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- Philadelphia . 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 . Texas 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 Oklahoma 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 Missouri 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 .