Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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Defense industries are calling for trained chemists and physicists. Therefore, the chief objective of the Physical Science Department this year has been to qualify its students for these vital positions. Three majors are now working with DuPomLeL. D. Frashier, L. E. Pryor and Tulon McRighr 0nd one, Wayne Hemingway, in the Ford laboratories. Others are rapidly prepar- ing for similar work Three chemistry majors have been engaged in private investigations. Louis Green and Wayne Hemingway have studied rates of diffusion in silica gels and among other results have obtained some remarkable crystals and rhythmic bonding Kern Sears has also worked On Liesegang rings, studying especially the rhythmic condensation of water vapor when cer- tain mixtures of hydrogen and air are burned Mechanics, heat, light, sound, and electricity were studied in Physics. Dr. Charles Chapman Snow, genial head of the department, is calm, unhurried, and efficient. The soul of gentleness, he can show a pupil c: mistake without deflating his ego too much His appearance is invariably neat and he is faithful in the smoilest details of any work he undertakes. Believe it or not, Dr. Snow will be found in his spare time in the kitchen making tempting pastries or outdoors beautifying his lawn. Puerto Rico was the scene of a few years of Dr. Snow's teaching career. Curiously, it was there that he met Mrs. Snow, a fellow American teaching in the same school. Vire ginia is his native home and its venerable William and Mary College, his Alma Mater. Serving as laboratory assistants and part-time instructors under Dr. Snow this year were Louis Greeht Kern Sears, and Ernest Salners.

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E. R. Stupleton, efficient Business Administration professor, received his B. A. degree at Harding and M. C. E, at the University of Oklahoma, He also has a diploma in Busi- ness Training from Tyler Commercial College. He is a member of Pi Omega Pi, honorary commercial fraternity. Rearing a young son is his chief interest. He is very affectionate to him, stili he trains him well. His Jove to paint is shown by a diploma in art. A collector of Indian relics, he has tomohawks, arrowheads, and point pots. He has a garden, is an admirer of flowers, and raises prize Chrysanthemums. Always happy and accommodating, he advocates the need of more Christian educatiOn in the warld. Professor Ernest We Gibson teaches general courses of Economics and Finance, Audit, ing, etc He has really travelled around to get his education having received his At B at Transylvania, M. A. at Kentucky University, worked on 0 Ph. D. at Northwestern, and done graduate work at Ohio State, Peabody, Alabama, and Jndicma. By teaching a Federal Income Tax course he helps students with their future worries. He spent a quarter of a century teaching in high schools. Through voluminous reading he endeavors to keep posted on current history, Music of all sorts is appealing to hime especially light classics and operettosi

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Gaining a general knowledge of laboratory methods and the physiology and anatomy of pionts and animals is the aim of the mogority of courses offered by the biology depart- ment. By frequent hours in the laboratory studying and dissecting specimens, the stu- dent gains first-hcmd knowledge of the structure of living things. Cyril Abbott, who heads the department, is claimed 05 an alumnus by a handful of universities including Ohio State from which he obtained his Ph. D. and Johns Hopkins where he did postgraduate work At present he is testing the nutritional voiue for flies of vari0us sugars 05 compared with their taste appeal. He has written for several scien- tific publications, and is at present compiling a dictionary of biological terms. I once knew a chap is. o characteristic introduction to one of Dr. Abbottfs frequent lecture illustrations. Music, drama, art, and literature claim his interest as a connoisseur and also as a participant. S. A. Bell, associate professor of biology, teaches two practical courseshGenetics which covers the fundamental principles of inheritance and Personal Hygiene which is human physiology with emphasis on personal care of health. Prof. Bell also belongs to the Bible Faculty regularly teaching Old Testament history. He has been with the school in every hardship and need for over forty years. He is a home- iover and is frequently seen working about his yard and garden.