Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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1 I ' m ' ' ■ ■ V Faculty makes strides in Miss Virginia Lawson, circulation and reference librarian. Miss Delia Shore, cataloguer, and Miss Elizabeth Mayhew, order and reference librarian, aid the efficient operation of Grey Memorial Library. The staff, under Director Chalmers Davidson, provides curricular and leisure reading material. With dance weekend approaching, students reserved rooms in Belk Hall for their dates. Mrs. I. B. Moore, Supervisor of Dormitories, assists. Philanthropist Charles A. Dana was cited by the Trustees for his interest in higher education at Davidson, Trustee President J. McDowell Richards presents a folio to Mr. Dana as President D. Grier Martin looks on. Harvard ' s Pi ' : -ir A. Bullrick lectured at winter religious serv- ices sponsored .y 111- YMCA. Here the scholar is greeted by Mrs. J. B. Huntington, Hostess at the College Guest House, as he departs lor the East.

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Robsrt Bruca lackton, It.. B.A. (Davidson). Ph.D. (Duke), Aisiitani Proleasor ol Molhemallci. )o)in Thomas Klmbrough. B.S. (Davidson), M.S. (Chicago), Prolessor ol Mattiematlcs. William GUlesplB McGavock. A.B. (Davidson). M. A., Ph.D. (Duke), Prolassoi of Mathematics. William Nelson Mebane. Ir.. B.S. (Davidson), M.A. (Cornell). Prolossor ol Malhomalics. PHYSICS Geortjo William Crawlord. B.S. (Davidson), M.S. (Univ. ol N. C.i. Assistant Prolessor ol Physics. Henry Emmelt Fulcher, B.S., M.S. (Virginia), lames Buchanan Duke Prolessor ol Physics and Astronomy. lohn I. Hopkins, B.S., M.A.. Ph.D. (Duke), Associate Prolessor ol Physics. Sam Brooks McLane, Jr.. B.A. (Austin College). M.A. (Texas College ol Arts and Industries), Assistant Prolessor ol Physics. Clarence John Pielenpol, B.S. (Pittsburgh), M.S. (Colorado). Ph.D. (New York). Prolessor of Physics. RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS William L Adams. Jr., B.S. (Centenary). M.S. (Louisiana Slate Uni- versity). Lt. Colonel, United States Army, Professor ol Military Science and Tactics. Thomas V. Brooks, Captain, United Slates Army, Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Robert Walton Fleming, Jr., Major, United States Army, Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Faculty Berle Kenneth Hullord, B.A., M.A., (Yale), Maior, United States Army, Assistant Prolessor ol Military Science and Tactics. Lonnie Harrison Lumsden, III, B.S. (United States Military Academy). Captain, United States Army, Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. John Walter Mitchell, B.A. (The Citadel). Captain, United Stales Army. Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. SOCIAL SCIENCE John Morgan Bevan. A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), B D.. M.A., Ph.D. (Duke), Associate Professor ol Psychology. Joseph Turpin Drake, B.S. (Davidson), Ph.D. (Univ. ol N. C). Prolessor ol Sociology. Winlred Pleasants MInter, B.S., M.S. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), Ph.D. (Univ. ol Chicago), Associate Prolessor ol Political Science. lames Walker field, B.S. (Davidson). M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Peabody), Prolessor of Geography and Geology. William Gatewood Workman. B.Ph., M.A.. B.D. (Emory). Ph.D. (Chl- xigo). Professor of Psychology. • • I 23

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citrriiiiliim iniproirnirntx As the college plant is currently approaching a point beyond which there can be no extensive im- provement, the forefront of Davidson ' s development will necessarily shift toward educational progress. A seemingly static curriculum in some respects has long been the number one academic problem. However, several advances towards modernizing courses were made during the course of the year. To cite a few, Bible US, a literary and historical introduction to the Bible, was offered to freshmen for the first lime. An economics seminar was insti- gated by students who received no academic credit for it. In the English department, the progressive Professor Goodykoontz experimented with several innovations in his seminar courses. Renovations in the mathematics and physics cur- ricula next year will pave the way toward further reform in other departments. For example, there will be a division of pre-medical and engineering physics courses , and analytical geometry and calculus will be combined into a one-semester course. As always, the pre-medical course remains strong, and the Honors courses are the liberal arts program at its best. It was fitting that Dr. Frontis Johnston, a qualified educator with progressive attitudes, was selected this year as the new Dean of the Faculty, as he, primarily, will be promoting the quality of instruction offered at Davidson. The well-equipped Developmental Reading Laboratory provides important aids to willing students. Mrs. H. T. Lilly, Director, here tests a student ' s eyes. F icully and students joined weekly to share information and opinions in an informal economics forum. Faculty men broke their i ge ideas and small talk while relaxing over coffee in hr Union snack bar. Occasionally, hesitant or bold undergraduates would join in — to their own pleasure and gain. HI Ed 1 . ll ,:M ■PL ¥ • «C-lr« -r - T « 1 m , p Regular meetings held in faculty homes found professors dis- cussing topics they had all studied individually beforehand. One man usally moderates the discussion.