The Campus

Review

,1 handsome new Union lounge will soon replace this barn-like scene

STUDENTS returning to the the service offered in the cafeteria down- January 11-Eva Jessye's Negro Choir. campus in September found the main stairs. February 10-Ruth Page's Ballet of the floor of the Union building in a state of This dining room will give students Chicago Opera Company. chaos, and workmen swarming over the and faculty members a somewhat more February 24-Curtis String Quartet, of place. quiet and dignified place than the cafe- . Final approval of a federal WPA pro- teria for entertaining visitors on the cam- ject for completion of the main lounge pus . Gowans addresses seniors and other parts of the main floor was ob- The alumni and Union offices are now Degrees were presented to 201 persons tained in late summer and work was located on the main floor along the hall at the summer term graduating exercises started in mid-August. Union Manager to the left of the main entrance . in August, following a commencement Ted Beaird hoped that the work would Returning students also found the Union address on "Teaching-a Profession," by be completed by late November. ballroom completely redecorated, the floor H. W. Gowans, superintendent of schools The federal government provided $6,- repaired and refinished, and draperies at Tulsa. Mr. Gowans criticized lack of 500 and the remainder of the $22,000 added to the windows, giving the ball- respect for the teaching profession by the project was financed by the Stadium- room a much more finished appearance . Union Memorial Corporation . The plan teachers themselves, and urged them to seek to dignify their profession . calls for completion of the lounge on Novelist to speak Rev. Thomas Howard McDowell, pas- practically the same basis as was outlined Sinclair Lewis, noted novelist, heads the tor of the First Presbyterian church at in the original plans for the Union. This Celebrity Series progrann at the University Enid, gave the summer baccalaureate ad- will eliminate the bare tile and concrete for the new school year. He is sched- dress, speaking on the subject, "The Men walls that have made an eyesore on the uled 28 . to speak October this Age Requires ." main floor of the Union ever since the Other numbers in the series are as fol- The summer session student body in- building was erected. lows : cluded eighty-nine school principals and The lounge, which will be about sixty November 3-U. S. Nave Band . superintendents . feet square, will have wainscoting in oak, December 2-Eddy Brown, violinist, with plaster above the wainscoting, and and E . Robert Schmitz, concert pianist. heavy beams across the ceiling. Summer entertainment It will be comfortably and attractively Outstanding entertainment events of furnished with plenty of divans, lounging the surrimer session were the Shakespear- chairs, reading lamps, tables and other CAMPUS CALENDAR ean play, "Much Ado About Nothing," and the annual summer items necessary to make the lounge one October 2-Football . Rice at Norman . cantata program of the most popular spots on the campus. October 6-University Public Lecture. which this year included "A Legend of It will serve as a meeting place for The Crime Element iii Flizabethdra Lit- Granada" and "Hiawatha's Wedding alumni and visitors from out of Norman, crnture, by Dr . Joseph 11 . Marshburn. Feast." October 9-Football . at Dallas . With Merwin Elwell directing, as well as serving students every hour in October t6-Football. Nebraska at Lincoln. the play the day. Large teas, musicales and other October 2,-Football . Kansas at Norman . was presented "artistically and amusingly," events for students can be held in the October 2S-Celebrity Series . Address by according to the summer Daily. lounge. Sinclair Lewis, famous novelist, on The Phillis Jeanne Blanchard, Snyder, and Adjoining the Novelist as Prophet. Sam Pack, Norman, provided most of the lounge, in the space October 29-3o-Playhouse presentation of formerly occupied by the alumni offices, The Curtain Discs. gaiety. will be two dining rooms, one large October 3o-Football. Kansas State at R. H. Richards directed the musical enough to accommodate fifty persons and Manhattan. program, which attracted a large crowd. the other November 2-University Symphony Con- two hundred and fifty persons. cert . It is expected that the large dining room November 3-Celebrity Series . United Bandsmen convene will States be used at noon for regular a la carte Navy Band . An event that was partly entertaining and plate lunch service, supplementing and partly educational was the annual

