Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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M LL 2 fb fix I ,x sfflffi t Head of the Chemis- try department is Pro- fessor of Chemistry Charles I. Robinson, member of health and honors faculty commit- tees. Assistinq in the department are Instruc- tor Richard Tyson, In- structor Norman Elliott. Graduate assistant for this year was Stanley Adams. ln a loaded year for classes and re- search work, biqqest and most important product was a new electromaqnet, built in in the chemistry labora- tory, a permanent addi- tion to valuable equipment. Richard Tyson 'l'op, above, Curtis ltloupt with physics class. Above is Charles I. Robinson with chemistry class, At left is Richard Tyson with senior chemistry honors student Iohn Richardson and the new elec- tromaqnet. Other chemistry honors students are Burton Lewis, Betty Lee Merritt, Randall Rice, lane San- ford. Iunior honors student in chem- istry is Chandler Barkelew.

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Walter Whiteny Head of the Physics department is Pro- fessor of Physics Roland Tileston, this year on leave for the first semester. Also in Physics are Assistant Professor Curtis l-laupt, graduate Assistant lack Merritt. The general survey course in Physics, non-tech- nical, non-laboratory, omitted this year be- cause of Mr. Tileston's absence first semes- ter, is an outstanding feature of an ace physics department, one of the few such courses given throughout the country. Honors students in Physics are Seniors Iohn Butler, Ioseph Crutcher, Iackson Morris, Fred Setmears, Rodney Smith. Research Work in the properties of high energy ions was carried on this year. ROlGTlf-fl TilGSlOU Norman Elliott t

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CIENCE Instructor of Biology is Mrs. Doris Clayton Dart, right, who teaches Physiology, field Zoology and Anatomy in the ZOOlOQY de' partment, Bacteriology in the Bi- ology department. Seniors honors student in Zoology is Karl Kenyon. Junior Zoology honors student is Elizabeth Shults. Mrs. Dart is a member of the personnel faculty committee. Alfred Woodford Doris Clayton Dart Professor of Geology and head- ing Pomona's Geology department is Alfred O. Woodford, seen at left with class. The combined advan- tages of a geographical situation rich in geological material and a department head of well-known achievement bring out the element of geological imagination in each student, for both field and class- room work are made interesting, lucid. S E P T E M R 1 9 3 9 29