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

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THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES When the Law School came back home to this campus a couple of years ago. the department ol social sciences — history, government, economics, sociology — moved itself bag and baggage from the top flooi oi tin- Library Building into the Social Sciences Building, where it seems settled for a reasonably long stay. This building seems as much a center of the campus as does Wait Hall. Downstairs (with the exception ol one professor ' s office) the College Book Store, the Mono- gram Club room and the publications offices are located. Most of the students, in fact, spend a good deal more time in this than in any other building on the campus. Upstairs one may find the classrooms of the depart- ment — worn with the long usage of time and much learning, surely, but still intact enough to be sat in and taught in. No other building on the campus seems so appropriate for the study of the past — the dark walls and high ceilings well fit ponderous volumes of history and stern floods of fact. Lift to right, Top to h, Professor oj Sot wlog ) . fessor of Social Si iei mm: Clarence H. Patrick, B.D., Ph.D., .. Owens Rea, M.A., Ph.D.. Associat, Pro- Forrest W. Glonts, M.A., Associate Pro- W. Buck Yearns, M.A Babgv, M.A.; Instructor: of Social Sciences; Percival Perry, M.A., Ph.D., As Prqfessm oj Social Sciei date Professor oj Social Sc S. Stroupe, M.A., Ph.D., U

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THE DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY ack, M.A., Ph.D., Prqfessm of Ck i I) . .1 iali Proj i oj Biology; I distant Prqfessm oj Chemistry; Budd Prqfessm oj Biology, Harry B. oft iim Chi mist) i. Stress and crowding — in most cases overcrowding — has been a theme running through the year 1947-48 at Wake Forest, as it has at all schools. And nowhere is it more noticable than in a study of the various de- partments of the College. The Lea Laboratory building, which houses the chemical paraphernalia, laboratories, classrooms, chem- istry faculty and students, is an old, ivy-covered build- ing which looks as though it grew from the earth of the campus as naturally as did the oaks and magnolias. The William Amos Johnson Building, which houses the department of biology, is more modern, constructed of brick and concrete and steel, which has not been here long enough to gather moss and ivy. True to form, the windows of these buildings have glowed late nights this year — generally with the lights used by pre-medics poring over embryos and dead cits and test-tubes and Bunsen burners. For here is the haunt of those students preparing to enter medical schools and those who are training to teach the sciences. Here, this year as every year, those students have re- ceived thorough training in both scientific theory and practice. H. Grady Britt, M.A., Ph.D Assistant ' Professor of Bit

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; the Heart of the College WAIT HALL The new Wait Hall, rebuilt alter the century-old unc burned in the middle 1930 ' s, is among the most distinguished of the campus buildings, from the stand- point of both architectural dignity and tradition. In it are located most of the administrative offices of the College; when we were at a low ebb in number of students during the second World War, it housed the centers of the liberal arts schools (excepting music and religion). The English office was a welcome haven on the mezzanine; at the north end on the first floor were the Latin and Greek offices and classrooms, on the second and third floors were the mathematics offices. On the top floor are still located the depart- ment of psychology and philosophy and the meeting- halls of the Euzelian and the Philomathesian Literary Societies. When the new conditions of stress after the War made a sudden need for expansion, the offices of both Registrar and Bursar ate their way through the walls of the first floor north, devouring the classrooms of Latin and Greek and the Latin office; though Professor Earp still keeps his office there. Professors of education, Memory and Bryan are leaching their courses in the building, and keep offices there. Gene W. Midiiv Assistant in Mathematics; Mrs Mary Suiter Memory, B.A., .!,, „„ in Mathe- matics; Emmett S. Ashoraft, M.A., Assistant ' i »i of Mathematics. James G. Carrc.il, M.A., Associah Pro) i oj Mathematics; Roland L. Gay. M.S., Assistant Pro essm oj Mathematics, K. T. Raynor, M.A., Assistant Pro- fesso, oj Mathematics.