Oc,rOBER, 1937 massed band concert held on the Univer- problems and has received wide recogni- sity campus for high school bandsmen of tion . the state. Four hundred came to Nor- Mr. Carson is a graduate of the Uni- man to play in joint concert. versity of Wisconsin. I-Ic is 41 years old . The new women's counselor is Miss Political advice available Margaret 13. Stephenson, graduate of the "State governments should expect to call tJniversity of Iowa and Columbia Uni- the university professors for expert assist- versity, who comes to Norman from ance in settling government problems," Northwest Teachers College, Dr. Homer L. Dodge, dean of the Gradu- 1Marvville, Mo. She formerly was direc- ate School, declared in an address at the tor of extra-curricular activities in Hard- annual banquet of Kappa Delta P'i fra- ing Junior High School at Oklahoma ternity. City . She succeeds Dean Edna McDan- "Many instructors are so concerned with iel who resigned last spring. teaching classes that they forget the re- Dr. W. A. Fowler, for 17 years a mem- sponsibility of leadership . A teaching pro- ber of the faculty of the University School fessor should not be content to treat sub- of Medicine, succeeded Dr. C. S. Bobo as jects academically but should point the director of the Student Health Service way to improvements in our social and and the Ellison Infirmary. Dr. Elizabeth political systems. When an individual Dorsey, '36med, was appointed assistant has a problem connected with chemical or to Dr. Eleonora Schmidt, resident phy- petroleum engineering he goes to an ex- sician for women. pert at the University for advice, but he Other new appointments and their has not learned that political experts also academic qualifications : can assist him." Arthur T. Meyer, instructor in violincello and contrabass . 13 . A. and M. A. University of Iowa . I:Ilis M. Sims, instructor in petroleum en- Questionnaire circulated TV. TI. Carson, net, engineering dean gincering. 13 . S. and M. S., Texas A. and M. Quizzing summer session students on Dave Fudge, assistant in I'Atension Division . various likes and dislikes, the faculty of LL . 13 . from Cumberland University, Lebanon, the Graduate School found that although Tenn . Charles N. Paxton, associate professor of me- 155 favored lower fees for the summer mitories is a locker room with an in- chanical engineering. A. B . from Stanford Uni- session, or standardization of summer term dividual locker for each student, large vcrsit) . Former navy flier. fees for all schools in the state, 243 said enough to hold a reasonable amount of Gcorgc Anson, associate professor of piano. that the present fees are no obstacle to clothes and books. Showers and study Ii . M., Illinois Weslc)an University, Blooming- ton, M. M., University ol Arizona. attendance at the University . rooms are provided, and each dormitory Marie Banks, instructor in home economics. has a supervisor . A. B., Oklahoma College for Women, Chiek- Patrolmen "graduate" A dining room with seating capacity asha ; I'd. M., University of Oklahoma . Although the R . O. T. C. suspended for 112 persons is located in the Stadium, Lewis W. liealer, assistant professor of history. A. 13 ., University of Utah ; M. A., University of activities for the summer, uniformed men for co-operative serving of meals. California ; Ph . D., University of California . fnarched through the elm-lined streets of Work of caring for the dormitories and Lawrence Hildreth Cherry, instructor in en- the campus, and the cry of "one, two, waiting on tables is divided among the ginccring drawing. M. F. from University of students participating in the co-operative California . three, four" drifted into classrooms. Charles F. I)ail\ . assistant professor of eco- Selected candidates for the new State plan . The building of the dormitory was nomics . 