Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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We do not know if Wesleyan fruitflies will be in the biosatellite scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy late in 1965, but they could well be, for Dr. Adams (left) and his students have made genetic history with their long-range ex- perimentation. But this is a small part of the total science program. Note, for example, the new affiliation with the Marine Biology Summer Institute on the Mississippi coast and the $2 5,000 grant from the National Science Foundation used to buy advanced equipment, giving Wes- leyan one of the most completely instrumented undergraduate chemistry departments in the state. A full-time research program sponsored by N S F has enabled students Steve Kyker and Jack McConnell to do significant original re- search under Dr. Honaker. The Biology Department was also a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant amount- ing to almost $13,000 and intended to be used to advance Biological Science Curriculum Stu- dies, a new approach to teaching biology in high school. Wesleyan was one of the thirty-seven institutions of higher learnings selected to take part in this program.

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reativity is the essence of Wesleyan life. From a prayer spoken in unison in weekly chapel to a lovingly ex- ecuted crucifix prepared in art class, from the out- landish odors of Banfield Hall and the other-worldish mathematical problems left on the greenboards in Old College, from idle doodlings on napkins in the cafeteria to conscious attempts to capture in a few lines the spirit of a frisky campus squirrel: from these and hundreds of other everyday occurrences creativity radiates from our campus. Creativity is education (with a small e) ; it begins when ideas and experiences are brought together pro- ducing something new. It has no single place of origin. It may come in the classroom, or in a coffee discussion in the College Shop, or in Lawrence Hall at dawn with your roommate asleep and the cold Tennessee air blow- ing into your face through an open window. Creativ- ity is — not anytime nor anywhere, but some times and some places. The Wesleyan year — 1963-64 is no excep- tion — is filled with fbose times, the campus with those places.

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The biggest excitement in the Science com- munity has been occasioned by the preparatory efforts for the construction of the Fisher Hall of Science (below). Also housed in this building will be the Math Department which this year has been concerned with developing a program in Modern Math. A seminar (above) began formal work which will be culminated by a Modern Math Institute held during the summer. Headed by Dean Bowhng, the Math faculty, consisting this year of Mr. Ketron and Mr. Senn, began for Math majors a regular working semi- nar which has sparked much interest within the department.