WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SC'S FORD FOUNDATION GRANT?
Half
Money Received; More
Bv RICHARD BERG
Nowhere are the needs of private colleges more apparent than in the matter of faculty salaries,” the New York Times has revealed.
To counteract this need the Ford Foundation recently allotted endowment grants totaling S500 million to 4157 private colleges and hospitals throughout the nation.
SC's undergraduate non-professional schools and medical school were among the recipients of this enormous Ford Foundation grant. To the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Schools of Commerce and Engineering a grant totaling $1,710,900 was allotted, of which $870,000 has already been received, said Robert D. Fisher, financial vice president.
To the SC School of Medicine an endowment grant totaling S500.000 has already been received. Fisher said. A total of $90 mUlion was allotted to various schools of medicine.
Of this amount S22 million has been distributed. There
is still $68 million to be distributed among the various schools.
How much more will the SC School of Medicine receive? Who will benefit from these grants? Will the university construct new buildings? When will the university receive the other half of the endowment grant? Just what are the stipulations of the Ford Foundation grant? Will professors’ salaries be increased this year? Here’s the story of SC’s prospective grant:
The Ford Foundation asked President Fred D. Fagg to compile salaries of all undergraduate professors, instructors and associate professors teaching undergraduate courses in “arts and sciences, commerce and engineering.” When the salaries were totaled to SI,710.900 a grant of the same amount was made, Fisher said.
SC must invest the endowment grant received for a period of 10 years. Assuming a four per cent yield was, made after a year on the $870,000 already received, $34,800 would be at the disposal of the financial vice president. This interest can go only to undergraduate professors,
instructors and associate professors in the schools already named.
The following year the other half of the grant will be received and $68,400 will go to raise professors’ salaries if a yield of four per cent is made. The same amount of interest will accrue each year for eight years, therefore professors’ salaries will be hiked each year.
After the 10-year endowment period, the money received from the Ford Foundation grant will be at the disposal of the university. It then can continue investing it or begin spending it.
The Medical School has the same 10-year lease on investment. However, it differs in the spending of the interest received each year. The interest obtained can be used for any instructional purpose such as equipment, materials, travel and salaries, said Fisher, who recently returned from a Ford Foundation meeting in Chicago which discussed how the last $68 million is to be used in medical school grants. Fisher was accompanied in Chicago by Dr. Thomas H. Bremm, chairman of the adminis-
trative committee of the School of Medicine.
The grant SC received was the largest in the western United States. But the “chief benefit from the Ford Foundation grant was pointing out to the public at large the great need for support of education. Greater good lies in its advertising of college needs,” Fisher said.
H. Rowan Gaithen Jr., chairman of the board and president of the Ford Foundation, concerning the faculty and salary grants, said:
‘By this action the Ford Foundation reaffirms its conviction that the future of our entire society rests upon the quality of American education.
“Teachers and the teaching system are at the very heart of our educational structure yet the economic burden that rests upon our teachers is a heavy one.
“So I must emphasize that these grants are only an approach to, and not a solution of, the problem. It is hoped that tbe grants will be interpreted as a challenge by the thousands of alumni, friends and institutions whose support is vital to private education and to our society.”
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PAGE THREE Jim Morad Interviews Jess Mortensen
VOL. XIVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1956
NO. 57
Campus to Welcome Orphans, Crippled Children For Magic Christmas Show and Dinner Friday
DEATH OF A STUDENT—Failure to make a boulevard stop resulted in the death of this college student driver. Both cars
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locked their brakes trying to avoid the collision, but the law of physics took its toll. The arrow points out doctor and body.
Police Report on Accidents; Finds Law Breakers at Fault
By JAN EDWARDS
A police officer’s written report of a traffic accident, including the elaborate diagram he draws, is a masterpiece of detail.
Reports on the weather, road surface, street lighting, traffic signals, statements from every available eye-witness, and observations of the officers themselves. are included in his long list of Information.
From a study of these reports traffic educators have come up with a simple observation. “Accidents don’t happen. They are caused by violating man-made and natural laws.”
Violators are arrested. The sane driver is urged to “Drive Defensively.” “Be Alert.” “Watch out for Droopert.”
Last Christmas’ Toll
The following three accidents involving college-age students, happened between Dec. 23 and 27 of 1955.
Traffic officers say, “if all concerned In these accidents had obeyed traffic regulations the tragedies would not have occurred.
“If those who obeyed the law had been driving defensively.’ the tragedy might have been avoided.”
