0 FOURTEEN T HE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, Staff Of Engineering College Has Several New Members In spite of the turnover urged by national defense activity, new faces among the faculty members in the College of Engineering will be few this semester. Aeronautical engineers 'will have cccasion to become acquainted with Prof. Arnold M. Kuethe, who comes to the University from a position on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Washington. He willN replace Prof. Milton J. Thompson who accepted a position in aeronautical engineering at the University of{ Texas. A second change in personnel in the aeronautical engineering depart- ment will be the addition of Franz R. Steinbacher to the staff. Stein- bacher was formerly with North American Aviation in California. In the mechanical engineering de- partment Prof. Frank L. Schwartz will take up his duties as an instruc- tor. Although not replacing anyone directly, he fills the vacancy left by the death of Professgr Emswiler. On leave of absence for the year, Prof. H. L. Kohler will have his auto- motive engineering classes taken over by Fred A. Hiersch, while Edward G. Shideman will also be used as an instructor in mechanical engineering for the year 1941-42. National defehse cut into the ranks of the engineering mechanics staff last. spring, and Prof. Jesse Ormon- droyd of that department will not re- turn to the University this fall, but will continue his work as an Army consultant in Washington. I Dividing his time between the Uni- Soop Promoted To New Post In Extension Service, Everett J. Soop, field secretary of the Extension Service in the Detroit Office for the past six years, was appointed assistant director of the Extension Service at the Regents' meeting September 12. Prior to serving as Field Secretary for the Extension Service, Soop was with the Detroit Institute of Tebh- nology for 11 years. The new Assistant Director will keep his Detroit office and will come to Ann Arbor certain days of the week. versity and draft administrative work last semester, Prof. E. S. Pettyjohn of the chemical engineering depart- ment, a lieutenant-commander in the Naval Reserve, is now entirely lost to the University, having been sent to sea. Third defense loss in the engineer- ing college is Capt. Frank H. Smith of N the engineering drawing department; who was called to duty with the Army. On leave last semester, Prof. Frank A. Mickle of the mechanical engi- neering department will return to his duties this fall, though both he and Prof. John C. Brier of the chem- ical engineering department narrowly missed a defense call. Only other absentee in the College of Engineering will be Prof. R. S. Swinton of the engineering mechanics department, who is on leave while he is engaged in the establishment of engineering laboratories at the Uni- versity of the Philippines. M i Faculty Is. Augmented Three new "members of the faculty of the School of Music will begin their work here this year, it has been announced. Dr. Edmund Haines, instructor in theory, obtained his degree at the University of Rochester. He hgs been awarded a Pulitzer prize in music composition. Mr. Russell Howland, instructor' in wind instruments, is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He also attended Colorado State Teachers College and was director of instru- mental music of the public schools of Fort Collins, Colorado. Mr. Mark Bills, instructor in voice, obtained his A. B. degree at De Pauw University and his Bachelor of Music degree from the University School of Music. He has done grad- uate work in Philadelphia and New York, and was formerly professor of voice at the University of Missouri. PEI To Hold Meeting Here In November The twelfth annual Parent Educa- tion Institute will be held November 5 through 7 in Ann Arbor under the sponsorship of the Michigan Congress of Parents and Teachers and the Uni-t versity Extension Service. Featured speaker of the three day Institute will be Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, author, educator,' lec- turer and a leading authority on fam- ily life. Others who will participate will be Marten Hoor, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Tulane University; Ernest A. Hooten, professor of an- thropology, Harvard; Dr. Carrol Sib- ley, Dean of the Los Angeles College of Arts and Letters; and Ray 0. Wy- land, director of lducation in Rela- tionships of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica. ,. The Institute will have general headquarters in the Rackham Build- ing. Parent-Teacher groups are urged to register in advance through the Extension Service. Any Parent Teacher local or other group interes- ted in parent education may enroll as a unit for $2. This will admit members to all sessions of the Insti- tute without charge. Individual enrollents may be made for $2 for the entire Institute, $1 for one day or 50 cents for one session. New Paper Published By Extension Service The first issue of the Extension Service News was issued September 15 featuring descriptions of the courses to be offered by the Univer- sity Extension Service this fall. The four-page paper, with its slo- gan "Learning for Living," is being published for the first time this fall. Edited by Marion McDonald, a grad- uate of the University School of1 Journalism, 'the News will be pub- lished every month during the School year on the fifteenth. New Students To Be Honored At Open House Hillel, Jewish Foundation, Offers Many Activities ; Rabbi Cohen Is Leader Open house for freshmen will be held at the Hillel Foundation during Orientation Week, Aaron Moyer, '43, president of the Hillel Council, an- nounced. The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation is the campus social and religious center for Jewish students. Boasting nearly a thousand mem-1 bers last year, the Foundation ful- filled a complete and varied program of activities including dances, . lec- tures, play production, social service work, and athletics. Director of the Foundation is pop- ular Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen who is beginning his second year at that post. The Hillel Players under the direc- tion of Dan Seiden, '43, president, will present a number of one act plays during the course of the school year and will conclude with a major pro- duction in the Spring to be enacted in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The Hillel Forum Series brings speakers of national prominence to the campus, and the regular Friday night Fireside Discussion is led by many of the most interesting speak- ers at the Unifersity. In the field of social work the Ann Arbor Jewish Committee in coopera- tion with the Foundation cares for a number of refugee students every year. A well rounded program which in- cludes formal and informal dances, teas and parties is a regular feature of the activities. Popular and classical records of the Foundation form one of the most complete collections on the campus. Other facilities include a.dark room, a library, a game room and a kitchen. Rice is the staple crop and' chief source of wealth of Indo-China. Abbott Heads' Radio Station Of University Established back in 1921 when soap opera was confined to the second door on your left, the University radio sta- tion broadcasts nineteen programs a week from its Morris Hall studios on State Street. With 125 students enrolled in this division of the Department of Speech, the station uses WCAR in Pontiac and Detroit's WJR to release its pro- grams by remote control. Scripts, an- nouncements and sound effects are handled by students taking courses in the department. According to Dr. Waldo Abbott, As- sociate Professor of Speech and the station's directoir, the year's first pro- gram is scheduled for October 15. At that date, the University will com- meiorate the centennial of the Lit- erary College over NBC's coast-to- coast hook-up. For twenty-one weeks, thereafter the University will broad- cast student written, acted, and di- rected drama, band concerts and ad- dresses by various members of the faculty. Courses given in Morris Hall cover all features of radio work, from an- nouncing technique to script-writing. Sixty students, graduates and under- graduates, are registered in this de- partment. Institute Devoted T'o Research Only building on the campus de- have made important strides in the voted entirely to the study of a single study of the behavior and pathology phase of medicine is the Thomas of the human circulatory process. Henry Simpson Memorial Institute Of the memorial granted, $150,000 for Medical Research, founded in was used to erect the building, locat- ed on Observatory Street near the 1924 for the study of pernicious ane- University Hospital, and the remain- mia. ing $250.000 was invested by the Re- Established on a $400,000 endow- gents for support of the Institute. ment by Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson of Provision has been made that if Detroit in memory of her late hus- a positive cure for anemia should be band, the Institute is now under the found, either by the Institute or some direction of Dr. C. C. Sturgis. Dur- other research agency, therInstitute ing the years of research on the sub- shall be continued to perform re- ject, Dr. Sturgis and his associates search on other diseases. i ii ______________________ 11 M, ICE COLD from 1