University of Connecticut - Nutmeg Yearbook (Storrs, CT)

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Oceanographic Institute and the Columbia University LAVERCNE E. WILLIAMS, above, has participated in several research projects, among them the Motorola FM research and upper atmospheric research. He represented the State of Connecticut at a five weeks course in radio- logical aspects of civil defense at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1950. He has acted as radiological advisor to the State Office of Civil Defense since then. With Doctors Orr and Friedland, he served on a state Radio- logical Committee to draw up a plan for all aspects of radiological defense within the state. A member of numerous professional society committees he has held ofiices in the Connecticut Valley Section, Institute of Radio Engineers, National IRE Education Committee and the National AIEE-IRE Joint Student Branch Sub- committee. Research and consulting have been done for Pratt 81 Whitney, Cardwell Manufacturing Co., among others. QE- NX 9 As director of the Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, JOHN B. LUCKE, above, Professor of Geology, is in charge of all geological and natural history resources of the state. Last summer Dr. Lucke was in charge of a federal study on shore lincs and glaciation on an expedition to Mount Katmai, Alaska. He is vicc- president of the national Association of Geology Teachers and has served as geologist for an oil company in thc Texas Panhandle and soil surveyor for the U. S. Soil Conservation Service. Since coming to the Connecticut campus, he has worked with the Yvoods Hole, Mass.. Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. REINHOLD A. DORWART, left. Professor of History, received his doctorate at Harvard in 1935 and came to Connecticut in the same year. His special interest in German studies lead to his writing The Administrative Reforms of Frederick William I of Prussia, published by the Harvard University Press in 1953. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. After three and a half years in the navy during Wforld Wfar II, Mr. Dorwart's extra-curricular activity brings him weekly to the Naval Reserve Surface Battalion in Hartford, of which he is commanding ofiicer.

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V, .5,,,r ff . ' A' ff-- - ' ' ' :-Zizfri -if . wifi 31' , nn 1-1 ra' ' mr 'H 1 A-c-rea--u-1. 1 ...MJ JI V- l,, ,- gl n 1' '51 F 1 'KL A ,Nu ...wg -,sv 1-,rr-ru ,W r. ' r DAVID C. PHILLIPS, Ph. D., above, came to the University of Connecticut in 1949 to open the new Department of Speech and Drama which now has a staff of ten. As a sincere and astute speaker, he has graced the banquet tables of many professional 1951 he was elected to the groups as well as those of student organizations. In Executive Committee of the New England Speech Association. On the national level, . . . d he was given two appointments by the Speech Association of America-one as hea of a study committee on problems in colleges and universitiesg the other, as associate editor of a journal on speech education. Witli the Messrs. Grogan and Ryan, he has and Television and is the author of Oral Communica- tion in Business, published in June. He is an active consultant to industry on prob- written Introduction to Radio lems in communication. tribute to a rowing facult The catalog of the University of Connecti- cut for the sessions of 1955-56 lists faculty members in excess of 600. These range from professors to assistant professors through lectur- ers and departmental assistants. Each of them has trained himself for his particular teaching job at the University. Each of them has devoted himself to a particular area of learning. Herein, the Nutmeg wishes to present a few, unfortunately only a few, of the faculty, detailing their accomplishments within the uhalls of ivyi' as well as in the worlds of com- merce, science, and literature. But, we hasten to add, no college instructor can be measured solely by his technical knowledge. He is, first of all, an educator. His contact with each stu- fl t his infiuence his ffuidance are what make en , , U him better known and remembered. 'I6 LAVERI several 1 research the Stan logical 4 Laboratr lo the Doctors logical radiolog numero oilices Radio and thr fommir Pran J others,

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. 4 57, 1 xgx Among the many faculty members doing research is DAVID ZEAMAN, above, Associate Professor of Psy- chology, who has been with the University for the past six years. He was recently granted 310,000 by the Public Health Service to study mentally defective children. This research will be done in cooperation with the Mansfield State Training School and Hospital. JAMES H. BARNETT, below, Professor of Sociology, received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching at Connecticut in 1935. ln 1949 he became head of the department. His latest book, The American Christmas, published in 1954, is of especial interest. Professor Barnett says that commercialization of the Christ- mas season began about 1870. However, while the secular aspects have been affected greatly, the sacred have not. Listed in Who's Who in America, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Children's Services and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Appointed to the University staff in 1941, ARTHUR L. KNOBLAUCH, left, Ed. D., Director of University Extension, the Summer Session, and of Continuing Education, served as a Fulbright lecturer to Burma in 1952. He was the representative of the National University Exten- sion Association to the United Nations in 1954 and this year became president of the Eastern Connecticut Council, Boy Scouts of America. Several articles on education in Burma have been written by him as well as Foundations of Methods for Secondary Schools, of which he is co-author. On July 1, 1955, Dr. Knoblauch leaves Connecticut to become president of the State Teachers College at Moorhead, Minnesota. 1 8 I