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1952 Grid Info
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SUMMER NEWS
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Birthday For Medics
No. 12
Tuesday, August 5, 1952
Korean Solution
Geographer Blasts ation's Ignorance
If Americans would only learn something about georgaphy the United States would be more successful in peace and war, a noted geographer said yesterday in an interview at SC.
“Our ignorance of geography has made us a nation of isolationists, developed generals who "are not strategists and produced State Department men who are innocents abroad,” said Dr. George T. Renner, professor of geography at Columbia University Teachers College, who has been teaching *t SC this summer.
The Korean war could have been won in three months if we had paid any attention to the geography of Korea, Dr. Renner said.
Paratroops
"The Air Force should have a been permitted to drop paratroops on the Korean side of each of the eight bridges over the Yalu river. This would have prevented the North Koreans from obtaining reinforcements and supplies and kept out the Red Chinese and Manchurians and everyone else who has come in to help them.
“We might have suffered 10,000 casualities in such a paratroop operation and in the fortifying, supplying, and holding operations afterward, but we would have won the war relatively quickly. Now, ,it has dragged on two years and /e have more than 150,000 casual-
ties, The war has reached a point where the Russians can’t afford to let us win and we can’t afford to lose.
Reactivate
“We had two fine divisions of mountain troops in Italy in the last war. They haven’t been reactivated. So we have been beaten every time in the mountains of Korea where we have used flat-land troops.”
Dr. Renner, an authority on political and military geography, advocates what he calls adult geography.
“Few Americans know anything beyond elementary geography,” he said. “Adult geography bears the same relation to the grammar and high school study of this science as calculus bears to elementary number work in mathematics.
Russians
“We live in a geographical world, but be don’t think in terms of geography. But the Russians study it. And the Germans did.
“Americans win prizes on quiz shows for guessing £he names of our states and their capital cities.
“You can be sure that most Russian students know the location of every important defense industry in the United States and know more about our own country and the rest of the world than we do.”
kens to Assist itian Ceramics
Packaging Materials Class Set
Two-Day Institute For Manufacturers, Engineers at SC
A packaging and materials handling institute will be held at SC Aug. 13 and 14 for manufacturers with defense contracts and industrial engineers interested in more efficient factory operations.
The two mornings of Lectures in Founders hall will be presented in conjunction with the Western Packaging and Materials Handling Exposition in the Shrine auditorium Aug. 12-14.
Cooperating with SC in the institute will be the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Materials Handling Association of Southern California, Society for the Advancement of Management, Society of Industrial Packaging and Material® Handling Engineers, and Western Industry Magazine.
Speakers
Speakers the first morning will be Ray Pass, chief of the packaging section of the Air Materiel Command in Los Angeles; Ralph C. Butler, general manager, aircraft and export packaging division, Lyon Van and Storage Co.; J. D. Nunn, manager, shipping department, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and J,t. Col. Robert W. Johnson, chief of the packaging section of the Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson A1r Force Base, Ohio.
E. P. Troeger, supervisor of process engineering, Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., Santa Monica, (Continued on Page 4)
/ Glen Lukens, int®rnationally known ceramist and head of the department at fhe University of Southern California will leave the university August 10 after 19 years to become technical advisor for the International Labor Organization of Geneva, Switzerland.
His appointment by the organization, which is a division of the United Nations to assist small countries industrially, was made at the request of the Republic of Haiti. There Lukens will develop ceramics as a small industry among rural people.
Headquarters With headquarters at Port au Prince, Haiti, he will be returning to the country where from 1945 to 1947 he served the Department of i State in teaching the Haitians the
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Following the six-months appointment Lukens will return to California to continue his own research in ceramics.
Pioneer
In addition to being credited with establishing pottery as a home industry in • California Luckens is considered a pioneer in reviving ceramics and giving it a characteristic Westei-n identity.
During his 19 years at SC Lukens won many of the nation’s highest honors for his art. In addition to the coveted Charles Fergus Binns medal of honor for distinguished achievement from New York State College of Ceramics, he won first prize among competitors of 26 states given by the National Robineau Ceramic Society.
Awarded
The American Design Award in 1941 was presented to Lukens by Lord and Taylor for technical excellence, design and commercial importance.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Ceramics was awarded to him in 1939 by Oregon State College for outstanding achievement in his field.
He has exhibited in 29 museums of this country and in leading art center of Europe as well as at expositions in Paris, New York and San Francisco.
Ruffled SC Professor Tells Raffle Story
A mink stole—a parly for crippled children—an SC professor—nine raffle tickets — and then there were none.
I)r. Tema S. Clare, assistant professor of botany, attended a recent benefit for crippled children in Los Angeles. A mink stole was being raffled In an attempt to raise funds for the construction of an orthopedic hospital.