A 21-j’ear-old UCLA student was driving south at approximately 35 mph. He went through a boulevard stop sign. At the same time a westbound car came to the intersection at about 30 mph.
The westbound driver noticed that the approaching car was traveling pretty fast, but by the time he realized the driver was not going to make the
Beethoven Mass in C To Be Offered Today
A rarely-presented Beethoven composition, Mass in C. will be today's attraction when a choral group of 80 students and the SC Symphony Orchestra perform at a free noon concert in Bovard Auditorium.
Soloists will include two of the singers in the recent SC production of “Tales of Hoffmann.” They are Marion Oles, alto and John Maloy, tenor. Patricia Poweison, soprano, and Dennis Lang, bass, are also to be spotlighted.
The Mass in C in the vocal and orchestral presentation will be under the baton of Dr. Charles C. Hirt, director of the choral group and head of the department of music.
The university orchestra will be led by Dr. Ingolf Dahl and the A Capella Choir will be directed by Carl Druba.
stop, it was too late. Both men slammed on their brakes—but the law of physics took over, each driver was helpless.
The student’s car was rammed broadside, it spun out of control, turned over on a fire hydrant and came to rest on a city owned sign. The boy was thrown from the vehicle. Cause of death: laceration of heart and brain and other injuries.
This happened on Dec. 27. Police went to the boy’s home. The landlord said the young student’s folks were visiting back East, he didnt’ know their address. On Jan. 1, the police returned. The landlord had not heard from the boys’ relatives, “they must be on their way home,” he said.
The westbound driver was uninjured. Neither of the young men had been drinking, neither had bad driving records.
Picnic on the Run Causes Wreck
A truck-driver’s account of an accident he witnessed Dec. 24, sounds like the tale of flaming youth on a lost weekend, but the real explanation is very tame.
A car passed his truck on Highway 101 traveling at least 65 mph. There was a young couple riding in the front, another couple in the back seat.
“They had hardly passed me,” he said, “when it seemed as if the car had gone crazy. It jumped the dividing strip, careened and turned over three times. Ope of the girls was thrown out and crushed under the car.”
The explanation: the driver had reached back to take a sandwich which was being offered to him while he was passing the truck. The car lurched and went out of control.
The truck-driver said it was. “due to a miracle,” and the skill of other drivers on the road, that there wasn’t a five-car smash-up.
“It was due to a miracle,” said the police. “Five alert drivers is a miracle.”
Stop. Look and Listen Good Advice
It was Christmas night. The driver of a sedan stopped about four seconds at an intersection. He should have given the right of way to an approaching motorcycle, but he didn’t see him. The motorcycle had no headlight.
He started to make a left-hand turn, when the motorcycle ran into the side of his car. An 18-year-old boy, who was driving the cycle, sustained a skull fracture and had an epileptic seizure. He died the next morning.
Witnesses say the motorcyclist was gunning his motor, “so you could hear it blocks away. But it’s true,” they said, “he did not have his headlight on.”
FAST PACE
West Told Sovereignty Out of Date
By DAVID C. HENLEY Daily Trojan City Editor
PASADENA — Heinz L. Krekeler. German Ambassador to the United States, said last night that the free nations of the West, if they are to keep pace morally, intellectually and technologically with Russia and her satellites, must be prepared “to relinquish at least a portion of I their sovereignty in certain areas.”
“When we tear down, in voluntary cooperation, all the tradi-: tional and outmoded barriers ! and make Europe into one unit in which the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ is not just a meaningless ; phrase, but a reality for all its citizens, the test will have been passed,” Dr. Krekeler told the third session of the World Affairs Conference meeting at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel here.
Bias Removed
By removing this “bias” that the sovereignty of a people is something absolute, voluntary action under the guidance of our ethical standards, voluntary cooperation, voluntary completion i and accomplishment of tasks under conditions of strict coercion could be completed more quickly j and technically speaking, more smoothly, he said.
| “A dictatorship can unite | states and peoples under a strong common rule. We have experi-j eneed this, and we have also ex-j perienced in a tragic way how power can become a tool of evil,”
I he said, pointing out Russia’s control over her people as well as the peoples of other countries.
But, in defense of his belief in j removing a certain amount of ! sovereignty of individual Western nations, Dr. Krekeler said that is the task of democracy to fulfill "all necessary functions | in voluntary cooperation as set forth in the goal of America’s j Declaration of Independence’.”
Turning to the suoject of j youth and communism. Dr. Kre-! keler said many people, who im-, agined themselves to be very j wise in expressing the “gloomy philosophy” that the young people under a Red rule would become communists themselves in ; one generation, have proved j themselves to be quite mistaken.”
