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

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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

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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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Alexander B. Andrews BOARD DF TRUSTEES 7 HE MEMBERS of the Board of Trustees are elected for terms of eight years. Their tenure of office is so staggered that one-fourth of their number is elected every two years. The Board, composed of over a hundred members, has complete authority in all matters concerning the University. Joseph Melville Broughton Governor, President ex-officio of the Board of Trustees Clyde Atkinson Erwin Superintendent of Public Instruction, member ex-officio of the Board of Trustees Alexander Boyd Andrews Secretary of the Board HONORARY MEMBERS Oliver Max Gardner, Cameron Morrison, John C. Blucher Ehringhaus, Clyde Roark Hoey EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Governor J. Melville Broughton, Chairman ex-officio Alexander B. Andrews, Secretary 1944 — JosEPHus Daniels, Clarence Foe, R. J. Reynolds 1946 — Charles Whedbee, John W. Clark, O. Max Gardner 1948 — JoHN Sprunt Hill, Walter Murphy, John J. Parker 1950— Mrs. Laura Weil Cone, Mrs. May L. Tomlinson, Haywood Parker Term expires July 1, of year indicated. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 7 Hv. General Alumni Association maintains a cen- tral office in Chapel Hill, with a full time staff headed by Executive Secretary Maryon Saunders. It promotes meetings of alumni in and outside the State; sponsors a regular schedu le of class reunions at Commencement time; publishes a monthly magazine. The Alumni Revieiv; helps build good will for the Uni- versity among the public generally, and keeps up-to-date mailing lists and in- formation concerning more than 30,000 Carolina alumni. ■Jl John M. Morehead 16