Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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department heads In order for the University to educate students in a more efficient manner, it has set up twenty-five departments into which the total educational sphere is broken into its spe- cialized subject matter. To head each of these separate de- partments, the University has selected a man who is out standing in his field and who has shown administrative talent John J. Gergen is the chairman of the departmen of Mathematics. In addition to its usual courses, the de partment has recently added several courses dealing in elec- tronic computation in conjunction with the use of the IBM 650 computer. The Physics department, headed by Walter M. Nielsen, is entirely housed in its own modern and well equipped building. The department is now engaged in many research activities such as spectroscopy in the gaseous, liquid and solid states, nuclear physics, high energy physics, and low tem- perature physics. E. Wrllard Berry, who is now on leave in Australia, is the chairman of the department of Geology. Of the seventeen departmental majors, most of them are expected to go on to graduate work in geology or work for the oil and related In- dustrie:. The Botany department, headed by Henry J. Oosting, is now in a state of expansion waiting for the completion of its new building. There are usually ten undergraduate botany majors who after graduation continue for higher degrees in botany, teach, or become specialized technicians. John H. Saylor is the chairman of the department of Chem- JOHN JAY GERGEN, Ph.D. Mathematics WALTER McKINLEY NIELSEN, Ph.D. E. WILLARD BERRY, Ph.D. Physics Geology HENRY J. OOSTING, Ph.D. JOHN H. SAYLOR, Ph.D. Chemistry K API M. WILBUR. Ph.D. Zoology

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sibility for non-academic affairs as they relate to student life. She is known to Duke Co-eds through her supervision of the social program, her advisory duties to College organizations, and her counselling of individual students. Ellen Huckabee, a Duke alumna herself, advises freshman and sophomore women in her capacity as Dean of Under- graduate Instruction. She also serves as supervisor of the Freshman Advisory Council, and lists reading and travel in foreign countries as her extracurricular activities. Marienna Jenkins, Associate Dean of Undergraduate In- struction, serves as academic counsellor to juniors and seniors. Her talent and interest in the fine arts are evidenced by the two classes — one in Renaissance painting and sculp- ture and the other in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art — which she teaches. Mrs. Frances M. Whitaker, as Assistant Dean of Under- graduate Women, coordinates her work with that of Miss Wilson. Professionally trained in guidance and personnel work, she supervises student employment and advises the treasurers of campus organizations. Mrs. W. S. Persons is Director of Admissions for the Wom- an ' s College. She completed her undergraduate study at Duke and did graduate work both at Duke and the University of Pennsy ' vania. Approximately 1150 co-eds composed the student body with whom these five women were concerned during 1958-59. Twenty-one per cent of the women enrolled in the Woman ' s College held scholarships valued at an average of $585.00 each. The Freshman Class of 1958-59 reflected Duke ' s rising standards of admission. Of the three hundred and thirty co-eds who matriculated in the fall, some eighty-five percent graduated from high school in the top quarter of their classes. Geographically speaking, they also represented the charac- ter of the University as a whole. The majority came from the southeastern, middle east, and midwestern states, but the more remote areas of New England, the southwest, northwest, far west, and foreign countries were also repre- sented. Of those three hundred and thirty entering freshmen, ap- proximately sixty-five per cent are expected to graduate. Among that sixty-five percent, the most popular major fields will probably be English, Education, History, and Sociology. What becomes of the Duke woman after graduation is a fact difficult to ascertain, but it is known that the most attractive vocation generally is marriage. It is also known that one of every five Duke alumnae will become the wife of a Duke alumnus. Signs of the changing times are noted in the increas- ing number of women who are marrying and yet remaining to complete their college careers; three per cent of the Woman ' s College occupied such a status during the past year. Changing times require a changing University to fulfill the needs of the present and future generations of students. The acid test of Duke or of any of its component parts lies in its ability to recognize and meet this challenge. Specifi- cally, the real measurement of worth of the Woman ' s College lies with those women who have passed beyond the walls of East Campus into the everyday business of living. MARY GRACE WILSON. A.M. Dean of Undergraduate Women ELLEN HARRIS HUCKABEE, A.M. Dean of Undergraduate Instruction MARIANNA DUNCAN JENKINS. Ph.D. Associate Dean of Undergraduate instruction 25

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JOHN R. ALDEN, Ph.D. History ROBERT S. RANKIN, Ph.D. Political Science FRANKT.de VYVER, Ph.D. Economics istry w ' nich boasts a staff of twelve and almost one hundred departmental major students. Most of these students will go to medical school, do graduate work in chemistry, industrial research, technical sales, or teach. Keeping up with the pres- ent nuc ' ear advances, the department is doing some research making use of radioactive isotopes. The department of Zoology is headed by Karl M. Wilbur. Those students who major in Zoology go on to advanced graduate work in the department or to medical school. The History department, with a staff of twenty-five, has two hundred and seventy students in its major program. Head- ed by John R. Alden, the department offers studies that are designed to afford an introduction to the study of history by a consideration of the history of the modern world, a more intensive study of general American history, and opportuni- ties for more advanced study in phases of American, English, European, Hispanic-American, Russian, and Far Eastern his- tory. The general objective of the department of Political Sci- ence, headed by Robert S. Rankin, is to acquaint the student with the theory and practice of government and politics on local, state, national, and international levels. Areas open for study include political theory and comparative govern- ment, American government and public administration, and international law and relations. The Economics and Business Administration department is headed by Frank de Vyver. The courses offered are grouped into th r ee divisions: economics, accounting, and business ad- ministration. The economics courses are designed to develop in the student such critical and analytical skills as underlie the ability to understand economic problems and institutions. Ac- counting and business administration stress in a greater meas- ure the knowledge and techniques useful to students prepar- ing for a business career. ELIOT H. RODNICK, Ph.D. Psychology JOHN C. McKINNEY, Ph.D. Sociology CHARLES A. BAYLI Philosophy