University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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FOREIGN GUTMANN o. HE FACULTY of the University of North Carolina represents on a small scale the aim of the United Nations. Here as teachers men from every corner of the earth meet and work together for higher education. When Hitler came to power in Germany Munich born Dr. Franz Gutmann saw what was happening to Ger- man education. He had been a full professor at the universities of Breslau, Jena and Goettingan and director of the institute of economics and private insurance at the latter. In 1939 Gutmann accepted a call to Carolina, where he would be able to teach students in his special field of government and banking and economic theory according to his own beliefs. I like the students here, he says, for both civilians and V-12 boys possess natural sympathetic qualities that makes it easy to really know them. I like Chapel Hill because it is so conducive to research. In the last war Gutmann was a captain on the German side. In this war his age prevents him from fight- ing for the Allies, but he is doing his part by training the next generation for the economic problems they will have to face when peace is made, by preparing the next generation for advancement. Early in 1939 Prof. E. P. Hexner and Hitler were in Prague at the same time. By the fall of that same year Hexner, his wife and two boys were in Chapel Hill. Unwilling to have his sons educated according to Nazi theories Hexner sent them to England, then brought them to the United States. A Czech by birth, a political scientist by profession Hexner is an authority on the serious wartime problem of international cartels. At one time he was coordinator of the Czechoslovak steel industry and he has written a book on the International Steel Cartel. In Europe and in America Hexner has published several books on political science. As professor of civilian and V-12s Hexner knows many Carolina students. I ' m not the kind of professor who appeals to students, he says, with a sad twinkle in his eye. But his students . . . coeds, sailors and 4-Fs just grin. They know better. From the Far East comes Dr. Y. K. Wong, math professor from the University of Chicago. Born in South China near Hong Kong, Wong studied from his freshman year until he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. After he received his master ' s degree Wong returned to China to teach in the National University of Peking in North China. Dean of the school at that time was Hu Shih, now Chinese diplomat to the United States. Wong has done research at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, and has worked on the manu- scripts of the late E. H. Moore, head of the math department of Chicago. At Carolina is a research associate, and is now teaching for the first time beginning mathematics. To Caro- lina he brings the new ideas of the Middle West, the scholarship of the Chinese, the friendliness of a hospitable Southerner. 14

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Johnson — General College Wettach — Law PiERSON — Graduate HoBBS — Arts and Sciences DEANS :z HE Deans of the Uni- versity schools this year have faced many problems. To them has fallen the job of running Navy and civilian classes concurrently. Throughout the confusion of a com- bined Navy and civilian university they have continued to work efficiently, con- scientiously. The routine of Carolina classes, taken for granted by all stu- dents, runs smoothly because of the hard work that these Deans have done. While other phases of life here run riot, they keep the academic part of Carolina on an even keel. In a year of confusion, they have done their part in simplifying and organizing our daily college existence. Berryhill — Medici ■ fs- •i P 3 W 1 m 7 ' I ' M m i M M i P i ■ 1 ■ H i K -»- i 1 Ife -• im i ;■ Carroll — Commerce Beard — Pharmacy Akers — Library Science 13

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F PROFESSORS Hexner The first professor to teach American literature in Switzerland is Carolina ' s professor of German, Dr. W. P. Friederich. Although the Swiss studied English literature they had no courses at all in American literature when Friederich was an undergraduate at the University of Bern. After he had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, for three years at Harvard and at Yale Friederich returned to Bern. With books of American literature donated by the City of New Bern and purchased at the Bull ' s Head book shop he returned to his alma mater to teach the works of Emerson, Hawthorne and Longfellow. Friederich has spent the major part of his time in the United States since 1927. At present he is teaching German and German literature to civilians and A.S.T.P. students. G. R. Hernandez is half Cuban, half citizen of a small North Carolina town. He was born in the province of Havana, in Cuba and he went to school there until 1931. But he came to North Carolina to continue his edu- cation at a small Presbyterian boys ' school in Hemp, N. C. There he came to know intimately the people, the habits of Southern small towns. He liked it here in North Carolina, so he s tayed. For a year he worked in a silk mill, earned enough money to go to college and entered Mars Hill Junior College. His third year he trans- ferred to Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., where he earned his letters in baseball and basketball and his diploma in 1938. As a professional baseball player Hernandez moved to Hickory in 1939. There he got a job teaching Spanish in Hickory High School and acting as Assistant Coach of High School Athletics. In the fall of 1941 as a research assistant in romance languages he came to Carolina. At present, as Di- rector of Spanish Instruction of the A.S.T.P. School here his time is devoted solely to A.S.T.P. students. Senor Guillermo Brown teaches Spanish and studies dramatics. In his native Chile, on the continent of South America students of the drama cannot get a degree in dramatic art. That ' s why Brown came to Carolina. After receiving his Bh.F. at the Universidad de Chile Brown came to the United States as Chilean consu l at Baltimore, Maryland. Senor Brown is particularly interested in serious drama, drama of power and psychology. We in South America do not go to the theatre to laugh. Brown has written several plays since he came to Carolina and has had one experimental produced in the Playmaker Theatre. Enthusiastic about the extra-curriculum life of the campus Brown and his wife, whom he met on a pavilion after he had corresponded with her for many years, miss few Carolina entertainments. Because of his amiabil- ity and his interest in Carolina Brown is doing a one man job of furthering the good neighbor policy of the Americas. IS