American University - Talon / Aucola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Merritt C. Batchelder B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Associate Professor of English Irma Zink B.A., B.S. in L.S. Librarian Maurice Allison Mook B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Peter P. Stapay B.S. in Sec. Sci. tssistant Professor of Secretarial Science Gustaf Bernhard Kalijarvi B.S. distant Professor of Physical Education and Director of Athletics

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John Edward Bentley M.A., S.T.B., M.R.E., Th.D. Professor of Psychology FACULTY Walter Francis Shenton B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics Aubert Bain Potorf B.A., B.D., Th.M., Th.D., D.D. William Eraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion Jessie Mary Ferguson B.A., M.A, Ph.D. Professor of Education James Pyper Bird B.A., Ph.D. Visiting Professor of Romance Languages Summer: the faculty is scattered from Maine to California . . . teaching summer school . . . studying . . . writing . . . lecturing . . . playing. . . . Fall: orientation week and freshmen go to receptions at the president ' s . . . registration week and counseling . . . then the first day of classes . . . missing old faces, welcoming new ones . . . appraising the bull slingers, the grinds, the brilliant . . . Dr. Bentley frightens the freshmen with THE Outline . . . makes them laugh with a clever quip . . . Dr. Hutchins intrigues the most unesthetic with his vivid remarks . . . Mr. Stapay inaugurates a placement bureau — with more jobs than applicants! . . . graduates also assisted . . . the debate season opens with a new coach — Wayne Thompson . . . Dr. Deedy Dennis becomes liaison officer for the reserves of the army and navy . . . Dr. Spencer, female physicist, travels to St. Louis to deliver a paper before the American

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Ruberta M. Olds Ph.B., M.A. Assistant Professor of Spanish FACULTY George Winston Smith B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History James McLain B.A. Assistant Professor of Music A. Alan Post B.A. Assistant Professor of Economics Domina Eberle Spencer B.S., M.Sc, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics Society of Illuminating Engineers . . . Miss Hall and Miss Gagnon are newcomers in charge of women ' s physical education . . . Kali- jarvi heads men ' s athletics . . . and the routine settles down for another year . . . mid-semesters — professors question whether prep- aration was made by sleep or study, books or bridge, cramming or cokes . . . students wonder whether the professor could write the exam in one hour let alone pass it ... if grades are based on length or content . . . Dances come — Dr. and Mrs. Shenton chaperon with a joke and a book respectively . . . Dean Woods and Dr. Engel attend the fifty-sixth convention of the Middle Atlantic States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools . . . Mrs. Robertson struggles with novice dramatic talent — succeeds in pro- ducing a good play and the best stage set A. U. has seen in many a day . . . Christmas vacation — Dr. Smith moves night and day