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

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Prominent Visitors A dynamic and humorous lecturer, Assistant Professor Arthur M. Eastman of the English Department, is basically a family man. His office walls are bedecked with the art work of his three children. I r-i - University President Hatcher welcomes U Nu, Burmese Premier, to campus. During the next three years a series of six-week lecture programs will be presented by noted Burmese authorities. William Haber, professor of economics, brings to his classes in labor and social security his vast personal experience in labor arbitra- tion and with major governmental and economic organizations. 14

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The University and Boeing are de- veloping a long-range supersonic in- terceptor missile for the Air Force. All data on the project are classified. ratf- nits. rial t of iber an rvry , It jver Inch L ' -J tUTQ :ihe Rockets and Politics at Willow Run While the Willow Run Controversy raged on local, state, and na- tional levels, A D ' s community planning classes mapped out Bomber City for a site near the airport as a city planning project. Willow Run Airport, a political hotbed in 1956, is among the facilities utilized by the Engineering Research Institute. Laboratories at the airfield are equipped to study super- sonic missiles and jet and rocket motors. Michigan ' s rocket research teams, which have been lauded for their outstand- ing work in paving the way for the proposed earth sattelites, have been prominent in the field since 1946. Working at the airport, ERI has designed, built, and installed complex equipment in about forty rockets ranging from giant Ger- man V-IFs to slender Aerobees. This research has provided information about the upper atmosphere and rocket launch- ing techniques which is basic to the sattelite program. The University acquired the airport from the government as war su rplus property after World War II. The terminal fa- cilities are leased to the Airlines National Terminal Service Company, which represents the seven commercial lines utilizing the field. In November, 1955, the President ' s Air- port Use Panel recommended that the lines using Willow Run Transfer to Detroit-Wayne Major Airport. Subse- quently, however, six of the airlines refused to move, and the University expressed its intentions of continuing the contract with them. band 13

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from Abroad and Distinguished Faculty Members on Campus The University is a complex being. It assumes an aura of autonomous sovereignty and omniscient presence in its world. The phrase The University implies the imperson- ality, continuity, and stolidity of a giant corporation, and it is used in the third person employed by royalty. Educa- tionally, however, the student ' s contact is not with a vague entity, but with individual professors. Michigan has a dis- tinguished faculty. The listing of one-fifth of its members in Who ' s Who is a measure of its quality. Renowned visitors from throughout the world visit Ann Arbor to inspect the University and to consult with its faculty. The faculty mem- bers as conference delegates and commission members repre- sent the University to the world. ' An educational statesman, beret-wearing Professor Robert C. Angell is a U. S. delegate to UNESCO conferences and president of the International Sociological Association. Contributions to students and faculty have earned him devotion and respect. Crown Prince Akihito of Japan signs the guest book at the Cen- ter for Japanese Studies on campus. With him are Dr. Robert Hall, Center director, ancl University President Harlan Hatcher. 15