University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

Page 28 text:

Waldo A. Kirkpatrick Dean Arthur B. Gallion rchitecture Scenes from the exhibit on contemporary architecture spon- sored by the School of Architecture.

Page 27 text:

ociol studies Included in the Division of Social Studies are the Depart- ments of Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, International Relations, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology. The Division functions under a committee and decides the proper curric- ulum for the various departments. This is one of the divi- sions of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. The pres- ent chairman of the Division is Daniel Sommer Robinson, Director of the School of Philosophy. Dr. Robinson, who obtained his degrees at Yale and Harvard, was head of the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University for 10 years. The jovial professor was a member of the Indiana State Board of Education before coming to SC in 1946, where he immediately became the Director of the School of Philosophy. Dr. Robinson, who has served in the Navy in both World Wars, was appointed Chairman of the Division in 1948. One of the prominent members of the Division ' s faculty is Adamantios Polyzoides, lecturer in International Relations, History, Journalism, and Religion. Dr. Polyzoides, who has combined teaching with newspaper writing, was educated in Greece and Constantinople. Besides his duties at SC, he writes a daily column for a local newspaper and is a news analyst on TV. D. S. Robinson Director Graduate conferences are an integral part of the program. Adamantios Polyzoides 23

Page 29 text:

Dr. Baldwin examines a design project. The exhibit is representative of the work of the outstanding students of the School. From barracks and the Boark system to a modern school of architecture that has attained the rating as the best on the coast, is the jump made by our School of Architecture in thirty years. Way back in 1920, the first twelve architecture students built a temporary barracks, now part of our present cinema workshop, as their school. Today, there are 450 students who have retained much of that pioneering spunk and still hold those typical all-night study sessions called ' charett es. The only difference in the madness is the now very spacious building. Their progressive dean, Arthur B. Gallion, believes in the professional, practical type training, rather than the purely academic Boark method. He has his own private practice, as do most of the faculty. As Commis- sioner of the Housing Authority of Los Angeles, he likes to see his students work on current civic problems. Clayton M. Baldwin, a professor here since 1921, always makes it a policy to know everyone so well that they inevitably dub him Baldy (he has more hair than most of his students). Mr. Baldwin teaches History of Architecture, but does not believe in aping the ancients. Another favorite of the students is William A. Kirkpatrick, who started two all-university courses in home decorating. 25