Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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1 1 Serving the ball properly is quite im- portant. Mareelline Moon demonstrates' Sailing Ilffered By PE Department The survey that Atlantic Union Col- lege took this year indicates that Un- ion College is leader of the packw when it comes to encouraging partic- ipation in intramural sports. The sur- vey was conducted via a question- naire sent to the nine Adventist North American colleges and universities. I love gardeningf, laughed athletic Don Moon, instructor in physical ed- ucation. i'Actually, besides gardening, I like everything that begins with an s-swimming, surfing, sailing, skating, etcf' Rock collecting is Wayne Fleming's favorite pastime. Fleming is chairman of the physical education department, which includes Mrs. Marcelline. Moon Cno relation to Don Moonj, Don Moon, and Miss Sue Crubbs, instruc- tors. Miss 'Grubbs teaches girls' swim- Twelve William Tellsv raise th e i r bows, line up their arrows with the tar- gets, and hope that maybe thi.s time they will hit the bull's eye. the skillful movements needed to her paddle ball class. ming, officiating, and some basic phys- ical education courses. Her favorite sports include jumping on the tram- poline, golf, and tennis. Mrs. Moon, who shares teaching assignments with Miss Grubbs, favors archery, basket- ball, and softball. This year the department purchased four new glass backboards costing over S1,300. VVork was initiated on the new athletic complex which will be south of the Helen Hyatt Elemen- tary School. The complex will include four football fields, four softball fields. a quarter mile track, and a regulation- size soccer ball field. In March, Don Moon addressed the Lincoln Mayorls Physical Fitness Council about the Adventist position concerning recreational activities, in- cluding inter-collegiate competition. Golf is not only one of the classes' Wayne Fleming teaches, but itis also a favorite pastime away from school. 'P Throwing himself enthusiastically into almost every physical activity on campus, Don Moon still finds time to guide his men .spiritually by praying on the ball field before every game with them.

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Mr. Gilbert teaches both physics and math, but still finds time to sponsor the campus amateur radio club. Iladio Isotope lah Visits Physics Ilapartmant The American Institute of Physics and the National Science Foundation sponsored Dr. Alexander V. Nichols as a visiting scientist to arouse interest in science subjects'and inform the pub- lic in the field of physics. Dr. Nichols, a research professor from the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley, spoke to a group of science majors March 2 about his work as a biophysicist. He also spoke at the Friday convocation the following morning. Kenneth D. Spaulding, chairman of the Physics Department, is a member of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Mr. Spaulding demonstrates the de- partments new ruby laser to Norman Truitt. mama it iv-1, Big Brotberf' Leonard Westermeqcr, node fo 'Z vacuum tube- watclzes as Mr. Gilbert connects an elec- which sponsors visiting professors to the high schools. Spaulding has given most of his physics lectures and dem- onstrations in Catholic high schools. Once a week Sp-aulding presents a 15-minute Physics in the Newsv program for radio station KVUC,s regular 5 olclock, The Evening Re- port. During the year the general physics lab manual was rewritten. Research was started to develop experiments with the laser to use in optics class next year. Teaching is my ho bb yf' smiled Spaulding, probably because I donlt have any time for anything elsef, However, he continued, I grow ev- erything in my garden-raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, beans, green peas, apples, radishesf, Even though the data processing department' uses three of the new ad- dition rooms, the Physics Department has room for a suite of offices, accom- modating all departmental teachers. James Gilbert, who had done grad- uate work at the National Bureau of Standards in Colorado, taught college physics and electricity magnetism be- sides teaching for the math depart- ment. Dr. Richard Leffler, professor of physics, is on a two-year leave while doing post-doctorate research at Michigan State. The Mobile Radioisotope Training Laboratory visited the Physics Depart- ment this year from the Atomic En- ergy Commission. The Mobile Lab is 37 feet long 8 feet wide, 11 feet, six inches high, and weighs 18 tons. Its curriculum is worth S2,500, and its in- ventory is worth 865,000 Two visiting professors accompanied the mobile lab, one a chemistry professor, the other a physics professor. They served as lab instructors for the technological courses given. Some of the courses the physics staff and a selected group of physics stu- dents took were introduction to ra- diation, characteristics of Beta radia- tion, a n d Scintillation detection of gamma radiation. Some of the lab ex- periments they worked on were an iso- tope dilution, carbon-14 counting tech- niques, and plasma iron disappear- ances.