New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY Cl7dj1'l11d711ASSOCl8tC Professor Eliot L. Freidson. I was born in Boston and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. I attended the University of Maine and the College of the Uni- versity of Chicago, entering the Army in 1943, and served as an enlisted man in the 88th Infantry Division in Italy. Re- turning to the United States in 1946, I re-entered the College of the University of Chicago, obtaining the Ph. B. degree in 1947. Entering the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, I obtained the M, A. degree in 1950 and the Ph. D. in 1952. I served as a teaching assistant in the De- partment of Sociology at Chicago in 1950-1951, research as- sistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1951-1952, and Ford Postdoctoral Research Fel- low in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois during 1952-1954. In 1954-1955, I did a study of student leaders and student government for the United States National Student Association, and in 1955-1956, as a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow, a study of an experimental patient care program at Montefiore Hospital, New York. In 1956, I was appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York, joined NYU as associate professor in 1961, and became Chairman of the Department at University Heights in 1962. I am the author of a number of books and articles, the most recent concerned with the sociology of medi- cine. I live in Leonia, N. J., with my wife and two children. Proferror-Robert Bierstedt. Arrimwl Proferror-H. Laurence Ross. I1zff1'zfct01'r-Margaret Benz, Dorothea Hubin, Norman Klein. SPEECH AND DRAMA Chfziwmm-Associate Proessor George B. Sargent II. As an undergraduate at Tufts College, I was greatly en- couraged by one of my professors to enter the field of speech, After graduate study and teaching at the University of Michi- gan and at Grinnell College, I came to the Heights as an instructor in 1940. Things were a lot different here in those days. There was no major offered in Drama, and we didn't have our modern playhouse until the opening of the Student Center in the '50's. On St, Patrick's Day in 1942, I had the dubious distinction of being the hrst faculty member drafted during World War II. It wasn't so bad, thoughg I went through the war playing golf in Puerto Rico. After being released from the army, I married my wife, who was secretary to the editor of Harpefr Bazmzr. We live in Greenwich Village and have a home in Massachusetts, where I grow pine needles in place of grass and flowers. Presently, in addition to administrative and counselling work, I teach courses in discussion and conference, public speaking, and parliamentary procedure. During my years here, I have also been faculty adviser to the Heiglalr Daily Newr and the Debate Council. Speaking as a teacher of speech, I would say that New Yorkese is not as rampant now as it was when I first arrived here. There are, of course, exceptions, but for the most part our students, living in a university atmosphere, are well-spoken individuals. The primary aim of our department is to train students in the purposive use of speech as a tool for achieving effective human relations. Proferror-Ormond Drake Con leaveb. Associate Pro- fermr - William Vorenberg. Arrimzm' Profefrmf - Edward Thorlakson. Afijzmrf AJ.ri.r1faz11! Profefmr- Abraham Grossman. I1zri1'zzcf01 r-Leon Bloom, Harlan Lynn, Stephen Palestrant.

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PSYCHOLOGY Cbazirmmz-Professor Robert E. Silverman. I am a behaviorist. I am not sure how I developed that viewpoint, but I feel that it may he related to the rewards and punishments I received while an undergraduate student at Brown University and as a graduate student at Indiana University. Whatever the reasons, I would not have it any other way. I chose to study psychology because I was intrigued by the opportunities to work in a held that was challenging and underdeveloped. While I started with an interest in clinical psychology fa sheepish admissionj, I insist that this was because I did not know any better at the time. Perhaps this is a rationalization for the circuitous route I have followed in becoming an experimental psychologist. Perhaps I have repressed the four years I spent as a clinical psychologist in a Veterans Administration Hospital. four years which have provided me with interesting anecdotal material which I freely employ in my classes. My interest in the experimental psychology of learning spills over into my function as a teacher. I enjoy teaching, or as I prefer to put it- arranging the conditions for learning. I see the role of the professor as one of stimulating students to study and to think. Probably my own reinforcement history has shaped these attitudes, but I am virtually convinced that the University is primarily a place to provoke the intellect and to shape intellectual behavior. I would not be surprised to discover that my students believe I have strong convictions, for I