New associate dean
DR. ALAN J. ROWE
Dr. Rowe was recently appointed the position of Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration by Dr. Taylor W. Meloan, acting drama. Rowe succeeds Dr. William C. Himstreet on August 1.
Appointment of Dr. Alan J. Rowe as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration was announced recently by Dr. Taylor W. Meloan. acting dean.
Dr. Rowe will succeed Dr. William C. Himstreet on Aug. 1. Dr. Himstreet will return to fulltime teaching and research as a professor of business communications in the USC school.
As associate dean. Dr. Rowe will be responsible for the graduate school’s curriculum, programs and students and faculty in the Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Business Administration degree programs. He also will provide liaison with various student and alumni organizations and help formulate new directions and activities of the school.
In addition to long experience in the academic world, having taught at UCLA, and Syracuse, New York and Columbia Universities, Dr. Rowe has a wide background in private industry.
He is a former Manager of Industrial Dynamics Research and later was Corporate Director ,of Industrial Dynamics with Hughes Aircraft Co. Prior to that he was Manager of the Management Control Research Staff at General Electric’s corporate headquarters. He also has been a consultant to the RAND Corp.
At USC, he has served as professor of quantitative business analysis and chairman of the management department since 1967, and has engaged in extensive research into the uses of computers in management technique design.
Dr. Rowe is past President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Institute of Management Sciences. He is a member of the Operations Research Society of America. American Institute
of Industrial Engineers, and other professional societies. He is a founding member of the Society for Management Information Systems, and is the author of several articles and books in his field.
He is listed in “Leaders in American Science,” “Who's Who in America.” “Who's Who in the West,” “Who's Who in Data Processing.” and “American Men of Science.”
Dr. Rowe earned the bachelor's and master’s degree in industrial engineering at Columbia University, and the Ph. D. in Engineering at UCLA.
Dr. Himstreet held the USC GSBA associate deanship since 1969, and prior to that was an Associate Dean of USCs School of Business since
1961.
He is author or co-author of several books and many articles on business communications and has served as a consultant in that field to some of the nation's largest companies over the last several years.
An active lecturer. Dr. Himstreet has spoken on business, education and communication topics at more than 600 professional society and association meetings during the past 12 years.
He is a member of several scholarly and professional societies.
Other positions he has held include president of the Pac-8 Athletic Conference, 1967-68: and USC Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA from 1965 to 1969.
He earned the bachelor’s degree at San Jose State College; the master's at Stanford University and the doctorate at USC.
He is listed in “Who's Who in the West.”
University of Southern California
SUMMER ® TROJAN
Music program to begin today
VOL. LXIII NO. 7
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1971
BURIAL HELD TUESDAY
Cobb a team inspiration
By PETER WONG City Editor
Leroy Cobb, who was unanimously voted by his teammates as USCs most inspirational basketball player last season, was buried at services held Tuesday morning in his hometown of Newark. N.J.
“He was a player who continually encouraged the rest of his teammates.” Assistant Coach Jim Hefner said Tuesday, in characterizing Cobb's two-year varsity career here. “Leroy made every possible effort to build confidence in everyone.”
Hefner cited Cobb's great
humor and wit in calling him one of the most popular players on the Trojan basketball team. “Every player really enjoyed being around him.” Hefner said.
Cobb died June 30 in a Houston hospital after open-heart surgery. He had been transferred to Houston from St. Michael's Hospital in Newark, where he had been undergoing treatment for a heart condition.
"The news of Leroy's death was a great shock to all of us,” Hefner said last week after he, Head Coach Bob Boyd, and the rest of the athletic staff had been notified. Cobb had not had
Mainstage play makes way for unimaginable
By MICHELE DRAKE
When the wife of a sedate English Vicar is a zany young American actress, even the unimaginable can happen and does in the Drama Department's Summer Mainstage production of the hilarious farce, “See How They Run,” by Philip King.
From start to finish, the play is an intricate chain of events, guaranteed to tickle the ribs of even the most serious theatregoer.
It all starts with a simple but unexpected visit from a long-time actor acquaintance of the Vicar's wife. Penelope. Now stationed with the Air Force in England, he arrives to find her recently married to the Rev. Lionel Toop.
Innocent evening plans are complicated by an old maid who touches alcohol for the first time in her life. Add an escaped prisoner, a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies and the day-earlv arrival of Penelope's dignified uncle, the Bishop of Lax. The result is a fiasco that must be seen to be believed.
The Rev. Toop is played by Joel Rosenzweig and his wife. Penelope, by Maggie Taylor. Andrew Masset is Cliff Winston, the young Air Force Corporal who touches off the farcical series of events.
Miss Skillon. the innocent victim of a bottle of sherry, is portrayed by Carole Brown. Francis Kibler is the Bishop of Lax. who is aghast at all the goings on and the trumped-up stories that are told him.
