U niversrty o~f	Southern California
OAILY^TROJAN
VOL. Llll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1962
NO. 69
University Will Receive Bulk Of May Ormerod Harris Estate
ASSC RACE
Robinson
Elections
Flays
Head
Mike Robinson, ASSC presi-|list of those eligible to vote,
DEDICATION — The late May Ormerod Harris attends a dedication ceremony with Chancellor von KleinSmid, her friend for more than 40 years. The chancellor was named executor of the estate she left the university.
Chancellor Lauds Mrs. Harris Aid
dential candidate and current Representation Party president, charged yesterday that Elections Commissioner John Moyer is "ignoring the university’s election code.”
“Moyer,” claimed Robinson, ‘‘is violating two election code sections — one that requires a student's ID card and name on a registrar’s list at the polls and another concerning the week in which elections should be held.”
Moyer is requiring a fee bill to also be presented,” Robinson noted.
“It is likely,” he continued, “that many students have either lost their fee bills or may have to take time to find them.
“This is a hardship on voters,” Robinson said.
Fee BUI ASSC President Hugh Helm said that the fee bill requirement is necessary to carry out Robinson, who declared his;other provisions of the Elec-
candidacy for the ASSC top post Monday, said he was “surprised to read in yesterday’s Daily Trojan that Moyer had decided to ignore the code.”
tions Code.
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid sat in his campus office yesterday and reminisced about his late, great friend, Mrs. May Ormerod Harris.
“She was one of the greatest friends the university ever had,” said the chancellor, who knew her for more than 40 years. “She was modest, dignified, but forceful woman. She wasn’t a duplicate of anyone. She went quietly about her business, but burrowed deeply into name checked on a registrar’s our affairs when she thought they were also her affairs.”
Moyer was not available for comment.
“Whereas the code requires a voter to have only his ID card with him, and have his
Song' Blanks
The chancellor recalled that he first met Mrs. Harris shortly after he and the late Mrs. von KleinSmid came to the campus from the University of Arizona in 1921, when he became president of USC, a post he was to hold for 25 years.
One of First
“She was among the first persons to assure us of our welcome and of her desire to join in any cause we were interested in promoting,” the chancellor said.
Mrs. Harris, a trustee from Jan. 8, 1938 until her! death last Jan. 30, always had “an intense continuing interest” in USC, Dr. von KleinSmid said.	T D
“She didn’t scatter her interests as many persons' * ” Uw IDUwU do,” he said. “She concentrated on what she thought ft was worthwhile, and one of ftie things she believed K%# (OfTinfl|tt£P worthwhile was our School of International Relations, j 7 vyillliimvv
“She thought higher education in America had! Applications for* entry in perhaps overlooked the need to train people to live use’s ninth annual Songfest in a world rather than in just a country on a con tin- wju be available today through ent, he continued.	March 1, in the Special Events
Office, 230 SU, Songfest Committee chairmen Bill Heeres and Vivian von Hagen announced yesterday.
A $5 entry fee must accompany each application.
Competition divisions include ' groups for all men and all women as well as small mixed, production and novelty cate-“It has always been interesting to me me that gories. on my first social call upon Mrs. Harris she expressed	Special Events
herself as willing to be of financial assistance to the; Applications must be retum-university,” re recalled. “She hadn’t even been asked to ed to the Special Events Of-give, but her observation and study of the university fice by March 1 Heeres said, had let her to be interested.	j No applications will be accept-
Her first gift was to build up a fund which later ed after that date, led to the construction of Harris Hall, which houses A director’s clinic for con-the School of Architecture and the department of testants will be held on March fine arts.	]l at 3:15 pjn. in the Senate
Later she bought an apartment house, Harrisj Chambers, 301 SU.
Plaza, which is used as a women’s residence hall, and ' °ne representative from
built May Ormerod Harris Hall, another coed dormitory. each P°tcnlial entrant is required to attend the clinic,” Heeres noted. “Important information and materials will be distributed.”
One Warning Chairman Heeres warned all
“The code requires that every voter must be a full time student,” Helm said. “Since ID cards are issued to students who don’t attend full time, we have had to add the fee bill as a check.
“I’m sure candidate Robinson would be the first to complain if unqualified voters were allowed to enter the polls,” he added.
Originally, a list of eligible voters was to have been given the Elections Committee by the Registrar’s Office. However, the necessary material was not included in the registration packit.
