University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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DR. FRANK T. FALKNER Dr. Frank T. Falkner, Assistant Professor of Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, came here in Jan- uary of 1956 from London, England, where he was connected with the Hos- pital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was appointed Director of Growth Section, International Children’s Centre and is continuing his research at the Institute of Child Development at the Medical School. Dr. Falkner is currently a Markle Scholar. MR. SIDNEY HARTH Mr. Sidney Harth has added to his fame this year by becoming the runner-up in the Third Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competi- tion. He was the winner of the Naumburg Award and has appeared on the Telephone Hour, in New York Town Hall, and in concerts in France, Ger- many, Switzerland, Corsica, Tunisia, Algeria, and Austria. He is currently Concertmaster and Assistant Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra and As- sociate Professor on the Music School Faculty. DR. REUEL HEMDAHL The manuscript of research on Urban Renewal-Local Administration by Dr. Reuel Hemdahl will be published this coming summer. The Renewal Information Service of the National Association of Housing and Redevelop- ment Officials has published Dr. Hemdahl’s study of Redevelopment Con- tracts. Dr. Hemdahl has been serving as Vice Chairman of the Louisville and Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission. He served on the committee that negotiated a merger of the Fourth Avenue and Warren Me- morial Presbyterian Churches to form the Central Presbyterian Church. Dr. Hemdahl also serves in an advisory capacity to the Mayor’s Office on urban renewal plans for Louisville. DR. J. J. OPPENHEIMER Dr. J. J. Oppenheimer, Head of the Department of Education, received an honorary Senatorship from Manshein University at its golden anniver- sary in recognition of work done for universities in Germany. Dr. Oppen- heimer represented the University of Louisville at the five hundredth anni- versary celebration of the founding of Freiburd University. In 1955 on a Rockefeller Grant, he went to Germany. Dr. Oppenheimer is very active on the Committee on Studies of American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and the Planning Comm ittee of the Southern Regional Educa- tion Board. ll

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DR. CARL E. ADAMS Dr. Carl Adams, Physics Department, spent the. past year at Harvard on a Carnegie Fellowship in General Education, there he taught and ob- served methods of presenting science to non-science majors. He has also spent several summers at Brown University doing research work in his field of ultra-sonics. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, The American Society of Physics Teachers, the History of Science Society, and the Kentucky Academy of Science. DR. PAUL ANGIOLILLO Dr. Paul Angiolillo spent last year in France where he was on an experi- mental teacher exchange program conducted by the Fulbright Commission. He taught at the Jules Verne Lyceé in Nantes, France, as.a professor of English. Dr. Angiolillo traveled in Europe previously when he received a fellowship to the International School at Geneva and remained the follow- ing year as an instructor. In 1956 he received an award by the Ministry of Education of France for furthering the French language and culture. DR. JUSTUS BIER Dr. Justus Bier was born in Bavaria and educated in Universities of Germany and Switzerland, receiving his Ph. D. Degree from the University of Zurich. He has written seven books and had a great many articles pub- lished in scholarly magazines in different countries. Dr. Bier returned to the University this fall after spending sixteen months in Europe on a Guggen- heim fellowship. He accepted a visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught a course on his special research subject of Tillman - Reimenschneider. While in Europe, he lectured extensively and did research to complete his third volume on the work of Mr. Reimenschneider. DR. MARY BURTON Dr. Mary Burton is currently having her new book, The Letters of Mrs. Wordsworth, published in England. Dr. Burton attended Cornell University receiving her Ph. D. Degree there. She is now on the Standards Committee of the A.A.U.W. 10

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DR. HUBERT C. PIRKLE Dr. Hubert C. Pirkle, Assistant Professor, the Department of Pathology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, has been working on medical research on an experimental program pertaining to certain diseases which affect the heart and the blood vessels. This program is in connection with the Louisville Heart Association. DR. DAVID W. MAURER Dr. David Maurer, Professor of English, is known nationally for his re- search into linguistic problems, especially in what he calls “the argots used in criminal sub-cultures.” His work with non-standard languages led to an interest in the relation of language to behavior, and he has had more than one hundred publications in his field. Two of his books have become stand- ard texts: Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction and The Big Con—The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game. He has a great interest in exploring those areas not yet explored linguistically, and his research has been written up in many periodicals. He collaborated on a book to be re- leased this spring, The Structure of American English, and is now working on the re-writing of H. L. Mencken’s The American Language. DR. EDMOND R. SCHLESINGER Dr. Edmond Schlesinger, Head of the Department of Audio-Visual Edu- cation and Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Humanities at the University College, has had twenty-two films shown to the students on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons. Ten films were shown in the fall term— three American, two English, two French, and one each from Russia, Greece, and Italy. In the spring term twelve films were shown—two from America, four from France, three from Italy, and one each from Austria, Japan, and Russia. DR. HARVEY WEBSTER Dr. Harvey Webster was in England last year, spending most of his time in Oxford and London. He is now working on a book concerning contempo- rary British fiction since 1920. He writes for the Saturday Review, helps on the Views, and writes for other periodicals. He is also the author of On the Dark, Lean Plain. 12