feel that a professor should have a point of view and be willing to express it. My own point of view allows little sympathy for the tender-minded approaches to the study of psychology. I even claim to be a tough-minded parent, but I must admit to discovering that my two children fages 10 and SQ can be even tougher-minded. They somehow fail to acknowledge Conly as children canj that their father is a behavioral expert, Perhaps I can have the last word on that, for I might say they have been conditioned to be that way. Proferror-Howard H. Kendler. Auofinfe Pr0fe.rr0r- Michael R. D'Amato. Arrirfrzzzi Profarror'-Plailip G. Zimbardo. Adjznzrf Arrirfmzi P1'0fe.r.f0r-Rita Rudel. Ifzitzwrforr-Alfred Cohn, Charles Greenbaum. ROMANCE AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE Cfafzifwzazfz-Richarcl A. Parker. During my 33 years of teaching at New York University, I have frequently been asked by students how I, with such a typical Anglo-Saxon name as Parker fmuch more suitable for an English butlerj, came to be a Professor of French. It's a fair questiong and now on the eve of retirement, I feel the urge to offer an explanation. In the hrst place, the name Parker is not Anglo-Saxon, but Norman-French: and bearers of it are to be found among the companions of William, Duke of Normandy, in his plun- dering expedition of 1066. It seems likely that an early mem- ber of the clan was the keeper of some nobleman's deer-park, since the family coat-of-arms contains deer upon it. Obviously I was following an old family tradition when I concentrated on French at the undergraduate and graduate level in the johns Hopkins University. Actually my undergraduate major was English, but I was gradually attracted from it to French literature by what seemed to me to be the superior qualities of intellectuality, critical spirit, psychological insight, and sophistication of French prose. However, I still prefer English poetry for its lyrical spirit and the wondrous melodic form of its versilication. As in the case of most peoples choice of a career, mine would seem to have been directed by a sort of inevitability. I slipped easily into what was almost a prepared niche. When still a senior. I was picked to be an assistant in French at johns Hopkins. Once in the graduate school, I won a fellow- ship Cfellowships were much scarcer in those days than nowj. and shortly afterward was appointed instructor. Already as an undergraduate, I had started to write book reviews for the weekly literary section of a local newspaper. and I had the difficult decision of renouncing a journalistic career for that of a professor. I have never regretted the choice and have found my greatest joy in the daily contact with burgeoning young mindsg and my literary flair has been cultivated too by the publication of three books ftwo more are in preparationj and of many articles and reviews of learned books. PI'0f6.i'.l'0I'lJOZ1ClL1lf1 Casalduero. Afmrinfe Proferrorr- Georges I, Brachfeld, Humberto Pinera, Alice M. Pol- lin, Floyd Zulli, lr. Arrirlfml Proferrorr-Bernard Garniez, Aldona Slepetys. I11.rf1'1zrl0r.r-Robert Donn, Margaret L. Eberbach, Zora R. Essman, Raquel Kersten, Amado Ricon, Richard L. Tedeschi.

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COLLEGE OE ENGINEERI G AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS Cbniwnmz-Professor Lee Arnold. I was born in Chicago, Illinois, and, with the passing of time, I graduated with honors in mathematics from Duke University in 1937. At Duke, I played on the varsity football team and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in my junior year. After Duke, I studied under a fellowship at the Guggen- heim School of Aeronautics at Cal Tech, where I served as an assistant to Dr. Theodore von Karman. Seven years later I took my Ph.D. from Columbia. One of my hrst jobs was with the Glenn L. Martin Com- pany, where I was in charge of the dynamics group and helped establish one of the first aeroelasticity groups in the U. S. In the early 194O's, I formed and headed Republic Air- craft, an aeroelasticity concern. In the '50's, I became president of Lee Arnold Associates, Inc,, consultants to various govern- ment agencies, where I developed, along with Dr. von Karman, the application of Thwaite's airfoil to ship stabilization. From 1945-53, I was a partner in the Biot and Arnold firm, in which we acted as consultants in applied mathematics and physics. During this period we were consultants also to the air force, the navy, the Army Ordinance Ballistic Research Laboratory, Edo Aircraft, and Hamilton Standard. I have also been a consultant to the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research of NATO. Under the sponsorship of AGARD, I have lectured at the Sorbonne, the University of Rome, the University of Athens, the University of Brussels, the University of Delft, and the Swedish Aeronautical Laboratory in Stockholm. Proferrorr-Gordon H. Strom, Chia-Kun Chu. Amari- nie Proferrorr-Arnold D. Kerr, Daniel B. Olfe, Jack E. Werner. Arrirmlzr Proferrar-H. H. Chiu.