Old Dominion University - Troubador Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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A distinguished biologist and teacher. Dr. Robert N. LeFevre joined the Science Department at the Division in 1946. Heading the Biology Dopartmont. Dr. LeFevre conducted lab and locturo procoduro all through the past year and taught sovoral classes of his own. Dr. LeFevre was invited to the Division on the basis of his past training and long experience. He eagerly put these qualities to use for your benefit. After classes, he remained long hours at school to prepare lab experiments and demonstrations for the overcrowded sections. To you he was both congonial and accommodating. The pensive eyes behind his thin glassos and tho solemn smile on his lips wore two of tho things which encouraged you to do your best work in his class. Ono of tho sovoral ncwcomors to tho Scionce Dopartmont this year was Biology instructor Jethro Manly. A graduate of William and Mary, Williamsburg, he received his B.S. in 1937 and entered into a career of biological study and research in different areas of the state. Mr. Manly instructed lecture classes and labs this year, unveiling the mysteries of underground stems and diatoms. With overflowing labs running as late as 5:30 in the afternoons Mr. Manly hovered over microscopes cheering you on with your wierd dissections. Those of you who spent tho fivo-hour-weok Biology course in Miss Mildred Griffith's class learned the strange wonders of everything from amoebae to dogfish. She eagerly coaxed you when you wavered over stabbing a frog or slitting an earthworm. Miss Griffith was one of the Department's mainstays during tho year of Hygiene and Bacteriology students. Miss Nancy Fisher arrived at tho Division all energy and drive, having graduated from tho Mothor College in 1945. Through the Fall she poundod tho hockey and archery routines with hor girls or ran the softball diamond. With tho advent of Wintor sho drillod you with basketball, badminton and swimming in warmor quarters. Spring found her tripping tho cement tennis courts. Between bells you noticed the team members sprawling comfortably in her office. Beneath the dangling arms, legs and heads were ruffled slip-covers that Miss Fisher had made to decorate her room. In her painted chair before a desk strewn with sports equipment you reached Miss Fisher, checking hastily over grades and attendance. It was all in a day's work! Furthermore ... for rocroation Miss Fishor engaged in . . . throe guossos . . . ! Sports.

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C. S. Sherwood, hoad of tho Department of Chomistry. returned to the Division this'year after completing duty in the armed forces. Ho had como horo before tho war with a B.S. in chemistry. Swamped by testubes, Bunsen burners, and odious odors, you saw hours of lab pass more easily with Mr. Shorwood's aid. His loc-tures were orderly and informative. And he gave you homework that really mado you grind, but. by the coming of Spring, he had made your brain muscles flex. Miss Jane Atkinson, member of the Chomistry Department staff, came to the Division from tho mother college with a B.S. in chemistry. It was her first year of teaching; however, she had behind her experience as an analytical chemist with a local chomical company. Percy H. Hill, after serving on an escort carrier in tho Pacific during the war, camo to the Division in September to teach Engineering. His drawing classos received much useful counselling from him. If you were among thoso students who took engineering drawing. you will remember Charles Thayer. While helping you with problems to be plotted out on your drawing plates, Mr. Thayer often poured over his own grand-scale projections of a mechanical problem — the numbering of rows in the stadium, drafting of a map of tho campus, or blueprint of plans for a yacht. The third momber of tho engineering triumvirate was instructor William M. Beck, who divided his time between lecturing in Math and in engineering. In addition to his teaching dutios. Mr. Beck was interested in athletics, farming, and photography. Aftor receiving his B.S. from V.P.I. and attending various naval schools, Mr. Beck Joined tho faculty in September. 1946. Jack Shipp, shown in a characteristically congenial mood, usually lodged himself outside of lecture hours in the Chemistry office in tho Scionce Building. Students could find him there for consultation. Studonts know him to bo a good lecturer, and appreciated his explanations of involved principles and theories. Mr. Shipp saw sorvico with tho Armed Forcos during tho war, and returned in September. 1945. to join the staff of the Chemistry Department. In March of 1947. the chemistry instructor was presented with an heir to the Shipp title.

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 Joseph C. Chandler. Scrap to all Division athletes, could always be found in the gym or locker room instructing his gym classes or at his desk in his offico straightening out for a swim meet or coming baskelball game. Scrap” coached tho track team and last year's swimming team and directed all athletic events for intramural participation. Mr. Chandler took his B.S. in Physical Education at William and Mary and later earned his M.A. at Columbia University. His collogo teaching caroor bogan at William and Mary, Williamsburg, with gym class instruction. Mr. Chandler was later transferred to the Division where he coached intramural sports as well as regular classes. Scrap and his roster of collegiate stars in baskotball, swimming, baseball and tennis will be romomborod for thoir school-spiritod contributions in sports events. Barbara Ann Phillips, assistant to Mr. Haywood in the Coun-ciling Office, began her career in counciling work here several years previously. Before joining the Division staff. Miss Phillips attended Bates Collogo in Maino, and Boston University. With an M.A. in psychology, she left the New England grounds. Anne Ball, psychometrist, was fresh from studying in our hal-lowod halls. Some of the Sopho-moros romomborod hor going through French, Spanish, philosophy, and more, finally selecting psychology for her field of concentration. While a student she had worked part-time in the counselling offico. She graduated with the 1945 award for language and in '46, the Cotillion award for the greatest contribution to tho college. You who are student veterans quickly discovered tho value of the Guidance Department, of which John Charles Haywood was tho supervisor. Dividing his work between keeping appointments and making new ones. Mr. Haywood was able to offer you a listening ear and some carefully considered advice. Enforced by training at Bowdoin College and an M.A. from Boston University, plus experience in instruction at the Divisions. he possessed a studied and capable skill in dealing with problems. As advocations, Mr. Haywood chose badmitton. gardening, and pipe collecting, and, of courso, spending off school hours with his wife and young daughetr. Mary McWilliams Wells came to the Division with a B.S. obtained at Northeast State Teachers' College and a masters at Missouri Univorsity. She instructed Secretarial Scionce at Lambuth College in Tonnessee. She landod hero in '44, where her habitual smile made you romember her.