PACE SIX T- -HE T I-C IiIG-AN 1 IL. PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY Adult Education Group To Give Lecture Series Delegates Will Meet At Rackham in May Four series of Lectures, "The World Today," "World Citizenship," "The American Home" and "The Results of Scientifie Discovery," will be given at the 14t.h annua±l Adult Education Tn- stilute, which will -he held May 14, 15, and 16 at lie Rackhain Building. The Institute will be sponsored jointly by the University Extension Service and the state Federation of Women's Clubs. It is attended by delegates from women's clubs, PTA's, church groups, and other Michigan organizations interested in adult edu- cation. This is the first time in four years that the institute will be held in Ann Arbor. Opening ^talk at the Institute will be given by Dr. Charles A. Fisher, di- rector of the University Service. A course in parliamentary law will be given by Mrs. W. R. Alvord, past president of the state Federation of Women's Clubs. An attendance of 1,000 to 1,200 is expected for the In- Crockett Will Address Co-op George C. Crockett, UAW educa- tional director, will discuss the un- ion's fight against racial inequality at 1:15 p.m. Friday at Muriel Lester Co- operative House. Third in a series of speakers spon- sored by the I.C.C. educational com- mittee, Mr. Crockett is noted for his success in combating racial prejudice in Detroit. The public is invited to the meeting, where refreshments will be served. Buy Easter Seals! DETROIT MEETING: Joint Conference To Diseiss Imwoving of Adult Educa ion 4> - - Improvement and extension of educational opportunities for adults will be considered at a joint confer- ence of five national associations con- cerned with adult education, to be h6ld Tuesday, Wednesay and Thurs- day at the Rackham E dtcationfil Me- morial in Detroit. Featured at the confetence will be addresses at the Thursday af- ternioon session by Gov Harry F. Kelly and Eugene R. Elliot,. state Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion. Their topic will be "Michi- gan's Experiment in Adult Educa- tion." The five organizations which arc co-sponsoring the conference are the American Association fo. Adult Eda- cation, the Department oi Adult Edu- Alumnus Has 100th Birthday With memories extending through the administration of twenty-four presidents, Oscar Sprague, one of Michigan's old alumni, celebrated his 100th birthday recently at the home of relatives in Bethlehem, Pa. In a letter to the Alumni Associa- tion, Sprague's grand-daughter, Mrs. Grace Sprague Ungerleider, relates how the centenarian has been spend- ing the last two years of his life re- tired from business, but still active in his fruit and vegetable garden and still a prominent figure in Bethlehem community life. A Law School graduate, class of '69, Sprague has worked as farmer, lawyer, railroad clerk and justice of the peace. He has four living sons, twenty-one grandchildren and twen- ty-four great-grandchildren. catirn of the National Education As- sociation, the Adult Eaueation Board c° the American Library Association, the Educational Film Library Asso-; c ation, and the National University] 1> tension Association.{ Members of the U i versity extension staff' who will at- tend the conference are Dr. Charles A. Fisher, director. Dr. Fredl G Stevenson, Albert K. Stevens of the Workers' Education Service,. Howard Y. McCluskey, consultantj in adult education, Ford Lemer, director of the Bureau of Visual Education, Mrs. Bernice Lee, di- rector of the Correspondence Study Division, Miss Edith Thomas, head of the Library Extension Service, Miss Helen Gleason, director of the Grand Rapids center of the Exten- sion Service, Michael Church, di-+ rector of the Saginaw center, Dr. Bonner Crawford, director of the Flint center, and Everett J. Soots, director of the Detroit center, Mortimer J. Adler, Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Chicago, will speak at the first general session of the conference on the subject, "The Scope of Adult Education." Wednesday afternoon Virgil Jordan, president of the Na- tional Industrial Conference, New York, will speak on "The Frame of the Future Educational World." The conference marks the first time the five organizations have met jointly. More than 200 adult educa- tion autorities are expected to attend. Dr. Neweonib Dies at Home Dr. William Wlmon Newcomb, Sr., honorary curator of lepidoptera in the Museum of Zoology for 36 years, died yesterday at his home at the age of 77. As honorary curator he contributed insect specimens to the museum and also provided funds for expeditions and publications of the museum. The insect library at the museum is named the W. W. Newcomb Library in his honor. Dr. Newcomb practiced medicine in Detroit after being graduated from the Medical School in 1900 until his retirement in 1917. He moved to Ann Arbor in 1924 and resided. here at 1245 Ferdon Road. He is survived by Mrs. Newcomb and two children. No funeral arrangements have been announced. Meinecke Will Give Cincinnati Lecture Prof. Bruno Meinecke of the Latin department will appear on the pro- gram of the midwest Classical Asso- ciation which is meeting in Cincin- nati, 0., today and tomorrow. He will present an illustrated lec- ture on the "Permanent Aspects of Greek and Roman Medicine" and a lecture recital of jour of his own com- positions, reminiscent of the Roman I forum. Davis To Speak A t Lawyers' Club Diii eraiher ni ~ Industrial Relations To Be Subject of Talk William H. Davis will deliver the address at the eighteenth Founder's Day Dinner of the Lawyers Club Fri- day, April 26, Prof. Grover Grismore announced yesterday. Davis is a member of the New York Biar and was the former head of the Ntional Labor Relations Board, le will speak on "Industriil Relations After Conversion." Dean E. Blythe Stason of the Law School will be the toastmaster. The Founder's Day Dinner tradi- tionally honors William W. Cook who established the Lawyers Club and whose contributions to the University include the Law Quadrangle, the Martha Cook Building, and the Wil- liam W. Cook Lectureship on Ameri- can Institutions. The dinner will be attended by stu- dents living in the Lawyers Club as well as practicing Lawyers and Mich- igan Federal and state judges who are honorary members of the club. Pro. raus T-o Join OSU Staff Prof. John D. Kraus, former re- search associate on the physics facul- ty and son of Dean-Emeritus Edward H. Kraus of the literary college and Mrs. Kraus, has been appointed to the staff of the engineering college at Ohio State University. Inventor of several wartime engi- neering devices, Prof. Kraus has been engaged in research work at the Ra- dio Research Laboratory at Harvard Universit(y. His work there included research on radio and radar counter- measures and on antenna and direc- tion -finding systems for the goveri - ment. Prof. Kraus received his bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees at the University. Foreign Film Will Be Shown "c iv i<=-l. ui- "' I ' iri w:F:i fihni, will be 111wfl at 8:u0 ja. to- day and tomorrow in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Starring Josiane, a 12 year old French girl, the picture shows the life of a child French refugee in Switzerland. Josiane actually was evacuated to Switzerland during the war. The film, presented by the Art Cinema League, has French-Swiss di- alogue with English subtitles appe ing on the screen. Buy, E-aster Seals! POTTED PLANTS Also CORSAGES y for Easter Cheleaiflower dS$hop 203 East Liberty Phone 2-5616 III, -- - dill BUN NY HOP J4t.. S2, t U NriI R THE UNION Dance to the Music of "BILL LAYTON and ORCHESTRA" 9- LM PM in theRAINBOW ROOM jiltV tI I ~i *i~ . ill I ~4 4 ( 2 , + .._ . < . . 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