Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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MR. AND MRS. ORCENITH SMITH select a number for the repertoire of the a cappella choir for next year. MISS LAURA N. FORD looks on approvingly. Mr. Smith, chairman of the Division of Fine Arts and associate professor of voice, is director of the famed Purple Robed choir. He has appeared many times this year as concert soloist and has been invited to judge and direct choral groups at music festivals in Kansas and surrounding states. He completed work on his sacred music doctorate this spring at Columbia University. Miss Ford, associate professor of voice, is director of Opera Workshop whose pro- ductions this year included Broadway favorites. She also directs the choral ensemble and the chapel choir which was heard each Wednesday morning at chapel services. She holds a master's degree from Eastman School of Music and has done special work with several noted vocal coaches. The piano faculty poses, aptly enough, at the concert grand. Standing are MISS GRACE SELLERS and MISS E. MARIE BURDETTE. Seated are GLADWIN CHAFFIN and MISS FERN DIELMANN. Miss Sellers, assistant professor, holds a master's degree in music from Michigan State College and has done other special work. Miss Burdette, instructor, has studied with many well-known artists and has done special work in Kansas City and Chicago. Chaffin, assistant professor, has studied in Europe and holds a master's degree from Columbia University. Miss Dielmann, instructor, has studied at the Universities of Colorado and Kansas, and has also studied abroad. ROSS WILLIAMS and CRESTON KLINCMAN hold the instruments symbolic of their work in orchestra and band. Williams, an associate professor, holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan and has done special work with authorities in the vocal and instrumental fields. Klingman, an assistant professor, holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan and also has studied with well-known artists.

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DR. ELEANOR HOAG, chairman of the Division of Languages and Literature, emphasizes the communications skills of reading, writing, speaking, and-that's right-listening in her classes. Also associate professor of English, she holds a doctor of education de- gree from the Colorado State College of Education. IHNBHHHI HNII IIIIHHIHHI C. I. VINSONHALER, associate profes- sor of Latin, German, and English, is the philosopher-sage who, in his own words, really enjoys teaching. In the years since 1927 when he first became a part of Southwestern, he has accumulated a retinue of admiring students. He holds a master's degree from the University of Kansas. Merci beaucoup to ETHEL COL- BRUNN, assistant professor of modern languages, who teaches her students how to read the French and Spanish classics and how to order a steak in Paris. The color slides she took in Europe last sum- mer have been viewed enviously by many clubs this year. She holds a master's de- gree from Ohio State. ALICE GORDON WILSON, associate professor of speech and English, joined the faculty in October. Under her di- rection, the annual Southwestern College debate tournament was held at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. She holds a master's degree from the Uni- versity of Michigan. Under the direction of HELEN GI HAM, associate professor of express and dramatics, fledgling freshmen come the accomplished Campus Playf Grease paint, lights, and action are special domain. In addition to holding master's degree from Northwestern L versity, she has studied under lead dramatic coaches. ALLEN R. STOWELL, librarian and sistant professor of library science, cl fully helps students find the answer such questions as Who set fire to White House in the War of 1812? invaluable friend at term paper time also sees that the incoming books n tain a balance between the textbook and the books with which one can rm In addition to his degree in library sci from the University of Illinois, he holds theological degrees. latecomer, MARCELLA ROBE replaced john C. Merrill in Nove: when he was recalled to service. In tion to her duties as instructor in jou ism and English, she has served as rector of Publicity for the college. also has been adviser to both the Colle and the Moundbuilder. She holds a journalism from the University

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SUE JEAN HILL COVACEVICH, assistant professor of art, sits in front of a favorite painting in her studio. Painting is thinking to Mrs. C's student artists whose art education is pointed toward reflecting our modern day. In addition to holding a master's degree from Colorado State College of Education, she has done work in art centers in the United States and Mexico. HELEN EVERS, associate professor of home economics and acting chairman of the Division of Natural Science, opens a variety of careers inside and outside the home to her interested students. She has a master's degree from Kansas State College and has done additional study at Oregon State and Colorado St-ate Colleges. DR. BERNARD RIEDEL, associate professor of biology and geology, was new to the campus this year. His students learned cell structure through microscopes and the difference be- tween the Eocene and Pleistocene ages. He has a doctor's degree from Kansas State College. DR. PAUL W. HEALY, associate professor of mathematics, changed the x from an unknown to a known in his simplified explanations which brought higher mathematics to an understandable level. A photographer out of the amateur class, he also sponsored the Photo Flops. He holds degrees from Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky. EDITH DIELMANN, instructor in ex- pression and dramatics, teaches the fine points of dramatic productions to students in the downtown studio of the Division of Fine Arts. She has studied at Chicago Musical College, Northwestern University, University of Colorado and has worked under well- known coaches in Boston, Chicago, and London. NHHIHH1 scrum I W. ARNOLD LYNCH, assistant pro- fessor of organ, is a familiar figure at the grand pianovin chapel each Wednesday. Handicapped by the loss of the prized college organ, his stu- dents have used the facilities of Grace church where he also is choir direc- tor. He holds a master's degree from the University of Kansas. MILDRED SKINNER, associate pro- fessor of home economics and coun- selor ,of women, teaches her girls how to sew a fine seam and tell one color scheme from another. She has a master's degree from Kansas State College and has done additional gradu- ate study there and in Iowa and Col- orado. DR. LEROY A. SPITZE, professor of chemistry, shows his students how to bend glass tubing for an experi- ment in chemistry class. In an im- provised science building, he and his classes awaited the completion of the new science hall. He has a doctor's degreefrom Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute. WILLIAM CLOUD, assistant profes- sor of physics and counselor of men, is equally at home with a physics demonstration or on the baseball diamond. He coached the'successful baseball 'team. Bill- holds a master's degree from Ohio State and has done additional work in Ohio, Chicago, and Mexico.