Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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ART One of the most active departments on Western ' s campus is the Art department. Although its staff has been reduced by the war, it still offers a large variety of courses in design, painting, and modeling. The department is headed by Miss Lydia Sied- schlag who is largely responsible for planning the interior decoration of Western ' s newer buildings. One of her special projects this year has been redecorating the new president ' s home on campus. During the ' year Mr. John Kemper published an article titled Marionettes in the School Arts magazine. He also exhibited paintings in the Kalamazoo Artists Exhibition and in the Michigan Lydia Siedschlag Hazel Paden Artists Exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Miss Hazel Paden, who is a member of the National Association of Women Artists, exhibited her water color paintings in New York this year. PUBLICITY Homer Dunham Blanche Draper The Publicity department can claim partial responsibility for the growth of Western in recent years. Theirs is a combination publicity and public relations job, for they write all the articles about Western for outside press associations and the pamphlets for the school. Miss Blanche Draper has served twenty-seven years, and Mr. Homer Dunham sixteen in this busy department. BUSINESS EDUCATION Edna Whitney John Brickner Agnes Anderson Western ' s Business Education department, an outgrowth of the previous Commerce department, has expanded rapidly in the last few years. Its faculty personnel has been increased to six mem- bers to accommodate the students who are major- ing in this field. The newest addition to the staff is Mr. Paul Kircher who took his undergraduate work at the University of New Mexico. This year the department has arranged a four- year degree course in secretarial administration for majors in office training and a curriculum for the training of coordinators and teachers of coopera- tive business education for Michigan high school vocational departments. Dr. Hanna, who is on leave of absence from the department, is now the commanding officer of the Depauw University V-12 unit as well as the Navy units at the University of Indiana and the Uni- versity Medical School. Mr. Glen C. Rice has been elected president of the Michigan Vocational Education Association. 27

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SOCIAL SCIENCE Nancy Scott Jame: i Knauss Edith Seekell Davis Shilling George Comfort Otto Yntema Howard Bigelow Arthu r Manske Leonard Kercher Floyd Moore Charles Starring Robert Bowers That Western ' s Social Science department is concerned with the changing demands of world conditions on edu- cation is evidenced by its wilhngness to supplant its regular history, sociology, economics and political science courses with such new courses as a survey of comparative economic systems, economics of reconstruction, and origins of the present war. These courses have aimed, as have the traditional ones in the field, to give the student a thorough background and understanding of the impor- tant problems facing the world today and to lead him to see the solution of some of them. One of the college ' s most interesting instructors was added to the Social Science department this year. He is Dr. Robert Friedmann, a native of Vienna, Austria, who came to the United States in 1940. Dr. Friedmann graduated from the University of Vienna and taught in the Gymnasia there and also studied and taught at Yale and Goshen college before coming to Western. Another newcomer to the department is Dr. Margaret B. MacMillan, who happens to be the daughter of Western ' s Dr. Smith Burnham, head of the history department for a number of years, and the niece of Dr. Ernest Burnham who organized the Rural Education department here. Dr. MacMillan has taught history at Western for the past three trimesters. Although they ' re rather modest concerning their achievements, the other members of the department have found time this year, in spite of their extra teaching loads, to add to their impressive list of books and articles published, lectures given, and studies made. The school is justly proud of them and what they are accomplishing. Gerald Osborne Robert Eldridgc Western ' s Chemistry department serves a variety of functions in preparing students to teach highschool chem- istry and in giving the basic courses necessary for those going into specialized fields, graduate work, medicine, dentistry, or engineering. It also gives vocational chem- istry to medical technologists and laboratory technicians, and special chemistry courses for home economics stu- dents and Bronson nurses. More recently the Chemistry department has taught Navy students the chemistry of engineering materials course required in their V-12 program. An additional function of the Chemistry department is to furnish chemicals and chemical information to the Health Service and other departments on campus. The department is headed by Dr. Gerald Osborn who was honored this year by being appointed consultant in teaching of phyical science to the West Virginia state board of education. 26

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MEN ' S PHYSICAL EDUCATION Judson Hya] Herbert Read Frank Householde Robert Quiring One of the major tasks of Western ' s Men ' s Physical Education department this year has been to work in close cooperation with the Navy and its officers in training the V-12 unit stationed here. Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of physical fitness, strength, an d ability to take it, and training has included p.t with its strength and endurance tests, calesthenics, march- ing and swimming. Some of these policies have carried over to the civilian physical education courses. The department also provides and supervises intramural and intercollegiate athletics for those ALUMNI SECRETARY students wishing to participate. Mr. Judson Hyames, director of athletics, has announced plans for an extensive postwar expan- sion program. Included in these is a large field house to be built in Kanley park which will con- tain a new basketball floor and seating space for 8,000 spectators, a 220-yard indoor track, and a full indoor diamond for early baseball practice. In the space around the field house will be football and baseball fields, tennis and badminton courts, and an archery range. Plans are also being drawn up for a 75-foot, six-lane swimming pool in the Men ' s gym where the baseball pit is now housed. Carl Coope Mr. Carl Cooper, secretary of Western ' s Alumni Association, has the important work of maintain- ing contact with and friendly relations between Western and its ever-growing number of alumni. As a part of this work, Mr. Cooper edits the Western Michigan News magazine which is pub- lished and sent to the alumni four times a year. PHYSICS iiMI . Walter Marburger Albert Munk Grover Baker Gordon Blaisdell Since July 19-43, the Physics department has been engaged almost exclusively in training of Navy V-12 and Marine trainees. During this period the average enrollment was 500 students. To meet this situation, Mr. Grover Baker, Mr. Jacob DeWitt, Mr. Albert Munk, and Mr. Milton Sizer were added to the department faculty. The Physics department functioned under new Jacob DeWil leadership this year when Dr. Paul Rood took over the duties of department head to replace Mr. Fox who retired at the end of last year. Since the Navy program has been installed the variety of courses ofi ered by the department has been somewhat limited. However, this year, in addition to the military physics courses, astronomy, photography, and household physics were given. 28