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V COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, APRIL, 1931 Four Exchange Professors Are On WHO'S NEW Dr. Burcham, Pacific Summer Session Faculty On the Faculty Since '24 Dr. Bane Resign Dr. Paul Dengler of the University of Vienna, Dr. V. H. Alexander of the Dr. John L. Burcham, executive vice- University of Alberta, Canada, and Brother Leo, Chancellor of St. Mary s president, and Dr. A. C. Bane 81, vice- College, have accepted the invitation of Dean G. A. Werner to lecture at president and fielcl-woiker of Pacific, Pacific'during the approaching summer session. resigned their positions at a meeting Dr. Dengler created much interest last summer at Pacific bylus lectures, of the Board of Trustees at the Col­ "New Experiments in Educational Methods and. ' Creative Art. He is the lege March 24. Both men plan to re­ director of the Ausfro-American Institute of Education, and directed the inter­ enter the ministry, but Dr. •Burcham national vacation colonies from 1911 to 1914 and educational experiments in will take a year's rest before resuming Vienna from 1919 to 1927. From 1925 to 1926 he served as special delegate to active duties. the Austrian Ministry of Education in America. He is the author of "Articles Although Dr. Burcham's resignation on Community Class Systems," "Self- included his membership on the Board Government and Parental Education, Speakers Are Selected of Trustees, the executive body de­ and is at present co-author with R. clined to accept that part of it, and Pattress of the "New Education in For Alumni Day Dinner asked him to remain a board member. Austria." Dr. Bane will also remain a trustee. Dr. Alexander was graduated from Dr. Burcham became vice-president Leslie C. Kelley '12, Rector of St. of Pacific in 1921 at the time vvhen the the University of California in 1906, Paul's Episcopal Church in San Fran­ and was professor of Latin at the Uni­ movement for removal to Stockton cisco, and Neil M. Parsons '24, prin­ was being started, and his was the task versity of Western Ontario during the cipal of the Mendocino High School, following two years. He has been pro­ of raising $1,500,000 for a fund to move will be the speakers at the annual the institution. fessor of Classics at the University of commencement reunion on Alumni Dr. Bane is said to have fathered Alberta since 1908. He is the author of Day, June 13. The meeting will be the plan to remove the College to "College and Religion," an examina­ at a 5 o'clock dinner that day in An­ Stockton while he was pastor of the tion of a student's position in facing derson Hall with President Marshal the problems raised by modern scholar­ Methodist Church of Stockton. He was Hale presiding. active in the drive for funds, and for ship. Following the alumni dinner, Presi­ the past year has been serving as a Professor C. E. Lyon, head of the dent Tully C. Knoles will welcome speech department of the University field worker for Pacific, speaking students, faculty, alumni, and friends every Sunday in various cities on of South Dakota, will direct the Pa­ of the college at the annual reception cific Little Theater this summer and DR. ABEL ALARCON "Christian Education and the College in Anderson Social Hall. of the Pacific." will give several courses in the speech Baccalaureate services will be at 3 department. Two modern plays and a o'clock on Sunday afternoon, June 1-t, Dr. Burcham will represent North­ variety of other entertainments will be Dr. Abel Alarcon, director of the ern California laymen of the Y. M. C. in the college auditorium with Dr. Spanish Language School at the Pa­ presented under his supervision. Mr. Knoles as speaker. A. at the World Assembly for Workers Lyon received his training in Grinnell cific Summer Sessions, is receiving na­ with Boys, which will be held in To­ Dr. Edwin Diller Starbuck, professor tion-wide publicity as one of the College and the University of Chicago, of the School of Philosophy at the ronto, Canada, July 27 to August 2. and has a rich teaching experience to outstanding Spanish writers. Distin­ He is one of the two laymen represen­ University of Southern California, will guished by the praise of Ricardo Leon his credit. be the speaker at the Commencement tatives from the northern part of the of Amada Nervo and of