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Wedberg Becomes Admissions Director
Conrad F. Wecjberg Jr. became director of admissions yesterday, Mulvey White, vice president for student and alumni affairs, announced recently.
Wedberg will direct admissions, registration and school relations in his new post. He succeeds Howard W. Patmore, who will continue in the capacity of associate director in anticipation of his retirement after 36 years with USC in the admissions office.
Wedberg, who was assistant registrar from 1930 to 1951. as sistant director of admissions from 1951 to 1956. has been as sistant to the director of the extension division in charge of
evening classes taught in downtown Los Angeles.
The new director of admissions is a graduate of Northwestern University anti USC, and is a candidate for the doctorate in secondary and higher education on the campus.
During World War II, Wedberg served in the Navy aboard a cruiser in the Pacific for a year and then was stationed in Shanghai and Tsingtao, China, as an officer training a Chinóse crew to run an infantry landing craft.
Wedberg and his wife. Elizabeth. whom he met at' Northwestern. live in Van Nuys with their four sons. They are Con-
WINS AWARD — Edgar Ewing, professor of fine arts, won top purchase award at the 10th Annual All-City Outdoor Art Festival. His painting, "The Anvil," sold
for $1,500. The price was the highest paid for any single art work at the exhibition. Painting is now on display at Tower Gallery. Here Ewing stands by his wo k.
Artist Wins Top $1,500 Award For Anvil Painting at Festival
Edgar L. Ewing, professor of j Ewing’s work, titled “The An-fine arts, recently received top vii” was sold for $1.500 at the purchase award for one of his festival. The painting was pur-paintings at the 10th annual Los chased by Millard Sheets for Angeles All-City Outdoor Art . Home Savings and Loan Asso-Festival.	eia t ion.______________
Dr. Garth Receives Curator Appointment; 4 Take Posts
Dr. John Garth, associate professor of biology, was recently appointed curator of the Allen Hancock scientific collections.
Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, director of the Allan Hancock Foundation, at the same time announced the appointments of Dr. Gerald Bakus as assistant curator, Dr- E. Yale Dawson as a research associate with the foundation. Dr. Arnold Dunn and Dr. Norman Lazaroff.
Dr. Garth will be the first
Noon Series Starts Today
Dr. Harold Briggs will initiate the English department's noon reading program for the summer with a collection of English and Scottish ballads. The reading will be given in FH 133 today at 12:30.
Eight readings will be offered during the summer session. They will feature James Joyce. Ralph Waldo Emeison, Henry David Thoreau and Phyllis McGinley among others.
full-time curator of the collections. He has been a research associate with the Hancock Foundation for 25 years.
In addition to the present collection, Dr. Garth will have charge of subsequent contributions made to the collet cion by Hancock Foundation scientists, including additions expected to come from USC’s share in current National Science Foundations probings in Antartic waters.
Dr. Bakus left a post at San Fernando State College to accept the assistant's job. He will also be an assistant professor of biology.
Dr. Dawson, who has been director of research of the Beau-dette Foundation of Solvang, will also be a professor of biology-
Dr. Dunn has been as assistant professor of physiology at New York University. At USC he will be an assistant professor of biology and will teach general and cellular physiology.
Dr. Lazaroff will come to USC from the British Columbia Research Institute. He will be an
assistant professor of_______biology
and will teach plant physiology.
The painting will be sent on tour around the Los Angeles area along with the runners-up in the festival.
Ewing has been with the department of fine arts since 1946. He studied drawing and painting at the School of Art Institute in Chicago and was awarded the Edward L. Ryerson fellowship in foreign travel and study in 1945.
During the war, he served in the US Army ‘Corps of Engineers in China, Burma, the Philippines and Japan.
He has worked independently, traveling throughout Europe, North Africa and England.
He has also served as a visiting professor of fine arts at the University of Oregon.
Researchers Edit, Publish New Bulletin
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His father, retired from the State Department of Education, was a consultant in speech correction in the special education division in Sacramento and formerly taught at the University J of Redlands. Pomona College, The first edition of Corr.mu- and USC- His mother foinrcerly nist Affairs,” a new publication was supervisor of speech in the of the USC research Institute ^°s Angeles County Schools, on Communist Strategy and A native of Chico, Calif., Wed-Propaganda. was printed recent- j attended elementary school
in Redlands and high school in San Bernardino.
Professor To Perform
Dr. Irene Robertson, associate professor of organ, will play a faculty recital in Bovard auditorium on Thursday at 2:43 p.m. for the School of Music in collaboration with the national convention of the American Guild of Oranists.	,
The head of the organ department of the School of Music will be assisted by the Los Angeles Concert Band, conducted by Gabriel Bartold, and William Kurasch, violinist, Enid Jacobsen, contralto, anti John F. Ellis, oboist.
The program will include Fan-tasie for Violin and Organ by Holler; Concerto for Organ and (('«uttRued ml Page ?)'
The bi-monthly review is co-j edited by Dr. Roger Swearingen,
; director of the institute, and Charles Malamuth, a research associate in the institute.
The magazine includes articles on Communist China and biographies on Soviet Premier Krushchev and Frol Koslov, described as the premier’s possible heir apparent.
Dr. Swearingen wrote the China article, while Malamuth was the author of the Krushchev story.
Other sections of the new journal deal with “Developments and Trends” and “Quotable quotes” concerning communism, and a review of Milovan Djilas' new book “Conversation with Stalin.”
“Communist Affairs” is designed to help the institute, established in 1961, fulfill its ! goals, including the provision of research material for academic ami government communities, the-editors said.
The institute also is providing a series of courses, lectures, seminars and workshops on communism for qualified teachers and school administrators in the summer session.
The summer session series is presented in cooperation with the Schools of Education and International Relations and the departments of [»olitical science rfn.f econ*»mics.
CONRAD WEDBERG JR.
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Newspaper To Be Late
The Summer Trojan will appear on the news stands Friday instead of Thursday thin week because of the July 4 holiday. Editor Dan Smith announced Friday.
The paper will resume its nor-mrl publication schedule next week. The newspaper will appear Mondays and Thursday until the end of July. In. August, the Summer Trojan will he published Tuesdays only, Siuicls said.