University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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OENIUS HERE AND THERE . Holding a place of eminence in art is Carlos Lopez, who instructs students in drawing and painting. His paintings, much sought-after, have been exhibited throughout the country. Here in his favorite room in the Architecture Building he pen- sively selects oils for application on a current work a portrait that is almost as sensitive as his own. -

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If it were possible to picture every member of the Michigan faculty who is close to the top, if not at the top of his field, nothing less than a healthy volume would suffice. Indeed, the opposite approach would be far simpler: a small Rogue ' s Gallery would take care of the few who are not thoroughly distinguished. In being a good teacher and not all Mich- igan faculty members are good teachers, though all of them are scholars it is im- portant to remember that a definition of their genius includes sensitivity and warmth. This is brought out clearly in what is known at Michigan as Faculty Evaluations. All students know M. Koella as the man who can wear a beret without affectation, and who can make France and French live. The cululative results of these evaluations show that the associate professor is con- sidered the best teacher i.e., he is most sensitive, learned and approachable while a teaching fellow finds himself at the bottom of the list. To be the best instructed student at Michigan, one has only to enter the Humanities or Social Science fields. Further, it has been found that the evaluations have improved the quality of many courses: one course, for example, that was considered the easiest in the college in the 1948 evaluations is now considered the third hardest. Marvin liisenberg, superior in the field of Italian Renaissance Art, stands in the sun before a fifteenth century Sienese fountain. 20

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Clark Hopkins, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, returned this fall after a year ' s leave spent traveling and studying in Greece. Well known to archaeologists through his published studies, he has mana ged, too, to teach a course in Great Rooks and to be an academic counselor in the Lit School. The swim- ming team especially values him as a competent judge and friend, and wherever he may be his ready wit and his kindness prevails. 22 Allan Seager is a brooding kind of a man who tells three out of every four student writers to try the advertising field, never teaching, and who does a good deal of writing and teaching himself. Master of the short story more than the novel, Seager conducts courses in literature and composition from the sophomore to the graduate seminar level. Though robust in appear- ance, Seager is formal, restrained, in conducting his classes, few and small that they are.