Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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ities Division lectured and led discussion groups in a new course within the Division, The Humanistic Tradition. Responsible for the inception of this course was a committee consisting of Professors Tay- lor, Wa1'd, Kaufmann, Grubbs, Boyers, Capps, and Garvin. Added to the roster of the college this year were twelve new professors. Representing the most radical change was the complete revitalization of theSociol- ogy Department with the addition of Professors George Simpson, Milton Yinger, and Richard R. Myers. Others new to Oberlin included John N. Lapp and Laurence lVilson, Romance Languages, James Rodney Nelson, Economics, Charles W. Carlston, Geology, Charles Murphy, Classics, Ralph Turner, Psychology , Mrs. Bessie Morgan, Physical Education, and Ransom Patrick, Fine Arts. Faculty members on leave included Prof. Roger Shaw, who worked with the U. S. Occupation Govern- ment in Munich as a specialist in higher education, and Prof. Paul Rogers, who acted as resident director of a new school for American students near Mexico City. AJ ,. 0 X fr' E W R , 'I' - 'ff .i ii - i f-T530 X-X 'I .-?7 123' L4 - :sEf '5i.54'.-.PAX i ' , ' sc- -- - -. 4' -.L-rm. .va ' , N 12: , ig -.Q.Zt33f 57 If , xV.i4ff ',,p i . .fggffspuw if X '13 f V 1 ' A - Q f-'ffzrf , . 1 51:2 '- . fd ' ' ,. 1 , , 1 ' x - K' ' 'ff , I s C012 Faculty Gi-ves Recifals, Enlarger Scope of Courses, Szfueferzt Masz'e O,D,D0r1fa1zz'1fz'es HE year 1947-48 saw the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory vigorously carrying on all of its old and accustomed activities, including many extra- curricular ones, while working hard and successfully on several new enterprises. As usual, the efforts of various faculty members made possible many performances of high artistic quality, and they themselves performed on many occasions: with the Conservatory Orchestra and A Cappella Choir in the Mendelssohn Festival, in individual recitals in W'arner Concert Hall, and in ensemble groups, One of the most interesting new musical projects of the year was the Opera WVorkshop, a group of graduate and undergraduate musicians who worked during the summer session under the direction of Prof. Daniel Harris to perform parts of several operas. Prof. James Hall and Mr. Richard Murphy widened the range of courses within their departments. Music Appreciation courses now include opera, English and orchestral music, and in History and Criticism of Music, Mr. Mu1'phy directed the Collegium Musicum, a workshop for the studying and playing of old music. Also new this year was a Church Music minor, with courses under Prof. Arthur Poister and Mr. Arnold Blackburn, a faculty newcomer. Other new members of the faculty were: Professors Jack Radunsky, Stefan Krayk, Elizabeth Lasley, Clifford Cook, and Lloyd Linder. Z Dean Graham Rerires After Twenty- Fifue Years as Head of the Schoolef Tfzeafeglr EEPLY felt by the School of Theology will be the loss of its Dean, Thomas W. Graham, who retires at the conclusion of this school year after head- ing the graduate school for twenty-five of the twenty- eight years he has been at Oberlin. The absence of Dean Graham will indeed be a hard gap to fill, for it has been largely through his untiring work that the Theolog has gained the eminence and respect it has today. p Members of the faculty of the school on leave this year were Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton who spent the first semester studying the religions of the people of Mexico intending to incorporate many of these findings into his history of religion courses upon returning to Oberlin. Also on leave was Dr. Herbert G. May who, during the second semester, worked on a committee which is translating a revised standard version of the Old Testament. 13

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g , FRANK H. SHAW, Director CARL F. WITTKE, Dean THOMAS W. GRAHAM, De-in Conservatory of Music A College of Arts and Sciences Gracluate School of Theology f-:wwf -- ef- gs --1: V. -:W-ng , W EDWARD F. BOSWORTH KATHERINE VON WENCK MARY DOLLIVER Dean of Men Associate Dean of W'omen Dean of XVomen EDITH STANLEY WILLIAM H. SEAMAN3 JOHN C. KENNEDY W. DEAN HOLDEMAN Registmi' Director' of Admissions Assistant Director Assistant Director 4' . . Deceased Conservzttory Admissions