University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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@Meye LIBERAL HITS IMIYSI CAL. SC I RACES Although laboratories were ns odoriferous as usual, the science department underwent a change this year. The idea of getting a lucrative position in industry lurked in many minds, and there was n continuous infiltration of a new sort of people into the science labs. Wistful-looking matrons, who would feel more at home at a bridge-party, appeared shyly at the first lab sessions, and soon started working with vigor. If they didn't run quite to type you could always distinguish them by the way they behaved. You'd notice a woman stirring a mixture with the same motion with which one mixes a eake batter, or you'd see one pick up a scalpel as she would a carving-knife. Men. too, became more science-conscious, for they felt a basic knowledge of the sciences would bring advancement in the armed services. Music and philosophy students worked side by side in the physics lab. With the philosophy student trying to use Kant's logic in setting up an experiment, results were fantastic. And the graphs drawn by the second violinist looked suspiciously like chromatic scales. Besides housing erstwhile housewives and First row: Gouldman. Hickman. Seitlin, Groonbeig, Swords. Kelm, Harmon • Socond row: Dr. Miller. Hash. Cossel. Hirsch. Long. Fandrey. Gerber, Schorr. Feld • Third row: Doochln. Roberts. Peacock. Soigel. Colom. Dabkowski. Barrett. Dr. Williams. Dr. Smith. 20

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Then there's the education of the older generation. In the afternoon when everyone has evacuated except cadets, dogs, and people who have meetings, a group of students wander into school with “shining, morning faces These are no saddle-shoe-and-socks students. All they want is an education. And they get it. They're the ones who study. They're the ones who glare at you in the Ihirary when you unwrap a package of cheese-crackers. Ami they are also the ones who always have the hooks that you want. Their guiding star this year was I)r. Charles Doren Tharp, director of adult education. Adults learn all sorts of things; like Russian (taught by Madame Nina Kuhova), Chinese (taught by Miss Margaret Sells, who was educated in the Orient and taught at the University of California School of Oriental languages), Portuguese (from Miss Alberta Losh of Miami High )typing and shorthand (from Miss Inez. Manning). At the Koubeck center, which was donated to the University last spring, continuation courses in personnel administration, psychology, philosophy, listening to music, current political ami economic problems, useful plants of South Florida, etc., arc taught by professors from the University. Separate from the adult education division, although conducted at the same hours, were the courses in engineering, science, and management war training, also directed by Dr. Tharp—who for that purpose bore the title of area supervisor. 'Phis training was offered by the U.S. Office of Education of the Federal Security Agency and the War Manpower Commission through the University of Florida at the University of Miami. (Towards the end of the second semester Dr. Tharp wore a weary look. He had to explain the sponsorship of the defense courses quite frequently.) The courses in ESMWT, designed to prepare civilians for positions in war industries, were college standard courses in the airplane, aircraft engineering, airport design, radio communications, surveying, marine design, foundations of engineering, engineering drawing, elements of radio engineering, elements of physics, electrical engineering, chemistry of uon-metallic elements, etc. What the school of education, the department of education, and the engineering group of classes have in common is that they are all interested in transmuting it from the hooks to the brains. They go about it in strangely similar ways: the p.l s and internes by daily luis routes and rehashes of their lecture notes for quizzes and class-room emergencies, the adult students and defense absorbers by careful attention to class-room happenings—and daily bus routes. —RITA CROSSMAN Dr. Tharp was our director of adult education as woll as diroctor of courses in war training and management. 19

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poets, tin science department labs were also occupied by workers whose research seemed aimed at driving all forms of life from the University. Professors stopped in mid-lecture to mutter imprecations. The. queue in the cafeteria was noticeably shorter. On investigation, the odor proved to emanate from an experimenter's toasting tnnieates and baking barnacles'” to develop paint resistance— military secret stuff. Despite the greater emphasis, many still entered labs as they would a lethal chamber. Students who felt that way displayed their savoir-faire by refusing to find out what the experiment was about before performing it. Chemistry Honors society sponsored lectures like “The Effect of the Sulfa Drugs on the Healing of Wounds,1' held a drive to organize a decontamination squadron at the I niversity, and in May presented a show of chemistry magic which some said rivalled the annual Follies. Officers of the explosive organization were Alan Siegel, president; Martin Greenberg, vice president: Rashi Schorr, secretary; Prince Rrigham, treasurer; and William Pa-cetti, sergeant-at-arms. Members were George Colom, Tillman Pearson, Eugene Ketchen, Ed Polliamus, and Jack Barrett. Students who got mixed up in diving expeditions ami lectures on topics like “My Victory Garden ami Termite Colony” as a result of joining Mu Beta Sigma were Martin Greenberg, president; Margaret Hickman, vice-president: Rashi Schorr, secretary-treasurer; Don Peacock, historian; Collins Swords, Ruth Hirscli, Ann Cassel, Stanley Tinter. Jack Barrett, Toni Long, Sheldon Deutsch. Victor Emanuel, Dorothy Mae Sterling, May Moral. Margaret Hickman, Joanne Fandrey, Prince Brigham. David Crane, George Colom, Faye Cowen, Barbara Koven, Herbert Horton. Margery Kelm. Ruby Herman, Ada Westrik, Mary Nash. Jaek Roberts, Seymour Auerbach, Ronald Mayer. Esther Rosenstein, and Barbara Robinson.—rashi schorr SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology and History came very near amalgamating into a unit this year and the psychology department retired to a laboratory whenever possible, but the current events class taught by Dr. Louis k. Manley broke an all-time record when two hundred students enrolled. Classes were held in the University theatre. Interest also ran high in government classes taught by Dean Ernest McCracken and Dr. Manley. Versatile faculty members moved rapidly from one subject to another whenever war needs required. Frederick H. Koch. Jr., head Top: Physical science faculty lines up foi inspection: Dr. Hjort. Dr. Williams. Dr. Holmes. Mr. Goldman. Mr. Smith. Mr. Lindstrom. Dr. Millor. Bottom: Chemical Honorary members woro Siegal. Pacotti. Brigham. Groonberg. Dr. H}ort. Shorr. Lindstrom. Rappoport and Colom.