Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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BILLY MARSHALL BUFKIN; Associate Professor of Romance Languages; A.B., A.M., Texas Technological College; Advanced Graduate Work, Tulane University, Universidad de Madrid. Shrinking World Requires Study of Foreign Tongues In an age of rapid travel and faster communication, the knowledge of foreign languages becomes increasingly important. An awareness of the growing necessity for study in the area of foreign languages has led Millsaps to require a minimum of two years of a language from each of its students. In order to meet this requirement, the students may choose from French, Spanish, German, Latin, and Greek. The ideas and culture of Greece and Rome live on to- day in their contributions to the culture of western civiliza- tion. The study of Greek and Latin aflfords a rigorous ex- ercise in the scientific method, producing habits and re- flexes of accuracy, efficiency and system. The German and Romance Language Departments have been set up to give those students taking their language requirement a firm basis in grammar and an introduction to the literature of that language. For majors in either field, courses have been designed to give the student a broad and basic conception of the great literature and history typical to the language. NELLIE KHAYAT HEDERI; Associate Professor of Spanish; A.B., Mississippi State College for Women; A.M., Tulane University. ELIZABETH CRAIG; Professor of French; A.B., Barnard College, Columbia University; A.M., Columbia University; Diplome de la Sorbonne, Ecole de preporation des professeurs de froncais a I ' etranger, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Paris; Advanced Graduate Work, Columbia University; Polmos Academiques. WILLIAM F. WATKINS; Instructor of German; A.B., Millsaps College; Grad- uate Work, University of Mississippi; Advanced Study, Goethe Institut, Germany. 27

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WILLIAM D. HORAN; Associate Professor of Romance Languages; A.B., University; A.M., Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Tulane r H i H J ffla JOHN L. GUEST; Associate Professor of German; A.B., Uni- versity of Texas; A.M., Columbia University; Advanced Gradu- ate Work, New York University; Ottendorfer Fellowship In Germanic Philology, Bonn University; Fulbright Scholarship, University of Vienna. WILLIAM HARRELL BASKIN; Associate Professor of Romance Languages; A.B., A.M., University of North Carolina; Advanced Graduate Work, University of North Carolina, Fulbright Schol- arship, Universite de Poitiers, Universite de Paris {la Sorbonne), Duke University, Alliance Francaise, Paris. MAGNOLIA COULLET; Associate Professor of Latin and Ger- man; A.B., Millsaps College; A.M., University of Pennsylvania; Graduate Work, American Academy in Rome, University of Chicago; B.M., Belhaven College; Graduate Work in Voice, Bordeaux, France; A.M. (German), University of Mississippi; Advanced Study, Goethe Institut, Germany. 26

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CLIFTON D. BRYANT; Associate Professor of Sociology; A.B., A.M., University of Mississippi; Graduate Work, University of North Carolina; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. JAMES GIPSON WELLS; Instructor of Sociology; A.B., Millsaps Col- lege; M.A., Mississippi College. RUSSELL WILFORD LEVANWAY; Professor of Psychology; A.B., Uni- versity of Miami (Florida); M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Sociology, Psychology Enable Man to Understand His Nature Not all sciences have laboratories with test tubes and Bunsen burners as do the physical sciences. Social sciences, like psychology and sociology, take as their laboratory man, and the world in which he lives. The main objectives of the Department of Psychology are to help students gain a better understanding of themselves and others with whom they live and work and to develop more objective attitudes toward human behavior,- to give a foundation for graduate work and professional training in psychology,- and to provide courses which are basic for successful professional work with people. The offerings of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology are planned to meet the needs of a variety of students. An overage student may find knowledge about human-group relationships which will be useful to him as a person, parent, citizen, or worker. For some students sociology will not be a career but merely a part of their academic backgrounds. Whatever career they choose, from medicine to law, there will be a need for the understanding of people and society to be successful in a profession. Studying sociology may aid a person to fill with greater insight these varied roles which are his in- escapable destiny. Other students will fmd courses which are essential background for a career in social work. The department also offers the basic undergraduate courses which ore needed as a foundation for specialized graduate study in sociology and anthropology. As long as man, his mind, his environment and his society ore constantly changing, then the study of psychology and sociology will also be a changing and unpredictable study. 28