Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE History and social science students leave Coker well- educated and prepared to enter their post-college ca- reers, whether in graduate school or in the teaching profession. The background offered in Civilization plus the instruction and guidance of the professors in this department make this field an interesting and chal- lenging one. Social science students gain insight into the culture of man-his skills, beliefs, attitudes and customs. This knowledge enables them to affirm their places in so- ciety and to guide the environment they are personally associated with. The comprehension of the world be- comes prevalent in the field of social science as the economic bases, social customs, standards and influ- ences of the background of all peoples are analyzed and discussed. Dr. A. A. Fahrner, professor of history, leads the way for Coker history majors. His specialized and sometimes personal knowledge of world events makes him a capable and interesting professor. A recognition of present activities correlated with this knowledge of the past brings the world into focus and brings under- standing and patience. History and social science do not necessarily make the individuals of today the leaders of tomorrow. They do, however, bring about an educated public to hold up the principles of government in every field. Dr. A. A. Farhner gives his students a test in the American History class. Mr. Frank Saunders helps student Vance Williams with a difficult math problem. MATHEMATICS One of the things omitted during the week of fresh- men orientation, and yet one of the early discoveries made by the new student, is that two semesters of math can replace one of the lab sciences required for graduation. With this thought foremost in mind, the student enters the Department of Mathematics. To the student who has an inexhaustable curiosity to find X, college algebra is a genuine delight. How- ever, with the introduction of 9 in trigonometry, math assumes a new look, and it becomes Greek in more ways than one. And now those two semesters are completed. But since there are always those who are gluttons for pun- ishment, plane and solid analytical geometry become a challenge. But the mysteries are soon solved under the soft-spoken Mr. Saunders. The largest hurdle one must attempt in the pursuit of this, the purest of all science, is that of the Cal- culus. First semester finds students wrestling with changes. NW hen the problem has water going in at a certain rate and emptying at the same time at a second date, the exasperated scholar may attempt to use her own bathtub as a working example, only to find that this complicates the problem even further and that math is really less difficult when left on paper. Second semester brings new hope, for this student is now undoing all that she spent first semester doing. But with many hours of work and deep concentration, she finds that calculus was really funn-even when she spent hours trying to find the volume of a dough- nut. Theory of equations takes the form of a game and the student again searches for X, but now with a better understanding and a greater knowledge of this evasive character. Geometry further interests those with an understanding of congruence and symmetry. 75

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Both the Old and New Testament take on new meaning under the teaching of Dr. Ben Ingram. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Most every Coker student can quote the familiar ad- vice Dr. Ben Ingram invariably gives to each of his classes: Set yourself up an ideal and then look for the young man who fits that ideal. As a freshman at Coker, one learns that she is re- quired to take both Old and New Testaments, and most students choose to take it their Freshman year. Dr. Ben and Miss Seymour, who is new this year at Coker, makes the lives of Christ and the apostles live for us again with their clever teaching methods. If a student wishes, she may go even deeper into Christian Education with the Life ami Iourneyr of Paul, Chrirtifzn Doctrines, or many other courses that are offered. Maybe it is good if a Freshman finds it hard to sleep at night. Memorizing the Kings made immortal by Dr. Ben will take both night and day, at least for the first three months of school. Look out for those block questions. Dr. Ben is famous for those too . . . that is, in addition to the 100 true-false questions. Would it not be absurd for a student to graduate from Coker without being able to wake up in the middle of the night and recite the Kings or be able to say true or false when the ques- tion is asked, Caanan is 10 miles due-east of the Dead Sea? Seriously, every student loves and admires Dr. Ben for the person he is, and each of them gets a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction from the study of Chris- tian Education. 74 ENGLISH AND LITERATURE Many is the night one can walk down Freshman Hall, and see a freshman furiously composing a theme for next day's English class or maybemaking one up for the week before, This could be attributed to spring fever and procrastination, but during the year, under the constructive criticism of Dr. and Mrs. Sisson, they learn to write clear, correct and effective English. The second year the Sophomores turn Pro and ad- vance to Dr. Haynes' immortal Literature classes. There we learn of the greats of England as well as of our own country. A more creative soul might venture into Mr. Bray's creative writing class. Still others might go farther into the literary field by studying drama, novel, or poetry and prose of the Romantic and Victorian Ages. For those aspiring to teach English in high schools the English Department allows for method courses. Children's Literature, which proves to be quite an en- joyable course, is offered for the Elementary Educa- tion Majors. 7 Mary Anne Wickliffe, Ginny Ricker and Ann Dalrymple start toward their English composition classes taught by Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Sisson.

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QR! Embryology is only one of the fascinating courses encountered by a biology major. SCIENCE 'Tve found the strangest looking animal under my microscope. Do you suppose I've discovered some new form of life? And so the General Biology student be- gins her study of nature. Mr. John D. Reynolds, assist- ant professor of biology, patiently helps the bewil- dered student adjust the slide and the objective on the microscope revealing that the discovery of new life is just a piece of dust. This general course includes a two semester study of plant and animal life after which a student is apt to agree that nothing is impossible. Advanced biology courses offer many opportunities to those who wish to specialize. The anatomy and Zoology students under the instruction of Dr. Ezda Deviney, professor of biol- ogy, have accomplished the feat of dissecting doglish and cats while drinking cokes. Field trips and outdoor classes are factors contributing to the increasing popu- larity of botany, which is also taught by Dr. Deviney. General Chemistry proves to be an interesting course to the student who desires to learn about the physical make-up of various elements. Stained hands, burned fingers and acid burned aprons are a few of the usual characteristics of the General Chemistry student. Advanced chemistry courses are not without their mishaps and strange experiences. In Organic Chem- istry, the study of carbon compounds, a minor explo- sion is nor infrequent especially if one forgets to add boiling stones to a solution before heating it. Dr. Ernest McCullough, professor of the physical sci- ences, is always understanding as he listens to the Qualitative Analysis student explain that she had a precipitate of sulfate and not sulfite. In Quantitative Analysis it seems that the analytical balance receives the blame from those students who find errors in their chemical calculations. Mechanics and electricity are the main topics dis- cussed in General Physics. Dr. McCullough gains an idea of the student's mathematical background in the various problems encountered in the course. Students learn many new and different things in the General Biol- Jane Strader and Bill Humphrey prepare for a titration in the ogy labs, Quantitative Analysis lab. 76