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

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, Sankev I. Blanton, Ih.M. SIM.. 1)1), ' ,,, , ssoi of Religion; J. Allen Easlly, Th.M., 1)1), Professoi of Religion; Owen F. Herring, MA. Th.M., Th.D., Professor of Religion; Marc H. Lovelace, Th.M., Th.D., Associate Ptofessot oj Religion; Claude K (look, MA , Instructoi in Music; Thane E. McDonald, Mus.B., Mus.M., Directoi 0} Music. The Departments of Religion and Music The Music-Religion building, most recently-con- structed of the classroom buildings on the campus, con- tains, on the first floor, the offices of the Dean of the school of Religion, Dr. Sankey Lee Blanton, and of the other professors in the department. Here also are taught the courses in religious history, literature and theoretical theology. Drs. Easley, Love- lace and Herring, Instructors Glass and Scofield, with Dr. Blanton, complete the staff. On the first floor, in addition to the classrooms, are a religion library and the small chapel, a well-appointed auditorium in which various religious gatherings are held. The basement houses a recreation room, a kitchen and a small room in which Baptist Student L ' nion committee meetings are held. Here is the nucleus of the teaching of religion — as a subject — in the classroom. But religion is to be seen everywhere in the life of Wake Forest College, which has not strayed from its lights of a forward-moving and wide spirit since the day it first opened its doors. On the second floor of this same building is the home of Wake Forest ' s department of music. In a large central room our superb Glee Club rehearses, under the direction of Professor of Music Thane McDonald. Here too are classrooms and practice rooms, with the playing of records and pianos and the rehearsal of sopranos, basses, a contralto and occasionally one for- lorn tuba all combining in a din which gives the proper conservatory atmosphere to the place at any hour of the day and many of the night. The Wake Forest music department is another of the outstanding examples of the beautiful achievement of a school which has been small but is growing rapidly — both in quality and in size.

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II III, 3 rf 31 t m The department of mathematics is going; full blast on the second floor north and on the third floor, where the department head. Prof. H. A. Jones, and Professors Carroll, Raynor and Gay keep desks. Lois Johnson, M.A., Associate Professor of French; Nell Dim tin, M.A., Instructor in Spanish; James C. O ' Flahertv, M.A.. Inslructm m German: Marcel E. Delgado, B.A., Th.M., Instructor in Spanish: Robert M. Helm. Jr.. MA.. Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Ray L. Greene. B.A.. reaching Fellow in Latin. Harold D. Parcell, M.A., Ph.D.. ft» .iw French: Alberi ( :. Kim, M.A., Ph.D., Prqfesso) oj Philosophy; Hubert M. Poteat, M.A., Ph.D., Prqfessoi oj Lain, The department of philosophy, on the south end of the third floor, a neighbor of the hall of the historic Euzelian Literary Society, is superbly equipped. The Bernard Spilman seminar room, furnished with several desks and a large conference table, shelves a fine phi- losophical collection. Here Professors Reid and Helm hold forth through the thick and thin of delicate philosophical discussion and here they guide bewildered students through the labyrinths of psychological analyses. On the floors below, the teachers of French and Spanish hold their classes (shunting German and Greek off to the Music-Religion building). Dean of Women Lois Johnson and Professor of French Harold Parcell, with Instructors Mrs. Sam Tarleton, Mrs. Paul Mabe and Walter Harris, teach a large group of students of French. Miss Nell Dowtin, with Instructors Delgado and Watts, teaches Spanish; while Professor of German O ' Flaherty teaches that subject — irregular verbs and all. Dr. Hubert Poteat ' s classes in Latin are held in this end of the building; he shares an office on the ground floor with Dr. Parcell. L ' pstsirs, on the second floor, are the cubicles in which the other instructors stay between classes. In the rotunda (on the south side) are the offices of Dr. Kitchin, Dean Bryan and Dean Johnson. The changes in Wait Hall are characteristic of the many necessary shifts from one place to another during the last few years on this campus, to make room for the expanded work Myron L. Kocher and Waiter F. Harris, Instructors m French; R. Johnson Watts. Instructor in Spanish. Not pictured: Mrs Grace A. Mabe and Mrs. Cleo Tarleton, Instructors in French,

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The Departments of English and Physics Certain members of the English department are fond of telling how its head. Dr. H. B. Jones, was ac- costed shortly after the departments of English and physics took over the old Alumni Building. I v .1 stu- dent looking for Dr. Speas. Dr. Jones looked around the third-floor English offices, then turned to the boy and said: Downstairs, sir. The physics department never gets this close to heaven. The Alumni Building is one of Wake Forest ' s most ancient relics. First used as medical classrooms when the School of Medicine was located there, it was closed for some time, but finally had to be re-opened to accom- modate classes in physics and English. Drs. Speas and Parker have the first floor to them- selves, their students and their apparatus, and they share part of the second floor with English classrooms. The third floor holds the English offices, conference and seminar rooms and the Little Theatre room, which also served in the Spring semester as a Shakespeare classroom for a record 76-member class. Perhaps because of the unity of interests, perhaps because of the fact that more than two-thirds of the enrolled student body have taken English courses each semester this year, this department is one of the most pleasantly-remembered of the sections of the liberal arts school. Its gentle, generous, pipe-smoking staff work together in a concord which is pleasant to behold — and a joy under which to work. Summarizing, a tour of the departments and the buildings of the academic Wake Forest, points out strikingly that in 1947-1948 the institution, as a school, has labored under stern conditions, and has kept at the same high level its outstanding grade of achievement. The Alumni Building H. Broadcs Jones. M.A.. Ph.D.. Professor of English; Edgar E. Fi.ik. M.S.. Ph.D., Associati Professm oj English. Dalma A Brown, M.A., Assistant Professor of English; Henry L. Snuggs, M.A., Ph.D.. Associate Prqfessoi of English; Gerald G. Grubb, M.A.. Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of English; Justus C. Drake, M.A.. Instructor in English; Andrew L. Aycock, M.A.. Assistant P ■ English. Mrs. Beui mi L. Raynor, MA: M« B.S. in L.S.: Jack W. Futrell, MA: B.A.. Instructors in English.