LICE ENLIST AID OF NEWS DRIVE TO HALT THEFTS
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ven new department heads appointed
Money, typewriters among stolen items
OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ummer
News
-Night RI-5471 Monday, August 18, 1947
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NO. 22
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*y brought along a dossier of the latest cases coi>'^
iversity s growth
appointment of seven new department heads in the expansion program of the sity was announced Friday by Chancellor Rufus B. .von KleinSmid. luded among the 58 new faculty members are two deans, previously announced, over their new duties for the first time in September, Dr. Lewis F. Steig, dean Graduate School of Library Science and Dean Sheldon B. Elliott of the School
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0 meeting d to plan convention
the avowed purpose of sift-feeling,s of southern Cali-students on the vital phases •aft constitution and its by-egional members of the Na-Students organization met ek and drew up a ILst of 10 s confronting the group.
Its of the work of commit-ld discussions arising out of uggestions will be presented
DiANE LOCKHART . . for internationalists
« NSO constitutional conven-schoduled for Madison, Wise., 30 to Sept. 8.
Lot-khart Appointed ane Lockhart, SO representa-heading the interim connnit-(Conliitu<‘d on I'itge Throe)
lidiiciJlor's
Notice
U offices ot the University be closed on Monday, Sept. 1947, for the purposing of cel-•ating Laix)r Day, according to
announcement from Dr. Ru-B von KleinSmid, chancel-
01 ficej will reopen Tuesday,
2 for business.
New Commandant
Captain B. K. Culver was re- j cently appointed commandant of I the campus NROTC unit.
New departmental heads include Dr. John D. Gaffey who will head the department of mar- I keting. Dr. Gaffey was formerly the regional economist of the Pa- j cific southwest area of the fed- j eral department of commerce.
Dr. Kenneth C. Reynolds, lor-merly with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will become head of the general engineering department and will be In charge of the cross-connection research project.
Electrical Engineering Another new appointment is that of Dr. George Harness who will become head of the SC electrical engineering department. He was previously connected with Columbia university.
Another appointment previously announced was that of Clarence E. Sawhill as head of the Trojan band and chorus.
A new director of student health was included in the announcement from Chancellor von KleinSmid's office. Dr. Elwood C. Davis assumes the same post he previously held at the University of Louisville.
From Letlerman The clinical training division of the department of occupational therapy will be headed by Mary L. Berteling, now head of the screening board at Letterman hospital in San Francisco^
Formerly with RCA research division, Dr. R. F. Baker will now have charge of the campus election miscroscope activities, according to the announcement.
Approximately 60 lecturers and assistants will be added to the
staff in culty.
addition to the new la-
Aldridge calls Ben Franklin philosopher'
Determined to enlarge upon the average person's idea of Benjamin Franklin as the forerunner of the modern day Rotarian, Dr. Alfred Owen Aldridge Wednesday afternoon will portray the colonial day statesman es a philosopher of no small ability, taking a leading role in the development of 18th century philosophy and thinking throughout the world.
The lecture is scheduled for 3:15 J p.m. Wednesday in the art and ! lecture room of the University li-J brary.
Benjamin Franklin once answered a famous theological work of England with such philosophic skill and knowledge that he has been regarded Dy scholars, but not the public, as a philosopher of high merit.
Dr. Aldridge, long a student and instructor on 18th century thinking, intends, through the examination of this work by Franklin, to establish Franklin in his place in the development of philosophy during that penod.
Dr. Aldridge is currently on the SC summer staff, having left his position as associate professor at the University of Buflalo. In the fall, he will go to the University of Maryland to assume a professorship. In tlie past, he has done numerous published articles for scholar-type publications dealing with philosophers, thinkers, and the history surrounding them.
Detective Sgts. F. O. Ellis and H. W. Harper, burglar/; and theft detail from the University Park police station* climbed to the fourth floor offices of the Summer Newf last Thursday to enlist the aid of this paper in a fight t<l stem the alarming wave of petty thefts currently sweep* ing the SC campus.
They
ness in cataloging personal property identifications and carelessness in watching wallets and purses were princt^ pally responsible for the police department’s failure to obtain convictions or recover stolen property.