Tragic and Heroic
“I hope that the tragic and heroic example of Ihe young peo-{ pie of Hungary has caused all , those who had so little trust jn i what is good in man to withdraw to their solitary and feel ashamed." he stated.
"Youth will — and this we nol only hope but we know it now — j make the right choice, if they only have a choice.
“Therefore, they ought to be able to make comparisons. Now, youth is a peculiar state. It is at the same time the most idealistic and the most realistic state of the human mind; full of idealism, but yet with an almost cynical instinct for the reality, for the genuine, and for the lasting, which .uncovers very quickly anything that is phony.”
Baxter Will Present Annual Christmas Readings Tonight
If one is unable to attend the Annual Christmas Readings by Dr. Frank Baxter of the English Department tonight in Bovard Auditorium at 8, he will miss the 17th presentation of this program by the “Shakespeare Bard.”
The readings are selections of Yuletide prose and poetry taken from various periods of literature.
Baxter will read part of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol,” a medieval carol “From Far Away and Long Ago” and Thomas Hardy’s “The Oxen.”
He will a.lso read a poem that was found unsigned on the battlefield at Tobruk in North Africa when Rommel, the German general, captured the English garrison there.
The story concerning the poem is that when the English were waiting for the battle, they held a poetry contest to occupy the minds of the men. This poem was apparently written by one of the soldiers and dropped to the ground during the clash of arms . . an unknown soldier’s Christmas thoughts.
Ogden Nash's humorous poetry and a piece by Dorothy Parker, “The Maidservant at the Inn” as well as “The Christmas Trees” by Robert Frost will represent the modern .literature along with Walter de la Mare’s “Three Ghosts Cajne Riding By.”
Snow White, Dwarfs to Combine With Disney Characters in Show
UCLA Student s Death Established as Murder
By JIM BYLIN
The State Senate Committee on Un-American Activities definitely established yesterday that the April 20 death of UCLA student Sheldon J. Abrams was homicide.
By a process of elimination, Richard E. Combs, chief counsel for the committee investigating Red infiltration at UCLA, proved through testimony that the carbon monoxide death couldn't have been accidental, natural or suicide, leaving only murder.
Windows Were Open Earlier testimony had showed that the windows had been slightly opened and that gas | appliances in Abrams’ room were incapable of producing the type of poisoning incurred.
Both Sen. Burns and Afty. Combs, when asked the motives behind the murder, concurred that they didn't know. It was known, however, that Abrams had been attending Trotskyite and Stalinistic meetings and then returning to his room and making a record of them. Each 1 speculated that the party probably discovered he was setting this material down in print and that was reason enough.
An Unwitting Tool By reading documented mate- i rial, Combs also showed that Abrams had attempted to make
organization, and Franklin H. Williams, West Coast secretary-counsel.
When quizzed if the Reds have ever tried to infiltrate the NAACP, Assemblyman Rum-ford said yes, but “if we know who he is, we try and get him out.’’ He added that the Reds are trying to destroy the association and render it ineificient.
Rumford commented that they have been very successful in stamping out Commie attempts to take it over, but that “they will never give up."
Anti-Red Ideals
Williams clarified the NAACP stand on Communism by reading a prepared statement showing that they are anti-Red in their ideals.
He said further that the UCLA chapter was chartered late in 1955, but because of a university rule of no political j or religious sanctions, it was not recognized as a campus group.
The ASSC “Magic Christmas”
! show will be presented Frida> evening at 6:45 in Bovard Auditorium for 1250 orphans and crippled children.
The children will view the show and receive gifts from the actors after having Chrisynas dinner at the various living groups. Barbara Irvine and Chet Davis, co-chairmen of the entire activity, penned the playlet, using the story of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarls.
Tiny Trojans Lee Rafner, producer-director, has been getting the fan-tasyland characters into formation for the past two weeks. Snow White will be portrayed by Kaye Donnelly, the Witcn will be in rare form as Hap Stoops takes the part, and the Seven Dwarfs will be played by seven tiny Trojans: Doc. Nancy Weaver; Sneezy, Judy Ferguson; Happy. Helene Chaf-fey; Grumpy, Adele Schwartz: Sleepy, Nancy Crane; Bashful, Joanie Wright: and Dopey, Sal Osio (a male!).
