University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Over 1,600 students arc served by the University’s Downtown School, located at 925 Caroline. Many of these students come from the professional and business world, studying only specialized courses. The majority of these course, are from the College of Business Administration, with the next largest portion being from the College of Arts and Sciences. For the student interested in retailing as a career, the school offers a unique combination of supervised job experience and academic training leading to a B.B.A. degree. DFAN—James C. Taylor received his LL.B. from Baylor University and an M.L. from the University of Houston. He is regarded as an outstanding leader in civic work. ACADEMIC Graduate School Gains UH Merit The great expansion of knowledge in the twentieth century and the introduction of many specialized techniques in business, industry and the professions have increased immeasurably the importance of studies beyond the Bachelor's degree. An increasing number of men and women are finding study and research, leading to a Master’s or a Doctor’s degree, necessary not only to the development of their cultural life-hut also to keep them abreast of current trends in their businesses and professions. Professional degrees arc gamed with stress on basic academic preparation upon admission, and an increasing trend toward thesis and dissertation requirements. Graduate work was first offered at UH in 1939. DI-AN—Dr. R. Balfour Daniels received a B.A. from Princeton and an LL.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. Also a professor of Fnglish, Dr. Daniels was formerly dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Graduate School Dr. R. Balfour Daniels Downtown School School Combines Work and Studies James C. Taylor 31

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Technology Technology Training Valuable to Industry The College of Technolog)’ offers curricula emphasizing the understanding of basic principles of mathematics and science rather than the acquisition of manual skills. Programs of instruction arc similar in nature to, but briefer and more completely technical in content than professional engineering curricula. The major purpose is to provide engineering and scientific technicians who function as production and construction supervisors, aides to professional engineers and architects or who operate their own technical businesses. Each curriculum produces practical production and construction men who are available for employment immediately after graduation. These men have acquired the vocabulary of the engineer, understand the basic principles of the fundamental sciences and arc able to supervise and assist the skilled craftsmen in the production and construction of engineering works. ACADEMIC 1 DEAN—A. Ray Sims has a B.A. from Hardin-Simmons University and an M.S. from the University of Houston. Dean Sims is regarded as an authority on technical institutes education. A. Ray Sims Drafting requires many hours of work in the average day of the technology student- 30 Designing becomes more important as the ideas are passed on to the engineers.

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ACADEMIC Assistant to President Presidential Assistant Aids President Hoffman Douglas G. MacLcan holds the position of assistant to the president and director of personnel services. He was appointed to the position list summer. Mac Lean joined the University staff in I960 as director of personnel services. He was formerly with a management consultant sen ice. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.P.A. from Cornell Graduate School of Business Administration. MacLcan has also served as personnel director of Clcmson College. Douglas G. MacLcan Religion and Leadership Bennett Coordinates Religion Center Mr. Edwin dc F. Bennett, born in Syracuse. New York, is the coordinator of Religious Activities and Student Leadership Development. Mr. Bennett holds an A.B. from Princeton, an S.T.B. from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., and an S.T.M. from Harvard Divinity School. Mr. Bennett facilitates the work of the campus clergy and the religious counselors. He solves the problems dealing with the religious issues. Mr. Bennett helps individuals with their problems not of an individual denomination. Mr. Bennett is also the administrator of the affairs of the religious center. Before coming to Houston he served as Rector of Saint Peter s Church in Pasadena from 1957-1963. Edwin de F. Bennett