University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

Page 19 text:

PROFESSORS Two faculty members known for their interest in student affairs are Professors ALEXANDER KIDD of Jurisprudence and NOEL KEYS of Education. Penny-pitching proteges of the former know that although he doesn ' t keep office hours, he is usually willing to drop his criminal law research to chat with students. Mr. Keys has won campus acclaim for his Family Relations Course and his work with the Student Health Committee and Welfare Council. Co-workers in the general field of social science are FREDERIC PAXSON and ROBERT LOWIE, chairmen of their respective departments of history and anthropology. A specialist in U. S. history, Dr. Paxson has sent forth several worthy treatises from his smoke-filled library den, and Dr. Lowie ' s office in the green tin building has been the site of much literary work in pology. The advent of war brought to the campus not only blackouts and a jumbled calendar, but also DR. SAXTON POPE, imported from the Med Center and Cowell by the Red Cross. There was nothing dull about his First Aid classes, for they were well sprinkled with experiences from a colorful life. Amateur cravat bandagers learned of his hobbies of weaving and orchid growing, and of the series of monkeys he has owned, all named Peter . Uncle Sam and BERNARD ETCHEVERRY are old friends, for the latter gives the government professional advice in irrigation and drainage. The class medalist in 1902 now helps place his graduating engineers via his textbooks and personal advice. Professor Etcheverry digs ditches with modern design. One of the probes of the Zoology Department, RICHARD B. GOLDSCHMIDT is an authority in genetics and theories of evolution. Among his books is found Material Basis of Evolution which contradicts Darwin by stressing sudden differentiation of species. Magellan was a piker next to this professor who has made four jaunts around the world. Exploring out-of-the-way places has made him a connoisseur of languages and oriental art.

Page 18 text:

OUTSTANDING Raconteur of the first order, ERNEST BLOCH leads a colorful life as composer, traveler, and teacher. He is affectionately bed Johan Sebastian Bloch by his students here, but at his ite retreat in Switzerland he ' s the Mushroom King to the tives. Europe has also been a field of study for our Man of the Woods , JOSEPH KITTRIDGE, who emerged from the U. S. forest service to join the faculty ten years ago. Once a delegate to the Stockholm Forestry Convention and a student of the forests of Finland,he now spends free time playing tennis with graduates. Hailing from St. Louis, HAROLD BASSAGE came to our campus this year as co-director of Little Theatre and lecturer in Dramatic Art, having seen two seasons on Broadway and nine seasons in Eastern Summer Stock. He compares notes with another parative newcomer, JOHN CONDLIFFE, who came from the blackouts of London to those of California to join the faculty as professor of economics. He was formerly associated with Economic Intelligence of the League of Nations, and is known for his interest in world peace and post-war reconstruction. RALPH S. MINOR professor of physics and director of School of Optometry has an eye for optics. The former of the Ex Committee of the American Association of Teachers tinkers with type of his own press, printing everything from Christmas cards to directories. With the aid of other ed matter that really matters, he is raising funds for the $150,000 Optometry Building. President AGNES FAY MORGAN must have been born a gavel in her hand. She leads the Women ' s Faculty Club, Home Economics Department, the State Nutrition and then some. With the anti-gray filtrate factor she plays biochemist for the Agricultural Experiment Station. From anti-gray of the lab to the anti-red of the stadium goes our activity queen every football Saturday afternoon. Man or mouse? EDWARD CHASE TOLMAN knows the from his studies of the psychology of motivation. Students have seen and heard of his ' mazing experiments with rats and Following a long visit in Cowell this year, the former of the American Association for the Advancement of continued to write books and articles for the numerous societies that claim his membership.

Page 20 text:

GUEST SPEAKERS AND Hitler is what you might call screwy, but he ' s not nuts. Who should know better than GER- HART H. SEGAR, editor of the Neu Volkszei- tung and ex-prisoner of a German concentration camp. The Reverend MARTIN CYRIL D ' ARCY holds his own on the aims of education. At Oxford University he also holds the titles of Catholic priest and a Jesuit lecturer in Thomistic phi- losophy. America ' s answer to Mein Kampf is another best seller, Union Now . After covering Europe as a foreign correspondent, CLARENCE K. STREIT urged the Wheeler audience to follow his advice. Regent JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN listens to his Sproul introduction and deliberates a moment before presenting his pre-war non-intervention- ist views. Avoid conflict to lead in post-war re- construction. Wheeler Hall, but not an American Civ class NORMAN THOMAS, explorer of the realms o socialist thought, terms Hitler ' s chances of sui prising America as less than those of Columbus WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING came all tb way from Harvard to tell the University audience that America will not be pushe around the Pacific . Then, as the Foerster le turer, that night he spoke on Immortality: Relativity of Death . e g d