University of Connecticut - Nutmeg Yearbook (Storrs, CT)

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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

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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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'eived his aching at mm His if esbffcial he Christ. Petls have s Who in Qlllleclim WCS. is 2 lf la I F .HR F5 Q I 'ft ,J f , -5-.H 5. ,ni -I ,. s AQH- gt rl' X 41 Jigwl v . qgf, ICH. e,.gi0Ile Burrllf Exten- came eriC3' V him iwlllfh grtifut ahead' 'M-43' g After 14 years' service with his Alma Mater, STANLEY S. WEDBERC, above, Ph. D., was named Head of the Bacteri- ology Department in April. During World War Il, Dr. Wedberg was chief bacteriologist and assistant laboratory director of the 178th General Hospital in Europe, later assist- ant laboratory inspector for the entire European Theatre. From 1945-46 he worked with Dr. Jonas Salk, discoverer of the new polio vaccine, to combat an influenza outbreak among American soldiers. Dr. Wedberg, the author of Microbes and You, a text in basic microbiology, is active in many community organizations. For several years he has been chairman of the Commencement Committee and is presently treasurer of the Alumni Association. i u X I f wil X, ,J .A PJ, W...-it sf., ' Wliile in Iran in 195-l, PHILIP E. TAYLOR, above, Ph. D., was named head of the Economics Department to succeed Dr. XV. Harrison Carter. An authority on taxation and public finance Dr. Taylor went there to assist the Iranian government in revenue system problems. one of them the income tax system. Formerly associated with the Office of Price Administration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he taught at Amherst and Trinity and joined the Connecticut faculty in 1946. For three years he was a member of the State Committee on Unemployment Compensation and the Commission on Health Resources. He is the author of The Economics of Public Finance, a top reference on governmental taxation, expenditures and debt policies. The appointment of PAUL S. RILEY, left, M. S., as supervisor of the Child Study Center in 1953 was a duty contrasting to his 3M years in the Marine Corps as a machine gun sergeant. In his staff position, Mr. Riley supervises the running of the Center and the student and staff members who have charge of children from the Storrs community. Born in Manila, P. I., Mr. Riley ' received his A.B. at the University of California and, in the postwar years, was an instructor at the Studio of Secondary Education in Los Angeles and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He taught at Columbia Teachers' College where he received his M.A. and is co-author of Working with Adolescent Groups. A lx R D X 9 it ixpz-. 19