University of Connecticut - Nutmeg Yearbook (Storrs, CT)

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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

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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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' A --A - a:..v:-.1-:,1,': '- ii -V g,,,pu-L --- F s 1 5. WARREN J. BILKEY, above, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been at Connecticut for the past six years. As a result of research in a particularly important area, Dr. Bilkey is nearing completion of a thorough going study entitled Vector Analysis of Consumer Be- havior. He has presented papers on special topics before the A.M.A. and the New England Research Council on Marketing and Food Supply and has published articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics. In addi- tion to his writing, he is a member of several societies, including the American Economics Association, the Econometric Association and the Catholic Economic Association. Under contract with the Atomic Energy Commission, WILLIAM C. ORR, left, has done extensive work in nuclear chemistry and the application of radioactive tracers to problems in inorganic chemistry. In connection with serving as advisor on radiological matters to the State Director of Civil Defense, he has invented a slide-rule calculator for A- or H-bomb fall-out dosage that is widely used throughout the country. As a sociologist, WALTER C. McKAlN, Jr., below, Pro fessor of Rural Sociology, has been instrumental ln the solution of problems of the aged throughout the state He is technical advisor to the Connecticut Commission on Po tentials of the Aging and director of the Connecticut Heart Association. As a writer, he is co-author of a text, Rural Life in the United States, and author of numerous experiment station bulletins and articles in professional and popular journals.