "the most important and Space." Among recent innova­ community TV project, page 12; U single benefaction in the field of art tions are talks on music, poetry read­ dairy herdsman Dean Mallberg, p. 13. ever presented to the University of ings, 3-D slide lectures, art films, and Minnesota." arts and crafts days-in all of which on the cover . .. the UMD faculty plays an important For the donor the presentation was We hope it's not too sanguine part. a high point of many years in which to expect that by mid-April she and the late George Tweed had Yearly attendance has risen stead­ trees on campus will be bud­ collected important paintings from ily: from 2,824 individuals and 24 ding and students walking the sixteenth through the nineteenth groups in 1950-51 to 7,500 individ­ coatless across the foot­ centuries. It meant the University uals and 129 groups during 1953-54. bridges to Coffman Union. would gain as an art education re­ And attendance this year so far is source one of the more extensive pri­ well ahead of the same period a year THE MINNESOTAN vate collections in the country. It also ago. Since its public establishment, Vol. VIII No.7 meant that the paintings and the gal­ more than 26,000 persons and 425 Published by the Department of lery that houses them would be ex­ groups have used one or another of University Relations, 213 Administration Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ panded from a personal project to a the Tweed Gallery's services. neapolis 14, Minnesota. University facility whose benefits Mrs. Tuohy, who is known in Du­ William L. Nunn, Director would reach countless persons-stu­ luth for her broad humanitarian and Ellen Siegelman ...... Editor JoAnne Alberg . . . Assistant Editor dents and general public alike. civic activities as well as her devotion Advisory Committee: Members of the The Tweed gift has been called "a to art, continues to have an unobtru­ University Public Information Council. living gallery," and in the years since sive but deep-rooted concern for the The Minnesotan is published monthly during the academic year, October 1950 it has more than justified that gallery's operation. Whether she is through May. Copies are mailed free to characterization. The gallery has be­ checking over refreshments for a re­ University staff members. Subscription come not only a local but a regional ception, passing judgment on the ar­ rates for non-staff members are S2 a year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this art center. Individuals as well as or­ rangements of an exhibit, or simply issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial ganized groups come to Tweed for extending friendly greetings at an Union Bookstore. Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ visits and special presentations as opening, the "lady of the living gal­ ited, were taken by members of the well as for regular gallery activities. lery" assures that final touch of gra­ University Photographic Laboratory. A constant! y broadening program ciousness that makes memorable a Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. offers events ranging from children's visit to the Tweed Gallery. 2 The Minnesotan l

pattern for research A University faculty member draws ulty member involved, during the up a research proposal. This goes summer only. His regular salary dur­ through U administrative channels to ing the academic year is paid by the Keith and thence to Washington. University, on the grounds that this There it is forwarded to one of six research furthers his teaching and ONR ONR boards (psychological, biologi­ adds to his professional competence. cal, mathematical, physical, material, Current ONR studies at the U run and earth sciences) . Each board is the gamut from land utilization in this composed of a group of experts region (under Prof. John Weaver, at the U throughout the country headed by an geography) to the prevention of den­ eminent scientist who works for the tal caries (Dr. David Mitchell, den­ Navy full-time. tistry). Nearly all scientific fields are If the project is considered worth­ represented, including hydraulics, PONSORED RESEARCH- pri­ while the Navy enters into a contract aero engineering, social psychology, S vate, state, and federal- at the with the University, providing for: and mathematics. University has increased nearly 14 materials and equipment (which is Some of the investigations in prog­ times in the last 14 years. It has Navy property) ; some travel ex­ ress are: grown from a mere $485,000 in 1940- penses; salaries for assistants and • a study of some primary chemi­ 41 to $6,742,752 during the past technicians; and salary for the fac- cal reactions produced by light on fiscal year. Of this total, the largest single share was underwritten last Research fellow Franklin!. Wright of Cambridge University and Prof. Rob­ year by the Office of Naval Research. ert Livingston, physical chemistry, use this complex equipment for their ONR differs from other federal or­ ONR-sponsored research on chlorophyll. One flash of light produces photo­ ganizations in having an official resi­ chemical changes in the chloro plzyll in tube; a second flash, electrically dent representative on the campus. timed, is used to photograph changes resulting from the first light pulse. Marshall Keith, who occupies an office in Johnston Hall (Room 102) supervises ONR projects not only at the U but at seven other institutions in the area, including General Mills, Honeywell, University of Wisconsin, and St. Olaf College. With some 39 projects running, the University has the bulk of ONR contract research in this region. Keith explains the origin of the agency this way: During the war the Military Services set up an Office of Scientific Research and Development which employed top scientists in the country on projects ranging from munitions development to basic re­ search in the physical and social sci­ ences. After the war Congress, aware of the importance of this work, estab­ lished the Office of Naval Research to further basic research and to build up the scientific manpower of the country. (In connection with the lat­ ter aim, several hundred graduate students at the University of Minne­ sota alone got part of their support from ONR's. research program; these are the men, says Keith, who will di­ rect projects of their own some day.) How does a project get started? April 1955 3 chlorophyll. Prof. Robert Livingston, ity. They have even attempted to confers with U research contract co­ physical chemistry, and his colleagues "map" an individual's verbal pat­ ordinator Richard Elliot, and takes are busy extracting chlorophyll from terns, based on his responses to word care of renewals of contracts. - of all things- spinach! These association tests. . Handling clearances is another photochemical changes are so com­ part of his job. "Less than 1% of plex in the whole plant, says Living­ KEEPING TRACK of these and our projects are classified," he says. ston, that his group has chosen to other projects from beginning "For simplicity's sake we try to keep study them in solutions of chloro­ to end is the job of Marshall Keith. them unclassified whenever possible. phyll. An engineer by training, and a social But if a worker on an unclassified Since photosynthesis (the means by welfare supervisor by experience, project wants to get reports relating which green plants create living tissue with a four-year stint in the Navy, he to someone else's classified research, from air, water, and sunlight) is one freely admits that much of the re­ then he, too, must be cleared. I also of the most important and mysterious search is too specialized for him to take care of distributing these classi­ processes in the natural world, ONR understand. fied research reports." is underwriting this study and an­ As resident representative he keeps One of Keith's most delicate assign­ other by Prof. Allen Brown, botany. records of all property used on ONR ments is something he describes with Brown is using isotopic methods to projects-about half a million dol­ a grin as applied psychology,-work­ learn about photosynthesis in various lars worth at the University alone. ing with University departments and green plants. He sees that this property is disposed reminding occasionally absent-minded • research on the interests of new of through Navy channels after a staff members about such persistent Navy recruits. Under Prof. Kenneth project is finished. details as renewal requests and prog­ Cla~k, psychology, this is among the Keith also approves all payments, ress reports. And this-on a budget more applied ONR research projects makes fiscal reports to Washington, as large as ONR's-is no small job. on campus. Begun in 1946, this con­ tinuing study aims at learning how Two men who have a lot to talk over are University research contract co­ Navy enlisted men can be classified ordinator Richard Elliott and ONR resident representative Marshall Keith. in terms of their vocational interests. A special interest inventory has been given to 20,000 Navy men; and the careers of 4,000 are being followed up to see to what extent improved train­ ing, adjustment, and advancement re­ sult from such an inventory. • studies on fatigue in metals. Prof. Benjamin Lazan of mechanics and materials supervises this research, which involves some rather bizarre equipment. Metal bars are vibrated at speeds averaging 3,600 cycles a minute, and experimenters observe through microscopes when and where the first tiny cracks appear. Finding the causes of these cracks may eventu­ ally lead to lessen~ng or prevention of metal "fatigue"-so important in automotive and aeronautical failure. • verbal behavior research. If your immediate response to the word "table" is "chair," your reaction is like 844 out of 1,000 people. Using word associations of this sort, Profs. James Jenkins and Wallace Russell, psychology, are trying to determine whether basic learning theory princi­ ples about perception, retention, and habit-formation apply to verbal be­ havior as well as other kinds of activ- 4 The Minnesotan ~~A~~ for Attitude •••

Safe Driving Brings A wards to 23 on Staff

• Clint Johnson, U Services director, gives a safe driving award to Edward H orarik while C. L. Carlson and driver Fred Heinkel look on in background.

WENTY-THREE STAFF DRIVERS won recognition things as his field of vision, visual acuity, color recogni­ Tfor their performance behind the wheel recently when tion, reaction time, and ability to resist glare. In addition, the University announced names of winners of its first he took written tests on his knowledge of traffic and driv­ mnual safe driving awards. ing procedure. Later Carlson accompanied each driver Clinton T. Johnson, director of University Services, on the road and rated him on his performance. presented the awards in Coffman Memorial Union as a Carlson was, of course, most concerned with special climax to a year-long safety contest. Attending the pres­ campus problems, for example, the student pedestrian entation were 43 guests, including truck drivers, depart­ who unpredictably wanders out into traffic lanes. Each ment heads, and members of the personnel department. driver took a "detonator" test to determine his alertness. The winners, all of whom drive at least 757;, of their A doll was hurled into the path of his oncoming vehicle working day, had no accidents during 1954. to discover how quickly the driver could halt. Results of They are: Robert Anderson, general storehouse; Her­ that test pointed up the need for absolute control and bert Baehr, Duane Dorfner, Edward Horarik, Alvin Mar­ moderate speed on campus streets. shall, Walfred Nelson, and John Webb, shops; Howard What is the most important factor in achieving an Ellstrom, Dean Kottke, Hilding Nelson, and Lawrence accident-free driving record? Walling, farm maintenance; D. H. Hartley, W. A. House, "Attitude," says Carlson, "is 90% of it. Skill is ten. A. G. Kirby, and J. G. McDonough, protection and inves­ "Many of our accidents occurred during the first hours tigation; Oscar Krona, Lewis Lee, Arvid Midtboe, Arthur in a work day. A poor breakfast, a fight with his wife, or Norland, and Dennis Wolters, campus maintenance; Cur­ worry and distraction seemed to be the underlying cause tis Mattson, surveyor's office; Wilfred Nelson, Como of many a driver',_ accident. On the other hand, fatigue yards; and Fred Heinkel, laundry. isn't nearly as important as you might think. Few acci­ Johnson, director of University Services, and C. L. Carl­ dents occur late in the day." son, assistant to the director, started the training program In his classroom sessions, Carlson stresses the three two years ago. Since then, the 50 professional University C's: Courtesy, Concentration, and Control, particularly drivers cut the severity of their accidents by 49%. emphasizing the latter. Carlson casts a suspicious eye at To set up the program, Carlson talked with safety ex­ the speed-demon, an attitude which he shares with Edward perts throughout the country, and with the information Horarik, one of the twenty-three award-winning drivers. gained from many sources and in consultation with Frank As Horarik says, "A head-on collision when you're Pieper, coordinator of civil service training, he "tailor going 60 miles an hour has the impact of driving off a made" a program to meet the needs of the men who drive ten-story building. It's facts like this, brought home to us the University fleet. in the training program, that have made us all more Each man was gi,·en a battery of tests to assess such safety-conscious drivers." April 1955 5 using ••trouble case method~~