Accompanied by a gentleman guest, Dr. Clare purchased six chances, the guest three.
There wasn’t a more surprised person than the botanist when the winning number drawn was found to match one of the nine ducats held by the “gentleman.”
Accepting the mink stole, he gallantly presented It to Dr. Clare. That was Saturday.
Monday he returned . . . and departed with the stole.
Dr. Clare’s only condescending remark being . . . :
“The winning ticket was one of the three purchased by him, so it was rightfully his/’ she said. And laughingly she added that she had certainly discovered first hand the strange quirks of human beings.
No doubt the science snd study of plant life is much simpler for Dr. Clare than the study of people.
Test Bureau Head Named
Clues, Views On BeatLtke-Heat: Deuel
Beat-the-heat advice from an SC biochemist:
To keep cool, eat proteins and fats such as eggs, cheese, mayonnaise and salad dressings and cut down on carbohydrates (sugars) and starches like potatoes and bread.
Protein and fat eaten to-. getlier reduce body metabolism and give less feeling of heat than protein and carbohydrates combined in a meal, said Dr. Harry J. Deuel, dean of the SC Graduate School and one of the nation’s leading biochemists.
“Iced drinks won’t make you cool,” Dr. Deuel said. “T hey merely speed up metabolism until what you drink is warmed up to body temperature. This production of heat by the body to overcome the cold drinks will only make you feel warmer. It’s much better to drink something tepid.”
Coming Calendar
Lecture
Dr. Eleazer Kecky, professor of English, will speak on “Christopher Fry, Poet in the Theater” Thursday at 3:15 p.m. in 229 Founders hall. Sponsored by the department of English, this will he the next to last lecture in the series, according to Dr. Francis Christensen, chairman.
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Fisher
Permanent ^ exhibit of old masters is on display at Fisher Gallery of Fine Arts, 829 Exposition boulevard, Tuesday through Friday, 12:30 to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays.
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Swimming
Recreational swimming is open Monday through Friday lrom 12 noon to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 4 p.m. All gymnasium facilities are also available each Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7:30 to 10.
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Panel
“Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training for the Future” will be the panel discussion presented by the School of Education Monday at 3:15 p.m. in Hancock auditorium.
Shirley Hamrin, professor of education, Northwestern university; Arnold E. Joyal, president of Fresno State college; Reuben D. Law, professor of education and Dean of the College of Education, Brigham Young university; Frederick Mayer, professor of philosophy and Dean of George Pep-perdin college; and James G. Um-staddt, professor of secondary education and chairman of the department of instruction and curriculum, University of Texas, will compose the panel. W. Norman Wampler, superintendent of schools, Bellflower, will be the moderator.
Associate Professor Myron S. Olson is the chairman of the regular panel discussions.
Dr. W. B. Michael Receives Appointment To Two Positions
Dr. William B. Michael, psychologist, was appointed Director of the Testing Bureau and Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Southern California today.
Dr. Michael will assume his new duties in September, succeeding the late Dr. R. R. G. Watt. He will worfc under Dean of Students Bernard L. Hyink.
A graduate of SC with three degrees, Dr. Michael has been teaching psychology and education in University College, the late afternoon and early evening division of SC, during the past year. He has also been Research Associate in Psychology in the Social Science Division of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
•	Experience
He has taught mathematics at Caltech, John Muir College and SC. psychology at San Jose State College, and psychology three years at Princeton University where he was also a research associate of the College Entrance Examination Board of the Educational Testing Service.
He is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa and Psi Chi honorary fraternities, and a life member of the SC alumni association.
Dr. Michael is affiliated W'ith the American Psychological Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, Western Psychologi-' cal Association, Psychometric Society, Southern California Psychological Association, and American Association of University Professors.
Pasadenan
Dr. Michael is a native of Pasadena, the son of Prof. and Mrs. W. W. Michael. His wife, the former Martha Hennessey, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hennessey of Pasadena.
Dr. Michael was graduated from Pasadena high school and junior college and UCLA before attending SC. His SC degrees are Master of Arts, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy, the last conferred in 1947.
Student Gets Scholarship
Jean Louise Wel>ster, 26, who has wanted to be a lawyer since she was in grammar school in Orange county and her mother worked in a Santa Ana legal office, received the first $500 Phi Delta Delta scholarship to the SC School of Law.
A cum laude graduate of SC last June with a bachelor of arts degree and a major in economics, she is presently employed as a secretary in the finance department of the School of Commerce on the campus. She will enter the SC law school in September.
The study grant was established last fall by the Los Angeles alumnae chapter of Phi Delta Delta, women’s international legal fraternity, which was founded at SC 41 years ago.