9 Wrong Date Robinson also complained that elections, which are scheduled for March 15 and 16, are supposed to be held a week later according to the Election Code.
Students are hard-pressed to find the time to vote during the sixth week when they still have ‘five-week’ exams, instead of the seventh week established by the Election Code,” Robinson said.
Helm admitted that Robinson was technically correct, but again explained that noth ing could be done to change the situation.
Any changes now would destroy the priority of authorized events, Helm added. “Moreover, reservations for voting booths and poll officers are made months in advance and can’t be changed.”
BOARD PAYS TRIBUTE TO MRS. MAY HARRIS
The Board of Trustees bid a respectful farewell to May Ormerod Harris, a member since 1938, in a recent resolution commemorating her for her ‘'unselfish devotion and complete dedication to the affairs of the university.”
The resolution as passed read in part: “It is resolved that we, her fellow members of the Board of Trustees, record our deep and lasting sense of loss in her passing and our gratitude to her for her companionship in service and her effective example in fulfilling the duties of membership in this body.” It cited her many gifts to the university, including Harris Hall for Women, Harris Plaza and the construction of the lecture and classroom facilities belonging to the School of Architecture and Fine Arts.
The resolution stated that through her connections with the university she has drawn the favorable attention of many fellow citizens of this state and nation to the opportunities and distinctions of USC as “an institution worthy of high pride, complete confidence and of generous sup-“Be it further resolved that the membership of the Board of Trustees of USC in expressing their deep sorrow in the loss of their associate, record their respect and affection for one who so unselfishly dedicated her strength and substance to USC,” it concluded.
Politician to Discuss Crime, Communism
Mrs. Harris was greatly interested in women students on the campus, and “the number of students helped by her generosity is much larger than was generally known,” Dr. von KleinSmid said.
Mrs. Harris was a native of North Dakota, and spent her early childhood in Sacramento. She and potenuar '‘paj:tic.pant" groups
her husband, the late Dr. John Wesley Harris, lived for many years in Denver, where he practiced medicine.
Their wealth came from mining interests, royalties from the invention of surgical instruments and investments.
that “narrative numbers will be discouraged in Songfest 1962.'’
"Songfest, like the name implies, is designed for song, She was a musician of distinction, a vocalist and not chatter,” he remarked, pianist, and formerly taught music in Hawaii. She j "We want to get back to the studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and the original concept of Songfest,
which was song.”
The 1960 and 1961 sweepstakes winners were narrative
entries.
New England Conservatory in Boston.
“It was quite natural that she should have been interested in the cultural areas best known to her, such as music, art and the social life of the various nations in which, because she was widely traveled,	.	..
she was herself best known and acquainted,” the chan-jC-t-i irjonfc f-il cellor said of Mrs. Harris’s gifts.	JlUUCIlia
The late trustee, who gave the university more |—J j pj -j- 0QX©S
than a miilion dollars in her lifetime, was recognized by the university with an honorary degree of doctor of fine arts in 1950.
Student response to AWS-and AMS-sponsored suggestion boxes has been "very satisfying," AMS President Gil Gar-
Beauty Lover
The degree cited her as “a lover of beauty, believer jcetti reported yesterday.
in the creative arts as essential in the life of an edu-! Garcetti said that ballot cated person, wise friend of women students, conserver | ^ fQr ^ ‘schoo, ve_ of the highest traditions both of the university and of ;nent m which started American womanhood”	,Monday and ^ run ^ week
Mrs. Harris was president of Town and Gown from 1947 until her death, succeeding Elisabeth von KleinSmid, who held the chair from i922 to 1947.
The club, with 600 women members, built the Foyer of Town and Gown and the Town and Gown residence hall, and furnished the Elisabeth von KleinSmid memorial residence hail for women students.
Mrs. Harris’s fellow trustees recognized her value to the university with an extraordinary resolution passed in her memory earlier this week.
Prepared to be deposited in the university's archives as “a lasting memorial,” the resolution cites
are filling rapidly.
Suggestion boxes are located at the south end of Founders Hall, in front of the Student Union, in the Grill and in all Row houses and dormitories.
‘The boxes will be opened Friday and next week we will decide the types of committees to form to handle the suggestions,” Garcetti said. “Suggestions that do not come
the “great and continued inspiration” derived by the under our jurisdiction will be board, the faculty, the alumni and tne students from; turned over to either the “her high interests, her unselfish devotion and her!ASSC or Faculty Senate,” complete ^dication to the affairs of the university.” | Garcetti said.
