PACE SIX TSB MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBERS 11, 1954 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1954 U''BEST BLIND DATE': Messinger Zest Underlies Busy Career m~ By JANE HOWARD Somewhere down the corridor of Martha Copk a phone buzzed, and a voice shouted "Dee! It's for you again." Dolores Messinger, '55E, set down the paper dolls she'd been cutting out for "her kids" in an education project, and ran to an- swer the call. It might have per- tained to- any one of the imposing list of activities she has accumu- lated in a breathless campus ca- reer. Always A Gavel "Without a gavel in her hand," one friend suggested, "Dee would be lost." Presidential jobs have headed Miss Messinger's activity lists, beginning with a position heading the freshman class in her dormitory. The next year she was elected Mosher Hall president. Junior year brought her to the top of Assembly Association, and the distinction of being the cam- pus' first third-year woman to fill the job. And now, although she terms this year "an absolute rest," she's edu- cation school class president. Tapped Monday for Senior Soci- ety honorary,d the husky-voiced New Yorker has also kept busy with sideline activities. She recalls a job as Soph Cab floor show di- rector and a major role in last year's Junior Girls' Play, in addi- tion to work in Hillel Foundation. Likes to Make Noise "Dee," as friends have nick- named her, is the first to admit she likes to make noise : partly be- cause of her subdued high school atmosphere and partly, she thinks, because "I like to be around peo- ple." A deep interest in what she calls "untapped fields with potential" made the Assembly job of uniting all 4,000 independent women a par- ticular challenge. "Honestly," she emphasized, "there's a place for every single girl on .this campus, and something for everybody to do." The Education School position gives her another opportunity to apply her own boundless enthusi- asm. "Ed School's really bouncing this year," she smiled. "We've got several innovations including a Student Information Service, an all-school dance, a pamphlet pub- lished to welcome new student teachers"-and the list goes on. Assembly Took Stand Her work in both Assembly and Education School has concentrat- ed on increased publicity and rec- ognition for the groups. "The big- gest thing, In Assembly,"-she re- called, "was getting it to take definite stands on campus public issues." Daily-Dick Gaskill "DEE" MESSINGER ... Enthusiasm Unlimited Education has been Miss Mes- singer's chosen field since the in- fluence of a second grade teacher. Currently she's not "sold" on pro- gressive education. "It's a won- derful system," she says, "but not always practical. My kids," she added, "are going to get a mixture of traditional and modern education methods." Politically, Dee is still "shopping around-reading up and trying to keep out of useless arguments." Resumes Interests This year, with more leisure time of her own ("people are still ask- ing me what I'm doing back on campus!"), she's resumed strong interests in sports, dramatics, so- cial life and music. Vague business interests have also made her campus representa- tive, this year, for a blanket con- cern-"it's not that I really like business so much, but that I've been exposed to it all my life." Her father is in the textile industry. Lighting a cigarette ("my only vice until I'm 21!"), she reached for pictures of her family, center- ing on an infant nephew, and proudly claimed, "isn't he some- thing?" Current plans for Miss Messinger include teaching until a master's degree brings her into the admir-e istrative realm. "I'm not always going to be a woman of the world, though," sheput in. "I'm planning to settle down and break that stereotype about old-maid school- teachers." And she wouldn't mind settling down in Ann Arbor. For the New York apartment-dweller, "Michi- gan's been a real experience as well as an education: it's the best blind date I've ever had." .Blatt To Lead U' Symphony Concert Today With a family tree dating from 1890, the University Symphony Or- chestra, conducted by Josef Blatt, will present their annual fall con- cert at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Au- ditorium. The present Symphony's ances- tors were the Chaquamegan Or- chestra which flourished in the 1890's and the University Sympho- ny, starting in 1904. "In the early days, when high school musicians weren't trained as well as they are today, the Or- chestra served as a composite community orchestra," Dean Earl V. Moore of the School of Music commented. Through the years, several conductors have been on the po- dium. Samuel Pearson Lockwood was the first conductor, followed by Prof. David Mattern, Dean Moore, Prof. William D. Revellim, Thor Johnson, Prof. Gilbert Ross and Eric DeLamarter, assistant conductor of the Chicago Sym- phony. After World War II, Wayne Dun- lap assumed the conductorship, re- maining until 1953 when Josef Blatt took over. Prof. Joseph Brinkman, head of the music school's piano depart- ment will be featured soloist at today's concert, playing Beetho- ven's Piano Concerto No. 5. The program, open to the public without charge, will also include Wagner's "Overture to Tannhaus- er," Prokofieff's "Classical Sym- phony" and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice." Unemployed Figures Drop Unemployment in Michigan is rapidly dwindling, Rex. H. Not- tingham of the Michigan Employ- ment Security Commission said yesterday. Only a month ago, employment around the state was at the lowest level in the past 26 months, he con- tinued. At present, there are 195,- 000 unemployed workers in the De- troit area, while total unemploy- ment for the state is about 287,000. 