University of Southern California
SUMMER A TROJAN
Vol. XVII	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1966	72	No. 13
Dean Carl Hancey
Dr. Carl Hancey. 61. Dean of USC s Aerospace Safety and Management Division and one of the world’s leading crusaders for safety in the air. died last Saturday at Good Samaritan Hospital, following a lengthy illness.
Services will b? held this mornirg at 10 at Turner and Davis Mortuary. 550 E. Main St.. Aihembra. Burial will be at Hyde Park. Utah Dean H ancy’s birthplace.
Despite serious incapacity. Dean Hsncey had continued to direct the flight safety program he inaugurated at USC 14 years ago. Only in recent weeks wss he forced to discontinue his daily visits to the campus end his office.
Begt:n by Dr. Hancey as a division of University College, which he headed at LfSC from 1947 to 1965, the Aerospace Safety ?nd Management Division was fii>it known as the Aviation Safety Division. Under Dr. Hancey's direction the division pioneered studies in flight safety and in aircraft accident investigation.
With the advent of ballistic missives, the division accepted
new responsibilities in teaching about the safe handling and management of these weapons. More recently, the division undertook a highly successful program in aerospace operations management and now offers a master’s degree — the first advanced degree in that field in the world.
During the period Dean Hancey has directed this ever-expanding effort, more than 5000 civilians and military personnel representing the U.S. and 37 foreign nations have been trained in the USC program.
Dean Hancey directed expansion of the graduate program to accommodate the personnel on U.S. bases abroad, along with U.S civilians doing business abroad for American firms.
The USC graduate program presently is offered in 12 locations in Germany, Japan. Hawai. France. Spain, and at the Pentagon, as well as at USC's own campus.
Merit Award
In 1965. Dean Hancey was awatded the Air Force Exceptional Merit Award, a civilian
honor comparable to the military’s Distinguished Service Medal.
The award was made in recognition of Dr. Hancey’s establishment of the USC graduate program in aerospace operations management.
Two years ago. Dr. Hancey was honored by the Aerospace Medical Association for USC’s studies of aircraft accident prevention and investig a t i o n which resulted in development of sound aero-medical principles.
Carl Hancey earned his bachelor's degree from Utah State University; the master of education degree from the University of Hawaii; the master of arts and the doctor of philosophy degrees from Yale University.
Came In 1943
After directing teacher training at the University of Hawaii and servng as assistant director of Engineering, Science and Management War Training at Yale. Dr. Hancey came to LTSC in 1943 in a similar capacity.
He later served USC as As-(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)
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International flavor at Sister Mary Irene, 16 others von KleinSmid opening learning about computers
Tunisia's minister of foreign sffairs and Nigeria's ambassador to the Soviet LTnion wall speak at the dedication of the new $3 million von KleinSmid Center for Internationa] £Jid Public Affairs here Sept. 30. Oct. 1-2, it was announced today.
Habit Bourguiba. Jr.. whose father became Tunisia's president in 1957. will apeak at a luncheon on the USC campus on Oct. 1.
His country is one of the most western-minded in North Africa snd apparently would like to break its special economic End financial ties with France and join the nations of the western world economically.
Nigeria's ambassador to the USSR. Chukuemeka Okeke Ifeagwu, who was graduated in 1956 from USC’s School of Public Administration which is housed in the new building, will take part in a symposium on Oct- 1 on the place of new nations in a changing world.
Four major American and foreign statesmen have been invited to speak during the three-day dedication on the
theme. “A World in Change.”
John W. Macy Jr., chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. will speak at a luncheon the first day.
Some visiting scholars who will participate in seminars include Robert V. Presthus. professor of public administration. University of Oregon: Milton Sacks, dean of faculty. Brandeis LTniversity. and Ful-bright professor at the Universities of Hue and Saigon, South Vietnam: Kenneth W. Thompson, vice president. The Rockefeller Foundation. New York City.
Also, Emmette S. Redford. Ashbell Smith professor of gov ernment, University of Texas: William T. R. Fox, director. Institute of War and Peace Studies. Columbia University: Ferrel Heady, director. Institute of Public Administration. University of Michigan.
And, Stephen K. Bailey, dean. Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University: John D. Montgomery, professor of public administration. Harvard University: George I. Blanksten. professor of political science, Northwestern University.
Sister Mary Irene smiled confidently, but held up both hands with the index and second fingers crossed.
The operator at the console activated the computer and the printer began to chatter.
Those crossed fingers brought a call from across the room: “No fair. Sister. No fair asking intercession on this one.” The printer became silent. There was a pause and then the voice spoke again: “It s okay, Sister. You pro-
Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll, dean of the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering, has been elected vice president of the American Society for Engineering Education. He will occupy the post for two years.
The society, now in its 75th year, serves as the voice of engineering education. It is composed of 11,700 individual members, 190 engineering college members. 200 industrial members. 50 associate and 60 affiliate members.
During the coming academic
grammed correctly.”
Sister Mary Irene, who teaches mathematics in Maria High School in Chicago, 111., is one of 16 high school math teachers from eight states who are at the University of Southern California for seven weeks this summer to learn basic uses of the computer.
Because an understanding and appreciation of programming is gained only through experience, each of the teach-er-students in the class will
year, Dr. Ingersoll will be called upon to attend meetings of the society’s s i x sections, including a Pacific Southwest congregation in Honolulu Dec. 27-29. Annual meetings of the entire society will be held in Lansing, Mich., in 1967 and in Los Angeles in 1968.
Currently on the society’s Board of Directors, Dean Ingersoll has been chairman of the Pacific Southwest section, chairman of the Relations with Industry Division, and chairman of the Committee on Continuing Education.
program and run on the computer an average of two or three problems a week.
The USC course, known as Mathematics 454, is a rough one. It compresses two semesters of work in the organization of digital computers, flow programming, compilers, machine operation, solution of linear systems of algebraic equations, plus some elementary applications of numerical analysis into just seven weeks.
Offered through USC’s Department of Mathematics at USC’s $3-million Computer Sciences Laboratory, the institute has support from the National Science Foundation. Applicants are carefully screened. All attending the institute must have completed the lower division sequence in calculus and at least one "course in differential equations, advanced calculus or matrix theory.
Reason for the institute was outlined by USC’s Dr. Paul A. White, chairman of the Department of Mathematics: “Due to the increasing use of digital computers in the high school curriculum, teachers of mathematics, chemistry, and physics must be trained so that they can, in turn, structure courses in their own schools.”
Engineering society elects Dean Ingersoll to vp post