1,054,397
C in Gifts.
Awarded Grants
Will Aid
Research ! Summer News
OSMAN R. HULL
. . . presides
EducationPanel Holds Opening Session Today
The School of Education will hold the first of three' conferences on “School Administration - Supervision" starting at 9:30 a.m. today, Hancock auditorium. Today’s conference will be followed by a luncheon meeting at noon, Foyer of Town and Gown.
The first speaker will lie Dr, Harry M. Howell, associate superintendent, Los Angeles city schools. lie will talk on the "Interpretation of 1951 California Sc ho ol Legislation.” George VV-Wakefield, Deputy County 'Counsel and Legal Adviser lo the School Districts of Los Angeles County, will act as discussion leader.
At 10:45 a.m. Dr. C. C. Trilllng-ham, superintendent of schools, Los Angeles County schools, will speak on “The Threat of the Status Quo to Education.” The discussion leader for this topic will be Dr. Frank W Hart, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of California-
Dean Osman R. Hull, School of Education, will preside.
The schedule for the noon luncheon meeting:
Speaker: Charles Webster, viceprincipal, Burbank High school.
Topic: “Conflicting and Variable Legal Opinion for California Schools.”
Official
Notice
Notice to students in School Administration:
Field work in school administration (Ed. Adm. 529 and 559) will be explained on Monday, July 16 at 2 p.m. In Room 206, Administration building.
All students who plan to enroll in this course and who will not be available for the instructional meetings this fall should plan to attend.
Edward II. I.aFranchi Associate Professor in Educational Administration * * •
There will be a scholastic aptitude test at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, 200 Adm., for all students who seek to enter the university from high school, or who are transferring and have fewer than 28 units of college credit, or any student who seeks to enroll in the first semester courses of freshman English.
R. R. G. Watt, director of the testing bureau.
Projects
Gifts and grants of $1,054,397.99 to the' University of Southern California were reported Wednesday by President Fred D. Fagg Jr. to the board of trustees for the ten months ended May 31.
More fehan half the amount — $515,898.76 — was received for research projects in medicine, chemistry, biochemistry, psychology, social work, dentistry and engineering.
Alumni of SC gave §119,927.98 to support various educational programs and particularly to equip the clinic of the new building under construction for the School of Dentistry and to provide scholarships and professorships in the School of Law.
A total of $33,969.02 was set aside for student aid and scholarships throughout the University.
- The U.S. Public Health Service granted $240,643.24 for research and another -200,000 toward the construction of a heart and cancer research building for the SC School of Medicine which is being built across tl?e street from the Los Angeles County Hospital.
March of Dimes of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sent $50,100 for continuation of research by Drs. John F. Kessel and Charles F. Pait on the matching of strains of polio virus.
Control and treatment of filariasis in Tahiti, a research program which Dr. Kessel heads in cooperation with thc French Colonial Service, received $44,000. Cornelius Crane of New York City gave $19,000 for this work; Mrs. Florence C. Belosselsky of Chicago and William A. Robinson of Essex, Mass., each $5000; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, $11,500; the Nathan Hofheimer Foundation Inc., New York, $3000 and Mr. and Mrs. James P. Mc-Connaughey, Dayton, Ohio, $1000. The National Lubricating Grease Continued on Page 4
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Friday, July 13, 1951
TROY TARS may get a chance to test their underwater ability when they go on their five-week summer cruise on August 3. All types of equipment will be used to give on-the-job experience to the NROTC units and this new streamlined sub should receive plenty of attention.
Trojan Midshipmen Invade Big 'Mo' Soon ★ ★★★★★ NROTC Unit Plans for Cruise
Post Session Offers Variety
If you feel really ambitious this summer, remember that the four-week post session begins on August 6.
Registration for this fast-moving semester will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 3 and 4. Classes start on August 6 and continue through August 31.