Ida. the maid, is played by Kim Sudol. The remaining cast includes the intruder (Paul Linke), Rev. Arthur Humphrey (Steve Lerian), and Sgt. Towers (Dovle Gray).
The production is staged by Jedediah Horner. Sets, costumes and lighting are under the direction of Beala B Neel.
“See How They Run. " by Philip King, was a smash London hit before coming to the United States.
any previous heart condition that had prevented him from playing basketball here.
Hefner, who visited Cobb's mother late last week, reported that she had been aware of the seriousness of her son s condition, and had accompanied him o the hospital in Houston.
The assistant coach also said that the doctors told him that Cobb had been suscepitble at any time to this particular heart condition because of body characteristics.
Hefner said that two of Cobb's teammates — Dennis (Mo) Layton and George Watson — had planned to attend the funeral services. Hefner could not confirm this, though he did talk to Layton earlier, who said he would go.
Layton and Watson were longtime teammates of Cobb, for all three had attended the same high school and the same junior college before they came here.
Cobb, who was a 6-6 forward on the Trojan basketball team, was graduated from Weequahic High School in Newark, N.J., where he won all-state honors becuase of his play there.
At Phoenix College, a two-year institution in Arizona, Cobb contributed to the team's great success. along with Layton and Watson.
In his first season at Phoenix College (1967-68), Cobb played in 27 games and shot 53.6 per cent from the floor (133 of 248 attempts). He made 54 of 90 free throw attempts (60 per cent) and pulled down 183 rebounds. Cobb scored a total of 320 points, an average of 11.9 points per game.
The next season (1968-69) Cobb performed even better by shooting 57.6 percent from the floor (283 of 491 attempts) and making 94 of 153 free throw attempts (61.4 percent). Cobb more than (Continued on page 4)
The summer music program at USC gets into full swing today with a concert performed by the Congress of Strings.
Daniel Lewis is the guest coordinator of the concert, which begins at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. The concert is free.
The Congress of Strings will perform five selections. They are “Ciacona” by Buxtehude-Akon”; “Concerto Grosso No. 1” by Block; “Sinfonietta” by Roussel; "Meditation on a Bohemian Carol” by Suk; and “Five Greek Dances” by Skal-kottas.
The second Congress of Strings orchestra summer concert will b( conducted by Henry Mazer next week on July 15 in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m. It will be free to the public.
Mazer, associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. began his career as a pianist and turned to conducting when he became an apprentice under Fritz Reiner with 1 the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1941. After World War II he conducted the Wheeling, W. Va.. Symphony.
In 1959 he became conductor of the Florida Symphony Orchestra in Orlando, a post he held until 1966 when he returned as associate conductor to the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of William Steinberg. Mazer held this post until 1970 when he became associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony under the direction of Georg Solti.
For his program. Mazer has chosen two standard and well loved works for string orchestra — Tchaikovsky's “Serenade” and the “Tallis Fantasia” by Ralph Vaugh-Wil-liams — and a work by contemporary composer Norman Dello Joio. “Meditation on Eccelsiastes."
The USC Congress of Strings is made up of 60 young string players who attend an eight-week concentrated study including private instruction, coaching in chamber music, and performing in the orchestra. The Congress is sponsored by the American Federation of Musicians. with additional support from the Rockefeller
Foundation and USC.
The remaining two concerts will be conducted on August 2 by Miro Pansky, former music director of the Prague Opera and founder of the Prague Chamber Orchestra who lives in New York City, and on August 12 by Izler Solomon, music director and conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
The following is a list of the music recitals and concerts offered on campus for the month of July;
Wednesday, July 14 — Christopher Kuzell compositions. (USCdoctoral recital). Hancock Auditorium. USC. 8 p.m. Free.
Thursday, July 15 — USC Congress of Strings, Henry Mazer conductor. Bovard Auditorium. USC, 8 p.m. Free. “Meditation on Ecclesiastes” (Dello Joio); “Tallis Fantasia” (Vaughn-Williams); “Serenade” (Tchaikovsky).
Friday, July 16 — Craig Stinson. paino. Hancock Auditorium. USC, 8 p.m. Free.
Saturday, July 17 — Christine Kelley, voice recital. Hancock Auditorium. USC. 8 p.m. Free.
Biology Semester
The Biology Semster, a 16-unit program of biological studies for nonmajors, will be repeated in spring 1972.
The program, which was started last semester and termed successful by the participating faculty and students, will be funded on a matching basis by the Esso Educational Foundation and the university.
Students in the limited-en-rollment program (35 were chosen for the intial run) will be involved in an intensive, interdisciplinary study of contemporary biological concepts and their applicability to existing and future social problems.
Those interested in the program may obtain additional information from the Department of Biological Sciences, Room 103, Allan Hancock Foundation, or call 746-6375.