Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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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.

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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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,L LILLIAN CLOUD has the dignified titles of associate professor of health and physical education and director of social and recreational life, but students appreciate her friendly understanding. Her master's degree is from Colorado State College of Edu- cation and she has done additional study in Chicago and Iowa. Faculty members do thei r bit as Moundbuilders in dedicating them- selves anew to Builder ideals. The K HAROLD HUNT, director of athletics and coach of football and basketball, teaches the fundamentals of the games to, teams with the real Builder spirit. He holds degrees from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and the University of Iowa. MRS. GENEVIEVE BLIRT, matron of Wesley Hall, was nursing a broken bone in her foot when the picture of her boys was taken. Her picture is included here in tribute to her under- standing management of dormitory life. group here includes Orcenith Smith Murrel K. Snyder, Mrs. Smith, Grace Sellers Ethel Colbrunn M d , , r. an Mrs. Allen Stowell, Helen Graham, Dean Monypeny, Dr. Eleanor Hoag, and-walking out of the picture-Dr. Leroy Spitze. WILLIAM CARROLL, assistant coach and instructor of physical education, is new to the faculty this year. An ex-Navy man, he established a pole vault record at Oklahoma University where he received his degree. He has brought this proficiency to his job at Southwestern. I