2,210,000 Now Working With 2,110,000 employed workers in Michigan about a month ago, probably 100,000 more workers are back on the job now. Accord- ing to Nottingham, total state em- ployment in a month may be 2,- 260,000. Ann Arbor area unemployment is also going down rapidly, he indi- cated. Only 500 workers here are now drawing unemployment com- pensation, while in late September 5,000 men were unemployed in Washtenaw county. Nearly 1,000 of these were in Ann Arbor. Labor force in the county now is approxi- mately 65,000. Defense Contracts Filled No more workers in Michigan will be thrown out of work because of defense department contract cut- backs, Nottingham commented. Since most of these contracts are about filled, civilian consumption contracts are beginning, enabling more workers to go back to work. Many of them had previously been out of work because of the de- fense cutbacks. Not much defense contract work is being done in Ann Arbor now, Nottingham said. Across the country, the highest amount of unemployment occurred in August, he pointed out. With many workers now trooping back to their jobs after layoffs, employ- ment conditions for the near future look favorable. Baha'i To Fete Leader's Birth The birthday of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i World Faith Movement, will be celebrated to- day and tomorrow by the campus chapter. The campus Baha'i Youth Group will hold a meeting at 8:30 p.m. to- day in the League, the program being centered around the theme of the founder's birth. Born in 1817 in territory now known as Iran, Baha'u'llah pro- claimed in 1863 that his mission as the Promised One of all religions was to inaugurate a new and di- vine civilization of world unity and peace. Members of the inter-racial inter- religious group work together to put into effect their leader's state- ment, "The earth is but one coun- try, and mankind its citizens." KISSING ROOM MEXICO CITY (P)--The gov. ernment said yesterday it will build a "kissing room" at the airport for sweethearts' fare- wells. Spectators have been making fun of some lengthy partings at the airport, so there will be a separate waiting room for couples who expect to need pri- vacy. Experiments Going prefabricated houses one better, the architecture college has a building that can be expanded indefinitely or dismanteled and put together in an entirely differ- ent way. Built primarily of a newly de- veloped steel frame-work called unistrut, the building under con- struction in the college's court- yard is an experiment itself and will provide space for future archi- tectural experiments. It uses the unistrut space-frame method of construction which was compared to "an over-grown me- canno set" by Prof. C. Theodore Larson of the architecture col- lege. Architecture and engineer- ing college experimenters develop- ed it in a series of tests over the past five years. Need for more space in the architecture college gave impetus to the space frame method's first practical use. According to plant department estimates the building would cost $70,000 if built by traditional methods. When final figures are in, Prof. Larson predicts that they will fall well below this figure. Student Labor Under a special agreement with the Ann Arbor carpenters union, students are doing most of the construction and getting academic credit as well as an hourly wage for their work. Begun in 1949, the unistrut ex- periment was originally designed to develop a method of low cost school construction. University alumnus Charles W. Attwood, Pre- sident of the Unistrut Corpora- tion of Wayne, sponsored the pro- ject as an attempt to alleviate the problem of overcrowded schools. Unistrut had previously been used in such structures as the University heatingtunnels, but a whole building based on the simple structural unit was a new idea.I Simple Tools Used Among the chief advantage of such a building is that it can be assembled or taken apart, sec- tions added or removed with only a few simple tools, Prof. Larson explained. Walls, windows, floors and ceil- ings are made of panels pre-cut to size and fitted into place. When research had advanced to the point where large scale appli- cation was possible, Attwood's company agreed to underwrite the project, and the new building was begun during the summer. It will house offices of eight faculty members involved in re- search projects. Forming a protected area in which experimental structures }S Bull din s~ Architecture IfT Based on 'U' Tests Unistrut 4. EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE SET AGAINST TRADITIONAL BACKGROUND i . a d connected with these projects can be built, is an overhanging roof as large as the roof of the build- ing. An experiment in itself, the roof if successful could be used in school construction, Prof. Larson said. The protected courtyard which it creates makes outdoor activities possible in rainy wea- ther. Standard built-up roofing cov- ers the main building, while in the overhanging top strips of dif- ferent types of experimental roof- ing were used. Newly-developed plastics are the key to a number of smaller ex- periments for which materials have been contributed by com- panies that want their products tested. Plastic sky-lighting, six kinds of roofing and three different types of roof insulation are being incorporated into the building. Plastic Sky-lights Three dome-shaped plastic sky- lights ,each installed by a slightly different method, will let day- light in through the top, while a translucent ceiling made of plas- tic film allows light to seep through to the rooms below. Florescent lamps, hidden behind the plastic ceiling provide light at night, giving the ceiling a con- tinuous glow coming from an un- seen source. When the plastic film gets dirty, Prof. Larson suggests throw- ing it away, since buying a new ceiling would be cheaper than cleaning the old one. Not only does the building's ceil- ing glow but transulent plastic tri- angles make the upper part glow from without. 71 STUDENT APPLIES TAR TO EDGE OF PLASTIC SKYLIGHT DAILY PHOTO FEATURE Story by PHYLLIS LJPSKY Pictures by DICK GASKILL ETHICS:G k BYGOD OR MAN Carbon-toned for Casual Elegance TWEED CHESTER COAT 1 s3995 WHEN IT'S Nick( T IME Take it easy by using our New Drop Off-Pick Up Service for your LAUNDRY Just bring it in before the game Saturday. 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