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University of Dayton eCommons The nivU ersity of Dayton Magazine Marketing and Communications 3-1-1954 The niU versity of Dayton Alumnus, March 1954 University of Dayton Magazine Follow this and additional works at: http://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_mag Recommended Citation University of Dayton Magazine, "The nivU ersity of Dayton Alumnus, March 1954" (1954). The University of Dayton Magazine. 138. http://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_mag/138 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of Dayton Magazine by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. TV or UD March 1954 'fV or UD? The U.D. Alumnus Established 1929 >!»­ Vol. March, 1954 No.3 J AMES F. CLARKE .. ············ ................................. .. ... Editor JAMES F. " PEPPER" WILSON . .. Sports Editor "Entered as second class matter April15, 1940, at the Post Office, at Dayton, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879." For wills and bequests, the legal title of the corporation is "The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio." Subscription price $2 per year. Published Quarterly for the University of Dayton Alumni Asso­ Registration for evening classes is a busy time for all. Many of the full-time ciation by the Public Relations Office, University of Dayton, 300 faculty turn-to to help counsel students and complete the procedures. The College Park Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. registration is completed in four days each semester. For the last two years the bulletin of the evening classes has carried the phrase "TV or Member of International Council of Industrial Editors and th e UD?", asking prospecti ve stu­ Miami Valley Association of Industrial Editors. dents whether they wanted to avail themselves of education or sit by the tv set. Although the tv saturation TABLE OF CONTENTS in th e D ay ton area h as reached the point where over 90 per cent of the homes have TV or UD . 2 a set, the popularity of eve­ ning classes has not waned. In fact, if anything enrollments News Notes .5-6 have increased slightly. Evening classes at UD be- Hilltop Jottings 5 Bro. Jos. Mervar, S.M. gan in 1921 when a few inter- ested persons requested a special course be given after regular class hours in the late afternoon or evening. Thirty-four Sports .. .. 7-9 students signed for that course, and since then it has been a story of constant broadening of the offerings and increase in UD Before the Camera .10-11 enrollment. During the war years, a slight drop was noted, otherwise each September has brought an increase in students. Here Among the Alums .. 12 are the enrollments by five year periods. 1921-34 students; 1925- 170; 1930-253; 1935-291; 1940- 525; 1945- 606· Calling Doctor 338 . 13 1950- 1290; 1953- 1725. Administration Class Notes ....... .. .... .. .. .... 14-20 Since the beginning, the evening classes have been admin­ istered by the Registrar. Now some thought is being given to making it a separate unit of its own, with its own office Front Cover-Capt. Don " Mickey" Donoher of the Kami­ and staff. kaze Kids, goes up over the head of Louisville Player Chet Currently there are three full-time people working on the Beam, during the UD-Louisville game in the Fieldhouse. evening class staff. I am the director of evening classes; with Dayton won 78-61. Robert Donovan, as assistant director and director of the 2 The Story of the Evening Classes By Bro. Joseph J. Mervar, S.M., Director Albert Hoffman, mechanical drawing instructor, gives some individual Dr. Richard R. Bake r, of the philosophy department, is a popular instructor. atte ntion to one of his students. This individual attention from a top-flight His courses in Aristotle, Plato, and currently in St. Thomas, have proved to teacher, does much to make evening classes popular. be stimulating and courses that have attracted many people. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Center; and Donald C. Metz, time each week. We have capitali zed on the situation and have director of the technical institute. been using instructors that we could not afford on a full-time Many colleges throughout the country offer evening classes basis. on a non-credit basis, but all but a very few of the courses at Such companies as the five Dayton divisions of General UD are for full college credit. There is little difference in the Motors, the National Cash Register Company and the Mon­ material and methods used in the evening classes and those santo Chemical Company have also proved to be valuable of the day classes. Even the faculty are in many cases the sources fo r evening faculty members. same. One-half of those currently teaching evening classes are full-time faculty members, giving part of their time to Kind of Students evening work. What kind of students register in our evening classes? Cer­ Fortunately it has been a simple matter to procure the tainly the cali ber of those who register for evening classes is services of part-time instructors. We are located in an area different from what we find in day classes. They are mature where qualified men are in abundance. Wright-Patterson Air people who for various reasons are seeking personal improve­ Force Base has lured top fli ght insh·uctors from some of the ment. Many of them have never had the opportunity of attend­ outstanding universities of the country with salaries that col­ ing college and the evening classes are a welcome opportunity. leges cannot afford and these men have been placed in the Again and again we have examples of students who attend research programs there. Many of these ex-coll ege professors classes without interruption for 12 to 14 years. Each year we are hungry to get back into the class room, even for a short graduate several of these, most of whom have completed all of their work in evening classes. The caliber of work done in the evening classes is on a par with that accomplished in the clay classes, according to the evaluation of our full-time faculty, who have experienced teaching both in day and evening. Popular Courses What courses are the most popular? As might be expected, the greatest number register in the business division. Account­ ing has always been popular. Next September for instance we will have three sections a week in elementary accounting alone. lnh·oduction to business, fundamental speech classes, English composition, business English and introductory psychology are other very popular subjects. Because of the shortage of elementary and secondary school teachers, the Education division ranks second in popularity. The majority of p eople registered here are renewing their Donald C. Metz Robert Donovan teaching certifi cates after being inactive for several years. 3 Ralph V. Montello, chemical engineer at the NCR, is typical of the pro­ Walter Barnes, accounting instructor, is one of the most indefatigable fessional men who give of their evenings to teach in their field. Here instructors in evening classes. This semester, for example, he is teaching Montello lectures to an industrial chemistry class. three different classes three different nights of the week. Bringing these teachers out of their retirements of sorts is solv.­ from various areas of small business operations carried the ing a problem that has worried educational administrators for assignment. Much more service can be given to the com­ the past few years. The evening classes are doing their part munity in this area. to help alleviate a critical situation. The co llege of engineering and technical institute hold Full-Time Students honors for the next most popular areas. Industrial and me­ It is significant that more and more full-time students are chanical engineering have the highest interest of students. attending one or more courses in evening classes. Las t semester There has been enough demand in these two areas to give a over 400 people did this in addition to regular enrollment cycle of courses making it rather simple for an industrious already indicated. individual to complete the engineering requirements in eve­ There are a number of reasons for this. In some instances, ning classes alone. naturally, students find it difficult to fit all required courses in their day program. In other cases, they have gone out of Wright-Patterson Center their way to take a clas with an experienced person in industry ll) addition to the 150 class s presently offered on the who has earned the reputation as a teacher in tJ1e evening campus, we have been giving 20 to 30 classes at Wright­ division. This has been particularly h·ue in business and Patterson Air Force Base. These have been well attended and education. as students advance they continue their work on the campus. I have frequently fou nd it amusing to observe what adult As reported in a previous issue of the ALUMNUS, we have and younger persons look for in teachers. Young persons in recently expanded om services at Wright-Patterson Air Force day classes are apt to ask what degree his instructor has, where Base. Through the cooperati on of the directorate of supply and he taught, and what he majored in. The evening class student pro curement, UD has estabHshed two special programs in simply asks, what does the instructor do in the daytime? The the area of supply for W-PAFB personnel. answer to the question qualifies or disqualifies the instructor. Enrollment in these two-year courses is open to all AMC One of the problems of adminisb·ation is the high mortality personnel and contains not onJy special com ses designed par­ in evening classes.

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