Foulche-Del- state. Professor Lyon is a national officer exercises Monday morning, June 15. bosco, he is well-known and greatly of Theta Alpha Phi, national honorary The annual commencement recital admired in all Spanish-speaking coun­ dramatic fraternity; is a member of will be given at 8:15 on the evening tries as a Bolivian poet, novelist, and Howard Hansen Writes For Tau Kappa Alpha, national honorary of June 12 in the college auditorium. scholar. debate fraternity; and is president of The college orchestra and selected Metropolian Opera Company the South Dakota State High School seniors of the conservatory will pre­ He deserves a wide appreciation in Debating League. sent numbers on this program. California, especially in view of his Howard Hanson, dean of the Pacific Courses will be offered in all depart­ 0 •— "California la Bella," a romance of the Conservatory from 1919 to 1922, is ments of the College this summer. The "Open House" at Pacific mission period, which the Vice Rector writing an opera, which the Metro­ Spanish Language School and Demon­ of the Universidad de Chile, Dr. Sam­ politan Opera Company of New York stration school will be repeated. The Will Be Held On May 7 uel A. Lillo, reviewed at length in will produce next year. Summer Session Bulletin will be "Hispania" for March, 1929. Another Mr. Hanson is residing in San Jose, mailed to anyone upon request. "Open House" at Pacific will be held of his novels is "En la Corte de Yahuar- where he has completed more than on May 7. It is being arranged for the Huacac." half the musical score of an opera, purpose of bringing the people of His first collection of short stories "Merry Mount," the libretto written by Stockton and the surrounding country "De mi Tierra y de mi Alma ' was Richard L. Stokes, noted New York Dean Dennis Will Be Consultant into closer contact with the institution, followed by a volume, "De Antano y music critic. Lawrence Tibbett and At Anglo-American Conference the faculty and the students. Ogano" which appeared last year. His Lucrezia Bori have been cast for lead­ Every building will be open and latest novel is "Figurines y Figurones" ing roles in the opera when it is pro­ class rooms and other curricular facili­ with a Spanish-American setting. He duced next year. ties will be exhibited. .The fraternity also has many poems, criticisms and Hanson, director of the Eastman Dean Charles M. Dennis of the Con­ and sorority houses, Thalia Hall, and servatory has accepted an invitation to translations to his credit. School of Music in Rochester, N. Y„ the men's and women's dormitories for the past six years, started his rise serve as a specialist-consultant for the Professor Alarcon was graduated will be open for inspection. The to fame as a composer and director American section on vocal and choral from the Seminario Counciliar at La various living groups will act as hosts while at Pacific. Many of his sym­ training at the biennial Anglo-Ameri­ Paz, Bolivia, in 1898. Two years later to the public, furnishing programs at phonic works were produced by the can Conference to be held at Lausanne, he received the degree of Bachelor of intervals. San Francisco symphony, and he ap­ Switzerland, July 31 to August 7. This Laws and Political Science, and in Special features of the evening will peared with that organization as guest conference is included in the itinerary be a program of music in the Conserva­ 1902, Licentiate of Laws and Political of the Pacific European Summer Tour Science. He was granted an LL. D. conductor. tory, and the first spring scrimmage in In 1921 Hanson sprang into national of which Dean Dennis and DeMarcus Baxter Stadium. This will give visitors in 1903 front the Universidad Mayor de fame when his compositions won him Brown are directors. an opportunity to see football practice San Andree at La Paz. the first Prix de Rome in music ever Dr. H. Alexander Matthews of Phil­ under the new lights in Baxter He came to Pacific in 1928 as offered. For four years he was a adelphia will alternately act as chair­ Stadium. Associate Professor in the Modern man at the four meetings of this group member of the American Academy at Language Department. He offers at­ Rome and gained European reputation. with the British joint chairman, Dr. R. Dr. and Mrs. Seaton Visit Pacific tractive courses in Spanish Classics, S.