13. S., Ed . M., Ed . D., University of Highway Patrol were given a short course made possible by a state appropriation of Oklahoma . at the University in two groups, and those $4,000 supplemented by NYA contribu- Ruth Elder, instructor in school supervision. who made creditable grades tions. A . B., Oklahoma City University ; Ed . M., Uni- received vcrsity of Oklahoma . special certificates . Charles Elson, assistant professor of drama. They were given a stiff course and Faculty changes numerous Ph . B., University of Chicago; M. F. A., Yale studied not only the physical duties of a A new women's counselor, a new dean University . highway patrolman, but also the psychol- of engineering and a new director of the Rol,crt W. Field, assistant professor of eco- nomics. B. S., University of Colorado ; M. S . and ogy of dealing with the public, the essence Student Health Service are among the PIi . D ., University of Illinois . of the laws governing various situations faculty appointments made for the new Eleanor Frances Galloway, secretary in depart- likely to be encountered, and how to pre- school year at the University . ment of botany, 11 . A., Coe College, Cc(lar sent safety campaign material to public W. H. Carson, who has been a member Rapids, Iowa . Frank C. Gentr), assistant professor of mathe- gatherings . of the College of Engineering faculty for matics . B. A. and M. A., University of Oklaho- By the time the second school was held, the last twelve years, was appointed dean ma ; Ph . D., University of Illinois . a comprehensive manual for the patrol- of the college at the September meeting John A. Griswold, associate professor of fi- men had been compiled by Lynden Man- of the Board of Regents. nance 13 . A., Millikin Universip-, Decatur, Ill . ; M. A. and I'll . D. froth Columbia Univcrsity . t)en, '27, of the University government He succeeds Dr. J. H. Felgar who re- Bo\d Gunning, assistant in Extension Divis- faculty. signed last June. ion. R . A. and I.L . B., University of Oklahoma . Mr. Carson has been director of the Bertram N. Haigh, instructor in instrunncntal Dormitory built in Stadium School of Mechanical and Natural Gas Joublic school music and brass instruments. Studied at Institute of Musical Art and at New Living quarters at minimum cost have Engineering, acting director of the School York University . Experienced as conductor. been provided for ninety men students by of Petroleum Engineering, and supervisor Bcniamin J. Heinrich, instructor in chcmistr) . the construction of a co-operative dormi- of the engineering shops. 11 . A . and M. S., University of Oklahoma . tory in the west wing of the Stadium. The University's service to the oil and Arthur Henunindinger, instructor in physics. Sleeping B .A ., Cornell Univcrsity ; Ph .D ., California Insti- accommodations are provided gas industries has increased steadily dur- tute of Technology, Pasadena . in three dormitory rooms, each built to ing Mr. Carson's years as director of this (;eorge Albert Hoke, instructor in economics. hold fifteen double-decked beds. Mat- type of work . The Southwestern Gas B. S., Oklahoma A. and M.: M. A., University tresses are furnished by the co-op, but Measurement Short Course which he has of Oklahoma ; Master of Laws, Harvard Uni- versity Law School . each student must supply his own bed directed each year brings five hundred or Herman Larson, assistant professor of voice. linens and pillow. Adjoining the dor- more men to Norman to study technical A. B., St . Augustana College, South Dakota ; ro THE SOONER MAGAZINE studied at American Conscrvatory of Music, Chi- Women's Counselor cago. John F. Malone, assistant in registry office . is the title of Mar- B. A., University of Oklahoma. garet Stephenson, J. R. Mundie, special instructor in botany and bacteriology. Ph. D., University of Virginia, youthful addition to Charlottesville . the University ad- Glenn R. Neglcy, special instructor in philo- sophy. Graduate of Butler University. ministrative staff Mrs. Lola Sperling Nelson, instructor in phy- sical education for women. B. S ., University of Illinois. Malcolm C. Cakes, field geologist for Okla- lioma Geological Survey . 13 . S. and B. A., Uni- versity of Oklahoma . Mrs . Mary Hays Marablc, instructor in library science. Formerly librarian at Oklahoma City University. Oscar W. Rcinmuth, professor of classical languages. A. B., Clinton Seminary ; A. M., Uni- versity of Nebraska ; Ph. D., Princeton Univer- sity . Albert A. Sutton, assistant professor of jour- nalism . B. S., Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia ; M. A., University of Kansas . R. V. Thornton, associate professor of gov- ernment . 