..~~cWA 41Y- I- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 A FACULTY FOR KNOWING: Prof. Abbot Looks Ahead To FM Station,-WUOM EOITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a new series of weekly articles on faculty personalities. By MARY STEIN Lining the walls of Prof. Waldo Abbot's office on 'the fourth floor of Angell Hall are affectionately- inscribed photographs of former speech pupils, now radio celebrit- ies. Fond as Prof. Abbot may well be of these mementoes, they rep- resent just one facet of the ver- satility he's acquired in 22 years as director of the University Broadcasting Service. Back in the early days of radio, Prof. Abbot says a broadcasting director had to be prepared fo any emergency. He recalls hur- riedly substituting himself on pro- grams for missing actors, an- nouncers, speakers and inter- viewers, as well as teaching nov- ices everything from the mech- anics of radio to music. Prof. Abbot lists several fac- tors which contributed to his appointment as the University's first director of broadcasting. "I knew as much about radio as anybody at a time when nobody knew anything about it," he says. In the same year Sigma Delta Chi, the honorary journalism fraternity,. awarded him its "lo- quacious man of the year" prize- an oil-can. These qualifications, plus Prof. Abbot's experience as an instruc- tor in rhetoric, made him the logi- cal choice for the newly-created position. Prof. Abbot was born in Kan- sas City, Missouri, where his fath- er was for some years editor of the Kansas City Star. Following in paternal footsteps, Prof. Abbot is a University of Michigan grad- uate, having taken his A.B. degree in journalism and philosophy in 1911, and an L.L.B. degree in 1913. He then practiced law in Ann Arbor for several years and was appointed assistant prosecut- ing attorney. The First World War inter- rupted his legal career, and he did not return to it after being dis- charged from the Army in 1920 after serving as a first lieutenant. Instead, he renewed his associa- tion with the University as an in- structor in the Department of Rhetoric. 1 At the time of his appointment as director of the Broadcasting Service, Prof. Abbot was also made assistant professor of English. In 1933, when the Broadcast- ing Service was incorporated ;nto the Extension Service, Prof. Abbot transferred from the De- partment of English to the De- partment of Speech and Gener- al Linguistics, where he instit- uted courses in radio speech, dramatics, and writing. In 1934 he was made an associate pro- fessor of speech. Prof. Abbot has compiled much of the knowledge gained in his Job Bureau Urges Early Application Students interested in register- ing for job positions should do so now, according to Prof. T. Luther, Purdom, Director of the Univer- sity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. Early registration is important >ccause it takes a certain amount of time for the Bureau to organ- ize the information about each student so that it can be presented to the beft advantage to prospec- tive employers, he said.. Starts Tomorrow' Job registration will be held in the Rackham Lecture Hall, Mon- day, Oct. 13th, at 4 p.m. This is the regular registration period for all February, June, and August graduates. However, job registra- tion is a service available to any- one who has attended the Univer- sity, whether or not he has a de- gree. Graduate students or 'staff members who will be available for jobs within the next year, or who are interested in finding better positions may also register with the Bureau. The Bureau has two divisions: A teaching division and a general division, which includes service to people seeking positions in busi- ness, industry, and professions other than teaching. International Jobs Numerous calls are already coming in for teaching positions. These include calls from all over the world. Last year, the Bureau placed about 20 teachers in Germ- any, some in Honolulu, South America, and numerous other places. The general placement division has calls for jobs of every type. Although four out of five persons placed are University graduates, there are some positions available for non-graduates who are inter- ested in taking full-time jobs now. Free Service To , date, approximately 35,000 University students have taken advantage of their opportunity to register with the Bureau. The sum of the salaries of students placed last year alone was over $600,000. Jobs registration is a free ser- vice of the University. Late regis- tration, however, entails a fee of $1.00. Chicago Trip Planned By International Center A weekend trip to Chicago for foreign and American students' will be sponsored by the Interna- tional Center Nov. 14 to Nov. 16. Interested students may con- tact Homer Underwood at the In- ternational Center for reserva- tions or further information. COLLEGE ROUNDUP: No Spirit, Curfew, Food Are Colleges' Complaints A 10 F' N] T 7 I, A PROF. WALDO ABBOT i Although co-eds on the Univer- sity campus frequently complain that they are unduly