University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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I tr, ..i 83: k . i .UL lgd' iuig ASHER N. CHRISTENSIIN Pnlilinll Slxiflifl' o CHEYNEY IET AND VE E- 'Fore-sf1'3' ffomp EFOTTAI GOLD AND GLADLY TEACH LIKE GOOD MR. CHIPS whose school was never the same without him are the scores of professors who win a special place in the hearts and memories of their stu- dents. No one stands high above the restg every member of the faculty has his own circle of student-friends. Stories for boys, for foresters as well as the youngsters who read the Scott Burton stories he writes, are the specialty of enthusiastic E. G. Cheyney, professor of forestry. To the majors in home economics, the next high to God must be the Goldstein sisters, for the girls bring all of their problems from house plans to studying to either Miss Harriet or Miss Vetta. Witty, good-natured Asher N. Christensen, assistant professor of political science, gestures wildly, loves to talk to any and all of his students. From their first days in freshman clinic, the medics learn to respect the gentleness without sentimentality, the knowledge and humanity of Dr. Wfilliam A. O'Brien. Understanding and kindliness have won Professor NVilliam H. Emmons, head of the geology department, a popular position as high as his official rank. The problems and difiiculties of thousands of students are the everyday work of John G. Darley, director of the Testing Bureau, who makes new friends with every problem he solves. Paul A. Minault is not only handsome and French and fun to be with. He is a very good teacher who presents his language gayly and laughs with the class. fzgmjq STEIN VVTLLTANI A. O'BRIEN Nlerflcine WILLIAM H. EMMONS JOHN G. DARLEY PAUL A. MINAULT GUUIUSJ' TF5fil1g Blfrezm ROIIIHIIFL' Lllliglltlgfi'

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Til if ' lbw 'fi few frat .au Qt Lf bat Z! ,1 tate! EYXSON LLOYDClELmist1'3' NW - - 5 . XL1'9Xl3w I,b5e1a'S MEMS Expt VXS wi. DA . s EDXwARY?1'i171cI1f gfniion JOHN D. AKERMAN V YVTZYL 1lv1'ol1i1I1linll Ellgillfffillg THE PROFESSORS INVENT GADGETS AND GREAT MACIHIINES ALIKE are produced by professors who need equipment for their work. Resource- ful faculty men meet the mechanical obstacles that delay their study and research, and at the same time provide invaluable tools that mean progress to industry. Fifteen different plane designs have given John D. Alterman, head of the aeronautical engineering depart- ment, a leading place among the country's airplane de- signers. He developed the hrst low wing, twin motor cabin plane in the United States. The mechanism for processing North Dakota lignite to obtain a large yield of high hydrogen gas is being perfected by Dr. Lloyd H. Reyerson, professor of chem- istry. At the Mines Experiment Station, Professor NW. Davis is at work on the problem of providing equipment and techniques for using the vast tonnages of low grade ore in the northern Minnesota iron mines. John T. Tate, who is still a physicist although his oflicial title is Dean of the Arts College, is determining the amount of energy required to break up molecules through the use of the mass spectrograph. Artificial earthquakes are made and measured by the geophysical truck developed by Wilfred W. Wetzel, as- sistant professor of geophysics, who uses the device to locate subsurface gravel, limestone and granite. A vacuum spectrograph with a tube twenty feet long l JOHN T. TATE is the latest bit of laboratory equipment put into use by Joseph Valasek, associate professor of physics. He is studying molecules through the spectrum they emit. JOSEPH VALASEK Sc'ir'l16z', Liivrzrfurv and fbi' rlrfs Pb5fllf'f

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Faculty LILL IUOI' , v 14 ff cs. .1 A ALFRED L. BURT CHARLES B X PJJIC-bologyl lllfigfrl, ROSS A. GORTNER AgI'iL'1Llf1ll'l11 Biocbcfmisfry Hixiory AND GLADLY TEACH CContinuedJ ALh4OST AS 1--1IsToR1c as the history he teaches are the lectures of Professor Alfred L. Burt. But even more treasured by his students are the conferences that help them with more than class schedules and credits. The Chemistry building would never be the same without Associate Professor Lillian Cohen. Formulae and equations, in her classes, are more than academic prob- lems-and much more interesting. The psychology of making everyone like him is just as much a part of Professor Charles Bird's classes in elementary psychology as any of the ordinary textbook facts. The pharmacy seniors and even the alumnae never forget the first pharmacy class they had way back in sophomore year because it was taught by Associate Pro- fessor Earl B. Fischer. Edmund Wfilliamson, coordinator of University per- sonnel scrvices, is also a professor of psychology. Young as he is, he understands just what students need and what they want as well. Pleasant and helpful and very wise in biochemical matters is Ross A. Gortner, professor in agriculture. And the professor who teaches most gladly of all is Dora V. Smith who teaches beginners the way they should teach. Such is the professorial life. Those who follow it must write, study, experiment and invent-and they must gladly teach. . f ' c - ' ,, 21 ,..,5jf:' . 1 .u-1 11.11 - 2 3? ga rm , , , ,M ...V 5 A. EDMUND G. WILLIANISON DORA V. SMITH Llllil'l7l'Xifj' Coordifmlov' Eifzlruliofz