Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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CHEMISTRY Sellers Kerchevol Conn Brundage Because of its fascinating room for new discoveries and because of the need for trained scientific minds, tfie field of science attracts mere and more students eocfi year. Cfiemistry students spend port of their time in learning theory and the remainder in laboratory work where they surround themselves with Bunsen burners, test tubes, and chemical formulae. Professor Pern Brundage heads this depart- ment. Students in the physics department, headed by Professor hHarn Smith, learn the natural laws of the physical world in such courses as electricity, the mechanics of solids, astronomy, and the mechanics of heat and sound. Time in these courses is spent between learning theories and then testing them in the laboratory. During these war times, such courses have become more important and more popular. Smith Elliot PHYSICS 15

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ART Gill Hughes Cornish McAllister Professor Orlo Gill and his talented staff teacfi courses in sculpturing, painting, design, and etcfiing. Tfiroughout tfie year work from beginning art work to murals is on display in tfie hall and gallery of the Administration Building. This year a display of student sculpturing was held in the hallway between the Administration Building and Pierce HaW. Every girl needs to know the finer points in the art of sewing and cooking, but few ever receive the knowledge and training that the home economics students do. Miss Estelle Bouch directs these future teachers who take classes in food buying, meal planning, cooking, and clothing. The art of house, keeping is learned in helping to maintain a practice house which is supervised by Miss Eula Under- brink. Underbrink Kelly Bauch HOME ECONOMICS 14

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Erikson Schnecken burger Lindquist I MATHEMATICS Today, more than ever before, students are realizing the value of an education in higher mathematics. Classes such as higher algebra, calculus, and trigonometry are being offered for prospective teachers and for the men stu- dents enrolled in the reserve programs. There are also classes in industrial mathematics and insurance to help in the commercial v orld. This year, students hove found an added interest in the classes offered by the geography department, both because of friends in the armed forces located all over the world, and because of newspaper headlines of far-away, little known places. Students and prospective teachers of geography are guided in their studies by Professor James H. Glasgow and his staff. Changes in our world and why people live where they do is all part of the knowledge the students gain. GEOGRAPHY Glasgow Sill Cox