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SUMMER TROJAN
Vol. XII
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Los Angeles, California, Monday, August 5, 1957
No. 11
Scottish Scientist To Talk Tomorrow
A scientist described as one of the most well-known individuals in the field of bacterio-biochemistry will discuss the “Expanding Frontiers of Science” tomorrow morning.
Dr. Howard Lees, a professor at the University of
Aberdeen in Scotland, will be
Former Harvard Man to Talk On Dutch Educational System
URA Program To Continue in Post Session
During the four week Post Session, a major highlight will
continue to be the recreational
program, according to Paul Thomas, acting director of the University Recreation Association.
Beginning with a trip to Ma-rineland Saturday, the URA program will provide Post Session students with a jaunt to Disneyland on Aug. 17, an all-university golf tournament, as well as all of the university recreational facilities.
According to Thomas, the PE building will be available every day until 6 p.m. as well as Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7-10 for recreational use.
Here, university students can play basketball, volleyball, tennis, handball, badminton, paddle ball and table tennis. An identification card is all that is necessary for borrowing equipment.
Recreational swimming will also be available to Post Session students. The university pool will be open Monday through Thursday from 12:30-1:30 and from 3-4 p.m.
Friday afternoon, pool hours will be from 12:30-1:30.
For students in night school, as well for students in the SC vicinity, the indoor pool will also be open Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7-9:30, according to Thomas. A life guard will be on duty during all of the scheduled times.
CALENDAR
heard in the weekly Assembly Lecture at 11 in 133 FH.
Dr. Lees will emphasize the world shortage of scientists which has arisen in the past 20 years, according to Dr. Milo B. Appleman, head of the SC department of bacteriology. “Dr. Lees is very familiar with the problems science faces today, and will very likely tell how its various fields are interlinked around the world,” he said.
Will Speak Twice
Dr. Lees, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, does research on the process by which ammonia is converted into nitrate in the soil. Most plants cannot use ammonia to \ any degree but can readily use * nitrate formed by certain groups of soil bacteria.
He will speak a second time tomorrow on a more technical subject, the “Biochemistry of Nitrification.” This talk will be given at 3 p.m. in 252 Sc and will be attended by a “number of representatives from other colleges,” according to Dr. Appleman.
Only One Chance
Author of one book and of articles for leading scientific | journals, the Scottish scientist had not intended to come to the United States this summer. He had been in Canada visiting a ! friend, but was induced to come I to California by Dr. Appleman after a long-distance phone call.
“I knew this was the only chance we’d have to get him out | here,” said Dr. Appleman.
Finances for the unexpected trip were provided by SC Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid and John Emoto of the Metro Biological Laboratory of Buena Park.
WELL-STUDIED SPEAKER—Dr. Johannes Fagginger Auer, professor emeritus of Harvard University, speaks at SC this afternoon on "The Dutch System of Education/' The well-traveled educator-theologian will be heard in 133 FH at 2:15.
Musicians Plan Fourth Baroque Festival Soon
MONDAY, AUGUST 5
LECTURE—“The Dutch System of Education,” by Johannes A. C. Fagginger Auer, Professor Emeritus of Harvard University. At 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH.
MUSIC—Pattee Evenson, graduate trumpet (DM.A.). At 8:30 p»m. in Hancock Auditorium.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 ASSEMBLY LECTURE — “Expanding Frontiers in Science” by Doctor Howard Lees, University of Aberdeen. Scotland. At 11 a.m. in 133 FH. LECTURE — “The Biochemistry of Nitrification” by Dr. Lees. At 3 p.m. in 252 Sc. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 LECTURE — “Psychiatry Today and Tomorrow” by Dr. Eugene Pumpian - Mindlin, assistant professor of psychiatry. At 8 p.m. in 129 FH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 LECTURE — “William Saroyan and the Theme of the Innocent Rebel’’ by Harry Reed, professor of English. At 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY — Trip to Marineland. Leaves at 8:30 p.m. from PE Bldg. Sign up in URA Office.
Librarians Will Study In Workshop
High school librarians from Southland communities will begin a workshop in book production and school library administration tomorrow at SC.
Coordinating the workshop programs will be Miss Marion Horton, instructor in the SC School of Library Science which is holding the month-long course as part of the 1957 SC Summer Post Session.
During the morning sessions, various authors, publishers’ representatives, and librarians will speak and participate in panel discussions. Exhibits of new books will be arranged.
Consultants scheduled include Dr. Robert Browne, California State Department of Education; Violet Gering, Imperial Valley College, El Centro; Geraldine Huck, San Gabriel High School; and Rosemary Livsey, Los Angeles Public Library.
