University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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HISTORY-SOCIAL STUDIES Front row: Philip Sorensen, Alec Alexander, Walter Mead, David Podoff. Second row: John Pippenger, Harold Votey, Maxwell Pellish. ECONOMICS Front row: William Kennedy, W. Douglas Morgan, John Hambor, Llad Phillips. Second row: Jerzy Karcz, James Sullivan, Lloyd Mercer, Vittorio Bonomo, Robert Weintraub. Procficol Social Problems Dominate Research and Study Summarizing the economics program at UCSB, department chairman A. P. Alexander stressed the growth of methods of analysis which are generally applicable, rather than the study of problems which may or may not be encountered during one ' s life. The connection between economic prob- lems and todays ' questions of social policy demands a dy- namic interest in this expanding department. Six new faculty members helped to meet these demands, while research and publication activities touched on many highly pertinent areas, such as the exploratory Economic HOME ECONOMICS Humanities and Sciences Drawn Upon in Research Home Economics majors deal not only with the provinces of the kitchen and the sewing room, but delve into aspects of practical existence on a commercial scale. They draw from the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as from the humanities, in their research toward degrees in careers such as nutrition, buying in clothing firms, teach- ing, restaurant administration, and homemaking. In the area of theory, this course is beneficial even to non- majors, as it concerns family relations, child-care, manage- ment of resources, and the development of the individual in the family and in society. In September the department hosted the Third Annual All-Cal Graduate Student Nutrition Symposium at UCSB, with the help of its 166 departmental majors. Front row: Frances Halm, Lucille Woolsey. Second row: Frances Taci- onis, Elizabeth Maney, Ann Rice, Eleanor Mathewson, Paul Scherer. Analysis of Ocean Mineral Resources Development, undertaken by Walter Mead and Phillip Sorenson. Publi- cations included articles on Options for Meeting the Rev- enue Needs of City Governments, by Dr. Weintraub, In- dustrial Entrepreneurship, by A. P. Alexander, and East European Agriculture and United Kingdom ' s System. The increasing interrelation between economic problems and political and social life, coupled with the department ' s heavy Letters and Science requirements allows economics students to gain a broad cultural education. 244

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For our students, as for others, the future holds work and play, love and anguish, joy, suffering and death-and the hundreds of choices that make a life pointless or significant. Philosophy will not change any of this, but it might allow them to understand them- selves and their lives a bit more clearly and choose a bit more sensibly. -Alexander Sesonske, Chairman, Department of Philosophy. SPEECH Forensic Teams Compete In Numerous Tournaments Under the guidance of Kathleen Corey, the Speech Depart- ment ' s Forensics Teams competed in 23 regional and na- tional tournaments, notably the Dartmouth, Desert and Notre Dame Invitationals; the Rocky Mountain tourna- ment; and the Chicago National. Another facet of the crea- tive activity was Chairman Edwin Schoell ' s premier produc- tion of a new three-act play, Way, Way, Way Out There. Seminars were directed by Dr. June Shoup on Advanced Speech and Hearing Problems and by Dr. Maurice Sklar, who handled group studies in speech and hearing. Greeting an increased major enrollment of 10% were two additions to the curriculum, Foundations of Communica- tion and Research in Speech. Dr. John Snidecor con- ducted a lecture series on esophageal speech and completed a research project with Dr. Nobuhiko Issihiki at Kyoto Uni- versity in Japan during the fall quarter. Front row: Edwin Schoell, Rollin Quimby, Theodore Hanley, Upton Palmer. Second row: Kathleen Corey, Karen Wingerd, Barbara Thomas, Vincent Farr, S. John Macksoud, Virginia Perry. 243

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Margaret Greenwald Norman Gosenfeld Michael Kuhn Berl Golomb Sri Ratnam Swami John James Yehuda Kedar Robert Curry GEOGRAPHY Burgeoning Discipline Adds People, Programs Geography has complied with campus expansion by the addition of three new facuhy members. Dr. Yehuda Kedar, visiting professor from the Hebrew University in Israel, Dr. Robert R. Curry, recent PhD from Berkeley, and Michael Kuhn, winner of the Distinguished TA Teaching Award at UCLA, all joined the program intending to broaden under- standing of the physical and human environment. Indicating the diversity of their field, the de- partment members initiated studies in many spheres, from Dr. James ' coastal climatology to Dr. Swami ' s urban blight in Santa Monica. Expanding programs featured the addition of an airphoto lab, and a concomitant course in photo- interpretation. A class in field analysis did on-the- spot research during field trips into the nearby Santa Ynez mountains. To house the extra classrooms and labs needed for these augmented programs, as well as a room for the map collection presently being compiled, the department is eager for the completion of a new classroom and office building in late 1968. n examining a map of the continental United States, Dr. Robert Curry pauses to point out a feature of prominent geographical interest to Michael Simpson. 245