An Anthropologist Looks At Primitive Law

PROF. E. ADAMSON HOEBEL, chistic society) ; the Ifugao (a gov­ new chairman of the anthropol­ ernmentless society with a highly de­ ogy department, describes himself as veloped legal system centering around "an eclectic," rather than a disciple irrigation of rice) ; the Trohriand of any one anthropological school. Islanders in the South Pacific (a so­ "There is no royal road to the under­ ciety characterized by chieftainship, standing of man and his cultures," he where the anthropologist Malinowski says. Hoebel came to Minnesota from worked out his theories on primitive the University of Utah, where he law); and the Ashanti in West Africa headed the department and later (a complex monarchy). served as Dean of the College of Let­ Hoehel's hook applies a theory of ters and Science. He received his method worked out in collaboration doctorate at Columbia University un­ with Professor Karl M. Llewellyn, der Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict; under whom Hoebel studied jurispru­ at California he rounded out his stud­ dence at Columbia University. Called the "trouble case method," it focuses ies in jurisprudence. This photograph of a Shoshone in­ not on formal rules of law, but on By the end of this year Hoebel will fant in a cradle board was taken by what people actually do in case of a have taught courses at Minnesota in: Hoebel when he was doing fieldwork dispute. Introductory Anthropology, Culture in tlze Snake River Desert of Idaho. and Personality, the Southwestern Indian, Field Study Techniques, An­ The repentant horse-thief than a year. Wolf-Lie-Down was in­ thropology and Scientific Method, "You can see how this method is dignant. He brought his complaint and the Law Ways of Primitive Man. applied in the case of the Cheyenne," to his warrior society, the Elk Sol­ It is this latter subject that most in­ Hoebel says. "The old Cheyenne diers, which sent messengers to find terests him, and his researches in this practice was that any member of a the 'borrower' and bring him in. field formed the basis for his recently tribe could borrow from any other "When the culprit was brought be­ published book, The Law of Primitive without asking. Originally this prin­ fore the warrior council he gave the Alan. . ciple applied also to horses, which horse back and agreed to pay an addi­ Six years in the writing, the book these Indians began to acquire about tional horse in compensation. Then took its author on field trips through­ 1800. But gradually, as horses he­ the chiefs formulated the specific law: out much of the United States. "The came more valuable, there began to 'No more borrowing of horses with­ roots of all law is in behavior," he be complaints against 'borrowers.' out permission. If the borrower re­ explains. "It is people acting. To "When I stayed with the Cheyennes sists he will be whipped.' A juvenile know what they do in fact, they must in 1935-36, I interviewed tribal mem­ horse-thief was later punished in this bers and got them to recall case his­ he seen." Therefore he directly ob­ fashion. Result: no further trouble tories of this kind of borrowing be­ served the Comanche Indians in Okla­ from horse-borrowing." homa; the Shoshones in the Snake fore the Cheyenne came under federal River Desert of Idaho; the Cheyennes jurisdiction in 1878. Death penalty for a quarrel in Montana; the Pueblos in New "Several informants spoke of the Mexico. case that had set a precedent: The Hoebel's research turned up some In addition, he used the findings of horse of Wolf-Lie-Down had been principles that seem strange to West­ other anthropologists on the law sys­ taken from him without his permis­ ern minds. Among the Ashanti, in tems of: the Eskimos (a simple anar- sion and was not returned for more West Africa, for example, a private 6 The Minnesotan argument can be punishable by death. (2) Under most primitive law the disapproved act may be viewed as a How does this come about? person wronged must do his own sin, which is supernaturally punished, "Well," Hoebel explains, "the Ash­ prosecuting rather than have official and at the same time as a crime, sub­ anti have a monarchy, and through representatives do it for him. This ject to forcible punishment under the the ages a large number of king's prosecution, however, must follow law. laws have become tribal law. If two strict rules of "due process" if his ( 5) International law at present, people are having a private argument case is to stand up and receive public Hoebel believes, is primitive law on and one of them swears a sacred oath approval. a world level. Except where the UN -i.e., an oath that profanes the gods ( 3) Privately prosecuted law too is effective, the wronged nation may -it is up to the king to punish this often breaks down, resulting in feuds still judge its own cause and is likely man by invoking the death penalty. -little civil wars within the tribe. As to use violence to achieve or defend The reason: the king is considered the societies become more complex the its ends as it sees them. The world earthly representative of these an­ responsibility for law enforcement community, like narrower societies, cestral gods; hence slandering them shifts steadily into the hands of pub­ will also find it necessary to develop a is a principal crime against the state." lic officials. system of law, he feels. Aimed at learning how social rules The problem then becomes: how to become legal rules and how law is work out a balance between the per­ Next-research on Pakistan used to support the standards of so­ sonal interests of the powerful admin­ The next major project on Hoebel's ciety, Prof. Hoebel's research yielded istrators and the sometimes opposite agenda ties in with his interest in these conclusions: interests of society as a whole. learning how law serves the social ( l) Very few primitive societies ( 4.) Law does not usually originate order. He plans to apply research and no complex ones function with­ in religious principles, but it fre­ techniques and information devel­ out a law system of some kind. quently joins forces with religion. A oped in his earlier researches to the study of a complex legal system, hop­ Professor Hoebel ing eventually to discover the funda­ mental common elements of the major law systems in the contempo­ rary world. He expects this kind of investiga­ tion will take him initially to Pakis­ tan, which has a full-fledged legal set-up very different from the Anglo­ American. Furthermore, this geo­ graphical area fits in neatly with fu­ ture plans for the department, which expects to give more courses in the anthropology of South Asia - from Thailand through North Africa and Islam. These offerings, combined with related courses in geography, sociology, political sciences, history and languages, plus the excellent Ames Library on South Asia (see the Minnesotan, Oct. '52), should go far, Hoebel believes, to make the Univer­ sity a center for research on South Asia. "The department of anthropology," he says, "is happy to cooperate with all related departments in this kind of undertaking. We feel that anthropol­ ogy has a distinct contribution to make as the basic social science which deals with man biologically and so­ cially and which compares types of societies in all parts of the world and at all times." April 1955 7 Prof. J. W. Stehman, economics and finance, at the U "practi­ staff cally forever"-39 years-anticipates spring golf weather. In­ doors, says he is "champion kibitzer of the faculty pool game." YO Dr. Helen Hart, plant pathologist who has worked on the problem of stem rust of wheat for many years, is pres­ ident-elect of the American Phytopathological Society. Ruth Browne, Health Service cashier, is an girl who enjoys the fine arts too. She thrives campus life, says "it keeps your interests going.

8 The Minnesotan On the staff since 1926, Oscar Beckstrom is farm foreman. He works at the U's Morris agriculture experiment station .

• Mrs. Genevieve Johnson, UMD science and math division secretary, supervises a busy office in the science building, upper campus.

One of U's well known professors is Psychology's Rich· ard M. Elliott. At the U since 1919, Dr. Elliott has edited 52 volumes in the Century Psychology Series. Payroll, personnel, budget, and reqmsitlon forms absorb the daily attention of Bonnie Petersen, secretary to U Services director.

April 1955 9 double-barreled approach ... UCourse Instructs Hospital Executives

logg Foundation offered a grant to establish a program for a three-year Prof. lames A. Hamilton, director of the course, goes over trial period. some new hospital blueprints with student Ruth Inghram. Hamilton's experience behind the hospital administrator's desk has THE MODERN HOSPITAL is the Hamilton got into his work through given him insight into the qualities daily scene of birth, pain, recov­ the back door, so to speak. such a man needs, which explains ery, and death. It is the point of focus Twenty-odd years ago, he taught why he and his colleagues spend where men and women of many skills industrial management in Dartmouth many hours screening the several and professional loyalties work to· College's school of business adminis­ hundred applicants for the hospital gether to care for the sick and the tration. When anything around the administration course. injured. college needed doing, Hamilton ex­ "Choosing the proper people to As James Hamilton, director of the plains, the president sought a trouble take the course is three fourths of the University's hospital administration shooter from among his young teach­ job," he stresses. "I believe that we course, explains: "Twenty to thirty ers. Within a few years it fell to must select a man first for his person· professions and technicians-doctors, Hamilton to reorganize an athletic ality and second for his scholarship. nurses, medical social workers, power department and to weld together a The ability to get along with people engineers, anesthesiologists, pharma­ new medical group clinic, a health is far more important than that of cists, radiologists, laboratory techni­ service, an infirmary and a local hos­ sponging up information." cians, orderlies, janitors, medical so­ pital. cial workers, clerical workers, thera­ Hamilton became superintendent of Requirements for the course pists-to name but a few-compose Dartmouth's new hospital at the same Hamilton and his staff prefer lib­ the hospital force. time he was meeting a teaching sched­ eral arts graduates and have set up "The care of the sick patient and ule. Teaching and administration only one prerequisite for the 21- presence of his frequently distraught occupied his time for the next twenty month course: a basic course or two friends and relatives create unending years. He left Dartmouth in 1935 for in accounting. The hospital admin· strain for the staff," Hamilton em­ a two-year stint at Western Reserve istration course is entirely on the phasizes. "In this atmosphere highly University in Cleveland, Ohio, where graduate level, and to teach it Ham­ charged with tension, the pivot he was also superintendent of its city ilton is aided by James W. Stephan, around which all these dedicated men hospital. The early 1940's found him associate director, and seven part­ and women work in the hospital is in New Haven, Conn., where he di­ time staff members. the administrator." rected the New Haven Hospital and The course they teach is organized To keep activities moving without taught at Yale. around a central group of subjects a hitch demands a high order of ad­ By 1946, Hamilton having by now such as organization and management ministrative talent and training. The worked at all the major varieties of of hospitals, orientation to medical hospital administrator's job is tough hospital administration, decided he sciences, preventive medicine, sani· and demanding, and his training, wanted to focus his activities on tation, health education, social and therefore, must be thorough and teaching-training hospital adminis­ economic aspects of medical care. A exacting. trators. public speaking and conference tech­ That, at least, is the theory of Ham· He came to the University of Min­ nique course is another "must." ilton, a pioneer in this new field of nesota that year as professor of hos­ The nine-man staff can't do justice training hospital administrators. pital administration when the Kel- to the wide range of problems the stu- 10 The Minnesotan dents will one day confront. So Ham­ After the field training in which he usefulness under the Kellogg grant, ilton calls on faculty members of the has grappled in earnest with his work, the University took over the financ­ School of Public Health (of which the student and his preceptor return ing. Since 1948, the University has the hospital administration course is to the University to compare notes granted 149 masters' degrees in the a part) to give special lectures and with their colleagues about common field. The University doesn't see the even draws representatives from other problems. Hamilton calls the pre­ last of the student at his graduation. campus departments and from all ceptors back annually to make sure Twice a year the graduate may attend parts of the country. the course is being taught in the field special institutes which Hamilton and his staff offer for hospital adminis­ These lecturers explore the many exactly as the University wants it trators throughout the state. diverse areas which touch the work of taught. Many graduates already have top the hospital administrator: phar­ This double - barreled integrated posts in Minnesota and other midwest macy, psychiatry, in-service training, training in separate locations has at­ hospitals. A few have scattered as far laboratory techniques, occupational tracted the attention of other colleges away as Oregon and British Colum­ therapy, federal laws, licensing re­ and universities in other fields of bia, and southward to Chile, Peru and quirements, public health engineer­ study such as medicine, business, and law. Industrial leaders are watching Mexico. And Hamilton tells you ing, radiology, pathology, supply this experience with keen interest and proudly that three graduates have re­ purchasing, public relations, etc. considering it as a kind of training turned to their Brazilian homeland to start a hospital administration course Research on hospital needs pattern they might use too. Each year the hospital administra­ at the University of Sao Paulo. During this nine-month period, the tion course trains about 25 lucky men So Minnesota's James Hamilton, student takes a clerkship course -and a few women- chosen from who got into his work through the which is designed to help him "cut 200 to 250 applicants. After the three­ back door, is opening a few doors his teeth" on administrative prob­ year demonstration of the program's elsewhere too! lems. Here he learns how to investi­ gate actual problems in local hospi­ Eugene Staples, a graduate of the hospital administration course and as­ tals, determine possible solutions and ~istant to the director of U hospitals, explains a new piece of equipment how to prepare a report for manage­ m Mayo Memorial used for manufacturing intravenous solutions to student ment's decision. Robert Curran and to ]ames W. Stephan, associate director of the course. To set up the course, Hamilton asks local hospitals what research they need done. Thirty-four Minnesota hospitals have already been helped. One got a revamped recovery unit developed from one student's specifi­ cations; another had a study made of its central supply system; still an­ other needed suggestions on how it could improve its pediatric facilities. And just to show what unique prob­ lems harass the administrator, one young man developed a plan for hos­ pital parking facilities. After the intensive nine-month course, the student goes out in the field for his 12 months of in-service training. He may go to a veterans' hospital, a small clinic, a community hospital or a large university hospi­ tal; many of these are located in Min­ nesota and a few as far away as Texas and British Columbia. Each hospi­ tal's administrator has agreed to act as a preceptor or teacher to train the Minnesotan on the job. During the year, Hamilton or Stephan visits each student to review his progress. April 1955 11 What's "brewing" in parent education? of questions like: When should the children be allowed to use the family car? How much, and what kind of discipline should parents mete out? UMD Lecturer Franl~ Hansen How can children be raised without racial or religious prejudice? Guides Community TV Venture The PTA supplies each group with evaluation postcards, which have been coming in at the rate of 200 per pro­ "THE COFFEE CUP and Five Council of Parent-Teacher Associa­ gram. Approximately 5,000 individ­ Thousand Questions" is a Du­ tions was impressed by Prof. Han­ ual questions have been sent in. luth story that may make a few na­ sen's suggestion: '"When you receive that kind of re­ tional headlines before it's been told "If parents don't want to lea,-e sponse," says Hansen, "you know that for the last time. their homes, why not go to them; why people are not merely interested - It goes back a few years to when not bring the discussions into their they are vitally concerned." the Duluth Parent-Teacher Associa­ homes through television?" The enthusiastic audience reaction tions were putting on a campaign to The proposal won PTA support has already prompted inquiries from interest parents in discussing prob­ and, through the cooperation of the sevt>ral national educational organiza­ lems of their school-age children. Duluth Board of Education and Du­ tions. Frank W. Hansen, a UMD lecturer luth television station KDAL, it was The efforts of interested volunteers in psychology, commented at the finally adopted. The result: Hansen who are putting nearly 100 man-hours time, in meetings with PTA groups, found himself billed as "Mr. Hansen into writing and producing each pro­ "The coffee cup is the most potent of Endion School PTA," moderator gram, plus Hansen's skillful "emcee­ force I know for parent education." of a weekly IS-minute TV series. ing"-would seem to be an unbeat­ He pointed out that mothers taking Each Monday at l :45, after a warm­ able combination. morning and afternoon breaks to­ up session with a couple of volunteer Hansen, formerly an instructor at gether were informally Setting up the script writers, three parents and Mr. the U's Institute of Child Welfare, best potential discussion groups. Hansen discuss topics suggested by Minneapolis campus, says, "This tele­ But while these spontaneous neigh­ the National Parent-Teacher maga­ vision venture has been a rewarding borhood coffee sessions continued in zine. About 1,000 women-200 small experience in community-campus co­ Duluth, all attempts to organize more groups in as many Duluth homes­ operation. It also vindicates-thanks formal meetings were unsuccessful. meet over coffee cups every Monday to the added appeal of TV-my long­ Last fall, after two years of intensive afternoon to listen to the program. held conviction of the power of the but rather fruitless effort, the Duluth They follow it up with discussions coffet> cup in our everyday lives."