Animal Charmer*
Forest animals will also be present to charm the children and help Snow White and the Dwarfs bring their delightful story to life. Kaye Steltenkamp and Roxie Graubart will be skunks; Marianne McMillan and Jo Ann Willyard will be rabbits; and Brian Harvey (another one!) will be a bear.
Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will, of course, be on hand. Joe Cerrell will be a jolly Santa, and Julie Guenther will be a dancing Rudolph.
As an added attraction, five famous cartoon characters in full attire (papier-mache heads and all) will make an appearance. Margie Hirsch will appear as Porky Pig. Marsha Jaf-fee as Bugs Bunny, Gayle Moss as Pluto, Dave Gershenson as Mickey Mouse, and Fontiene Duda as Minnie Mouse.
Christmas Songs The show will include full musical accompaniment. Karl Jaeger and his orchestra and a chorus consisting of Sherri Green. Nona Hodges, Helen Farber, Mary Medloek. Frank Gleberman, Pete Mittlestadt, and Joe Novack will play -and sing “Sleigh Ride," “Jingle Bells.” “Deck the Halls.” j
“Winter Wonder-other Christmas
“Heigh-Ho,” land.-’ and tunes.
Guest Comic*
Five guest stars will appear during the show. They are: i Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck: Marti Bari is.
| SC student and singer; Skipper 1 Frank. children's television I star; Johnny O'Neil, recording star: and Lee Rafner, SC stu-j dent and comedian.
Co-ordinating back-stage maneuvers will be the production staff consisting of Kay Werner properties; Barbara Irvine, make-up; Wally Graner. stage ; manager; Nancy Porter and Margie Krogstad, costumes: Howard Stecker. lighting; Joe Schneider, batten construction; and Diane Ondrasik. publicity.
The Christmas show has re-j ceived much “behind-the-scenes” assistance from the North Hollywood Kiwanis Club; Hazel Garner, Jack Lavin. Bruce Bushman, and Bob Jackman at Walt Disney Studios; Fred Timbers of U-I Studios; Biii White of SC drama department; Dick Pierce of Music Corpoir*-tion of America, and many others. according to Lee Rafner.
Croup Slates Annual Sale Of Calendars
When is the next ASSC election? What are you doing tomorrow between your 9 and 11 o'clock classes?
There is no longer any reason for hesitation in replying. Mortar Board calendars are designed to help you remember dates and to tell you what will happen on campus and when.
Sponsored by the Mortar Board, women's national honorary society, these calendars go on sale today and will continue to be sold through the week. They contain all important scheduled dates and room for jotting memos and notes.
Proceeds from the sale will go to the Board treasury to help meet such expenses as organizing the Idyll wild Conference and giving conference teas.
Methodist Bishop To Speak At Morning Chapel Services
the local chapter of the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People an un- j witting tool for student disobedience at UCLA.
From correspondence found | in the dead man's room, Abrams had written that since the “NAACP is now attempting to j get recognized, it would be crazy to pass by this chance ... since they have respectability ! and beneficial friends.”
Carbon Copy Letter
In a carbon-copy letter to the national director of the YSL. Abrams said that “it looks as though it can be very fruitful here" and then “were beginning to move here . . . with, 14,IKK) students on campus j there must be some good blood somewhere,” he wrote.
Testifying on behalf of the NAACP were Assemblyman William B. Rumford (D-Berke-ley), regional treasurer lor the ■
“Nothing Can Stop Christmas" will be the topic of Bishop H. Clifford Northcott, speaker at Sunday morning’s worship service at 11 a.m. in Bovard auditorium.
Bishop Northcott is representing the Methodist Church of the Wisconsin area. The service, however, will be nondenomina-tional and open tho the public. The student choir will sing under the direction of Carl Druba. Dr. Irene Robertson will be organist.
Northwestern Graduate
Northcott is a graduate of Northwestern University, Garrett Biblical Institute and Illinois Wesleyan University.
After he was ordained in 1919, his early pastorates were at Elmhurst, Elsdon, Parkside and Oak Park. Illinois. He was elected bishop in July, 1948, after a
20-year pastorate at the First Methodist Church in Champaign, 111.
In 1950, Bishop Northcott visited Africa and Europe for four months for the Council of Bishops. In 1953 he made another official visit to southeast Asia.
Spoke at Illinois
He was the commencement speaker at the University of Illinois in 1954 and he is a trustee of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.
Bishop Northcott was a delegate to three general and three jurisdictional conferences and is a member of the boards of missions and evangelisn., the com-'aiission on chaplains and chairman of the commission on dea-j coness work.
BISHOP NORTHCOTT
... to speak Sunday
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