Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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MATHEMATICS In order to provide a balanced program, the Mathematics Department enlarged its curriculum this year to include a course in probability. According to Dr. Barnard H. Bissinger, depart- ment head, the curriculum of a department of mathematics must include the three major areas of mathematics — pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and probability — in order to provide on adequate background in the field. In- cluding the nevvly-added course, there are now three courses offered in the third category, a bare minimum according to Dr. Bissinger. Since July 1, 1961, the faculty has been engaged in the preparation of a handbook on group physical mortality as a preliminary to statistical inventory on a research grant from the United States Navy. Such grants are generally designated for large universities. This project has involved primarily faculty members, but Dr. Bissinger anticipates involving students in future projects from the same source. The departmental library has been increased until it now contains 193 mathematical journals from almost every country in the world. Forty of these journals are received regularly; the remainder have been supplied by the library of Congress and by private industry. SEATED: Barnard Bissinger, chairman; STANDING left to right; Paul F. Henning, Jr., Homer Bechtell. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Rhodes, the Physics Depart- ment received a grant of $9800 from the Atomic Energy Com- mission. According to the terms of that bequest, equipment was purchased for the atomic and nuclear physics courses including a neutron source, a gamma-ray spectrometer, and several scintillation and geiger-tube counters. In addition, the Atomic Energy Commission has granted the Physics Department a long- term loan of plutonium for use in the neutron source. Auxiliary equipment, consisting of a powder camera and a back-reflec- tion camera, has been purchased for the large x-ray diffraction apparatus, also a part of the atomic physics laboratory. To the laboratory for the electrical measurements conducted by Dr. Grimm, a $1060 precision impedence-measuring bridge network has been added. This network may be used in the analysis of circuits of specific frequencies. A new laboratory manual, written by Mr. O ' Donnel for the general physics course, has been introduced this year. It is in loose-leaf form so that new experiments may be added when necessary. JACOB L RHODES PHYSICS Left to Right: Samuel O. Grimm; Jacob L. RhocJes, chairman; J. Robert O ' Donnell

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BIOLOGY This year the Biology Department has been concerned with the accumulation and effective utilization of scientific equipment, especially of various types of microscopes. Ac- cording to Dr. Francis H. Wilson, department head, Lebanon Valley is unique among colleges of its size in that its lab- oratories have not only sufficient compound microscopes but sufficient binocular dissecting microscopes so that each be- ginning student has his own with which to work. Ordinarily such equipment exists in limited numbers which necessitates sharing except in smaller classes of advanced students. During this year enough binocular microscopes were purchased to bring the total to forty-five. Additional phase microscopes have also been made available. Yearly, the Biology Department graduates approximately sixteen majors, half of whom continue their studies in medical or dental school. The department has the second largest stu- den population in the school with ninety-one ma|ors including students enrolled in cooperative programs with other schools. This year marks the retirement of Dr. V. Earl Light, pro- fessor of biology since 1929. Dr. Light, an alumnus of LVC, taught genetics, geology, and animal physiology. Extracurn- cularly, he has an interest in music as shown by his member- ship in the Glee Club in his student days and in the College Church Choir. His students have found pictures of the flowers and shrubs on his farm breathtaking. Left to Right: O. Pass Bollinger; V. Earl Light; Francis H. Wilson, Chairman. PSYCHOLOGY The year 1961-62 marks the assumption of a new appear- ance in facilities, program, and staff for the Department of Psychology. Permanent quarters have now been completed for the department and have been equipped for an expansion of laboratory and other direct-experience facilities. Animal experimentation is an added feature of special interest. There is an increased emphasis on independent investigations and research by psychology majors, a program which will be augmented greatly by the institution of an Independent study program next year. The extended field experience in clinical psychology continues to provide unusual opportunity for students to work with and learn to know mental patients. In addition to the other changes, the department has in- creased instruction in developmental psychology. Finally, in keeping with the overall program of expansion and improve- ment, the department faculty has added a third full-time member and hopes to increase faculty activities in instruction, research, and counseling. JEANO. LOVE Left to Right; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Pottieger,- Richard D. Magee,- Jean O. Love, Chairman. 17

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Left to Right: Theodore D. Keller, Anna D. Faber, Jesse Matlock, Jr., ond George G. Struble, chairman. ENGLISH To be sophisticated without being cynical, to be lofty without losing the human touch, to be cosnnopolitan without being less American, to be scholarly without being pedantic, to be serious without being solemn — these are some of the items in the creed of the English Department. To attain our ends, we stand ready to recognize intellectual achievement, but we prize artistic achievement even more. We admire the man who can formulate theory, but we admire even more the man who can demonstrate in his evety-day speech and action the principles of the good life. We cultivate the life of the intellect, but we are not insensitive to the call of the heart. We teach English as a tool which, like atomic energy, men may use to attain ends, worthy or unworthy. But we also teach English as an instrument of delight, an open door through which one may pass to encounter the deepest yearnings and the highest aspirations of the human spirit. We teach students who are woefully deficient in their knowledge of gerunds and ir- regular verbs and the techniques of library research; and we also teach students who have no need for the mealy-mouthed distinctions between relatives and absolutes, between apposition and parataxis, but whose intellectual hungers are such that we have this year created a special section of freshman composi- tion where we shape custom-made shadows for their psychic caverns. To be all things to all men is not the aim of the English De- partment. Rather, we try to serve all in varying degrees of use- fulness; but our most precious droplets of wisdom are hoarded for the fit though few. As to those others, we are the Great Enigma, seen through o glass, darkly. GEORGE G. STRUBLE 19