University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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. dy ide lorediafenlf building and equipment and ff5295,800 for an exchange and improvement of facilities between pediatrics and isolation, with particular emphasis upon the care and rehabilitation of victims of poliomyelitis. As a result of legislative action, our faculty and staff were brought within the federal social security system and were given the option to elect either a state or private supplementary retirement program in addition. FP Pk if A number of significant appointments and honors should be noted. William J. Simon, D.D.S., of the University of Minnesota, assumed the deanship of the College of Dentistry in january, 1953. Norman B. Nelson, M.D., formerly assistant dean, University of California at Los Angeles, and Dean of Medicine, American Uni- versity of Beirut, assumed the deanship of the College of Medicine on july 1, 1953. Dr. Robert S. Michael- sen of the Yale Divinity School became the second Director of the School of Religion, in succession to Dr. M. Willard Lampe, retired, on December 1, 1953. Professor Edmund de Chasca became Professor of Spanish and Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, September 1953. Pl' FF lk Professor joseph Bodine, Head of the Department of Zoology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Harold W. Beams, Department of Zool- ogy, became the first Iowan to achieve membership in Britain's 115-year-old Royal Microscopic Society. Professor Baldwin Maxwell, Head of the Depart- ment of English, was a Foyle Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute CStratsford-upon-Avonj of the University of Birmingham. Professor Kenneth W. Spence, Head of the Depart- ment of Psychology, was awarded the highest honor of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the War- ren Medal for 1953, in recognition of his persistent and rigorous theoretical and experimental work on fundamental problems of learning. Pk ill lk On November 11, 1953, in Carnegie Hall, New York, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, con- ducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, gave the premiere per- formance of a concerto for piano and orchestra com- posed by Dr. Philip Bezanson, of the Department of Music. Professor john Simms of the department was the piano soloist. FF if FF For the future, the University's needs are: C11 an increased emphasis upon quality both in faculty and student body C21 sufficient operating funds and sufficient freedom in utilizing them to assure a first-rate University C31 sufficient capital improvements Cal to eliminate the use of temporary struc- tures for classrooms and offices,and Cbj to provide additional permanent struc- tures for classrooms and offices, and student body that are inevitable during the next decade , C41 elimination of actual and potential threats of political domination and control of our educa- tional institutions C51 reaffirmation by our people of the belief that this is the last, best hope of earth and a rededi- cation to the ideals of a free and open societyf, to the ideals of The American Dream.

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