University of Connecticut - Nutmeg Yearbook (Storrs, CT)

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tbove. been 5 and Japers per in rtrical ing a r the ze by ill. an -sional - been d the iroietl JI. JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN, above, instructor of modern poetry and creative writing, is widely known as a poet and for his work as director of the New York Poetry Center. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he has done graduate work at Harvard. His first book of poems, The Carden Is Political, was followed by The Lincoln Lyrics, No Arch, No Triumph, and The Sorrows of Cold Stone. His poems are represented in leading collections, some of which he has recorded for the Library of Congress and the Harvard Vocarium Series. He has served as poetry editor for new World Writing and as poetry judge for the National Book Awards. He is currently working on a new volume of poems and a critical biography of Gertrude Stein. ' . t I n ' . v bi 1. rnrssra-rr N y X . 4 Z' if Once described as our most fluent interpreter of the works of God, Professor RAYMOND KIENHOLZ, above, is a most enthusiastic teacher and lecturer on conservation. Among his publications is Conservation Across the United States, written after taking 32 people front eight states on a 13,000 mile nation- wide tour. He is well-known for his lessons on extending the nation's resources by utilizing more forest products, developing substitutes, exploring new frontiers of science, and by careful management of wildlife and grazing areas. Dr. Kienholz, Head of the Department of Forestry and bvildlife Management, has illustrated a book on winter trees and has done research in the Douglas fir region of western Yilashington and on Mount Adams. BELDON H. SIAIAFFER, left, who received his M. A. in Public Administration from Syracuse ldniversity in 195-1. was named Acting Director of the Institute of Public Service at Storrs in March, 1955. He served previously with the health depart- ments of Buffalo and Tompkins County in New York and as an administrative intern at Albany. His reports Growing Suburbs and Town Finance and Small Homes and Community Growth have attained national recognition. ln addition, he is author and co-author of a number of publications and informational bulletins issued by the Institute.

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Since 1953 HUGH CLARK, above, Associate Professor of Zoology, has worked diligently on a project supported by the National Institute of Health. The work, carried out in the interests of cancer research, deals with the nitrogen metabolism of reptile embryos. He is president- elect of Sigma Xi, member of the University Senate, past president of the A.A.U.P., and member of the Society of Zoologists, Society of Ichthyol- ogists and Herpetologists and the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine. Since 1940, RALPH J. KOCHENBURCER, above, Sc. D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been engaged in research relating to servo-mechanisms and cybernetics. Besides writing a number of classified papers concerning his work, in 1950 he published a paper in the Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers describing new techniques for handling a difficult type of servomechanjsms problem. For this work he was awarded the national Industry Prize by the A.I.E.E. and the Alfred Noble prize for 1950, an award made jointly by various engineering professional societies in the U. S. Dr. Kochenburger, who has been on the Storrs campus since 1950, has directed the M. W. Kellogg Project and the I.B.M. research project conducted by the University for the Air Force. EDMOND A. PERREGAUX, left, Ph. D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management. On a special mission to France as Chief of the Food and Agriculture Division of the E.C.A., he assisted in the development of a more sani- tary fluid milk supply. His work helped a French dairy qualify to supply about half of the U. S. Armyis milk requirements in France. While there, he also developed demonstration projects for adult education in crops of hybrid corn and in the marketing of milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables. For his contributions to French agri- culture, he received the 0fHecer de Merite Agricolef' He joined the faculty in 1927 as a marketing specialist.

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, .4:'.' sf TRW? Efx'b1 43 fb Robert Frost emphasizes a point in po- etics with a kindly smile and admonishing finger.