Chari Haddad was practicing with the choir in Bovardj left her purse containing $69 on a music stand, returned txj
find the purse and money gone, j Johannes Beliak left his wallet in a locker in the RE. buUdinfl failed to lock the door when ha left, fell prey to a sneak thief wlvj stole the wallet and $30 of Bel* lak’s precious board money. I Hsiu Hsia's graduate study cubicle on the third floor of th4 University library was broken ini to and his portable typewritef taken. Hsia could not supply th^ police with the serial number and therefore Sergeants Ellis 'and Har* per were placed at an extremal disadvantage in any recovery pro* ccdure they might pursue.
••Undoubtedly,” said Sergeant Ellis, “this typewriter will turij up in some pawn shop, but with* out the serial number how call
JEAN ROCKWELL HUNT
. . . fresh fields
Appoint Hunt to COP staff
Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, who two years ago retired as dean of the SC Graduate School, last week received an appointment as visiting professor of history at the College of Pacific in Stockton.
.The dean emeritus ol the Graduate School was asked by Dr. Robert E. Burns, president ol the northern college, to come up and “free lance” in the field of California history. College of Pacific is currently engaged in the rebuilding of a ghost town for its 100th anniversary. Part of Dr. Hunt’s work will be in the development of the Early California History oun-dation, which was organized and headed by Dr. Burns, a one-time SC man.
Dr. Hunt wu3 the son of pioneers who came to CaUornia in 1850. For 10-years he was the president of the Historical Society of Southern California.
Wrenn to talk on guidance
Disclosing last week that he would point out educators’ failure to do their jobs as the reason for quacks in the guidance field, Dr. C. Oilbert Wrenn, who has recently been a professor of psycnology at the University of Minnesota and Is now on the SC summer statf, planned his talk before the Administration club luncheon meeting tomorrow noon in tlie basement of the Student Union.
“We are fighting quacks a n d charlatans all the time in educa-
tion,’' Dr. Wrenn said Friday. "We are just going to have to set up legitimate agencies to do the work that is being otfered by these cracks.”
Actual title of the presentation by Dr. Wrenn will be, "Four Essentials in Guidance,” in which he intends to stress the point of view needed in school systems, the series of guidance services that should be offered. the problems of combining teacher and specialist work uuder single jobs, and the
needs of actual materials and space
Last year, the educator retired as president of the National Vocational Guidance a isociation, hs-sumtng tins year the post of president for the American College Personnel Association. Dr. Wrenn : formerly was on the Stanford uni-! versity .staif, serving in the navy during the war a> a personnel of-| ftcer in the Pacific.
Reservations for tomorrow noon 1 must be in Administration 3.»5 by 12 a.m. today.
we make positive identification?.
Loses Purse
Eunice Rosenblatt lost iMf purse and $106 when she lef$ her handbag unattended on tfc desk in Old College.
Tne two detectives expressed amazement at two main simllarl* ties between the victims —• thi carrying of such large sums o| money and tlie almost naive di*1 regard for simple precautionar; measures to be taken in carin for personal property.
“We want to whip these thefts/* Sergeant Harper asserted, “but thft students have got to become a^ ware oi the existing situation and make a conscious effort to pro* tect themselves. By doing so, they; will not only avoid personal lossel but will produce a state on thfl campus where thievery becomes & dangerous and unprofitable pur* suit.”
Shows Increase
A marked increase, following an almost seven-week cycle, has beefy noted by the University police (Continued on Page Four)
Engelhardt speech to close series «i\
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Tlie concluding lecture in 4 series sponsored by the School of Education will be given this aft* ernoon by Dr. Nickolaus L. En-galliardt, visiting professor of ed* ucaUon. Titled “Public Eduoa* tion — America’s Safeguard,” thi talk is scheduled for 3:15 in *>3 Administration.
Dr. Engelhardt is associate aup-| { ■’‘ni-'iidont of schools for Brook* lyn and a member of the board oi education hi New York. He received his A.B. in 1903 at Yal« university and his Ph.D. at Columbia university in 1918.
The talk will be the last in ft j program of lectures presents^
: throughout the Summer Sessioii j by the School of Education unde»
| the chairmanshi • of Dr. Cyrus LaCrone Jr., a ant profess©# ot education.