Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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DOCTOR WALLACE R. MCCONNEL has been the head of the geography department at Miami since 1918. His college background includes an AB. at the University of Illinois, an A.M. at the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. at Clark University. While his teaching experience has been chiefly in the field of social studies, his interests cover a much wider range of subjects, especially those relating to current educa- tional and social problems. He has trained thousands of teachers and for a number of years he conducted extension classes in geography. In this way, Dr. Mc- Connell has been directly responsible for shaping the curricula in many cities in the Middle West. F 01' four years he broadcast geography lessons over station WLW in Cincinnati, supplementing classroom teach- ing in the elementary grades and in the high schools. His texts have sold millions of copies and are the foremost elementary and high school geography books in the country. Among the most widely used of Dr. McConnell's books are The United States in the Modern World, The Geography of Many Lands and The Geography of World Peoples. He edited the Appleton Modern School Atlas and has written several articles, treatises and reviews for publication. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and a past president of the National Council of Geography Teachers. He lives in Oxford with his wife, Della and his chief pride is his daughter, Ruth Ann, who is the edi- tor of the J ournal of the American Bar Association. FACULTY Since its establishment at Miami in 1922, the Scripps F oundation for Research in Population Problems has been under the direction of Pro- fessor Warren S. Thompson. E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howa'rd papers, was bene- factor for the bureau, which is now the most widely known authority on population growth, change and problems in the world. Doctor Thompson received his A.B. from N ebraska Wes- leyan, an A.M. from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He stud- ied at the University of Chicago and taught at Cornell before assuming his position here in 03:- ford. He has written several monographs and books, one of which, Population Problems, is used in many colleges throughout the country as a text for advanced sociology courses. As a research professor, he is particularly interest- ed in world problems and has published two books based on his studies, Plenty of Peo- ple and Danger Spots in World Population. At present, the F oundation is chiefly engrossed with the increasing problem of population redistribution in the United States. Since the war, shifting population has brought about many changes in some areas in the country. He is a former president of the Population Association of America and a member of the American Council of Learned Scientists, the National Resources Board and the Social Science Research Council. He is vice-president of the A.A.A.S. '

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PERRY BROWN, President the seniors KATHLEEN H I LL, Vice-President JOHN TERRY, Secretary-Treasurer