Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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IF A POLL WERE TAKEN to determine the luckiest men on the faculty, the vote would undoubtedly go to the cigar devotees of the education department, Pro- fessor Memory and Dean Bryan, who probably have a higher percentage of coeds on their rolls than any other two men on the campus. By the same premise. Dr. C. B. Earp, professor of Greek, stands at the other end of the line. His row on row of ministerial students is seldom broken by a feminine face. Dr. Hubert Poteat. the Latin department, on the subject of coeds, merely takes a firmer grip on his pipe, clears his throat — and straightens his tie. One of the most notable effects of the war on ake Forest has been the strange sight of fourth-year English and philosophy majors laboring over problems in spherical trigonometry and calculus, much to the ex- asperation of the professors. The war has made us mindful of technical subjects, but in the process of grading papers Dr. H. A. Jones, along with colleagues Carroll, Raynor, and Gay. must sometimes wonder. Indicative of the demand for this type of work are the popular defense courses in mechanical drawing and surveying under the director-hip of Professor Carroll with the able assistance of Tom Arlington. Probably the t iffe-t academic dose in any department is the combined course of Physics 1 and 2. taught five mornings a week at 8:30 a.m., by Dr. Hermon Parker to bleary-eyed victims of a 7:45 alarm clock ring. Dr. Speas and Dr. Parker were also among the evacuees of the Alumni Building when the Army Finance School took it over last December. Y here Dr. Speas once tutored his classes in the finer points of molecular ac- tivitv and proved that the hand is quicker than the eye in sneaking a pinch of tobacco grains, the voices of shavetails now discuss the details of accounting. Jasper L. Memory. Jr., M.A.. Professor of Education; Cronje B. Eari Literature; Hi bert McNeill Poteat, M.A., Ph.D.. Professor of th, Professor of Mathematics; James G. Carroll. M.A.. Associate Prole Professor of Mathematics; Roland L. Gay. M.S.. Instructor in Matin William E. Speas, M.A.. Ph.D., Professor of Physics; Hermon M. Pai M.A., Ph.D.. Associate Professor of the Greek Language an,! Latin Language ami Literature: Hlbert A. Jones. M.A.. L.L.B.. -sot of Mathematics; Kenneth Tyson Raynor, M.A.. Assistant matics; Thomas M. Arrington, Jr., B.S.. Assistant in Mathematics: KER, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. ■2Q

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wmm Out fyaxwltu, Quidedul ta K+taw-ledcfe Ora C. Brydbiky. M.A.. l ' h.ll.. 1 ' inif. n • • Biology; Elton ( :. Cocke, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology; Charles M. Allen, M.A., Instructor in Biology; Walter I- Wyatt, .Ik.. M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry; John Freeman. M.A.. Instructor in Chemistry; Henri Broadus Jones, M.A., Ph.D., Professor m English; Edcah Estes Folk, M.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor oj English; Anhkiu .yw - miilk. M .. Assistant Professor of English; Max I.. Ghiffin, M.A.. Inslructoi in English; Dalha A. Brown, M.A.. Instructor in English. OVER in the Johnson Building, two ol the busiest men in Wake Forest these days are Drs. Ora C. Bradbury and Elton C. Cocke, biologists par excellence. With the departure of Instructor Charles M. Allen for the photo- graphic division of the AAF in early November, the task of instructing at least thirty-five per cent of the student body, in addition to planning for the prospective Army pre-medical program, was not one to be dawdled with. The lights in the Johnson Building burn many and late. From his office in the north wing of Lea Laboratory the remaining stalwart of the chemistry department, ever-smiling Dr. W. J. Wyatt, also has a big hand in the training of future medicos. Although the other members of the chemical Big Three. Drs. Black and [shell, have long since begun their duties for Uncle Sam, the department, with the 1942 addition of Instructor John Freeman, is under full sail, leaving Dr. Wyatt plenty of time to haunt the dreams of his Organic students. On the bottom row are the five emancipated garret- dwellers, gentlemen of the English department who lor some veai now have occupied the Alumni Building. third floor back. But over the Christmas holidays they picked up their belongings and moved over to Wait Hall, where Dr. H. B. Jones directs activities from his desk over by the big pendulum clock. Dr. Folk, with pipe and pencil in hand, now uses the big English library table for threshing out knotty problems with publications men. At the other end of the table Professor Aycock, debate coach and art gallery curator, shakes with re- strained mirth at Professor Max Griffins joke, while a short distance away Professor Brown wades through unending stacks of freshman themes.

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1-.M TO THE MODERN language departments falls the dis- tinction cil being the first faculty group in 109 years oi Wake Forest history to go coed. Not one, but three Ladies, were enlisted: Miss Nell Dowtin, teacher of Spanish, and Mrs. W. J. Wyatt, and Dean Lois Johnson. instructors in French. In fact, for a while it seemed dangerously close to becoming completely feminine when Dr. Parcel] ol the French department and Pro- fessor Paul Berry of the German department ltd l for military duly, hut Professor Robert M. Browning re- cuperated from the loss of colleague Berry, and with the hacking ol ping pong champion John Conley, a masculine flavor ol the department was asserted. The school year of L942-43 found Dr. C. C. Pearson and the history department already out of the Social Science Building and busily engaged in their work in the austere atmosphere of the Law Building. The classes, meanwhile, were put on a split-second alternating schedule that fitted with cog-like perfection into die schedule of the Law School. The eontact was so close thai Professor Carlton P. West was suspected of letting occasional references to torts and contracts slip into his lectures, and Professor Clouts and Dr. Stroupe as- sumed more barrister-like attitudes. Even Dr. Rea, who stuck lo his office on Publications Row and held morning, afternoon, and night conferences with most ol die student body, sensed the change. To a student who hesitated just a little loo long over the answer to a question, Dr. Pearson admonished, You cant travel on a freight train in this class, Mr. Davis! Professor Clonts sent his medievalists scurrying lo the library downstairs for the correct spelling and pronounciation of words like Veii and suppositi- tious. ntl Dr. Stroupe ' s History 1 sophomores for the first time in many a day refrained from crushing cigarette hulls on die highly oiled floors, but placed them decor- ously in die ash trays on die ends of the table. ■ ll i Dawes Parcell, M.A., Ph.D.. Associate Professor oj French; Nell Dowtin, M.A., Instructor in Spanish : Mrs. Walter J. Wyatt, Jr., M.A.. Instructor in French; Robert I. Browning, B.A., Instructor in German: Paui Douglas Berry, B.A., Instructor m German; harles Chilton Pearson, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Social Sciences; I.. Owens Rea, Ph.D.. Associate Professor of Social Sciences; Forrest W. Clonts, M.A., Assistant Professor of Social Sciences: Carlton P. West. B.A.. Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Henr Smith Stroupe, M.A., Ph.D., Instructor in Social Sciences.