Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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go Og? In a third floor lab of the Science hall, florescent bulbs burn softly, heads bend industriously over dissecting pans, and piles of chelipeds, walking legs, mandibles or other parts from biological specimens cover the tables. These general biology labs meet every afternoon of the school week. Aside from actual animals used in labs, new equipment was pur- chased this year. Wall charts, colored lantern slides, an opaque pro- jector, incubators for use in embriology and bacteriology and a new seed bed for the use of botany students were added in labs on the first and third floors. Two courses added to the department this year are Economic Biology and Conservation of our Natural resources. Myron L. Simpson A. B., American U., Sc. D., johns Hopkins Professor of Biology, Chairman of the department Lucile B. Frey B. S., Westminster, M. S., Michigan, Assistant Professor of Biology Donald C. Hartman B. S., Ohio State, A. M., Ibid Assistant Professor of Biology

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!9!LiL50l0Ag 19 Two special projects of each year are the Week of prayer, in which the college and community groups join in religious services, and Spiritual Emphasis Week in the fall. This year Dr. Lee Edwin Walker of Pittsburgh was the speaker. During the latter a special speaker holds daily chapel and evening services and individual student conferences. Bible school, Christian Youth Fellowship, Karux, comprise the or- ganized campus groups for students interested in religious service. C. Robert Kelly A. B., Tarkiog B. D., McCormick Seminary, M, Ed., Pittsburgh Instructor in Bible Ioseph M. Hopkins B. M., VVestn1inster, ThB., Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, M. Ed., Pittsburgh. Instructor in Bible Wayne H. Christy A. B., Westminster, ThB., Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Tl1M Ibid., A. M., Duke, PhD., Pittsburgh Dean of Men and Associate Professor of Bible

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A .X Mrs. Frey answers questions of students in an advanced biology lab. For elementary students and non-majors as well as its own stu- dents, the department showed moving pictures covering the fields of health and hygiene. In cooperation with Beta Beta Beta, the biological museum was renovated and anqidentification of the trees on campus was posted. A project of the advanced hotany class was raising flowers and plants in the Science hall. The hotany students experimented with hor- mones, adding them to the plants and checking the reactions of these hormones upon the growth of the plants. Orchids and other plants equally as difficult to cultivate were grown in the experiments. Non-majors taking biology made collections of insects, leaves and spring Howers which were collected from the surrounding country or on organized field trips. A tropical fiish club for both majors and non-majors was organized during the second semester. William Gilkey served as president with lVilliam Dye as SPCl'6t2tI'y-tl'6'2lSlll't'1'.