Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Witmer Honoreclg Schrock on Leave For 31 years Dr. Samuel W. Witmer has unobtrusively taken daily weather read- ings and reported the information to the Weather Bureau at Indianapolis. This year Witmer received recognition from the U.S. Weather Bureau for his volunteer observa- tions. He is included in a book published by the Weather Bureau containing brief biograph- ical sketches of volunteer observers in the United States. WORKS FOR IRO Working under the climatological service of the Weather Bureau, Witmer has made observations simultaneously with other re- porters all over the World for the periods of a Week. He has also reported rainfall during fairs or football games to companies holding rain insurance. Dr. Alta Schr0ck's departure for Europe and two years' work With the IRO left a vacancy in the Biology Department. This year students missed her favorite insect and microbe stories. Some courses taught by her were not oifered this year, and Witmer, Lester Zimmerman and Dr. Paul Bender assumed responsibility for the rest in addition to their regular curricular loads. STUDENTS BAND BIRDS In advanced botany, students carried out several interesting projects. While conduct- ing a study of shrubs, Curt Byer discovered a speciman never before reported in In- diana. Shunzo Kodera, a Japanese student. did research with certain nut-bearing plants raised in his homeland. Another project of Witmer's which stu- dents have occasionally helped is banding birds. After luring birds into cages, alumi- num bands with the address of the Fish and Wild Life Association in Washington, and a serial number printed on Were placed around their legs. In 21 years of this Work, Witmer and his assistants have banded 5,098 birds. His total returns of 339 give him a percentage of 624. HERB WENGER, a comparative anatomy student labovel , sketches a caT's skull. Bi- ological scientists Lois Hurst, Darrel l-los- Tetler study paramecia with microscopes. SAMUEL W. WITMER, PHD., Professor of Biology. O UUXIYILIX Tlilflf l'fXl'l'fIfT Xlflil'lCflf . . lflnrllrl Flllllll xuzus and illull flower loolx . . plz. 754 AIIDDLEBURY

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iii? is 'N. GLEN R. MILLER, Ph.D. lfar leftl, Chair- man of the Division of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry. H. HAROLD HARTZLER, Ph,D. ileftl , Pro- fessor of Mathematics. LESTER I. ZIMMERMAN, MA., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Physics Included in Studies old Hartzler, young Galileos observed vari- ous heavenly bodies and measured the wave length of light. Future farmers received instruction from a specialist this year in Lester Zim- merman's conservation classes, while T- square artists labored over mechanical drawings under his tutelage. New equipment bought during 1951-52 for the physical science departments in- cluded a potentiometer and a small demon- stration model gyroscope. PHYSICS students Christian Braun, Walter Drudge experiment ileftl to discover the dispersion of a glass prism. Now with data in hand the pair proceed to the final step, calculation and checking with Handbook. TVESTERN RUBBER CO. . . GOSHEN

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Home Ec Include: Faculty of Three Besides teaching most of the courses food preparation, Dr. Olive Wyse, he of the department, edited the homema ing section of the Mennonite Communit Students in the department learned t basic elements of good nutrition, and pr pared all general groups of foods. T foods and nutrition class prepared a me for guests each week, alternating meals. Under the supervision of Miss Phyllis Roose, college dietitian, girls in the quan- tity cookery class spent four hours of lab Work a week planning and preparing meals in the dining hall. The clothing, textiles and related arts section of the Home Ec Department Was in charge of Miss Edna Shantz, on the faculty during the first semester. In these courses students designed and made blouses, suits and other clothing. Studying home furnishings, girls gained practical experience as they planned economical furnishings, and learned how to make several articles. A special feature was a lecture on buying home equipment. During the year, Miss Wyse and Miss Shantz spoke to community Women's clubs on topics related to homemaking, While students in the department gave similar talks to extension Sunday-school mother's clubs. VELMA FREY prepares and tests a recipe in home economics laboratory. The quan tity cookery class will then use formula on large scale in preparing dining-hall fare. OLIVE G. WYSE, Ed.D. labove lettl, Professor of l-lorne Economics. PHYLLIS ROOSE, BA. labove rightl, Dieti- cian and Instructor in Home Economics. EDNA P. SHANTZ, BA., B.S. in Home Eco- nomics, Instructor in Horne Economics. 9 - r ' FSP f . sf. X. l -: -.-54. -. Nw.-M. F-X f 7 .WV fi HONEY CRUST BJKEICI' INC .... -lriurlcrl lziwnl, tasty pf1sli'if.t. z1cIiw'i'wI ,IOIIVA 21 frcslzer . . GOSHEN at '11 9' ' as