University of Southern California
SUMMER ® TROJAN
VOL. XIII	oLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1963	NO. 12
Valuable Specimens Presented to Geology
An oil company and two geologists have presented valuable geological materials to the department of geology.
A collection of 6.977 microfossil samples was given by the Gulf Oil Corp. of California. Termed “valuable research tools for our staff and students” by Prof. Orville Bandy, the samples are now available for use.
L. S. Chambers of Alhambra donated valuable books, bulletins and plates of interest to geologists. Included are Galloway's “Plates of Fora-
FOR GOOD LUCK—Actor Rex Harrison (center) gives good luck handshake to William
Marks (left), winner of fellowship given annually by movie director George Cukor.
Marks Wins Cinema Award
William Marks has been named winner of the 1963-64 George Cukor Fellowship for graduate study in cinema arts and sciences.
The $1,750 fellowship provides tuition, fees and other costs for a year's study leading to a master's degree in any j field of cinema. Marks was chosen by faculty vote.
A former resident of New Orleans. Marks was graduated from Jesuit High School there and studied at both LSU and Tulane. majoring in history and political science.
Six months in the army, all of it spent at the Pentagon, was enough to convince Marks he was no longer interested in a career in political science.
On impulse. Marks and his wife left New Orleans for Southern California. He began his graduate studies in Cinema at USC last fall.
Marks looks to a career in production, direction and writing He will produce a film as part of the year’s work being financed by the Cukor Fellowship.
Marks is the fifth annual beneficiary of the Cukor Fellowship Fund, established at USC in 1959 by George Cukor, who has made 48 films during his 34 years as a director. Among the Cukor pictures have been “Dinner at Eight,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Women,” “Camille,” “The Philadelphia Story” and “Let’s Make Love.”
Cukor is now directing “My Fair Lady” at Warner Bros.
The new holder of the Cukor Fellowship is the son of and Mrs. E. J. Marks of Metairie, La., a New Orleans suburb. Mr. Marks is the owner of Marks Supply Co. in New Orleans.
McKay Coaches Football Clinic
Head football coach John McKay is participating in the 10th annual Concordia coaching clinic in Moorhead, Minn.
McKay, a unanimous choice as coach of the year last season. will guide a Minnesota all-star team against out-of-state stars in a game which climaxes the clinic tonight.
The contest features former collegiate players from the Up-por Midwest.
The Trojan mentor arrived in Moorhead for Sunday’s opening of the clinic and his schedule for the three-day event included four lectures.
Sociology Holds Intensive Course
A three-week intensive course in problems of family counseling is being held through Aug. 23 by the department of sociology.
The course is titled “The Family: Theory and Practice,” and is being conducted by Dr. Reuben Hill of the University of Minnesota and Dr. James A.
Peterson, head of the USC department of sociology.
The course carries two units of graduate credit and deals with the significance of family theory for family counseling and family lift education.
Sessions a^e held in the mornings, with occasional field trips in the afternoon.
minifera” and Van Bemmelen’s “Geology of Indonesia.”
An extensive geological library and equipment of use in the geological laboratory were given by Robert B. Hutcheson of Kern City. Among the items are a complete set of index liquids, microscope slides storage cabinets and foramin-iferal samples.
ACL Union Picks Evans As Judge
Dr. Orin B. Evans, dean of the School of Law, is a member of the judging committee for a writing contest on civil rights sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
A prize of $500 will be a-warded to the person presenting “the most skillful and meaningful presentation in a communications medium illustrating the role of civil rights or civil liberties in American life,” said Mel Sloan, member of the ACLU board of directors and chairman of the award committee.
The communications media include newspapers, magzines, radio and television. Entries must have originated and have been published or broadcast in Southern California between
Nov. 1, 1962 and Oct. 31, 1963.
Other members of the judging committee include Harry Ashmore, editor in chief. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Thomas E. Storke, publisher. Santa Barbara News Press; Robert Sutton, vice president of CBS and general manager of KNX; and Sam Zelman, news director of KTLA.
Korean Predicts Harrassment
Communist North Korea will probably not initiate an all-out military venture against her neighbor to the South, but harrassment along the Military Demarcation line will continue and probably increase.
This is the opinion of a retired general officer of the Republic of Korea’s army who is now a research fellow in the Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda at USC.
He is Lt. Gen. John Kang, former commandant of South Korea’s military academy and onetime ROK army corps commander.
General Kang concurs with Free World leaders in the belief that recent boldness and severity of border incidents reflect Red China’s displeasure
over the Atomic Test Ban agreement.
Despite this reflected anger, North Korea is not likely to risk her 350,00r troops in an all-out breach of the truce line, or the other side of which a-wait 600,000 South Koreans, 50.000 U.S. troops and smaller U.N. contingents from Thailand and Turkey, says General Kang.
Truce anniversary “incidents” have occured annually during the 10 years since the cessation of all-out hostilities, the former ROK officer recalls. “This year they have been more violent and the situation could worsen. The fact remains that there is no peace.”
Mild-mannered and soft-spo-ken. General Kang is slender, good-looking, a conservative
dresser. On USC's campus he passes for a graduate student because he is young looking for his 42 years. Out of favor as ? result of the 1961 military coup in his country, he came to the United States; spen* a year at the University of New Mexico in research before coming to USC. In addition to his work with USC’s Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda, he is taking graduate work in political science and other fields, hopeful of preparing himself for a new role—possibly in education— in his homeland.
Korea will one day be united and on the Free World's terms, says the general. “My country remains a focal point in the struggle against communism. The free republic South Korea
is building will one day be a showcase for democracy.
“Our people often grow impatient with the rate v»f progress, but never with its direction and never with the philosophy of freedom behind it,” he declared.
Although at the moment out-of-favor politically a t home, the general says that he is not “in exile” in America. “I am here to learn and contribute,” he added.
‘Under the present circumstances. I can be of no particular immediate service to my country by staying there. But
I	can make the best possible use of my time to further my own education ir. the hope that I may »*eturn and help my people with educational problems.”
South Korea has made considerable progress in education and the future is bright, General Kang reports. Illiteracy has dropped from 35 to 40 per cent to about 15 per cent, largely through the arm/ which trains illiterates to the level of the fourth grade. National law now requires compulsory education for every child through the sixth grade.
The most important kind of education the South Korean people have received, the general believes, is that about the actual nature of communism. “Because of the war and even the Cold War, South Koreans \xlay fully understand the aggressive designs and insidious character of communism and are adamant in their determination to resist it.”