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SIMMER NEWS
No. 13
Los Angeles, Calif.	™
Monday, Aug. 3, 1953
WEEKLY SERIES
Public Lecture Scheduled for Thurs. at 2:15
a weekly lectures series scheduled for Thursday afternoons during the Post-Session, will begin Thursday with Professor Lionel Stevenson, head of the English department speaking on “Merideth and the Modern Reader” at 2:15 in the art and lecture room of Doheney library.
The lecture series is open to the public.
Professor Stevenson was a"Vis-iting professor at the University of Illinois last year while on special leave of absence from SC. Two years ago he spent a half-year in England gathering material for his biography on George Merideth which will soon be released. It is called “The Ordeal of George Merideth.”
Merideth was a late nineteenth century novelist and poet who was widely read 50 years ago. He is not well-known today, Professor Stevenson said because ‘‘he has the false reputation of having a style difficult to read.”
Thursday, Aug. 13, Professor Bruce R. McElderry, English department, will give a “Report on England.” McElderry was in England last fall and will present a resume of his trip.
Closing the series on Aug. 20, I Frederick Mayer, visiting professor of philosophy from tliejUniversity of Redlands, will spefk on “Morals and Civillza-
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Df[ Mayer was graduated from SC in 1942 and received his doctor of philosophy degree here in 1944 at the age of 22. He is regarded by some as America’s most brilliant young philosopher. He is the author of 6 books on philosophy which have been translated into 10 languages.
AF Workshop Starts at SC
Nineteen U. S. Air Force officers from colleges and universities in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Hawaii, which have 6tudent units of the 11 Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps, will start a two-weeks workshop at SC today to discuss the new courses they will teach this fall.
Major Robert L. Nixon, US AF, assistant professor of air science and tactics at SC, will direct the workshop. He will have Ur. Totton J. Anderson, associate professor of political science at SC, a reserve Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, as a consultant.
The Air Force has called similar meetings of instructors all over the nation to improve their teaching proficiency and acquaint them fully with the new courses of study.
•	—Courtesy k.A. Times
EX-TROJAN PAUL COOPÉR and his bride of three months are shown looking at his overture which will be premiered tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl.
Ex-Trojan's Overture to Be Premiered in Bowl'
Before ex-Trojan Paul Cooper and his bride of three months leave for Europe they will hear the premiere performance of the young composer’s overture which the Hollywood Bowl commissioned for the Family Night concert.
Cooper received a Fulbrlght Scholarship almost simultaneously with obtaining his Master of Arts degree in music at SC last month. The scholarship will give him :i year’s study in I'aris.
En route to France, the couple will go to Edinburgh to hear per-iormanees of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” by the Glynde-bourne Festival Opera conducted by Alfred Wallenstein, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Carl Ebert, father of Mrs. Cooper and
an SC instructor, produces the festival productions at Glynde-bourne and Edinburgh.
The Family Night concert which is opened with Cooper's new overture will present three young California artists who have won many honors of national importance:	Georgia Laster, so-
prano; Stanley Plummer, violinist, and John Browning, pianist. Their average age is 26. John Barnett, music director ..of the Hollywood Bowl, will conduct.
Any family, regardless of size, will be admitted to the Family Night Concert for one Starlight night (50c) ticket and the largest family in Southern California will be admitted free and a bus will call for the group and return them home after the concert.
SC Also Asks City to Vacate 36th Street
SC has asked the city to close University avenue to ve* hicular traffic between Exposition Blvd. and W. 34th St., and to vacate W. 36th St. from Hoover St. to Hoover Blvd.[ with the exception of the part that crosses University Ave!
If this is done, it will make the campus more like a University campus should he,
the city was told. These streets, which have been heavily travelled through the heart of the campus, will then be safer for students and faculty anil staff members to cross.
If University Ave. is elosed off at each end and where various side streets such as 35th St., 35th Place, 36th Place and 37th St. now enter it, it will be because SC owns all the property on both sides of the avenue. The side streets themselves cannot be closed off because the University does not own all the property on them or within one block of the avenue.
If VV. 36 th St. is vacated, it will mean that the city will deed its title and occupancy of the street to the University. SC can then do as it wishes with the street, after making some provision for the water and power and other utility lines that might lie under it.
University Ave. would remain city property even if it were closed to traffic.
SC Film-TV Symposium Opens Today
A special two-weeks symposium on "The Role of the Film in Educational Television” will open at the SC department of cinema today for audio-visual coordinators, school teachers, community leaders and film and TV producers.
Dr. Dallas W. Smythe, of the University of Illinois, a nationally-recognised leader in the field of educational TV, will direct the discussions.
He is a research professor of Communications and a professor of economics at Illinois who has been director of studies for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters since 1948.
He is also a consultant to the communications research project of the National Council of Churches, and has been consulted frequently by the Federal Communications Commission regarding problems of educational TV channels.
Participating in the workshop will be Hal Adelquist, story editor, Walt Disney Studios, Burbank; Glenn BurPh, director of experimental discussion project, Ford Foundation; Dr. Franklin Fearing, professor of psychology, UCLA; Dr. James D. Finn, head of the audio-visual education department, SC.
Robert O. Hall, SC assistant professor of cinema and education and president of the Audio-Visual Education Associations of California; Klaus Landsberg, general manager, KTLA-TV; Kalph Lovell, kinescope recording supervisor, NBC-TV, Hollywood; Nicholas Itose, director of cinema research, SC?, and Walter Hicks, vice president, Reeves Sound Co., New York, will also take part.
Post-Session Registration Ends Tuesday
Today and tomorrow mark the last two days students may register for the four-week Post-Session which starts today.
The registration office in Owens Annex, Door B, wUl be open from 8:15 until 4:30. Registration material and permits are available there, said Dean- John D, Cooke.
Roy E. Simpson, state superintendent of Public Instruction, will teach City and District School Organization and Administration. The class , will be held from 10:50 to 12:10 MTYVFT in Annex 109.
Simpson has been in public school administration since 1919 and was super intendent of schools in Santa Cruz and South Pasadena. He received his Ph.D. in 1948 from College of the Pacific. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California.
Visiting professors include Fred A. Baer, education; E. Allen Bateman, education, Salt Lake; Roland Baughman, library science, Columbia; A Craig Baird, speech, Iowa State; C. C. Colvert, education, University of Texas; Shirley Cooper, education; Norvell R. R. Dice, education; Lionel De Silva, education; Mildred Fletcher, education; Fay Frisch, music; J. Lyman Goldsmith, education; Jessie Graham, education.
Edward O. Guerrant, general studies, Davidson college, N.C.; Earl K. Hillbrand, education; Frank Hodgson, education, San Diego State; James M. Hughes, education, Northwestern; Archie Jones, music, University of Texas; Joseph Lauwerys, education, University of London; Alice Loh-rer, library science; Jack McClellan, education; Sterling M. Mur. rin, philosophy, University of Utah.
Loren Mozley, fine arts, University of Texas; W. H. Orion, physical education; D. Ross Pugmire, education, University of Oklahoma; E. V. Pullias, education, Fcpperdine; Johannes music, NYIJ; Dallas Smythe, cinema, Illinois; Dave Taxis, education; Vivien Teubner, education; Finest Thackers, General Studies; George Wakefield, education; Jane Warters, education; and Lloyd F. Webster, education.
The maximum number of units Post-Session graduate students can take is five, if the course numbers are below 500. If the course is numbered 500 or al>ove, four units is the maximum.
Undergraduate students will he allowed a maximum of five units it the courses are 400 or below.