University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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. ogg?---vwffv -7 ,Y ,...T-.Y. MLW, Y K P . , '--7.115 -1--.-fs., DR. C. H. PARRISH Dr. Parrish was a field consultant for the Southern Regional Council last summer. It was his primary concern to stimulate local interest in the working together of Negroes and whites in implementing the Supreme Court decision on ' desegregation. DR. SAMUEL B. PEAVEY Dr. Samuel Peavey can be identified as one who is very sincerely interested in talking with students who have any degree of interest in becoming teachers -particularly in junior and senior high schools. His current responsibility is coordinating the professional courses and supervising the student teaching of prospective secondary teachers. He is also serving, at present, as a consultant in curriculum for the Louisville Public Schools and is in charge of a general survey of curricular problems in the secondary schools. MR. GEORGE PERLE Mr. George Perle, University instructor in music history, has an article in the British quarterly Music Review on The Harmonic Problem in Twelve-tone Music. Perle has published articles in this magazine since 1941. Perle, who is equally well known as a composer and' a critic, was featured in a Town Hall concert on December 17. His String Quartet No. sn was selected for per- formance at the annual Town Hall concert of the National Association of American Composers and Conductors in New York. DR. HARVEY WEBSTER Dr. Harvey Webster received a fellowship to Yaddo, an artists' and writers' . . colony which is located in Saratoga Springs, New York, for the last two months of last summer. DR. JOHN J. WEISERT Dr. John J. Weisert, of the University's Modern Language Department, is doing research work on the history of Louisville's theaters. He has completed a list of movies shown at McCauley's Theater and is working on lists of other theaters now. The Louisville Theater from 1846-1866 is his present project. ' Old newspapers are his main source for titles of the movies. He attended re- cently a Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages Conference at the Univer- sity of Minnesota.

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HARVEY B. LOVELL During the spring semester 1953-54, Dr. Lovell was on sabbatical leave. His time was about equally divided between two projects, the .first of which was to complete the revision of a one semester textbook for a beginning zoology course. The second project was to continue to collect and photograph the honey plants of the United States, that is plants which are of value to beekeeping. As his co-author of the text teaches in central Florida, he was able to spend part of the spring there at the time when many species of trees, shrubs, and herbs were coming into bloom. I-Ie also observed birds in many areas and helped make a breeding bird study in Owen County, Kentucky. E. E. LYON Mr. E. E. Lyon taught at O.S.U., Columbus, Ohio, last summer. I-Ie ran a nightly vacation Bible School, ministered to his church, and taught one week at a Bible Camp. He is chairman of the Committee for promoting Original Band Composition of the College Band Directors National Association, Im- mediate past chairman of the Southern Division of C.B.D.N.A., and chairman, Louisville Region Kentucky Music Education Association. DAVID W. MAURER David W. Maurer, member of the University's English Department, has done extensive research in the field of language, with special reference to non- standard usage-including dialects, slang, and occupational speech. Last year he did research at the University of Mexico on the contraband in drug traffic. While in Mexico, he became interested in archeology, and is now getting a book ready with material he gathered there. Dr. Maurer is particularly interested in criminal argots and is now doing a major study on thieves. Last summer Dean Oppenheimer taught at the University of Minnesota where he had a seminar in higher education and was a consultant for the workshop on higher education which is conducted under the auspices of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In his spare time he did a little fishing for walleyed pike He has also served on several intervisitation committees of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. His last trip was to Ol io University. He is now supervising some studies con- cerning the kinds of students who come to the College, how many of them stay for four years and what they think of the College program. DORIS NICKEL Miss Doris Nickel is our Assistant Dean of Women. Her varied responsibili- ties include supervision of the offices of both the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. She also manages the social calendar, attends conventions, and keeps records on the dormitories, sororities, and fraternities. She teaches an education class in Methods in Shorthand and Typing. As secretary of the Student Aid Committee, she assists in the handling of all scholarships. Last summer she took a pleasure trip to Michigan, and for a week or ten days relaxed on the beaches there. J. J. OPPENHEIMER

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