"Mr. Hansen of Endion PTA" is Frank W. Hansen, r., UMD lecturer in psychology, shown with other TV panel members.

12 The Minnesotan ,------

till the cows come home

Dean Mallberg

Follows the Herd • • •

VERY ONCE IN AWHILE, Dean E Mallberg's peaceful Sunday afternoon is interrupted and he's called out to settle a fight. Not a fight among humans, but between a couple of belligerent bulls. Dean Mallberg is dairy herdsman at the University's St. Paul campus and placating truculent animals is all in a day's work for him. He's been at it for years. He was born on a farm near Still­ water and went to St. Paul's Harding High School. In 1941, he began to manage farms, starting with his own at White Bear. Later, he moved to Douglas, Arizona, where he managed a purebred Guernsey herd which sup­ How now, Brown Swiss? Dean Mallberg arul twin calves called T-188, T-189. plied milk to Douglas Air Force base during the war. He returned in 1949 set up experimental programs. (Dr. drew Mallberg into his work is his to Washington County where he man­ W. E. Petersen supervises the major­ love of animals and he is sensitive to aged the family farm for two years. ity of dairy department projects.) the striking differences in tempera­ Then, after a stint as a creamery rep­ Most experiments now stress the role ment among his herd. resentative (in herd improvement of nutrition in milk productivity. "As you walk through the barn,'~ work), he came to the U. Other factors are timing, emotional he says, "you can tell that the twins, Dean believes he's found the niche stress, and heredity. alike physically, also seem alike emo­ for himself, supervising the care of "To keep the heredity factor con­ tionally. These cows over here-and 135 head of cattle, mostly twins and stant," Mallberg explains, "the Uni­ by the way, they're the lowest milk triplets, used in experiments by the versity since 1947 has assembled one producers in the unit-are unfriendly University's dairy department. of the world's largest collections of and want nothing to do with people. Two assistant herdsmen help Mall­ identical twin dairy animals. We even This seems to bear out research here berg with the 24-hour-a-day job of have three sets of identical triplets." and at other colleges which has milking, feeding, and taking care of proved that the cow's emotional state the cattle and carrying out the experi­ THE DAIRY DEPARTMENT re- is a key factor in milk production." ments designed by U researchers. plenishes the "family" by a stand­ Some animals really are friendly Ten students, who plan to teach ing offer to buy identical twin dairy --or maybe "playful" is the better agriculture, go into veterinary medi­ calves from the state's farmers, be­ word. Dean tells about one of his cine, or become dairymen, assist cause oddly enough, this big family favorite heifers who grabs hold of his Mallberg also. Dean tries to give the of twins rarely produces more twins. coat as he goes by. Not long ago, students as much management respon­ The tendency toward multiple births he says, "a visiting photographer was sibility as possible and some of his in cattle is not inherited as it is in bending down to pick up some equip­ "graduates" have written back to tell humans, and only two sets of twins ment. Suddenly, he felt his hat slither how valuable their U dairy barn have occurred in 190 births at the off the top of his head. He turned experience has been to them. U since 1947, Dean says. around and looked up into Bessie's Mallberg and his staff follow the Aside from his enjoyment in work­ friendly eyes. And there was his hat directions of faculty researchers who ing with students, the magnet that -between her teeth!" April 1955 13 Regents~ Scholarships Are Awarded to 18 Staff Members EIGHTEEN civil service staff mem- Marion H. Gaffey, student technolo­ ant, physiology; Dean Schmidt, jun­ bers are taking University courses gist supervisor, University Hospitals ior librarian, Library; Erika Schroe­ this quarter under Regents' Scholar­ laboratory service. der, secretary, Students' Health Serv­ ships. Courses selected by the schol­ Mavis L. Gilster, clerk-stenogra­ ice; Donald Swenson, senior com­ arship recipients range from Histo­ pher, School of Social Work; Ken­ munications technician, audio-visual logical Technique to Typewriting. neth M. Hanson, storehouse stock education service; Margaret Wedge, The scholarships pay tuition for clerk, chemistry; Angelika Jegers, clerk, admissions and records, and full-time University employees to take laboratory technician, plant pathol­ Joycelon Wilkinson, secretary, School courses related to their j ohs. Winners ogy; Greta Lilleberg, junior scien­ of Business Administration. may take up to six credits and are not tist, University Hospitals; Grace V. Further details about Regents' required to make up time taken from Lucas, principal secretary, student Scholarships and application blanks work to attend classes. counseling bureau; Riva Lyone, sr. are available at the civil service per­ The winners are: Dwain Caldwell, clerk-typist, admissions, records. sonnel office, Room 14, Administra­ junior engineer, physical plant; Alice Marlene A. McMillen, secretary, tion building, Minneapolis campus. M. Carson, principal secretary, dairy industrial relations center; Marilyn husbandry; Beth Doeringsfeld, clerk­ L. Mork, principal clerk, inventory; U Library Receives typist, Museum of Natural History; Donald G. Paul, engineering assist- Gift of 1700 Books More than 1,700 books have been Social Science Research Center's given to the University library dur­ ing the last few months by Putnam Annual Lectures to Be Broadcast D. McMillan, 505 lOth Ave., S.E., member of an old Southeast Minne­ Freedom in the Social Sciences is the May 26- Your Right to Learn; apolis family which has previously theme of the eighth annual public Prof. Ellis. made other major contributions to the lecture series sponsored by the Uni­ June 2- Pressures on Universi­ library, E. B. Stanford, director of versity's Social Science Research Cen­ ties; Prof. Dale Yoder, economics, University libraries, has reported re­ ter beginning April 21. Speakers on director of the Industrial Relations cently. the 13 weekly discussion programs Center. Among the hooks are some out­ will be University staff members, in­ June 9 - Where Does America standing volumes in the field of terviewed by Prof. E. W. Ziebarth, Stand on Freedom? Mr. Michael J. Americana. Included, for example, dean of the Summer Session and edu­ Scriven, Instructor in Philosophy and is Henry J. Raymond's Life of Abra­ cation consultant for the Columbia Research Associate. ham Lincoln which apparently was Broadcasting System. June 16-Justifying Freedom in published to promote Lincoln's can­ Below is a list of topics and speak­ the Social Sciences; Mr. Scriven. didacy for a second term, and-ac­ ers with the dates they will be heard June 23 & June 30-The Nature of cording to a notarized inscription­ over WCCO at 8:15 p.m. (Each pro­ Social Science Research; Prof. John was presented to her coachman by gram will also be broadcast one day G. Darley, psychology, executive sec­ Mrs. Lincoln after her husband's as­ later at 3:30 p.m. over University sta­ retary of the Laboratory for Research sassination. Bound with it is a con­ tion KUOM.) in Social Relations. temporary Life of Andrew Johnson of April21-Man's Struggle for Free­ July 7 & July 14 - Combating Tennessee by John Savage. dom Against Authority; Prof. John Restrictions on Freedom; Prof. Oscar Of particular interest to Minneso­ B. Wolf, history. B. Jesness, head of agricultural eco­ tans is a signed letter from poet John April 28-Freedom in Mass Com­ nomics. Masefield to Mrs. George Edgar Vin­ munication: Government Interfer­ Articles by the speakers, which cent, wife of the third president of ence; Prof. J. Edward Gerald, jour­ form the basis for the discussion in­ the University. nalism. terviews, will be collected and pub­ Among standard sets are Pepys' May 5- Freedom in Mass Com­ lished in booklet form for distribu­ Diary edited by Henry B. Wheatley munication: The Spirit of the Com­ tion to those interested. Members of in 18 volumes, Parkman's historical munity; Prof. Gerald. the 1954-55 annual public lecture writings in 12 volumes and the col­ May 12-Your Right to Read; Mr. committee of the Social Science Re­ lected works of such novelists as David K. Berninghausen, Director of search Center are: Donald G. Pater­ Balzac, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray and the Library School. son, psychology, chairman; John R. Hawthorne. May 19-Your Right to Knowl­ Borchert, geography; John A. But­ Unusual items in the collection will edge; Prof. Frederick E. Ellis, edu­ trick, economics; William B. Lock­ be placed in the library's rare hook cation. hart, law; R. B. Nixon, journalism. rooms. 14 The Minnesotan The Presitlent~s Page

