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

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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.

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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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; Thwi E. McDonald, Mus.B., Mus.M., Director of Music; Ai.iii.m C. Run. M.A., Ph.D.. Professor of Philosophy; .1. Allen Easley, B.A.. Tli.M.. D.D., Professor of Religion; Douglas C. Walker, U.A.. Head Football Coach; Phil M. ( mm. Directoi of Gymnasium; Edgar W. Timberlake, .Ik.. B.A.. LL.B., Professor of Law; Eugene Irving Olive, li.A.. Tli.M.. Chaplain; Ge .1. C. Mackie, B.A., U.S.. M.D., Cottege Physician; Walter II. Holliday, B.A., Buildings and Grounds Superintendent. (Not pictured: Olin Trivette Binkley, Th.B.. B.D.. Ph.D.. Professor of Religion; Mi 1111A1 C. Greason, LL.B.. Assistant Coach; I. Beverly Lake. B.S.. LL.B.. LL.M., Professor of Lair. I The must traveled group on the campus this ye ar was not Coach D. C. Walkers Demon Deacon football squad, hut Professor Thane McDonalds college octet. Under his direction the octet, the hand, the glee club, and the little symphony have developed into integral parts of campus life. Every Wake Forest man from sophomore enrollees in Psychology 1 to the members of the Philosophy seminar is sooner or later jarred by Dr. Albert C. Reid ' s intellectual thunderbolts, whether out of a 9:40 nap or into a new conception of pragmatism or materialism. To all who come to know him. Dr. Reid is a seeker of truth and foe of intellectual dishonesty. Dr. 0. T. Binkley and Dr. J. Allen Easley, keystone men of the religion department, have a definite job to do for Uncle Sam: that of turning out chaplains for the fight- ing forces, as well as furnishing morale builders at home. Hard-luck men of the faculty are Messrs. Walker, Utley, and Greason. who have transferred from the warm, cozy confines of Gore Gymnasium to the windy spaces of Gore Field with ' nary a roof over their heads. Instead of the usual 1-2-up-down of calisthenics. Coach Phil now drills his gym classes to the Hut-two-three- four of the army sergeants. The Wake Forest Law School of 1942-43 might well be called a Remembrance of Things Past. Enrollment and faculty, like those of law schools all over the nation, have plummeted downward until only a fragment of the whole remains. At present, Professors Lake and Tim- berlake, along with Dean Stansbury. comprise the faculty. Dr. N. Y. Gulley was called back from retire- ment at the first of the year and served for a short while. The Reverend Eugene Olive. Dr. C. L. Mackie. and Mr. W. D. Holliday are three guardian spirits of the student body, being respectively the chaplain, the physi- cian, and the building and grounds inspector. 31 ■