Fourth program of the Baroque j Festival will be presented by the School of Music in Hancock | auditorium next Sunday at 8:30 1 p.m., according to Dean Raymond Kendall. The public is invited to this free concert.
Alice Ehlers, festival director and harpsichordist, and Hans Lampl, assistant director and conductor, will have Roger Stevens and Sid Zeitlin as flutists; William Kroll, violinist; Lili Lampl, recorder; Darryl Stubbs, oboist and Maralin Niska ano Nancy Foster, sopranos; Marion
Oles, alto: Milton Briggs, tenor; Carl Schultz, bass; Ronald Ratt-cliff, harpsichordist; Rebecca Ratcliffe and Roy Tanabe, violinists.
The program will include Sonata No. 1 for harpsichord and violin by Bach; “achet auf” and “Streuet mit Palmen” by Tunder; Trio Sonata in C minor for recorder, oboe and continuo by Telemann; Canzonetta: “Chiome d’oro,” by Monteverdi; “Adonis Tod’’ by Krieger; “A Serenading Song,” by Purcell and Brandenburg Concert No. 4 by Bach.
A glimpse of “The Dutch System of Education” wiil be provided this afternoon by a professor emeritus of Harvard University. Johannes Fagginger Auer will tell of schooling in the Netherlands at 2:15 in 133 FH.
A native of the Netherlands, Dr. Auer wa3 born in Middle-burg in 1882. He studied theology in Kampen, Holland, and in the United States at the Mead-ville, Pa., Theological School where he was ordained a Unita-i rian minister in 1906.
He then completed his studies at the University of Berlin and Heidelberg and obtained his doctor’s degree at Amsterdam University in 1910.
Visits Many Schools
Dr. Auer returned to the United States in 1912. From 1929 to 1954, he served as Park-man professor of history and philosophy at Harvard.
At various intervals during that period, he lectured and acted as visiting professor at the universities of Iceland, Copenhagen, Prague. Berlin and Marburg, in addition to performing similar functions at colleges and universities in the United States.
He has addressed audiences throughout this country and has been active in a number of organizations, especially those furthering relations between the United States and Holland.
Prolific Writer
Dr. Auer has written several books, among them “St. Anselm and the History of the Ontological Argument,” “Humanism States Its Case,” and “Humanism Versus Theism.” In addition, he has contributed articles on philosophy, theology and history in periodicals and encyclopedias here and abroad.
Since his retirement, Dr. Auer and his wife have lived in The Hague. Their three American-bprn children are married and reside in this countrv.
New Drug May Do Away With Goiter Surgery, SC Tests Show
Tests of a drug that shrinks the size of most goiters and does away with the need for their removal by surgery were reported yesterday by SC’s School of Medicine.
Thirty-six men and women with goiters of all sizes ranging as large as a grapefruit were treated for from three to 18 months during the last two years with a penetrating synthetic chemical form of thyroid hormone called triiodothyronine. Some reduction in goiter size
occurred in all cases.
The goiter which was as large as a grapefruit shrank to the size of an orange. In about 25 pe^ cent of the cases the goiter became invisible. In some cases the goiter shrank so much it could no longer be felt. A 75-year-old woman who had suffered most of her life with a
docrinology and Metabolism.
Normal Goiters Change “This may also turn out to be a valuable means of disclosing cancer of the thyroid gland,” said Dr. Starr. “If a lump in the throat doesn’t shrink when triiodothyronine is given, surgical removal of the lump is warranted since it might be malignant.
“Normal goiter tissue will change in size under the influence of this drug. Cancerous tissue is less likely to change in size, so this gives the doctor another procedure to see if a lump in his patient’s neck is malignant.
“Cancer of the thyroid gland is rare, but goiter is common.” Triiodothyronine shrinks goiters by depressing the pituitary gland. Goiter is the result of over-action of the pituitary
when something is wrong with the thyroid tissue itself, goiter pressing on her windpipe was relieved of shortness of breath and a persistent cough.
The drug was given in pill form three times a day. The treatment may take as long as six months, although obvious results can be seen in one month.
Return of the goiter is prevented by having the patient take enough thyroxine, a true thyroid hormone, to keep metabolism normal. The thyroxine treatment musJ continue the rest of the patient’s life.
The SC research was reported recently at the annual meeting of the American Goiter Association in New York City by Dr. Paul Starr, professor and head of the department of medicine. It will be published in the fall in the Journal of Clinical En-