Lectureships Benefit University and Its Community

URING THE CURRENT aca­ D demic year the University has received important grants to support two series of lectures by distinguished figures in many areas of human activ­ ity. In October it was announced that the Minneapolis Star and Tribune would establish the Gideon Seymour to the campus outstanding men and technology, pointing out the vital role Memorial Lectures at the University, women who might not otherwise have which University research plays in the in honor of the late executive editor occasion to visit the University. Such economy of the state and the nation. of the Star and Tribune. At about the lectureships give the University, too, Our training of young men and same time, the University received the opportunity to join in honoring women to assume responsible posi­ notice of a similar gift from the Sid­ the memory of men distinguished in tions in the social scene is of course ney Hillman Foundation for the sup­ professional and public service. another source of great pride. Yet port of a series of lectures as a memo­ A close friend of Mr. Seymour, we are all equally proud of the more rial to the late founder and president and one of the nation's most influen­ difficult to describe and less readily of the Amalgamated Clothing Work­ tial journalists, was chosen to initiate measurable status of the University ers of America. the Seymour Lectures. On February as a catalytic intellectual force in the These gifts, and a number of oth­ 22, more than 3,000 people came to community- standing as it does for ers received during the year, supple­ hear James Reston of The New York those qualities of intelligence and ment and enrich an already notable Times deliver a stimulating address discipline and perseverance which schedule of lectures open to students, on foreign policy. characterize true scholarship. staff, and the general public-a sched­ On May 25 we will be honored to In its role as a sort of world forum, ule which once caused President Lotus play host to a distinguished American, as a major agency through which the D. Coffman to remark that one could Supreme Court Justice William 0. people of Minnesota may come into get a very good liberal education at Douglas, who will deliver the first direct contact with leading thinkers the University of Minnesota without Sidney Hillman Lecture. from all over the world, the Univer­ once entering the classroom. For sity renders a unique service. By many years the Sigma Xi and Phi speeding the influx of ideas from Beta Kappa lectures have brought VERY OFTEN I have spoken of everywhere and on almost every sig­ distinguished men and women to the the University's impressive nificant topic, it cannot but stimulate campus, as have the several series of achievements in the sciences and in and refresh the community it serves. public lectures sponsored by the De­ partment of Concerts and Lectures and those co-sponsored by that De­ partment and numerous academic departments. In the last academic year, for example, there were 54 such co-sponsored lectures. The Seymour and Hillman Lec­ tures, of course, do more than bring April 1955 15 APRIL 15 TO MAY 15, 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

THURSDAY MORNING CONVOCATIONS May-The Minnesota Department of Taxation: An Admin­ April 21-Education Day. Speaker: Sidney Hook, Head of istrative History, by Lloyd M. Short, Clara Penniman, and the Department of Philosophy, New York University, Floyd 0. Flom. Studies in Administration No. 3. $3.00. "Education and Creative Intelligence." (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul bookstores April 28-Stanley S. Jaks, psychologist and entertainer, or may be ordered through local bookstores.) "Curiosities of the Mind." UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS May 5-"Folkways of Four Continents." Music, singing and April 1-May 1- Students' Exhibition: ceramics, jewelry, dancing by cast of Festival of Nations (produced by the weaving. St. Paul International Institute). April 7-May 13--Theme Show: Fish Forms in Art. May 12-"From the Metropolitan." Laurel Hurley, soprano; April 29-May 27-Work of David Kwok, contemporary Chi- Louis Sgarro, bass; Francis Robinson, narrator, and Jan nese watercolorist. Behr, assistant conductor at the Metropolitan, piano ac­ May l-25-Egyptian Jewelry. companist. May 2-28-Students' Exhibition: watercolors. May 19-Cap and Gown Day. Speaker: Roland S. Vaile, (The University Gallery, on the third and fout1h floors of Professor of Economics and Marketing at the University. Northrop Auditorium, is open to the public from 8:00 a.m. (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. No admission charge.) to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Concertgoers will find SPECIAL LECTURES the Gallery open before performances and during intermis­ April 15-Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz, Professor of Physics, sions.) Purdue University, "The Irradiation Physics of Semicon­ SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS ductors." New England Anthology: Poets reading their own works. (Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 8:00p.m.) Included in the tape-recorded series of programs are Archibald MacLeish, Frank Prentice Rand, Wallace Stev­ EXTENSION DIVISION LECTURE SERIES­ ens, Robert Hillyer, Richard Eberhart, Peter Viereck and "Your Trip to Europe" Robert Frost. Tuesdays at 3 :30 p.m. April 11-Travel Techniques: Tips on Your Trip. How's the Family? Series of half hour dramatizations made April 18-How Europe Makes Her Living: The Continent's by the State University of Iowa showing importance of Economy. family relationships to the individual and society. Com­ April 25-Traces of the Past: Europe's Living History. mentators are Iowa faculty members. Thursdays at l :30 May 2-How Europe Plays: Fun and Recreation. p.m. May 9-Summer Fairs and Festivals: Special Opportunities (KUOM, the University radio station, broadcasts at 770 on for Recreation and Education. the dial. Its complete spring schedule may be obtained by (Museum of Natural History Auditorium. 8:00 p.m. Spon­ writing to the station.) sored by the University's General Extension Division. Speak­ Freedom in the Social Sciences: The Eighth Annual Public ers to be announced. $10.00 for the series of nine weekly Lecture series sponsored by the University's Social Sci­ lectures; no individual tickets sold.) ence Research Center features University staff members in MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS thirteen weekly IS-minute discussion interviews. Thursdays April 24--Recital: Leslie Hollister, soprano, graduate of the at 8:15 p.m. beginning April 21 over WCCO; Fridays at 3:30p.m. beginning April 22 over KUOM. University. May 2-Recital: Bernhard Weiser, pianist, music depart­ Child Psychology: The First Twelve Years ... This lively ment staff member. "17th and 18th Century Keyboard T.V. series on child development is given twice weekly by Professor Dale Harris, director of the Institute of Child Music." May 6-Recital: Terry] Sparks, University student pianist. Welfare at the University. May 8-Recital: Marilyn Larson, University student pianist ( WMIN-TV, Channel ll. Tuesdays and Thursdays from and winner of the William Lindsay piano scholarship. 10:00 to 10:30 a.m.) (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public.) ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS Baseball Garnes at Horne UNIVERSITY THEATRE PERFORMANCES April 15-Iowa State, 3:30p.m. April 14-23-"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen. April 16-lowa State (two games), l :00 p.m. (Scott Hall Auditorium. April 14 at 7:30 p.m.; April 15 April 22-Illinois, 3:30 p.m. and 16 at 8:30 p.m.; April 17 at 4:00 p.m.; April 18, no April 23-Illinois, (two games), 1:00 p.m. performance; April 19 at 3:30 p.m., and April 20 through (Delta Field. Times as listed above. Tickets at $.75 may be 23, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets at $1.20 may be purchased a purchased at the gate immediately before the event. No ad­ week before the opening at the Theatre Box Office, 18 Scott vance sale.) Hall.) t April 26-Augsburg College. April 26-May 1-"The Women" by Clare Boothe Luce. May 3-Carleton College. (Arena Theatre, Shevlin Hall. April 26 through 30 at 8:30 (Parade Stadium, 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $.75 at the gate. p.m.; May 1 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets at $1.20 may be purchased No advance sale.) at 18 Scott Hall only.) Tennis Tournament Young People's University Theatre May 2-Iowa University. May 8, 14 and 15-"Hiawatha" ·hy James Norris. (Tennis Courts, Fourth St. and Nineteenth Ave. S.E., l :00 (Scott Hall Auditorium, 2:30 p.m. Tickets at $.40 may be p.m. Open to the public without charge.) purchased at 18 Scott Hall.) t Golf Tournaments UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATIONS May 3--Carleton and St. Olaf, 2:00 p.m. May-Our Long Heritage: Pages /rom the Books Our May 7-Iowa State, 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Founding Fathers Read, edited by Wilson 0. Clough. Mr. May 9-College of St. Thomas, 1 :00 p.m. Clough teaches English and American Studies at the (University Golf Course, Larpenteur Ave. and Fulham St., University of Wyoming. $4.50. St. Paul. Open to the public without charge.) tTickets for these events are also available at the Field Schlick T_ic~et ~ffice ~n St. Pa?l and the Downtown Ticket Office, 188 Northwestern Bank Bmldmg m Mmneapohs. THE. MINNESOTAN Z:lte Uuiversil!f Staff )tlapaziue - Ma!f/955 in this issue . . . THE UNIVERSITY STUDIES IT­ They Made Us Great SELF, thanks to the Bureau of Insti­ tutional Research, housed in Burton Hall. Y ou'lllearn about the Bureau's AAGAARD, Abe, Abell, Abraham history and how its research helps U . . . Thus begins the roster of faculty members on page 3. 1954's contributors to the Greater University Fund, the official agency MORE THAN EXERCISE-that's for University gift acceptance spon­ how C. R. Osell describes his adapted sored by the U Alumni Association. physical education course for students Since GUF started in 1948 it has with polio, heart trouble, orthopedic received gifts totaling more than a difficulties. Osell teaches them enjoy­ able sports skills while training their million dollars. It started small - muscles. Page 5. with 1,180 people contributing $33,- 400 in 1948. But each year the Fund TEACHING HIMSELF CUNEI­ has bounded ahead, until last year it FORM, translating Sumerian texts, received $228,850 from 4,592 con­ and playing the cello are among the tributors. varied activities of History Professor Tom Jones. See page ll. Who are these 4,592 people? Three-quarters of them are alumni. OTHER FEATURES ON: Sum­ The rest are University staff mem­ mer Session, 1955, page 6; retiring bers, businessmen, and a few firms staff, page 10; UMD's traveling col­ and foundations- all friends of the lector, Hilda Schumacher, page 12; University. Heart of the alumni gift U milk and cream services, page 13. program, the Fund tries to raise money mostly from private sources on the eover . .. beyond the normal grants and appro­ priations the University regularly re­ This cover shot by Walter ceives from public agencies. Says Fund to the Katherine E. Densford Zambino needs no caption. We think it calls up all the Fund Director Robert Provost, "It's Scholarships in Nursing; from the excitement and nostalgia ap­ not only the big gifts that keep the MacQuarrie Pediatrics Fund to In­ propriate to June commence­ Fund going. More than half of the dustrial Relations Center Research. ments. With this as a jump­ 4,592 contributions in 1954 were for Largest special GUF project to date $5.00 or less!" ing-off point, The Minnesotan is the St. Paul Campus Student Cen­ wishes all its readers a happy Where does the money go? About ter. The drive to raise $300,000 for summer. See you next Fall! one-tenth of last year's total was "un­ this building, begun two years ago, is restricted" - that is, not earmarked headed by President Emeritus Walter for any one purpose. Provost calls C. Coffey. THE MINNESOTAN these "two-dollar dollars" because Directing all the Fund's activity is Vol. VIII No. 8 their flexibility adds to their value. Published by the Department of a board of trustees on which alumni, University Relations, 213 Administration This $24,500 was sliced as follows: regents, and administration are repre­ Building, University of Minnesota, Min­ about half went for 38 Minnesota sented. Chairman for the past five neapolis 14, Minnesota. Alumni Freshman Scholarships and years has been John K. Fesler, a Uni­ William L. Nunn, Director Senior Class Scholarships; one quar­ Ellen Siegelman • • • . . • Editor versity alumnus who is now president JoAnne Alberg • . . Assistant Editor ter went for Greater University Fel­ and director of both the Liberty State Advisory Committee: Members of the lowships for three outstanding grad­ Bank and the Lampert Yards in St. University Public Information Council. uate students. The balance was used The Minnesotan is published monthly Paul. "A gift to education is an in­ during the academic year, October for such diverse projects as financing vestment in our own future," Mr. Fes­ through May. Copies are mailed free to research on the Lewis and Clark Ex­ University staff members. Subscription ler has written in support of the pedition in History and buying radia­ rates for non-staff members are $2 a Fund, now beginning its 1955 cam­ year, 25 cents a copy. Copies of this tion equipment for veterinary medi­ issue are on sale at Coffman Memorial paign with a goal of $230,000. cine, in addition to many others. Union Bookstore. And President Morrill has written: Photographs, unless otherwise cred­ Most of the money from contribu­ ited, were taken by members of the tors was "tagged" for long-term spe­ "Here is a tangible way for each of University Photographic Laboratory. cial projects that run the gamut from us to share in the greatness of a great Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota. the Theatre and Fine Arts Center University." 2 The Minnesotan high-level research in higher edr1cation

