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SUMMER NEWS
No. 9
Los Angeles, Calif. ••**§??*
Monday, July 20, 1953
Official Says School Design is Important
The big news In the design and construction of school buildings is that schoolhouse planners are beginning to realize that children are people. Charles D Gibson, supervising field representative of the state department of education’s office of school planning, said so at SC Friday.
“As people they are greatly affected by the physical environment in which they must spend so much of their time,” Gibson told tho weekly school administration-su-pervision conference sponsored by the SC School- of Education.
“School rooms that provide generous floor area, properly-designed systems of heating, lighting and sound control have a direct effect upon the learning processes as well as the health and general welfare of both students and teachers,” he said.
“School planners a< last are beginning to recognize that th<? classroom and enviroiament should be designed as far as possible to permit the teacher to concentrate on her jpb with the students. Newer developments releaso the teacher from adjusting window blinefs and thermometers and permit her to work full time at the job for which she is a specialist.”
Multi-use of space has been made practical by new design of school equipment, Gibson said. He mentioned cafeteria tables and benches which fold back into wall niches, collapsible bleachers, combination typing and bookkeeping tables.
California is spending more than $200,000,000 a year to build schools and there is no sign of a letup for at least 10 years, said Charles Bursch, chief of the state’s division of schoolhouse planning. The state will spend $500,000,000 on high schools alone in the next decade, Ije said.
If the birth rate remains the same and the influx of new people into California levels off, the state finally will reach the time when it will be replacing only obsolete school buildings, Bursch said.
FACULTY CLUB
CHANCELLOR von KLEINSMID ... to moderate
Korea Subject Of Next Forum
Korea’s future will be probed at World Affair’s forum, which will be moderated by Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid Thursday at 2:15 in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
The practicality of a compromise solution as against absolute objectives which might be too high a price, is one phase the panel will explore, said a member who was preparing material.
Some of the lessons the Korean war has taught us in our efforts to construct a security, and what the Korean war holds as a precedent for the future will also be-discu6sed.
Members of the panel will be Ross N. Berkes, SC professor of international relations; Claude
A Buss, professor of political science, Stanford; and Raymond McKelvey, professor of politimi science, Occidental college.
Thanks! Says State Department
Dr. Marcuse Honored
Thanks for his pioneering work in presenting to the German people a picture of the highest American cultural achievements was expressed today by Dr. Ludwig Marcuse professor of German and philosophy at SC by the Department' of State.
l)r. Marcuse lias returned to SC alter a sabbatical leave in Germany during which he kM;-tured in America. Houses In more than 20 cities, did research for work in “The Rise of Modern Pessimism,” and studied the present state of German literature. His book already has been accepted for publication.
The U. S. foreign service said the SC professor succeeded in conveying to his audiences American concepts of democratic thinking. He spoke in German on American philosophy.
There is a “no man's laud” between the eastern and western zones of Berlin and estrangement between the two is growing daily, Dr. Marcuse said.
Politicians have changed their outlook since liM9, when he last was in Germany, he observed.
“When it was published four years ago, the handbook of the
German parliament containing the biographies of 420 congressmen invariably recited what they had suffered under Hitler," he said.
“The latest issue omits this, arid has returned to the use of titles.”
Dr. Marcuse cited the case of a high official of the biggest party. In 1949, this num’s biography read, “Dismissed from the educational service for political reasons.” In 1958 it said, “Retired from the educational service voluntarily.”
Dr. Marcuse, who was a critic in Germany before 1933, was depressed that the theater of his native country had not regained the eminence which it had enjoyed in the 20s.
“The university students are marvelo-us, though, and much better than in my time. They have a fresher approach without so many prejudices, but they are not as well educated as they were in the golden age of German universities at the turn vi the century.
“Fourteen years of Hitler separated them from the German tradition. I never knew you could stop a tradition so easily."
Dr. Young to Give Lecture Tomorrow
Dr. Frederic H. Young, visiting professor of philosophy from Rutgers university and New Jersey State Teachers college, will be the speaker at tomorrow noon’s weekly Faculty club luncheon, Program Chairman Myron S. Olsen has announced.
Speaking on “A Great Unknown American,” Dr. Young will speak in the faculty dining room of the Commons. He already has given two lectures this summer.
One was on “The Philosophy of Henry James i>r.,” and the other was the “Philosophical Aspects of Emanuel Swedenborg’s Theology.”
Reservations may' be made by calling Miss Barrett, Ext. 314, before noon tomorrow.
Dr. Young lectured by invitation last summer at the Universities of Innsbruck and Munich and then at the Free University of Berlin for the Ford foundation.
He founded in 1946 the Charles S. Peirce Philosophical Society, which has members on all continents of the northern hemisphere. Peiroa was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic and of the philosophy of science. He was recognized by Josiah Royce, William Jamies and John Dewey as the most original intellect in American philosophy.