New Club To Support Engineers
The formation of an Archimedes Circle by alumni and friends of USC for the support of the School of Engineering was announced recently by Richard Farr, president of the new organization.
Farr outlined a three-point growth pattern for the group.
“Our goal is to assist in the growth and development of the School of Engineering through the provision of funds and to support the continuation of programs to produce quality engineering graduates,” he said.
“Finally, we hope to promote the continued growth of private education.”
With a current total of 104 members, the organization will hold its charter dinner Feb. 22, at the Beverly HUton Hotel.
Assemblyman Bruce Allan, R-Los Gatos, will speak to the first Trojan Young Republican meeting of the Spring semester today at 3:30 p.m. in 129 FH.
Assemblyman Allan, candidate for the office of California attorney general, is the first of two Northern California Republicans scheduled to speak on campus, TYR President Harvey Harris said.
George Christopher, mayor of San Francisco, will speak here next Wednesday in 129 FH.
Hazing- Incident Harris hinted that Allan may give his views on the recent fraternity hazing incident during today’s meeting. His main topic will be “Crime and Communism in California.”
‘We are bringing noted Republicans from the northern part of the state here to speak in order to instill within the party a feeling of unity,” Harris declared.
Harris expressed hope that the TYR series will show the underlying unity in the Republican Party.
Birch Link 'There have been many outside, divergent factions popping up in recent months that seek to assign the party such names as ultra-conservativa and conservative,” he said.
“Some have gone so far as to link us to the John Birch Society. We go by none of those names; we are the Republican pary, we always have been and we always will be,” he declared.
man Allan as “a good example
of a Republican who calls himself a Republican.”
He is not the type who will catch onto the ephemeral whim of a passing epoch and claim, for lack of something better to do, that he is part of it,” Harris said.
Assemblyman Allan, who was educated at San Jose College, has served as a member of the California government since his first election in 1952.
As chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, he has conducted investigations and hearings into or^nized crime in the state and published a report on “Rackets,”
Court to Confirm Estate Executors
Executors of the estate of Mrs. May Ormerod Harris are scheduled to be confirmed by the probate court at a hearing on Feb. 23.
The late Mrs. Harris, who had been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1938, left the bulk of her estimated multi-million-dollar estate to the USC School of International Relations in a will filed last week.
The executors named in the wiU are the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles and Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
Mrs. Harris decreed that her bequest become an endowment whose income is to be used to operate and maintain the School of International Relations.
Theologian Will Speak
Dr. Hans Hofmann, Harvard professor of theology, will speak today at noon on “Some Faculty Dilemmas” in the Faculty Center.
Dr. Hofmann’s appearance is part of a series of talks being sponsored by the Westminister Foundation Lecture Fund and the Chaplain’s Office. It is one of the first of a newly instituted programs of lectures by theologians sponsored by the
Chaplain’s office.
The theologian has served as the director of the Harvard University project on religion Harris described Assembly-1 and mental health since 1937.
Expresses Hope
She expressed hope the money would make possible the continuation of “a general program in preparation for careers in the American Foreign Service, foreign trade, international administration and the teaching of international relations.”
Mrs. Harris was eager that the school “provide opportunity for specialized work in international politics, law and diplomacy, economics, geography and foreign trade and resources and diplomatic history.”
"Any of these courses might be offered directly within the School of International Relations or within any other minor division of the university if they would more normally be offered there,” she wrote in her will.
Passed Away
Mrs. Harris, 80, passed away at her Bel-Air home Jan. 30.
The will also provided financial support to the Von KleinSmid Memorial Library of World Affairs.
A fund-raising campaign for construction of a modern high-rise building of eight or ten stories in the center of the campus as provided in the Master Plan is expected to receive impetus from the endowment.
The building is designed to meet the needs of both the School of International Relations and the School of Public Administration.
Honors Chancellor
The center has been named after Chancellor von KleinSmid in recognition of his contribution of 40 years of leadership in international relations.
The fifth president of the university from 1921 until he
was appointed chancellor for life in 1947, Dr. von KleinSmid has been decorated by more than 20 nations for his leadership.
Will to Assist In Financing Of IR School
The School of International Relations, endowed by the will of Mrs. May Ormerod Harris, was founded in 1924 by Chancellor von KleinSmid as the first in the nation.
The study of international relations as a separate curriculum leading toward a university degree first emerged at the end of World War 1, putting USC in the forefront of insti-tuitions of higher learning in accepting the challenge of an awakened need for world affairs knowledge.