Bureau Helps U Study Itself

CHOLARS FOR YEARS have debated the source of S the phrase "Know Thyself." But whether it was uttered by Plato or Pythagoras, or whether it descended straight from heaven, as Juvenal contended, the Uni­ versity of Minnesota takes the injunction seriously! The University has won a national reputation for col­ legiate research-not only for self-scrutiny but for study­ ing the problems of higher education generally on the state leveL This collegiate soul-searching is the province of the College of Education's Bureau of Institutional Research. To its headquarters in 211 Burton Hall come teachers, Office supervisor Dorolese Wardwell and assistant direc­ committees, departments and colleges, as well as Uni­ tor fohn Stecklein look over a Bureau testing bulletin. versity administrators - with educational problems. Bureau technicians help with experimental designs and of the U's course offerings during recent years with an statistical analysis to provide the information on which eye to introducing needed courses and preventing dupli­ these educators and administrators can base policy de­ cation. The staff is now completing this survey, directed CISIOns. (The Bureau shares office staff with another by Ruth Eckert, Professor of High Education. College of Education research unit, the Bureau of Edu­ Other Bureau projects have been concerned with such cational Research, directed by Cyril J. Hoyt.) diverse subjects as medical students' attitudes toward The Bureau may have as many as twenty-five projects psychiatry; the construction and evaluation of compre­ going at once. Ideas for these projects may be hatched hensive examinations in the College of Pharmacy; the by the Bureau itself, by a college or department, by a prediction of success in journalism. U Senate committee or by a single faculty member. Research findings are summarized in the Bureau's biennial publications and in the books Higher Educa­ Bureau surveys faculty characteristics tion in Minnesota and A University Looks at Its Program, With faculty cooperation, the Bureau initiated a published by the University of Minnesota Press. "faculty characteristics study," now nearly complete. Its "Individual professors as well as colleges and depart­ purpose: to learn what the average University of Minne­ ments can benefit from the Bureau," says Director John sota faculty member is like-his education, his publica­ Morris. For example: tion rate, the incentives that brought him to Minnesota, • in research. The Bureau's files contain a wealth of the things that determine his promotion, his reasons for basic data from previous studies which can serve as a changing, if he should leave. The Bureau staff believes time-saving springboard for faculty members engaged in this study is particularly important in the light of climb­ educational research. The findings on a group of Minne­ ing student enrollments and increasingly competitive sota high school graduates in 1939, for example, have bidding for good staff people by all universities. been used in 1947 and again last year. A study of how present foreign language requirements Even more important, the Bureau's staff can imple­ are meeting student needs and the general role of foreign ment appropriate faculty projects by preparing ques­ language in a liberal arts college has been completed and tionnaires, interviewing subjects, tabulating and analyz­ is now being assembled by the Bureau's clerical staff. ing the data received. In this way the Bureau recently Request for this project came from SLA's Foreign assisted Prof. Ralph Nichols, Chairman of Rhetoric, St. Language Committee, appointed by Dean E. W. Paul campus, in a study of communication skills. McDiarmid. • in teaching. The professor who wants a valid meas­ Another group-the University Senate Committee on urement of how effectively he is teaching and how well Education-asked for a study on the number and nature his students are doing can enlist the aid of bureau techni- May 1955 3 the Bureau-former Dean of the Arts College, T. R. Mc­ Connell, and Professors Eckert and Keller."' Among the faculty who shape the Bureau's activities today are members of the University Senate Committee on Institutional Research, headed by Prof. Elio Mona­ chesi, Sociology. With its members drawn from all :"ec­ tions of the U, this committee lays down basic Bureau policy on what problems need investigating and what resources are available. Who are the men and women who make the Bureau wheels go 'round and tabulating machines hum? In addi­ tion to Morris and Stecklein, and head statistician Mar­ garet Abernathy, research fellows and research associates Clayton Stunkard, Ted Vandernoot, Sol Haberman, Robert Zimmerman, and Peter Rempel supervise projects, assisted by clerical workers.

Bureau offers "apprenticeship" These graduate students, most of whom have Master's degrees in sociology, psychology, or educational psy­ chology, are working at the Bureau to gain experience. This apprenticeship of capable young people has borne fruit at the University and elsewhere. Among those who John Morris, Bureau director, at his Burton Hall desk. took their "internship" in the Bureau's office have been: Marcia Edwards, Minnesota's Associate Dean of the Col­ cians in devising suitable tests. Assistant director John lege of Education; G. Lester Anderson, Dean of Admin­ Stecklein holds test-construction seminars and publishes istration at the University of Buffalo; C. Robert Pace, regular bulletins on such topics as: how to write good Chairman of the Psychology Department at Syracuse multiple-choice items, how to construct es~ay tests, what University; and Henry Harmon, President of Drake are the characteristics and uses of various types of tests University. and measurements. (Single copies of these bulletins are Undergraduates, many of whom begin as freshmen free to faculty members from the Bureau or may be and continue to work until graduation, do much of the bought in quantity from Nicholson Hall Bookstore.) routine calculation. The continuity of student personnel To keep in touch with the problems of instruction most testifies to the fact that the Bureau is a pleasant place to of the Bureau staff do some actual teaching in addition to work. And, says secretary Kay Ludescher, one of the research. It was this love of teaching that drew Robert J. reasons is Dolorese Wardwell, office supervisor and Keller, Morris's predecessor, back into the classroom virtual mainstay of the office. full-time after four years as the Bureau's director. Miss Wardwell, a French and English major, suddenly found herself enmeshed in computation and shorthand Self-scrutiny an old U habit when she joined Dean Haggerty's staff in 1930. She's Asking crucial questions in collegiate research has been been here ever since, as supervisor for the Bureau of a University of Minnesota habit for at least 30 years. The Educational Research as well as Institutional Research. impetus to self-study was touched off in 1922 when Presi­ "Ask Dolorese," has become a kind of office byword­ dent Coffman named a committee to survey admissions for Miss Wardwell in her calm, pleasant manner channels procedures in the light of soaring student enrollments, the work flow and acts as liaison between the several particularly in the medical school, after World War I. groups-administrative, research, and clerical-in the This was followed by a permanent University com­ two bureaus and the faculty committees outside. mittee to study other phases of University policy. By All these people made up the staff that greeted director 1930 this Committee on Educational Research had a John Morris last summer when he came to the University central office staff to do clerical and statistical work and from Mississippi, where he had been University Examiner. headquarters in Room ll, Library. He was already acquainted with the Bureau's national Melvin E. Haggerty, committee chairman and Dean of reputation, with the faculty's participation in it, and with the College of Education until his death in 1937, vigor­ the University's willingness to submit its problems, pro­ ously promoted faculty participation in the self-study grams and policies to scrutiny. "Indeed," he says, "when program, which, says Morris, "has come to he shaped I came up here for my interview I just couldn't get the more and more by the man in the classroom. This awe out of my eyes. And this-you'll admit-is a rather tradition was perpetuated by those most active in guiding dangerous state for a man about to discuss his salary!" The Minnesotan 4 The way Cla,.ence Osell just come in for extra practice in -it draws him into group activities basic sports skills such as weight­ and builds his confidence. With the teaches Phy Ed 65 it's lifting or throwing and catching. okay of the Health Service, such a Osell also trains others to work student then has a sport for all his with the handicapped. He gives a life-something he can enjoy outside course for physical education and the classroom." More Than recreational leadership majors in the About 60 to 70 students a year en­ theory underlying this special kind roll in Osell's course. He keeps his of therapy. classes small-not more than 15 in EXERCISE "Our gym program is adapted to each. This way he can work with the needs and capacities of students each student individually, building with heart trouble, asthma, polio, or­ him up from partnership play (as in thopedic difficulties. Everything we ping-pong), to doubles, to games that EART TROUBLE, asthma, or do," he says, "is supervised by the involve large groups. H polio need not always bar the Health Service staff. During Fresh­ A boy with spastic paralysis learns college-age man or woman from the man Week I'm over in the Health control as he walks a balance beam, campus athletic field. Service talking to students with spe­ and his coordination becomes Deep in the Stadium's South Tower cial requirements, and from time to smoother as he bounces balls and Clarence Osell, a chunky, friendly time during the year other students shoots baskets. Another-a polio vic­ man, teaches a special course in are sent to me by faculty advisers. tim with braces on both legs-trains adapted physical education (P.E. 65). "Take a boy who had rheumatic his muscles on roller skates. Another In Room 264 young men discipline fever as a child," Osell goes on. youth, with curvature of the spine, their muscles and learn the skills of "Well, naturally, he hasn't ever had strengthens his hack with exercise. coordination and balance as they much physical education; he hasn't Then he learns the skills of archery. fence, drive golf balls, or play ten­ participated in games. For him.­ "It's more than exercise," Osell nis, squash, and shuffleboard. and for most of the handicapped­ stresses. "We think of it as exercise To keep the situation more natural, we believe there's a double value in plus fun. We often improvise games Osell always has in his gym some stu­ sports work. One: it strengthens his or activities to fit a student's needs. dents without physical handicaps who muscles. Two-and most important For instance, a boy with weak neck muscles gets more of a thrill out of Clarence Osell teaches special phy ed course in 264, Stadium South To~eer. shooting a basket than just going through a series of calisthenics-like an automaton, and the body build­ ing result is the same. Some of the handicapped even ex­ cel at sports. Witness this story Osell tells: "A lad once came to me very dis­ couraged. Polio had paralyzed both his legs and he said he couldn't do anything in phy ed. Of course, his arms and shoulders had become very strong over the years, compensating for loss of the use of his legs ... and before long we had him doing some rope climbing. "One day Mr. Piper, the gymnastic coach, happened by and took a look at him. He decided the fellow was good enough to enter the national gymnastics competition. "Well, the student did enter. And guess what happened? The boy who 'couldn't do anything in physical education' turned out to be seventh best ... the seventh best rope climber in the whole country!" May 1955 5 1 ~200 courses to choose from ... Summer Session - A Chance to Experiment

