University of Southern California
SUMMER i TROJAN
Vol. XVII	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1966	72	No. !2
MICHAEL BROIDO. JUNE HIGH SCHOOL GRAD. SHOWS COMPUTER USE
t The 17-year-old 1$ teaching (from left! John Hammill and Fred Stem, math teachers
SUMMER PROGRAM
Teenager telling teachers how to operate computers
A 17-year-old high school graduate is operating a computer for 16 high school mathematics teachers studying basic computer use in a summer institute at USC.
Officially listed as a ‘‘computer operator,” Michael Broido is actually handling the class of teachers in the laboratory sections of their National Science Foundation institute in USC’s Computer Sciences Laboratory. And by so doing, he becomes the youngest teaching assistant in USC history.
Seated at the console of the Honeywell 400, Michael is surrounded by eager, if sometimes confused, students —the math teachers. In the course ot the institute, the class will program and run on the computer an average of two or three problems a week.
Michael Broido looks like the kid next door in anybody’s neighborhood. But the look-alike ends there:
3.91 Average
He finished his four years at Long Beach's Jordan high school in June with a 3.97 average. “1 blew it in the lats semester; got a B in German,” he tells you without apology.
When he was graduated from Jordan, he had already accumulated 15 college credits by going to classes at Long Beach City College. All the college credits—including nine in calculus, three in speed reading, and three in computer programming—were earned at the
4.0	level.
He can read “light" material at the rate of S00 words per minute. “But from here on there won’t be much ‘light’ material,” says Michael, who will enter Caltech in September on a scholarship.
Michael came to USC already able to operate IBM computers, but unfamiliar with Honeywell. Dr. William Larson, director of the Computer Sciences Laboratory, gave him a lot of material on the Honeywell and said “read it.” That was Friday afternoon.
On Saturday he got a verbal and physical instruction to the 400. Monday morning he attended the teachers’ institute, which is un-
der the instruction of Marshall Elder, associ ate professor of mathematics at LACC. Monday afternoon he ran a program of his own on the computer as a demonstration for the teachers.
“It isn’t so difficult,’’ he says. “And before you make too much of a ‘thing’ out of all this, let me remind you that they are now teaching a form of Fortran (computer language) to fourth graders. I read about it just the other day.”
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Broido, Michael attended Oliver Wendell Holmes elementary school and Herbert Hoover Junior High School, both in Lakewood, before going to Jordan High. His father is the manager of the paint and hardware department in Lakewood’s May Company store. Michael has a younger brother attending Lakewood High.
v At USC, Michael has made himself a part of the class, as well as the teaching assistant, attending classroom sections of the institute for information. “I think I’m about a week or two ahead of the teachers,” he confides.
Does Michael think he’ll like university life?
Gets Along
“I’m in it right now at USC,” he replies. Living on the university campus this summer, Michael “gets along pretty well with older people.”
How would Michael describe a computer?
“It’s a collection of oil’s and off’s.”
Will the computers ever take us over?
“Never,” he says. “A computer is no better than its program language and its programmer. All it can really do for itself if to change from ‘on’ to ‘off’ and ‘off’ to ‘on’.”
Ask one of the class about the 17-year-old who is teaching her a lot about computers: “Is Michael a good teacher?”
“He certainly is,” she smiles. “But he must sometimes get a little frustrated by our mistakes.”
Brady appointed acting dean of pharmacy school
Professor Edward S. Brady, a member of the faculty of the School of Pharmacy since 1941, has been appointed it.-acting dean by President Norman Topping.
Brady will servo until a successor to Dean Alvah G. Hall is named. Dean Hall has just retired from his alma mater after being on the pharmacy
faculty nearly 40 years and its dean for 20 years.
Prof. Brady served as assistant dean of the 61-year-old pharmacy school last year. A native of Southern California, he received his undergraduate and graduate education at USC.
He has a varied background of experience in the pharmacy profession at the retail, wholesale, and manufacturing levels, ranging from fountain boy to registered pharmacist and consultant to industry.
Since 1945 he has contributed a monthly page, “Pharmaceutical Abstracts,” as department editor of West Coast Druggist, and has published scientific and technical papers in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Assn. and the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
He has served as president of the American College of Pharmacists, chairman of the section on historical pharmacy of the American Pharmaceutical Assn., and is a director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.
Prof. Brady was named “Man of the Year” in California pharmacy in 1963, and recently received the individual award for public education from the American Pharmaceutical Assn. for his TV se-
ries. “The Apothecary." The program originated on KNXT. Channel 2 CBS-TV. Los Angeles. and has been shown throughout the nation on CBS and educational stations.
He is a member of the Southern California Poison Prevention Committee and is the only pharmacist on the American Cancer Society’s professional education committee in California.
He is an honorary life member of the Southern California Pharmaceutical Assn.
June grad 1 of 16 dead at Texas U.
Thomas Ashton. 22. who graduated from USC in June with honors in Political science, was one of 16 people murdered by a sniper at the University of Texas Monday.
Ashton had been on the Austin campus for a month as a peace corps trainee. He had given up plans to attend law school to join the corps and was expected to go to Iran.
His father, George F. Ashton, is chairman of the history department at San Bernardino Valley College.
USC theatre players go to Edinburgh festival
The 41 members of USC’s Festival Theatre Players left Los Angeles Thursday for their three-week appearance at the Festival Fringe Society in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Players are the first Americans invited to participate hi the Scottish drama festival which traditionally is reserved for student players from universities in the British Commonwealth.
Under the direction of John Edward Blankenchip the company of student actors, singers, and dancers will perform three times daily Aug. 22-Sept. 10 in Pollock Hall on the campus of the University of Edinburgh. William C. White is assistant director of the company. Both Blankenchip and White are members of the drama faculty in the new School of Performing Arts.
Scheduled to present nearly
70 performances during the Edinburgh festival, USC’s players will appear in:
“Rashomon,” featuring Mi-chiko Suzuki, a graduate student from the University of Tokyo.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “A Coney Island of the Mind.’* which has been dramatized and set to jazz music, using song, dance and dialogue by Steve Kent and Charles Blaker, USC students in drama and music respectively.
A double bill including “Folk Songs and Dance,” and “Twilight Crane,” a modern Japanese one-act play based on an early Noh drama.
Three one-act plays by American playwrights — Ten-n e s s e e Williams, Thornton Wilder and Edward Albee.
Arthur Miller’s “The Crti-(Continued on Page 2, Col. 5)