13 . A. and M . A., University of Oklaho- ma; Ph. D., New York University . Fred Lyman Tibbitts, assistant professor of psychology. B. A . and M. A., Univcrsi "- of Ok- lahoma ; Ed. D., Stanford University . Samuel H. Weidman, instructor in chem- istry. B. A. and M. S., University of Ok- lahoma . Gladys Carmen Bellamy, B. A ., University of Oklahoma ; Sidney Whitfield Wilcox, B. A ., Bethany Peniel College, and Raymond Carroll Palmer, B. S., University of Oklahoma, all gradu- ate assistants in English . Faculty members on leave of absence this year aroused many columns of newspaper com- School of Applied Biology, directed by are Dr. 11 . : Paul Scars, head of the botany de- ment during the summer as a result of Dr . A. Richards . partment ; Dr. Benjamin Botkin, assistant pro- his fessor of English : Dr. Ernest C. Ross, associate plan for a Citizens Committee on The School of Letters will provide professor of English : C. R. Bailey, instructor in State Government Problems. He called a systematic programs of instruction in an- chemistry; Dr. Elgin Groseclose, assistant pro- meeting of representatives of numerous cient and modern languages, history, phi- fessor of secretarial work; Edward C. Petty, as- state organizations that have sistant professor various eco- losophy and comparative literature, and of business adiuinistration, and nomic viewpoints and urged that a per- Dr. Gustav Mueller, professor of philosophy. will take the full time of the student. Those returning from leaves of absences arc manent organization be formed to en- The purpose of the curriculum in ap- Joseph Marshburn, professor of English ; Dr. C. courage public discussion of governmental plied biology is to prepare students for Fayette Copeland, associate Professor of journal- problems from a non-partisan viewpoint . positions in ism ; Walter biological_ research, public Emery, instructor in speech ; Dr. After getting the organization started, health C. Rister, professor of history; Dr. Dixie Young, administration, sanitation, wild assistant professor of zoolog}-, and Dr. Roydcn however, he declined to accept the po- life conservation and management, ap- J. Dangerficld, associate professor ol government . sition of permanent chairman because, he plied ecology, laboratory technical assist- said, he feared that his active participa- ance, and numerous applications in food, Adams sponsors forum tion might subject the University to po- bio-chemical and fermentation industries . Dr. A. B . Adams, forthright dean of litical reprisals . A threat of reprisal had the College of Business Administration, been made by State Senator Al Nichols . Lecture series announced A pleasing variety of subjects is in- Reform program drawn cluded in the program for the Public Lec- A seven-point program for state con- ture Series sponsored by the University stitutional reform was drawn up during this year . The series consists of popular the summer by three University govern- lectures by faculty members who are out- rnental faculty members : Cortez A. M . standing in certain fields . Ewing, Oliver Benson, and John Alley. The 4936-37 series started with an The three drew up the program in re- address September 21 by President W. B. sponse to a request for a non-partisan plan Bizzell on "The Enrichment of Life designed to eliminate certain evils in state Through Learning ." The remainder of government, but they planned no cam- the series is as follows : paign to push the program . The pro- October 6-Crime Element in Fliza- posals were taken over by the state Vet- bcthan Literature, by Dr . Joseph Marsh- erans of Industry organization led by Ira burn . Finley, which announced it would spon- November 10-Chemistry and Nation- sor an initiative petition to call an election alism, Dr. Bruce Houston . on the program . December 1-Debussy's Pelleas and Met- i.isande, Barre Hill . New schools established February 2-Ornamental European Gar- The University had two new schools dens, Milton Hopkins . within the College of Arts and Sciences March 9-The Chain Store and Individ- when the new school year opened . ual Opportunity, F. L. Vaughan. They are the School of Letters, directed April 6-Flow To See a Play, Rupel Sinclair Lewis by Dr. Joseph P. Blickensdcrfer, and the Jones.

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