Among the wide variety of classes being offered in the post-session is the Fire Prevention Workshop, a four unit course under the combined sponsorship of School of Education, the School of Public Administration and the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
Claude C. Crawford, professor of education will conduct the workshop along with three lecturers from the School of Public Administration.
Other courses to be featured in the postsession include two courses in the history of California to be given by Professor Donald C. Cutter of the University of California; and the Seminar in the English Romantic Movement II to be given by Professor Bruce R. McElderry.
Post session courses will be given in the majority of the SC schools and departments.
Final preparations are being made by 71 midshipmen of the NROTC unit at the University of Southern California for their five-week cruise aboard the famed battleship USS Missouri beginning August 3.
Leaving from Norfolk, Va., the cruise will include visits to ports of Panama, Colon, Guantanamo, and New York, according to Capt. B. K. Culver, commanding officer of the SC unit. Dean Tracy E.
Strevey of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences will be a faculty guest aboard the battleship on the “Cruise Charlie,” which will terminate on September 4.
Thirty junior midshipmen are now in aviation-amphibious training at Pensaoola, Fla., for three weeks of indoctrination to be followed by a similar period at Little Creek, Va. Two NROTC Marine Corps science seniors are at the Marine Corps School at
Quantico, Va., for an eight-weeks training period.
The SC contingent is one of 52 units from colleges and universities assigned for the annual summer training program which also includes midshipmen from the US Naval Academy. Approximately 9100 midshipmen are included in the plan to give on-the-job experiences in all phases of naval operation aboard heavy cruisers, destroyers, and other types of craft.
Phillips Speaks Mixer Hop
On UNESCO
Tonight at 9
“The Role of UNESCO in the World Crisis” is the topic for Wilbur W. Phillips, rehabilitation liaison officer of the UNESCO branch of the United Nations, today at 3:15 p.m. in room 133 Founders hall. Interested students and faculty members are invited for this special summer session lecture which also includes a motion picture.
The film, shown in conjunction with Mr. Phillips' talk, depicts the educational problems of college and university students in different countries and is entitled “This Is Their Story.” Having wide experience in the field, Phillips' background includes being an alternate member of the U.S. Commission on Life Adjustment Education for Youth and past-president of Classroom Teachers association of Nassau county, New York.
Besides this he is a former chairman, Social Studies, department, Oyster Bay High school, New York, and a charter member of the Classroom Teachers Association of the State of New York.
Wiiats
Doin’
Dave Evans and his orchestra will prove that the third time is a charm tonight at 9 p.m. when they provide a variety of music for students at the All-University Summer Session dance in the Student Union Lounge.
Dr. Alex D Aloia, recreation director, urges everyone to take full advantage of this opportunity and attend the social mixer which is one of the best ways to have real wholesome activity and meet new people-
Admission is 60c and both stags or drags are invited to attend the dance which lasts until 12.
Educators Honor Buckeye Savant
Dr. Earl W. Anderson, professor of Education, Ohio State University, was recently elected president of the Division of Education, j National Education association, at their summer meeting in San Fran- , cisco.
Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Science*, was a member of the Executive Committee at the conference.
EDUCATIONAL PANEL
“What Can Teacher Training Institutions Do About These Problems?” will be the topic of the second in a series of panel discussions on educational problems of the current crisis, at 3:15 p.m. Monday in Hancock Auditorium. Wendell E. Cannon, associate professor of education and director of teacher education will be the moderator. Members of the panel in this discussion will be Earl W. Anderson, professor of education, Ohio State university; A S Barr, professor of education, University of Wisconsin; Otto Beyers, associate professor of education, University of Hawaii; and B. Frank Gillette, director of student teaching and assistant professor of education, Stanford university.
CERAMICS SHOWN
A ceramics show by BUI Moore, alumnus and ex-ceramics instructor at SC, will be on display through July at the Fisher Gallery of Fine Arts.
WEEKEND OUTINGS
Outings sponsored this weekend Continued on Page 4