Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Some of XVork when you work and play when you play is the advice offered by Theron Illick, favorite prof in the zoology department. A Syracusan for ten years, he came to us fresh from twenty years in Nanking, China. Speaking of his work on the hill, Mr. Barck characterizes himself as a gen- eral handyman. Known for his sense of humor and understanding attitude, he favors small discussion courses and would like to see the honor system put into effect. From Heidelburg University and Harvard Graduate School to Syra- cuse in 1946, Mr. Atwater has nevertheless gained wide popular- 1 ity with his students, Regardless of his full schedule in the Bus. Ad. department, he still has time for a friendly hello. At present, Dr. Fisher is most interested in the course which she and Dean Hilton founded five years ago, Status of Womeii in American Democracy. After hours her two dachshunds, Fafner and Adolf, take over. Professor McClosky began his teaching career in music when a junior in high school. Light opera, studies in Europe. direction choral groups and three years as an oliicer in Special Service and Relations preceded his coming Syracuse in September 1945.

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HOWARD HELP IVIL Service is the administrative branch of Men's Student Government. It provides secretaries for the three panels of MSG which are those on campus organizations, conduct and morale, and rules and elections. It provides, further, the parliamentarians and secretaries of assembly. Class elections are supervised and set up in conjunction with WSG. Howard I-Ielf was chief of Civil Service, Bob Hooper, director of elections, and Les Goldberg was secretary of assembly. On Civil Service are junior and Senior offi- cers and, this year, eighteen apprentices. Mem- bers of this body are appointed by Civil Service. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Civil Service Those working into junior positions are ap- pointed by senior oiiicers who are in turn se- lected by the Merit Board. This board consists of Dean Pislcor and Dean Faigle, the speaker of the assembly, chief of Civil Service, and the president of MSG. This spring, elections for president of the senior class were held twice because of the failure of the two top candidates to fulfill the requirements of winner in accordance with the preferential ballot set up in the constitution of MSG. At the second voting, voting machines were obtained from the city government which provided a flawless system and experience in actual election procedure.

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ur Pro A Amiable midwesterner, graduate of Morning- side College in Iowa, happily married, devotee of Duke Ellington and classics as well-all this, plus the fact that he speaks English beautifully. What more could one ask of a Professor of English ?-Mr. Jacobsen. lg 7.- One of two newspaperman-lawyers in the country, Mr. Burch studied law while hrst teaching at Syracuse in 1945. A cradle'to-the- grave journalist, he originated the downtown work project to give reporting students Contact with the public. l Hart of Applied Science has never wavered from his contention that students are wonderful people-something that no school should be without. He's been at Syracuse since 1920, and still loves the ballads of R. Kipling. Live wire and indispensable member of the Spanish faculty, Mr. jackson has been teaching at Syracuse since 1957 and during that time has endeared himself to all that have come in contact with him.