Chaffey College - Argus Yearbook (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)

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Faculty Meets Challenge Chaffey college faculty dedicated themselves to the task of offer- ing as much higher education as possible to young men about to enter the armed forces this year, to those men and women who reguired special training for defense industry, and to those whose long-span plan included training at the universities. To this end they studied and made every adjustment of teaching assignment and change of course. When members of the teach- ing staff left to join the service or enter defense industry, they closed the ranks and carried on so that no class was discontinued because of lack of teaching personnel. College faculty mem- bers have served the cause of higher education and the con- tinuation of the American way of life in a company as loyal and as devoted as those whom they honor in the country ' s service. The role of eight members who are on military leave for the duration of the war is one which they respect. Faculty Service Roll Captain Paul J. Birkofer United States Army Air Corps Sgt. Homer Davis United States Army Lt. (j.g.) Arthur Flum United States Navy Lt. Col. Herschel Griffin United States Army Air Corps Lt. Burt Heiser United States Army Charles Jones United States Army Air Corps Ensign Harriet Reeder WAVE Lt. (j.g.) Jack White United States Navy

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National Defense classes and those closely connected with the warm emergency occupied Dr. R. E. Berry, director of adult education, and his staff this year. Hundreds of men and women enrolled for special day and evening work on the home campus and at the Chaffey airdrome. The program included the federal groups of Off-Reservation-In-Service Training Classes, in machine shop, parachute packing, leather work, aircraft engines, airplane construction. Adult national defense classes, training for work in the aircraft fac- tories, operated around the clock through the winter months in the machine shops. Classes which were definitely related to the war effort were the only ones offered in the regular evening school. These included PBX; business classes in typewriting, bookkeeping, ofiice machines, shorthand; Spanish; orange and lemon packing, sewing, woodshop, mechanical drawing. A series of lectures and demonstrations in agriculture, teaching new gardeners how to raise vegetables, chickens, and rab- bits were followed by a series of demonstrations by members of the home economic department on methods of food preservation — hot water bath canning, pressure cooker canning, and dehydration. Red C ross home nursing classes continued throughout the year. In May classes in English and agriculture were developed with a bi-lingual faculty for the group of Mexican Nationals brought into the district to help with the citrus harvest.

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GIVE IT YOUR BEST I (above) Dean Walter A. Hall talks over the mathematics assignment with Arthur Flum; below) Science department members find interesting reference reading, (left to right) Glenn Moody, Clarence Calhoun, Mrs. W. T. Griffith, Howard R. Stafford. Chaffey faculty members, during this war year, made every effort to carry on the scholas- tic schedule which overcome difficulties of stu- dent programming and faculty personnel. They adjusted their programs and cheerfully accept- ed new subjects to teach and also shared in the civilian defense activities of the area. Mathematics, one of the subjects which fitted the needs of reserve programs, was orig- inally taught by Arthur Flum (M.A. from the University of Southern California), and Dean Walter A. Hall (M.A. from the University of Southern California). When many new classes were offered for service training and Mr. Flum left to become a lieutenant (j.g.) in the United States Naval Reserve, Dean Pearl E. Clark taught with Mr. Hall in the new program. Science department members likewise made adjustments. Harold Merchant, (M. A. from Pomona College) continued with full chemistry classes, assisted by Howard R. Stan- ford (M.S. from the University of Illinois), in- structor in Plant Pathology and Botany. Mr. Stanford carried on his own classes in Botany as did Russell R. Dysart (MA. from the Univers- ity of Southern California) in geology and min- erology. Mrs. W. T. Griffith (M.A. from Pomona College) taught anatomy, zoology, and biology. She assisted Miss Kellogg at the Civil Defense casualty station on the campus. Mrs. Griffith, the former Miss Vesta Newsom, has resigned at the end of the semester. Glenn Moody (M.S. from University of California) instructed in