Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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tory of the Latin neighbors, while another dealt with the westward movement of pop- ulation in the U.S. Alternating yearly with the course in state and local government, international relations was offered again this year. With six foreign students registered for the course, semi-UN meetings with lively dis- cussions were often staged. An annual tradition of the History De- partment is the rendition of all three verses of Home, Home on the Range in lyrical tenor Voice. AMERICAN history students take notes on lecture during regular class meeting in Au- rora Hall lleftl. Lecturing is Willard Smith, division head. MAP MAKING assignments in American history course are completed in library by Deloris Weaver and Helen loyce Thut, class members. .JW ts GUY F. HERSHBERGER, PhD. lleftl, Pro tessor of History and Sociology. MELVIN GINGERICH, PhD. lrightl, Pro tessor of History. ,. id! H 'xi 'A 519.14 'f Q 1 , fa CRIPE I.U.llI?1fR K SUl'PI.l' CU. . . Pminfit ,YI'l'IllfI', frm' lll'II'Tll'I'y . . IJIKYIHII' lu

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History Profs Most Literary WILLARD H. SMITH, PHD., Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of History and Political Science. The History Department proved to be the most literary this year with the publication of books by Dr. Willard H. Smith and Dr. Guy F. Hershberger. Completed after 15 years of work, Wil- lard Smith arranged with the Indiana His- torical Bureau for the publication of his book entitled Schuyler Colfax, the Chang- ing Fortunes of a Political Idol. A biog- raphy, this book deals with an influential statesman and U.S. vice-president of the Civil War era who founded the Republican Party of Indiana. The Mennonite Publishing House re- cently released Guy F. Hershberger's book entitled The Mennonite Church in the Second World War, which endeavors to describe the eiects of the War on the Old Mennonite Church. GINGERICH TEACHES CIV Dr. Melvin Gingerich continued his work as head of the Mennonite Research Foun- dation during the year and concentrated his teaching eiorts on the introductory civilization course. Courses in the department covered polit- ical, intellectual and cultural, economic and recent history of the Western world and Europe. One course was devoted to the his- ll l'f1Ill'. 1ilHIUlx',lll'1'fR. ,lli'. . . Pnlilrr Jllklllllllfllllf . . lil-IW S. .llnin Sl. . . CUSHICN

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KuulfmunAccepts Two Department Already the head of the Sociology Depart- ment, J. Howard Kauffman became head of the Economics Department with Dean Carl Kreider's departure for Japan in Feb- ruary. Kauffman assumed responsibility for the principles of economics class, but arrange- ments concerning who would replace Kreider in his other courses were not finally completed. The rural economics class spent a day in Chicago visiting various marketing in- stitutions for their field trip during the spring semester. Films, class reports, book studies and panel discussions on pertinent social prob- lems supplemented lectures in sociology courses. Dr. Lindsey, Elkhart County pro- bation officer, spoke to the social problems class on juvenile delinquency. In the seminar class, seniors prepared reports on topics such as the problem of divorce and remarriage in city mission work, juvenile delinquency among girls and economic factors aifecting the strength of rural churches. I. HOWARD KAUFFMAN, MA, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Economics. DHSCUSSION by tive panel members is pre- sented in social problems class. Addiction to drugs is the problem under consideration. Each class member serves on one such group as part of the semester's regular work. Ili I. Y. fili.l1il1.I'S Iillflilflf SIIOP . . Thi' ,il1uIi'11l'.s Iiiirlwi . . CIOSIJICX