"JUST BECAI!S_E th: temper~ture Profe~sor of Geography, Univer~ity sion salaries for the University"s soars, the lmversity doesn t be­ of Gt>orgia. upper rank staff members in ad­ come a different place in the sum­ The largest single group of visit­ vanced courses. mer.'' E. W. Ziebarth contends. As ing staff members will be brought in Along with problems, the summer Dean of the Summer Session, he sees jointly by the University's American offers its share of advantages. "I look the University's obligations during Studies Program and the specific de­ on the Summer Session as giving us June, July, and August as substan­ partments in which they are to teach. added flexibility to do things a little tially the same as during the regular Among these are: Virgil Barker, Pro­ differently. Because the summer pop­ academic year. "If anything:' he fessor of Art, University of Miami; ulation is somewhat older, and be­ adds, "we may have an increa;;ed re­ Harrison Hayford, Associate Profes­ e a use faculty people are not rigidly sponsibility to provide additional sor of English, Northwestern Univer­ bound-by their year-round schedules, working for advanced degrees in the sity; Lawrance Thompson, Professor we can exprriment a bit with sched­ College of Education and the Gradu­ of English, Princeton University; ules and offerings," says Dean Zie­ ate School." Ray B. West, Jr., Professor of Eng­ barth. But in dealing with courses at all lish, State University of Iowa; W es­ The first term runs from June 13- levels throughout the University­ ton La Barre, Associate Professor of July 16; the second, from July 18- including Duluth and Itasca- Zie­ Anthropology, Duke University; August 20. More than 1200 courses barth admits that the Summer Ses­ Adrienne Koch, Visiting Associate will be offered. sion poses some special problems. Professor of Political Science, Uni­ Unusual features this summer in­ clude: One of these is the question of versity of California, who will teach staff. This year as always there will Philosophy; and Ernest van den • Problems of the Mentally Re­ t.arded Child. This workshop, co­ be some visiting professors, includ­ Haag, Adjunct Associate Professor of sponsored by the Institute of Child ing: S. N. Roy, Professor, Institute Social Science, New York University, Welfare and the Psycho-Educational of Statistics, University of North who will teach Humanities. Clinic, will be a kind of "third ses­ Carolina; Benjamin Rogers, Associ­ Ziebarth feels the real problem is sion," running from August 22-26. ate Professor of History. University maintaining our own staff and in­ Directed by Professors Eugene of Florida; Eugene Mather, Associatt> creasing the ceilings on summer ses- Collin and Maynard Reynolds, the intensive two-credit workshop is lim­ In Summer Session's busy mailroom. l. to r., are: secretary Janet Gilland, ited to teachers, counselors, profes­ administrative secretary .Bernice Kidder, and clerk-typist- Marjorie Hier. sional caseworkers, graduate stu­ dents and senior undergraduate ma­ jors. In three-hour morning and afternoon lecture and discussion ses­ sions they will learn about recent trends in the diagnosis, care, and training of children with mental de­ fects. Visiting specialists will also discuss parent education, the role of the schools, and vocational rehabili­ tation for mentally retarded children. • Interdisciplinary Statistics. The Graduate School Committee on Sta­ tistics will sponsor two courses which are expected to draw graduate stu­ dents from agriculture, education, mathematics, and the social and nat­ ural sciences. Offered in the Depart­ ment of Mathematics of the Arts col­ lege, the courses (Multivariate Analy- continued on next page 6 The Minnesotan sis, Experimental Designs for Re­ search Workers) will be taught by DAY with Visiting Professor S. N. Roy. a • Teaching of College Chemistry. DEAN • • • This institute for college chemistn teachers is directed by Prof. Robert EAN E. W. Ziebarth is frankly C. Brasted, Chemistry, and will con­ D a little tired of the old saw: sist of a course in inorganic chemistry "What does the Dean of Summer plus demonstrations, lectures, discuf'­ Session do during the winter?" Actu­ sions, and field trips on recent ad­ ally, he says, he's been waiting for vances in general chemistry. Univer­ a slack season but hasn't found one sity faculty from the School of Chem­ so far. istry, the Mines Experiment Station. Besides his deanship, Ziebarth con­ and the departments of Physics and tinues to lecture and teach a seminar Chemical Engineering will be supple­ in radio research in the Department mented by visiting professors and of Speech and Theatre Arts of which representatives from industry. Somt> he is former chairman. He gets three 50 participants from all over the to seven requests a day for outside country will register for the institute, speaking engagements (most of which to be held on the Minneapolis cam­ he turns down, regretfully). And he pus June 13-July 16. Virtually all has his own nightly radio and TV Dean Ziebarth checks Summer Session costs- including stipends for regis­ news broadcasts. bulletin with secretary Era Holmes. trants-are being underwritten by the Asked to pick a day-any day-to National Science Foundation. Up to illustrate his schedule, Dean Ziebarth Lecture on "Social Impact of Mass six credits for the institute can be hit upon a Wednesday a few weeks Media," to a speech class. This ties applied to advanced degrees in the ago. Here's how it went: in with his research on the effect of College of Education. radio and TV listening on grade­ Up at 7:15. To the office at 8:-lS. • Film Week. Two regular Art De­ school children. Call from department head: A staff partment courses on the film will be member can't teach during Summer All this interspersed with phone coordinated with a six-day festival Session. Someone must be substituted calls, messages, and memos: Go over of lectures, discussion, workshops, for him by his department. Ziebarth concert and summer lecture schedule and film screenings from June 13-20. catches copy and makes the appro­ with James Lombard; set time for Planned by Prof. George Amberg. priate change in the bulletin. recording Social Science Research General Studies, for artists, teachers, Center discussion-interviews; consult At 9:30 a complicated committee museum staff, film-makers, and inter­ with graduate student about his dis­ session on the establishment of sum­ ested laymen, the "short course" will sertation in radio research. mer session fees for special schools emphasize documentary film tech­ Dinner at home, 6:00. Down to mques. and colleges within the University. Then, quickly checks bulletin copy office at weco studios between 7:00 • Travel Course in European Art. and 7:30. Before 10:15 writes 1.500 Prof. Lorenz Eitner, Art, will again before it goes to the printer for the last time. words of news summary and analysis take some 20 studenb from midwest­ for radio, based on radio wire service At 11 :00, meeting with committee ern universities to Europe on a five­ dispatches constantly coming through to determine the relationships be-­ credit, six-week tour of the principal newsroom. On the air at 10:15; 20- twe-en summer graduate and under­ art centers of France, Italy, Austria, minute breather to arrange thoughts graduate courses in chemistry. Germany, and Holland. The group preparatory to 1200 word ad-Jibbed will leave from New York June 2.5 Luncheon at 12:30 turns into meet­ telecast. During this 20 minutes Zie­ and return there August 22. ing to air plans to organize in sum­ barth must check printer for new dis­ In • Other short-term institutes. mer 1956 an institute and workshops patches, apply television makeup, and addition to two regular speech courses in music education which would climb five flights of stairs to WCCO's in this field, the Speech Department, bring to the campus talented young­ television studio. On TV at 10:45. in cooperation with the Audiology sters from all over the upper Midwest. At home - but not to bed- by Clinic at University Hospitals, will At 2:00, meets with a foundation 11:15 p.m. Reads for a while to "un­ hold a short-term institute at the close representative to discuss funds for wind a little." Ziebarth figures he of the second session for parents of special work to be given in 1956 and must enjoy this regimen or he would deaf children. thereafter-"subject matter" courses not keep at it. He did make one con­ Because the National American for high school teachers to improve cession last winter, though. He cut continued on page 14 their effectiveness. out his Sunday telecast! May 1955 7 A Fulbright Research Award has been granted to Prof. Robert H. Beck, ed­ ucation. He will study European sys­ tems of secondary education, with the Municipal University of Amsterdam as his "home base" while he is abroad.

Ubiquitous John Gormley, UMD utility man, does grounds work in all kinds of weather. Here he prunes shrubbery in front of Main. staff members Gust Bitsianes, assistant professor of metal­ lurgy, was recently given the J. E. Johnson, Jr., Award for a paper and contributions to YOU S the literature on the manufacture of pig iron. At the U U years, principal accountant Carolyn Anderson keeps tabs on 30 sets of t:niversity Services books from cold storage plant to dormitories. Carolyn's interests include travel, Red Cross and Alumni Association work.

8 The Minnesotan Russian History is the topic of the classroom lectures broadcast over KUOM this quarter Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at l :30 p.m. by Prof. George Anderson, history.

KNOW An ore sampler at the Mines Experiment Station since 1937, Russell Olson is here fusing {ag­ glomerating) fine iron ore particles under heat. Lorraine Gonyea, med tech instruct­ or has won a Ful­ bright grant that will take her to Oslo for a year of hematologystudy.

Readying steril­ ized equipment for doctors is the job of Nellie Johnson, one of many nurses' ' aides in the cen­ tral supply room, Mayo Memorial. May 1955 9 certificates for service • • • U to Honor Retiring Staff Members

AT THE END of this fiscal year 76 teaching of history and the social ing, Mimeograph Clerk, 25 years; University staff members will re­ sciences. Arthur B. Hanson, Operating Engi­ tire from the University. Their com­ neer, Heating Plant, 25 years; Marie bined years of service would date oTHER retiring staff members C. Peterson, Hospitals Stores Clerk, from the year 1 to 1960! The aca­ listed in order of years of serv­ 24 years; Victor L. Fix en, Lecturer demic staff will lose 29 through re­ ice: Gertrude I. Thomas, Professor in Civil Engineering, 22 years; Luena tirement; the civil service staff, 4 7. in Dietetics and Director of Nutrition, S. Gillen, Cook, 21 years; Charlotte These 76 men and women will be U Hospitals, 41 years; Alice Biester, Kirchner, 20 years; Mervin G. Neale, honored at a party June 1 in Coffman Professor of Home Economics, 40 Professor of General Education, 20 Memorial Union. Certificates of Merit years; Ethel L. Phelps, Professor of years; Steven H. Rued. General Me­ will be presented at that time to those Home Economics, 40 years; Edwin J. chanic, 20 years; Bror A. W a !lin, who are retiring after ten or more Volden, Assistant Professor, West Sheet Metal Worker, 20 years; Ina B. years of service to the University. Central School and Station, 40 years; Rowe, Assistant Professor Agricul­ Professor Paul R. McMiller, Soils Ethel M. Slider, Junior Scientist, tural Extension, 19 years; Julius Department, holds the record this Zoology, 38 years; Mellie R. Phillips, Syverson, Building Caretaker, 19 year for University employment. He Administrative Secretary, Extension years; Sigrid Green, Cook, 19 years; got his B.S. in Chemistry at the U in Division, 38 years. Nelle C. Cowles, Housekeeper, Com­ 1911 and joined the staff that same Caroline Hansrud, Hospitals Stores stock Hall, 14 years; Peter H. Rock­ year as an assistant in the Soils De­ Clerk, 37 years; Evangeline P. Pier­ sted, Senior Laboratory Attendant, partment. He has been at the Uni­ son, Tabulating Equipment Super­ Mechanical Engineering, 13 years; versity ever since-for 44 years--ex­ visor, 37 years; Albert Anderson, Ella Johnson, Hospital Aide, 13 cept for several leaves of absence to Assistant Chief Engineer, Heating years. do soil surveys for the federal gov­ Plant, 37 years; Louis A. Larson, Helga M. Palmer, Food Service ernment. Plumbing Foreman, 37 years; Olga Worker, 13 years; Karl Otto Ander­ While he was a student here in M. Loe, Senior Clerk, 36 years; Ter­ son, Utility Man, 12 years; Regine 1912, Spencer E. Cleland first ap­ esa Fitzgerald, Senior Secretary, Aarestad, Salad Maker, 12 years; peared on the University Agricul­ Alumni Relations, 36 years; Carl T. Talitha Andreas, Custodial Worker, tural Extension payroll as "Assistant Petersen, Pattern Maker, 35 years. 12 years; Carlyle Campbell, Instruc­ in ~orthfield Township Survey." An Ernest A. Heilman, Professor of tor, Agricultural Extension, 12 years; economist in farm management, Cle­ Business Administration, 35 years; Mattine F. Decker, Clerk, Student land is now Professor in Agricultural May W. Swanson, Laboratory Tech­ Counseling Bureau, 12 years. Extension. nology Assistant, 35 years; Margaret Carrie Hoiosen, Cook, 12 years; Ida Edward W. Davis came to the Uni­ H. Trimble, Senior Librarian, 35 M. Johnson, Cook, 12 years; Ma­ versity in 1912 as an instructor. Now years; William E. Morris, Professor, thilda Lambert, Dishroom Super­ professor, he was for many years di­ Agricultural Extension, 34 years; visor, 12 years; Hans A. Larsen, rector of the University's Mines Ex­ Ellen Bercher, Principal Food Serv­ Plumber, 12 years; JohnS. Reynolds, periment Station. His work in origi­ ice Supervisor, 33 years; Leo ]. Senior Animal Laboratory Attend­ nating the taconite-production process Brueckner, Professor of General Edu­ ant, 12 years; Emil Tresichel, Poul­ has won for him scores of honors as cation, 33 years; Clifford ]. Snyder, try Worker, West Central School and well as the appellation "Mr. Tac­ Storekeeper, Athletic Equipment, 32 Station, 12 years. onite." years. Sarah M. Glenzke, Food Service Another faculty member is fourth Blanche C. Kendall, Associate Pro­ Worker, ll years; Nellie 0. Jones, in length of University employment fessor of Music, 32 years; Alexander Hospital Aide, lO years; Henry Ly­ this year. August C. Krey, Professor, B. Rolfe, Instructor, West Central saker, Dormitory Proctor, North Cen­ and former Chairman of the History School and Station, Morris, 32 years; tral School and Station, 10 years. Department, came to the University as Roland S. Vaile, Professor of Busi­ Retiring staff members who have an instructor in 1913. Prof. Krey ness Administration, 32 years; Henry been at the University less than ten has written extensively on medieval A. Pflughoeft, Assistant Professor, years are: George Schutta, 9; Nina history, particularly the crusades, and Agricultural Extension, 31 years; Paquin, 9; Lucien E. Freeman, 9; has also published material for the Anna Iverson, Jani tress, 27 years. Curt A. Larson, 7; C. E. Thorstenson, Carnegie Corporation and the Ameri­ Katherine Boice, Senior X-ray 7; Joseph M. Pestarini, 3; George W. can Historical Association on the Technician, 27 years; Gladys C. Wid- Gilman, 2 years. 10 The Minnesotan History Professor Tom Jones is busy