Dr. Young is the author of “The Philosophy of Henry James Sr.,” a book that has been reviewed in 10 European countries, Japan and Australia, and is coming to be regarded as the definitive work on the father of William James, psychologist-philosoplier, and Henry James, novelist-critic.
Panel Today On Proteges
“Educa tion of Exceptiohal Children” will be discussed by five professors at SC today in Hancock auditorium at 1:15 p.m.
Dr. Earl F. Carnes, associate professor of education at SC, will moderate the panel discussion. Speakers will be Victor Garwood, assistant professor of speech at SC; Milton Scliwebel, associate professor of education, New York University; John M. Stephens, professor of education, John Hopkins University; and Lillian Wagenheim, lecturer in education at SC.
Education Notice
Application for student teaching assignments for the Fall semester 1953, or the Spring semester 1054 may be filed anytime during the week beginning today. Students who plan to do directed teaching next fall should contact the Office of Directed Teaching in 353 Administration building at once to make an appointment for application and interview.
Those who have papers on file arid have not yet taken Directed Teaching should reactivate their application» at this time.
Director of Student Teaching W. B. Cannon
SHOWN PREPARING for the Thursday opening of "An Inspector Calls" are from left to right standing, Cherie Brigham, Lo\jna Belle Courtney, Frank Andersen and Roy Dancer. Seated is Joseph Magrum while Director Herbert M. Stahl at far right poses the group.
InspedorCalls Opens Three-Day Run Thurs.
Frank Andersen to Star in Priestley Mystery;
Herbert M. Stahl to Direct Bovard Staging
“An Inspector Calls,” the major summer production of the drama department, will open at Bovard auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The mystery-fantasy written by J. B. Priestley will have three performances and will star Frank Andersen, last seen in Priestley’s “Dangerous Corner,” as the mysterious Inspector Goole.
As Arthur Birling, the wealthy tycoon who confesses to starting Eva Smith on the road which ended in suicide, will be Joseph Magrum.
Miss Louna Belle Courtney will play Sib#l, Birling’s wife and .partner in the so-called crime which the Inspector was called to Investigate.
Other members of the cast are Giles Robinson, in the role of Gerald Croft; Cherie Brigham will be seen as the yourig Miss Birling; Roy Dancer, appearing as Eric Birling, son of the wealthy family; and Beverly Stewart, as Edna the maid.
Herbert M. Stahl, director of the two previously presented Priestley plays, “Dangerous Corner” and “Laburnam Grove,” will direct this work by England’s leading playright.
“An Inspector Calls” enjoyed an extended, run in New York in 1947, and was seen the pnevious season in London. It has been sold in 18 foreign countries since that time.
It portrays Priestley at his best. He lulls the audience into a false sense of relaxation by his quiet, humorous development, and then suddenly confronts them with almost unbearable suspense.
Final Day for Reservations
Today ft the deadline to make reservations for the Education Alumni Association Summer Roundup dinner, according to Alumni President M. R. Stokesbary.
** Reservations for the annual affair, which will be held Wednesday evening at 6 at the Commons dining room, may be made at the School of Education office, 3rd floor, Administration building, until 5 p.m. today. The price of the dinner is $1.90.
Dr. Joseph A. Lauwerys, visiting professor in the School of Education, will be guest speaker. He will speak on “The Social Position of the Teacher.” Dr. Lauwerys is a professor of comparative education aj the University of London.
Alumni assopiatlon members and friends are invited to attend.
Gallery Tour To Highlight Art Lecture
A gallery tour of the collected works of Georges Rouault, contemporary French artist, at the L.A. County Museum will climax tomorrow’s lecture in the Religion in Life Series,
Donald B. Goodall, head of., the department of fine arts, will conduct the tour after a short lecture at 3:15 in the Doheny art and lecture room.
The topic of the lecture is “Religious Expression in 20th Century Art.”
Because we have a fine opportunity to witness first hand the works of the greatest art-is of the 20th century, I thought the students would benefit more by a tour than slides,” said Goodall.
“There are some 200 paintings of this deeply religious artist currently on-display at the Museum and I think the trip wiW bo worthwhile,” he said.
“The opening lecture will be an introductory statement on the nature of contemporary religions expression in present day visual art and then I he group will walk over and tour the Museum.
The collection was formed jointly by the New York and Cleveland Museums of Fine Arts and has been augmented by contribution from private collections. It wili be at the Museum until Aug. 16.
The Religion in Life Series is sponsored jointly by the faculty of the School of Religion, University Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman, and the Protestant Adviser’s Association.
Last lecture in the series will be Aug. .11 when The Rev. Edmund G. Kreuger and Professor of Education Edward H. La Fran-chi will discuss “Parochial Education in Our Day.”