University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Winner of the Naumburg Award, Sid- ney Harth is concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra and Associate Professor on the Music School Faculty. He has appeared on the Telephone Hour, New York Town Hall, and in France, Switzerland, Germany, Corsica, Tunisia, Algeria, and Austria. Moritz Bomhard from the University' of Louisville School of Music, conducted the or- chestra for the world premier of the opera, L'Ecole Des Femmes, held in Louisville. He is now working with the Opera Work Shop and the Kentucky Opera Association. Dean A. C. Russell QLaw Schoolj was se- lected to make the Navy Cruise this past summer. The five week cruise on the Wis- consin visited such ports as Barcelona, Spain, and Glasgow, Scotland. Captain Clarence T. May entered Service in 1942 and served until 1945. He attended the University of Alabama. He was recalled to active duty in 1951. Prior to his arrival in Louisville, he was in Korea and japan for two years. Dr. Justice Bier is spending a year in Ger- many on a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is concerned with the German Medieval Sculp- tor, Tilmann Riemenschneider.

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Dean J. J, Oppenheimer has been with the University since 1930. He is also head of, the Department of Education. In 1955, he received a Rockefeller Grant to travel in Germany as an educational consultant. He is an Honorary Member of the Germany Society for Ameri- can Studies, an honor conferred in 1956. Dean Robert Whitney, Music School, was awarded the Laurel Leaf Award of the Ameri- con Composers Alliance for 1956 in New York for services to American Music, and was cited for distinguished services by the International Society for Contemporary 'Musici He was guest conductor in Stockholm and Norway this past Summer. Dr. Paul Angiolillo, whose Doctorate is from Columbia, is teaching at a high school in Nantes, France, this year. He and his fam- ily also plan to travel in Europe. Previouslv he had taught in Geneva for two years. Dr. Angiolillo wrote a book on teaching foreign languages to the armed forcesg and received an award from the French Ministry of Educa- ion. Dri William Mallalieu's most recent book, Britiflv Recomlmction and American Policy, 1945-1955, has been published by the Scare- crow Press, New York City. Dr. Mary Burton received her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her latest work, The Letlerr of Mm. W0rdruf0rtb, is now in the hands of the publisher. She also serves on the Standards Committee of the A.A.U.W. Dr Harvey Webster, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, has been the director of creative writing at U. of L. For the past year he has been working in England on a book concerning British fiction. He has had many -reviews published in the Saturday Review, and is the author of the book, On the Dark, Lean Plain.

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While on a tour of Europe during the sum- mer of 1956, David A. McCandless, Director of the Southern Police Institute, visited eight countries where he spoke on American Police Training 'Methods and the History of the Southern Police Institute. At Essen, Germany, he visited the International Police Exhibition, where twenty-three countries were represented. Dr. Gerhard Herz obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich and has done post graduate work at the Universities of Freiburg, Vienna, and Berlin. He has been in Louisville since 1938, He is the head of the newly-estab- lished Music History Department and has re- cently been working on an article on Bach iconography. The Audio-Visual Services of U. of L., a part of the D.A.E., but available to the entire university, has Dr, Homer E. Salley, former Director of the Audio-Visual Department of the Louisville Free Public Library, as the new Co-Ordinator of the University's Audio-Visual Services. Thus Dr. E. R. Schleshinger, Asso- ciate Professor of Humanities and Modern Languages, has more time for publicizing this program. Mr. G. W. Stratford is in charge of Audio-Visual Aids. For the second year now, Dr. Charles Crumpton has been a guest professor at the summer school of the Florida State University. He served as chairman of the Instructional Materials Development Section of the National job Training and Safety Conference, and was general chairman of the Tri-State Conference. He is director of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Society of Training Directors. Last year Dr. George Perle received his Ph.D. from New York University, which he attended on the award from the Seven Fellow- ship Fund. Dr. Perle is on the faculty of the School of Music and the Music History De- partment, and is in charge of the Contempo- rary Music Festival. He has had articles pub- lished in Music Review, Musical Quarterly, and. the Journal of American Musicological Society. He was recently elected to the Ameri- can Composers Alliance,