Piecing out the Past

"I AM the wise, the thoughtful prince., inventor of all kinds of plans, who establishes in all large cities the appropriate cults, and sees that the rites are properly performEd." Thrse words of Esarhaddon, a none-too-modest Assyrian monarch of the seventh century B.C., are in­ scribed in tht.> clay barrel cylinder history professor Tom Jones is holding in the picture at the right. Having trans­ lated tht.> inscription on the cylinder, Prof. Jones explains that it was apparently written by one of Esarhaddon's Prof. ]ones holds Assyrian barrel cylinder, c. 675 B.C. court publicity-men to commemorate the rebuilding of a temple: according to tradition, the original cylinder Primarily interested in piecing out information on the was either built into the temple wall or put up on a spike. agriculture and trade of the ancient Near East, Jones is Jones, who has taught courses in Latin American His­ translating and editing a whole file of clay tablets from tory at the U, and who heads the University's intelligence various Twin Cities museums with the hope of putting research program, says his real love has always been them into a single volume with a combined catalogue. ancient history. He was an undergraduate major in "Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm doing," mathematics and history at the University of Michigan, he says, holding out a small brown clay tablet from the and in 1934 he got his Ph.D. there in Roman and Greek St. Paul Science Museum. The inscribed Sumerian tab­ history. let, he says, is a record of animals taken in charge. It For more than a year after that Jones had a rather is dated the thirtieth day of the first month of the fifth unusual career. "Those were during the lean depression year of the reign of Amar-Sin, a Sumerian monarch of days,'' he recalls, "and I got a job running a WPA-spon­ 2075 B.C. The tablet came from Drehem, a market where sored collegiate center in my home territory near Bufialo, cattle were bought for sacrifice at the temples of a nearby N. Y., which offered evening courses for college credit." religious eenter. His duties included: recruiting students; teaching ''The tablet shows that six lambs and one kid were Greek, history, and math-through calculus-20 hours a week; playing on the baseball team when nerded; and brought to the receiving official, Abbashagga; he in turn administering a staff of six, some of them volunteers. passed them on to Intaea, who was in charge of their "I was in a sense a college president," he grins from distribution for sacrifice,'' says Jones. I The gods wanted around his pipe, "before I ever became an instructor." only the horns and tails, he explains; the priests ate the rest!) "The Sumerians," Jones goes on, "had an almost com­ TOUGH-MINDED man whose major outside interest A plete union of church and state. Their temples were also is playing the cello, Jones came to the U in 1935, and centers of government and finance. Meticulous book­ has been here since except for four years in the Navy. keepers, they recorded nearly every phase of every busi­ He entered the field of ancient Near Eastern history in earnest some 17 years ago by setting about to learn ness transaction." cuneiform, the system of writing with a stylus on da) By using these inscribed business records-lists, ledg­ used by nearly a dozen ancient peoples. His mentor in ers, contracts, and receipts of kings, priests, bureaucrats, this recondite enterprise was none other than Prof. Tom traders, and farmers - historians can learn enormous B. Jones. He has taught himself Sumerian, Babylonian, amounts of precise information on the agriculture and Assyrian, and- he says with apologies- a very little economy of the ancient Near East. Hittite. Jones, who is writing a history of this period, says "I simply took some of the published texts and sign such data are also important for understanding the Near lists and went through them, as with a dictionary," he East today, since many of its inhabitants are living much explains. "It's a little like working a crossword puzzle. as their ancestors did 2,000 years ago-building the same But once you've learned about a thousand characters it',. kinds of houses, eating the same kind of food, and even fairly clear sailing!" using some of the same words! May 1955 11 She CAN take Them with Her

UMD's Hilda Schumacher brings back tangible reminders of he1· trips abroad

Photo by Ronald Lahti UMD Assistant Nursing Supervisor Hilda. Schumacher has collected a "glass menagerie" on many trips abroad.

"HE WAS like a little old man out told me about a neighbor, Arno and mementos of her trips abroad of a storybook, working with Mueller-Bauer, artist in glassblowing. remind her of many rich experiences. his Bunsen burner and glass in a The Germans called him 'Kunstglas­ There are embroidered slippers kitchen that had few modern con­ hlaser.' from Istanbul, with silver and gold veniences but a whole world of "When I came to his shop, he threads and other colors in elaborate charm." looked up at me and with great po­ floral pattern; reptile purses and lace Miss Hilda Schumacher, UMD liteness asked me if I would like from Madrid; gleaming scissors from health service nursing supervisor, was something specially made. Toledo; an embroidered tablecloth reminiscing about her first visit with "I said I would like a deer. He from Munich, and many other items. one of the ma~ters of the dying craft asked, 'Standing up or sitting down?' The UMD nursing supervisor, a of German glass blowing. 'Sitting down,' I said. bachelor of science graduate from the Finding him and his wife who as­ "And in a few moments there was Minneapolis campus with a major in sisted him in their quaint home in a deer, sitting down. I liked it so public health nursing, made her most Franconia was one of those rewards well, I asked him to make a small recent trip in 1954. She went to that come to the traveler who leaves herd in various stances. Soon after I Europe in 1912 the first time, then the beaten tourist trail. got back to America, the deer arrived. again in 1949 and 1951. "I like to travel alone," says Miss My friends like them so well, they Her UMD responsibilities include Schumacher, who last summPr made have ordered sets themselves." advising Mu Delta Pi, women's medi­ her fourth trip to Europe and is look­ Miss Schumacher brought back an­ cal fraternity, and the Newman club. ing forward to the next opportunitv other beautiful set from the glass­ She teaches a course, Health Care of to go abroad. "If I get some odd maker's bench- a Bavarian family, the Family, to home ec majors. ideas about what to see, I don't have two children and their parents in col­ Looking after the health of some to persuade traveling companions to orful dress made by a unique proc­ 1600 students is her professional re­ my way of thinking." ess: fusing colored glass upon the sponsibility. With Dr. Warren The glass-blower's kitchen came models rather than painting them. Brooker, clinic physician, she helps onto her itinerary on suggestion of a Deer and Bavarians now have a in immunization work, general health cousin who works in a Christmas tree special place in Miss Schumacher's examinations, minor health care and ornament factory in Coburg. "She cozy living room, where many curios other clinic work. 12 The Minnesotan Milk and cream department tion of the Twin City Milk Producers' Association's 6,.500 members. The distributes to U food services St. Paul campus herd, though solely an experimental unit, contributes about a tenth of the total. Almost every morning of the six· 1~000~000 Quarts a Year day bottling week, a big gondola from the Twin City Milk Producers' Asso­ ciation rolls in to unload fresh milk. THE PLEASANT CLINK of emp- right, coats it with protecti\'e wax, l;sually, it's pumped directly into the ties riding up to the bottler and fills it, and seals it. The unit turns cooler, later to be pasteurized, homog. the occasional sound of sweeping up out nearly one filled carton a second enized, and bottled. A quart of milk broken glass soon will vanish from -45 per minute-and fills quarts as leaving the gondola can end up de­ the one-storied rear of Haecker Hall rapidly as half-pints. sedimented, pasteurized, cooled, ho­ on the St. Paul campus. Marsh's department employs five mogenized and bottled just 10 min­ Early in first summer session, the men full-time; a clerk-Mrs. Florence utes later. And it might be served that milk and cream department will "go Wilcox; and from l.'i to 20 students, evening at a dormitory or at Univer­ to cartons" and offer its glass-about part-time. The milk comes from dairy ~ity Hospitals, largest single "cus­ 30,000 half-pint bottles, 8,000 pints farms within a 70-mile radius of the tomer of the U department." and 2,000 quarts-for sale. Twin Cities, drawing on the produc- continued on next page Manager Glenn Marsh estimates that during 19.56 the department will In cold storage plant Glenn Marsh, manager of the U's milk and cream de­ fill and deliver: partment, watches ice-cream maker August Oltman take a pint sample of ice­ 1,500,000 half-pints, 60,000 quarts, cream for weighing. Augie, who's been at the U since '38, likes vanilla! and 600,000 one-third quarts of milk 50,000 quarts of coffee cream 10,000 quarts of whipping cream 10,000 quarts and 25,000 half- pints of buttermilk 10,000 quarts and 400,000 half­ pints of skim milk 20,000 quarts, 250,000 one-third quarts, and 150,000 half-pints of chocolate drink. This giYes you some idea of the job of supplying the University's 23 food-serving units. Next year, too, the department will put up 100,000 one-third quart cartons of an orange drink, its first venture in that field. One reason the department is con­ verting to cartons: Nearly 50,000 bottles vanish each year on one of their "out" trips, even though the University has a far better record than most milk companies. Average bottle life in the industry is about 50 round trips, but a University bottle makes 135 round trips before break­ ing, cracking, or going AWOL. Other carton advantages include less weight and no empty trip-this alone will cut costs in half. Quart cartons cost about a cent and a half, pints a cent, and half pints 4/.5 cent. The cartoning machine opens the carton (which comes flat in a hale), ~eals its bottom, sets it up- May 1955 13 1,000,000 Quarts a Year continued from page 13 Sutnmer Session Just behind the big gondola, and earned a Bachelor's degree in dairy continued from page 7 probably from a different outlying husbandry at Montana State College Home Economics Association will Twin City plant, comes a semi- with and was a U graduate student in dairy meet in Minneapolis from June 28- 10-gallon cans of cream and skim industry when he took on the man­ July 1, the School of Home Econom­ milk, which go into a 40-degree ager's job. ics has planned three two-week work­ cooler, joining bottled milk soon to Their peak production years were, shops and one two-week course in go out to customers. of course, when the veteran enroll­ Related Art for those convention Peak of the day is from about 9:30 ment was high-in 1947 and 1948. guests who want to take academic a.m. to 1 :00 p.m. Sparkling-clean Each of these years, they bottled and work before or following the meet­ bottles line up on the bottler, move in delivered over 2,000,000 half pints of ings. (This is in addition to the reg­ a circle under the nozzles, suddenly milk and a total of 5,000,000 bottles ular home economics courses.) become creamy white as milk surges of all kinds of milk and cream. Ziebarth's office is also giving some in under vacuum. They're capped, The plant also makes nine flavors attention to out-of-class hours for cased as they come off the line, and of ice cream and four of sherbet and summer session students. Besides the put in cold storage. Meanwhile, a delivers about 25,000 gallons a year. regular summer concerts, tours, and truck loaded at 8:00 is making the Ice cream-maker August Oltman fills lectures, there will be an informal Minneapolis campus run to Coffman orders and makes mix on Monday, "orientation" program for newcom­ Union, University High School, and Wednesday and Friday. He freezes ers to the campus. "Some students other users. At lO :00 a second truck mix on Tuesday and Thursday and are here for only a short time and is loaded and starts the St. Paul the ice cream goes into IS-degree­ never really get to know the U bet­ campus run. After returning empty, below zero cold storage. ter than a casual tourist would," says both trucks load full about noon, one Marsh and Mrs. Wilcox occupy a Dean Ziebarth. "Therefore we've going to the Minneapolis campus glassed-in office just off the main asked some University departments if dormitories, the second to University bottling room. They often think about they would hold open houses, and a Hospitals. the new sounds in their clean white number of them-including KUOM, The milk and cream department plant with its forest of shiny equip­ medical laboratories, the library­ was born in 1934, when the Univer­ ment and overhead pipes when the have obligingly consented." sity decided it ought to be independ­ light "clunk" of cartoning will have ent in milk processing and supply. replaced the musical "clink" of bot­ Two on Faculty Win Glenn Marsh came on the job in 1943. tling. They think they'll miss the Guggenheim Fellowships A native of Bozeman, Montana, he "clink." We think we would, too. Two University of Minnesota pro­ fessors have been awarded Guggen­ Prof. Weaver Gets Citation Two Sta:ff Members Publish heim Fellowships to carry on studies abroad. The Associate of American Geog­ Mathematics Textbook Recipients are Paul Delos Boyer, raphers Wednesday evening, April A new textbook, "Mathematics and agricultural biochemistry professor. 13, awarded its citation for meri­ Measurements," written by two fac­ who will leave July 1 for Sweden, and torious contribution to the field of ulty members of the University's Gen­ Henry Burr Steinbach, zoology pro­ geography to John C. Weaver, geog­ eral College, was published last month fessor, who plans to leave in Sep­ raphy professor. by an Evanston, Ill., publisher. tember for London and Denmark. Presented to Prof. Weaver at the Authors of the book are Merrill Professor Boyer will do research association's annual banquet at Mem­ Rassweiler, associate professor of on the mechanism of enzymic reac­ phis, Tenn., the recognition award physical science and mathematics, tions, and Profesor Steinbach will cited the University geographer for and J. Merle Harris, assistant pro­ study, by the use of radioactive "his study of crop combinations in fessor of natural sciences. tracers, the mechanisms of sodium the Middle West, widely acclaimed as The authors believe that their new transport and potassium uptake by a most useful contribution to the field text "bridges the gap between tradi­ isolated frog sartorius muscles and of agricultural geography." tional mathematics and the use of other tissues. Prof. Weaver previously has at­ mathematics as a working tool; The Minnesota professors are two tained recognition for his studies of focuses on the development of mathe­ of 248 Americans to receive Guggen­ polar areas and of barley production matical skills required in the labora­ heim grants to carry on their studies in this country. He has been a Uni­ tory, shop and field; and provides ex­ in fields of cultural endeavor. The versity of Minnesota faculty member tensive practice and experience in the awards are made to men and women since 1946, and currently is serving as application of basic mathematics who have demonstrated high capacity acting chairman of the geography principles to the solving of measure­ for original s'cholarly research and department. ment problems." artistic creation. 14 The Minnesotan The President~s Page Early Fruits of the Self- Survey