restricted by the 10:30 p.m. deadline each week night they are far better off than their sisters attending the Uni- versity of California. Reports reaching The Daily in- dicate that co-eds at "Southern Cal" must be in their residences at 8 p.m. each night during the week. The early curfew was recently placed on the West Coast co-eds because of their poor grades, ac- cording to the dean of women at the college. The dean of women at "South- ern Cal" declared that the grade point average of women students has shown a constant decline and therefore the early curfew was be- ing enforced each week night, in- stead of only three nights per week as was formerly the case. However, women with 1.5 grade averages are excused from the early curfew. What may be a bit of bad news for the co-eds at the University of Illinois comes from an an- nouncement in the Daily Illini. The newspaper announces that an ex-wave, Miriam Sheldon, has been appointed dean of women at Illinois. The new dean of women served as a lieutenant commander in the women's reserve of the navy. And Illini co-eds are hoping that the new dean doesn't decide to carry over any military discipline into her new job as dean of women. Meanwhile a survey of several colleges in the Big Nine indicate that most of them are "going along" with the President's food saving request. From Indiana comes word that University offi- cials have taken steps to observe "meatless Tuesdays" and to cut out poultry and eggs on Thurs- days. At Wisconsin the program has also started to get underway. Meatless and poultryless days are slated to begin this week. However university officials were unable to make arrangements to save food during the first week of the pro- gram. At nearby Ohio State June Kennedy, who directs dormitory dining halls, charged that Buckeye students waste food. According to Mrs. Kennedy, many Ohio State Students are throwing scarce food 11ii in garbage pails. But she prom- ised that the university will short- ly institute a program of compul- sory food saving in Ohio State eating places. It appears that University cheerleaders are not the only peo- ple who are bemoaning the lack of "School Spirit" among students these days. During the last few weeks there have been some mutterings from the University cheerleaders who declare that Michigan students are not in very good voice at weekend grid contests. But the matter is regarded more seriously at some of the other colleges around the nation. From the University of South- ern California on the West Coast come reports that some students are rather cynical about the whole thing. An editorial in the South- ern California collegiate newspa- per blasts these students as "Fifth Columns" in the university. The writer editorially deplores the stoic football fans who don't cheer the team on to victory and he calls these silent ones "parisites." The editorial closes with a stirring ap- peal for unified student body which will urge the team on to vic- tory with roaring cheers. An editorial in the Purdue uni- versity newspaper isn't quite as virulent, but nevertheless urges students to "Back the Team." The Purdue collegiate writer urges stu- dents to turn out to see the teams off to battle. And the writer de- clares that the effect of the spirit shown by the students can give the football team that extra drive which can prove of great value in the pinches on the playing field. * * * From West Virginia University comes word that the Mountainers are also worried about school spirit. An editorial in the West Virginia college newspaper de- plores the lack of sportsmanship and enthusiasm in the student body. And the college writer de- clares that only the student body itself can remedy the situation. Massage gives relief, probably in a large measure by suggestion, to such disorders as melancholia and other forms of insanity, head- ache, and hysteria, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. - . _______ I ~ws ,ears of radio experience into a .omprehensive text, "The Hand- book of Radio Broadcasting." When Prof. Abbot became di-I rector of tht service, the Univer- 3ity had already had one brief ex- perience with a radio station of ts own-station WCBC, built by he Department of Electrical En- gineering, and whose license was allowed to lapse in 1923. Now again, after years of "piping" all programs to commerical stations, Prof. Abbot is looking forward to the completion of the University's' own new FM station, WUOM. Back in 1925, University pro- grams were broadcast from a room in the top floor of Uni- versity Hall, chosen because it had a piano and a rug. It also had poor acoustics, and bands, faculty speakers, and glee clubs were all "herded" indiscrimirt- ately into a tent at one end built of painters' dropcloths. The early studio also featured two thousand mice which were kept for cancer research in an ad- joining room. Prof. Abbot says that though he wasn't always sure that therprograms were on the air, there was never any' doubt about those mice. 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