University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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BROAD EDUCATION STRESSED DEAN—Dr. Alfred R. Neumann Offering a basis for a broad, liberal education, the College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the University’s ten colleges. In addition to basic liberal arts courses, the college offers pre-professional training for students planning to enter medical, dental, legal, theological, teaching and other professions. Included in the special facilities available to students are language and science laboratories, KUHT-TV and KUHF-FM, the COUGAR (student newspaper) and HOUSTONIAN (yearbook). Students may choose to participate in the concerts, operettas and recitals of the music department; drama department productions or on the nationally-known debate team of the speech department. DEAN—Dr. Alfred R. Neumann was promoted from acting dean to dean of the college in September of 1959. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Dr. Neumann attended primary and secondary school in that city. He received his B.A. degree from Marshall College, M.A. from the University of Kentucky, M.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Neumann joined the University faculty in 1953 as an assistant professor of foreign languages. A specialist in German studies, he has lectured and written extensively on the interrelation of German music and literature. 22 FIRST ON CAMPUS, the Roy G. Cullen Building, houses many of the English and longuage classrooms.

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Graduate School VARIOUS DEGREES ARE OFFERED TO GRADUATES Graduate work was first offered at the University in 1939. Since that time masters degrees have been added to include most of the undergraduate curriculum. The school offers doctorates in education, psychology, chemical engineering, chemistry, economics and biology. Professional degrees are gained with stress on basic academic preparation upon admission and an increasing trend toward thesis and dissertation requirements. DEAN—Dr. R. Balfour Daniels took his position in September of 1959. Dr. Daniels had been acting dean of the school and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Previous to receiving his doctorate from Yale University in 1931, he had received a LL.B. and an M.A. from that same school. He had also attended Princeton University where he gained a B.A. Along with his duties as dean, Dr. Daniels is also a professor of English. Colleges DEAN—R. Balfour Daniels MANY AN EVENING is spent ot the drowing table by architectural students creating better designs. 21

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WHIRLING on it pedestal, a pot begins to toko shapo ot tho hands of on art student. TUBES AND PIPETTES form a lobyrinth in the chemistry laboratory as experiments become more detailed and exacting. LANGUAGES ore learned more easily through the help of tho modern language laboratory. Monitoring ono of tho lessons is Dr. Josephine Sobrino. STAND-BY, then on-tho-air from moster control of radio station KUHF-FM on the fifth floor of tho Ezekiel W. Cullen Building. 23