For more than a quarter of a century, the school has been dedicated to the pursuit of one basic objective: the preparation of men and women for responsible positions in the field of foreign affairs.
Special Programs Many special programs have been developed over the years by the School of International Relations.
A Soviet-A s i a n Relations Program was started in 1953 under the impetus of a Ford Foundation grant for a pilot project on the Russian impact on Japan.
In 1959. under the National Defense Education Act, accelerated programs in the Russian, Chinese and Japanese languages were started.
In I960, the Soviet-Asian Studies Center was established under the direction of Dr. Rodger Sw>uringen. It is one of two such schools in America, the other being at the Univer-sit.* of Washington.
Support for Library The Rufus B. and Elisabeth S. von KleinSmid Library of World Affairs, which is also given financial support in the will of Mrs. Harris, was founded in 1924 concurrently with the School of International Relations.
The library, one of the university’s five unique special collections—t h e others are in philosophy, biology and oceanography, American literature and cinema—is a research collection of 42,000 volumes in international relations.
Facilities of the library are designed primarily to serve the faculties and advanced students in international rela-(Continued on Page 2)
Clergyman Urges Student Leaders To Be Postive Forcer in Education
Students too often expect academic leadership to come from the administration rather than from themselves, a visiting Harvard theologian pointed out to student leaders yesterday.
Dr. Hans Hofmann, professor of theology and director of the
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Otto N. Miller, president of|and Mcnta, Hea]thi to,d 25
the Standard Oil Company of California will be the guest speaker.
The Archimedes Circle is the ninth such group organized by supporters of USCs various professional schools.
Each member of the Archimedes Circle will make an annual contribution of $100. The money will be used to finance scholarships, faculty and visiting professor chairs, new classrooms and research buildings, Farr said.
Other officers of the new organization are Wallace Fore, vice president; J. Edward Nie
leaders from various student activities that their most important job was to become a "positive force” in stimulating student questioning of their education.
"We cannot learn simply by accumulating knowledge of facts and building skills,” Dr. Hofman said. "We must digest this information by asking why we study it and what It means to us.
“It is in this area that leadership is most needed.”
The theologian, who is being sponsored in a series of
buhr, treasurer; and Douglas panels and discussions by the Bothwell, secretary.	•Chaplain’s Office and the West-
minster Foundation, said that the faculty receives just as much aid from this sort of leadership as the students.
"It is through interaction with these questions that v/e of the faculty are forced to refine our thinking,” he noted. “Thus, we learn by this dialogue as much as do the students.”
Distinguishing "positive” from "negative’ questioning. Dr. Hofmann told the student leaders to learn to articulate what they would like, instead of just complaining about what they don’t like.
The theologian, who will continue his series with a talk at the Faculty Center today at noon, said that formulating student criticisms develops the student’s ability to lead as well as improves his education.
"This is one of the ways in which the leader devellps a sensitivity to what he csji and
can’t do with his office in the eyes of his public,” he said.
Quoting from Churchill, the author of "Religion and Mental Health” said that the effective leader balances pressure from his public with his own insights and inspirations.
"Because in this country we have confused the ‘leader’ -vith the ‘politician,’ leadership has come to mean only an expression of the underlying confusion of the public,” he claimed.
"Yet the leader must be the one who inspires the people with his own Visions’ as well,” he continued. “He must do this in a. way that inspires the people and yet sensitively synthesizes what they believe."
He m u s t, In other words, "suggestively capture a problem and then express his suggested solution to this problem in a way that reflects the people's attitude, he explained.
Dr. Hofmann, the second speaker in a series prepared by the Chaplain's Office, will {ir-
ticipate in a panel discussion ot religion and mental health today at 3:15 in the Upstairs Commons Lounge.
The discussion, open to the public, will also feature Dr. William H, McGrath, assistant dean of students, men; and Dr. Ray Jordan, assistant professo • of religion.
At 8 p.m.. Dr. Hofmann wi’I speak on “The Vision of a Genuine Culture in an Age of Science and Technology” in Hancock Auditorium. The lectu.e will be open to the public.
Dr. Hofmann’s visit wall end tomorrow with two talks—one to the Graduate School of Religion faculty at noon and another open discussion at Delta Delta Delta sorority on “Faith, Sex and Love.”
Chaplain Cantelon said that the current speaker program replaced the former Religious Emphasis Week in order to give students a chance to meet informally with the guest speakers.	I