Amid the turbulence of the legislative year, the University Thus the subcommittee on internal services has tried Self-Survey has continued its task of digesting and evalu­ to secure as thorough understanding as possible of such ating the large amount of information embodied in some units and divisions as civil service personnel and student six thousand pages of reports gathered up last year from employment, insurance and retirement, the dormitories all parts of the University in scrutiny of the decade ahead. and food services, the bookstores, physical plant, etc. Because I know this subject is of interest to all Uni­ The subcommittee on research has attempted to arrive versity staff members, I am devoting the President's Page at a clear understanding of the University's research re­ this month to a summary portion of a preliminary prog­ sponsibilities and activities, with an eye to research policy ress report that was made to me by Dean Theodore C. during the next decade and the implementation of re­ Blegen, chairman of the central self-survey committee. search in its many aspects. Dean Blegen's report follows. J. L. MORRILL The subcommittee on instruction has taken note of the lack of awareness of the total uni\-ersity enterprise on the N DECEMBER, 1954, a central self-survey committee part of students; it has also considered the impact of I was appointed with six members: William Anderson, coming increases in enrollment upon teaching, questions H. J_ Sloan, Richard T. Arnold, Norman J. DeWitt, of class size, and a wide range of instructional problt>ms. Hedwin C. Anderson, and Theodore C. Blegen, chairman. And the subcommittee on public services has had a Four subcommittees were set up to deal with the major long series of conferenct>s on basic problems in its area areas of University work-instruction, research, public as well as specific units and functions as illustrated by service, and internal services. For each subcommittee a the University Press, the Museum of Natural History, the member of the central committee serves as chairman. art gallery, the agricultural extension service, and the The representative character of the committees is re­ General Extension Division, with many other enterprises flected in their membership. Serving with Dr. Sloan, on its program for continued exploration. chairman, the subcommittee on research includes Bryce Crawford, Jr., John G. Darley, Richard H. Elliott, Max 0. MEANWHILE, the central committee, week after week, Schultze, John C. Weaver, and Drs. Cecil J_ Watson and has grappled with such questions as the role and pur­ Leo G. Rigler. The subcommittee on instruction, headed poses of the University, its responsibilities to state and by Professor DeWitt, numbers T. W. Chamberlin, Eugene nation, probable enrollments, staff, utilization of the H. Falk, Gordon H. A. Mork, Ralph G. Nichols, Wesley C. physical plant, various administrative inter-relationships, Simonton, and Harlan M. Smith in its membership. and other problems that the investigations of the sub­ Professor Arnold is chairman of the subcommittee on committees have brought to the surface. public service, with the following associates: Roland H. The central committee proposes ultimately to present a Abraham, Ray M. Amberg, Ray F. Archer, Marcia comprehensive report to the President. Its aim will be Edwards, Richard K. Gaumnitz, William T. Harris, Jr., the identification of major trends in the decade ahead, and Lloyd M. Short. And the subcommittee on internal appraisals of the diverse and far-ranging program of the services, with Hedwin C. Anderson as chairman, includes University, a realistic review of needs, with recommenda­ Ralph Berdie, Theodore Fenske, Edwin Jackson, Clinton tions looking toward the increased effectiveness of the Johnson, Clarence Ludwig, and Harry Wilson. University. As yet no date can be predicted for the com­ Both the central committee and the subcommittees have pletion of the report. met regularly, some of them for two sessions of three It appears that the major emphasis in the original hours each week-the subcommittees exploring the prob­ survey reports was placed upon needs and requests, often lems and prospects of their respective areas, the central presented with seemingly high optimism as to future committee serving both as a general coordinating body expansion. The committee, tackling fundamental prob­ and for the consideration of over-all policies and situa­ lems of long-range strength and weakness and of future tions that cut across the domains of all the subcommittees. lines of development, will find itself obliged to amplify Extensive as are the written materials that emerged by every possible method the formal reports which it is from the survey reports, both the central committee and analyzing. Moreover, the problems of the University the subcommittees have found it necessary to draw in for must he set in a realistic context with state and national consultation responsible staff members who can fill out trends in education and resources, if the development of the picture, bring it up to date, and answer many ques­ the University is to be seen in proper perspective. Taking tions as to underlying goals, purposes, strengths and a broad view of the problem as a whole, it is possible to weaknesses, and needs that are not set forth or fully ex­ report substantial progress in the work of the committees, plained in the typed materials at hand. with much conferring, thinking, and hard work ahead. May 1955 15 MAY 15 TO JUNE 15., 1955 University of Minnesota Calendar of Events

UNIVERSITY ARTISTS COURSE UNIVERSITY THEATRE i\Iay 17-Philharmonic Symphony of New York, Dimitri May 18 through 21-La Viuda Dificil (in Spanish) by Roxolo. Mitropoulos, conductor. (Arena Theatre, first floor of Shevlin Hall. Performances (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Single tickets from $1.50 each night at 8:30; matinee on May 19 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets to $4.00 sold at 105 Northrop Auditorium.) t at $.60 may be purchased at 200 Folwell Hall.) THURSDAY MORNING CONVOCATIONS UNIVERSITY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS May 19-Cap and Gown Day. Roland S. Vaile, Professor of Through May 29- Work by David Kwok, contemporary Economics and Marketing at the University, speaker, "A Chinese watercolorist. Fixed Goal?" May 1-25-Antique Egyptian Jewelry. (Northrop Auditorium, ll :30 a.m. Open to the public with­ May 2-28-Watercolors by University art students. out charge.) May20-30-University Faculty Collection. Art objects BACCALAUREATE SERVICE owned by faculty members. June 5-Reverend Jacob R. Perkins, First Congregational May 31-June 24---Work by University students in Architec­ Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa, speaker. ture, Art Education, General College, and Home Eco­ (Northrop Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Open to the public.) nomics. (The Gallery, on the third and fourth floors of Northrop COMMENCEMENT Auditorium, is open to the public 8:00 to 5 :00 Monday June 11-James Lewis Morrill, President of the University, through Friday. Concertgoers will find the Gallery open be­ speaker. fore performances and during intermissions.) (Memorial Stadium. Open to the public without charge. In case of rain, admission by guest card to Williams Arena.) SIGNIFICANT UNIVERSITY BROADCASTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS Hazards to Education in the United States. Lecture series by Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the Univer­ .\lay 18-Varsity Band Concert. sity of Chicago, speaking on industrialization, specializa­ (Coffman Union, Main Ballroom, 12:30 p.m. Open to the tion, philosophical diversity, and conformity. Saturdays at public without charge.) 4:00p.m . .May 19, 20, 21-Annual Chamber Operas, presented by Uni­ versity music fraternities. Three operas each evening: Reason and Discontent: The Task of a Liberal Education. Menotti's The Telephone, Mozart's The Impresario, Gil­ Lectures by Dr. Lyman Bryson, professor emeritus of bert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury. Teachers' College, Columbia University. His topics: (Scott Hall Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $1.00 may be Teaching Ourselves to be Free, Bettering Ourselves in purchased from music department, extension 342. Proceeds Our Own Community, and The Task of Liberal Educa­ go to scholarship funds of music fraternities.) tion. Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. beginning June 11. ~ay 22-Joint Concert. University Chorus, James Aliferis, (KUOM, the University radio station broadcasts at 770 on director, and the Concert Band, Gerald Prescott, director. the dial. Its complete spring schedule may be obtained by (Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ writing to the station.) out charge.) Freedom in the Social Sciences: The Eighth Annual Public May 24---Senior Commencement Recital: University Sym­ Lecture Series sponsored by the University's Social Sci· phony Orchestra, Paul Oberg, conductor, and graduating ence Research Center features University staff members seniors as soloists. in weekly 15-minute discussion interviews. Thursdays at (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ 8:15p.m. over WCCO; Fridays at 3:30p.m. over KUOM. out charge.) May 27-Recital: Edward Berryman, organist, University ATHLETIC EVENTS Music Department faculty member and organist-choir­ Track master of St. Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis. May 18-University of Iowa. (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ (Memorial Stadium, 2 :00 p.m. Tickets at $.60 may be out charge.) bought at the gate.) June 3-Annual Concert of University Chamber Singers, June 7-State High School Track Meet. James Aliferis, director. Featured work: Stravinsky's Les (Memorial Stadium, 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Open to the N aces. Soloists: Roy Schuessler, baritone; Blake Stem, public without charge.) tenor; Bernhard Weiser, Thelma Hunter, Shirley Peter­ son. John MacKay, pianists. Football (Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Open to the public with­ l\Iay 20, 21-High School Football Clinic. out charge.) (Williams A rena, 8 :30 a.m. Open to the public without charge.) UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION DATES May 21-Inter-Squad Football Game. May-History and the Social Web: A Collection of Essays (Memorial Stadium, 2:00p.m. Tickets can be purchased at by August C. Krey, Professor of History. $4.00. gate only. Prices to be announced.) May-The Minnesota Department of Taxation: An Admin- Tennis istrative History by Lloyd M. Short, Clara Penniman, June 6 and 7-State High School Tennis Meet. and Floyd 0. Floro. Studies in Administration No. 3. (Tennis Courts, Fourth St. and Nineteenth Ave., 8:30 a.m. ]u~!·OOTrees and Shrubs of the Upper Midwest by Carl Open to the public without charge.) Otto Rosendahl, professor emeritus of botany at the Uni- Golf versity. $6.00. June 6--State High School Golf Meet. (Books are available at Minneapolis and St. Paul bookstores (University Golf Course, Larpenteur Ave. and Fulham St., or may he ordered through local bookstores.) St. Paul, 8 :30 a.m. Open to the public without charge.) tTickets 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.